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veronica_rich) wrote2011-11-06 07:37 pm
veronica_rich) wrote2011-11-06 07:37 pm
one benefit of English lit classes
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 thebitch 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.
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
But fuck me if I don't still want those shoes.
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