Today's Video Link

It's the Voctave folks singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"…and singing it quite well. Have I ever written here about how I think the whole ending of The Wizard of Oz is wrong? I mean, I know most everyone loves the film but it always bothered me that in the second reel, Dorothy sings this beautiful "wish" song about finding a better place and a better world and then the rest of the movie basically proves that there isn't one and you should just stay in Kansas where they have tornadoes and old ladies seize your dog and take it off to be put to sleep and you'll never amount to anything better than what you've achieved by age 13 or so.

And yes, I know that it's a classic and none of this matters to the people who love the movie. But I think of its strange logic every time I hear the song, even when performed as elegantly as these folks…