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Why Don’t You Get Things Started?

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Nathan

We finished watching what’s available on Disney Plus of The Muppet Show, which means all of them except for the Brooke Shields and Chris Langham episodes, the former because of music rights issues (mostly for “Off to See the Wizard,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celebrities, Humor, Monsters, Muppets, Music, Poetry, Prejudice, Sesame Street, Star Wars, Television | Tagged bobby benson, c-3po, chewbacca, cookie monster, count von count, debbie harry, fozzie bear, glenda jackson, jerry nelson, kermit the frog, koozebane, link hogthrob, lips, liza minelli, luke skywalker, mark hamill, marty feldman, miss piggy, pigs, pirates, r2-d2, racism, rats, rizzo the rat, robert frost, robots, roosevelt franklin, sam the eagle, shirley bassey, Statler and Waldorf, steve whitmire, the great gonzo, the muppet movie, the muppet show, the muppets, they shoot horses don't they | 2 Comments

Six Degrees Below Zero

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Nathan

I guess it’s the holiday season now, so whoop-de-doo and dickory-dotch, and here are some things that I watched. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special – Like the movies, this special doesn’t take itself particularly seriously, but it does … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Celebrities, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged a charlie brown christmas, beauty and the beast, beauty and the beast: the enchanted christmas, bernadette peters, cosmo, drax the destroyer, groot, guardians of the galaxy, how the grinch stole christmas, kevin bacon, mantis, Marvel Cinematic Universe, old 97's, paul reubens, rocket raccoon, santa claus, santa claus conquers the martians, star-lord, the guardians of the galaxy holiday special, tim curry, yondu udonta | Leave a comment

Heffalumps and Woozies

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Nathan

After two years when it just wasn’t possible, we finally had an in-person OzCon International this year. It was in Pomona, California again, and it was one day and some change, so I initially thought it wouldn’t make sense to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Celebrities, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a day in oz, american fairy tales, ashley chase, billina, bunbury, butterflies, cindy ragni, colin ayres, cowardly lion, dina schiff massachi, dogs, dorothy gale, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, freddy fogarty, geoffrey l. gould, glenn roberson, insects, j. l. bell, judy garland, kabumpo in oz, liberace, nate barlow, naya rivera, oz film manufacturing company, ozcon international, oziana, ozma of oz, polychrome, prince pompadore, return to oz, sam milazzo, steve cox, the emerald city of oz, the glass dog, the master key, the patchwork girl of oz, the real critics, the tik-tok man of oz, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, toto, woozy | 7 Comments

The Boys in the Room

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Nathan

SPOILER WARNING for a few recent Kids in the Hall projects! Beth and I recently watched the new season on Amazon Prime, which, strangely enough, doesn’t cost any extra beyond the subscription fee. (Seriously, it seems like so much of … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Humor, Live Shows, Music, Poetry, Relationships, Television | Tagged amazon, brain candy, bruce mcculloch, coldplay, comedy punks, dave foley, gord downie, jeffrey toobin, kevin mcdonald, kids in the hall, lorne michaels, mark mckinney, scott thompson, tales of bravery and stupidity, tragically hip | 2 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

Making a Killing

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Nathan

The Killing – Stanley Kubrick’s 1958 film noir heist picture, filmed in black and white. It’s about a conspiracy to rob a racetrack during a big race, presented in documentary style with a narrator and some scenes appearing from different … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Comics, Families, Gender, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged avengers, avengers age of ultron, avengers endgame, black widow, bride of chucky, britney spears, captain america civil war, david harbour, dolls, florence pugh, general dreykov, jennifer tilly, john waters, Marvel Cinematic Universe, midsommar, racism, red guardian, red room, redman, scarlett johansson, seed of chucky, stanley kubrick, the incredible hulk | 1 Comment

Standing Tall on the Wizard’s Dreams

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Nathan

The 1976 Oziana is the first with Jay Delkin as editor. The cover has an Oz alphabet designed by Bill Eubank. I know The Baum Bugle used these to start articles for a while, and at the time I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Celebrities, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged bee zum, bill eubank, books of wonder, bronson pinchot, charles schulz, david hulan, donald abbott, dorothy gale, electricity, emerald city, golden cap, great detective, how the wizard came to oz, how the wizard came to oz and what he did there, i-wish-i-was, jack pumpkinhead, jay delkin, joe bongiorno, jojee, linus van pelt, magic flower, michael patrick hearn, nathan flower, nomes, ojo, ojo in oz, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, ozmonga, peanuts, perfect strangers, richard paul smyers, sawhorse, scarecrow, sherlock holmes, snoopy, the adventure of the cat that did not meow in the night, the annotated wizard of oz, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gauds of oz, the lost sawhorse, the magic of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the road to oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, x. pando | 1 Comment

God Loves You, He Really, Really Does!

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Nathan

There Will Be Blood – Another Paul Thomas Anderson movie, which was really famous, but I didn’t know much about it. I remember seeing a marquee that looked like it said, “There Will, Juno, Be Blood,” and I also recall … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Celebrities, Christianity, Cults, Economics, Fundamentalism, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Scientology, Television, The Simpsons, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adam driver, andrew garfield, annette, daniel day-lewis, jerry falwell, jessica chastain, jim bakker, joaquin phoenix, john steinbeck, l. ron hubbard, marion cotillard, michael showalter, paul thomas anderson, philip seymour hoffman, puppets, ron mael, russell mael, sparks, tammy faye bakker, televangelism, the eyes of tammy faye, the master, there will be blood, tom lehrer | Leave a comment

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift | Leave a comment

Screw Your Eye

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Nathan

Darkman – Back in the nineties, there was a program they showed around Halloween for a few years called Horror Hall of Fame, hosted by Robert Englund and the Crypt-Keeper, that discussed recent horror movies. Sometimes they had to stretch … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Holidays, Humor, Names, Television, Thanksgiving | Tagged amblimation, crows, danny elfman, darkman, horror hall of fame, jay leno, john goodman, julia child, liam neeson, macy's thanksgiving day parade, martin short, parasaurolophus, professor neweyes, professor screweyes, pterodactyls, sam raimi, steven spielberg, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, walter cronkite, we're back! a dinosaur's story | 1 Comment

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Heffalumps and Woozies

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