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Put a Zork in It

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Nathan

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii | 1 Comment

The Mistress of Misdirection

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Nathan

In my Oziana reread, I thought I might say a bit more about the 2012 issue, made up of a round robin story based on the brief fragment known only as “An Oz Book.” Robert Stanton Baum credited it to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Plays, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Tom Holt | Tagged aging, ahriman, an oz book, betsy bobbin, carter green, chow bird, dorothy gale, emerald city, gilbert and sullivan, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, h.p. lovecraft, john wellington wells, kabumpo, kim mcfarland, krumbic witch, lake quad, lurline, magic belt, magic dishpan, magic picture, mike conway, mycroft mason, nikki haladay, oziana, ozma, paul dana, paul ritz, percy the personality kid, queen coo-ee-oh, red jinn, robert stanton baum, ruddigore, sam milazzo, shawn maldonado, the baum bugle, the boy baronet in oz, the green dolphin of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the lost princess of oz, the sorcerer, tik-tok of oz, time travel, witches, yips, yith | 5 Comments

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

A Washed-Up Atlantis

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve started listening to the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby podcast, which I found on Twitter. I have a lot to catch up on, but I did listen to some of the most recent installments about Atlantis. As the host … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Buddhism, Conspiracy Theories, Ethnicity, Frank Black/Black Francis, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Technology, Theosophy, William Shakespeare | Tagged al franken, archaeology, aryans, athens, atlantis, atlantis: the antediluvian world, baal-seepa, bible, critias, david m. parry, demons, devadatta, donovan, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, edgar cayce, euhemerism, flood, francis bacon, genesis, glinda of oz, green dragon of atlantis, helena blavatsky, hyperborea, ignatius donnelly, iron age, king midas, let's talk about myths baby, liv albert, lord of the dark face, nazis, neolithic era, numenor, plato, pseudoscience, racism, robert e. howard, sauron, siddharta gautama, silenus, sir arthur conan doyle, sir thomas more, slavery, table of nations, the maracot deep, the scarlet empire, thevetat, timaeus, utopia | 2 Comments

You Oughta Be in Pictures

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Nathan

When I wrote my review of The Wonder City of Oz, Marc Berezin mentioned that he thought John R. Neill had written some of it to make use of pre-existing art. Repurposing his art is definitely a thing Neill did; … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Celtic, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bears, betsy bobbin, captain salt, cayke the cookie cook, comfortable camel, davy jones the wooden whale, dorothy gale, emerald city, fairies, firefly fairies, glinda of oz, guardian of the gates, jellia jamb, jenny jump, jinjur, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo, kelpies, lake quad, leprechauns, lucky bucky in oz, mushrooms, nomes, number nine, ojo in oz, omby amby, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, peg amy, princess marygolden, professor wogglebug, psychopompus, sir hokus of pokes, snufferbux, sorcerers, spy-ders, the baum bugle, the runaway in oz, the scalawagons of oz, the voice of bong, the wonder city of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok, trot griffiths, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Glindaness Is Next to Godliness

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Nathan

I appreciate that The Baum Bugle has recently been putting out some issues that largely focus on a particular book. I don’t know if there are plans for this to continue, but I’ve found some information there that I hadn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Art, Characters, Egyptian, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Spiritualism | Tagged birds, dorothy gale, glinda, glinda of oz, great book of records, immortality, ira and william davenport, isis, margaret berg, matilda joslyn gage, michael patrick hearn, neith, osiris, robert b. luehrs, snoods, spirit cabinet, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the baum bugle, the magic of oz, the reading tree of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Why Won’t You Die?

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Nathan

It would become a thing in the Oz books that no one in that fairyland could die, but it wasn’t immediate. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz mentions the threat of death quite often, in fact. The first book to establish … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged capital punishment, combinoceros, death, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, dragons, eureka the pink kitten, gigaboo, glegg, glinda of oz, immortality, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kaliko, lions, lurline, nomes, ojo in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, prince fiddlecumdoo, prince jollikin, private jo files, purple dragon, realbad, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, snoctorotomus, snufferbux, tazzywaller, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant garden of oz, the good witch of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the master crafters of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches | 3 Comments

Unequal Reprozentation

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Nathan

Picture by Jimmy Robinson I had observed before how L. Frank Baum didn’t do a whole lot with the Gillikin Country after introducing it The Marvelous Land of Oz, then had a lot happen there in his last three Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, emerald city, ev, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jinjur, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, merry go round in oz, munchkins, nome kingdom, nonestic ocean, ozana, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, professor wogglebug, quadlings, ragbad, speedy in oz, statistics, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tin castle, winkies | Leave a comment

Sorting Out Sorcery

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Nathan

One running theme in Glinda of Oz is that there are several different types of magic in Oz, all of which have their specialties, but none of them can do everything. L. Frank Baum contrasts the fairy magic of Ozma … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Characters, Etymology, Games, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Theosophy | Tagged abrog, akbad, belfaygor, blinkie, conjo, cookywitches, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dr. pipt, dungeons and dragons, fanny the weather witch, flatheads, gayelette, glinda, glinda and the red jinn, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, gorba, grampa in oz, great book of records, gwig, handy mandy in oz, imperial squawmos, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kadj the conjurer, krumbic witch, magicians, mangaboos, miserable mesmerizer, mombi, mooj, necromancers, ojo in oz, oz magic, oziana, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, peter brown, pirates in oz, potaroo, prophecy, queen coo-ee-oh, red jinn, robert pattrick, rora flathead, soob the sorcerer, soothsayers, sorcerers, speedy in oz, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, three adepts at magic, ugu the shoemaker, unexplored territory in oz, waddy, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, wizards, wozards, wumbo, yookoohoos | Leave a comment

OzCon Online

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Nathan

Since physical gatherings are a bad idea these days, OzCon International in California was canceled this year, but some attendees decided to do a virtual one, live from the Valley of Virtula. No, not really; that’s the prehistoric name for … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Cartoons, Characters, Economics, Eric Shanower, Feminism, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Muppets, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, caroline spector, casey jr., china girl, colin ayres, dina schiff massachi, disney, disneyland, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, glinda, glinda of oz, j. l. bell, journey back to oz, mari ness, matilda joslyn gage, monarchy, mouseketeers, oz: the great and powerful, ozcon international, ozma, peter hanff, rock candy mountain, the emerald city of oz, the magic cloak of oz, the muppets' wizard of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the rainbow road to oz, thomas more, utopia, walt disney | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: glinda of oz

Put a Zork in It

The Mistress of Misdirection

Coping with Immortality

A Washed-Up Atlantis

Glindaness Is Next to Godliness

Why Won’t You Die?

Unequal Reprozentation

Sorting Out Sorcery

OzCon Online

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