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Say It’s Nothing But Sky, and I’ll Be a Lonely Guy
I had heard last year that Frank Black was playing some shows to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Teenager of the Year, but at first it looked like it was only going to be in Europe. When a Brooklyn show … Continue reading →
Posted in Albums, Celtic, Concerts, Frank Black/Black Francis, Holidays, Live Shows, Music, Mythology, Names, Pixies | Tagged chubby checker, emma richardson, eric drew feldman, joey santiago, john barleycorn, lyle workman, mars, nick vincent, paz lenchantin, reid paley, rob laufer, talking heads, teenager of the year, the night the zombies came, the three stooges |
The Ozual Suspects
The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi – This collection of essays by different authors, some of whom I know personally, discusses various Oz characters and how they’ve been used over time, … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Christianity, Eric Shanower, Feminism, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Live Shows, Magic, Magic Items, Muppets, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Plays, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged a good man but a bad wizard, a living thing, all wound up, angelica shirley carpenter, aunt em, but first there was a scarecrow, charlotte greenwood, cowardly lion, danielle paige, david maxine, dee michel, dina schiff massachi, dorothy and the heroine's quest, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, feathertop, fred woodward, gita dorothy morena, glinda, glinda and gender performativity, golden cap, hank the mule, heart over head, intelligence, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, james satter, jinjur, katharine kittredge, knitting, louis f. gottschalk, love magnet, mark i. west, mary lenard, matilda joslyn gage, miss piggy, nathaniel hawthorne, nome king, oliver morosco, ozcon international, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, paige gray, patchwork girl, piecing together the patchwork girl of oz, polychrome, prince silverwings, private jo files, queen ann soforth, queen coo-ee-oh, rinkitink in oz, robert b. luehrs, ruth berman, scarecrow, scoodlers, shaggy man, shannon murphy, straight outta oz, the characters of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the muppets' wizard of oz, the nome king, the proto-sissy the sissy and macho men, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, todrick hall, trading knitting needles for pistols, walter squire, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witch's familiars or winged warriors, witches, witches wicked and otherwise, wizard of oz |
The Boys in the Room
SPOILER WARNING for a few recent Kids in the Hall projects! Beth and I recently watched the new season on Amazon Prime, which, strangely enough, doesn’t cost any extra beyond the subscription fee. (Seriously, it seems like so much of … Continue reading →
Posted in Celebrities, Humor, Live Shows, Music, Poetry, Relationships, Television | Tagged amazon, brain candy, bruce mcculloch, coldplay, comedy punks, dave foley, gord downie, jeffrey toobin, kevin mcdonald, kids in the hall, lorne michaels, mark mckinney, scott thompson, tales of bravery and stupidity, tragically hip |
Don’t Feed the Plants
Beth had bought some tickets for an Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre, and we saw it last night. I don’t think I actually saw the musical movie with Rick Moranis until college. I remember … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Gender, Humor, Live Shows, Monsters, Music, Plays, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged aaron arnell harrington, audrey ii, christian borle, jeremy jordan, levi stubbs, little shop, little shop of horrors, plants, rick moranis, roger corman |
TRI-CAT CHALLENGE
I was never that interested in Cats when I was younger, but I probably would have liked at least the T.S. Eliot poems if I’d been familiar with them. Beth and I went to see the show on Broadway about … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Humor, Live Shows, Music, Poetry, Video, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged andrew lloyd webber, bustopher jones, cats, elaine paige, grizabella, growltiger, growltiger's last stand, gus the theatre cat, ken page, macavity, mr. mistoffelees, old deuteronomy, old possum's book of practical cats, oopsa cat, rum tug tugger, rumpus cat, t.s. eliot, taylor swift, the awefull battle of the pekes and the pollicles |
Tin Hands Are Ku-Klip’s Workshop
So, I’m back from OzCon International, which was pretty Oz-some. It’s kind of disappointing that it’s over, but nice to get home again. When I first started going to Oz conventions, it was often one of the few chances I … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Feminism, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Live Shows, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes | Tagged andy mangels, angelica shirley carpenter, cosplay, david maxine, dina schiff massachi, filmation, j. l. bell, jack haley, james ortiz, jellia jamb, journey back to oz, judy bieber, lesba, loonville, mrs. yoop, ozcon international, polychrome, prissy pingle, puppetry, ray bolger, raymond wohl, robert payes, robin hess, scarecrow, the fate of a crown, the lost tales of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the woggle-bug, the woodsman, til loon, tommy kwikstep, w. w. denslow, woot the wanderer |
Crispin’s Night Speech
Beth, Stephanie and I saw Crispin Glover at the Alamo Drafthouse last night. If you don’t know who he is, he played George McFly in Back to the Future and came close to kicking David Letterman in the head. He’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Celebrities, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Humor, Live Shows, Music, Prejudice, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alamo drafthouse, back to the future, crispin glover, propaganda, racism, robert zemeckis, the water-babies, what is it? |
A Dita-Lightful Evening
Okay, the evening itself was rather frustrating, but it was my first time seeing Dita Von Teese live, and I’d say that’s a positive experience. It was in Montclair, New Jersey rather than New York City, and while there are … Continue reading →
Posted in Celebrities, Live Shows | Tagged alek palinski, art of the teese tour, burlesque, dirty martini, dita von teese, elio martinez, ginger valentine, jett adore, jonny mcgovern, josephine baker, violet chachki, vontourage, zelia rose |
Where the Hell Are the Singing Cats?
Cats is a consistently popular but much maligned musical, and I guess it IS kind of dorky and cutesy. Then again, we live in a time when grown men openly love My Little Pony. Beth and I saw a Broadway … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Live Shows, Music, Names, Poetry | Tagged andrew lloyd webber, cats, jellicle cats, old possum's book of practical cats, rhapsody on a windy night, t.s. eliot, trevor nunn |
Art with Brains and Courage
After my post on books in Oz, Paul Dana suggested that I write one about the performing arts in that fairyland. It’s a good idea, but they aren’t really covered all that much in the books. I’ve looked previously at … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Dennis Anfuso, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Live Shows, March Laumer, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a fairy queen of oz, allegro da capo, invisible inzi of oz, kabumpo in oz, musicton, oogaboo, oziana, ozmapolitan, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, robert wauchope, scarecrow, stratovania, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the balloon-girl of oz, the gnome king of oz, the harvest ball, the patchwork girl of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the rundelstone of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, troopadours, tune town, victor columbia edison, virginia wauchope |