daily reference

from CODEPINK: .... CODEPINK who responded to our alert and supported the transformation of dirt into Paradise, or as Cindy said, Kansas into Oz.

on NPR’s, “What do you know with Michael Feldman”, a rerun, the commemorative pop-up book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is offered as a prize for the What Do You Know Quiz.

August 12, 2006
Horse #2 in the Arlington Million Thoroughbred Race is named Tinman.

August 12, 06
CBS
in an ad for NFL Sunday it is announced that “James Brown will be back”, followed by a litany of “there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, ...”

from last Tuesday: Patrick was in San Juan, PR. His assistant, Yasidis, told him that the blue bricks of Old San Juan “look like the yellow brick road at night when the street lights are on.”

As told to Bethany Lyttle
NYT: August 11, 2006
“... Cathy: California wine country is beautiful, but what we love about the Finger Lakes is seeing the vineyards stretch off into the distance toward all of our clear blue lakes. And unlike Long Island, it’s not crowded. Before buying this place, we looked all over the country [...]

By LAUREL GRAEBER
NYT: August 11, 2006
...”He will demonstrate this lost art in four half-hour sessions at Sunnyside, the Tarrytown, N.Y., museum that is the former estate of Washington Irving. “It’s not too unlikely that Irving had it done himself,” Mr. Clark said. He will dress the part — “a little like Professor Marvel at the [...]

By GRACE GLUECK
NYT: August 11, 2006
“The Wonderful Art of Oz” continues through Oct. 22 at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst, Mass.; (413) 658-1100.
“CLICK your heels together three times if you know who L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) was, and why his 150th birthday this year should be celebrated. [...]

BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON
Bill Moyers and Pema Chödrön . August 4, 2006
PEMA CHÖDRÖN: The first thing that happens is you climb the walls. This is personal with me. It doesn’t happen anymore. But because the detox is so intense, I remember thinking like, someone coming to the door to just drop off a [...]

WTTW, 6:48 PM: Kansas gets the ‘Wizard of Oz’ in Nam June Paik’s artwork “Electronic Superhighway” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.