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Rich, Tasty Courage

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Nathan

The Cowardly Lion of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I reread this one for its hundredth anniversary, and I also wrote an essay on some aspects of it for the OzCon International program book. I don’t want to repeat … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bob up, cannibalism, clowns, cowardly lion, doorways, emerald city, fiddlebow boat, fiddlestick forest, flyaboutabus, king mustafa of mudge, lions, little wizard stories of oz, mudge, notta bit more, patchwork girl, signs, the cowardly lion and the hungry tiger, the cowardly lion of oz, trees | Leave a comment

Mean Squirrels

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Nathan

I saw a squirrel in a graveyard last weekend. That’s not really that strange, as Green-Wood Cemetery is also an arboretum, so it gets a lot of wildlife. Still, a squirrel around gravestones made me think of the Skull Eaters … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Sonic the Hedgehog, Television, Video Games | Tagged chipmunks, conker the squirrel, conker's bad fur day, cyril, diddy kong racing, dixie kong, donald duck, donkey kong jungle beat, dr. ivo robotnik, dragon quest of the stars, final fantasy ix, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flurl the squirrel, flying squirrels, freedom fighters, green-wood cemetery, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, kaori tanaka, little wizard stories of oz, new super mario bros. u, nutkins, princess sally acorn, ray the flying squirrel, relm arrowny, sabin rene figaro, segasonic the hedgehog, skull eaters, squirrel king, squirrels, strago magus, the lavender bear of oz, the tale of squirrel nutkin, tiny kong | 4 Comments

I Like Birds

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh | 2 Comments

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Nathan

The program books at the Winkie Convention/OzCon International, edited by David Maxine, have some pretty good essays and other material. My first contribution appeared in this year’s, which also included Robert Pattrick’s story about the Tin Woodman and Tin Soldier … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill bored, branding in oz, bunbury, bunnybury, captain salt, captain salt in oz, crinklink, deadly desert, doorways, down town, ev, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, handy mandy, handy mandy in oz, illumi nation, kabumpo in oz, little dorothy and toto, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mr. yoop, nome kingdom, ozcon international, ozma, ozma of oz, patrick maund, pirates in oz, pokes, post man, roads, seeweegia, sign-here, signs, soup sea, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forgotten forest of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, wheelers | 2 Comments

Something to Crow About

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Nathan

I probably should start making a list of topics I’ve covered before. There are some broad topics I frequently return to, but when I end up with things like two separate but similar posts about the Egyptian scorpion goddess Serqet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Dick Martin, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, bandit jim crow, corvids, crows, cryptid conversations in a cornfield, dorothy and old king crow, dorothy haas, faleero, grampa, grampa in oz, his majesty the scarecrow of oz, jim crow, kaggi-karr, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, magpies, margaret berg, old king crow, oziana, ozma, racism, ravens, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scarecrow and the tin woodman, the wonderful wizard of oz, twinkle tales | 1 Comment

Sizing Up and Down

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Nathan

Characters changing in size is a pretty frequent occurrence in the Oz books. It’s sort of a transformation, but not entirely, as someone exposed to such magic keeps the same shape. At least, that seems to be the case for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged baffleburg, big wigs, blinkie, bucketheads in oz, bunnybury, doorways, dwindlebury, ev, frogman, giants, glegg, glinda, growing, jack breton, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo in oz, larry breton, little dorothy and toto, little wizard stories of oz, loxo the lucky, magic muffins, mombi, nome king, ozma, peg amy, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, polychrome, professor nowitall, professor wogglebug, rabbits, red jinn, red rogue, reddies, shrinking, skosh, snif the iffin, speedy in oz, terp the terrible, the cowardly lion of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the final fate of the frogman, the gardener's boy of oz, the giant garden of oz, the good witch of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tippetarius in oz, waddy, wag, witches, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf | 4 Comments

Messing Around in Boats

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Nathan

I made some puns on the term “ship” last week, and that made me realize I don’t believe I’ve written a post about boats in the Oz series. There don’t seem to be that many boats in Oz proper, seeing … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged blue moon, blunderoo, captain salt, captain salt in oz, crescent moon, dorothy of oz, fiddlebow boat, fiddlestick forest, howzatagin, johnny dooit, legends of oz: dorothy's return, little wizard stories of oz, merry go round in oz, mountain lass, octopus, patrick stewart, pirates, pirates in oz, polacky the plunderer, prince inga of pingaree, princess dorothy, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, sea lion, ships, shipwrecked in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the scarecrow and the tin woodman, tin woodman, tugg | 4 Comments

Invisible Touch

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Nathan

L. Frank Baum originally wanted The Emerald City of Oz to be his last Oz book, and to that end had Glinda cast a spell that made the whole land “invisible to all eyes but our own.” In explaining it … Continue reading →

Posted in Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a side view of the nonestic islands, button-bright, cap'n bill, captain salt in oz, davy jones, dorothy gale, glinda, heelers, invisible barrier, jenny jump, kiki aru, king of the fairy beavers, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, martha cornog, ork, oziana, ozma, professor wogglebug, rinkitink in oz, the careless kangaroo of oz, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz, timothy perper, trot griffiths, wizard of oz | 12 Comments

Mission: Imp Ossible

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Nathan

Growing up with various fantasy universes in books, video games, and other media, I frequently came across names of magical beings that weren’t always consistently defined. I’ve already discussed many of these, but as of yet I haven’t said a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Discworld, Eric Shanower, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Japanese, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, buddy holly, final fantasy vi, frank joslyn baum, garland, gau, goblins, ice imps, imp y celyn, imps, kappa, kimberly frodelius, little wizard stories of oz, milt youngren, ozma, ozma and the little wizard of oz, queen zixi of ix, ruby imp, soul music, sound imps, the enchanted island of yew, the ice king of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the three imps of oz, toto in oz, witches, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Like Father, Unlike Son

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Nathan

You may know that L. Frank Baum had four sons, so did any of them try to follow in the family business, if you consider writing Oz books to be the family business? Actually, yes, two of them did. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged big little books, dragons, frank joslyn baum, glasso the chemical man, glinda, kenneth gage baum, little wizard stories of oz, nome king, nomes, ozma and the little wizard of oz, ozma baum mantele, reilly and lee, rosine in oz, scarecrow, speedy, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the three imps of oz, the yellow knight of oz, whitman publishing, wizard of oz | 9 Comments

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