Category Archives: Art

Jump Into Cha-Oz

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Nathan

The Wonder City of Oz, by John R. Neill – After Ruth Plumly Thompson gave up writing Oz books, the publishers turned to the illustrator. I understand they’d been considering signing on Neill as the new writer before settling on … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aunt em, captain salt, david maxine, emerald city, jack pumpkinhead, jellia jamb, jenny jump, kabumpo, lobotomy, mari ness, number nine, omby amby, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, shoes, sir hokus of pokes, snufferbux, the wonder city of oz, uncle henry, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Glindaness Is Next to Godliness

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Nathan

I appreciate that The Baum Bugle has recently been putting out some issues that largely focus on a particular book. I don’t know if there are plans for this to continue, but I’ve found some information there that I hadn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Art, Characters, Egyptian, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Spiritualism | Tagged birds, dorothy gale, glinda, glinda of oz, great book of records, immortality, ira and william davenport, isis, margaret berg, matilda joslyn gage, michael patrick hearn, neith, osiris, robert b. luehrs, snoods, spirit cabinet, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the baum bugle, the magic of oz, the reading tree of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Dreaming of Seuss Juice

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Nathan

I wanted to say a bit about the manufactured controversy over Dr. Seuss, which is obviously being totally misrepresented by conservatives. It’s the Seuss estate that decided to stop publishing six particular books, so it isn’t some kind of government … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Current Events, Dr. Seuss, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice | Tagged and to think that i saw it on mulberry street, birds, censorship, dungeons and dragons, fantanimals, fish, if i ran the zoo, jorge luis borges, keith havens, long-legger kwong, mcelligot's pool, monster manual, nerds, on beyond zebra, one fish two fish red fish blue fish, racism, rinkitink in oz, scrambled eggs super, the book of imaginary beings, the cat in the hat, the patchwork girl of oz | 6 Comments

Whether Nero to Me or Far

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Nathan

An Excess of Enchantments, by Craig Shaw Gardner – The second book in the Ballad of Wuntvor trilogy, there just wasn’t as much to this one as to earlier volumes. Pretty much the whole thing was based around Mother Duck’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Rick Riordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, seanan mcguire, Trials of Apollo, Video Games, Wayward Children | Tagged a difficulty with dwarves, an excess of enchantment, apollo, art of mana, cats, curious cottabus, down among the sticks and bones, dragons, dwarves, every heart a doorway, falkor, final fantasy adventure, flammie, giants, kabumpo in oz, meg mccaffrey, neko, nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus, niccolo, puss in boots, python, secret of mana, the ballad of wuntvor, the neverending story, the tower of nero, troglodytes, vampires, wolves, wuntvor, zeus | 4 Comments

There Are Quangles in Your Wangles

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Nathan

For some reason, the name “Gramblamble Land” kept sticking in my head. Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s an Edward Lear reference, to “The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple” (not to be confused with Dr. Pimple Popper), the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Edward Lear, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Language, Nursery Crime, Poetry | Tagged alberto manguel, bong-trees, cats, chankly bore, clangle-wangle, coromandel, gianni guadalupi, gromboolian plain, jingly jones, john vernon lord, lake pipple-popple, owls, pigs, quangle-wangle, the courtship of the yonghy-bonghy-bo, the dictionary of imaginary places, the dong with a luminous nose, the fourth bear, the history of the seven families of the lake pipple-popple, the jumblies, the owl and the pussycat, the pobble who has no toes, the quangle wangle's hat, the story of the four little children who went round the world, the tale of little pig robinson, torrible zone, trees, yonghy-bonghy-bo, zimmery fidd | 4 Comments

Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Nathan

I had been wanting to write something about snowman characters in video games, with one that immediately came to mind being Rusty the Snowman in Earthworm Jim, who breathes fireballs. Sounds like he’s as self-destructive as the They Might Be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Art, Donkey Kong, Humor, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Prejudice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, antisemitism, bad mr. frosty, banjo-kazooie, battletoads, bleak the snowman, book of hours, chilly, clayfighter, cool cool mountain, donkey kong country 3, dr. freezegood, earthworm jim, evil the cat, frosty the hit man, michelangelo buonarroti, mr. blizzard, mr. frosty, penguins, robots, rusty the snowman, sir slush, snowman's land, snowmen, super mario 64, teenage mutant ninja turtles ii: the arcade game, weather, winter, yoshi's island | 1 Comment

The Fellowship of Hell Can’t Help You Now

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Nathan

The History of Hell, by Alice K. Turner – Erica Olivera recommended this book to me, and I quite liked it. In a casual style, it explores the concept of Hell throughout history, in both religion and popular culture. It … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Babylonian, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Plays, Poetry, Religion | Tagged abraham, alice k. turner, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, hades, heaven, hell, hellmouths, hours of catherine of cleves, inanna, inferno, jesuits, jesus, john milton, orpheus, pandemonium, parables, paradise lost, purgatory, satan, tartarus, the history of hell, titans, tobias swinden, virgin mary | 2 Comments

Leaving on an Ozoplane

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Nathan

Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I can’t remember for sure why I wanted to give this one a reread, but it had been a while since I’d looked at it. It’s the last Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Technology | Tagged betsy bobbin, bustabo, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, guardian of the gates, international wizard of oz club, jellia jamb, martin gardner, omby amby, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, queen kabebe, red top mountain, scarecrow, science fiction, speedy in oz, stratosphere, stratovania, strut of the strat, the marvelous land of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, toto, trot griffiths, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Nathan

The Stand, by Stephen King – This was a long book, even more so since I read the unabridged edition, but I don’t know that I’ll have a long review for it. I did like it, and it’s pretty timely since … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Discworld, Health, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Mario, Monsters, Politics, Prejudice, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged bouldergeist, caleb cook, coronavirus, dr. mario, foxes, kooper, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, new super mario bros. wii, paper mario, paul kidby, puns, rabbits, stephen king, super mari-old, super mario manga mania, super mario sunshine, super mario-kun, super paper mario, superflu, sushie, the art of discworld, the constant rabbit, the stand, time travel, weasels, yoshi, yukio sawada | 3 Comments

Jumping Jupiter!

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Nathan

Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge’s Money Rocket, by Luciano Bottaro – The second in the Disney Masters series features the work of another Italian artist and writer, showcasing three imaginative madcap tales. In the titular story, when the Beagle Boys find … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Beatles, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, History, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged aliens, beagle boys, chronos origins, disney, disney masters, donald duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john lennon, jupiter, ku klux klan, luciano bottaro, martin luther king, moon, now then and everywhen, racism, rebo, robots, rysa walker, saturn, scrooge mcduck, time travel, uncle scrooge's money rocket, witches | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Art

Jump Into Cha-Oz

Glindaness Is Next to Godliness

Dreaming of Seuss Juice

Whether Nero to Me or Far

There Are Quangles in Your Wangles

Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

The Fellowship of Hell Can’t Help You Now

Leaving on an Ozoplane

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Jumping Jupiter!

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