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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

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Nathan

The 1979 Oziana starts out by saying three stories “seems to be a typical number,” which is generally true, although the previous one had four. The cover illustration by Rob Roy MacVeigh shows the Scarecrow in a cornfield, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, geoffrey l. gould, glinda, gloma, greg gick, hank and the scarecrow of oz, hank the mule, horses, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, jim the cab-horse, journal of a journey, mary rakestraw, oziana, rob roy macveigh, robert pattrick, ruth berman, scarecrow, school of hard knocks, shaggy man, stephanie hawks, the deadly desert around oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the real critics, the wishing horse of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, zeb hugson | 2 Comments

Dude, Where’s My Scalawagon?

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Nathan

The Scalawagons of Oz, by John R. Neill – This book is eighty years old now, and it’s possibly the worst in the main series. It’s not one of those books that’s particularly embarrassing in retrospect, like Royal Book from twenty years … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aunt em, bell-snickle, betsy bobbin, flabber-gas, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mifkits, nota-bells, number nine, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, patchwork girl, revolt of the scalawagons, sawhorse, scalawagons, scarecrow, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, trot griffiths, uncle henry, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

Jump Into Cha-Oz

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Nathan

The Wonder City of Oz, by John R. Neill – After Ruth Plumly Thompson gave up writing Oz books, the publishers turned to the illustrator. I understand they’d been considering signing on Neill as the new writer before settling on … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aunt em, captain salt, david maxine, emerald city, jack pumpkinhead, jellia jamb, jenny jump, kabumpo, lobotomy, mari ness, number nine, omby amby, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, shoes, sir hokus of pokes, snufferbux, the wonder city of oz, uncle henry, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Get Out of Town

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Nathan

There are a lot of characters who come to live in Ozma’s palace, or sometimes elsewhere in or near the Emerald City. Is the city becoming overcrowded? Probably not, considering that it has the same population in L. Frank Baum’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, belfaygor, bob up, bourne, bucky jones, bungle the glass cat, captain fyter, carter green, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, davy jones, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, emerald city, frogman, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, kabumpo, kiki aru, lake quad, lucky bucky in oz, mount munch, much ado about kiki aru, nickadoodle, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, pumperdink, ruth waara, scarecrow, sean patrick duffley, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic cryptogram of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, toto, unc nunkie, uncle henry | Leave a comment

We Are Family

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Nathan

This post on the Merry Old Land of Oz Facebook group got me thinking about how most of the kids who visit Oz tend to be only children. Okay, to be fair, it’s possible they have siblings we don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Dick Martin, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged acinad, alexander volkov, allison mcbain, annie smith, aunt em, betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, cap'n bob, christmas in oz, clarence skillet, cory in oz, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, ellie smith, frank joslyn baum, fumaro, general riskitt, glinda, glinda of oz, greg hunter, guardian of the gates, handy mandy, how the wizard saved oz, jack pumpkinhead, jeff freedman, jellia jamb, joe weedles, kabina, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, margolotte, mombi, nine tiny piglets, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, omby amby, ozma, ozmapolitan, pastoria, patchwork girl, paul dana, pinny and gig, polychrome, prince philador, queen ann soforth, robin hess, salye soforth, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, shaggy man, tales of magic land, the enchanted gnome of oz, the giant horse of oz, the goat girls of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the mysterious pool of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the ozampolitan of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), three adepts, tik-tok of oz, time-travelling in oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

A Dictionary of Ozian Marriage

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Nathan

There was a discussion on marriages in Oz at this year’s OzCon International, partially inspired by how The Tin Woodman of Oz includes two seemingly bad marriages. Mrs. Yoop is glad her brutal, uncouth husband, who used to kick her … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Economics, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, abuse, aunt em, chopyft, down town, dr. pipt, flatheads, gayelette, glegg, grampa in oz, grand duke hoochafoo, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jo cone, kabumpo in oz, king cheeriobed, king dad, king evoldo, king fumbo, king gos, king randywell, king sizzeroo, king theodore iii, lazy quadling, lord googly-goo, margolotte, marriage, mogodore, mr. yoop, mrs. sew-and-sew, mrs. yoop, nimmie amee, nome king, ojo in oz, ozcon international, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pastoria, peer haps, peg amy, pigs, planetty, pon, prince inga of pingaree, prince pompadore, prince tatters, princess gloria, princess pajonia, professor grunter swyne, queen adora, queen cor, queen fi nance, queen isomere, queen kabebe, queen orin, quelala, realbad, rinkitink in oz, rora flathead, speedy in oz, squealina swyne, stratovania, strut of the strat, supreme dictator, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, uncle henry, weddings, wumbo | 2 Comments

Ozma Seeks Council

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Nathan

As a ruler, Ozma of Oz doesn’t always seem to do much delegating of responsibility. We occasionally see her rushing into dangerous situations on her own, apparently without much thought of what would happen to Oz if she didn’t come … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a zen master in oz, aunt em, betsy bobbin, billina, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, cap'n bill, council, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, foolish owl, frogman, glinda, glinda of oz, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, kass stone, nome king, ojo, ozma, parliament, patchwork girl, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, robin hess, sawhorse, shaggy man, snif the iffin, the ice king of oz, the martian invasion of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, toto and the cats of oz, trot griffiths, uncle henry, wise donkey, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Baum vs. the Bible

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Nathan

When we discussed John R. Neill’s Lucky Bucky in Oz on the old Nonestica mailing list, J.L. Bell mentioned how Bucky recalled the story of Jonah and the Whale when riding inside Davy Jones. Biblical allusions are uncommon in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Theosophy | Tagged american fairy tales, bible, cap'n bill, captain salt in oz, garden of eden, goliath, j. l. bell, jonah, king anko, king solomon, lucky bucky in oz, mother goose in prose, nebuchadnezzar, noah, noah's ark, paradise, policeman bluejay, queen zixi of ix, samson, satan, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the laughing hippopotamus, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the uplift of lucifer, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wond'rous wise man, twinkle and chubbins, twinkle tales, uncle henry, uplifters, zog | 6 Comments

Names for the Nameless

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Nathan

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, there aren’t that many characters with proper names. Even the ones who do have them tend not to have last names. The stage play gave Dorothy a last name and the Tin Woodman a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Fred Otto, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Peter Clarke, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, alexander volkov, aunt em, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, charles phipps, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, eric gjovaag, fairy beavers, frogman, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, henry blossom, hungry tiger, james howe, jim vander noot, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, karyl carlson, lin carter, mark haas, names, nine tiny piglets, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, shaggy man, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the road to oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, uncle henry, wam, winged monkeys, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

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Teeny Tiny Bat

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

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