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Go Big or Go Home

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis This is Oziana for 1983. The cover was drawn by Eric Shanower for the previous year’s Winkie Convention, then repurposed here. It features several of L. Frank Baum and Ruth Plumly Thompson’s characters, with High Boy … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged big top mountain, bunnybury, cornucopia oziana, donkeys, emerald city, giants, high boy, jack pumpkinhead, jay v. groves, jinxland, lord googly-goo, mr. yoop, mrs. yoop, nero zeero: snoz of oz, oogaboo, oziana, ozma, pon, professor wogglebug, queen ann soforth, reera the red, rob roy macveigh, snozland, the emerald city of oz, the fate of the yoops, the gardener's boy of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the way to the emerald city, tippetarius in oz, whimsies, yookoohoos, yookoohoos of oz | Leave a comment

Get Off Your Ass

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Nathan

This might well be my last book review post of the year. I got an overview of the books I read in 2021 on Goodreads a few weeks ago, but I have no idea why they didn’t save it until … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Hinduism, Korean, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Voodoo, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, aliens, anunnaki, apsaras, apuleius, aru shah, beware the grove of true love, bruto and the freaky flower, calamity juice, carlo collodi, carlos hernandez, chupacabra, cupid and psyche, dalgyal gwisin, demons, don quixote, donkeys, dushyanti, ellen d. finkelpearl, erzulie, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, ghosts, gilgamesh, graci kim, gum baby, isis, j.c. cervantes, kwame mbalia, miguel de cervantes, my life as a child outlaw, my night at the gifted carnival, nymphs, pandavas, paola santiago, paola santiago and the forest of nightmares, peter singer, pinocchio, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, sal and gabi, sarwat chadda, shaggy man, shakuntala, sikander aziz, tehlor kay mejia, the adventures of pinocchio, the cave of doom, the cursed carnival and other calamities, the demon drum, the golden ass, the gum baby files, the initiation, the last fallen star, the loneliest demon, the road to oz, the winter long, tristan strong, urvashi, witches, yoon ha lee, zane obispo | 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

Ho Ho Home Invasion

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Nathan

I usually don’t like to make two of the same kind of post in a row, but ’tis the season, so here are some more reviews of Christmas-related audiovisual media. Santa Claus – I’d heard of this 1959 Mexican movie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Zelda | Tagged angela lansbury, angels, cherubim, devils, dogs, donkeys, frank conniff, gene autry, irving berlin, jesus, joseph, lucifer, merlin, mystery science theater 3000, nativity, nestor the long-eared christmas donkey, rankin/bass, reindeer, roger miller, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus vs. the devil, sheep, the first christmas, the story of the first christmas snow, three wise men, trace beaulieu, virgin mary, white christmas | Leave a comment

If Wishes Were Streetcars

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Nathan

The Wish Express, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – This could essentially be considered the author’s first book, although it wasn’t published in that form during her lifetime. Before she took over the Oz series from L. Frank Baum, she serialized … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged charles evan hughes, delusion, democrats, dogs, donkeys, elephants, emerald city, horses, illusion, joe bongiorno, marvelous travels of a wish, ozma, philadelphia public ledger, president theodore roosevelt, president woodrow wilson, queen else of somewhere, republicans, ruth berman, some one else, something else jus tas bad, somewhere, somewhere else, state of discontentment, talktown, the enchanted island of oz, the wish express, the wonder book, the wonderful wizard of oz, thomas nast, through the looking-glass, wishes, wizard of oz, world war i | Leave a comment

No Talking, Just Animals

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Nathan

At the most recent OzCon International, I was on a panel about animals in Oz, discussing, among other things, whether they have the same rights as humans. It went off track a few times, but some interesting topics came up. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Gina Wickwar, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged baffleburg, bilbil, billina, combinoceros, dogs, donkeys, emerald city, ev, hank the mule, horses, immortality, ix, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, king randywell, lions, mombi, ojo in oz, ozcon international, ozma of oz, peter brown, pita the sand witch, queen zixi of ix, realbad, rinkitink in oz, ruffles, samandra, snip, snoctorotomus, tazzywaller, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost king of oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the silver princess in oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto of oz, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Santanimals

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Nathan

According to the annoyingly catchy Christmas novelty song “Dominick the Donkey,” Santa Claus rides a donkey because “the reindeer cannot climb the hills of Italy.” But can’t the reindeer fly, in which case hills would be more or less irrelevant? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Christianity, Christmas, Finnish, Holidays, Music, Mythology, Norse, Poetry, Religion | Tagged a visit from st nicholas, bethlehem, bible, camels, clement moore, dominick the donkey, donkeys, father christmas, goats, gospel of luke, gospel of matthew, jerusalem, jesus, joulupukki, kangaroos, reindeer, santa claus, six white boomers, thor, ukko, virgin mary, yule goat | Leave a comment

Back in the High Life Again

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Nathan

Robert R. Pattrick’s Unexplored Territory in Oz was a seminal work in the field sometimes known as Ozian Research, which is basically research that treats the Oz books as true history rather than fiction. Not a very practical field of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged benny, bunnybury, captain fyter, chopfyt, cowardly lion, donkeys, dorothy gale, dunkiton, forever in oz, good witch of the north, grumpy, jikki, kiki aru, king gugu, law of association, law of similarity, loo the unicorn, magic, merry go round, merry go round in oz, professor wogglebug, queen zixi of ix, robert pattrick, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the road to oz, tin woodman, unexplored territory in oz, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, zim greenleaf | 1 Comment

The Man with the Talking Ass

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Nathan

No, not Jim Carrey, but Balaam, a character who appears in the Biblical book of Numbers. Basically, the story has it that Balaam, who was essentially a curse-speaker for hire, was ordered by King Balak of Moab to curse the … Continue reading →

Posted in Judaism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged balaam, bible, donkeys, jannes and jambres, jethro, job, king balak of moab, moses, numbers, pharaoh | Leave a comment

Hiding in an Ass’s Hide

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Nathan

Picture by Cathy Delanssay This week’s fairy tale is one I just recently read, “Donkeyskin,” a story of attempted incestuous rape and a donkey that craps out gold coins. There are actually several varieties on this tale, with different cultures … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales | Tagged allerleirauh, brothers grimm, charles perrault, cinderella, donkeys, donkeyskin, sapsorrow, tales of mother goose, thousandfurs | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: donkeys

Go Big or Go Home

Get Off Your Ass

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Ho Ho Home Invasion

If Wishes Were Streetcars

No Talking, Just Animals

Santanimals

Back in the High Life Again

The Man with the Talking Ass

Hiding in an Ass’s Hide

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