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The Unreal World

I’d seen this map, created by Dan Meth, a few times before. It just showed up on Tumblr, and I love all the commentary it’s generated. I appreciate that Meth included places from television, movies, and video games (well, one … Continue reading →

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Some Say It’s True, and Some Say It’s a Fable

Breverton’s Phantasmagoria: A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends, by Terry Breverton – This is a collection of myths and legends, some ancient and others pretty recent. They include people, places, artifacts, and both mythical animals and weird beliefs about … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Greek Mythology, Hellenistic Greece, Historical Personages, History, Humor, Jonathan Swift, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Roman, Sesame Street, Television, William Shakespeare | Tagged a link to the past, aesop, ants, bible, breverton's phantasmagoria, cats, chip zdarsky, cranes, demetrius of phalerum, dogs, donkeys, flash thompson, foxes, frogs, gods of pegana, gulliver's travels, hera, hermes, herodotus, in the land of time, in the land of time and other fantasy tales, iron man, jack of hearts, jen again, jeremiah, jorkens, juno, jupiter, lilliput, lions, lord dunsany, luca maresca, mark bagley, mars, mercury, mice, momus, monkeys, peter parker, pliny the elder, poseidon, rainbow rowell, roge antonio, she-hulk, sheep, spider-man, spider-man life story, superheroes, terry breverton, the complete fables, the farmer and the cranes, the frogs asking for a king, the mountain in labor, the tortoise and the hare, the wolf and the lamb, vietnam war, wolves, zeus |

Morbid and Marvelous

The Chickens of Atlantis and Other Foul and Filthy Fiends, by Robert Rankin – This is the fourth, and presumably the last, book in Rankin’s series of novels taking place in a steampunk Victorian England where War of the Worlds … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Education, Evolution, Fairy Tales, Humor, Jonathan Swift, Monsters, Philosophy, Poetry, Prejudice, Religion, Robert Rankin, Science | Tagged 2010 odyssey two, aleister crowley, arthur c. clarke, bible, charles kingsley, europa, fairies, gulliver's travels, h.g. wells, h.p. lovecraft, jupiter, morality, richard harris barham, satire, the chickens of atlantis and other foul and filthy fiends, the house on the borderland, the ingoldsby legends, the water-babies, thomas ingoldsby, war of the worlds, william hope hodgson, winston churchill |

Magic Castles in the Air

Castle in the Sky – Another Studio Ghibli film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, this one is based on the idea of the lost civilization possessing extraordinary technology. In this case, the society is the flying island of Laputa, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Jonathan Swift, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anime, castle in the sky, gulliver's travels, hayao miyazaki, laputa, mark hamill, studio ghibli, tenku no shiro rapyuta |

Lands of Logic

We all know that Gulliver’s Travels is both an adventure story and a satire, but one thing that seems to confuse critics is how much we’re supposed to read into Gulliver’s worship of the Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms are sentient horses … Continue reading →