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In Your Satin Tights, Fighting for Your Rights

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Nathan

I have finished watching the 1970s Wonder Woman, which looks to have been set up as a rather campy show in the vein of the 60s Batman, if perhaps not quite as silly. This is shown in the opening credits, … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Music, Mythology, Technology, Television | Tagged amazons, amusement parks, batman, carolyn jones, cloris leachman, dc comics, debra winger, etta candy, eve plumb, frank gorshin, hippolyta, jessica walter, john saxon, lyle waggoner, lynda carter, martin mull, paradise island, robots, steve trevor, themiscyra, wonder girl, wonder woman, world war ii | 4 Comments

The World First Spoke to Me in Sensurround

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Nathan

We haven’t really been watching a lot of movies recently, aside from the two Elvis ones. I can’t even remember how long ago it was we saw the first two on here; they’ve been sitting in a draft for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Families, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, amusement parks, damon wayans, earth girls are easy, geena davis, george segal, glenn close, jason alexander, jeff goldblum, jim carrey, julie brown, kings dominion, marissa tomei, michael keaton, murder, newspapers, racism, randy quaid, rollercoaster, ron howard, sensurround, six flags magic mountain, sparks, stepfather, the paper | 1 Comment

Nonestic Promotion

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Nathan

One thing I think about occasionally is the promotion that the Oz books received in their heyday. L. Frank Baum had been a salesman and a contributor to a magazine about decorating shop windows, so it’s not too surprising that he … Continue reading →

Posted in Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged amusement parks, dorothy and the wizard in oz, fairylogue and radio-plays, john dough, john dough and the cherub, land of oz park, madame tussaud, martin gardner, mifkets, otis turner, oz convention, ozma, pedloe island, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, romola remus, selig polygraph company, the baum bugle, the oz-toy book, the patchwork girl of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wogglebug game of conundrums, the wonderful game of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, w.w. denslow, woozy, yankee in oz | Leave a comment

Time for Terror

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Nathan

Here’s a rundown of all the movies we watched this October (well, except for Halloween Kills), all horror-adjacent, but not necessarily all horror films per se. A lot of them turned out to be horror comedies, which wasn’t really intentional. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Families, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Muppets, Names, Relationships, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, amusement parks, bears, bill maher, bride of chucky, buttons and rusty, cemetery man, constance hatchaway, dolls, dolores claiborne, elvira, foxes, george wendt, house ii, jennifer jason leigh, jennifer tilly, jon ratzenberger, kathy bates, kermit the frog, medusa, muppets haunted mansion, pepe the king prawn, puns, rupert everett, starry eyes, stephen king, taraji p. henson, terrorvision, the great gonzo, which witch is which?, zombies | 4 Comments

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

No Rules, Just Wrong

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Nathan

Class Action Park – A documentary about Action Park, an actual place in New Jersey that sounds totally made up when people talk about it. It was a poorly run but profitable amusement park where numerous guests were seriously injured … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Dreams, Families, Holidays, Relationships, Thanksgiving, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged action park, amusement parks, class action park, deregulation, eugene mulvihill, incest, parker posey, president john f. kennedy, president ronald reagan, presidential assassinations, the house of yes, tori spelling | Leave a comment

Neglected Films

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Nathan

The Florida Project – I remember seeing a preview for this while at the movies with Beth, and she had wanted to see it, but we only just recently got around to it. She likes depressing media, and this definitely … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Families, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amusement parks, bebe's kids, magic castle, president abraham lincoln, president richard nixon, robin harris, robots, the florida project, tone loc, walt disney world, willem dafoe | 1 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 | 2 Comments

All’s Fair in Oz

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Nathan

It’s interesting how much of the Oz series can be seen as referencing circuses and fairs. I guess it’s not surprising for children’s books of the time (or, really, even today, although the traditional circus is severely waning in popularity). … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged amusement parks, bears, camels, carnivals, carousel, circus, clowns, fairs, gravity railroads, handy mandy in oz, humpty bumpty, isle of phreex, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough and the cherub, lin carter, merry go round, merry go round in oz, merry-go-round mountains, notta bit more, ojo in oz, roller coasters, round-abouties, scare city, scenic railways, shoot the chute, silver mountain, snufferbux, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost princess of oz, the merry mountaineer of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, willow grove park, wizard of oz | 4 Comments

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In Your Satin Tights, Fighting for Your Rights

The World First Spoke to Me in Sensurround

Nonestic Promotion

Time for Terror

Duck and Cover

No Rules, Just Wrong

Neglected Films

I’m Going to Lowryland!

All’s Fair in Oz

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