Monthly Archives: April 2022

Chrono Crosstalk

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Nathan

Chrono Cross was released about a month ago for the Switch, so I bought a copy. It’s digital, which I kind of don’t trust. I think you have to buy it from Asia if you want a physical copy. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Names, Video Games | Tagged chrono cross, cid, dogs, el nido, fairies, fort dragonia, frog, frozen flame, glenn, guile, korcha, lucca ashtear, luccia, lynx, magus, pip, poshul, razzly, serge, tata, time travel | 1 Comment

The Call of Cthjello

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Nathan

It’s Oziana time! Let’s delve into the 1981 issue, which has a drawing of Glinda by Denise Brunkus on the cover. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like her dress is made to look lumpy, and it puts … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adventure on monday mountain, as the rainbow follows the rain, billina, cthjello, cthulhu, dana linker, daniel k. cox, deadly desert, death, denise brunkus, dorothy gale, emeralda ozgood, ernest johnson, glinda, grampa in oz, great book of records, h.p. lovecraft, immortality, kaliko, lurline, mermaids, monday mountain, mount munch, nome king, nome kingdom, old ones, oziana, ozma, paula cooper, polychrome, professor wogglebug, rinkitink in oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the rainbow's daughter of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the woggle-bug book, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths, yog-sothoth, yug-succotash | 1 Comment

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Nathan

I had a few other things I wanted to write about, but since I found out Saturday was St. George’s Day, I thought he might be worth looking into. As someone who didn’t attend a church where saints were really … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Crusades, Diana Wynne Jones, Eastern Orthodox, England, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Stan Freberg, Tom Holt | Tagged dragons, edith nesbit, emperor diocletian, gordon r. dickson, hercules, kenneth grahame, king edward iii of england, medusa, order of the garter, ovid, paint your dragon, perseus, prince marvel, smaug, st. dragon and the george, st. george, st. george's day, st. patrick, st. theodore tiron, the deliverers of their country, the enchanted island of yew, the hobbit, the reluctant dragon, unicorns, witch week | Leave a comment

Uh…Subs?

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Nathan

Saturday Morning All-Star Hits! – This was something Beth had heard of, an eight-episode Netflix series spoofing cartoons from the late 80s and early 90s. In addition to the cartoons themselves, there are some subplots that develop throughout the show. … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Arrested Development, Cartoons, Humor, Politics, Television, Toys | Tagged bobby's world, chip and pepper, donald trump, jeff garlin, jeffrey tambor, jessica walter, kyle mooney, liza minelli, madballs, netflix, power glove, saturday morning all-star hits, scott baio, wonder woman | Leave a comment

The South Will Oz Again

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Nathan

As mentioned in the introduction, the cover picture of the 1980 Oziana, as drawn by Albert Chronic, references a passage in Captain Salt in Oz, specifically when the Captain says that the Wizard of Oz is building airships that would … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Food, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, agga-groo, albert chronic, appearance, captain salt in oz, colonel cotton in oz, cowardly lion, dixie, edith hollister, g. mohrman, glegg, grampa in oz, great detective, how the cowardly lion met the hungry tiger, hungry tiger, judy bieber, kabumpo in oz, king gugu, miss cuttenclip, ozamaland, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, question box, ragbad, ragej, railroads, samandra, sherlock holmes, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tim hollis, toto | 5 Comments

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Nathan

Picture by Helena Nelson-Reed Happy Easter! Some years ago, I wrote a little about the origins of the Easter Bunny and the name of the holiday. I don’t have a whole lot to add, but there’s some, so I might … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, British, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Easter, Food, German, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Judaism, Lewis Carroll, Music, Mythology, Passover, Religion, Roman, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, XTC | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, aphrodite, bill cosby, charity, coney island, coneys, easter bunny, easter eggs, easter parade, easter seals, eggs, eostre, fat albert, fat albert easter special, fred astaire, hares, irving berlin, jack benny, jesus, judy garland, lent, liberace, march hare, ostara, pikas, rabbits, shirley maclaine, the easter seal teleparade of stars, titian, van johnson, venus, virgin mary, white rabbit | Leave a comment

Fuzzy Pickles

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Nathan

I started playing EarthBound last week when I found it on the Super NES for Switch application. It probably wasn’t the best timing as the Switch version of Chrono Cross also came out that week, but I’ve been switching back … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cults, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Names, Religion, Technology, Toys, Video Games | Tagged aliens, buzz buzz, charles schulz, eagleland, earthbound, ghosts, hippies, jeff andonuts, maniac mansion, monkeys, mr. belch, ness, nintendo power, onett, robots, threed, zombies | 2 Comments

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Nathan

The 1979 Oziana starts out by saying three stories “seems to be a typical number,” which is generally true, although the previous one had four. The cover illustration by Rob Roy MacVeigh shows the Scarecrow in a cornfield, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, geoffrey l. gould, glinda, gloma, greg gick, hank and the scarecrow of oz, hank the mule, horses, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, jim the cab-horse, journal of a journey, mary rakestraw, oziana, rob roy macveigh, robert pattrick, ruth berman, scarecrow, school of hard knocks, shaggy man, stephanie hawks, the deadly desert around oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the real critics, the wishing horse of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, zeb hugson | 2 Comments

A Druun on Society

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Nathan

Raya and the Last Dragon – Beth and I had watched all of Walt Disney Animation Studios films, then last year we fell behind. We finally got around to watching this one last night. It takes place in a Southeast … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Chinese, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged awkwafina, cultural appropriation, dragon gem, dragons, druun, namaari, raya and the last dragon, sisu, tuk tuk | 1 Comment

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

Monthly Archives: April 2022

Chrono Crosstalk

The Call of Cthjello

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

Uh…Subs?

The South Will Oz Again

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

Fuzzy Pickles

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

A Druun on Society

Coping with Immortality

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