Tag Archives: baseball

There’s No Crying in Baseball

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Nathan

Electric Dreams – Beth had wanted to watch this pretty much just because of the connection to Giorgio Moroder, who wrote the music. He’s known for his work with synthesizers, and was highly influential in the development of disco and … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Drugs, Games, History, Music, Religion, Sports, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a league of their own, all-american girls professional baseball league, baseball, behind the candelabra, benito mussolini, electric dreams, fascism, geena davis, giorgio moroder, human league, liberace, lori petty, madonna, matt damon, michael douglas, phil oakey, philip k. wrigley, rosie o'donnell, scott thorson, synthesizer, tom hanks, virginia madsen, world war ii | 1 Comment

Life’s Too Short to Be a Crab

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Nathan

The Provolone Ranger – I distinctly remember this being the first Super Show episode I ever saw, and I don’t even think I had a Nintendo or was that familiar with Mario at the time. The usual suspects are riding … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged alcatraz, aqua land, atlantis, baseball, birdo, bloopers, clawgrip, cobrats, coney island, cookoo bird, cyclone, danny wells, double cross ranch, escape from koopatraz, flatbush koopa, french, fungusville, goldfish, goodbye mr. fish, gramps, joe bellan, karen hartman, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopatraz state prison, luigi mario, mario mario, mario of the deep, mermaids, mouser, mrs. gamliss, mrs. periwinkle, mush ridge, mushroom kingdom, nedra volz, neptune, ostros, phantos, piranha plants, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, pronto, ratigator, shy guys, statue of liberty, super mario bros. 3, swordfish, the lone ranger, the provolone ranger, toad, toads, tommy lasagna, tommy lasorda, tonto, trouters, two bums from brooklyn, whales | 2 Comments

We’ll Get Lost in Hoztory

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Nathan

The Lost Tales of Oz, edited by Joe Bongiorno – I guess this doesn’t count as a traditional review. I’m in this book, so of course I’m going to recommend it. I do want to take a closer look at … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, David Tai, Eric Shanower, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Places, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged 1939 world's fair, ali cat in oz, allegro da capo, andrew heller, baseball, betsy bobbin, button-bright, catty corners, chop, chopfyt, dave hardenbrook, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, forever in oz, glinda, good witch of the north, henry blossom, in flesh of burnished tin, j. l. bell, jellia jamb, joe bongiorno, lost histories from the royal librarian of oz, lulea, lurline, lurline and the talking animals of oz, margaret berg, mombi, mudge, nimmie amee, ogres, ojo, ojo and the woozy, ozma and the orange ogres in oz, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, paul dana, princess langwidere, quiet victory, red jinn, rigmarole town, ruth morris, sam sackett, sawhorse, sky island, the emerald city of oz, the flying bus in oz, the giant horse of oz, the great and terrible oz mystery, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the other searches for the lost princess, the patchwork girl of oz, the puppet-mistress of oz, the road to oz, the scrap bag circus of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the trade, the witch's mother of oz, the wizard in new york, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, tik-tok, tititi-hoochoo, tommy kwikstep, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, trot griffiths, tsathoggua, vaneeda of oz, victor columbia edison, wam, wicked witch of the east, wizard of oz, woozy, yookoohoos | 16 Comments

Gaming the System

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Nathan

I already wrote a post about sports and games in the Oz series, but I had a few more ideas along those lines that I thought I could develop somewhat. Characters in the books are frequently seen playing games, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Chess, Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Games, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports | Tagged a queer quest for oz, baseball, croquet, dorothy of oz, game preserve, game river, jack pott, jack pumpkinhead of oz, lucky bucky in oz, ozmapolitan, ploppa, polo, queen zixi of ix, roger baum, ruth morris, ruth waara, scrabble, sir hokus of pokes, snakes and ladders, spinner, sticks and stones, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the flying bus in oz, the magic cryptogram of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the royal book of oz, the rundelstone of oz, umbrella island in oz | 4 Comments

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