Category Archives: Language

Platforms for Prejudice

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Nathan

I’ve frequently heard that, if you let racists or other hatemongers speak, they’ll defeat themselves. And that’s true…in some people’s minds. I think the fact that our current President ran on a bunch of white nationalist garbage and conspiracy theories … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Language, Politics, Prejudice | Tagged alex jones, argument, bill maher, debate, donald trump, free speech, hate speech, new yorker festival, political correctness, publicity, racism, social media, steve bannon, tolerance | Leave a comment

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Nathan

The program books at the Winkie Convention/OzCon International, edited by David Maxine, have some pretty good essays and other material. My first contribution appeared in this year’s, which also included Robert Pattrick’s story about the Tin Woodman and Tin Soldier … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill bored, branding in oz, bunbury, bunnybury, captain salt, captain salt in oz, crinklink, deadly desert, doorways, down town, ev, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, handy mandy, handy mandy in oz, illumi nation, kabumpo in oz, little dorothy and toto, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mr. yoop, nome kingdom, ozcon international, ozma, ozma of oz, patrick maund, pirates in oz, pokes, post man, roads, seeweegia, sign-here, signs, soup sea, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forgotten forest of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, wheelers | Leave a comment

Yowza, Yowza, Yowza!

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Nathan

Beth had wanted me to write something about the Qatsi trilogy of films, which we watched a while ago, but I honestly couldn’t think of much to say about them. I guess I’ll address them somewhat, though, while also including … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Great Depression, History, Language, Music, Religion, Star Wars, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, army of darkness, dance marathons, gort, jesus, klaatu, klaatu barada nikto, koyaanisqatsi, naqoyqatsi, philip glass, powaqqatsi, qatsi trilogy, return of the jedi, robots, the day the earth stood still, they shoot horses don't they | 4 Comments

Worm Your Way

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Nathan

Looking into mythology and fiction involving giant worms is a little tricky because it seems like a lot of early societies thought worms and snakes were variations on the same thing. I guess they didn’t want to investigate all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Science, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, al gore, alien, annelids, arrakis, asclepius, beetlejuice, beowulf, carl linnaeus, dragons, dune, earthworms, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy X, frank herbert, glurmo, gobi desert, gogo, graboids, indus river, indus worm, john schoenherr, lambton worm, link, moldorms, mongolian death worm, moon worms, neitherworld, olgoi-khorkhoi, orcs, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, sandworms, saturn, skolex, slurm, slurm queen, sockburn worm, the battle of the five armies, the hobbit, tim burton, tremors, turanga leela, were-worms, worms, wormulon, wyrms, xenomorphs, zone eater | 2 Comments

Racing in All Different Directions

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Nathan

Every once in a while I see an article about something crappy going on with the Trump administration and plan to work it into a post, but I usually don’t because how many times can you really say “the President … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Language, Politics, Prejudice | Tagged collusion, donald trump, fire and fury, impeachment, intelligence, martin luther king, michael wolff, mike pence, president george w. bush, racism, tribalism, weapons of mass destruction, white supremacy | 1 Comment

My Murdered Remains Are Incapable of Learning Anything

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, I Like Fun – There was a time when I would have been a lot more preoccupied by the release of a new TMBG album. I mean, it’s still exciting, but not the event it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Fairy Tales, Frank Black/Black Francis, Language, Music, Politics, They Might Be Giants | Tagged bluebeard, bob hope, donald trump, i like fun, john flansburgh, john linnell, oyvind fahlstrom, william carlos williams | Leave a comment

A Case of the Mondays

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Nathan

I understand that the day before yesterday was Blue Monday, the saddest day of the year. Well, at least that’s what an advertising campaign from a British travel agency called Sky Travel says. There was some nonsensical equation used to … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, History, Holidays, Language, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Urban Legends | Tagged black friday, black tuesday, blue monday, bluing, breakfast of champions, cliff arnall, grampa in oz, kurt vonnegut, laundry, lent, monday, monday mountain, posies, sky travel | Leave a comment

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