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When, in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy said, "there's no place like home," you can be sure the Harvard baseball team knew exactly how she felt...
...famous. I wanted to have a normal job, pay rent, spend time with my family. I think my role here on the show is just bringing some sense of reality to the people. I kind of think of myself as the guy who yanks the curtain from the wizard of oz to reveal a midget with a microphone. I want to let everyone know that what seems important now - who is is cool and who isn't - isn't necessarily important in the long run. In that way, I'm really just something of a conduit...
...Band or no band, I no longer harbor hope of actually appearing onstage. Okay, so maybe I still harbor just a teensy bit of hope. Mostly, though, I would love just to strum a guitar to the opening strains of "Pinball Wizard" or "Crazy on You." I'm too late in the game to be a true star, so the best I can hope for is to play along with the classic rock station...
...sake. But he was also the most prodigious inventor of his era, indeed of all time, and he was recognized as the spirit of a new age by his contemporaries. They observed the amazing new products streaming out of his New Jersey laboratory and, sensing magic, named Edison the Wizard of Menlo Park...
There was a sort of magic about Edison, although it had nothing to do with illusions or misdirections. An assistant once described the Wizard at work, "displaying cunning in the way he neutralizes or intensifies electromagnets, applying strong or weak currents, and commands either negative or positive directional currents to do his bidding." But behind his arcane dexterity lay Edison's exhaustive research and his tenacious unwillingness to quit tinkering until a technical challenge had been met. "Genius," he famously remarked, "is about 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration." Or again, as he said in his autobiography, "There is no substitute...