5 Responses to “wake up your sleepy head! rub your eyes! get out of bed!”

1. jimski Says:
   November 8th, 2006 at 8:43 pm

   Nice:

   Last week, President Bush unequivocally told a group of reporters that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney would “remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.” Bush said, “Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.”

   Today, he announced Rumsfeld is resigning and being replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates. At the press conference, Bush said that “the only way to answer that question, and get it on to another question, was to give you [the reporters] that answer.” Bush admitted that he had talked to Rumsfeld about resigning and was actively searching for his replacement at the time.

   See for yourself

2. Ken Says:
   November 10th, 2006 at 7:15 am

   I read the title to the latest installment and rather than thinking of the wizard of oz, i thought of this old commercial.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeQdnbT4uXk
   My childhood was completely squandered apparently.
   The king is dead. Now brush yo teef.

3. jimski Says:
   November 10th, 2006 at 12:30 pm

   1) I have no memory, none at all, of that commercial, but the shot of the kid in the bed-grid on the wall struck me someplace deep and primal.

   2) “MFP”? “Ted, stop trying to make ‘MFP’ happen. It’s not going to happen.”

   3) Uncle Sam is in that commercial, but I swear to God those kids are singing in a British accent.

   3a) A toothpaste ad featuring the British? What message are we trying to send?

4. Ken Says:
   November 12th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

   I know I’m pressing my luck now, as this is far afield of the original topic- but I am watching Wizard of Oz on TNT at the moment and I was watching the endlessly joyful wicked witch song and I realize that I cannot discern the function of the Lollipop Guild. Knowing that you’ve read the book, I am asking you- is the lollipop guild in the book? What part do they play in the Fellowship of the Slippers?

5. jimski Says:
   November 13th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

   Oz is a pretty unsentimental, pragmatic place in its original incarnation. “Wow! You killed the witch! Thank you so much!… Well. I guess you’d better get going. The Wizard’s pretty far from here. It’s getting late. Yaaaawn.”

   It helps that there’s no room for singing and dancing on the page, Tolkien’s Tom Freaking Bombadil notwithstanding.

   Anyway, there are no Lollipop Guilds or Lullaby Leagues in Munchkinland. And actually, the slippers aren’t even ruby in the book; they’re less cinematic silver. The movie (and later books) also wreck one of the best jokes in the story: before gaining entry to the Emerald City, everyone is required to put on sunglasses to keep from being blinded by the brilliance of the emeralds. The sunglasses have green-tinted lenses.

   If it makes it more logical or entertaining, next time you watch it you can pretend that the Lollipop Guild functions as Oz’s Black Panther Party.

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