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Pendexter’s Laboratory

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Nathan

Today, in my ongoing look at obscure Oz books, I’m looking at the work of Hugh Pendexter III. He dives into some unanswered questions from the series and includes quite a few references, although he mostly uses his own characters, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Places, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cap'n bill, curtis dunham, dogs, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, dr. pipt, elephants, ev, farhold island, forest of gugu, great gillikin forest, how the wizard came to oz, johnny dooit, mombi, morrow, nine tiny piglets, oz and the three witches, ozma, paul clarendon west, robots, saturn, shaggy man, silico, tales of the crocheted cat, the crocheted cat in oz, the golden goblin, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the pearl and the pumpkin, the road to oz, the sea fairies, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz, wooglet in oz | Leave a comment

Something for the Ruler with Everything

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Nathan

The 1998 Oziana has even less original art than the last issue. Aside from the front cover by Ron Zhang, showing an MGM-inspired Wicked Witch of the West menacing the familiar four (five, including Toto) and a picture of Ozma … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Games, Greek Mythology, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a princess of oz, barsoom, betsy bobbin, bungle the glass cat, bunnybury, corabia, corumbia, cowardly lion, dave hardenbrook, david hulan, dorothy gale, edgar rice burroughs, elephants, firestones, gayelette, glinda, golden cap, j. l. bell, jellia jamb maid of oz, john carter, kabumpo, kabumpo finds a frond, lonesome duck, magic belt, mars, mike turniansky, oziana, ozma, ozma's swap party, ozzy digest, patchwork girl, prince corum of corumbia, princess marygolden of corabia, puzzles, quelala, rabbits, robin olderman, ron zhang, samandra, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gauds of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the shortest book of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, trot griffiths, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, woodchucks | 2 Comments

Ho Ho, Kerumph!

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Nathan

Kabumpo in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – You get two Oz posts in a row this week, because I’ve finished rereading this book for its hundredth anniversary. Thompson’s second Oz book is a clear improvement over her first, and Kabumpo … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dolls, elephants, emerald city, fairies, faleero, glegg, gnomes, illumi nation, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, luis ricardo falero, marriage, nome king, nomes, ozma, peg amy, prince pompadore, pumperdink, puns, rabbits, rith metic, tin woodman, trees, trot griffiths, twigs, wag the rabbit, water of oblivion, witches, wizard of oz | 5 Comments

Quran So Far Away

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve now read through the Quran, mostly using this translation. I know it’s really only considered authentic in Arabic, but I can’t read that language. Discussing Islam can be kind of awkward, especially because the amount of Islamophobia in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Book Reviews, Christianity, Gnosticism, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Magic, Middle East, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, angels, antisemitism, bible, demons, elephants, ezra, heaven, hell, homosexuality, iblis, islamophobia, jesus, jihad, jinn, jorge luis borges, joseph, king solomon, mecca, muhammad, paradise, quran, sabbath, satan, satanic verses, the book of imaginary beings, virgin mary, war | Leave a comment

The World Is a Very Scarry Place

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Nathan

I’ll occasionally see references to Richard Scarry on Twitter or some other site, and I can definitely remember growing up with his books. I’m sure a lot of people can; they’re just the sort of thing people give to kids. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Families, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Television | Tagged anthropomorphism, apes, baboons, bananas gorilla, bears, best counting book ever, birds, busytown, cars and trucks and things that go, cats, chickens, dingo dog, dogs, elephants, fireflies, foxes, gorillas, hippopotamus, huckle cat, hyenas, lowly worm, mice, mr. frumble, pigs, rabbits, richard scarry, so long and thanks for all the fish, three beggars, wolves, worms | 1 Comment

Mean Old Lions

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Nathan

Predator – This was something I thought I should see because of its cultural significance, and I did appreciate the mythology, but I felt too much of it was just a bunch of guys running around a jungle and firing … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Belle and Sebastian, Families, Humor, Monsters, Music, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, arnold schwarzenegger, cats, elephants, jaguars, jesse ventura, john goodman, lions, melanie griffith, noel marshall, predator, roar, storytelling, tigers, todd solondz, zebras | 1 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

Boil, Fry, and Rostam

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Nathan

Having read this post on Tor the other day, I was inspired to look up more information on the legendary Persian hero Rostam, sometimes spelled Rustam. By searching on Google, I discovered that Rostam is also the name of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Greek Mythology, History, Iran, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Persian, Poetry, Religion, Zoroastrianism | Tagged bonu goshasp, demons, div-e sepid, dragons, elephants, esfandyar, faramarz, ferdowsi, goshasp, hercules, horses, kay kavus, lions, parthian empire, rakhsh, rostam, rubadeh, rustam, shaghad, shahnameh, simurgh, sohrab, taminah, witches, zal | Leave a comment

Umbo the Flying Elephant

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Nathan

The Umbrellaphant in Oz, by Carol P. Silva and Marin Elizabeth Xiques – This tale follows up on Captain Salt in Oz, and in fact the first two chapters are slightly rewritten excerpts from that book. Marcus Mebes’ Royal Explorers … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Humor, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged captain salt, captain salt in oz, carol p. silva, elephants, ozamaland, ozamandarins, ridiculous rivals in oz, shawn maldonado, tazander tazah of ozamaland, the royal explorers of oz, the umbrellaphant in oz, umbo the umbrellaphant, witches | 2 Comments

The Room in the Elephant

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Nathan

I’m not entirely sure why, but I’ve had the desire for some time to visit Lucy the Elephant, a building on the shore in Margate, New Jersey. Beth had gone before, but I was doing something else that day. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, History | Tagged anthony gertzen, chang building, coney island, elephant bazaar, elephant building, elephant of the bastille, elephantine colossus, elephants, james lafferty, landmarks, les miserables, light of asia, lucy the elephant, old jumbo, roadside attractions, sophia gertzen, victor hugo | 4 Comments

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Pendexter’s Laboratory

Something for the Ruler with Everything

Ho Ho, Kerumph!

Quran So Far Away

The World Is a Very Scarry Place

Mean Old Lions

If Wishes Were Streetcars

Boil, Fry, and Rostam

Umbo the Flying Elephant

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