Showing posts with label Wizard of Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wizard of Oz. Show all posts
Thursday, March 5, 2020
The Mayor of Munchkin Land.
Last night we were sitting around the dining room table talking about Mini Mike and all the money he blew in this election. Now the money he wasted on consultants and fancy offices and catered sushi lunches were bad enough. I just couldn't stand the nonstop commercial you were getting everywhere you went. Now I don't watch much commercial television. Everything is on a streaming service. But he still snuck in commercials there as well.
I have the Joe Rogan app on my phone. I like to listen to podcasts and he has a bunch of them on his app. Joey Diaz. Mark Maron. Mike Francesa. Adam Corrolla. Joe Rogan is a really smart guy and he optimizes his earnings. Every time you leave one podcast to go to another a brief five second commercial comes on. Sometimes it's another app like the Meditation app or Audible Books or Blue Apron. Don't ya know that every other commercial was for Mini Mikes run for president. You couldn't get away from the midget for fucks sake.
Anywhoo we are talking and we were all coming up with better ways to spend the money. We talked about giving it to Saint Jude's Hospital for Children or funding housing for the homeless or some other worthy causes. I had a different idea
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Friday, March 14, 2014
"Fans of the film classic doubtless have their own short list of suspects"
"The cowardly thief had no heart -- and precious little brain."
Replicas of Dorothy Gale's ruby slippers from the "Wizard of Oz" were pinched from a lobby display case at the Hilton Garden Inn earlier this month.
http://mfennwrites.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/outsiders-2-dorothy-gale/
And the hotel's security cameras -- there are 50 in all on the premises -- caught the wicked theft in all its brazen ignominy.
Police are asking the public's help in identifying a woman they describe as a suspect in the grand larceny committed on March 1 at 2:05 a.m. She is plainly visible in a still photo and video that accompany the police sheet.
Richard Nicotra, the Hilton's owner, who estimated the slippers' value at $2,500, said he and his wife, Lois, bought them from a vendor in Paris. Displayed for the last several years, they were meant to remind guests that while "there's no place like home," the Hilton strives to provide a reasonable facsimile.Silive.com via the wicked NY Times
"'Disappointed' is the word," he said in respect of the dastardly theft. "You feel violated." Art worth $2 million graces the hotel, he noted, all of it previously undisturbed for the last 14 years.
The miscreants apparently timed the guard's rounds, so as to have a clear shot at the valuable tchotchkes, Nicotra said. He doubts they were guests of the hotel.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Wizard of Oz by Eyes Alive! Florida School for Deaf and Blind
37 minute play by children in sign.
Honestly, I do not know what is going on here. Some of the children, a few of them sign as if they do not understand what they are saying. I suspect not all of them are deaf. I could be wrong about that but some children sign as deaf and others do not.A few words stick out specifically, for example:
One boy says the word "help" as if he does not know how or why the sign means help because nothing is being helped, the movement is present but backwards where the helping hand is pounded instead of helping lift the opposing fist-hand. Whereas the other children say the same word "help" as if they do understand the how and why of it.
The trees are not so clear, nor the flying monkeys.
All the children say the word "witch" as if they do not know the hook relates to the nose. I think I saw one or two point to the nose first but not so clearly, then "hook" but the word is really a double hook; hook nose + hook = witch, most of the children are doing hook=witch. None of them were clear about an ugly witchy hooked nose. Much of their signing is not so clear and not so emphatic or dramatic.
Except for the witch. She comes across loud and clear, there is no mistaking her meaning. She is beautifully clear and cogent throughout.
Dorthy: You sign very well. How can you sign without a brain?
Scarecrow: Yeah, strange, huh.
That cracks me up. The little lion falling down at the slightest provocation, wiping his eyes with his tail as in the movie. The kids are a delight to watch.
That reminds me of being a kid and not understanding what the big deal is about adults falling down. I did that every day. A couple times a day. Adults make it sound like some kind of gigantic emergency requiring immediate medical attention and further medical tests to determine what went wrong. But the kid drops to the ground on a dime. He's hilarious he never misses his cue to drop like a brick and he cracks me up each time.
They all spell "wizard" throughout. There are signs for the English word "wizard," one refers to conical hat, others refer to "magic+personification" another, "beard+magic+personification" otherwise "expert as math-wiz" or simply "brilliant"
They compressed the story excellently. They rewrote the witch's death scene by skipping the castle and guards altogether, it is the monkeys that rejoice.
Honestly, I do not know what is going on here. Some of the children, a few of them sign as if they do not understand what they are saying. I suspect not all of them are deaf. I could be wrong about that but some children sign as deaf and others do not.A few words stick out specifically, for example:
One boy says the word "help" as if he does not know how or why the sign means help because nothing is being helped, the movement is present but backwards where the helping hand is pounded instead of helping lift the opposing fist-hand. Whereas the other children say the same word "help" as if they do understand the how and why of it.
The trees are not so clear, nor the flying monkeys.
All the children say the word "witch" as if they do not know the hook relates to the nose. I think I saw one or two point to the nose first but not so clearly, then "hook" but the word is really a double hook; hook nose + hook = witch, most of the children are doing hook=witch. None of them were clear about an ugly witchy hooked nose. Much of their signing is not so clear and not so emphatic or dramatic.
Except for the witch. She comes across loud and clear, there is no mistaking her meaning. She is beautifully clear and cogent throughout.
Dorthy: You sign very well. How can you sign without a brain?
Scarecrow: Yeah, strange, huh.
That cracks me up. The little lion falling down at the slightest provocation, wiping his eyes with his tail as in the movie. The kids are a delight to watch.
That reminds me of being a kid and not understanding what the big deal is about adults falling down. I did that every day. A couple times a day. Adults make it sound like some kind of gigantic emergency requiring immediate medical attention and further medical tests to determine what went wrong. But the kid drops to the ground on a dime. He's hilarious he never misses his cue to drop like a brick and he cracks me up each time.
They all spell "wizard" throughout. There are signs for the English word "wizard," one refers to conical hat, others refer to "magic+personification" another, "beard+magic+personification" otherwise "expert as math-wiz" or simply "brilliant"
They compressed the story excellently. They rewrote the witch's death scene by skipping the castle and guards altogether, it is the monkeys that rejoice.
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