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Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Nathan

Next on my list of video games I haven’t played but watched playthroughs of to see what went on in them, it’s the Super Mario Galaxy games. They definitely look good, like how the Lumas resemble cuddly stuffed animals. Mario in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aliens, bees, comet observatory, galaxies, gearmos, goombas, honey queen, king bowser koopa, lubba, lumas, mario kart, mario kart 7, mario kart 8, nintendo comics system, octopuses, octoroks, orbulon, piantas, power stars, princess peach toadstool, quirks, rabbits, rainbow exploration agency, rainbow road, robots, Rosalina, shroobs, sky station galaxy, star bunnies, star festival, stars, starship mario, super mario 64, super mario galaxy, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land 2, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, tatanga, throwback galaxy, toads, yoshi | Leave a comment

Talking Time

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Nathan

I can’t say I’m really that keen on the song “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, but I’m not entirely sure why. I think it might just be how the versions they play on the radio tend to take it really seriously, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Beatles, Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, Judaism, Magic, Music, Mythology, New Year's Day, Religion, Songs I Don't Care For | Tagged bees, bob geldof, cuban missile crisis, gloria shayne, jesus, john lennon, nativity, noel regney, peace on earth, sheep, stevie wonder, war | Leave a comment

Wiggler Wednesday

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve discussed many enemies from the Super Mario franchise over the years, but I don’t think I’ve said that much about Wigglers, the giant caterpillars introduced in Super Mario World. Their thing is basically that they’re normally cute, yellow, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Mario, Monsters, Television, Video Games | Tagged bees, butterflies, cataquacks, caterpillars, centipede, flutters, fly guys, fuzzies, fuzzlers, insects, king bowser koopa, lost kingdom, luigi mario, mario and luigi paper jam, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, mario and luigi: dream team, mario kart: double dash, mario mario, mario party 9, mechawiggler, metro kingdom, new donk city, new super mario bros., paper mario: sticker star, piranha plants, plungelos, squigglers, super mario 3d world, super mario galaxy, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, super mario world, tropical wigglers, wiggler wagons, wigglers, worms, yoshi, yoshi's island | 3 Comments

Myriapod Mania

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Nathan

I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games | Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards | 4 Comments

Ostriches and Old Ones and Vampires, Oh My!

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve read a few new-to-me Oz books recently, and I’d like to share my thoughts on them. There are potential SPOILERS for all of them. The Rubber Ostriches of Oz, by Marin Xiques and Chris Dulabone – Greg Hunter’s “Unc … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Eric Shanower, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Prejudice | Tagged and justice for oz, bees, candy country, china princess, cowardly lion, cthulhu, cthulhu invades oz, dorothy gale, dorothy of oz, dorothy of oz prequel, fighting trees, flutterbudgets, frogman, fuddles, greg hunter, h.p. lovecraft, jester, john dough and the cherub, lark vandergrace, legends of oz: dorothy's return, lollipop guild, marshall mallow, nikki kay richardson, ostriches, ozga, oziana, phyllis ann karr, r.k. lionel, rigmarole town, robots, roger baum, sam milazzo, scarecrow, shaggy man, the braided man of oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the rubber ostriches of oz, tin woodman, travis gibb, two terrific tales of oz, unc nunkie and the white king of oz, vampires, wiser the owl | 2 Comments

Wonder Boy on Adventure Island

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Nathan

In my latest installment of video games I don’t know much about but have some interesting trivia regarding, I remember seeing an arcade game called Wonder Boy at a diner on a family trip before my parents split up. Those … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Ethnicity, Food, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Relationships, Television, Video Games | Tagged adventure island, adventure island ii, adventure island iii, angels, bees, bock lee temjin, boy, bug-tte honey, camptosaurus, dinosaurs, eggplant, elasmosaurus, fairies, honey bee in toycomland, honey girl, hudson soft, jeannie jungle, king drancon, master higgins, master wigins, monster boy and the cursed kingdom, monster world iv, nintendo, nintendo power, pina, princess leilani, pteranodon, sega, sega master system, takahashi meijin, tanya, tina, tom-tom, toshiyuki takahashi, triceratops, wonder boy, wonder boy in monster land | 2 Comments

Woozy Memories

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Nathan

The origins of the Woozy are never addressed in the canonical Oz series, but there are a few apocryphal stories that propose different explanations. March Laumer gave his story in “The Woozy’s Tricky Beginning,” in which he’s the result of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Fred Otto, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a refugee in oz, a trip down memory lane, bees, dr. pipt, edmund zebrowski, gili bar-hillel, kim mcfarland, krizzle kroo, madou, mombi, mombi's pink polkadot vest, oziana, the emerald city mirror, the patchwork girl of oz, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, wicked witch of the east, woozy | 1 Comment

Insect Aside

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Nathan

L. Frank Baum is never entirely clear on whether ALL animals in Oz can talk, or whether animals eat each other there. For instance, are insects there sentient? Well, the Wogglebug is, but that’s after he’s been Highly Magnified and … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged anteaters, ants, bears, bees, billina, bucketheads in oz, cap'n bill, gili bar-hillel, grampa in oz, grasshoppers, insects, jack breton, jitterbug, larry breton, lucky bucky in oz, mosquitoes, ojo in oz, ozma of oz, peter schulenburg, professor wogglebug, snufferbux, sullivanthauros, the disenchanted princess of oz, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin castle of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the woggle-bug book, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's tale, thunderbugs, tin woodman, wasps, wicked witch of the west, woozy, yankee in oz | 4 Comments

Rock Me, Aristaeus

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Nathan

I’ve been reading about mythology for most of my life, and yet I still occasionally come across a deity I hadn’t heard about before. Most recently, it was Aristaeus, one of many agricultural deities who largely fell out of fashion … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged apollo, aristaeus, bees, ceos, chiron, cyrene, dionysus, eurydice, libya, nymphs, orpheus, zeus | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: bees

Coping with Immortality

Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic

Talking Time

Wiggler Wednesday

Myriapod Mania

Ostriches and Old Ones and Vampires, Oh My!

Wonder Boy on Adventure Island

Woozy Memories

Insect Aside

Rock Me, Aristaeus

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