Category Archives: Language

Glutton for Punnishness

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Nathan

Something I’ve looked at before is the nature of puns in the Oz series, and how they can serve different purposes. Some are purposely made by the characters, some are asides, and others are just kind of part of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bunbury, jack pumpkinhead, ozcon international, ozlection, patchwork girl, paul dana, professor wogglebug, puns, sawhorse, scarecrow, spoolicle, the emerald city of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the woggle-bug book, the wonder city oz, utensia, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Weasels on the Wind

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Nathan

Another mythical Japanese creature, or yokai, that came up in the Pokémon videos I talked about last week is the kamaitachi, the probable inspiration for the Sneasel. The name kamaitachi literally means “sickle weasel,” and that’s basically what they are, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Japanese, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Pokémon, Video Games | Tagged cyclown, demons, four fiends, kamaitachi, quiongqi, razor wind, si xiong, sickles, sneasel, weasels, yokai | Leave a comment

Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Nathan

I don’t think I’ve ever really written specifically about the birds in the Oz series, and there are quite a few of them. When Dorothy first arrives in Oz, she sees “birds with rare and brilliant plumage” in the Munchkin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged balloon bird, balloon island, banana bird, barrel birds, birds, birds of paradise, bob up, bobolinks, captain salt, captain salt in oz, chapter three, chickens, cowardly lion, crows, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ducks, flittermouse, foolish owl, garden of eden, gluckbird, gooch, grand mo-gull, gulls, hummingbirds, hurrah birds, hurrah's nest, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jalapomp, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lake orizon, lonesome duck, lucky bucky in oz, nickadoodle, notta bit more, orks, owls, oziana, patch, peli-cans, percy vere, peter brown, pirates in oz, policeman bluejay, reedbirds, rocs, roger the read bird, russet meagle, scissor bird, skyle of un, snif the iffin, stork scissors, storks, the cowardly lion of oz, the curious cruise of captain santa, the giant horse of oz, the little gingerbread man, the lost king of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, zazagooch | 1 Comment

I Don’t Need a Rationale to Sing the Internationale

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, My Murdered Remains – Even though TMBG’s albums tend to have a lot of songs, there are also quite a few they record that don’t make the cut, many of which are still quite good or … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Language, Music, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, Urban Legends | Tagged accordion, aerosmith, cats, corn mo, dial-a-song, glean, gudetama, hardy fox, i like fun, john flansburgh, john glenn, john linnell, jonathan richman, marty beller, more murdered remains, my murdered remains, nikola tesla, records, residents, robin goldwasser, run dmc, sanrio | Leave a comment

I’m Going to Lowryland!

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Nathan

Friends, has this ever happened to you? You finish a book but don’t write about it right away, because you can’t think of that much to say. Then you finish several others, but don’t have the chance to write, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, incryptid, Islam, Language, Magic, marissa meyer, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, seanan mcguire, Sexuality | Tagged a wizard in rhyme, aliens, amusement parks, antimony price, arachne, archenemies, christina rossetti, christopher stasheff, cryptozoology, goblin market, jinn, julius caesar, lowryland, metamorphoseon libri, metamorphoses, michael lowry, my son the wizard, ovid, pyramus, renegades, spanglish, super extra grande, superheroes, thisbe, tricks for free, trojan war, yoss | 1 Comment

Songs from the Naughty List

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Nathan

It’s strange how sometimes I’ll see topics trending on the Internet as if they’re something new when they’re obviously not. That’s not to say that I mind discussing the same topics repeatedly (I do it all the time, as you … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Gender, Holidays, Humor, Language, Music, Television | Tagged baby it's cold outside, donner, frosty the snowman, parson brown, reindeer, ruben studdard, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, sleigh ride, the christmas song, vixen, winter wonderland | 1 Comment

Don’t Get Soros at Me

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Nathan

One of the mail bombs found in the last few days was sent to George Soros, someone I think I’ve only heard of from right-wing conspiracy theories. Conservatives blame this guy for EVERYTHING they don’t like, from funding protests to … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Economics, Judaism, Language, Politics, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged andrew breitbart, antisemitism, bank of england, black wednesday, donald trump, george soros, immigration, migrant caravan, money | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Language

Glutton for Punnishness

Weasels on the Wind

Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

I Don’t Need a Rationale to Sing the Internationale

I’m Going to Lowryland!

Songs from the Naughty List

Don’t Get Soros at Me

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