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Category Archives: Monsters
You Aren’t Going Nowhere, Fungus
Continued from this post, here are four more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews: Rolling Down the River – While not exactly the line from “Proud Mary,” they did originally play that song in this episode, earlier in the … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Beatles, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games
Tagged bats in the basement, beezos, bob-ombs, brutius maximus grouchimus, clawgrip, dealin' delbert, frankenstein, goombas, horses, hot pepper pistachio ice cream, jack and the beanstalk, joe dolce, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, linguine ampire, lions, love 'em and leave 'em, love potion, luigi mario, mario and the beanstalk, mushroom kingdom, nintendo comics system, ostros, princess peach toadstool, queen of hearts, queen rotunda, rolling down the river, rotunda land, shyguys, spaghetti, subcon, super mario bros. 2, the great gladiator gig, the mario monster mash, toad, triclyde, vampires, you again?
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Fearsome Furnishings
Living versions of inanimate objects are common in fiction. The Oz books have a lot of them, although most of them are friendly. There are, however, many animated objects that are deadly, especially in role-playing games. I was recently thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Authors, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Jack Snow, Kid Icarus, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Terry Pratchett, Video Games
Tagged angler whelk, anglerfish, bag of devouring, canniboxes, demon wall, doorbusters, doors, dragon quest iii, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, hidon, interesting times, kid icarus uprising, luggage, mad piano, manticores, mimics, mimicuties, piano, piranha plants, pit, rincewind, super mario 64, super mario rpg, the colour of magic, the light fantastic, the magical mimics in oz, trap doors, treasure chests, tv tropes, twoflower, urnexpected
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Literary History Drags On
I shared this article on the history of dragons in Western literature on Facebook, and there was a comment about how Oz wasn’t represented in it. It does, however, quote Ruth Berman, a long-time Oz fan; and I think she’s … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Characters, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged a story about dragons, dismocolese, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragonettes, dragons, edith nesbit, enorma, evangeline, grampa in oz, grand gheewizard, isa poso, jabberwock, kenneth grahame, king terribus of spor, pumperdink, purple dragon, queen erma, quiberon, quox, ruth berman, sir hokus of pokes, somewhere, st. george, the book of dragons, the dragon of pumperdink, the enchanted island of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the giant horse of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the reluctant dragon, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, through the looking-glass, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz
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The Most Horrific Time of the Year
Here are some thoughts on the horror and horror-adjacent movies that Beth and I watched this month. Halloween in a Box – This documentary is about the cheap costumes that came in what looked like pie boxes, made by Ben … Continue reading
Posted in Aztec, Cartoons, Halloween, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Snobbery, Star Wars, Television, The Simpsons, Urban Legends, Video Games
Tagged aliens, american mary, atari, ben cooper, bob's burgers, body modification, collegeville, cosplay, costumes, dead hooker in a trunk, e.t., halco, halloween in a box, homer simpson, jack kirby, jen soska, kang and kodos, maggie simpson, q the winged serpent, quetzalcoatl, selma bouvier, spider-man, steve ditko, stranger things, sylvia soska, the omen, the shape of water, treehouse of horror, when a stranger calls, zorro
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Last Exit from Reality
The Tyrant’s Tomb, by Rick Riordan – In the fourth book in the Trials of Apollo series, Apollo and Meg McCaffrey reach Camp Jupiter in California, which has recently been the site of a deadly battle, and another one is … Continue reading
Posted in African, Authors, Book Reviews, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Rick Riordan, Roman, Tom Holt, Trials of Apollo
Tagged an orc on the wild side, apollo, brexit, caligula, camp jupiter, cumaean sibyl, cyclops, dwarves, ella, frank zhang, goblins, harpies, harpocrates, lavinia asimov, lucius aurelius commodus, lucius tarquinius superbus, meg mccaffrey, nymphs, sibylline prophecies, the tyrant's tomb, theo bernstein, tyson, youspace
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Something Old, Something Nue
I was looking at the Wikipedia page listing flying mythological creatures. There were many I’d either already written about or didn’t appear to have much information, but I did take some interest in the Nue, a kind of yokai from … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Japanese, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games
Tagged breath of fire iii, emperor konoe, i no hayata, minamoto no yorimasa, nue, nuezuka, samurai, shishio, swords, tanuki, thrush, yokai
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