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Dungeons, Drive-Ins, and Dives

I’ve finished a few more books recently, although it feels like I haven’t been reading quite as much as usual. It doesn’t help that my Kindle has gone missing, and I don’t know whether I lost it inside or outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Food, Games, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names | Tagged autism, delicious in dungeon, demons, dragons, dungeon meshi, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, edgar allan poe, fillory, gnomes, golems, hierophantasy, hollow earth, kyle james, laios touden, manga, mason algiers reynolds, neitherlands, racism, reynard the fox, rudy rucker, ryoko kui, senshi, slavery, south pole, taylor engel, tekelili, teletubbies, the hollow earth, the little mermaid, the magician king, the magicians, the narrative of arthur gordon pym, the voyage of the dawn treader |

You Fight Like a Dairy Farmer

The Secret of Monkey Island – This seems to be one of the better remembered LucasArts adventure games. I’ve seen its jokes referenced online, as well as in later games. But I hadn’t played it until this week, and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Food, Humor, lucasarts, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Names, Relationships, Sierra, Star Trek, Technology, Video Games | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, alien, aliens, cannibalism, captain jean-luc picard, captain kielbasa, captain syrup, day of the tentacle, deepship 86, elmo pug, ghosts, governor elaine marley, guybrush threepwood, herman toothrot, lechuck, melee island, monkey island, monkeys, pirates, quest for glory, rob paulsen, roger jackson, roger wilco, roger wilco in the spinal frontier, space quest, space quest 6, space quest collection, space quest iii, space quest v, stellar santiago, stooge fighter 3, the secret of monkey island, the spinal frontier, the three stooges, wriggley |

Blessed Are the Billionaires

I’ve pretty much only been writing about media I’ve consumed as of late, and I kind of want to mix it up a bit, but I’m not entirely sure how. I keep wanting to write a political post, but I … Continue reading →

Posted in Calvinism, Capitalism, Christianity, Current Events, Economics, Food, Health, Politics, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged donald trump, eugenics, free will, hierarchy, immigration, max weber, predestination, protestant work ethic, racism, robert f. kennedy jr., sexism, suffering, vaccination, work |

Owlementary, My Dear Graham

Here’s a look at some more old adventure games, although they were new to me. Planetfall – This is part of the Zork collection that I bought on Steam, even though I don’t know that it’s part of the Zork … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, infocom, Language, Magic, Music, Names, Oz, Sierra, Technology, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh, Zelda | Tagged absence makes the heart go yonder, ali baba and the forty thieves, ants, arabian nights, bedistor, bees, blathers, cats, cedric the owl, daventry, floyd the robot, frogs, fromitz board, hagatha, harlin, homer b. hunter, kaepora gaebora, king graham, king's quest, king's quest collection, king's quest ii, king's quest iii, king's quest v, lions, mordack, ocarina of time, owls, parrots, planetfall, prince alexander, princess priscilla, rats, robots, serenia, snakes, stellar patrol, the sword in the stone, valanice, wiser the owl, wizard and the princess, wizards, zork |

There’s Glory for You

Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero – Another Sierra adventure series, started in 1989, retains a lot of the same qualities as the King’s and Space Quest games, but with some added role-playing elements. Primarily, this … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Comics, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Russian, Sierra, Video Games, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged abdulla doo, alligators, antwerp, baba yaga, baron stefan von spielburg, bigfoot, chickens, conroy bumpus, cupid, dwarves, fairies, frog rock, frogs, genesta, ghosts, graeae, king graham, king's quest, king's quest iv, lolotte, pan, pandora, princess rosella, purple saurus, quest for glory, sam and max, sam and max freelance police, sam and max hit the road, sasquatch, saurus, snow white, so you want to be a hero, space quest, spielburg, steve purcell, stuckey's, the frog prince, the perils of rosella, trolls, two guys from andromeda, unicorns, whales, witches, wizards |

Woman, What Have You Done with the King?

The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I first read this in junior high, along with many of the other post-Baum Oz books. Here are my thoughts on my most recent reread, and it does include SPOILERS. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Food, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged back woods, benny, bill the weather-cock, blankenburg, cats, catty corners, dorothy gale, elephants, fairies, geese, glinda, grampa in oz, humpy the dummy, kabumpo, kimbaloo, lurline, magic picture, mombi, ozma, pajuka, pastoria, professor wogglebug, scooters, snip the button boy, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, witches, wizard of oz |

Space Sanitation

Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon – I remember seeing someone play this game back when it must have been pretty new, although not that much of it. I remember Roger Wilco could put a ladder in his pocket, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Corporations, Final Fantasy, Food, Humor, Music, Names, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged aluminum mallard, arnoid, arnold schwarzenegger, astro chicken, bad dudes, black holes, chicken reel, elmo pug, ken williams, mark crowe, monolith burger, pestulon, phleebhut, robots, roger wilco, scott murphy, scumsoft, space quest, space quest collection, space quest iii, the pirates of pestulon, the terminator, two guys from andromeda |

Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good

SPOILERS for one TV show and two movies. Curb Your Enthusiasm – We started watching this some years ago, then didn’t for a while for whatever reason, and in that time they made some new seasons. It was also during … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Celebrities, Food, Humor, Music, Relationships, Television, Tom Holt, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bob einstein, cheryl hines, curb your enthusiasm, everything everywhere all at once, geoffrey rush, george costanza, jamie lee curtis, jeff garlin, jerry seinfeld, john lithgow, kung fu, larry david, lori loughlin, martial arts, michael richards, michelle yeoh, puppets, raccoons, richard lewis, salman rushdie, seinfeld, sylvester and the magic pebble, the producers, the rule of jenny pen, vince vaughn, william steig, youspace |

Dog and Pony Shows

Here are my thoughts on three movies and three television shows, with SPOILERS for all of them. Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma’s campy 1974 rock musical is mostly a take on The Phantom of the Opera, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Food, Gender, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a new hope, adrienne barbeau, allan sherman, augie doggie, bail organa, barney rubble, boo boo bear, brian de palma, captain caveman, cindy bear, danny devito, darth vader, doggie daddy, faust, fred flintstone, goober and the ghost chasers, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, huckleberry hound, jabberjaw, james earl jones, jamie lee curtis, janet leigh, jellystone, jerry springer, jerry springer fights camera action, jessica harper, John Carpenter, jonny quest, loopy de loop, magilla gorilla, my little pony, my little pony the movie, obi-wan kenobi, oprah winfrey, peter potamus, phantom of the paradise, princess leia, quick draw mcgraw, raspberry rover, richard dominick, satan, scooby-doo, shazzan, smooze, snagglepuss, solo a star wars story, the fog, the hillbilly bears, the phantom of the opera, the picture of dorian gray, tom atkins, tony randall, top cat, touche turtle, vivien lyra blair, wally gator, william finley, wilma flintstone, yogi bear |

Rakevat’s Rules of Chaos

Pahua and the Dragon’s Secret, by Lori M. Lee – In the second book of this series, Pahua Moua, the reincarnation of the great Hmong warrior Shee Yee, wants to enroll in a school for shamans. In order to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hmong, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Technology, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged aliens, ankh-morpork, arthur rackham, bad prince charlie, bookshops and bonedust, coffee, dragons, dwarves, elves, eurovision, gnomes, goblins, homunculus, john moore, legends and lattes, lori m. lee, metagalactic grand prix, necromancers, nine goblins, octopath traveler, orcs, pahua and the dragon's secret, rattkins, rick riordan presents, skeletons, space oddity, space opera, succubus, t. kingfisher, tapenti, travis baldree, trolls, unicorns, ursula vernon, wizards |