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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 | 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

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

Drawn Into Divine Drama

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve had some of these book reviews already written for a while, and I’ve finished a few more books, so I think it’s time to put the finishing touches on this post. City of the Plague God, by Sarwat Chadda … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Families, French, Hinduism, History, Holy Roman Empire, Humor, Islam, Magic, Malaysian, Monsters, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Semitic, William Shakespeare | Tagged aru shah, aru shah and the city of gold, brynne rao, carlos hernandez, catherine m. jones, charlemagne, city of the plague god, cows, demons, ereshkigal, fairies, giants, gilgamesh, goloka, huon of bordeaux, ishtar, julius caesar, kasusu, king arthur, krishna, kubera, mahabharata, morgan le fay, muhammad, nergal, oberon, pandavas, rape, ravana, rick riordan presents, sal and gabi, sarwat chadda, sikander aziz, the order of the pure moon reflected in water, william w. kibler, zen cho | 4 Comments

I’m Going to Lowryland!

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Nathan

Friends, has this ever happened to you? You finish a book but don’t write about it right away, because you can’t think of that much to say. Then you finish several others, but don’t have the chance to write, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, incryptid, Islam, Language, Magic, marissa meyer, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, seanan mcguire, Sexuality | Tagged a wizard in rhyme, aliens, amusement parks, antimony price, arachne, archenemies, christina rossetti, christopher stasheff, cryptozoology, goblin market, jinn, julius caesar, lowryland, metamorphoseon libri, metamorphoses, michael lowry, my son the wizard, ovid, pyramus, renegades, spanglish, super extra grande, superheroes, thisbe, tricks for free, trojan war, yoss | 2 Comments

Britain’s Brutal Beginning

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Nathan

At one point in history, every nation apparently wanted to have origins tied to Troy. I suppose they wanted to have a link to the classics, but for some reason preferred the defeated Trojans to the victorious Greeks. Hey, I … Continue reading →

Posted in British, Bronze Age, England, Greek Mythology, History, Mythology, Roman | Tagged aeneas, albion, brutus, brutus of britain, brutus stone, diana, eli, geoffrey of monmouth, giants, hercules, historia britonum, historia regum britanniae, imogen, julius caesar, king arthur, king pandrasus, london stone, lucius junius brutus, nennius, neptune, reverend richard williams morgan, stonehenge, trojan war, troy, urnfield culture | 6 Comments

The Gods of Gaul

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Nathan

Beltane, the Celtic festival that we now typically call May Day, was likely named after Belenos, a solar deity worshipped by the Celts and Gauls. Not much is known about him, but he was well represented and probably very popular. … Continue reading →

Posted in Celtic, Comics, Mythology | Tagged albert uderzo, apollo, asterix, belenos, belisama, gaul, julius caesar, mercury, rene goscinny, toutatis | Leave a comment

Dice Dice Baby

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Nathan

While some historical games of chance have been played with all kinds of marked throwable objects, dice as we know them have been around for centuries. Millennia, even. The oldest known dice were found at an archaeological site in modern-day … Continue reading →

Posted in Dice, Discworld, Games, History, Iran, Roman Empire, Scandinavia, Terry Pratchett | Tagged alea iacta est, alexander the great, board and table games from many civilizations, bronze age, craps, dice, gambling, gordian knot, hazard, hising, julius caesar, king olaf of norway, king olaf of sweden, r.c. bell, saturnalia, the last hero, yahtzee | 4 Comments

Merlin Makes It Magic

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Nathan

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s long been fascinated by the character of Merlin, the wizard who’s appeared in various media as everything from a vat-dyed villain to a kindly old man. I’d have to say my favorite … Continue reading →

Posted in British, History, Mythology, United Kingdom | Tagged ambrosius aurelianus, demons, geoffrey of monmouth, gorlois of cornwall, igraine, julius caesar, king arthur, king uther pendragon, king vortigern, merlin, merlinus, merlyn, myrddin wyllt, nimue, stonehenge, t.h. white, the once and future king, the sword in the stone | 26 Comments

Not Built in a Day

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Nathan

Since the date of our New Year dates back to the Romans, what better to write about today than the myths surrounding the founding of Rome? Of course, the year didn’t start on the first of January at that point. … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, History, Mythology, Roman | Tagged acca larentia, achises, aeneas, aeneid, alba longa, amulius, aphrodite, ares, ascanius, brutus of britain, creusa, dardania, faustulus, homer, iliad, julius caesar, latinus, lavinia, lupa, mars, moses, numitor, odyssey, remus, rhea silvia, roman senate, rome, romulus, sargon, trojan war, troy, venus, vestal virgins, virgil | 9 Comments

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Put a Zork in It

Coping with Immortality

Drawn Into Divine Drama

I’m Going to Lowryland!

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Not Built in a Day

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