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Crafts and Cons

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Nathan

As I said last week, I’ve already written about the 2003 Oziana across two posts back when it was new, and I still agree with what I wrote. I didn’t go into much detail, though, so I’ll examine it a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Characters, Dick Martin, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bert lahr, cats, crafton, crescent moon, daniel gobble, derek designer, dorothy gale, dr. byz zaar in oz, dr. pipt, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, gabriel gale, gregory maguire, jenny jump, jimm phillips, judy lahr, king randywell, lee theriot, luciano vecchio, margaret hamilton, maria baker, michael patrick hearn, nonestica, omby amby, owls, oz quest, oziana, ozma, powder of life, ray bolger, scalawagons, scott meserve, shaggy man, stephen schwartz, the annotated wizard of oz, the bashful baker of oz, the purple prince of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), tik-tok, tik-tok's transformation, victoria calamito, voyage of the crescent moon, wicked, yip harburg | 15 Comments

Batoose, Batoose!

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Nathan

It’s on to the 1973 Oziana, and I feel like this one is somewhat lacking in unique content, as some of it was published elsewhere. That said, these publications were quite limited and I don’t have copies, so that’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Fred Otto, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry | Tagged bible, bill eubank, fairies, george van buren, gospel of luke, gregory maguire, harry mongold, ix, kevin harris, latin, lulea, oziad, oziana, ozma, ozma sees herself, paradox in oz, sawhorse, tempus temporis in terra ozis, the improbable forest, the patchwork girl of oz, the sawhorse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, time travel, tippetarius, wicked, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Tips for Up and Coming Fairy Princesses

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Nathan

I listened to the first two seasons of The Chronicles of Oz about a year and a half ago, and the third season is up now. Each one is based on a book, so this one is Ozma of Oz. … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays | Tagged aron toman, azkadellia, billina, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, ev, fairies, gregory maguire, grommetik, hungry tiger, magic belt, nanda, nome king, ozma, ozma of oz, princess langwidere, return to oz, robots, scarecrow, silver shoes, sir dashemoff daily, tales from the wizard of oz, the chronicles of oz, tik-tok, tin man, tin woodman, tippetarius, tryxie tryfle, wicked, wicked witch of the west | Leave a comment

Men Are Pigs

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Nathan

Circe, by Madeline Miller – When I heard about this book, I knew I should probably read it, but it took me a while to get a digital copy from the library. It’s a reinterpretation of the story of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships | Tagged aiaia, circe, daedalus, glaucos, gregory maguire, helios, hermes, madeline miller, minotaur, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, penelope, perse, prometheus, telegonus, telegony, telemachus, wicked, witches | 2 Comments

Playing with the Queen of Hearts

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Nathan

Heartless, by Marissa Meyer – The author of the Lunar Chronicles turns her attention to the work of Lewis Carroll, presenting the back story of the infamous Queen of Hearts. The book explains why the Mad Hatter and March Hare … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Nursery Rhymes | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, duchess of wonderland, gregory maguire, heartless, jabberwock, king of hearts, mad hatter, marissa meyer, mock turtle, peter peter pumpkin eater, queen of hearts, red queen, through the looking-glass, white queen, white rabbit, wicked | 2 Comments

We Don’t Need No Education

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Nathan

As I’ve said before, the Oz books don’t say a whole lot on education in the fairyland. When the Wogglebug, who becomes educated by listening to the lectures at a country schoolhouse, is given the post of Public Educator by … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Education, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexample, college of art and athletic perfection, dr. pipt, education pills, herby the medicine man, mixed magic makes misery, mombi, ozma, ozma of oz, professor grunter swyne, professor nowitall, professor wogglebug, randy hoffman, ruggedo and the school of magic, the emerald city of oz, the magic tapestry of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tippetarius in oz, wicked, wise donkey, witches, wizard of oz, wumbo | Leave a comment

Name That Witch

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Nathan

This picture spawned some conversation on Facebook about the name of the Wicked Witch of the West. As you probably know, the name Elphaba is from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, and was derived from that of L. Frank Baum. The Wicked … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Edward Einhorn, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a foolish fable from oz, alexander volkov, darrell spradlyn, eric gjovaag, gregory maguire, jared davis, joe bongiorno, magic land, mombi, oz: the great and powerful, sherwood smith, sinister gases in oz, the emerald wand of oz, the living house of oz, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1939), wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, witches of the west | 1 Comment

The Dark Side of Oz

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Nathan

I think there’s a definite temptation for people, when faced with something child-friendly and innocent, to want to find something dark and disturbing beneath the surface. That could be part of why it seems popular to want to make dark … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged gregory maguire, princess langwidere, return to oz, scoodlers, wheelers, wicked | 4 Comments

A Whiz of a Wiz

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Nathan

For my thousandth post on this blog, I’m going to write about…the Wizard of Oz. Big surprise, huh? The majority of the back story for the Wizard of Oz is provided in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, following up … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged dorothy and the wizard in oz, glinda, mombi, the wonderful wizard of oz, wicked, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Witch-ay Woman

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Nathan

While the Wicked Witch of the West is a somewhat significant character in the Oz books, it’s really the MGM movie that thrust her into super-stardom. It’s Margaret Hamilton in green makeup and black clothes who makes lists of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged cowardly lion, dorothy gale, gillikins, golden cap, gregory maguire, john r. neill, l. frank baum, mgm, mombi, munchkins, nome king, rachel cosgrove payes, ruth plumly thompson, singra, the wicked witch of oz, the wizard of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, winkies | 6 Comments

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