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Alice Through the Needle’s Eye: The Further Adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, by Gilbert Adair – I had first heard of this in an essay, which I think was about Oz. I didn’t think of looking for it until recently, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Dreams, Drugs, Games, Gender, Humor, Language, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Magnus Chase, Mathematics, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged 9 from the nine worlds, alice in puzzle-land, alice through the needle's eye, alice's adventures in wonderland, alligators, alphabet, alviss, baldur, charlotte's web, dr. possum, dragons, dwarves, e.b. white, flump, frigg, gilbert adair, grampus, greer fitting, howard roger garis, humpty dumpty, jack and jill, jenny thorne, logic, martin gardner, nidhogg, nurse jane fuzzy-wuzzy, pigs, puzzles, ragnarok, ratatoskr, rats, raymond smullyan, red queen, sir john tenniel, skillery scallery alligator, spiders, stephen king, the dark tower, the drawing of the three, thor, through the looking-glass, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's airship, uncle wiggily's automobile, uncle wiggily's fortune, valkyries, vanir, white queen |

We Need to Talk about Yevon

I have now finished with Final Fantasy X, and looked into the story a bit, as it is somewhat confusing. It’s an enjoyable game with some changes from earlier entries in the series, most notably that you can’t move around … Continue reading →

Posted in Breath of Fire, Buddhism, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Games, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Sports, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aeons, afterlife, airships, al bhed, amitabha buddha, auron, blitzball, breath of fire ii, death, dragon quest ii, farplane, fayth, final fantasy ix, final fantasy legend iii, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, grand maester yo mika, guado, jecht, kimhari ronso, maester seymour guado, pureland, rikku, ronso, secret of mana, shoopuf, sin, spira, summoned monsters, tidus, wakka, yu yevon, yuna, yurei, zanarkand |

Son of Sin

I’ve been playing a bit of Final Fantasy X as of late. I actually first started playing it on PC, but it crashed a lot, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the technical specs … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Sims, Sports, Technology, Television, Toys, Video Games | Tagged al bhed, auron, black mages, blitzball, dolls, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest monsters the dark prince, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy X, healie, healslime, jecht, john dimaggio, kimhari ronso, lulu, machina, mages, nadiria, nintendo switch, ochus, rikku, ronso, sin, spira, the sims 4, tidus, wakka, yuna, zanarkand |

Oregon Is Bad

Or at least it’s portrayed as such in one of the movies I saw in the past few days. Again, there are three here, and SPOILERS of varying severity for all three. The Strangers, Chapter 1 – I know I … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Food, Humor, Muppets, Music, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, animal, david arquette, disco, fozzie bear, home invasion, hulk hogan, jeffrey tambor, kermit the frog, miss piggy, muppet babies, muppet treasure island, muppets from space, pepe the king prawn, pornography, rizzo the rat, the great gonzo, the muppets' wizard of oz, the strangers, the strangers chapter 1, wizard of oz, x (2022) |

Coming Home to Roost

SPOILER WARNING! Also, watch out for rotten eggs. Marriage Story – I think the only thing I really knew about this movie before watching it was a picture of Adam Driver yelling, which became a meme template. But anyway, Driver plays … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Dreams, elvis presley, Families, Music, Names, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adam driver, cats, chanticleer, charles nelson reilly, chickens, colonel tom parker, divorce, dogs, don bluth, foxes, geoffrey chaucer, glen campbell, magpies, marriage, marriage story, mice, owls, phil harris, reynard the fox, robin hood, rock-a-doodle, scarlett johansson, the canterbury tales, weather |

You Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down

These are the movies we watched this weekend. There are SPOILERS for all three. Pontypool – The movie is named after the village in Ontario where it takes place, although I’m not sure how much of the actual place is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Dreams, Holidays, Language, Music, Television, The Flintstones, Valentine's Day, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged all dogs go to heaven, alligators, angels, burt reynolds, carface, charles nelson reilly, dogs, dom deluise, heaven, hell, judith barsi, lindsay ellis, pontypool, radio, salem witch trials, the autopsy of jane doe, viruses, witchcraft, zombies |

Me, I Want a Hula Hoop

A Chipmunk Christmas – From 1981, this was part of an effort by Ross Bagdasarian Jr., son of the late creator of the Chipmunks, to revive the property, a few years before the Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon series that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, Dreams, Families, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Names, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Plays, Relationships, Religion, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a chipmunk christmas, a wish for wings that work, alvin and the chipmunks, babes in toyland, berkeley breathed, bill the cat, bloom county, care bears, care bears nutcracker suite, clyde crashcup, dave seville, davey and goliath, drew barrymore, dustin hoffman, fred r. hamlin, georgie porgie, jack be nimble, jesus, julian mitchell, keanu reeves, kevin geeks out, leslie bricusse, lost horizon, mary mary quite contrary, moral orel, mrs. claus, nutcracker suite, old mother hubbard, opus the penguin, outland, pat morita, peter piper, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, robin williams, ross bagdasarian, ross bagdasarian jr., santa claus, silas barnaby, silent night deadly night, silent night deadly night part 2, sugar plum fairy, the alvin show, the best christmas ever, the karate kid, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), trolls |

This One’s for the Children

Here are some Christmas specials Beth and I have watched so far this year, as well as indications that she was way more attuned to pop culture in her childhood than I was. Pound Puppies: Happy Howlidays – Beth used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Christmas, Dreams, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, Toys | Tagged a beavis and butt-head christmas, a christmas carol, beavis and butt-head, black sabbath, bob geldof, cabbage patch kids, christmas in july, dogs, dolls, donnie wahlberg, dr. claw, dr. john, elves, fairies, george r.r. martin, glomer, happy howlidays, inspector gadget, inspector gadget saves christmas, it's a wonderful life, it's punky brewster, katrina stoneheart, kevin geeks out, leon redbone, matt frewer, maurice starr, max headroom, max headroom's giant christmas turkey, new kids on the block, new kids on the block christmas special, north pole, nutcracker suite, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, pound puppies, punky brewster, robin williams, santa claus, storks, the cabbage patch kids' first christmas, the twelve days of christmas, tina turner |

Haints and Saints

Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher – This novella plays on the Sleeping Beauty story, using the concept of a princess trapped in a tower due to a fairy’s curse. The focus is on the enchanter, a girl called Toadling who was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Celebrities, Christianity, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Families, Greek Mythology, Health, History, Humor, In Memoriam, incryptid, Magic, Medicine, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Religion, Roman, seanan mcguire, Television | Tagged alf landon, alice price-healy, and sweep up the wood, antimony price, buddha, centaurs, changelings, cryptozoology, death, dragons, fairies, gustave flaubert, homosexuality, jenny greenteeth, jonathan greenberg, lafacadio hearn, lamia, lawrence welk, mo rocca, mobituaries, nagas, nebuchadnezzar, new jersey turnpike, odilon redon, pieter bruegel the elder, podcasts, president herbert hoover, president john quincy adams, queen of sheba, satan, satyrs, seven deadly sins, sleeping beauty, spelunking through hell, st. anthony the great, t. kingfisher, the temptation of saint anthony, thomas paine, thomas price, thornhedge |

Big Bugs and Birds

Calculated Risks, by Seanan McGuire – This one is a direct follow-up to Imaginary Numbers, with Sarah Zellaby and her allies transported into another dimension, and their memories of her having been erased. She has to do the calculations to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Authors, Book Reviews, Dreams, Humor, incryptid, Korean, Magic, Mathematics, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Piers Anthony, Relationships, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Sexuality, They Might Be Giants, Xanth | Tagged antimony price, calculated risks, cheollima, fonda lee, ghost writer in the sky, gifted clans, graci kim, imaginary numbers, isis, johrlac, manticores, rabbits, rick riordan presents, rocs, sarah zellaby, singing the comic-con blues, sirens, the last fallen realm, untethered sky, verity price |