daily reference

Trader Joe’s

adelheid — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:40:19 +0000

Mural, Clybourn store

catching up 2

adelheid — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:35:40 +0000

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/12/happy-anniversary-the-wizard-of-oz/

catching up 1

adelheid — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:33:50 +0000

http://usanewsupdate.com/news/google-does-the-wizard-of-oz-logo.html

it’s complicated

adelheid — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:22:23 +0000

Kristin Chenoweth as April Rhodes in Glee Episode Home 1.16, broadcast 8/31/2010:
“I’m taking my hush money and producing the first ever all-white production of ‘The Wiz’.”

Betty White

adelheid — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:07:42 +0000

SNL: The Wonderful Wizard of Ass

rerun from May 9, 2010 also see this

THE WHIZ @ Abrons Art Center

adelheid — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:20:10 +0000

this may be a temporary link

NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE + MONSTAH BLACK
THE WHIZ: OBAMALAND
June 16-19 | 8 pm

Ease on down the road to recession and back from the brink of fantasy in Nicholas Leichter Dance and Monstah Black’s take on The Wiz/ard of Oz for the Obama generation. Featuring choreography by Leichter, and a brand new commissioned score by Black with added musical selections, The Whiz is a full-spectrum original show of song, dance, and theatrical extravaganza. The 75-minute work showcases an array of different dance, performance, and music styles — house, funk, postmodern, drag, hip-hop, contemporary, and psychedelic — that traverse a landscape of hopes, fears, dreams, and home.

Twain’s guestbook

adelheid — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:09:09 +0000

There’s No Place Like Home
Billie Burke, the actress who went on to play Glinda in the Wizard of Oz, was Twain’s last visitor in 1908. He had her inaugurate the new guest book he was given that Christmas by Mary Rogers. Below her signature and her home town of Yonkers, he wrote, “Billie Burke, the young, the gifted, the beautiful, the charming.” He remarked that the pre-printed aphorism on this page was an apt one, in light of her visit. “The magic of her personality clears the spirit of such as come within its influence of nagging weariness and depression,” he wrote. “Her name is a pleasant one to close a pleasant year with.”

from http://documents.nytimes.com/the-comings-and-goings-at-mark-twains-last-home-as-told-by-the-guest-book#document/p20/a14

google/topeka

adelheid — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:30:31 +0000

We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains.

In fact, Topeka Google Mayor Bill Bunten expressed it best: “Don’t be fooled. Even Google recognizes that all roads lead to Kansas, not just yellow brick ones.”

pun

adelheid — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:48:46 +0000

http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/wos_3/sprecher/l_p/armin_medosch.html

weather phenomena

adelheid — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:05:16 +0000

from: National Geographic, December 2009. “South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea”, by Kenneth Brower

South Georgia sometimes seems like a time-lapse film of weather – one of those frantic abridgments in which clouds boil across the sky while a stroboscobic flickering of light and shadow passes over the land. You sail into a bay in bright sunshine and air scrubbed clean by the ceaseless circumpolar wind. You really can see forever. The steep headlands are in intense, improbable green. Depth of field is infinite, from the kelp beds in the foreground to the snows of the peaks beyond. A glacier, cradled in its high cirque, sends a skein of streams down the rock wall, icy rivulets glittering so bright they hurt the eyes. Then, moments later, like Dorothy whirled back to Kansas, you look out on that same emerald Oz rendered suddenly in gray halftones. A new front has blown in. The sun is just a dimly glowing patch of cloud across which flurries of snowflakes swirl and eddy, dark patterns against the glow. South Georgia suffers from a meteorological version of bipolar disorder.