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Down on the Farm

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Nathan

Here are a few Oz things I’ve read recently. Dark Wind in Oz, by Tarl Telford – It’s been some time since I read the first two books in the Hidden History of Oz series, but now I’ve finally read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, abby, ages of oz, angela garvey garvey, aunt em, billina, bitty bit, conjo, corwin davison poe, dark wind in oz, dorothy gale, fairies, foiled by the iffin, frogman, gabriel gale, gilbert and sullivan, glinda, glinda's letters to oz, grampa in oz, guardian of the gates, gump, imogene the cow, journal of a journey, king skamperoo, mary rakestraw, mombi, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, pastoria, pigasus, role-playing, smith and tinker, sundays at sam's, tarl telford, the computer wizard of oz, the final fate of the frogman, the giant garden of oz, the glinda letters, the hidden history of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, timeline, toto, truth pond, uncle henry, water of oblivion, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, yips, zim greenleaf of oz | Leave a comment

It’s a Celtic Thing

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Nathan

I recently finished reading the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh mythological prose, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest in the nineteenth century. I understand there have been better English translations since then, but this is what I could easily find online, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Board Games, British, Celtic, Characters, Christianity, Games, History, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Religion, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Welsh | Tagged affalach, arianrhod, avalon, bible, blodeuwedd, cassivellaunus, cayke the cookie cook, chronicles of prydain, delilah, dylan ail don, eagles, emperor magnus maximus, fidchell, fisher king, flowers, gilfathwy, goewin, grampa in oz, gronw pebr, gwydion fab don, holy grail, judges, julius caesar, king arthur, lady charlotte guest, lleu llaw gyffes, lloyd alexander, mabinogion, magic dishpan, math ap mathonwy, owls, pair dadeni, rape, sir perceval, the black cauldron, the lost princess of oz, urtha | 3 Comments

The Call of Cthjello

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Nathan

It’s Oziana time! Let’s delve into the 1981 issue, which has a drawing of Glinda by Denise Brunkus on the cover. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like her dress is made to look lumpy, and it puts … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adventure on monday mountain, as the rainbow follows the rain, billina, cthjello, cthulhu, dana linker, daniel k. cox, deadly desert, death, denise brunkus, dorothy gale, emeralda ozgood, ernest johnson, glinda, grampa in oz, great book of records, h.p. lovecraft, immortality, kaliko, lurline, mermaids, monday mountain, mount munch, nome king, nome kingdom, old ones, oziana, ozma, paula cooper, polychrome, professor wogglebug, rinkitink in oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the rainbow's daughter of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the woggle-bug book, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths, yog-sothoth, yug-succotash | 1 Comment

The South Will Oz Again

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Nathan

As mentioned in the introduction, the cover picture of the 1980 Oziana, as drawn by Albert Chronic, references a passage in Captain Salt in Oz, specifically when the Captain says that the Wizard of Oz is building airships that would … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Food, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, agga-groo, albert chronic, appearance, captain salt in oz, colonel cotton in oz, cowardly lion, dixie, edith hollister, g. mohrman, glegg, grampa in oz, great detective, how the cowardly lion met the hungry tiger, hungry tiger, judy bieber, kabumpo in oz, king gugu, miss cuttenclip, ozamaland, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, question box, ragbad, ragej, railroads, samandra, sherlock holmes, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tim hollis, toto | 6 Comments

Abra Kadabra, I Want to Reach Out and Grab Ya

Posted on March 9, 2022 by Nathan

The 1974 Oziana starts with a mention of of some Oz manuscripts the editor, Gary Ralph, had heard about: Christmas in Oz, The Woozy of Oz, and Traleewu in Oz. There are books by Robin Hess and March Laumer with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Comics, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged abra kadabra of oz, aging, albert chronic, bill eubank, boq, circle of geezer, cold snap mountains, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, fairies, frank joslyn baum, fraternal order of practising workers of magic, gary ralph, glinda, good witch of the north, grampa in oz, great book of records, jay delkin, jimmy bulber of oz, lurline, nomes, oz-e-gags, oziad, oziana, ozma, polychrome, robin hess, rosine and the laughing dragon of oz, the hollyhock dolls of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the mysterious palace of voe, the wonderful wizard of oz, valley of voe, witches, wizard of oz, zoru | Leave a comment

There’s No Convention Like Home

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Nathan

OzCon International was virtual again this year, kind of a shame when I’d been getting used to going annually. Still, better safe than sorry, and I believe the typical resort isn’t even open again yet. Colin Ayres and Erica Olivera … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, arabian nights, caitlin masters, colin ayres, conventions, david maxine, dogs, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, grampa in oz, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead of oz, karyl carlson, mari ness, marvel comics, mikey dee, ozcon international, ozroy chase, philip jose farmer, queen ann in oz, racism, red jinn, royalty, ryan jay, sam milazzo, skottie young, slavery, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, yellow brick pod | 2 Comments

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Nathan

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aladdin, alibabble, baffleburg, bamboula, blufferroo, captain salt in oz, chick the cherub, chief chow chow, chief dipper, chief scarer, chief scorner, chief scrapper, chinda, dwarves, giants, gilbert and sullivan, grampa in oz, grand advizier, grand bozzywoz, grand chew chew, grand counter of the imperial spoons, hah hoh, handy mandy in oz, head booleywag, high coco-lorum, high qui-questioner, hippolorum, imperial persuader, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo in oz, kimbaloo, king cheeriobed, king rinkitink, king sizzeroo, lord high humpus, lord high this and that, lord high upper dupper, mogodore, nox the ox, octagon isle, ojo in oz, out keeper, ozma, pat the prime patter, patch, perhaps city, peter brown, pirates in oz, pokes, preservatory, prime moneyster, prime piecer, prime preserve, prime pumper, pumperdink, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, royal scribbler, samandra, sapphire city, sauce box, scare city, sevenanone, silver island, silver mountain, sky island, smerker, snorpus, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, supposyville, supposyville goes toboganning, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the horse and his boy, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mikado, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tighty, toddledy, town crier, town laugher, umbrella island, unicorners, unicorns, vizier | Leave a comment

If I Only Had a Game

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve long thought Oz had a lot of potential for video games, but it hasn’t had much success in that respect. One game I knew existed but hadn’t played or anything was the 1993 The Wizard of Oz for Super … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Video Games | Tagged alexander volkov, angry video game nerd, cats, cowardly lion, crows, dogs, dorothy gale, emerald city, emerald city confidential, glinda, grampa in oz, magic land, mice, munchkins, queen of the field-mice, scarecrow, super nintendo entertainment system, the wizard of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, topiary, toto, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yellow brick road | Leave a comment

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

Tag Archives: grampa in oz

Down on the Farm

The Call of Cthjello

The South Will Oz Again

Abra Kadabra, I Want to Reach Out and Grab Ya

There’s No Convention Like Home

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

If I Only Had a Game

Unequal Reprozentation

Sorting Out Sorcery

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