Monthly Archives: April 2019

I’ll Stop the World and Melmoth with You

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Nathan

While some books are easy for me to write about after finishing, there are others I finish and find mostly forgettable, and it seems that I’ve recently mostly been reading the latter. Still, I thought I’d address a few of … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Poetry, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged apollo, celedons, charles robert maturin, e.r. eddison, elves, gothic horror, grover underwood, hephaestus, lord dunsany, melmoth the wanderer, mercury, oscar wilde, percy jackson and the singer of apollo, satan, satyrs, spanish inquisition, the king of elfland's daughter, the worm ouroboros | 2 Comments

Can Anybody Help Me Turn Off the Poisonousness?

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, The Escape Team – This is a weird sort of project based on a series of characters that the band developed with artist David Cowles. I remember seeing a few of the videos back on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Art, Comics, Humor, Music, They Might Be Giants | Tagged david cowles, ed big daddy roth, john flansburgh, john linnell, rat fink, robin goldwasser, the escape team | Leave a comment

Spare Ribbits

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Nathan

I haven’t written much about what I’ve been reading as of late, but I just couldn’t think of much to say about most of what I’ve finished recently. I might or might not say a little bit about these things … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged david tallman, elves, frogman, handy mandy in oz, himself, himself the elf, joe bongiorno, jonathan miranda, kingdom of dreams, momina arif, oziana, sam milazzo, silver hammer, the brains the heart the courage and home, the fabulous frogman and the faith of freakish friends, the final fate of the frogman, the strong man of oz, tik-tok of oz, truth pond, witches, wizard of oz, wunchie | 1 Comment

A Time to Hop

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Nathan

I can’t say I do much for Easter as an adult, but I definitely have memories of hunting for eggs in my childhood. I remember going to church services as well, but I’m generally a defender of secular aspects of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, British, Cartoons, Christianity, Comics, Easter, Fundamentalism, History, Holidays, Humor, Jack Chick, Music, Mythology, Religion, Television | Tagged a family circus easter, alexander hislop, charlie brown, dizzy gillespie, easter baskets, easter bunny, easter eggs, eggs, eostre, ishtar, it's the easter beagle charlie brown, linus van pelt, lucy van pelt, peanuts, peppermint patty, rabbits, snoopy, the family circus, woodstock | Leave a comment

Pyrzqxgl

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Nathan

The Magic of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – I reread this in preparation for this year’s OzCon International. I believe it was the last of Baum’s Oz books I read, and I remember it not being one of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alliance of the elementals, bungle the glass cat, cap'n bill, cats, eureka the pink kitten, forest of gugu, j. l. bell, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, lonesome duck, magic belt, much ado about kiki aru, nome king, ozma, pyrzqxgl, rango, sean duffley, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, tik-tok of oz, transformation, water of oblivion, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

No Guests Like Gnomes for the Holidays

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone else who’s played the Sims games that they’re incredibly addictive and time-consuming. I’ll generally set goals for when I’ll take a break or at least switch households, but then I often find … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Halloween, Holidays, Magic, New Year's Day, Sims, Thanksgiving, Video Games | Tagged ded moroz, father winter, gnomes, harvestfest, love day, santa claus, the sims, the sims 3, the sims 3 seasons, the sims 3 supernatural, the sims 4 get to work, the sims 4 seasons, winterfest | Leave a comment

I Like Birds

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh | 2 Comments

Lightning with My Hands

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Nathan

Shazam! – SPOILERS! Hey, it’s that movie where Sinbad is a genie! No, seriously, while I can’t say I’m familiar with the comics in which he’s featured, I’ve looked into the history of the character, who was the original Captain … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Families, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged big, billy batson, black adam, captain marvel, captain marvel jr., crocodile men, darla dudley, dc comics, dc expanded universe, demons, dr. thaddeus sivana, eugene choi, fawcett comics, freddy freeman, marvel family, mary bromfield, mary marvel, mr. mind, pedro pena, seven deadly sins, shazam, shazam family, superheroes, wizards | Leave a comment

Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Nathan

I don’t think I’ve ever really written specifically about the birds in the Oz series, and there are quite a few of them. When Dorothy first arrives in Oz, she sees “birds with rare and brilliant plumage” in the Munchkin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged balloon bird, balloon island, banana bird, barrel birds, birds, birds of paradise, bob up, bobolinks, captain salt, captain salt in oz, chapter three, chickens, cowardly lion, crows, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ducks, flittermouse, foolish owl, garden of eden, gluckbird, gooch, grand mo-gull, gulls, hummingbirds, hurrah birds, hurrah's nest, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jalapomp, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lake orizon, lonesome duck, lucky bucky in oz, nickadoodle, notta bit more, orks, owls, oziana, patch, peli-cans, percy vere, peter brown, pirates in oz, policeman bluejay, reedbirds, rocs, roger the read bird, russet meagle, scissor bird, skyle of un, snif the iffin, stork scissors, storks, the cowardly lion of oz, the curious cruise of captain santa, the giant horse of oz, the little gingerbread man, the lost king of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, zazagooch | 1 Comment

Monthly Archives: April 2019

I’ll Stop the World and Melmoth with You

Can Anybody Help Me Turn Off the Poisonousness?

Spare Ribbits

A Time to Hop

Pyrzqxgl

No Guests Like Gnomes for the Holidays

I Like Birds

Lightning with My Hands

Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

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