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Dinosaurs and Dragons

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney – I seem to remember reading something about this book around when it first came out in the early nineties, in National Geographic or something. I was interested, but I didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Board Games, Book Reviews, Chess, Comics, edgar rice burroughs, Final Fantasy, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Plays, Poetry, Poul Anderson, Technology, Video Games, William Shakespeare, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a land apart from time, a midsummer night's dream, a midsummer tempest, a winter's tale, a.a. milne, ariel, bad sir brian botany, barsoom, black mages, caliban, dejah thoris, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dragonrouge, dragons, elemental fiends, emperor mateus, english civil war, fairies, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, gorbash, gordon r. dickson, james gurney, jennifer ward, jetan, john carter, kathans, king charles i, light warriors, lin carter, mars, memory of heroes, oberon, ogres, operation chaos, prospero, rykors, sandmirks, takashi umemura, terra magica, the chessmen of mars, the dragon and the george, the tempest, three hearts and three lions, thuvia maid of mars, titania, when we were very young, white mages, wolves |

For Compete’s Sake

A lot of things recently have been reminding me that competition is a very problematic notion. That’s an incredibly broad category, so this isn’t in any way exhaustive, just a collection of thoughts I’ve had on the subject in general. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Corporations, Current Events, Economics, Games, Genetics, Philosophy, Politics, Prejudice, Science, Socialism, Sports | Tagged business, competition, donald trump, eugenics, lyft, target, uber, walmart |

Medea vs. Jason

Kirby Manga Mania Volume 2, by Hirokazu Hikawa, translated by Amanda Haley – More gag-based adventures of the round pink hero, each with a theme of sorts but not much of a plot, instead mostly just consisting of Kirby goofing … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, jules verne, Kirby, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged amanda haley, atalanta, captain nemo, circe, coo the owl, dream land, euripides, gooey, hirokazu hikawa, jason and the argonauts, john m. ford, kine the ocean sunfish, king aeetes of colchis, king dedede, kirby manga mania, kracko, medea, meta knight, mr. tick-tock, rabbits, rick the hamster, the dragon waiting, the mysterious island, the witch of colchis, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's story book, vampires, witches, wizards |

Life Update

I had a post mostly completed about a topic I thought I hadn’t written about before, but it turns out I had. That topic is the Game of Life, and I noticed a few different newer editions of it at … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Board Games, Cartoons, Celebrities, Economics, Games, Mario, Monopoly, Oz, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Video Games | Tagged art linkletter, conway's game of life, emerald city, game of life, john horton conway, king bowser koopa, krusty the clown, luigi mario, milton bradley, money, new deal, poor farms, princess peach toadstool, promissory notes, spinner, super mario edition, the wizard of oz (1939), yoshi |

Some Pig

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 |

All Holiday Roads Lead to Rome

Pretty major SPOILERS for all three of these movies. It’s a Wonderful Knife – This is a riff on a certain movie of the same name you’ve probably heard of, with some slasher elements, although not as many as you … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Christmas, Cracker, Games, History, Holidays, Humor, Language, Magic, Music, Names, Roman Empire, Sports, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged caligula, colosseum, emperor caracalla, emperor geta, emperor marcus aurelius, emperor marcus opellius macrinus, gladiator ii, it's a wonderful knife, justin long, monkeys, nightmare on elm street, rhinoceros, the coffee table |

The Bad Pipsisewah Shivered and Shook

I wrote a bit before about the Uncle Wiggily board game, which I remember playing a lot as a kid, as well as the first two collections of Howard Roger Garis’ original Uncle Wiggily stories. Recently, I noticed that there … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Etymology, Focus on the Foes, Games, Language, Monsters, Names, Oz | Tagged alligators, bazumpus, cluck cluck chicken house, crozokus, howard roger garis, lansing campbell, ozcon international, pipsisewah, scuttlemagoon, skeezicks, skillery scallery alligator, the uncle wiggily game, the wonderful game of oz, tim hildebrandt, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's auto sled, uncle wiggily's automobile, uncle wiggily's funny auto |

23 and Me

When I wrote about recurring numbers in the works of certain authors eleven years ago, I received a comment about how twenty-three was significant in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I hadn’t yet read the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Games, History, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Mathematics, Music, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire, Sports | Tagged 23, 23 skidoo, a tale of two cities, aleister crowley, bishop james ussher, charles dickens, creation, dear 23, discordianism, george m. cohan, jon auer, julius caesar, ken stringfellow, knights templar, little johnny jones, michael jordan, numbers, numerology, posies, principia discordia, psalms, psalsm, robert anton wilson, robert shea, the big lebowski, the illuminatus trilogy, the only way |

The Power of Many

SPOILERS for a TV show and a fairly new movie. Star Wars: The Acolyte – Set about a century before the events of the prequel trilogy, this eight-episode series stars Amandla Stenberg as twin sisters who were artificially created by … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Board Games, Christianity, Egyptian, Games, Magic, Monopoly, Mormonism, Music, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Star Wars, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amandla stenberg, brendok, heretic, hollies, horus, hugh grant, jedi, jesus, jigsaw, lana del rey, landlord's game, radiohead, the acolyte, yoda |

All He Does Is Drink Your Blood, ‘Cause He Don’t Like Ginger Ale

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair – This is a weird and often sad movie about a teenage girl who plays an online game that has something to do with the World’s Fair, but we never learn how the game … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Games, Health, History, Language, Monsters, Sexuality, Television, The Simpsons, Video, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anthony hopkins, bram stoker, bram stoker's dracula, carnivals, charles montgomery burns, count dracula, dracula, gary oldman, halloween, keanu reeves, psycho, renfield, the funhouse, vampires, vlad the impaler, we're all going to the world's fair, winona ryder |