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Let’s Go Back to Your Childhood

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Nathan

There are some pretty major SPOILERS for all three of these movies, especially the first two. Skinamarink – It’s weird, because I wouldn’t necessarily say this was a good movie, but it was pretty effective in what it was trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Dreams, Families, Health, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atreyu, bastian balthasar bux, bimbo's initiation, childlike empress, gmork, gnomes, horror, lionel richie, michael ende, morla the ancient one, nome king, pica, return to oz, rockbiter, sharon lois and bram, skinamarink, small fry, swallow, the neverending story, the neverending story 2, turtles | Leave a comment

Teeny Tiny Bat

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Nathan

Halloween has come and gone, and the Great Pumpkin never showed up. Does no one care about sincerity in pumpkin patches anymore? It’s all this commercial farming, I’m sure. Anyway, here are my thoughts on one thing I watched for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dreams, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged art the clown, aunt em, billina, clowns, count dracula, disco, dorothy gale, emerald city, frankenstein, gump, horror, jack pumpkinhead, mombi, mummies, murder, nome king, ozma of oz, princess langwidere, return to oz, terrifier, the halloween that almost wasn't, the marvelous land of oz, the neverending story, the night dracula saved the world, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, time bandits, transylvania, uncle henry, wheelers, witches, wolfman, yellow brick road, zombies | 8 Comments

Whether Nero to Me or Far

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Nathan

An Excess of Enchantments, by Craig Shaw Gardner – The second book in the Ballad of Wuntvor trilogy, there just wasn’t as much to this one as to earlier volumes. Pretty much the whole thing was based around Mother Duck’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Rick Riordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, seanan mcguire, Trials of Apollo, Video Games, Wayward Children | Tagged a difficulty with dwarves, an excess of enchantment, apollo, art of mana, cats, curious cottabus, down among the sticks and bones, dragons, dwarves, every heart a doorway, falkor, final fantasy adventure, flammie, giants, kabumpo in oz, meg mccaffrey, neko, nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus, niccolo, puss in boots, python, secret of mana, the ballad of wuntvor, the neverending story, the tower of nero, troglodytes, vampires, wolves, wuntvor, zeus | 5 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

All I Can See Is Ouroboros

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Nathan

I’m sure that, even if you don’t know the name, you’ve seen the image of the snake biting its own tail. It’s used a lot as a symbol for infinity and the cycle of death and rebirth, and it’s even … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christianity, Egyptian, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion, They Might Be Giants | Tagged alchemy, angrboda, auryn, doctor dolittle, entropy, hugh lofting, infinity, jenny and johnny, jormungandr, loki, michael ende, midgard, ouroboros, palindromes, plato, pushmi-pullyu, ragnarok, serpents, snakes, sun, the neverending story, thor | 6 Comments

The Never-Interesting Story

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Nathan

The Neverending Story 2: The Next Chapter – I’m a pretty big fan of the original Neverending Story movie, but for some reason I didn’t watch the sequel when it came out, even when my siblings rented the video. Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atreyu, bastian balthasar bux, falkor, michael ende, the neverending story, the neverending story 2, xayide | 3 Comments

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