one benefit of English lit classes

[veronica_rich]

Watching "The Wizard of Oz" on cable was kind of sad as I realized everybody I watched this with in the 1970s when it was on network TV once a year (no VCR! no on-demand or satellite!) is now dead - Mom, Grandpa and Grandma.

But I'm comforted by the fact that with my Sooper English Lit Major Powers(TM), I can now analyze what a cocked-up story this really is. I mean, sending a teenage girl to kill your rival? Trying to kill a teenage girl for clearly being in the wrong place at the wrong time, instead of the bitch witch ordering her about? (At worst, East's death was a lower-degree manslaughter, not murder.) And don't get me started on the Cheney-like "wizard."

But fuck me if I don't still want those shoes.

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[venusinchains.livejournal.com]

Watching The Wizard is kinda wistful for me (I don't have any loss of family to figure into it). I still love it though. But it's a Fairy Tale, so, yeah, it's totally some f*cked-up sh*t when you come at it from a PC perspective. :-p And even worse - for me - I'd go for the Tin Man before I'd grab at the shoes. (I had a terrible crush on him when I was a kid. I have no idea what that says about me.)