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Monthly Archives: November 2018
A House Full of Ginger
Gingerbread houses are a well-known Christmas tradition, not that I’ve ever seen anyone actually make one. They’re a pretty cool idea, though. The idea of objects made of foodstuffs is an old one in legends throughout the world, especially when … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Authors, Characters, Christmas, England, Fairy Tales, Food, Germany, History, Holidays, Jasper Fforde, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Nursery Crime, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged a. baldwin sloane, architecture, brothers grimm, candy, gingerbread, gingerbread houses, gingerbread men, hansel and gretel, john dough, john dough and the cherub, johnny gingerbread, kolobok, pancakes, queen elizabeth i, the gingerbread man, the little gingerbread man, the wizard of oz, witches
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Koopas Behind the Curtain
This article I read this week discusses the idea of Mario and company being essentially actors in different scenarios, as per a comment from Shigeru Miyamoto comparing them to the cast of Popeye cartoons. It obviously addresses Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Mario, Muppets, Plays, Popeye, Relationships, Video Games
Tagged baby herman, doki doki panic, kermit the frog, king bowser koopa, lakitu, looney tunes, mario and luigi paper jam, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mickey mouse, new donk city, paper mario, roger rabbit, shigeru miyamoto, super mario 64, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, who framed roger rabbit, wreck-it ralph
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Sinking the Stinking One
The Storm Runner, by J.C. Cervantes – This is another book from the Rick Riordan Presents label, and there’s a definite pattern to most of these. A kid who has trouble fitting in with their peers finds out they’re the … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Aztec, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Japanese, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Native American, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire
Tagged a wizard in rhyme, ah-puch, antimony price, chaos choreography, christopher stasheff, cryptozoology, hero twins, ixtab, j.c. cervantes, jian ghomeshi, kukumatz, magic for nothing, manticores, moxy früvous, quetzalcoatl, rick riordan presents, the secular wizard, the storm runner, verity price, yokai, zane obispo
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A Heaping Helping of Hysteria
Ben-Hur – This is one of the old epic films that I thought I should watch, where the look and feel remain impressive even today, but the pacing is terrible. I’m not sure filmmakers in those days knew they could … Continue reading
Reformation Nation
The Cardboard King in Oz, by Gil S. Joel – The sequel to Joel’s Healing Power deals with many of the same characters, this time in vignettes rather than a book-long story. The confidence man Willie Lie returns to Oz … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, History, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged adolf hitler, adolf hitler in oz, ali cat in oz, and justice for oz, andrew heller, emerald city, frankenstein, frankenstein's monster goes to oz, gil joel, glinda, golden cap, good, halloween island, joshua toritto, kalidahs, kinglet of phreex, lark vandergrace, mary shelley, matthew dennion, morality, nomes, ozma, patchwork girl, pterodactyls, sam sackett, scarecrow, take me back to oz, the cardboard king in oz, the healing power of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the puppet-mistress of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tollydiggle, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches
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You Bring the Winter
The Cailleach is a name for a Celtic goddess generally associated with winter, but as with a lot of deities, there’s more to her than that. She has several names, duties, and forms depending on the locality. One commonly used … Continue reading
Posted in Celtic, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged beira, cailleach, cailleach bheara, deer, groundhog's day, imbolc, weather, winter, witches, wolves
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Back to the Labyrinth Again
Etrian Odyssey – I know they did a remake of this a few years back, but I just started playing the original, which I’ve had for a while now. It’s an old-school sort of dungeon crawler in many ways, at … Continue reading
Posted in Final Fantasy, Monsters, Sims, Video Games
Tagged etrian odyssey, final fantasy ix, The Sims
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Make Oz Marvelous
I finally got around to listening to The Chronicles of Oz, audio drama adaptations of the original Oz books. They recently finished with the final installment of The Marvelous Land of Oz, and I think they’re planning on adapting all … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors
Tagged audio play, crossover productions, dorothy gale, dragons, emerald city, forbidden fountain, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, jellia jamb, jinjur, mombi, ozma, professor wogglebug, queen of the field-mice, quox, scarecrow, the chronicles of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches
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The Art of the Infernal Deal
I can’t say I totally buy the trope of deals with the Devil. If you actually believe in Satan, you presumably also believe in all the Heaven and Hell stuff, and is there any case where being tortured eternally is … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Focus on the Foes, Fundamentalism, History, Jack Chick, Magic, Mythology, Plays, Politics, Religion, Urban Legends
Tagged contracts, donald trump, faust, folklore, heaven, hell, johann georg faust, johann wolfgang von goethe, repentance, satan, simon magus, sin, souls, st. theophilus of adana, tricksters
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