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70 years ago (give or take a few days) that more-than-a-little hallucinatory musical journey from the Midwest into a fairytale, The Wizard of Oz, first opened on the big screen.Funny story: the film actually premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where most of the pre-drug trip pre-tornado scenes were filmed. Because we can never quite get enough [...]

Today, in addition to being Canada Day, is Build a Scarecrow Day, which strikes us as rather region-specific national holiday, but there you go. Of course, now that we’re thinking about it, just because they’re called scarecrows doesn’t mean they can only be used to scare crows. To prove our point, we’ve rounded up these [...]

Some lists just don’t pan out, you know? Like back at the end of November it was Winston Churchill’s birthday and we really wanted to create a listicle called “Top 10 Winston Churchill Scarecrows” because we knew of at least one. That turned out to be the only one though, so we scrapped the listicle [...]