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Unico Is My Employer

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Nathan

SPOILERS for all three films. Scream VI – We saw this at the theater, even though Beth had only seen the first two movies in the series, and I’d only seen the first one. It’s not like that made it … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Greek Mythology, Magic, Mythology, Relationships, Roman, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anime, barbara goodson, blue meanies, cats, devils, ghostface, hello kitty, horror, manga, neve campbell, Power Rangers, powerpuff girls, psyche, puppets, sanrio, scream, scream vi, sphinx, the fantastic adventures of unico, trojan horse, unico, unico in the island of magic, unicorns, venus, witches, yellow submarine | Leave a comment

A Pound of Man’s Tin

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Nathan

I didn’t get a chance to write about the 1993 Oziana last week, so I’m doing that now. I quite like the cover this time, Bill Eubank’s version of Mount Rushmore with the big four characters, drawn in MGM style. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, William Shakespeare | Tagged bill eubank, chris sterling, chuck sabatos, clouds, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, everett avila, fairies, glinda, jack pumpkinhead, jubulut, margolotte, money, mount rushmore, nome king, oziana, ozma, peter schulenburg, polychrome, queen zixi of ix, robin olderman, scarecrow, shylock, sky island, smith and tinker, the merchant of oz, the merchant of venice, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the road to oz, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the silver jug, the tin castle of oz, tin woodman, unicorns, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Nathan

I had a few other things I wanted to write about, but since I found out Saturday was St. George’s Day, I thought he might be worth looking into. As someone who didn’t attend a church where saints were really … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Crusades, Diana Wynne Jones, Eastern Orthodox, England, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Stan Freberg, Tom Holt | Tagged dragons, edith nesbit, emperor diocletian, gordon r. dickson, hercules, kenneth grahame, king edward iii of england, medusa, order of the garter, ovid, paint your dragon, perseus, prince marvel, smaug, st. dragon and the george, st. george, st. george's day, st. patrick, st. theodore tiron, the deliverers of their country, the enchanted island of yew, the hobbit, the reluctant dragon, unicorns, witch week | Leave a comment

The More Real Than Real World Beyond the Real

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Nathan

Across the Green Grass Fields, by Seanan McGuire – Another book in the Wayward Children series, this one has a girl named Regan visit the Hooflands, a world of mythical hooved creatures, but before that deals with the treacherous nature … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Comics, Dreams, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Sexuality, Wayward Children | Tagged a cockeyed menagerie, across the green grass fields, andre breton, centaurs, fauns, holy grail, julien levy, kelpies, king arthur, marcel duchamp, max ernst, merlin, minotaur, nimue, once and future, paul eluard, perytons, rene magritte, salvador dali, sir lancelot du lac, surrealism, sword in the stars, t.s. sullivant, unicorns, walt kelly | Leave a comment

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Nathan

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aladdin, alibabble, baffleburg, bamboula, blufferroo, captain salt in oz, chick the cherub, chief chow chow, chief dipper, chief scarer, chief scorner, chief scrapper, chinda, dwarves, giants, gilbert and sullivan, grampa in oz, grand advizier, grand bozzywoz, grand chew chew, grand counter of the imperial spoons, hah hoh, handy mandy in oz, head booleywag, high coco-lorum, high qui-questioner, hippolorum, imperial persuader, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo in oz, kimbaloo, king cheeriobed, king rinkitink, king sizzeroo, lord high humpus, lord high this and that, lord high upper dupper, mogodore, nox the ox, octagon isle, ojo in oz, out keeper, ozma, pat the prime patter, patch, perhaps city, peter brown, pirates in oz, pokes, preservatory, prime moneyster, prime piecer, prime preserve, prime pumper, pumperdink, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, royal scribbler, samandra, sapphire city, sauce box, scare city, sevenanone, silver island, silver mountain, sky island, smerker, snorpus, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, supposyville, supposyville goes toboganning, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the horse and his boy, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mikado, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tighty, toddledy, town crier, town laugher, umbrella island, unicorners, unicorns, vizier | Leave a comment

Falling for the Fairy Fellowship

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve mentioned the fairyland on the other side of the world from Oz a few times, but since I’m planning on writing some fiction that takes place there, I might as well detail what we know about it. It first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Politics | Tagged ak, aristotle, astrology, constellations, dinosaurs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragonettes, dragons, emerald city mirror, empyrean plane, fairies, flora, forbidden tube, four guardians, gilbert sprague, great gulf, great jinjin, green dragon of atlantis, hiergargo, immortal longings of oz, immortals, jinxland, king of animals, king of forests, kirin, lurline, monokeros, moon, original dragon, paul dana, phoenix, plato, queen erma, skanderbeg, sublunar realm, the gardener's boy of oz, the law of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, tortoises, tubekins, unicorns, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz | 1 Comment

Laughing at Legends

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Nathan

Three more Tom Holt books this time: Grailblazers – I think this one is a clear improvement over the last few Holt books, showing the author honing his style. As usual, it focuses on one element of folklore, in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Tom Holt, Uncategorized | Tagged atlantis, faust, faust among equals, freyr, grailblazers, helen of troy, holy grail, jesus, king arthur, last supper, odds and gods, odin, osiris, pan, santa claus, simon magus, thor, unicorns | 2 Comments

Duck, Duck, Mouse

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Nathan

Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot and Lost in Lands of Long Ago, by Floyd Gottfredson – These are the fifth and sixth volumes of Fantagraphics’ reprints of the classic Mickey strips. I still haven’t read the third and fourth, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Popeye | Tagged carl barks, disney, donald duck, floyd gottfredson, gladstone gander, huey dewey and louie, j. wellington wimpy, lost in lands of long ago, mickey mouse, mickey mouse outwits the phantom blot, peg-leg pete, scrooge mcduck, trail of the unicorn, unicorns | 1 Comment

Dwarf Stars

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Nathan

As I indicated here, the modern concept of dwarfs seems to largely derive from the dark elves of Norse mythology, although they’ve diverged in modern fantasy and fairy tales. These creatures were said to dwell underground in the world of … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Fairy Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged an ozzy adventure, bill eubank, cowardly lion, dwarves, elves, king terribus of spor, nome king, nomes, ojo in oz, pat the prime patter, queen roganda, svartalfheim, the enchanted island of yew, the enchanted tree of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thor, unicorners, unicorns, whutter wee, wicked witch of the west | 2 Comments

Unicorn on the Cob

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Nathan

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle – I had previously seen the movie in Josh‘s room in college. I enjoyed it, but what I particularly remember are some stories people had about it. One of my classmates had seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Discworld, Terry Pratchett | Tagged captain cully, christopher lee, jeff bridges, king haggard, mia farrow, peter s. beagle, red bull, rincewind, schmendrick, the last unicorn, unicorns | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: unicorns

Unico Is My Employer

A Pound of Man’s Tin

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

The More Real Than Real World Beyond the Real

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Falling for the Fairy Fellowship

Laughing at Legends

Duck, Duck, Mouse

Dwarf Stars

Unicorn on the Cob

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