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Fungi and Fun Gals

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Nathan

I’m back on a Mario kick this week. Wait, does Mario kick? I know he punches in Super Mario 64. Oh, wait, he kicks Koopa shells. First, I wanted to look at another Mario mini-movie, Mario to Yoshi no Daibouken … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Gender, Humor, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Video Games | Tagged anime, bart simpson, birdo, bowsette, captain toad, captain toad treasure tracker, dinosaur land, dinosaurs, forest of illusion, fungus federation, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, koichi hayashida, koopalings, lemmy koopa, luigi mario, mama luigi, mario and yoshi's adventure land, mario mario, mario party: the top 100, mario to yoshi no daibouken land, mushroom retainers, mushroom world, new super mario bros. u, oogtar, paper mario: the origami king, paper mario: the thousand-year door, peachette, princess peach toadstool, samus aran, shigeru miyamoto, super crown, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario strikers, super mario world, the great mission to rescue princess peach, toad, toadette, toads, toadsworth, trees, yoshi | Leave a comment

Bringing the Magic Back

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Nathan

The Spellcasters of Oz, by Philip John Lewin – Following up on Lewin’s earlier Master Crafters, this book shows the Ozites dealing with most of the magic that sustains their country disappearing, making beings like the Scarecrow inanimate and animals … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Christianity, Eric Shanower, Feminism, Greek Mythology, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Prejudice, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Theosophy | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, angelica shirley carpenter, born criminal, christina maffa, demon of electricity, demons, dennis wilson wise, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, elementals, elizabeth cady stanton, enilrul, gabriel gale, gnomes, jellia jamb, jinn, lurline, matilda joslyn gage, nomes, ozma, philip jose farmer, racism, robert b. luehrs, robots, ruth berman, scarecrow, susan b. anthony, the baum bugle, the enchanted apples of oz, the master crafters of oz, the master key, the spellcasters of oz, tik-tok, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Dude, Where’s My Scalawagon?

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Nathan

The Scalawagons of Oz, by John R. Neill – This book is eighty years old now, and it’s possibly the worst in the main series. It’s not one of those books that’s particularly embarrassing in retrospect, like Royal Book from twenty years … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aunt em, bell-snickle, betsy bobbin, flabber-gas, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mifkits, nota-bells, number nine, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, patchwork girl, revolt of the scalawagons, sawhorse, scalawagons, scarecrow, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, trot griffiths, uncle henry, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

More Moors

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Nathan

Into the Unknown – This is a 1981 Reader’s Digest book that Beth had as a kid, and liked looking at the pictures. There really are a lot of cool illustrations in here, including a hellmouth from the Hours of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Conspiracy Theories, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Science, seanan mcguire, Technology, Wayward Children | Tagged aru shah, astrology, carlos hernandez, come tumbling down, ghosts, hellmouths, hours of catherine of cleves, into the unknown, reader's digest, rick riordan presents, robots, sal and gabi, sal and gabi fix the universe, ufo sightings, witchcraft | 4 Comments

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 | 2 Comments

Baskets Full of Easter Joy

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Nathan

Now that Easter is over, I suppose I should write about the relevant cartoons Beth and I watched this year. A Claymation Easter – This was on the same DVD as A Claymation Christmas, and I thought it would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Easter, Fairy Tales, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Stan Freberg, Technology, Television | Tagged a claymation christmas, a claymation easter, bears, berenstain bears, burl ives, casey kasem, chickens, claymation, danny kaye, daws butler, dr. spike rabbit, ducks, easter bunny, fairies, frosty the snowman, hallelujah jones, here comes peter cottontail, irving berlin, january q. irontail, mike berenstain, paas egg dye, paul frees, peter and the magic egg, peter paas, pigs, rabbits, rankin/bass, ray bolger, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus is comin' to town, sheep, stan and jan berenstain, the berenstain bears' easter surprise, the easter bunny is comin' to town, the first easter rabbit, the little engine that could, the velveteen rabbit, tobias tinwhiskers, trains, turtles, vincent price, will vinton | Leave a comment

Theft of the Magi

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Nathan

I purchased the SaGa: Final Fantasy Legend Collection for the Switch, and I’ve mostly concentrated on Final Fantasy Legend II. I tried out the first one, but died pretty much immediately. I actually did in FFL2 as well, but that one … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Drugs, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Food, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Roman, Semitic, Technology, Video Games | Tagged apollo, asherah, ashur, ashura, asuras, bananas, espers, final fantasy legend, final fantasy legend ii, final fantasy legend iii, game boy, giants, isis, mutants, nintendo power, nintendo switch, odin, opium, robots, saga, saga final fantasy legend collection, the magician's nephew, venus, weapons | Leave a comment

Duck and Cover

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Nathan

Today, I’m looking at two more Carl Barks comic collections. Uncle Scrooge: The Twenty-Four Carat Moon – The title story here has a rather wacky plot, Astronomers discover another moon behind the regular one that’s made entirely out of gold. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, Holidays, Humor, Technology, Television | Tagged amusement parks, beagle boys, bears, black wednesday, chickens, clara cluck, clarabelle cow, cornelius coot, daisy duck, disney, disneyland, don rosa, donald auf dem bauernhof, donald duck, donald duck and the one bear, donald duck and the witch next door, ducks, ducktales, flintheart glomgold, flying dutchman, goldilocks and the three bears, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, instant millionaire, little golden books, madam mim, mastering the matterhorn, pizza, riding the pony express, robots, scrooge mcduck, the christmas cha cha, the forbidium money bin, the twenty-four carat moon, the wax museum, uncle scrooge and his handy andy, uncle scrooge and the flying dutchman, uncle scrooge and the money champ, uncle scrooge and the twenty-four carat moon, under the polar ice, want to buy an island?, witches | Leave a comment

Quests of Yore

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Nathan

Onward– This one was up my alley, as I tend to like fantasy and its accoutrements. It has an interesting premise, that a sword-and-sorcery kind of world developed modern technology and became one much like our own, except still inhabited … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Families, Games, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Prejudice, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged centaurs, cyclops, dragons, dungeons and dragons, elves, homophobia, manticores, onward, pixar | Leave a comment

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 →

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