Not much Mexico news today, I was indoors working to finish up being forced onto unpaid leave by Bureaucracy. I did go out for food, to my torta stand, getting a torta cubana (mmm) and a sincronizada. That's basically a US quesadilla plus ham and veg... also two tortillas, not one folder. To Mexicans the difference would be bigger, since their quesadillas use corn tortillas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sincronizada

Totally unrelated, I've read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Ozma of Oz. The first was meh, I'm neutral on it. I read it 5 years ago apparently, yet much of it sparked no recall.

Ozma, OTOH, was hilarious through much of the book. Man, that hen. Let me spam quotes and comments under a cut.


"How is my grammar?" asked the yellow hen, anxiously. "Do I speak quite properly, in your judgment?"

so precious


"Why, eating live things, and horrid bugs, and crawly ants. You ought to be 'shamed of yourself!"

Dorothy, didn't you grow up on a farm?


the girl put the key in the pocket of her dress

women's clothing has regressed


"Perhaps they're automobiles," suggested the yellow hen. "There is no
need to beware of baby-cabs and wheelbarrows; but automobiles are
dangerous things. Several of my friends have been run over by them."

smart chicken


"I had a pair of silver shoes, that carried me through the air; but I lost them," said Dorothy.
"Ah, indeed," remarked the yellow hen, in a tone of unbelief.

skeptical chicken


no Toto

poor Henry, Dorothy missing again


"He must have been a great loss to this country," said Dorothy, who was by this time eating her custard pie.
"He was," acknowledged Tiktok. "Also he is a great loss to me. For if I should get out of or-der I do not know of an-y one a-ble to re-pair me, be-cause I am so com-pli-cat-ed. You have no i-de-a how full of ma-chin-er-y I am."



"That is a base slander!" cried Billina, struggling frantically in the colonel's arms. "But the breed of chickens I come from is said to be poison to all princesses."

smart chicken

Ozma ex machina


"At present there are at least ten minutes every day that I must devote to affairs of state, and I would like to be able to spend my whole time in admiring my beautiful heads."

useless princess


"I didn't ask to associate with them," replied Billina. "It is that cross old Princess who is to blame. But I was raised in the United States, and I won't allow any one-horse chicken of the Land of Ev to run over me and put on airs, as long as I can lift a claw in self-defense."

one-horse chicken
I'm dying here


about Billina
"Heat is just in her line," remarked the Scarecrow. "If she is nicely roasted, she will be better than ever."

dark
and he doesn't even eat


"Not very," said the creature. "It would be foolish to waste intelligence on a common Sawhorse, when so many professors need it. But I know enough to obey my masters, and to gid-dup, or whoa, when I'm told to. So I'm pretty well satisfied."

uh


"That is right," agreed the Tin Woodman. "And now you must all come back to Ozma, and obey her orders. And if you try to run away again I will have her reduce all the twenty-six officers to privates, and make the private your general."

lol


So they rode back to the Emerald City, and on the way it was arranged that every Saturday morning Ozma would look at Dorothy in her magic picture, wherever the little girl might chance to be. And, if she saw Dorothy make a certain signal, then Ozma would know that the little Kansas girl wanted to revisit the Land of Oz, and by means of the Nome King's magic belt would wish that she might instantly return.

so smart