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Killers, Corpses, Cartoons, and Conductors

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Nathan

Here are my thoughts on the four movies I’ve watched most recently, all with SPOILERS. Body Bags – A 1993 film consisting of three different segments, the first two directed by John Carpenter and the last by Tobe Hooper. Carpenter … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Families, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Snobbery, Television, The Simpsons, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a goofy movie, aliens, body bags, brad dourif, bride of chucky, cate blanchett, child's play, chucky, curse of chucky, david warner, debbie harry, dolls, donald duck, eye, fiona dourif, freddy krueger, goof troop, goofy, hair, hell toupee, horror, John Carpenter, mark hamill, max goof, mickey mouse, murder, peg-leg pete, sam raimi, shocker, tar, the gas station, tobe hooper, twiggy, wes craven | Leave a comment

Through an Uskglass Darkly

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Nathan

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke – The author’s debut novel was recommended to me because I liked her Piranesi.This book was much longer and more complicated, but I liked it. It takes place in the early nineteenth … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christmas, Comics, History, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged adze, anansi, beagle boys, big bad wolf, bob gregory, carl barks, christmas in duckburg, donald duck, fairies, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, jonathan strange and mr norrell, napoleon bonaparte, piranesi, rick riordan presents, rocket-roasted christmas turkey, roseanne a. brown, scrooge mcduck, serwa boateng, serwa boateng's guide to vampire hunting, susanna clarke, the lovelorn fireman, tristan strong, vampires, vic lockman | 1 Comment

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Nathan

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas – I kept seeing this recommended on Disney Plus, so I figured I might as well give it a shot. From 1999, it’s a collection of three different Christmas-themed cartoons, each featuring one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Disney Afternoon, Families, Holidays, Humor, Music, Names, Nursery Rhymes, Relationships, Television, Toys | Tagged a christmas carol, a very goofy christmas, a. robins, babes in toyland, banana man, beagle boys, cats, charles dickens, chip and dale, clowns, cricket on the hearth, crickets, crows, daisy duck, disney, dogs, donald duck, donald duck: stuck on christmas, ebenezer scrooge, figaro, gift of the magi, goof troop, goofy, groundhog day, huey dewey and louie, jack e. leonard, kelsey grammer, max goof, mickey and minnie's gift of the magi, mickey mouse, mickey's once upon a christmas, minnie mouse, monkeys, mortimer mouse, o. henry, peg-leg pete, pluto, rankin/bass, sam levine, santa claus, scrooge mcduck, silas barnaby, uriah caw, wally cox | Leave a comment

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift | Leave a comment

Mean Squirrels

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Nathan

I saw a squirrel in a graveyard last weekend. That’s not really that strange, as Green-Wood Cemetery is also an arboretum, so it gets a lot of wildlife. Still, a squirrel around gravestones made me think of the Skull Eaters … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Sonic the Hedgehog, Television, Video Games | Tagged chipmunks, conker the squirrel, conker's bad fur day, cyril, diddy kong racing, dixie kong, donald duck, donkey kong jungle beat, dr. ivo robotnik, dragon quest of the stars, final fantasy ix, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flurl the squirrel, flying squirrels, freedom fighters, green-wood cemetery, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, kaori tanaka, little wizard stories of oz, new super mario bros. u, nutkins, princess sally acorn, ray the flying squirrel, relm arrowny, sabin rene figaro, segasonic the hedgehog, skull eaters, squirrel king, squirrels, strago magus, the lavender bear of oz, the tale of squirrel nutkin, tiny kong | 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

King Solomon’s Mines, Exit 75, I’m Still Alive

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Nathan

A Witch in Time, by Constance Sayers – This is another book I found at a discount from some promotion I don’t remember. It’s the story of Helen Lambert, a recently divorced woman who goes on a date with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Comics, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Norse | Tagged a witch in time, arizona goof, arizona goof and the tiger's fiery eye, beagle boys, constance sayers, daisy duck, disney masters, don donald, donald duck, donna duck, ducks, goofy, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john ruskin, ludwig von drake, massimo de vita, mickey mouse, morty and ferdie fieldmouse, pluto, scrooge mcduck, the golden river, the ice sword saga, the ice sword saga book 2, the mad doctor, the mines of king solomon, the money well, the prince of mists strikes back, the secret of 313, the sleeping beauty in the stars, witches | Leave a comment

Drag Out the Dickens

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Nathan

I can’t quite recall what my introduction to A Christmas Carol actually was. I have a memory of my dad reading it to me as a kid, quite possibly an abridged version, even though it’s pretty short as is. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Plays, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a christmas carol, bob cratchit, charles dickens, clarence nash, donald duck, ebenezer scrooge, fozzie bear, fun and fancy free, ghosts, giants, goofy, jacob marley, jim henson, kermit the frog, mickey and the beanstalk, mickey mouse, mickey's christmas carol, miss piggy, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, peg-leg pete, rizzo the rat, robin the frog, scooter, scrooge mcduck, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the muppet christmas carol, the wind in the willows, tiny tim, wayne allwine, willie the giant | 1 Comment

Going Blotto

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Nathan

I’m continuing with the Disney Masters series as available on Comixology, and I don’t have too much to say about the third and fourth volumes. Some good stories, but it’s more fun to write about the really crazy ones, and there … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, Humor, Magic | Tagged carl barks, chief o'hara, disney, disney masters, donald duck, dondorado, eega beeva, el dorado, giovan battista carpi, goofy, guido martina, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, king of the golden river, mad hatter, me myself--and why?, mickey mouse, mickey the kid and six-shot goofy, phantom blot, rodolfo cimino, romano scarpa, scrooge mcduck, the eternal flame of kalhoa, the phantom blot's double mystery | Leave a comment

Jumping Jupiter!

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Nathan

Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge’s Money Rocket, by Luciano Bottaro – The second in the Disney Masters series features the work of another Italian artist and writer, showcasing three imaginative madcap tales. In the titular story, when the Beagle Boys find … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Beatles, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, History, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged aliens, beagle boys, chronos origins, disney, disney masters, donald duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john lennon, jupiter, ku klux klan, luciano bottaro, martin luther king, moon, now then and everywhen, racism, rebo, robots, rysa walker, saturn, scrooge mcduck, time travel, uncle scrooge's money rocket, witches | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: donald duck

Killers, Corpses, Cartoons, and Conductors

Through an Uskglass Darkly

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Mean Squirrels

Duck and Cover

King Solomon’s Mines, Exit 75, I’m Still Alive

Drag Out the Dickens

Going Blotto

Jumping Jupiter!

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