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Dragon vs. Dragon

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Nathan

Since I enjoyed my playthrough of Breath of Fire 2, I decided to go back (figuratively, that is), and give the first one a try. I finished it yesterday, and it wasn’t really that difficult. I did use a walkthrough … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Dreams, Economics, Magic, Maps, Mega Man, Monsters, Names, Street Fighter, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games | Tagged armadillos, bleu, bo, bow doggy, breath of fire 1, breath of fire 2, capcom, chun-li, dark dragons, demons, dragon clan, dragons, drogen, emperor zog, fish, gant, gobi, goda, goonheim, guntz, iron ogre clan, jade, karn, light dragons, manillo, mogu, moles, myria, nagas, nina windia, ox, prima, rand marks, ray bradoc, robots, rock monster, ryu, square enix, st. eva church, stone man, stone robot, ted woolsey, transformation, translation, tunlan, tyr, windia, winlan, yellow devil | Leave a comment

A Whale of an Island

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Nathan

There are many tales of gigantic sea monsters, perhaps because what’s under the sea is pretty mysterious, and some of what people see really IS pretty monstrous. Northern Europe has many such legends, and this is where people really did encounter … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Inuit, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged aspidochelone, fish, giant squid, greenland, hafgufa, imap umassoursa, jasconius, kraken, lyngbakr, odd, ogmund, orvar-oddr, sea monsters, sinbad, squid, st. brendan, trolls, turtles, vignir, whales | Leave a comment

I Got Rich Selling Mold

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Nathan

Here are some more Nintendo Comics System reviews for anyone who cares. And they’re still here even if you don’t care. Strange how that happens. Bedtime for Drain-Head – The second Dirk Drain-Head story starts with Mario having stayed up … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Comics, Dreams, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged bedtime for drain-head, big bertha, chuckberries, cloud burst, clouds, dirk drain-head, fins and roses, fish, fluffy, frog suit, jelectros, king bowser koopa, koopalings, lakitu, love flounders, luigi mario, mario mario, mushroom king, nintendo adventure books, nintendo comics system, princess peach toadstool, smookers, snakey, spinies, stanley the talking fish, super mario bros. 3, toad, toads, wendy o. koopa, wooster | 1 Comment

Such Shellfish Women

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Nathan

I’m not really not that knowledgeable about Pokémon, but I have played Pokémon Yellow and picked up a few other things here and there. These are mostly about the original Pokémon, though, and there have been so many others since … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Etymology, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Pokémon, Video Games | Tagged baku, carp, dragon gate, dragons, drowzee, fish, froslass, futakuchi-onna, gyarados, hermit crabs, kappa, lombre, magikarp, mawile, namazu, sazae-oni, shellder, slowbro, slowking, slowpoke, snails, top snail, turban snail, whiscash, yuki-onna | 1 Comment

Everybody Loves a Clownfish

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Nathan

Finding Nemo – I saw this one in the theater when it was new, but haven’t watched it since then. The animation of animals under the sea is quite impressive. Pixar humans still looked weird at this point, but we … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Families, Humor, Names, Revisiting Disney, Television, The Simpsons, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged clownfish, ellen degeneres, finding nemo, fish, pelicans, pixar, regal blue tang, sharks, whales | 2 Comments

The Second Most Dangerous Game

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Nathan

I would have to suspect that, in a land in which practically all animals can talk, humans killing and eating them would pretty much disappear. Perhaps strangely, however, there are a few mentions of human hunters in Oz. They’re most … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Food, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged birds, bunnybury, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, fish, foxes, grampa, grampa in oz, gump, guns, henry blossom, hungry tiger, hunting, joe bongiorno, merry go round in oz, mombi, notta bit more, ojo in oz, ozma, ozroar, paradox in oz, pigasus, pigs, professor grunter swyne, rabbits, realbad, seebania, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, view-halloo | 8 Comments

The Fish-Woman Who Got Away

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Nathan

I had enjoyed watching the Coney Island Mermaid Parade last year, and had been considering going again, but didn’t think to look up when it was. As it turns out, it was last weekend, and I missed it. Oh, well. … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology, Roman, Semitic | Tagged aphrodite, ashkelon, atargatis, cupid, dagon, derketo, doves, fish, hadad, hyginus, mermaids, ovid, pisces, semiramis, typhon, venus | 1 Comment

Cheep Cheeper by the Dozen

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Nathan

The original Super Mario Bros. introduces two kinds of water-based enemies, the Bloober or Blooper and the Cheep Cheep. The latter is a pretty generic-looking fish, and in addition to appearing in the underwater stages, there are levels where you … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged big bertha, bloopers, boss bass, cheep cheeps, chef shmi, fish, flying fish, nintendo adventure books, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, rip van fish, sashimie, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario world, sushie, trouters, yoshi | Leave a comment

Oz Fish

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Nathan

Although L. Frank Baum wrote a fantasy taking place under the sea and referenced it a few times in the Oz books, he really didn’t say that much about aquatic life in Oz and its surrounding nations. In Glinda of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a-b-sea serpent, captain salt, captain salt in oz, crimson-tailed quipperug, emerald city, fish, flying fish, glenn ingersoll, glinda of oz, king arthur, lady water lily, lake orizon, lake quad, loch ness monster, lucky bucky in oz, masquerade in oz, mermaids, monkey-fish, narwhal, nonestic ocean, octopuses, octopuss, patchwork girl, quaddle, quiberon, rattlesnake, roger the read bird, sea serpent, seeweegia, sherwood smith, tazander tazah of ozamaland, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the secret island of oz, tin woodman, turtles | 2 Comments

Fishy Oaths

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Nathan

My last post had me thinking about the expression “holy mackerel,” and I wondered how it originated. Why are mackerel any holier than any other fish, or any other animal for that matter? Fish in general seem to show up … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Etymology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged fish, holy mackerel, mackerel, minced oaths, oaths, odds fish | Leave a comment

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Dragon vs. Dragon

A Whale of an Island

Such Shellfish Women

Everybody Loves a Clownfish

The Second Most Dangerous Game

The Fish-Woman Who Got Away

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