“The Wizard of Oz” is younger than John McCain.
I haven’t really done much on the blog with regard to movies because, well, let’s face it, most movies are younger than JMcC. But I thought that I’d do “The Wizard of Oz” in honor of Gay Pride Weekend, where - at least in my neighborhood - there will probably be a lot of guys dressed up like Dororthy (no, really, there will be. Apparently - and I just learned this from a friend yesterday - the gay-equivalent of alcoholics recognizing each other as being a “friend of Bill W.” is to say that you’re a “friend of Dorothy”.)
So anyway, there’s a lot of trivia surrounding this movie - everything from Buddy Ebson’s allergies to the whole stoner-nonsense about “Dark Side of The Moon” but my new favorite has got to be the one that “Elvira” sent me… which is that the “munchkins” are credited at the end of the film as “The Singer Midgets”.
Nice. Midgets.
Hate to quibble, but it’s the Dark Side of the Moon that supposedly syncs with the Wizard of Oz, not the Wall. Interestingly, both the moon and walls are younger than John McCain.
Comment by TheGoodReverend — June 27, 2008 @ 11:18 am
oops - right. thanks.
Comment by admin — June 27, 2008 @ 11:30 am
doesa netflix have that chevy chse-over the rainbow?
Comment by pansypoo — June 27, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
Hey !
I’m french (and I’m young) so my english is… hmmm… atrocious ?
This blog is really funny.
In France we consider McCain (and Bush… setting aside (?) our President, who is atrocious too and who totally idolize GWB !!!) as a
big threat… more than all the other americans !
But we havn’t a such sens of humour about our politician !
Do you know that this blog appeared on the french TV ?
Well, we french are stronger than you !
Our personal political best treath is older than John McCain ! “Jean-Marie Le Pen” (a kind of nazi) is born in 1928!!!, and he still hopes to become the french president. Amazing…
But today he begins (just begins) to be politically dead (and ruined…)
Comment by Camille — June 27, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
Thanks for picking up on my tip. The Wizard of Oz is the only musical that I can think of that has a song that celebrates the death of a character. Imagine if someone tried to write Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead and insert it into a musical today. They’d be sent straight to the shrink for some intense psychotherapy!
Comment by Elphaba — June 28, 2008 @ 6:47 am
we make fun of your french preznit too, camille.
all we can do. sigh.
Comment by pansypoo — June 30, 2008 @ 12:58 am
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Pingback by ¿Qué hace falta para ser un buen presidente? at LaResPública — June 30, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
The group of people with Dwarfism who are credited as midgets were actually part of a Midget Jamboree of 1938.
http://phreeque.com/midget_jamboree.html
Comment by Shrugs — July 2, 2008 @ 4:40 am
Actually, MacCain IS the Wizard of OZ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaooVeumTW0
Comment by Kevin — July 2, 2008 @ 10:15 pm
I’m a professional fag, and I can tell you that “friend of Dorothy” is very rarely used among us fags. Anyone who uses that phrase demonstrates him- or herself to be fairly fag-ignorant. That phrase probably stopped being widely used among us fags in the 1980s, maybe in the early 1990s.
That phrase is, though, of course, younger than John Fossil Fool McCain.
Comment by Robert — July 15, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
10,
i guess the guy who told me about was an ‘amateur fag’ -
thanks for writing!
Comment by admin — July 16, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
“Friend of Dorothy” predates the connection between The Wizard of Oz and the gay rights movement by decades. The “Dorothy” in question is Dorothy Parker, not Dorothy Gale.
Comment by Charlene — July 25, 2008 @ 11:27 pm