Korean kitsunes and American dogfaces: furry history
First a Korean anime featuring the cutest little kitsune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaX57zoPDk
Can anyone give me a translation?
Secondly, I found a very odd book at a local library -- IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN (to a dog) by Don Freeman, published in 1945 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. It's the story of a new recruit, Pvt. Albert C. Bedlington Jr, and how he gets turned into, well, a large anthro dog by the stress of basic training. The story itself is rather light and some of the references, I think, are only funny to folks who lived through WW2. But most of it is very accessible and funny. We see poor Albert going through all sorts of things from basic training to a three-day pass (where he gets kicked off the bus -- No Dogs Allowed), at a USO dance with a human buddy ("They'll let ya in, Al, don't worry. Us GIs all look alike to these society dames."), to almost getting lynched for reading a book by a Republican -- Abe Lincoln (at least, I think that's what the joke is).
He finally gets in trouble for sleeping in an upper berth on a train. The whole mess goes as far as Washington before our poor dogface finds a solution to his problem and actually does become a real soldier. Very bizarre, and every page has a half-page illustration drawn by the author -- very popular once in fiction, or so I assume from what I've seen of some books owned by an aunt -- but still, it is furry, and it does have siome good jokes.
Best all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaX57zoPDk
Can anyone give me a translation?
Secondly, I found a very odd book at a local library -- IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN (to a dog) by Don Freeman, published in 1945 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. It's the story of a new recruit, Pvt. Albert C. Bedlington Jr, and how he gets turned into, well, a large anthro dog by the stress of basic training. The story itself is rather light and some of the references, I think, are only funny to folks who lived through WW2. But most of it is very accessible and funny. We see poor Albert going through all sorts of things from basic training to a three-day pass (where he gets kicked off the bus -- No Dogs Allowed), at a USO dance with a human buddy ("They'll let ya in, Al, don't worry. Us GIs all look alike to these society dames."), to almost getting lynched for reading a book by a Republican -- Abe Lincoln (at least, I think that's what the joke is).
He finally gets in trouble for sleeping in an upper berth on a train. The whole mess goes as far as Washington before our poor dogface finds a solution to his problem and actually does become a real soldier. Very bizarre, and every page has a half-page illustration drawn by the author -- very popular once in fiction, or so I assume from what I've seen of some books owned by an aunt -- but still, it is furry, and it does have siome good jokes.
Best all!