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Changing in the Telling

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Nathan

The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire – This book deals with the Roane, the aquatic children of the Luidaeg who had been mostly killed off centuries earlier, their skins then being used to create Selkies. The sea-witch vows to revive … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, German, History, Islam, Magic, marissa meyer, Middle Ages, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Urban Legends, Welsh | Tagged apocrypals, archbishop whateley, cait sith, cats, ceil baring-gould, curious myths of the middle ages, cursed, dogs, erlking, fairies, garden of eden, gellert, gilded, jesus, luidaeg, merrows, napoleon bonaparte, paradise, perchta, pope joan, prester john, prince llewellyn, roane, rumplestiltskin, sabine baring-gould, selkies, seven sleepers of ephesus, sherlock holmes, the annotated mother goose, the unkindest tide, titania, wandering jew, william stuart baring-gould, william tell | Leave a comment

The South Will Oz Again

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Nathan

As mentioned in the introduction, the cover picture of the 1980 Oziana, as drawn by Albert Chronic, references a passage in Captain Salt in Oz, specifically when the Captain says that the Wizard of Oz is building airships that would … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Food, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, agga-groo, albert chronic, appearance, captain salt in oz, colonel cotton in oz, cowardly lion, dixie, edith hollister, g. mohrman, glegg, grampa in oz, great detective, how the cowardly lion met the hungry tiger, hungry tiger, judy bieber, kabumpo in oz, king gugu, miss cuttenclip, ozamaland, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, question box, ragbad, ragej, railroads, samandra, sherlock holmes, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tim hollis, toto | 5 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

Standing Tall on the Wizard’s Dreams

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Nathan

The 1976 Oziana is the first with Jay Delkin as editor. The cover has an Oz alphabet designed by Bill Eubank. I know The Baum Bugle used these to start articles for a while, and at the time I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Celebrities, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged bee zum, bill eubank, books of wonder, bronson pinchot, charles schulz, david hulan, donald abbott, dorothy gale, electricity, emerald city, golden cap, great detective, how the wizard came to oz, how the wizard came to oz and what he did there, i-wish-i-was, jack pumpkinhead, jay delkin, joe bongiorno, jojee, linus van pelt, magic flower, michael patrick hearn, nathan flower, nomes, ojo, ojo in oz, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, ozmonga, peanuts, perfect strangers, richard paul smyers, sawhorse, scarecrow, sherlock holmes, snoopy, the adventure of the cat that did not meow in the night, the annotated wizard of oz, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gauds of oz, the lost sawhorse, the magic of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the road to oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, x. pando | 1 Comment

Pearls Before Nomes

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Nathan

I was thinking about doing an Oziana reread, as I know there were aspects of some of the stories I wanted to explore further. Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, and the International Wizard of Oz Club … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bill eubank, button-bright of oz, cowardly lion, crinklink, dr. watson, eric gjovaag, foxville, giants, harry mcnaught, harry mongold, heartless: the story of the tin man, hungry tiger, international wizard of oz club, joe bongiorno, johnny dooit, kaliko, lions, little golden books, nome king, nomes, owls, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, royal timeline of oz, ruth berman, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes in oz, sir arthur conan doyle, sir hokus of pokes, steampunk, the cowardly lion changes his name, the patchwork girl and the giant, the red desert of oz, the road to oz, the sawhorse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok takes a trip, tin woodman, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

I Regret That I Have But One Stomach to Give for Your Country

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Nathan

This is the fifth in my ongoing series of Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews. Speaking of which, there were some reviews from about twenty years ago that I remember reading but couldn’t find recently, and I found out … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Comics, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Toys, Video Games | Tagged albatosses, baby park, block city, bob-ombs, do you princess toadstool take this koopa, dogs, donna douglas, fountain of youth, gary schwartz, herlock solmes, king bowser koopa, kingdom of youth, koopa troopas, lost dog, luigi mario, mario hillbillies, mario kart, mario mario, mario party advance, marty allen, mayor fettuccine, mouser, ostros, pam matteson, pasta, pasta land, patrick dempsey, pizza, plumbers of the year, princess peach toadstool, sherlock holmes, shroomlock, sir arthur conan doyle, spaghetti, super mario adventures, super mario bros., super mario odyssey, super paper mario, super plant, the adventures of sherlock mario, the great mission to rescue princess peach, the pied koopa, three men and a baby, toad, toads, triclyde, two plumbers and a baby | 3 Comments

The Gang’s All Here

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Nathan

Picture by Mark Spears I noticed on Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Timeline of Oz that he’s added several fictional works not directly related to Oz or L. Frank Baum, crediting some of them to Win Scott Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe chronology. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Greek Mythology, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Roman, Star Trek | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, aeneas, aeneid, anachronisms, conan the barbarian, count dracula, crossovers, dc comics, doc savage, doc savage his apocalyptic life, dorothy gale, edgar rice burroughs, great detective, h.p. lovecraft, henry w. walston, joe bongiorno, john l. nanovic, lester dent, marvel comics, oziana, philip jose farmer, robert e. howard, royal timeline of oz, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, spock, tarzan, tarzan alive, the undiscovered country, thor, time travel, trojan war, virgil, win scott eckert, wold cottage meteorite, wold newton family, wold newton universe | 4 Comments

Canon Fodder

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Nathan

I didn’t have the chance to write much last week, which means I didn’t write anything about Mario on Thursday, which is semi-officially Mario Day because “Mar 10” looks like “Mario.” Of course, that only works if you write the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Harry Potter, L. Frank Baum, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Star Trek, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged canon, chewbacca, j.k. rowling, mario kart, princess peach toadstool, sherlock holmes, shigeru miyamoto, star wars holiday special, super mario bros. movie, toad, yoshi's island | 12 Comments

Literary Logic

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Nathan

I came across this article on how Spock and Sherlock Holmes aren’t really as rational as they pretend to be, and other characters often acknowledge them as being. Spock applies logic to situations where it doesn’t really apply, and doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Star Trek, Television | Tagged dave barry, flaws, fred clark, gulliver's travels, houyhnhms, inductive reasoning, jonathan swift, left behind, logic, perry mason, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, spock, vulcans | Leave a comment

Serendipity, My Dear Watson

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Nathan

The daily e-mail I get from Wikipedia mentioned about a week ago that the word “serendipity” was first used in a letter Horace Walpole dated 28 January 1754. The word has come to signify unintended good fortune, but where did … Continue reading →

Posted in Etymology, Fairy Tales, History, Iran, Television | Tagged augste dupin, camels, edgar allan poe, horace walpole, inductive reasoning, king baram v of persia, serendipity, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, sri lanka, the murders in the rue morgue, the three princes of serendip, voltaire, zadig | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: sherlock holmes

Changing in the Telling

The South Will Oz Again

Coping with Immortality

Standing Tall on the Wizard’s Dreams

Pearls Before Nomes

I Regret That I Have But One Stomach to Give for Your Country

The Gang’s All Here

Canon Fodder

Literary Logic

Serendipity, My Dear Watson

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