I know what's wrong with Kansas...

It's all in Sepia....

They ain't got no color there....

Wizard of Oz is on ..... TNT.....

but she's not in Kansas anymore. ;)

Great story......

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Darlin' we're not in Kansas anymore ...

Well, being a resident of Kansas, I have to tell you you're on to something! ;-) I was actually born and raised in California, and lived there most of my life. I find myself here in Kansas (where the world is still flat) for purely professional/career circumstances. But I am ashamed of this place for a lot of reasons. Don't get me wrong...some of the nicest folks you ever want to meet live here, but the nutcases who voted in our state school board make me literally ill! We are the laughing stock of the WORLD! Well...stay tuned...if you see some crazed mom on CNN suing the state school board over its stance on Intelligent Design, that will be me.

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Thanks for the welcome!! Glad to finally be here.

And welcome to DU....

I feel your pain. Try being from Ohio and 'splainin not one but TWO election fiascos. Then there's Coingate...

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Kansas ...huh?

(A "Welcome to DU" with a twist of snark, shaken not stirred, courtesy of the lounge).....
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And I'm just as angry at the school board.

Hopefully you are near KC?

And I work in KCMO--love the Plaza this time of year, don't you? :)

I live in OP as well.

And yes, the Plaza is beautiful this time of year. I just can't stomach the crowds.

awful red here.
Kcmo is pretty dang blue though

I am in Overland Park.

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Hey there! Thanks for the welcome! I also live in Overland Park. And like I said, the folks here are actually very nice. It's just this school board thing that's got me in a tizzy. Other than that, we've liked raising our kids here, for the most part. We came here to go to graduate school at KU, and so we're Jayhawks now--it's just what happens!

You will fit right in and have a great time.

Oh, and I am a KU alum :woohoo: Rock Chalk!!

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It was the scenes where the wicked witch was in her tower with the crystal ball that could spy on Dorothy, especially when Dorothy was thinking out loud.

And the scariest part of that is that it's now kinda like reality.

I love driving across Kansas in the middle of summer, taking the two-lanes and back roads to avoid the interstate. I love stopping at little Mom and Pop places for a cold Coke. I love ths smell of Kansas. And I've never been treated badly by a Kansan. :shrug:

P.S. Sepia is a color. :thumbsup:

I loved driving through Kansas...

We took the back roads for a while...

The rolling country.... Al that green, green, green everywhere...

:shrug:

A lot of people miss the beauty of Kansas by sticking to the Interstate, I think. Same with Nebraska and Iowa. :shrug:

I always try to hit the back roads whenever I can...

That's for sure (that you won't be treated badly by a Kansan). During the election, when I had my Kerry signs all over the place (and was quite outnumbered), even my neighbors who had Bush signs up cooked for me when I had surgery! It's amazing...If you even hint that you or your family needs help because of any emergency, folks just show up with casseroles and volunteer to watch your kids! So, my neighbors and I don't talk politics...we talk about the leaves turning colors or our kids. And it's okay.

in Munchkin Land. Then it turns into color.

That is one of the neatest scenes in that movie.

The production on that one is pretty magnificent.

There is a socailist meme in some of the lyrics. Supposedly. Heard it on Democracy Now! radio in the last few weeks. That show is probably still up for mp3 download at their website, www.pacifica.org

Google: Yip Harburg the man who put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz.

A rainbow was never mentioned in the book, and this made fans of the book angry at the time. Harburg was blacklisted from Hollywood during the McCarthy era. He worked only on Broadway which is the only place black listees could work in the era. He wrote the lyrics, most notably for 'Finian's Rainbow'. There is the rainbow again. Ever pay attention to some of the lyrics in 'Finian'?

These are some tidbits I learned from the show. Give it a listen yourself if you can.

A song about hope, a better place, always dreaming about tomorrow...

You know the cool part about the movie? When the house lands in Munchkinland, Dorothy's already in color, but she doesn't know it yet. If you look closely, as she opens the door to the outside, her dress is a shadowy blue.

Hmm... then the munchkins are invited to "come out, come out wherever you are and meet the young lady who fell from a star."

Some see an appeal to the gay community (and that's cool, I can see where that's there)...
But I see equally an image of conversion and bapismal regeneration. Her trip to Oz is, of course, her spiritual journey.


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Sorry, Church overload. And I lost my voice today! Twice!!

back east somewhere. Maybe NC?