Tag Archives: frogs

All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Nathan

My Oz reading recently has been a bit slow, both because I’ve had other things to read and because I was a little embarrassed to reread my own “Prince Pompadore in Oz.” I did like it, but I didn’t want to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged charlene gretski, corinne morris, dagmar in oz, danica libutti, david rose, deadly desert, dolls, dorothy and the magic belt, doug morris, dr. angelina bean in oz, dr. nikidik, elves, emerald city, fleas, frogs, jeremy steadman, joy marie morris, lunarr and maureen in oz, mombi, noyzy boyz, oziana, ozma, peter morris, prince pompadore in oz, ruth morris, scoodlers, scrabble, snakes, susan saunders, the flying bus in oz, the lost king of oz, the road to oz | 4 Comments

Someone in Oz

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve been reading through the Oziana issues that I already reviewed pretty quickly, and I can’t think of much to add beyond what I’ve already said. I will mention that editor John L. Bell thought of the 2005 one as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Book Reviews, Characters, David Tai, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged alejandro garcia, always look a gift goat in the mouth, anna-maria cool, arianna brown, executive decisions, fiddle's revenge, frogman, frogs, gabriel gale, general guph, glinda, griffins, gump, hammer-heads, horners, invisible fence, j. l. bell, jack and larry brenton, jeremy fisher, john fricke, kalidahs, king anko, li-mon-eags, michael patrick hearn, mombi, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rak, red jinn, spiders, the art of oz, the axman's arm, the bashful baker of oz, the bashful baker's honeymoon, the emerald city of oz, the ork in oz, the red desert of oz, the royal explorers of oz, thy fearful symmetry, voyage of the crescent moon, wheelers | 1 Comment

Give God Your Strength!

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Nathan

Breath of Fire 2 – I watched my brother play through this years ago, but I never did myself. I was getting a little frustrated with the other games I was playing, so I downloaded this on the 3DS and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Dragon Quest, Magic, Monsters, Names, Phantasy Star, Religion, Video Games | Tagged armadillos, aspara gus, bleu, bow, breath of fire 2, cats, deathevan, demons, dogs, dragon clan, dragons, eichichi, ekkal hoppa de pe jean, frogs, habaruku, katt, kilgore, kilgore trout, kurt vonnegut, monkeys, nagas, namanda, nimufu, nina windia, rand marks, ryu bateson, st. eva church, sten legacy, tiga lee, translation, trout, witches | 3 Comments

From the Animated Arcade Archive

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve already looked at the Saturday Supercade Donkey Kong cartoons, but I wanted to talk a bit about the others as well. They certainly went all out as far as games they covered, with a grand total of seven over … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Castlevania, Donkey Kong, Humor, Mario, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aliens, borf, coily, cowardly lion, don bluth, dragon's lair, fanny frog, frogger, frogs, infanto-ray, joey kangaroo, kangaroo, katy kangaroo, lions, monkeys, nosers, pauline, pitfall, princess daphne, princess peach toadstool, q*bert, quickclaw, ruby-spears, saturday supercade, scooby-doo, shellshock turtle, slippy doos, snagglepuss, snakes, snots and boogers, space ace, super mario world, swamp gazette, turtles, ugg, wreck-it ralph, wrongway | 2 Comments

He Blinded Me with Scienstein

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Nathan

The video game I’ve actually been playing the most as of late is Breath of Fire 2, which I remember from the Super Nintendo. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it soon. I just got past the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Food, Humor, Kirby, Mario, Monsters, Science, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged arewo shitain-hakase, breath of fire 2, croakians, custard kingdom, dr. ivan knit, dr. mario, dr. mario 64, dr. wright, earthbound, frogs, golden pyramid, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, kilgore, kilgore trout, kurt vonnegut, link's awakening, lord delarin, lost woods, luigi mario, mad scienstein, mandola, mario mario, masakachotto university, megavitamins, mille-feuille kingdom, minister crepe, moldorms, nantendo island, paper mario: the thousand-year door, prince of sable, prince richard, princess eclair, princess shokora, princess tiramisu, pudding continent, robots, rudy the clown, shigesato itoi, simcity, snakes, strudel continent, the frog for whom the bell tolls, trout, waffle kingdom, wario, wario land 3, wario land 4, witches | 1 Comment

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Nathan

One thing I noticed in the book Yama Yama Land, by Grace Duffie Boylan, was a reference to a giant frog playing a tennis racquet like a banjo. Picture by Edgar Keller So what’s the connection between frogs and banjos? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Comics, England, History, Humor, Muppets, Music, Neil Gaiman, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry, Relationships, Television, Terry Pratchett, They Might Be Giants | Tagged a frog he would a-wooing go, a moste strange weddinge of the frogge and the mowse, a very sad story about a frog and a banjo, anthony crowley, banjo frogs, banjos, chris ware, edgar keller, fiddles, frog and banjo, froggy went a-courtin', frogs, good omens, grace duffie boylan, kermit the frog, mcsweeney's, mike doughty, miss mousey, miss piggy, pobblebonks, soul coughing, the muppet show, the muppets valentines show, tom and jerry, yama yama land | 2 Comments

London Frog

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Nathan

Falling Sideways, by Tom Holt – While Robert Rankin claims to have invented the term “Far-Fetched Fiction” in hopes of getting his own shelf at the bookstore, I don’t know that he’d necessarily be the only one whose books would … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Humor, Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdity, falling sideways, frogs, heqet, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, kurt vonnegut, sirius, tom holt | 3 Comments

Frogs in a Fog

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Nathan

Since I’ve addressed most of the major topics I could think of regarding the Oz books, I’ve been delving more into the minutiae. I’d like to know what you, the readers, think of that. Should I just rope it in … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Places | Tagged button-bright, cancer, cap'n bill, fog bank, frogs, little lizzie, sky island, the witch queen of oz, trot, zodiac | 1 Comment

An Amphibian to Remember

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Nathan

It sometimes seems that the Egyptians had gods associated with every kind of animal you could think of. Obviously that’s not true, as I don’t think, for instance, that there was a sloth god. There are, however, gods that are … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Mythology | Tagged bible, frogs, heqet, horus, isis, jeremiah, khnum, nile river, shu | Leave a comment

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All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise

Someone in Oz

Give God Your Strength!

From the Animated Arcade Archive

He Blinded Me with Scienstein

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

London Frog

Frogs in a Fog

An Amphibian to Remember

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