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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Meatless Mortality
We know that flesh-and-blood people and animals are pretty much functionally immortal in Oz. They can be potentially be destroyed, but won’t die of old age or disease, and even being torn into pieces isn’t necessarily fatal. What I sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Food, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged bunbury, carter green, dorothy and the wizard in oz, immortality, jack pumpkinhead, jim vander noot, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king of the fairy beavers, lurline, mangaboos, oziana, plants, the disenchanted princess of oz, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the ice cream man of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tippetarius in oz, tommy kwikstep, vegetables, wam, zim greenleaf
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Metropolitan Mythology
I try to space out book review posts so my blog isn’t inundated with them, and I’ll often include a few books in one post. I really should start writing the reviews right after reading the books, however, even if … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships
Tagged cryptozoology, discount armageddon, dragons, incryptid, marissa meyer, renegades, seanan mcguire, superheroes
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Racing in All Different Directions
Every once in a while I see an article about something crappy going on with the Trump administration and plan to work it into a post, but I usually don’t because how many times can you really say “the President … Continue reading
Knight Time Is the Right Time
The King Arthur Collection – I’ve been reading this one on and off for about a year and a half. It’s long, but worth reading. There are six separate works included, as well as some background information about the historicity … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, England, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire, Video Games
Tagged a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, alfred lord tennyson, baba yaga, camelot, charlton miner lewis, dolorous stroke, emperor magnus maximus, fisher king, garland, garlon, gawayne and the green knight, geoffrey of monmouth, holy grail, idylls of the king, jesus, john william waterhouse, joseph of arimathea, king arthur, king arthur and his knights, king arthur and the knights of the round table, lady of shalott, lady of the lake, le morte d'arthur, lucius tiberius, mark twain, maude radford warren, queen guinevere, round table, siege perious, sir balan, sir balin, sir galahad, sir gareth, sir gawain, sir jame knowles, sir lancelot, sir thomas malory, spear of destiny, the hobbit, the king arthur collection, vasilisa the fair
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My Murdered Remains Are Incapable of Learning Anything
They Might Be Giants, I Like Fun – There was a time when I would have been a lot more preoccupied by the release of a new TMBG album. I mean, it’s still exciting, but not the event it was … Continue reading
Three by Pee-Wee
I hadn’t yet watched the newest Pee-wee Herman movie that came out about three years ago, nor had I seen his second from 1988, so I figured I might as well watch all three of his films back-to-back. Well, not … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Music, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged big top pee-wee, danny elfman, joe manganiello, john lee, judd apatow, large marge, mark mothersbaugh, nostalgia, paul reubens, pee-wee herman, pee-wee's big adventure, pee-wee's big holiday, pee-wee's playhouse, the pee-wee herman show, tim burton
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Hell-thy, Wealthy, and Dead
The expression “you can’t take it with you” apparently dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century, but the idea is older than that. Not all cultures have believed this, however. We know that the tombs of wealthy … Continue reading
Posted in African, Authors, Buddhism, Chinese, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Taoism, Tom Holt
Tagged afterlife, bank of hell, bank of the dead, charon, eight immortals, hades, hell money, jade emperor, joss paper, obols, sarcophagi, yama, yanluo
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Rat Cake, Rat Sorbet, Rat Pudding, or Strawberry Tart
Ratatouille – I haven’t watched a Pixar movie in a while, but I do still intend to get to all of them someday. This one was a bit of departure in terms of style and such, but it had some … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Food, Humor, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged accents, janeane garofalo, patton oswalt, pixar, ratatouille, rats, restaurants
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Conflict, Controversy, and Contradiction in Oz
Finally, I’ve been able to read and review some new Oz material! There are some significant spoilers in this post. The Royal Explorers of Oz, Book 4: Into the Wild, by Marcus Mebes and Alejandro Garcia – What was originally … Continue reading
Posted in Babylonian, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Semitic, Sexuality
Tagged a wrinkle in time, alejandro garcia, apsu, bewitched in oz, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, carol silva, dagon, fairy wand of oz, glinda, hurray for oz, into the wild, king anko, king ato, laura j. burns, madeleine l'engle, magic below, mermaids, ojo, ozma, paul dana, pearls of pingaree, phanfasms, pingaree, prince inga of pingaree, puff the magic dragon, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, tarara, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal explorers of oz, tiamat, zog
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