Monthly Archives: September 2023

The Future’s Got It Covered

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Nathan

I’m not entirely sure how many new Futurama episodes Hulu ordered, but I do know that they’re going to wait before airing the next batch. So here are my thoughts on the ten episodes we’ve had so far. The Impossible … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Babylonian, Cartoons, Celebrities, chemistry, Christmas, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Health, Holidays, Humor, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Religion, Science, Technology, Television, Toys, Voodoo | Tagged aging, aliens, all my circuits, amazon, amy wong, barbados slim, bears, bender bending rodriguez, bitcoin, borax kid, calculon, coolio, coronavirus, cryptocurrency, cubert farnsworth, democratic order of planets, dr. john zoidberg, dune, dwight conrad, hulu, kif kroker, kwanzaabot, lamassu, mermaids, nibbler, omicron persei 8, parasites, philip j. fry, planet express, professor banjo, professor hubert farnsworth, professor ogden wernstrom, robot mafia, robots, santa claus, saturn, tardigrades, the ring, turanga leela, turducken, ursa major, vaccines, weebles, worms, zapp brannigan | 2 Comments

You Cursed Brat!

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Nathan

One television show and two movies this time, all with SPOILERS. Cursed Films – This is a Shudder production that’s had two seasons so far. Each episode talks about a movie that has a reputation of being cursed, due to … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Music, Oz, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bullying, cursed films, gregg turkington, horror, jason bateman, joel edgerton, john fricke, john landis, judy garland, on cinema, revenge, shudder, stalker, the crow, the gift, the wizard of oz (1939), three billboards outside ebbing missouri, twilight zone the movie | Leave a comment

The Lion Shall Lay Down with the Lamassu

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Nathan

With the appearance of Lamassu on the latest Futurama episode (although I haven’t been able to find a picture of them online as of yet), I thought they might be an interesting concept to look into, although I’m not really sure there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Babylonian, Buddhism, Cartoons, Etymology, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Judaism, Magic, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Persian, Religion, Television | Tagged abenaki, achaemenid empire, angels, anu, apsu, cherubim, demons, donkeys, enki, enuma elish, glooscap, gopathas, griffins, lahamu, lahmu, lamashtu, lamassu, lamia, lilith, mercury, pamola, pazuzu, shedu, sphinx, tiamat, yalis | 2 Comments

Holy Hanna-Barbera!

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Nathan

The Hanna-Barbera Now initiative at DC Comics started in 2016, with the idea to use characters from the old studio’s cartoons in more modern and often darker stories. I’d been interested in the Flintstones series for a while now; it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Environmentalism, Families, Humor, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons | Tagged aliens, astro, augie doggie, bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cosmo g. spacely, dc comics, dogs, dorothy parker, elroy jetson, exit stage left, frank pugh, fred flintstone, gay marriage, george jetson, george o'hanlon, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, hanna-barbera now, homophobia, homosexuality, huckleberry hound, jane jetson, jimmy palmiotti, marilyn monroe, mark russell, marriage, mike feehan, nasa, pearl slaghoople, pebbles flintstone, peter potamus, pier brito, president richard nixon, puns, quick draw mcgraw, robots, rosey the robot, roy cohn, satire, snagglepuss, squiddly diddly, tennessee williams, tony danza, who framed roger rabbit, wilma flintstone | 2 Comments

All Together Again

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Nathan

It’s interesting that the Land of Oz seems to become more unified over the course of the series, and in fact over the first few books. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz doesn’t even make it entirely clear where the main … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged boq, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, gloma, good witch of the north, hammer-heads, how the wizard came to oz, jinjur, kimbaloo, mombi, ozma, ozma of oz, pastoria, paul dana, queen orin, scarecrow, seebania, singra, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, tippetarius, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

It’s Craning Men

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Nathan

When Sorrows Come, by Seanan McGuire – After a lot of build-up throughout the last few books, we finally get to see Toby and Tybalt’s wedding, at the court of the High King of the Divided Courts in Toronto. Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chris Dulabone, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged abuse, and with reveling, arabian nights, clark ashton smith, cranes, decemberists, doppelgangers, fairies, hippogriffs, jinn, kelly barnhill, kesrick, lin carter, marriage, mombi, ozma, robert e. howard, swords, terra magica, the crane husband, the crane wife, the marvelous land of oz, the merry mountaineer of oz, the tired tailor of oz, weapons, when sorrows come, wizards | 4 Comments

Getting to Nome You

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Nathan

The physical appearance of the Nome King was something that came up recently in an online chat, and we have a pretty good description when he first appears in Ozma of Oz: “This important monarch of the Underground World was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Gender, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, dorothy gale, eggs, imps, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic belt, mardi gras, mary lenard, matriarchy, nome king, nome kingdom, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, patriarchy, pirates in oz, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, santa claus, sexism, sherwood smith, the baum bugle, the characters of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, the nome king, the tik-tok man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz | Leave a comment

Big Bugs and Birds

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Nathan

Calculated Risks, by Seanan McGuire – This one is a direct follow-up to Imaginary Numbers, with Sarah Zellaby and her allies transported into another dimension, and their memories of her having been erased. She has to do the calculations to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Authors, Book Reviews, Dreams, Humor, incryptid, Korean, Magic, Mathematics, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Piers Anthony, Relationships, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Sexuality, They Might Be Giants, Xanth | Tagged antimony price, calculated risks, cheollima, fonda lee, ghost writer in the sky, gifted clans, graci kim, imaginary numbers, isis, johrlac, manticores, rabbits, rick riordan presents, rocs, sarah zellaby, singing the comic-con blues, sirens, the last fallen realm, untethered sky, verity price | Leave a comment

Cheese Can’t Dial a Phone

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Nathan

The State – This is a show that Beth remembered from the nineties and still quotes pretty regularly. As someone who didn’t have MTV and never watched all that much TV anyway, I didn’t see it, although I’ve seen several projects … Continue reading →

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I’ve Never Kipled

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Nathan

Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems, Volume 1, edited by John Beecroft – I picked this book up at a church book sale back in college, and had it sitting around on various shelves before starting to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, History, Humor, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry | Tagged bagheera, baloo, bears, fairies, fauns, folk tales, how the camel got his hump, j.m. gleeson, john beecroft, just so stories, kaa, kim, kipling a selection of his stories and poems, mowgli, paul bransom, puck, puck of pook's hill, rhinoceroses, rudyard kipling, the elephant's child, the jungle book, wayland the smith, whales | Leave a comment

Monthly Archives: September 2023

The Future’s Got It Covered

You Cursed Brat!

The Lion Shall Lay Down with the Lamassu

Holy Hanna-Barbera!

All Together Again

It’s Craning Men

Getting to Nome You

Big Bugs and Birds

Cheese Can’t Dial a Phone

I’ve Never Kipled

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