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Someone in Oz
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
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Myriapod Mania
I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games
Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Picture by Susan Seddon Boulet One of the mythical Navajo beings who plays a part in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Race to the Sun is Spider Woman, and there is a mention of Peter Parker in this context. Spider-Woman in Marvel Comics is … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Aztec, Comics, hopi, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo
Tagged changing woman, creation, hero twins, jessica drew, kokyangwuit, kokyangwuti, marvel comics, peter parker, race to the sun, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, snake clan, snakes, spider grandmother, spider man, spider rock, spider woman, spider-man, spider-woman, spiders, sun, tawa, tiyo
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Baum’s Diamond Swan Song
In the past three years, I’d gotten into the habit of rereading the main Oz book of focus before OzCon, which was canceled this year. I still intended to read Glinda of Oz, but I’d been putting it off because … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology
Tagged bungle the glass cat, button-bright, dorothy gale, ervic, fairies, flatheads, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, great book of records, jack pumpkinhead, krumbic witch, lady aurex, magic belt, mrs. yoop, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, pigs, queen coo-ee-oh, reera the red, rora flathead, skeezers, sorcerers, spiders, supreme dictator of the flatheads, swans, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, three adepts at magic, witches, wizards, yookoohoos
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, Then Beat ‘Em
Toad Warriors – This episode seems to be a favorite, or at least it is with the guys who host the podcast on Hard Times. I can’t say I disagree, as I tend to like it when Toad takes a … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Donkey Kong, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games
Tagged aliens, bats, beezos, birdo, bob-ombs, captain clump, car land, clare carey, count koopula, david horowitz, do you believe in magic?, donkey kong jr., dracula, e.c. the extra creepy, fight back!, fire flower, frankenstein, goombas, grand koopa canyon, great balls of fire, harry blackstone jr, hercufleas, hercules, igor, jerry lee lewis, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, luigi mario, mad max, magic johnson, magician, mouser, mythis, parrots, pasta, patches, pirates, pirates of koopa, princess peach toadstool, ravioli, robots, spaghetti, spiders, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, super mario world, the fire of hercufleas, the marios fight back, the road warrior, thunder birdo, toad, toad warriors, trouters, turtlevania, tweeters, vampires, wereturtles, zombies
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Yookoo Who?
Yookoohoos of Oz, by Paul Dana – Yookoohoos, as stated in The Tin Woodman of Oz and confirmed in Glinda of Oz, are magic-workers who specialize in transformations. According to Paul’s earlier Oz books, most of the Yookoohoos in Oz … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors
Tagged button-bright, grandma natch, ojo, paul dana, reera the red, spiders, time travelers of oz, yookoohoos, yookoohoos of oz
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Magical Law Enforcement
As per The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Ozma has banned the practice of magic for everyone in the Land of Oz aside from Glinda and her student, the Wizard of Oz. It’s interesting that this doesn’t include the Good Witch … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized
Tagged dorothy gale, dr. pipt, faleero, fanny the weather witch, glinda, glinda of oz, gloma, good witch of the north, herku, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mooj, mrs. yoop, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, pumperdink, reera the red, royal timeline of oz, spiders, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the law of oz, the living house of oz, the lost princess of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, witches, wizard of oz, wumbo, yookoohoos
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You Will Be Assimilated
It’s become a cliché in the Oz series that the magical land is full of insular themed communities where the inhabitants either want to turn visitors into beings like them, or sometimes just keep them as slaves. In Ruth Plumly … Continue reading
Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized
Tagged benny, blankenburg, bookville, bunbury, cave city, chimneyville, china country, clockwise, crystal city, david perry, delves, dogs, double up, gapers, good children, headland, hummingbirds, icetown, jack pott, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, monday mountain, ojo, patch, patchwork girl, peter brown, play, pokes, preservatory, rith metic, round-abouties, scare city, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, spiders, stair way, suds, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tidy town, tin woodman, turn town, view-halloo, wyndups
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What’s Bugging Me
A Bug’s Life – I had seen Pixar’s second full-length animated feature before, but not until it was out on video. Beth, who was a fan of both Dave Foley and David Hyde Pierce, saw it a few times when … Continue reading
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