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[vovat]

• 08:14 I didn't know Ted Kennedy had so little time left. :( #
• 08:14 On the bright side, though, I think he might be the first Kennedy to die of natural causes. #
• 14:53 Why are they still building so many expensive houses? Rich people already HAVE places to live! #
• 15:29 Jason Bateman is on NPR. #
• 15:43 @JaredofMo Well, they weren't actually blood relatives, but I would still think Dorothy would prefer someone outside the family. #
• 15:44 @JaredofMo Also, why does that say Zeb wa
  s a Kansas farmhand, when he lived and worked in California? #
• 15:47 @3x1minus1 So is your brain computerized? :P #
• 15:49 @arfies Some AVGN videos are better than others. I tend to prefer the ones where I've actually played the game. #
• 15:51 @arfies The Nostalgia Chick is a good mixture of cute and sarcastic. Plus, she shares my wife's last name. {g} #
• 15:54 @3x1minus1 The IKEA catalog is the 3rd most printed item? What about the Rubaiyat? #
• <
  em>15:56 @InBloomers Why give people extra features when they can't even spell? #
• 15:57 A million poppies gonna make me sleep, but just one rose, it knows your name. #
• 15:59 @JaredofMo Well, people thought I was gay even BEFORE I liked Oz. I probably could be if it weren't for not being sexually attracted to men. #
• 16:01 @oz_diggs Maybe you have to have a mustache like Baum's. #
• 16:07 I had a dream that I was using a Magic Marker to write on all the directories in the mall, but I couldn't think of anything to write. #
• 16:08 At the escalator to the Kmart, I was just going to write, "Escalator to Kmart" #
• 16:08 I guess I don't have a future as a graffiti artist. #
• 18:17 I heard Danny is headed our way. I just hope it's not Danny Bonaduce! #
• 18:53 bit.ly/Dik5n
  Twitter isn't very popular with teenagers (thank God). #
• 18:56 Photo: samuraifrog: tumblr.com/xpy2uobgg #
• 19:17 Photo: Dare I make the obvious joke? Okay, I dare.  Something about this picture stinks! mudwerks: tumblr.com/xpy2uolp1 #
• 19:22 Why do only boys turn into donkeys in Pinocchio? I can't believe Italian girls are that much better behaved. #
• 20:17 Fact I learned from today's Wikipedia mailing: Alice in Chains only had three studio albums. #
• 20:50 @3x1minus1 I think
  I remember a professor saying that the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam was the second most printed item in history. #
• 21:01 RT @comicgoodness The Secret Sexual Symbolism of Batwoman #comics bit.ly/8BNOl #
• 21:05 @oz_diggs No, it's actually I Can't Believe It's Not Frog. Which is mostly made of toad. #
• 21:08 RT @JaredofMo Microsoft advertising fail: bit.ly/3dtJW2 #
• 21:08 @oz_diggs Everybody loves Terrybubble. #
• 21:09 @TarynAria NMD=No More Donuts #
• 21:12 @JaredofMo Well, you don't have to GET it all at once! And I don't think there's enough original Oz fiction being released these days. #
• 21:13 @JaredofMo Maybe all Oz packages have to pass through Kansas, in honor of Dorothy. #
• 21:16 RT @jlbellwriter Among this week's deaths: Ellie Greenwich, Brill Building songwriter/producer who discovered Neil Diamond. #
• 21:17 (Although, honestly, I probably would have preferred it if Neil had remained undiscovered.) #
• 23:07 Bill O'Rei
  lly insists that there are things on the Internet about Ted Kennedy that even HE found offensive. I wonder what they are. #
• 23:07 He also said that only God should make personal judgments. Bill, do you LISTEN to yourself? Or do you think you ARE God? #
• 23:46 bit.ly/5bNLE
  Silly rabbit, social media are for narcissists! #
• 23:47 Don't people who use social networking sites usually look at other people's stuff as well as posting their own, though? #

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Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I still fail to understand why there's supposed to be a connection between loving Oz and being gay. If I was gay, wouldn't my crushes have been on Ojo and Button Bright instead of Dorothy and Ozma?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, the Baum Bugle ran an article on the appeal of Oz for gay men. I can't remember all of their conclusions, but I know one of them is that Oz is presented as a land that welcomes outcasts. This is also part of its appeal to me, though, and I'm not gay. That's as far as the books go, though. With the movie, I think the fact that it stars a gay icon might have something to do with it. And she sings about RAINBOWS, no less.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Truth is, I never was able to figure out how Judy became a gay icon, either!

But yes, the thing about Oz welcoming outcasts makes sense. That was a big part of the appeal to me, too: to go to a place where the odd are normal, and where all are welcome no matter what they look like on the outside. Like many kids, I felt like I was in someone else's world growing up.