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Put a Zork in It

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Nathan

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii | 1 Comment

Flittering Away

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis The 1990 Oziana is a professional issue, in that all the authors and illustrators actually do that for a living. Most of them had appeared in Oziana before this, and one of these stories was published … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, amazing stories, birds, bucketheads in oz, bungle the glass cat, bzzzantium, cats, chapter three, dorothy gale, doves, fess, flittermouse, frogman, hungry tiger, in a season of calm weather, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, maybe the miffin, merry go round in oz, nine tiny piglets, nome king, oziana, Pablo Picasso, percy the personality kid, peter pan, professor wogglebug, rats, ray bradbury, robin brown, russet meagle, terrence oldshell, the fabulous frogman and the faith of freakish friends, the final fate of the frogman, the guardian dove, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, troth, truth pond, virginia woolf, wendy darling, woot the wanderer | 3 Comments

How We Lost the Forest

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Nathan

I’d been thinking about the Lost Woods in the Zelda series, probably largely because Beth recently played A Link Between Worlds. Since it’s a handheld game, I wasn’t able to watch her play it, which is something I miss doing. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Characters, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, John R. Neill, Language, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mario, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link between worlds, a link to the past, alice's adventures in wonderland, back woods, bafflewood, dragon quest v, dragon quest xi, enchanted forest, faerie lea, fairies, final fantasy vi, forest maze, forest of illusion, forest of maze, forever forest, ghosts, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, kokiri forest, legends of localization, lost woods, master sword, mayoi no mori, maze woods, mazes, neverglade, ocarina of time, paper mario, paper mario: sticker star, phantom forest, phantom train, poes, professor wogglebug, puzzles, quinces, reptites, skull kid, stalfos, super mario rpg, super mario world, the legend of zelda, the lost king of oz, the runaway in oz, through the looking-glass, tickington, wario land ii | 1 Comment

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Nathan

Picture by Helena Nelson-Reed Happy Easter! Some years ago, I wrote a little about the origins of the Easter Bunny and the name of the holiday. I don’t have a whole lot to add, but there’s some, so I might … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, British, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Easter, Food, German, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Judaism, Lewis Carroll, Music, Mythology, Passover, Religion, Roman, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, XTC | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, aphrodite, bill cosby, charity, coney island, coneys, easter bunny, easter eggs, easter parade, easter seals, eggs, eostre, fat albert, fat albert easter special, fred astaire, hares, irving berlin, jack benny, jesus, judy garland, lent, liberace, march hare, ostara, pikas, rabbits, shirley maclaine, the easter seal teleparade of stars, titian, van johnson, venus, virgin mary, white rabbit | Leave a comment

When Humor and Anti-Humor Collide

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Nathan

I found this post by Amy to be interesting, as I think we have similar senses of humor in many respects, and I’m somewhat fascinated by the concept of anti-humor. I’ve never come across the “No soap, radio!” joke in … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Discworld, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, Terry Pratchett, The Simpsons | Tagged absurdism, alice's adventures in wonderland, anti-humor, autism, feghoots, granny weatherwax, inside jokes, jokes, mari ness, no soap radio, pogo, practical jokes, puns, reginald bretnor, shaggy dog stories, the aristocrats, the marvelous land of oz, walt kelly, witches abroad, wordplay | 2 Comments

Playing with the Queen of Hearts

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Nathan

Heartless, by Marissa Meyer – The author of the Lunar Chronicles turns her attention to the work of Lewis Carroll, presenting the back story of the infamous Queen of Hearts. The book explains why the Mad Hatter and March Hare … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Nursery Rhymes | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, duchess of wonderland, gregory maguire, heartless, jabberwock, king of hearts, mad hatter, marissa meyer, mock turtle, peter peter pumpkin eater, queen of hearts, red queen, through the looking-glass, white queen, white rabbit, wicked | 2 Comments

Making a Killing

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Nathan

For someone who wanted to leave out the heartaches and nightmares from his fairy tales, L. Frank Baum included a fair number of executioners. I suspect this is partially due to the influence of Lewis Carroll, whose Queen of Hearts … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, charles napoleon bonaparte evans, executioners, fool-killer, gilbert and sullivan, gryphon, jesse holmes, john dough and the cherub, king terribus of spor, kinglet of phreex, maria simpson, noland, nome king, nomes, o. henry, ojo in oz, pang, prince marvel, princess fluff, queen of hearts, queen zixi of ix, reachard, sir john tenniel, tellydeb, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the mikado, tik-tok of oz | 3 Comments

Two (or More) Become One

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Nathan

One of the main complaints that fans of the Oz books seem to have about the MGM movie, aside from making Oz a dream, is that they combined two Good Witches into one character. Now, it makes a certain amount … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Comics, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, arwen, batman, calypso, circe, glinda, glorfindel, good witch of the north, joe chill, joker, lord of the rings, mombi, odyssey, peter jackson, princess langwidere, queen of hearts, red queen, return to oz, robin, the hundred and one dalmatians, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, through the looking-glass, tim burton, tony zucco, two-face | 3 Comments

Fairyland Explorers Revisited

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Nathan

I’ve seen the comparison and contrast of Lewis Carroll’s Alice to L. Frank Baum’s Dorothy Gale covered many times, on the Royal Blog of Oz, for instance. I believe Baum admitted to being inspired by Alice in creating his own … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, dorothy gale, grampa in oz, mari ness, the wonderful wizard of oz, through the looking-glass | 3 Comments

Off the Walrus

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Nathan

Snarked!, by Roger Langridge – When looking for information on the Popeye comics Langridge wrote, I saw some mentions of an earlier comic he both wrote and drew that I’d heard of before, which was sort of a re-imagining of … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Humor, Lewis Carroll | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, cheshire cat, Clyde McDunk, gryphon, j. wellington wimpy, mad hatter, red king, roger langridge, snarked!, the hunting of the snark, the walrus and the carpenter, through the looking-glass, white knight, Wilburforce J. Walrus | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: alice’s adventures in wonderland

Put a Zork in It

Flittering Away

How We Lost the Forest

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

When Humor and Anti-Humor Collide

Playing with the Queen of Hearts

Making a Killing

Two (or More) Become One

Fairyland Explorers Revisited

Off the Walrus

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