Adventures through Oz...an Introduction

I've been reading A LOT lately. The library issued me a card and I have been reading my behind off. All those years reading stuff that I didn't really like or the stuff that I did over and over again gave me some limitations...Then I came across The Wizard of Oz. Everywhere.



It came on TV like a million nights in a row, then there were the commercials for the commemorative plates, and the digitally remastered DVD available for a limited time. Everywhere, and the movie always scared me as a kid, so much so that I haven't ever read the book. That witch was scary, and flying monkeys, and a whole bunch of little people dancing around because somebody is dead. I mean I only really dug her shoes and Glenda the Good Witch. But the Wicked Witch of the East, nothing scarier than her. Even years later as a teenager, I watched a late night low budget scare flick that freaked me the hell out because the human witch in the story had green skin like Frank L. Baum's evil witch. Nightmares.



But back to what I was saying, the last reference came in a book I was reading at the time, Ditch That Jerk, great book. She was making the point of not being Dorothy and trying to save every jerk that crosses your path. And a gong went off. I've spent a large part of my adult life in Oz...



So the next few posts will be entitled Adventures through Oz, which if anyone starts to read, I'll have to change the title because I think that's the original title or one of the books in the series. I'm not exactly sure. I do this to get it out, purge it and give it to the world. There's a chance that this will reach the person that it needs to, just when it needs to and that's a great reason to do anything.