Wicked...

Was well... wicked. I really really liked it. Great discussion of good and evil, really gets ya thinking. Has me quite interested in reading the actual Wizard of Oz now, as I've never seen the movie or read the book or anything like that. It incorporates a bit of the story into it but most of it takes place before hand. It was really well written, he's got some really poweful images in there as well as just really good writing. He's got this type of poem in it entitled the "quell", at one point the school mistressed reads it to Elphaba (The Wicked Witch of the West) and her peers. I really liked this one:

Sing a hymn of rectitude,
Ye forward-thinking multitude.
Advance in humble gratitude
For stictest rules of attitude.
To elevate the Common Good
In Brotherhood and Sisterhood
We celebrate authority.
Fraternity, Sorority,
United, pressing onward, we
Restrict the ills of liberty.
There is no numinosity
Like Power's generosity
In helping curb atrocity.
Bear down on the rod and foil the child.
("Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" By Gregory MaGuire, Page 84)

I like it. It helps if you know the contest but I still think its really cool. And my little brother just ran by naked...
Anyways, I've typed this all up with one hand since I seen to have sprained my left wrist and thumb area. Somehow.... though I didn't do anything but its quite agonizing. Tootles.