Early-Week Links round-up
There will be a protest outside the US Consulate in Toronto this coming Saturday (June 30); in the interests of honesty there will also be one on July 1 outside the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre (385 Rexdale Blvd, Etobicoke), which also holds child detainees. I’ll be at the former but doubt I’ll be able to get to the latter as it’s not quite as easily accessible by public transit (it's doable by my standards, but Andrew isn't up for anything that requires changing bus routes more than once).
I’ve been compulsively googling Erich Ohser/E. O Plauen since Friday, and have turned up these early cartoons (not sure if they’re part of a sequence or separate drawings on the same theme), as well as some adorable photos of him and his son. Damn the nazis.
On a lighter note, looking him up involved running several German-language websites through Google Translate, with somewhat quirky results. One description of Ohser’s physical appearance that I’m pretty sure meant to say something about "his ample figure" got rendered into English as "his cozy growth."
I’ve been compulsively googling Erich Ohser/E. O Plauen since Friday, and have turned up these early cartoons (not sure if they’re part of a sequence or separate drawings on the same theme), as well as some adorable photos of him and his son. Damn the nazis.
On a lighter note, looking him up involved running several German-language websites through Google Translate, with somewhat quirky results. One description of Ohser’s physical appearance that I’m pretty sure meant to say something about "his ample figure" got rendered into English as "his cozy growth."
Huh. It looks as though someone’s doing a digital-streaming dramatization of Christie’s The Mysterious Mr Quin, except they’re kind of trying to go Sherlock, with a contemporary setting and a much younger Mr. Satterthwaite live-blogging events. Not entirely sure that’ll work, but you never know.