Adam Baran

So apparently whilst I was sleeping the other night, there was a tornado in my area. Apparently my friends were woken up at 6AM to deafining thunder and lightning, and flooding the likes of which they’d never seen.

I wouldn’t know. I was sleeping comfortably in the arms of my long term lover, Ambien.

Anyway, so when I woke up - and I know this is old hat to most of you New York readers, I had no idea this had happened. There was no evidence of it on the street - they looked dry as a bone to me. I went to the subway, it was closed. Hmmm. I wonder why? I went to another subway station. Ditto. I took the F halfway across town and walked the rest of the way. It was steaming hot, and really a horrible experience. I mean, not as horrible as the Holocaust obviously, but…

Anyway, and yes, this has probably been extensively blogged, by New York magazine’s blog and elsewhere, the following day the New York post ran the funniest cover, that brightened and continues to brighten my day.

It’s got a shot of the tornado damage, with a picture of Judy Garland as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, saying “This Ain’t Kansas!” There’s something so ludicrous and retarded about the New York Post, which obviously is the dregs of legitimate newspaper reporting, using this as their cover, and obviously that’s a recipe to win my undying love.

The New York Magazine blog was saying that Dorothy wouldn’t say “Ain’t,” that she would say, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” But if Dorothy was in New York she would totally say “Ain’t.”  So screw that.  It’s funny.