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Someone in Oz

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve been reading through the Oziana issues that I already reviewed pretty quickly, and I can’t think of much to add beyond what I’ve already said. I will mention that editor John L. Bell thought of the 2005 one as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Book Reviews, Characters, David Tai, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged alejandro garcia, always look a gift goat in the mouth, anna-maria cool, arianna brown, executive decisions, fiddle's revenge, frogman, frogs, gabriel gale, general guph, glinda, griffins, gump, hammer-heads, horners, invisible fence, j. l. bell, jack and larry brenton, jeremy fisher, john fricke, kalidahs, king anko, li-mon-eags, michael patrick hearn, mombi, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rak, red jinn, spiders, the art of oz, the axman's arm, the bashful baker of oz, the bashful baker's honeymoon, the emerald city of oz, the ork in oz, the red desert of oz, the royal explorers of oz, thy fearful symmetry, voyage of the crescent moon, wheelers | 1 Comment

Etymology in Oz

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Nathan

I bought a few old Baum Bugle issues at OzCon in Portland, and they have some interesting content. There was apparently a sometime recurring feature called “Footnotes to Oz” that explained names in the Oz series, written by Jerry Tobias. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Etymology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bell-snickle, beowulf, betsy bobbin, boolooroo, christopher gise, corabia, dorothy and the wizard in oz, footnotes to oz, fred meyer, gabooches, gilbert and sullivan, gillikins, isle of phreex, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jerry tobias, karwan bashi, mandrakes, mangaboos, martin gardner, menankypoo, michael patrick hearn, mogodore, munchkins, nikobo, nikobob, oogaboo, orcs, orks, para bruin, pastoria, pingaree, quiberon, rak, rocs, salye soforth, samandra, tarara, tattypoo, the baum bugle, the mikado, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer | 4 Comments

Monsters’ Ball

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Nathan

I figured an appropriate Ozzy topic for this time of year would be the ferocious monsters that live there. I’ve already covered a few of them, including the Kalidahs, the Hip-po-gy-raf, and Quiberon. Here are some of the others that … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged captain salt in oz, chiss, choggenmugger, combineroceros, dennis anfuso, dick martin, dorothy gale, gigaboo, goblins, guardian of the muffin tree, john r. neill, kabumpo, king anko, king ato, king randywell, l. frank baum, mo, mombi, monsters, nikobob, ojo, ojo in oz, oogaboo, pingaree, prince jollikin, princess melody, private jo files, purple dragon, rachel cosgrove payes, rak, realbad, red jinn, regos, rinkitink in oz, roc, scarecrow, sea serpent, snoctorotomus, snufferbux, the astonishing tail of the gump of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the oz-wonderland war, the ozmapolitan of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tyrannicus terrificus, weenix | 12 Comments

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