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All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Nathan

My Oz reading recently has been a bit slow, both because I’ve had other things to read and because I was a little embarrassed to reread my own “Prince Pompadore in Oz.” I did like it, but I didn’t want to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged charlene gretski, corinne morris, dagmar in oz, danica libutti, david rose, deadly desert, dolls, dorothy and the magic belt, doug morris, dr. angelina bean in oz, dr. nikidik, elves, emerald city, fleas, frogs, jeremy steadman, joy marie morris, lunarr and maureen in oz, mombi, noyzy boyz, oziana, ozma, peter morris, prince pompadore in oz, ruth morris, scoodlers, scrabble, snakes, susan saunders, the flying bus in oz, the lost king of oz, the road to oz | 4 Comments

You’re in Luck

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Nathan

I’d thought before about how the appellation “lucky” is applied to so many Oz characters. Well, only three that I can think of, but that’s still kind of weird. They were introduced by three different authors, however. The first is … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Authors, Characters, Comics, Discworld, Greek Mythology, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Religion, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged atreyu, carl barks, cereal, charles lindbergh, davy jones the wooden whale, deadpool, deadpool 2, domino, donald duck, dragons, falkor, fate, fortuna, fortune, fred meyer, fred otto, fuchur, fukuryu, giants, gladstone gander, interesting times, jenny jump, lady luck, leif erikson, leprechauns, leprechauns in oz, loxo the lucky, luck, luck dragon, luck o' the irish, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, lucky charms, lucky the leprechaun, margolotte, mark haas, michael ende, ojo, ojo in oz, oziana, prince pompadore, prince pompadore in oz, probability, psychopompus, rincewind, speedy in oz, the colour of magic, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the lady, the last hero, the neverending story, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wonder city of oz, tyche, x-force, zazie beetz, zim greenleaf of oz | 1 Comment

This Tornado Loves You

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Nathan

There was a bit of a theme in the early Oz books about Dorothy reaching fairyland by means of natural disasters. We all know about the cyclone, then there was a storm at sea in Ozma of Oz and an … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, betsy bobbin, cap'n bill, cyclones, dorothy and the wizard in oz, earthquakes, glinda, good witch of the north, hurricanes, jeremy steadman, laura jane musser, lurline, magic land, michael patrick hearn, natural disasters, nome king, onsi, oziana, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince pompadore in oz, sky island, storms, tales of magic land, the annotated wizard of oz, the gnome king of oz, the romance of the silver shoes, the scarecrow of oz, the sea fairies, the witch queen of oz, the wizard of the emerald city, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, time in oz, tompy terry, tornadoes, trot griffiths, weather, whirlpools, wicked witch of the east, yankee in oz | 5 Comments

Nothing But a Pack of Cards

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Nathan

I’ve written before about the origin of playing cards, including Tarot decks containing trump cards, as well as why I take issue with the adjustable rules of fortune telling. While I don’t know of any evidence connecting Tarot decks with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Playing Cards | Tagged arthur edward waite, david sexton, fortune telling, mark anthony masterson, pamela colman smith, prince pompadore in oz, rider-waite-smith tarot, tarot cards, tarot of marseilles, tarot of oz, the deadly desert around oz | 2 Comments

A Pretty Face and a Pompadore

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Nathan

The latest issue of Oziana is now available at Lulu. While I recommend the publication in general, this issue has one of my own stories in it, which I actually wrote back when I was in high school. Prince Pompadore … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dennis Anfuso, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged a. waller hastings, henry blossom, isabelle melançon, joe bongiorno, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, king pompus, mombi, oziana, pastoria, peg amy, polychrome, prince pompadore, prince pompadore in oz, pumperdink, the blue emperor of oz, the malevolent mannequin of oz, tin woodman | 5 Comments

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