You must mean the one in the plaid.

They guy to the left? Yea.

I always thought it was the Lollipop Gang. Being a Lollipop Gangsta would be kind of cool. Drive-by suckerings, Blo-Pop Beatdowns, all that shit.

Lollipop Gangstas
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When my wife was in High School, she was in their production of "The Wizard of Oz." She played the Munchkin Coroner. Really. Talk about fate.

One of the Munchkins was a substitute teacher at my middle school in the late 70s. He was a hit with us 5th and 6th graders, because he was the first adult we'd ever been taller than. I remember he drove a big blue Chevy with the pedals moved up all along the bottom of the dashboard, where he could reach them.

I also remember the first words he ever said to us in class, "My name is Mr. Buresh. I know I am a novelty." And then he gave us a capsule review of working in "The Wizard Of Oz," which in those days was exotic to me because it was a movie I'd seen on TV since I was tiny, and that still kinda scared me.

He taught without the blackboard most of the time, because he couldn't reach it.

Well that's just plain awesome, BP!

My name is Mr. ColdChef. I know I am a novelty.

Love it.

NPH talks with Cody Willard--who's the son of my family's vet--about being Toto as his first acting experience about a minute into the clip on this blog post. The annotations are pretty funny.

How they neglected to mention my stellar performance as the Cowardly Lion is beyond me. Fuckers.