Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Different
Leaping Lucifer!
The witches of the world have gathered for their annual meeting, Boss Witch (Martha Ray) presiding. Doesn't she look absolutely hideous in her hornëd hennin?
And who else could belt out the witches' anthem like the incomparable Witch Hazel (Mama Cass Eliot)? Now is that a witch or what?
Über-kitsch, you say? Not quite your cup of hemlock tea, perhaps?
Well, it managed to get this little gay warlock boy through the horrors of junior high, thank you very much.
So you can just go to Heaven.
When I was smaller, and people were taller,
I realized that I was different:
I had a power that set me apart.
I learned to take it, to use it, to make it;
it's not so bad to be different,
to do your own thing, and do it with heart.
Different is hard, different is lonely,
different is trouble for you only.
Different is heartache, different is pain,
but I'd rather be different than be the same.
At first I'd wonder what hex I was under,
what I had done to be so different;
then I discovered some others like me.
Wonder no longer, together we're stronger:
it's not so bad to be different.
Be true to yourself, that's what you must be.
Different is hard, different is lonely,
different is trouble for you only.
Different is heartache, different is pain,
but I'd rather be different than be the same.
Happy Pride, folks:
What a long, winding way we've come.
Word and music: Charles Fox
From the film Pufnstuf
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Wednesday, 01 July 2015
"Surreal" would be a fair description, I believe. An adolescent boy's best friend is a talking golden flute. He just loves to play it, but a wicked witch wants to take it off of him. Seems to me we've heard this one before.
I can remember laughing at, rather than with, the show. Guess that was all part of the fun. -
Wednesday, 01 July 2015Land of the Lost, H. R. Puffinstuff, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Seamonsters, Lost Saucer I guess all those Sid & Marty Kroft shows had a trippy, surreal quality to them.
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H. R. Puffinstuff, I used to love that show. Sometimes the opening theme song still plays in my head when I'm at work.