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The New Ugu

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Nathan

I guess it’s time for Oziana 1984. The cover by Melody Grandy shows a typical inhabitant of the Pink and Blue Countries of Sky Island, which is relevant to the first story. The introduction explains that, since L. Frank Baum’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Camilla Townsend, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Hugh Pendexter, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, alexander pope, boolooroo of the blues, brownies, cats, confido, corabia, david hulan, david ingersoll, dogs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, dr. pipt, dunciad, eureka in oz, eureka the pink kitten, ev, fairies, general guph, gili bar-hillel, glenn ingersoll, great detective, jay delkin, kalidahs, nine tiny piglets, oziana, ozma, philip john lewin, pigmentation, rain king, robin olderman, sky island, the blue raindrops of oz, the colorful kitten of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mystery of the missing ozma, the piglets' revenge, the pronunciad, the yellow knight of oz, trot griffiths, ugu, ugu the shoemaker, wishing pills, wooglet in oz | 1 Comment

Rings and Things

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Nathan

A lot of jewelry appears in the Oz books, but I can only think of a few magic rings. I believe the first one mentioned in the expanded Oz universe, albeit not in an official Oz book, is the one … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged beach blanket babyloz, boolooroo of the blues, christopher wayne buckley, circlets of halidom, david hulan, dorothy gale, fairies, glinda, glinda of oz, halidom, hind horn, jeremy steadman, jewelry, lurline, magic rings, mermaids, merry go round in oz, mood rings, mustafa of mudge, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, puns, queen aquareine, rash rubies, realbad, rings, ruby of naught, sky island, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wizard of oz, time travel, tippetarius in oz, tir na nog, trot griffiths, wishing rings, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz | Leave a comment

Lovable and Not-So-Lovable Rogues

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Nathan

I’ve now read a few of the Best of the Baum Bugle volumes I just recently purchased, and there are some interesting articles in there, including some on the Nome King and L. Frank Baum’s other villains. I’ve already covered … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Focus on the Foes, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, baum's other villains, bell-snickle, boolooroo of the blues, bortag, bustabo, c. warren hollister, chalk, conjo, crunch, dorothy and the wizard in oz, faleero, giants, glegg, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, grand gallipoot, growleywogs, guph, gwig, handy mandy in oz, judy pike, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, king skamperoo, king strutoovious vii, king terribus of spor, loxo the lucky, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mimics, mombi, mooj, mustafa of mudge, nome king, ozma and the little wizard, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pirates in oz, prince marvel, queen ann soforth, quiberon, red rogue, roundelay, singra, sir greves, sky island, slyddwyn, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, terp the terrible, the baum bugle, the best of the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the decline and fall of the nome king, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the shaggy man of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, ugu the shoemaker, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog | Leave a comment

The Pink Saving the Blue

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Nathan

I had suggested back in this post, in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek fashion, that L. Frank Baum’s Sky Island could count as a white savior narrative, as the white American travelers save the island (or at least the Blue Country) from … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Characters, Current Events, Ethnicity, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged blue country, boolooroo of the blues, button-bright, cap'n bill, colonialism, flatheads, glinda of oz, gods of egypt, manifest destiny, matt damon, nome king, nomes, ozma, pink country, racism, skeezers, sky island, the great wall, the last samurai, tom cruise, trot griffiths, white savior, whitewashing | 1 Comment

Loyalty to Royalty

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Nathan

I like to make connections between pretty much everything and the Oz books, although usually the parallels aren’t that close. It works out better when I connect them to The Simpsons. People are saying the show predicted President Trump, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, Current Events, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged boolooroo of the blues, dick tater, donald trump, election 2016, faleero, flatheads, glinda of oz, gludwig the glubrious, jinjur, jinxland, john dough and the cherub, kaliko, king ato, king bal loon, king kleaver, king krewl, kinglet of phreex, kwytoffle, loonville, lord googly-goo, nome king, nomes, ozma, pirates in oz, public opinion, pumperdink, queen coo-ee-oh, racism, rash, rinkitink in oz, sky island, the enchanted island of yew, the hungry tiger of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, utensia, witches, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Funerals Are No Help to Fairyland

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Nathan

As L. Frank Baum developed Oz, he eventually made it a place where no one dies, although he wasn’t always totally consistent on this point. In The Tin Woodman of Oz, he reports that death and aging stopped when Lurline … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ak, arch of phinis, awgwas, blue country, boolooroo of the blues, button-bright, deadly desert, death, emperor chang wang woe, gaper's gulch, ghip-ghisizzle, gump, heaven, kabumpo, lurline, pink country, scarecrow, sky island, the life and adventures of santa claus, the marvelous land of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, tin woodman | 3 Comments

How to Succeed in Ozian Politics

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Nathan

When Benny, the living statue from Boston in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Giant Horse of Oz, arrives in Oz, he asks the Scarecrow if the country is a republic. The straw man replies, “Indeed not! We are a magic monarchy … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, aurex, awgwas, benny, blue country, book of royalty, bookville, boolooroo of the blues, bunnybury, dorothy gale, giants, glinda, gloria, high coco-lorum, james haff, jenny jump, jinxland, king bal loon, king gugu, king timothy of noland, krewl, land o' patch, loonville, macvelt, nandywog, nickadoodle, noland, ozlection, ozma, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, polychrome, professor wogglebug, queen coo-ee-oh, scarecrow, septentria, skeezers, sky island, skyle of un, susan smiggs, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the queen of quok, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, tin woodman, tripedalia, trot griffiths, whimsies, wicked witch of the west, winkies, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

And You, and You, and You, and You Were There

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Nathan

One of the most famous conceits of the 1939 MGM film of The Wizard of Oz is that some of the more prominent Oz characters have counterparts in people Dorothy knows in Kansas. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged boolooroo of the blues, button-bright, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, family guy, larry semon, mgm, scarecrow, sky island, the wizard of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, through the looking-glass, tin woodman, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Naughty, Naughty Boolooroo

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Nathan

I’ve written about Sky Island and its government before, but not so much specifically about the Boolooroo, the main villain in L. Frank Baum’s Sky Island. “Boolooroo” is actually the title for the King of the Blue Country, but this … Continue reading →

Posted in Camilla Townsend, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged blue country, boolooroo of the blues, button-bright, cap'n bill, pink country, queen rosalie, six snubnosed princesses, sky island, the blue raindrops of oz, trot | 5 Comments

Tag Archives: boolooroo of the blues

The New Ugu

Rings and Things

Lovable and Not-So-Lovable Rogues

The Pink Saving the Blue

Loyalty to Royalty

Funerals Are No Help to Fairyland

How to Succeed in Ozian Politics

And You, and You, and You, and You Were There

Naughty, Naughty Boolooroo

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