Tag Archives: trains

Magic Junction, What’s Your Function?

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Nathan

Final Fantasy VIII – I started playing this recently, and I’m not entirely sure why, other than that it’s the only one of the first nine games in the series that I hadn’t played at all. I’ve played 3, 5, … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Technology, Video Games | Tagged cyan garamonde, dogs, edea kramer, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy viii, grandmaster cid kramer, guardian forces, gunblade, irvine kinneas, quistis trepe, rinoa heartilly, sant' angelo di roma, seifer almasy, sephie tilmitt, squall leonhart, summoned monsters, trains, weapons, zell dincht | 1 Comment

Baskets Full of Easter Joy

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Nathan

Now that Easter is over, I suppose I should write about the relevant cartoons Beth and I watched this year. A Claymation Easter – This was on the same DVD as A Claymation Christmas, and I thought it would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Easter, Fairy Tales, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Stan Freberg, Technology, Television | Tagged a claymation christmas, a claymation easter, bears, berenstain bears, burl ives, casey kasem, chickens, claymation, danny kaye, daws butler, dr. spike rabbit, ducks, easter bunny, fairies, frosty the snowman, hallelujah jones, here comes peter cottontail, irving berlin, january q. irontail, mike berenstain, paas egg dye, paul frees, peter and the magic egg, peter paas, pigs, rabbits, rankin/bass, ray bolger, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus is comin' to town, sheep, stan and jan berenstain, the berenstain bears' easter surprise, the easter bunny is comin' to town, the first easter rabbit, the little engine that could, the velveteen rabbit, tobias tinwhiskers, trains, turtles, vincent price, will vinton | Leave a comment

Dinah, Won’t You Blow Your Horn?

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Nathan

I remember thinking when I was a kid that, in the song “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” Dinah was actually the train. I’m don’t know that I was entirely sure about it even then, as how could a train … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank Black/Black Francis, Music, Pixies, Prejudice, Television, They Might Be Giants | Tagged carmina princetonia, goodnight ladies, i've been working on the railroad, medleys, minstrel shows, old dan tucker, old joe, perry mason, racism, slavery, somebody's in the house with dinah, someone's in the kitchen with dinah, space (i believe in), trains, where your eyes don't go | 1 Comment

Hyrule Tech

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Nathan

For the most part, the Zelda series is set in a quasi-medieval world, the traditional setting of sword-and-sorcery fantasy. There are kings and princesses living in stone castles, and Link fights with swords and rides a horse. There are some … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Urban Legends, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, bombs, hookshot, hyrule, lasers, link, majora's mask, mario kart 8, master cycle, ocarina of time, phantom hourglass, shigeru miyamoto, spirit tracks, swords and sorcery, termina, the legend of zelda, the minish cap, time travel, trains, triforce | Leave a comment

All Aboard the Afterlife Express

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Nathan

One of the more interesting episodes in Final Fantasy VI, and incidentally an appropriate one for this time of year, is the Phantom Train. Sabin and Cyan (and maybe Shadow, if you recruited him and he hasn’t left yet) board … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Music, Technology, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged abraham lincoln, charon, chris de burgh, cyan garamonde, doomtrain, dragon quest ix, final fantasy vi, final fantasy viii, ghost trains, ghostbusters ii, ghosts, la gare de perpignan, phantom train, sabin rene figaro, salvador dali, satan, shadow, starflight express, trains | 4 Comments

I Don’t Want to Be First in Line to See Mrs. Train

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Nathan

Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett – Pratchett’s output might be slower since his diagnosis with Alzheimer’s, but he’s still writing. While I read a few of his other recent books, it’s still Discworld that I feel the most attachment to, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Discworld, Terry Pratchett | Tagged death, dick simnel, dwarves, goblins, harry king, men at arms, moist von lipwig, moving pictures, ned simnel, raising steam, reaper man, small gods, soul music, steam locomotives, thud!, trains | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: trains

Magic Junction, What’s Your Function?

Baskets Full of Easter Joy

Dinah, Won’t You Blow Your Horn?

Hyrule Tech

All Aboard the Afterlife Express

I Don’t Want to Be First in Line to See Mrs. Train

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