Jason and Brittany Kerr Aldean Expecting Second Child

On Tuesday, the little boy’s famous parents, country singer Jason Aldean and his wife Brittany used the toddler to tell the world that they are expecting child number two.

Brittany Aldean shared a snapshot of her seven-month-old son Memphis wearing a Big Brother onesie on social media. The caption read, “Here we go again.”

Jason Aldean posted the same photo with the note: “Sup everybody……. guess who is gonna be a BIG brother! #thisdude #aldeanpartyof6.”

Loving his music I’d like to wish them a big congratulations of the extension of their family.

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Does the Yellow Brick Road Really Exist

I think it’s safe to say that so many of us have seen the movie the Wizard of OZ where Dorothy (Judy Garland) takes a stroll on the yellow brick road with her Dog Toto toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.

Well that got me to thinking tonight, does the yellow brick road really exist. So you know me, I google everything if I  need an answer and don’t know it.

To my surprise this is what I found which was the picture above about the abandoned ‘Land of Oz’ theme park in North Carolina… complete with a yellow brick road. Land of Oz theme park North Carolina – The Land of Oz closed in 1980 after low attendance and financial struggles but it is still maintained and part of it is used for special events.. Bet this was a beautiful park at one time. Would love to go shoot photo there someday.

Well now here I had it a real yellow brick road , but now that wasn’t satisfactory enough for me so I did some more digging and look at what I found..

Real yellow brick roads

The actual road is believed to be one in Peekskill, New York, where L. Frank Baum who wrote The Wizard of Oz attended Peekskill Military Academy.^[2] According to a local legend, the Yellow Brick Road was derived from a road paved with yellow bricks near Holland, Michigan, where Baum spent summers.^{[citation needed]} Ithaca, New York, also makes a claim for being Frank Baum’s inspiration. He opened a road tour of his musical, The Maid of Arran, in Ithaca, and he met his future wife Maud Gage Baum while she was attending Cornell University. At the time, yellow bricks paved local roads.^[3] Yellow brick roads can also be found in Aberdeen, South Dakota; Albany, New York; Rossville (Baltimore County), Maryland; Montclair, New Jersey (Parkhurst Place and Afterglow Way); Bronxville, New York (on Prescott and Valley roads); Chicago, Illinois; Liberal, Kansas; Sedan, Kansas and Chittenango, New York, as well as a school in Abington, Pennsylvania, and abroad in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Two direct, and the only published, references to the origin of the Yellow Brick Road came from Baum’s own descendants: his son Frank Joslyn Baum in To Please A Child and the other by Roger S. Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum who stated, “Most people don’t realize that the Wizard of Oz was written in Chicago, and the Yellow Brick Road was named after winding cobblestone roads in Holland, Michigan, where great-grandfather spent vacations with his family.”

Dallas, Texas makes a claim that Baum once stayed at a downtown hotel during his newspaper career (located near what is now the Triple Underpass) at a time when the streets were paved with wooden blocks of Bois D’Arc also known as Osage Orange. Supposedly, after a rainstorm the sun came out and he saw a bright yellow brick road from the window of his room.

The Vision Oz Fund ( which I googled and for the life of me can’t find anything on it) was established in November 2009 to raise funds that will be used to help increase the awareness, enhancement, and further development of Oz-related attractions and assets in Wamego, Kansas. The first fundraiser is underway and includes selling personalized engraved yellow bricks, which will become part of the permanent walkway (aka “The Yellow Brick Road”) in downtown Wamego.

L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and the nascent medium of film; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of 20th century cinema. . Frank Baum, c. 1911
Born	Lyman Frank Baum May 15, 1856 Chittenango, New York, U.S.

Is the yellow brick road real?

Real yellow brick roads. The actual road is believed to be one in Peekskill, New York, where L. Frank Baum attended Peekskill Military Academy. According to a local legend, the Yellow Brick Road was derived from a road paved with yellow bricks near Holland, Michigan, where Baum spent summers.

Is there a real yellow brick road in Kansas?

The Yellow Brick Road in Sedan, KS is a collection of bricks (over 10,000) that people can buy to have their name on that are painted yellow — they cover the sidewalk in downtown Sedan. The VIP section is in front of the Emmett Kelly Museum. There is an annual parade at the end of May.

What does it mean to follow the yellow brick road?

the Yellow Brick Road. BrE. a course of action that a person takes believing that it will lead to good things.

 What is the significance of the yellow brick road?

The Yellow brick Road in the Wizard of Oz is a metaphor for the concept believed by many immigrants that American streets were paved in gold. Many of the concepts in the Wizard of Oz are actually a subtle social commentary by Frank L. Baum.

So there you have it. Do you believe now the yellow brick road really exist?…

Wizard of Oz: 75th Anniversary

Things only adults notice in Avengers: Infinity War

If you suggest there’s more than meets the eye about a blockbuster movie in casual conversation, you’ll likely hear, “you’re reading too much into it,” or “you think too much.” You’re expected to enjoy everything at the level of the same children the Avengers and Justice League were originally written for, never questioning the logic of a particular characters’ actions but just enjoying the explosions and the pew-pew.

But the truth is of course there’s more to these movies than meets the eye. Studios spend the budgets of small nations on these things. There better be more than meets the eye, or what are they paying for? Avengers: Infinity War is a perfect example. While kids probably just waited for their favorites to show up, older fans could keep their eyes peeled for hidden layers, and ask some bigger questions. Here are of the moments in Avengers: Infinity War that you probably only noticed if you were an adult.

The most obvious aspect of Avengers: Infinity War that only adults are likely to understand is the list of pop culture references that appear throughout. Tony Stark, Peter Quill, and Peter Parker in the same movie? Forget it. If you’re under 30, unless you happen to appreciate “the classics,” you’ll probably need at least a few Google searches to keep up.

Of course, if you already looked up Footloose after it was mentioned in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel, you might’ve been ready for its return in Infinity War. Parker mentions another “really old movie” in the middle of a fight, just as he did in Captain America: Civil War. During the tussle on Ebony Maw’s ship, Parker references Alien, specifically when the hero Ripley escaped that first Xenomorph by breaching the hull of her ship and blowing the alien into space. When Stark explains to Bruce Banner that the Avengers split since Avengers: Age of Ultron, Banner says, “Like the Beatles?” It’s a funny line, and it highlights just how petty and ridiculous the split in the Avengers seems from an outside perspective. Teen Angst Groot is playing the classic ’80s video game Defender on his handheld device, and the Blue-Man-Group-Audition version of Arrested Development’s Tobias Funke appears in the Collector’s menagerie.

One reference you probably got no matter what your age? When Stark compares Ebony Maw to Squidward from SpongeBob Squarepants…….Read More

 

 

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