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Heffalumps and Woozies

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Nathan

After two years when it just wasn’t possible, we finally had an in-person OzCon International this year. It was in Pomona, California again, and it was one day and some change, so I initially thought it wouldn’t make sense to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Celebrities, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a day in oz, american fairy tales, ashley chase, billina, bunbury, butterflies, cindy ragni, colin ayres, cowardly lion, dina schiff massachi, dogs, dorothy gale, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, freddy fogarty, geoffrey l. gould, glenn roberson, insects, j. l. bell, judy garland, kabumpo in oz, liberace, nate barlow, naya rivera, oz film manufacturing company, ozcon international, oziana, ozma of oz, polychrome, prince pompadore, return to oz, sam milazzo, steve cox, the emerald city of oz, the glass dog, the master key, the patchwork girl of oz, the real critics, the tik-tok man of oz, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, toto, woozy | 7 Comments

Wiggler Wednesday

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve discussed many enemies from the Super Mario franchise over the years, but I don’t think I’ve said that much about Wigglers, the giant caterpillars introduced in Super Mario World. Their thing is basically that they’re normally cute, yellow, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Mario, Monsters, Television, Video Games | Tagged bees, butterflies, cataquacks, caterpillars, centipede, flutters, fly guys, fuzzies, fuzzlers, insects, king bowser koopa, lost kingdom, luigi mario, mario and luigi paper jam, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, mario and luigi: dream team, mario kart: double dash, mario mario, mario party 9, mechawiggler, metro kingdom, new donk city, new super mario bros., paper mario: sticker star, piranha plants, plungelos, squigglers, super mario 3d world, super mario galaxy, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, super mario world, tropical wigglers, wiggler wagons, wigglers, worms, yoshi, yoshi's island | 3 Comments

Myriapod Mania

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Nathan

I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games | Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards | 5 Comments

Nobody Ever Suspects the Butterfly

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Nathan

Picture by Carsten Witte In this post about a Chinese drama, there’s a mention of butterfly demons, and some possibilities as to how this links to mythology. Butterflies are apparently considered manifestations of the soul in Greek, Chinese, and Japanese culture. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Aztec, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Greek Mythology, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Roman, Urban Legends, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aoyama, batterflies, betterflies, butterflies, caterpillars, cupid and psyche, demons, dread admirals, ghosts, godzilla, insects, itzpapalotl, mothman, mothra, moths, mothula, okiku, okiku mushi, psyche, shinchu, souls, yokai | 5 Comments

I Came in Like a Wrecking Crew

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Nathan

It’s weird how many obscure Mario-related games there are. I’d wanted to discuss a few Japan-only ones that I’ve seen footage of recently, but there were some connections there to games we did get here in the States that I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Donkey Kong, Food, Kid Icarus, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged adventure island, booster, chibi-robo, donkey kong, donkey kong 3, donkey kong 3 dai gyakushu, donkey kong 3 great counterstrike, eggplant, eggplant men, eggplant wizard, foreman spike, galaga, gotchawrenches, hotel mario, ice climber, insects, kid eggplant, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, luigi mario, mario mario, mobile golf, mushroom kingdom, shigeru miyamoto, stanley the bugman, super mario bros., super mario rpg, tetris, the 3 little princesses, wario, wonder boy, wrecking crew, wrecking crew '98, yves bourgelas | 3 Comments

Insect Aside

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Nathan

L. Frank Baum is never entirely clear on whether ALL animals in Oz can talk, or whether animals eat each other there. For instance, are insects there sentient? Well, the Wogglebug is, but that’s after he’s been Highly Magnified and … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged anteaters, ants, bears, bees, billina, bucketheads in oz, cap'n bill, gili bar-hillel, grampa in oz, grasshoppers, insects, jack breton, jitterbug, larry breton, lucky bucky in oz, mosquitoes, ojo in oz, ozma of oz, peter schulenburg, professor wogglebug, snufferbux, sullivanthauros, the disenchanted princess of oz, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin castle of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the woggle-bug book, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's tale, thunderbugs, tin woodman, wasps, wicked witch of the west, woozy, yankee in oz | 4 Comments

Harum Scarab

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Nathan

The ancient Egyptians seemed to have a god for every kind of animal with which they were familiar, some of which were quite prominent and others more obscure. The scarab beetle was a common symbol in Egypt, used for many … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Egyptian, Etymology, Language, Mythology | Tagged amulets, atum, beetles, dung beetles, heart scarab amulets, insects, khepri, pyramid texts, ra, scarabs, sun | 2 Comments

What’s Bugging Me

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Nathan

A Bug’s Life – I had seen Pixar’s second full-length animated feature before, but not until it was out on video. Beth, who was a fan of both Dave Foley and David Hyde Pierce, saw it a few times when … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Humor, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a bug's life, aesop, ants, caterpillars, dave foley, david hyde pierce, denis leary, grasshoppers, insects, pixar, spiders, the grasshopper and the ants | 1 Comment

The Age of Cooties

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Nathan

Another game I can remember from my own very early childhood is Cootie, a quite simple affair that involves building a bug based on rolls of a die. Each number rolled corresponds to a certain body part on the bug, … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | Tagged cootie, hasbro, insects, lice, parasites, william schaper | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: insects

Heffalumps and Woozies

Wiggler Wednesday

Myriapod Mania

Nobody Ever Suspects the Butterfly

I Came in Like a Wrecking Crew

Insect Aside

Harum Scarab

What’s Bugging Me

The Age of Cooties

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