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Love That Leviathan

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Nathan

I’d been meaning to discuss Leviathan a little more, which I think was inspired by the name being used for the base of the rebel organization Astrea in Cosmic Star Heroine. Considering all the other references to classic games, I had thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Pokémon, Religion, Semitic, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged astrea, atlantis: the lost empire, behemoth, bible, cecil harvey, cenobites, cosmic star heroine, crabs, davy jones, dragon quest ix: sentinels of the starry skies, dragons, dragoons, dylan ail don, dylan jones, eidolons, emblem of roto, espers, euripides, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xii, groudon, helen of troy, hell, hellraiser, hellraiser ii, job, jona jones, jonah, kyogre, let's talk about myths baby, leviathan, lleviathan, mabinogion, manga, moon, mysidia, porth llaffan, psalms, ricard highwind, ringworms, robots, rydia of mist, ryujin, sea serpents, sharks, sin, summoned monsters, terry gilliam, the adventures of baron munchausen, ultima, whales, wobbegong sharks | 2 Comments

When Decades Collide

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Nathan

The Brady Bunch Movie – From 1995, this was essentially an affectionate parody and a culture clash. It’s along the same lines as the two Addams Family movies from the era, as it places a sitcom family from an earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Families, Humor, Monkees, Music, Relationships, Television, Uncategorized | Tagged a very brady sequel, davy jones, eve plumb, incest, micky dolenz, mike lookinland, peter tork, susan olsen, the addams family, the brady bunch, the brady bunch movie | 1 Comment

Bradys and Gentlemen

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Nathan

Beth has now shown me all five seasons of The Brady Bunch. She says she started watching it to goof on it, then found that she genuinely liked it. It can be pretty corny, but I think there’s a sweetness … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Humor, Monkees, Muppets, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, Uncategorized, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged ann b. davis, benedict arnold, bob lind, cousin oliver, davy jones, florence henderson, jim backus, joe namath, morality, paul williams, robbie rist, robert reed, sexism, sherwood schwartz, the brady bunch, the muppet show, vincent price | 5 Comments

Get Out of Town

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Nathan

There are a lot of characters who come to live in Ozma’s palace, or sometimes elsewhere in or near the Emerald City. Is the city becoming overcrowded? Probably not, considering that it has the same population in L. Frank Baum’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, belfaygor, bob up, bourne, bucky jones, bungle the glass cat, captain fyter, carter green, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, davy jones, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, emerald city, frogman, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, kabumpo, kiki aru, lake quad, lucky bucky in oz, mount munch, much ado about kiki aru, nickadoodle, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, pumperdink, ruth waara, scarecrow, sean patrick duffley, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic cryptogram of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, toto, unc nunkie, uncle henry | Leave a comment

Our Christmas Monkees

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Nathan

The Monkees, Christmas Party – The new Monkees record is a collection of Christmas songs, some old and some new. I like Christmas music (as well as winter music that gets lumped in with it because no one wants to … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Christmas, Holidays, Minus 5, Monkees, Music, XTC | Tagged adam schlesinger, alex chilton, andy partridge, christmas party, davy jones, michael chabon, mike nesmith, paul mccartney, peter buck, peter tork, rivers cuomo, scott mccaughey | Leave a comment

When the Volcano Blow

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Nathan

I wrote last week about Dorothy’s tornado and other natural disasters that opened the way to Oz or the surrounding fairylands, and this time I’m going to look at ones within fairyland itself. We don’t really hear of many bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin of oz, blazes, captain salt in oz, cork mountain, davy jones, ev, geysers, grampa in oz, greg hunter, land of mo, lucky bucky in oz, maybe the miffin, natural disasters, nonestic ocean, ripple lands, rolling country, soap hollow, storms, subterranea, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tornadoes, torpedo town, trade winds, uptown, volcanoes, weather, whirligig winds, winds, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Sing for the President, Sing for the Terrorists, Sing

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Nathan

The Dresden Dolls reunited for what I believe were only two shows, and I saw the one at the Coney Island Amphitheater. It’s a new venue, and one of the people who did booking decided the Dolls needed to play … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Amanda Palmer, Concerts, Monkees, Music | Tagged all you need is cash, beastie boys, black sabbath, bobby hart, brian viglione, coney island, davy jones, direction of travel, dresden dolls, jacques brel, jimmy silva, john weymer, laura kidd, micky dolenz, mike nesmith, minus 5, neil innes, of monkees and men, peter tork, rage against the machine, richmond fontaine, robert ryan, scott mcaughey, she makes war, tanya donnelly, the rutles, tommy boyce | 1 Comment

We’ve Been Writing Rhymes and Trading Lines

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Nathan

The Monkees, Good Times! – Released in honor of the group’s fiftieth anniversary, it’s the first album they’ve done since their thirtieth anniversary. The members are known for not getting along all that well with each other, although when they … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Concerts, Monkees, Music, XTC | Tagged adam schlesinger, andy partridge, ben gibbard, bobby hart, carole king, davy jones, death cab for cutie, fountains of wayne, gerry goffin, good times, harry nilsson, jeff barry, joey levine, micky dolenz, mike nesmith, neil diamond, noel gallagher, paul weller, peter tork, rivers cuomo, tommy boyce, weezer | 1 Comment

Invisible Touch

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Nathan

L. Frank Baum originally wanted The Emerald City of Oz to be his last Oz book, and to that end had Glinda cast a spell that made the whole land “invisible to all eyes but our own.” In explaining it … Continue reading →

Posted in Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a side view of the nonestic islands, button-bright, cap'n bill, captain salt in oz, davy jones, dorothy gale, glinda, heelers, invisible barrier, jenny jump, kiki aru, king of the fairy beavers, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, martha cornog, ork, oziana, ozma, professor wogglebug, rinkitink in oz, the careless kangaroo of oz, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz, timothy perper, trot griffiths, wizard of oz | 12 Comments

A Pumpkin Under the Sea

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Nathan

The Pearl and the Pumpkin, by Paul Clarendon West and W. W. Denslow – After the success of a children’s book called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (perhaps you’ve heard of it), there were many attempts to recapture it. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Halloween, Holidays, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged ancient mariner, corn dodger, davy jones, davy jones' locker, fairies, ike cannem, jack pumpkinhead, joe miller, john doe, john dough, mother carey, mother carey's chickens, neptune, paul clarendon west, samuel taylor coleridge, the marvelous land of oz, the pearl and the pumpkin, the rime of the ancient mariner, the water-babies, the wonderful wizard of oz, w. w. denslow, wooglet in oz | 9 Comments

Tag Archives: davy jones

Love That Leviathan

When Decades Collide

Bradys and Gentlemen

Get Out of Town

Our Christmas Monkees

When the Volcano Blow

Sing for the President, Sing for the Terrorists, Sing

We’ve Been Writing Rhymes and Trading Lines

Invisible Touch

A Pumpkin Under the Sea

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