I am sitting here listening to the wind outside howl and thinking how long it has been since I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz. When it gets as windy as it is today, I always make the same joke. I think it is a pretty good one, but I daresay I flatter myself.
“When it’s like this, I worry somebody’s going to come along and drop a house on me. It happened to a sister of mine. Then the bitch stole her red shoes. I wanted those shoes.”
Really, I think it would have been kinder to have offered the Wicked Witch of the West some grief counseling rather than stealing what was apparently some kind of family heirloom. But I digress.
“Now what will I wear with my glittery red ball gown?”
I think a witch counts as a monster for Monstrous Monday, which of course is today. For good measure, here is something more creature-ish.
“Those red shoes would look pretty spiffy with this outfit, too!”
According to a Facebook meme, sometime you have to put on the pointy hat and call out the flying monkeys, just to remind people of who they’re dealing with. It would be a more effective threat if the Witch had not ended the movie in a steaming black puddle.
I’m afraid this has not been a very good post. However, that makes my final picture appropriate. I thought I would end on an inspirational note:
