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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 |

Easy Camelot, Easy Ganelon

Yeah, I’m writing about books again. The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur, by Lev Grossman – I wasn’t sure what to expect of this modern take on the Arthurian legend, but I ended up quite liking it, despite … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Arthurian Legend, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, England, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, Islam, Judaism, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Slavic, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged avalon, bazonga bird, camelot, chernobog, demons, eleggua, fairies, ganelon, geoffrey of monmouth, gondwane, king arthur, king constantine of britain, knights of the round table, lev grossman, lin carter, lord of shadows, maya and the return of the godlings, merlin, morgan le fay, naomi novik, nimue, orishas, paganism, roger zelazny, round table, rumplestiltskin, sir bedivere, sir dagonet, sir dinadan, sir mordred, sir palomides, sky island, spinning silver, staryk, terra magica, the bright sword, the wand of gamelon, the warrior of world's end, yama yama land |

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 Planet Has a Moon Problem

The way things worked out, I ended up finishing several books around the same time, so here’s a series of reviews. It Waits in the Forest, by Sarah Dass – It’s another Rick Riordan Presents book, although I think its almost-eighteen … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Arabian, Authors, Caribbean, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Islam, Japanese, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Technology, up-and-under, Xanth | Tagged a. deborah baker, alif the unseen, amtor, arabian nights, artemis, barsoom, bucks, change, christina rossetti, cuckoos, diana, dragons, emerald city, g. willow wilson, goblin market, h.g. wells, impossible city, it waits in the forest, jinn, john wyndham, johrlac, mani, mars, moon, pellucidar, pirates of venus, rick riordan presents, sarah dass, six crystal princesses, tarzan, the midwich cuckoos, the war of the worlds, tidal creatures, tsukuyomi, venus, village of the damned |

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 |

The Cauldron of Story

There’s sort of a recurring theme to a few of the books I’ve read recently, so I’ll expound on that in these three reviews. Tales from the Perilous Realm, by J.R.R. Tolkien – This volume collects some of Tolkien’s short … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged alan lee, bilbo baggins, blunderbuss, bombadil goes boating, chrysophylax dives, dogs, dragonrouge, dragons, elric of melnibone, epic pooh, farmer giles of ham, fastitocalon, giants, hey diddle diddle, his dark materials, hobbits, lady of abundance, leaf by niggle, lin carter, lord of the rings, man in the moon, melnibone, middle-earth, moon, multiverse, on fairy-stories, philip pullman, roverandum, sexual harassment, smith of wootton major, spiders, tales from the perilous realm, terra magica, the adventures of tom bombadil, the fortress of the pearl, the hobbit, the last battle, the man in the moon, the man in the moon stayed up too late, the marvelous land of oz, the sailor on the seas of fate, the weird of the white wolf, the well at the world's end, tom bombadil, tom shippey, voluspa, weapons, william morris, wizards, wood between the worlds |

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 |