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Dinosaurs and Dragons

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney – I seem to remember reading something about this book around when it first came out in the early nineties, in National Geographic or something. I was interested, but I didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Board Games, Book Reviews, Chess, Comics, edgar rice burroughs, Final Fantasy, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Plays, Poetry, Poul Anderson, Technology, Video Games, William Shakespeare, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a land apart from time, a midsummer night's dream, a midsummer tempest, a winter's tale, a.a. milne, ariel, bad sir brian botany, barsoom, black mages, caliban, dejah thoris, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dragonrouge, dragons, elemental fiends, emperor mateus, english civil war, fairies, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, gorbash, gordon r. dickson, james gurney, jennifer ward, jetan, john carter, kathans, king charles i, light warriors, lin carter, mars, memory of heroes, oberon, ogres, operation chaos, prospero, rykors, sandmirks, takashi umemura, terra magica, the chessmen of mars, the dragon and the george, the tempest, three hearts and three lions, thuvia maid of mars, titania, when we were very young, white mages, wolves |

Willy-Nilly Silly Old Bear

Winnie the Pooh – Looking at the list, I think I might have gotten the order a bit mixed up. I thought for sure this came out before Tangled, but I guess not. Oh, well. The Bear of Very Little … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Music, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a.a. milne, backson, bears, christopher robin, craig ferguson, eeyore, huell howser, john cleese, owl, piglet, roo, winnie the pooh (2011), zooey deschanel |

Tubby Little Cubby All Stuffed with Fluff

From what I understand, Walt Disney wanted to make a feature film of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, but decided to start out making shorts. After his death, three of the shorts (only the first of which was released during Walt’s … Continue reading →

The House at Mario Corner

Archetypes being what they are, it’s pretty much possible to link any group of fictional characters with any other, if you stretch a bit. It’s a largely futile exercise, but sometimes fun. Recently, I was thinking (think, think, think) about … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a.a. milne, bees, eeyore, honey, kanga, luigi, oogtar, owl, piglet, princess peach toadstool, rabbit, roo, tigger, toad, wooster, yoshi |