Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

@LechatMosaique @ToledoTheHorse If you like the Pharsalia, there's lots of stuff in Latin that has a similar vibe. Seneca's tragedies might be a good place to explore (there's a solid online commentary of the Hercules Furens here: https://t.co/WpF3tMM6Gp), as would Ovid's Metamorphoses

Out of stock

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

In 1930 Ohio banned showings of Disney's short "The Shindig," b/c Clarabelle Cow's udders were visible & she was reading Elinor Glyn’s 1907 erotic novel "Three Weeks," which led to panicked self-censorship by many filmmakers & debates about whether cartoon animal teats were sexy https://t.co/T841VoLS12 https://t.co/EKBHN3OeR8

Out of stock

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

Good exhibit about underground comics currently at BC's McMullen Museum (free admission). A couple Art Spiegelman pieces there from his family's collection: "Mom and Me in the Park" from 1979, a year before Maus was first published, and "Comics as a Medium for Self-Expression?" https://t.co/m4FMl7nuga

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

"There's a point..where you have to choose whether to be like everyone else for the rest of your life or to make a virtue of your peculiarities" —Bedap, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

Out of stock

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

I've been listening to Ursula K. Le Guin's works on my commute & started "Tales From Earthsea" today. This bit on storytelling & historiography struck me. "Even if we are present at some historic event, do we comprehend it—can we even remember it—until we can tell it as a story?" https://t.co/wKxnTJKPZs

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

In 1930 Ohio banned showings of Disney's short "The Shindig," b/c Clarabelle Cow's udders were visible & she was reading Elinor Glyn’s 1907 erotic novel "Three Weeks," which led to panicked self-censorship by many filmmakers & debates about whether cartoon animal teats were sexy https://t.co/T841VoLS12 https://t.co/EKBHN3OeR8

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

The donkey-headed Bottom from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in a frieze running outside the Odeon in Covent Garden, London https://t.co/hzieF30QSO

Out of stock

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

In 1930 Ohio banned showings of Disney's short "The Shindig," b/c Clarabelle Cow's udders were visible & she was reading Elinor Glyn’s 1907 erotic novel "Three Weeks," which led to panicked self-censorship by many filmmakers & debates about whether cartoon animal teats were sexy https://t.co/T841VoLS12 https://t.co/EKBHN3OeR8

Tofte | Christopher Polt 🏳️‍🌈

Big fan of Eleanor Porter's (writer of Pollyana) square column grave https://t.co/7qmfAGRyBu