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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 |

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 |

Rejoice, the Wizard Is No Longer King

Since I’ve finished playing The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, I might as well write some more about it. You can read my first post on it here. It’s a pretty short game, and the fourth country … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Halloween, Holidays, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Video Games | Tagged dorothy gale, dragons, hansel and gretel, jack pumpkinhead, mangaboos, riz-zoawd, scarecrow, the wizard of oz: beyond the yellow brick road, witches, wizard of oz, yellow brick road |

A Couple of Baums

I’ve done some more Oz reading recently, and for once it isn’t stuff I’ve already read. First (and second) of all, I ordered the two most recent Oziana issues, 2022 and 2023, from Lulu. The 2022 is all stories by … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Dick Martin, Gina Wickwar, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television | Tagged a moment in time, a portrait of ozma, a rotten pumpkin, angry jack, anna-maria cool, autumn rose frodelius, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, button-bright and the professor, china country, david bishop, david s. skipper, dinner at the del, donald abbott, dorothy gale, early morning coffee with matilda, fortune favors the wogglebug, glinda, glinda and the glass cat, grampa in oz, great book of records, hammer-heads, how i met the scarecrow, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, lulu, matilda joslyn gage, maud baum, memory scraps, ojo, oz and the musical, oziana, ozma, paul dana, professor wogglebug, racism, robert baum, ryan bunch, sara philips, sawhorse, scarecrow, suren ognessian, telegraph, the maid of arran, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the trunk in the attic, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, wicked, wicked witch of the west, young frank and his imagination |

Tik-Tok Talk

Tik-Tok of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – Since I read Eric Shanower’s book about the play this was based on a few months ago, I figured this might be worth a reread. And it’s 110 years old now, although that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays | Tagged all wound up, betsy bobbin, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dragons, ev, fairies, hank the mule, immortals, kaliko, love magnet, nome king, nomes, oogaboo, ozga, ozma, ozma of oz, polychrome, private jo files, queen ann soforth, quox, shaggy man, the emerald city of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the little wizard stories of oz, the road to oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), tik-tok, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths |

Nome in Your Home

‘Tis the season, so I thought I would reread and review some Christmas-related Oz books. The Enchanted Gnome of Oz, by Greg Hunter – This one is set during Christmas Eve and Day, and it is relevant to the plot, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Christmas, Dennis Anfuso, Families, Holidays, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged belinda, button-bright, christmas in oz, dragons, elves, emerald city, goblins, greg hunter, handy mandy in oz, jack pumpkinhead, joe bongiorno, julenisse, knooks, magic belt, magic umbrella, mister flint in oz, nisser, nome king, nomes, ozette, ozma, pastoria, paul dana, robin hess, ryls, santa claus, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the enchanted gnome of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, toto and the cats of oz, witches, wizard of oz |

Getting to Nome You

The physical appearance of the Nome King was something that came up recently in an online chat, and we have a pretty good description when he first appears in Ozma of Oz: “This important monarch of the Underground World was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Gender, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, dorothy gale, eggs, imps, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic belt, mardi gras, mary lenard, matriarchy, nome king, nome kingdom, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, patriarchy, pirates in oz, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, santa claus, sexism, sherwood smith, the baum bugle, the characters of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, the nome king, the tik-tok man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz |

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 |

Dogged Perseverance

Yankee in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – When I first joined the International Wizard of Oz Club, I was excited to learn that not only did they sell many of the official Oz books I hadn’t read yet, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dick Martin, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Space Program | Tagged aunt doffi, badmannah, crystal balls, dogs, drag net, fern greenleaf, giants, loxo the lucky, moon, ozma, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, slavery, smith and tinker, speedy in oz, su-posy, the seven blue mountains of oz, tidy town, tompy terry, upandup mountain, wackajammy, yankee, yankee in oz, zim greenleaf |

Ozma’s Road Tip

The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz, by Onyx Madden – I’ve written about this book before, but had never done a full review, and hadn’t read it all the way through in some years. I get the impression that it’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Chinese, Edward Einhorn, Gender, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy | Tagged aristotle, bicycles, birds, cowardly lion, crows, cwn annwn, dcim wainwright, dogs, dragons, emerald city, fairies, fighting trees, glinda, goblins, hammer-heads, hobgoblins, hungry tiger, j. noel, lurline, magic picture, mockingbirds, nymphs, opaloz, ozma, ozma sees herself, puck, quox, red wagon, sawhorse, scarecrow, the hobbit, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, witches |