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Iron Constitutions

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been looking a bit into witches, and I latched onto one physical trait the Russian Baba Yaga is sometimes said to have, which is iron teeth. Such teeth seem to be associated with witches in general in Slavic lore. … Continue reading →

Posted in African, British, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Finnish, German, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Russian, Slavic, Technology | Tagged alexander volkov, asanbosam, baba yaga, bronze, demons, dorothy gale, giants, ilmarinen, iron, iron woodman, ivashko, kalevala, magic land, ogres, perchta, prince ivan the witch baby and the little sister of the sun, psoglav, sasabonsam, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, vampires, wicked witch of the west, witches | Leave a comment

He Blinded Me with Scienstein

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Nathan

The video game I’ve actually been playing the most as of late is Breath of Fire 2, which I remember from the Super Nintendo. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it soon. I just got past the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Food, Humor, Kirby, Mario, Monsters, Science, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged arewo shitain-hakase, breath of fire 2, croakians, custard kingdom, dr. ivan knit, dr. mario, dr. mario 64, dr. wright, earthbound, frogs, golden pyramid, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, kilgore, kilgore trout, kurt vonnegut, link's awakening, lord delarin, lost woods, luigi mario, mad scienstein, mandola, mario mario, masakachotto university, megavitamins, mille-feuille kingdom, minister crepe, moldorms, nantendo island, paper mario: the thousand-year door, prince of sable, prince richard, princess eclair, princess shokora, princess tiramisu, pudding continent, robots, rudy the clown, shigesato itoi, simcity, snakes, strudel continent, the frog for whom the bell tolls, trout, waffle kingdom, wario, wario land 3, wario land 4, witches | 1 Comment

Don’t Toy with Me

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Nathan

The Toys That Made Us – We’d started watching this Netflix series some time ago, back when it only had two seasons, but the third one premiered before we’d finished the other two. Each season has four episodes, so there … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Comics, Corporations, History, Humor, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, Toys | Tagged barbie, brian volk-weiss, charles schulz, donald ian black, g.i. joe, he-man, hello kitty, lego, masters of the universe, my little pony, my pretty pony, netflix, peanuts, Power Rangers, sanrio, the toys that made us, transformers, wrestling | Leave a comment

An Automated Abomination

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Nathan

Orphan – I’m trying to avoid spoilers for this one, but you still might want to avoid it if this is something you haven’t seen and want to. Films about evil kids are a genre unto themselves. We just saw … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Capitalism, Christianity, Economics, Families, Germany, History, Names, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adoption, art deco, bible, freder, fritz lang, jesus, joh fredersen, metropolis, nazis, orphan, revelation, robots, rotwang | Leave a comment

May the Pasta Be with You

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Nathan

Raiders of the Lost Mushroom – The Indiana Jones parody is infamous in that the character Indiana Joe doesn’t have a face. The story writer Perry Martin tells is that he originally intended Joe to be a caricature of Harrison … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Video Games | Tagged birdo ray, birdoroos, bob-ombs, boomerang brothers, bullet bills, bunsen, cobrats, colonel dietrich, crocodile dundee, crocodile mario, crocodiles, cyrano de bergerac, cyrano de mario, darth vader, death star, do the koopa, down under land, dr. nerdnick, flying pizza, grand moff tarkin, han solo, harrison ford, indiana joe, indiana jones, indiana jones and the temple of doom, james farr, jungle land, king bowser koopa, koalas, kolorado, koop star, koopa klaus, koopa troopas, koopaphobia, kort falkenberg, lions, lost mushroom, luigi mario, mario mario, mouser, mushroom kingdom, obi-wan kenobi, obi-wan toadi, paper mario, perry martin, pikachu, pizza, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, professor elvin gadd, raiders of the lost ark, raiders of the lost mushroom, robo koopa, robocop, robots, Rowdy Roddy Piper, rowdy roddy piper's rotten pipes, santa claus, santa claus is coming to flatbush, shy guys, star koopa, super smash wars, temple of koopa, toad, toads, triclyde, vanna white, wrestling, yoda | 1 Comment

Shootouts and Dance-Offs

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Nathan

Since I guess it’s just something I do now, I looked up playthroughs of a few video games I haven’t played and probably never will, because I’m interested in the mythology of the series. The first one, Yoshi’s Safari, was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Technology, Television, Video Games | Tagged airships, bloopers, bowser koopa jr., carmen, dance dance revolution, dance dance revolution mario mix, edward elgar, georges bizet, hammer bros, iggy koopa, jewelry land, king bowser koopa, king fret, koopalings, ludwig von koopa, luigi mario, mario mario, mushroom kingdom, music keys, nintendo adventure books, nintendo magazine system, prince pine, robots, roy koopa, shigeru miyamoto, ss brass, stephen foster, super mario bros. 3, super scope 6, toad, toadette, truffle towers, waluigi, wario, wendy o. koopa, wolfgang amadeus mozart, yoshi, yoshi's safari | 1 Comment

Foresight Is 2020

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Nathan

2020 always just sounded so far in the future when I was a kid. Really, even 2000 still had a bit of awe-inspiring mysticism about it, but I remember most of my childhood interest in a science fiction sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Cartoons, Climate, Corporations, Economics, Global Warming, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Science, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged architecture, art deco, automation, computers, elon musk, emerald city, flying cars, futurism, googie, internet, jetpacks, retrofuturism, science fiction, smart phones, space travel | Leave a comment

Sisters Are Flying for Themselves

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Nathan

The Fire Keeper, by J.C. Cervantes – The sequel to The Storm Runner begins with Zane Obispo, his family, and his friend Brooks hiding out on a hidden tropical island. He finds out that the memoir he’d written at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Families, Feminism, L. Frank Baum, madeleine l'engle, Magic, Mayan, Mythology, Native American, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Rick Riordan, Technology | Tagged a wrinkle in time, ah-puch, aviation, batman, camazotz, don quixote, edith van dyne, hero twins, hurakan, j.c. cervantes, mona eltahawy, orissa kane, patriarchy, sexism, stephen kane, the fire keeper, the flying girl, the seven necessary sins for women and girls, the storm runner, zane obispo | 1 Comment

Magic to the People

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Nathan

Lost in Oz – They showed the first episode of this program at the latest OzCon, and I’ve since watched all the available episodes. There are sort of two seasons, in that there are two sets of thirteen each, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged agent wally pugmill, bureau of magic, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, fitz, glinda, guph, kaliko, lost in oz, mombi, nome king, nomes, ojo, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork, pearls of pingaree, princess langwidere, reigh, return to oz, scarecrow, the wishing horse of oz, tin woodman, toto, west, wicked witch of the west, witches | 1 Comment

Superfueled Elasticycle

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Nathan

SPOILERS! Doom Asylum – Beth really liked Frankenhooker, and this was the only other film with Patty Mullen, who played the titular character and was also a Penthouse Pet. And like Frankenhooker, this is a comedic horror film. Mullen plays … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Families, Humor, Names, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged dashiell parr, doom asylum, elasticycle, elastigirl, evelyn deavor, frankenhooker, incredibile, incredibles 2, jack-jack parr, kristin davis, mr. incredible, patty mullen, ruth collins, screenslaver, superheroes, the incredibles, violet parr, winston deavor | 2 Comments

Category Archives: Technology

Iron Constitutions

He Blinded Me with Scienstein

Don’t Toy with Me

An Automated Abomination

May the Pasta Be with You

Shootouts and Dance-Offs

Foresight Is 2020

Sisters Are Flying for Themselves

Magic to the People

Superfueled Elasticycle

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