I wish I had got this job?

Yeah, I know it's a bit of film history but $300,000 to fix up a pair of shoes?



http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/over-rainbow-save-ruby-slippers-project-passes-300k-goal-n671916

I guess we can be happy that it was funded by donations.

OM

According to Wikipedia (oops, almost wrote WikiLeaks!!), there are about 2300 sequins per shoe so 4600 total. Probably what will happen, someone will snip one of those threads and the whole thing will pop sequins across the room. We all know what happens when those circlips fly off our bikes into the unknown reaches of the garage. Finding each one of those sequins and reassembling might be worth $65 a sequin!

The $300K also includes a new display for the shoes and some of the related memorabilia.

mika said:

The $300K also includes a new display for the shoes and some of the related memorabilia.

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Sorry, doesn't help me with the feeling-
Somebody isn't a good shopper!
O$M

500/pack.....$6.98 Amazon

om

Hey!

This is Hollywierd, so anything goes.

Just flew back from 6 days in the San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley/El Sobrante areas, aka 'Prius Nation.'

Had to completely readjust my parameters of "normalcy" to survive that culture.

Wisconsin looking pretty good right now.

greenwald said:

Hey!

This is Hollywierd, so anything goes.

Just flew back from 6 days in the San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley/El Sobrante areas, aka 'Prius Nation.'

Had to completely readjust my parameters of "normalcy" to survive that culture.

Wisconsin looking pretty good right now.

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Did you click your heels together three times?

I don't think we are in Kansas any more! ;>)

Hum, wonder what the original person who made these shoes got for sewing all those sequins on the shoes ? Maybe a few dollars....

patiodadio said:

Hum, wonder what the original person who made these shoes got for sewing all those sequins on the shoes ? Maybe a few dollars....

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Van Gogh died in poverty

Theory of Travel

Darryl Cainey said:

I don't think we are in Kansas any more! ;>)

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I have a theory of travel, which could almost be stated as a law.

Whenever I travel outside of the great and sovereign state of Kansas I will encounter some reference to the movie The Wizard of Oz.

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Typically it is someone giving a variation of the "not in Kansas anymore" quote when they find out I'm from Kansas. Occasionally it is random Wizard of Oz merchandise in some road side shop. Once, in Rome, Italy, it was a street performer playing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." The references are always to the 1939 version with Judy Garland and never to any of the subsequent re-makes or re-imaginings (i.e. 1978's The Wiz with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross).

Maybe, as a resident of the home of Dorothy, I'm hyper-aware of Wizard of Oz references. Maybe this 77 year old movie has had a broader cultural impact than anyone could have imagined.

henzilla said:

Did you click your heels together three times?

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I DID! However, I ended up in Lansing Kansas - another un-worldly place.

(Actually, did drive there in June for three days to visit my son - attending a digital battlefield class at nearby Ft. Leavenworth)

I just can't get a break.

I'm firing my travel agent.