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Elphaba on the Shelphaba

I have now seen the Wicked movie, despite never having seen the stage musical it was based on. I did read Gregory Maguire’s Wicked Years books, and obviously the original Oz series. I’ll admit I’m a little bitter about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Music, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ariana grande, cowardly lion, cynthia erivo, dr. dillamond, glinda, gregory maguire, oz the great and powerful, racism, stephen schwartz, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz |

Dorothy the Dictator

Operation Luna, by Poul Anderson – The follow-up to Operation Chaos follows up on Steve and Virginia Matuchek about twelve years after the end of the first book. They now have three children, and are working on a project to launch … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, jules verne, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Places, Poul Anderson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Vietnamese | Tagged amtor, cayke the cookie cook, charloz, cowardly lion, coyote, danielle paige, demons, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, dwarves, eugenics, fairies, four immortals, frogman, from the earth to the moon, fu manchu, girl giant and the jade war, glinda, guns, hecate, hecuba of troy, hellhounds, jellia jamb, journey to the west, lost on venus, mombi, moon, naiads, nome king, nymphs, operation chaos, operation luna, ozma, peter stuyvesant, polychrome, pumperdink, scarecrow, sun wukong, swords, the chalice of the gods, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, van hoang, venus, weapons, witches, wizard of oz, wrath of the triple goddess |

Dark Tower versus White Tower

The Gunslinger, by Stephen King – This is only the second King book I’ve read, the first being The Stand. And I believe the Man in Black in this series is the same as Randall Flagg from that book. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, African, Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Characters, Chinese, Comics, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Vietnamese | Tagged aliens, amy chu, apes, ares, bigfoot, bigfoot dreams, cap'n bill, cats, chasing the moon, childe roland to the dark tower came, children of ragnarok, cindy and cragg, divine misfortune, dragons, eleggua, emperor mollusk versus the sinister brain, fairies, gil's all fright diner, gorillas, greyback in blue, igbo, impundulu, janet k. lee, king anko, margaret atwood, maya and the rising dark, mermaids, monster, my dinner with ares, ogbunabali, orishas, pixies, pizza, pizza madness, ragnarok, rena barron, robert browning, robert jordan, robots versus slime monsters, sasquatch, saturn, sea serpents, sea sirens, stephen king, the automatic detective, the dark tower, the great hunt, the gunslinger, the handmaid's tale, the sea fairies, the stand, the wheel of time, trot griffiths, work ethic |

Nothing Could Be Finer

We are back home from Oz. Well, not really from Oz, because if I could go there, it would be difficult to get me to leave. But we’re back from the CharlOz convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The events took place … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Comics, Corporations, Education, Eric Shanower, Families, Feminism, Food, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Libraries, Magic, Magic Items, Mathematics, Music, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Relationships, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amusement parks, amy chu, angelica shirley carpenter, batman, carol gilligan, carousel, carowinds, charloz, conventions, danielle paige, dina schiff massachi, domestic violence, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, eric gjovaag, fairy ring lights, gita dorothy morena, glinda, great book of records, gregory maguire, heather greene, hiroe suzuki, holly humes, in flesh of burnished tin, international wizard of oz club, j. l. bell, james ortiz, jane albright, janet k. lee, jason black, jeff walker, judy bieber, katharine kittredge, laurence brenner, magic picture, margaret hamilton, mark i. west, martin gardner, matilda joslyn gage, megan lynn isaac, monarchy, nimmie amee, nome king, oz the great and powerful, ozma, paige gray, president richard nixon, return to oz, roller coasters, scarecrow, sea sirens, sky island, the characters of oz, the sea fairies, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, the woodsman, tin woodman, vibiana cvetkovic, visart video, visitors from oz, walter squire, wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz |

Possession Has Its Privileges

The Wonderful Land of Oz – This weird low-budget 1969 adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz is something I’d never seen, but Beth found online that there’s a Rifftrax version of it, so we watched it. I guess that … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Characters, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, sparks, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Wicca | Tagged aliens, ami dolenz, barry mahon, chan mahon, coronavirus, fairuza balk, ghosts, jinjur, mombi, neve campbell, ouija board, ozma, possession, professor wogglebug, rifftrax, russell mael, the becomers, the craft, the wonderful land of oz, tippetarius, witchboard, witchboard 2, witchcraft, witches, zach clark, zisca baum |

This Could Be Oz, But You Playin’

I dragged Beth along to OzCon International, which was once again held at Kellogg West in Pomona, California. From what I understand, they raised their prices, so the convention was limited to two days, and we didn’t have access to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Atticus Gannaway, Board Games, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Games, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports, Video Games | Tagged a new wonderland, adventure in oz, aron toman, atticus gannaway, cindy ragni, colin ayres, cosplay, david maxine, diana ross, emerald city confidential, ervic, follow the yellow brick road, freddy fogarty, grampa, grampa in oz, j. l. bell, john fricke, john mundt, judy garland, juliana van riper, michael riley, neil cuadra, ozcon international, oziana, ozma, paul dana, peter brown, peter hanff, philips cd-i, pigasus, polychrome, reera the red, ruth cuadra, scavenger hunt, seinfeld, short circuit, super nintendo entertainment system, the chronicles of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wizard of oz: beyond the yellow brick road, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful game of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, treasures of oz, w.w. denslow, wicked, wonderful dizzy, yellow brick road |

Women’s Realm

The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – The second Oz book is 120 years old, and since I just recently reread the first one, I thought it made sense to do the same with this. While Baum … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Feminism, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cowardly lion, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, fighting trees, glinda, griffins, hammer-heads, illusion, jack pumpkinhead, jinjur, misogyny, mombi, ozma, pastoria, professor wogglebug, sawhorse, scarecrow, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), the woggle-bug, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, transformation, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz |

Here I Go by the Name of Bill

Grampa in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I’ve reread the centennial Oz book, and I have several things to say about it, and there are SPOILERS. First, the book doesn’t have a very good title, but I can’t really say … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Medicine, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill the weather-cock, billina, cap'n bill, crows, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, glegg, grampa, grampa in oz, j. l. bell, kabumpo in oz, king fumbo, maribella, peg amy, percy vere, polychrome, prince tatters, ragbad, sure cure for everything, the magical monarch of mo, toto, urtha |

Ain’t No Party Like an Oz Party

On Tuesday, Beth and I saw The Wiz on Broadway for the first time, at the Marquis Theatre. It was revived recently, with Wayne Brady playing the titular role. Fortunately, he did not forget the lyrics. The show was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, Monsters, Music, Oz, Plays | Tagged bert lahr, cowardly lion, glinda, good witch of the north, kalidahs, munchkins, poppies, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, wayne brady, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, yellow brick road |

If Ever a Wiz There Was

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – There was some discussion on a Facebook group I’m on of having a discussion of one Oz book a month, and while I don’t know that anything was ever officially … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Fairy Tales, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged civilization, cowardly lion, crows, death, dorothy gale, emerald city, field-mice, hammer-heads, immortality, mice, scarecrow, storks, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tigers, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, toto, winged monkeys, wolves, yellow brick road |