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Gone with the Northeast Wind
The 1988 Oziana has a game on both the front and back cover, derived by Fred Meyer and drawn by Bill Eubank. For each of fifty different transformations, the player has to guess who was transformed into what. I like … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Camilla Townsend, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Poetry, Relationships, Star Trek, Technology | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, a side view of the nonestic islands, angela garvey garvey, army, aunt em, betsy bobbin, bill eubank, break dance, corwin davison poe, dorothy gale, fairies, fred meyer, frogman, h.p. lovecraft, hungry tiger, king evoldo of ev, li-mon-eags, limericks, magic belt, martha cornog, mcwogglebug, military, neal wilgus, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, polychrome, professor wogglebug, scarecrow, smith and tinker, spock, stuff and nonsense, the blue raindrops of oz, the computer wizard makes a comeback, the magic of oz, the northeast wind in oz, thorgose, tik-tok, timothy perper, tin woodman, tollydiggle, trot griffiths, two's of a kind, typhonic, ventilation, wendy roth, winds, wizard of oz |
Don’t Toy with Me
The Toys That Made Us – We’d started watching this Netflix series some time ago, back when it only had two seasons, but the third one premiered before we’d finished the other two. Each season has four episodes, so there … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Comics, Corporations, History, Humor, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, Toys | Tagged barbie, brian volk-weiss, charles schulz, donald ian black, g.i. joe, he-man, hello kitty, lego, masters of the universe, my little pony, my pretty pony, netflix, peanuts, Power Rangers, sanrio, the toys that made us, transformers, wrestling |
Orc My World
This past weekend, Orcs were trending on Twitter, based on a tweet about how a description of them in Dungeons & Dragons was pretty racist. (Full disclosure: I haven’t played D&D, although I’ve come across it quite a bit in … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Authors, Biology, Christianity, Ethnicity, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Games, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Star Trek | Tagged beowulf, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elves, fantasy, gnolls, goblins, klingons, morality, ogres, orcs, racism, scientific racism, trolls |
I Have the Power!
Hell’s Super, by Mark Cain – This comedic look at the popular conception of Hell is narrated by Steve Minion, a rich guy in life who became the superintendent in Hell, conscripted to fix everything that breaks. The fact that … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Celebrities, History, Humor, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Star Trek, Television | Tagged andy mangels, bill cosby, captain marvel, creating the filmation generation, divine comedy, fat albert, filmation, florence nightingale, ghostbusters, he-man, hell, hell's super, henry ford, inferno, jason of star command, journey back to oz, lou scheimer, mark cain, masters of the universe, nikola tesla, orko, orson welles, ozcon international, shazam, she=ra, sid haig, skeletor, superman, the real ghostbusters, the three stooges, thomas edison |
Magical Arts and Sciences
I’ve been thinking a bit recently about magic and science in fiction. I’m not saying anything at all new when I point out that a lot of what’s considered science fiction contains very little science. Sometimes it just seems to … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Comics, Discworld, Fundamentalism, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, madeleine l'engle, Magic, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Star Trek, Technology, Terry Pratchett | Tagged a wrinkle in time, arthur c. clarke, dc comics, fantasy, granny weatherwax, headology, his dark materials, jinn, mermaids, middle-earth, naturalism, philip pullman, satan, science fantasy, science fiction, scientific method, shaggy man, superman, technobabble, the patchwork girl of oz, tik-tok of oz, witches |
The Gang’s All Here
Picture by Mark Spears I noticed on Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Timeline of Oz that he’s added several fictional works not directly related to Oz or L. Frank Baum, crediting some of them to Win Scott Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe chronology. … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Greek Mythology, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Roman, Star Trek | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, aeneas, aeneid, anachronisms, conan the barbarian, count dracula, crossovers, dc comics, doc savage, doc savage his apocalyptic life, dorothy gale, edgar rice burroughs, great detective, h.p. lovecraft, henry w. walston, joe bongiorno, john l. nanovic, lester dent, marvel comics, oziana, philip jose farmer, robert e. howard, royal timeline of oz, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, spock, tarzan, tarzan alive, the undiscovered country, thor, time travel, trojan war, virgil, win scott eckert, wold cottage meteorite, wold newton family, wold newton universe |
Gated Communities
As if Gamergate wasn’t bad enough, now there’s Comicsgate as well, because people suck. And both of these supposed movements have people using these terms to refer to themselves, despite the fact that using “gate” in the names of scandals … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Gender, Prejudice, Star Trek, Video Games | Tagged beta ray bill, captain america, captain marvel, carol danvers, comicsgate, diversity, gamergate, ghostbusters, hedy wolfe, hellcat, jane foster, Marvel Cinematic Universe, nintendo power, patsy walker, social justice warriors, thor |
Everybody Now Engage, Yeah You Know It’s All the Rage
Here are my thoughts on the ninth and tenth Star Trek films, replete with spoilers. Insurrection – The plot of this one is centered around a planet where some kind of weird radiation concentrated in its rings keeps the inhabitants … Continue reading →
Posted in Star Trek, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged androids, baku, captain jean-luc picard, commander william riker, data, deanna troi, geordi laforge, immortality, remans, romulans, son'a, star trek insurrection, star trek nemesis, united federation of planets |
Everybody’s Doing It, the Jean-Luc Picard
We’re up to the Star Trek films using the cast of The Next Generation, where they drink Romulan Pepsi instead of Klingon Coke, and a British guy playing a French guy is the captain of the Enterprise. I think this … Continue reading →
Posted in Futurama, Star Trek, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged borg, borg queen, captain james t. kirk, captain jean-luc picard, commander william riker, data, deforest kelley, el-aurians, geordi laforge, holodeck, jonathan frakes, klingons, leonard nimoy, malcolm mcdowell, montgomery scott, patrick stewart, pavel chekov, robert picardo, star trek first contact, star trek generations, star trek the next generation, starship enterprise, time travel, vulcans, whoopi goldberg, worf, zefram cochrane |
Always Going Forward, ‘Cause We Can’t Find Reverse
My re-watch of the Star Trek movies has reached the end of the films starring the original cast. I’d seen these two before, but only once each a long time ago. For the most part, I think I have to … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Cold War, History, Humor, Language, Prejudice, Religion, Star Trek, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies, William Shakespeare | Tagged caithlin dar, captain james t. kirk, christopher plummer, cynthia gouw, david warner, dr. leonard mccoy, general chang, hikaru sulu, kim cattrall, klingons, michael dorn, nyota uhura, pavel chekov, romulans, sha ka ree, spock, st john talbot, star trek the next generation, sybok, the final frontier, the undiscovered country, vulcans, william shatner |