Monthly Archives: January 2020

Shootouts and Dance-Offs

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Nathan

Since I guess it’s just something I do now, I looked up playthroughs of a few video games I haven’t played and probably never will, because I’m interested in the mythology of the series. The first one, Yoshi’s Safari, was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Technology, Television, Video Games | Tagged airships, bloopers, bowser koopa jr., carmen, dance dance revolution, dance dance revolution mario mix, edward elgar, georges bizet, hammer bros, iggy koopa, jewelry land, king bowser koopa, king fret, koopalings, ludwig von koopa, luigi mario, mario mario, mushroom kingdom, music keys, nintendo adventure books, nintendo magazine system, prince pine, robots, roy koopa, shigeru miyamoto, ss brass, stephen foster, super mario bros. 3, super scope 6, toad, toadette, truffle towers, waluigi, wario, wendy o. koopa, wolfgang amadeus mozart, yoshi, yoshi's safari | 1 Comment

Feeding the Meter

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Nathan

It seems like Americans really hate the metric system. Metric really makes more sense in a lot of ways, being based on decimal measurements. On the other hand, it is true that we get a general sense of what feet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, History, Language, Mathematics, Science | Tagged agriculture, anders celsius, british imperial system, chains, dante gabriel fahrenheit, edmund gunter, feet, furlongs, grams, hogsheads, jean-pierre christin, kelvins, liters, measurement, meters, metric system, miles, oxen, paces, pounds, queen elizabeth i, rods, temperature, william thomson | Leave a comment

Never Steal a Used Carpet

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Nathan

Koopa Klaus – Christmas was almost a month ago, but here’s the Christmas episode of this show. I already wrote about this one twelve years ago, and I can’t say I can think of much to add. It is weird … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christmas, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, History, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged al capone, albatosses, apes, bad rap, baron manfred von richtofen, birdo, bob-ombs, brian bonsall, captain lou albano, caught in a draft, cloud land, crime land, danny wells, dirk drain-head, donkey kong, duh stoopid bomb!, ed metzger, eliot ness, fat boys, flab boys, flurries, flying carpets, george washington slept here, gorilla my dreams, gorillas, james brown, king bowser koopa, king james, koopa klaus, koopa klub, koopa troopas, lakitu, little mac, little marios, luigi mario, mama mario, mario and the red baron koopa, mario mario, michael jackson, mother brain, mouser, mushroom king, nester, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, ostros, pasta, pasta land, perry martin, pidgits, president george washington, princess peach toadstool, rap land, ratigator, sam shalam, santa claus, sergeant slaughter, shy guys, snifits, spaghetti, spinies, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the untouchables, the unzappables, toad, wart, wooster, world war i | 1 Comment

Sticking It to Bowser

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been playing Paper Mario: Sticker Star for over a week now. This one seems not to be all that popular among fans, for several reasons. This is the fourth game in the Paper Mario series, and the first for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged continuity, decalburg, dry dry desert, drybake desert, fairies, kersti, king bowser koopa, mario and luigi paper jam, mario mario, mushroom kingdom, paper mario, paper mario: sticker star, paper mario: the thousand-year door, paperization, shigeru miyamoto, sticker comet, stickers, toads | 2 Comments

Playing Ketchup

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Nathan

I haven’t had the chance to watch many movies recently, aside from the few I saw at the theater. I did watch one a month or so ago, and felt that my review wasn’t enough to merit a post, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Monsters, Music, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged airplane!, attack of the killer tomatoes, george c. scott, ghosts, the changeling | Leave a comment

Ain’t You Never Seen a Disembodied Soul Before?

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Nathan

I picked up a few albums recently, either through buying them used or receiving them as presents, so here are some thoughts. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Globe of Frogs – I have the box sets of much of Robyn’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Beatles, History, Humor, Music, Neko Case, Robyn Hitchcock, Roman Empire | Tagged bangles, beat the champ, bull ramos, chavo guerrero sr, cicero, cleomenes, gaius verres, john darnielle, lady of shalott, luna vachon, mountain goats, queen elvis, robyn hitchcock and the egyptians, talking heads, wrestling | Leave a comment

I’m Gonna Smash This City Flatter Than a Tofu Pancake!

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Nathan

Another week (well, more or less), another set of Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews. Hooded Robin and His Mario Men – Mario and his entourage are in Sharewood Forest on their way to Sharewood Village for some reason, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged 20000 koopas under the sea, 20000 leagues under the sea, annette funicello, baroness blueblood, bats, birdo, bloopers, captain abidab, christopher hewett, club nintendo, dirk drain-head, doomsub, dr. t. garden, flower power, fortune teller, frygal, fryguy, godzilla, happy harbor, heart throb, herman melville, hooded robin, hooded robin and his mario men, ice capades, jim ward, jules verne, kamek, kaye ballard, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopilus, koopingham, leprechauns, luck, luigi mario, madam agogo, madonna, mario in mariozilla, mario mario, mario meets koop-zilla, mighty mcmario and the pot of gold, moby-dick, mouser, mr. belvedere, ninjis, nintendo comics system, old mcdonald, princess peach toadstool, rob stone, robin hood, sayanora, scott baio, scott nemes, sharewood forest, shy guys, sophia loren, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super sushi, the adventures of dirk drain-head, toad, toads, trouters, vampire until ready, vampires, wart, young mcdonald | 2 Comments

Nothing More Than Feelings

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been playing Super Princess Peach recently. I’d heard it was easy, but as much as I love video games, I’m not that great at them. It is generally forgiving compared to traditional Mario games. You have a life bar … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Gender, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged calm, diamond city, durmite, emotions, fury volcano, giddy sky, gloom, goombas, gooper blooper, jewelry land, joy, king boo, king bowser koopa, kitchen island, ladida plains, luigi mario, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, mario kart 8, mario mario, mushroom kingdom, petey piranha, princess peach toadstool, rage, sherbet land, stone blooper, super mario land 3: wario land, super mario rpg, super princess peach, syrup castle, toad, toad city, toadstool's ???, toadsworth, vibe island, vibe scepter, vibes, wario, wario land ii, wario's woods, warioware, warioware gold, wigglers | Leave a comment

What Would Baum Do?

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Nathan

The Autumn 2019 Baum Bugle has an old article by the late Fred Meyer, which I think I’d seen some version of before, postulating on what L. Frank Baum might have written if he’d lived longer. Obviously we can never … Continue reading →

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TRI-CAT CHALLENGE

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Nathan

I was never that interested in Cats when I was younger, but I probably would have liked at least the T.S. Eliot poems if I’d been familiar with them. Beth and I went to see the show on Broadway about … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Humor, Live Shows, Music, Poetry, Video, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged andrew lloyd webber, bustopher jones, cats, elaine paige, grizabella, growltiger, growltiger's last stand, gus the theatre cat, ken page, macavity, mr. mistoffelees, old deuteronomy, old possum's book of practical cats, oopsa cat, rum tug tugger, rumpus cat, t.s. eliot, taylor swift, the awefull battle of the pekes and the pollicles | 1 Comment

Monthly Archives: January 2020

Shootouts and Dance-Offs

Feeding the Meter

Sticking It to Bowser

Playing Ketchup

Ain’t You Never Seen a Disembodied Soul Before?

I’m Gonna Smash This City Flatter Than a Tofu Pancake!

Nothing More Than Feelings

What Would Baum Do?

TRI-CAT CHALLENGE

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