Noticed coming out of the film ‘Suburban Mayhem’ a anti-speeding poster which reminded me of something I’d seen before..Erwin Blumenfeld’s photomontage of Hitler and a skull: “One version with a jagged hole for a nose, one blank eye socket and a gaping line of teeth was exhibited in Paris in 1937 but had to be withdrawn because the German Ambassador was so incensed by it. The Germans got to see it anyway. The United States Air Force dropped millions of copies of this photograph over German cities in 1943.”

PS: The council built anti-speed islands after a kid on the block got killed by a car. Every now and then some driver fails to see them and ramps their motor rights up and onto them.

In the film ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Mel Gibson’s character has many copies of ‘Catcher in the Rye’, I saw last week. The partner of Ricky Gervais reported the comic had recently finished reading the book, I read this week. But what I didn’t know was that The Catcher in the Rye, was a novel inspired in part by Burns’ poem “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye,” after attending Burns Night last night:

O, Jenny’s a’ weet, poor body,
Jenny’s seldom dry:
She draigl’t a’ her petticoatie,
Comin thro’ the rye!

Comin thro’ the rye, poor body,
Comin thro’ the rye,
She draigl’t a’ her petticoatie,
Comin thro’ the rye!

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro’ the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro’ the glen,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warl’ ken?

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro’ the grain;
Gin a body kiss a body,
The thing’s a body’s ain.