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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – I wrote a little bit about Once Upon a Time back when it was still pretty new, but I only recently got back to watching it. I’ve watched the first three seasons, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Fairy Tales, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Monsters, Once Upon a Time, Relationships, Star Wars, Television | Tagged aladdin, alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, beowulf, caterpillar, cheshire cat, enchanted forest, genie, grendel, iggy pop, jabberwock, jabberwocky, jafar, jinn, john lithgow, knave of hearts, once upon a time in wonderland, red queen, robin hood, through the looking-glass, tweedledum and tweedledee, white knight, white rabbit, will scarlet |

Atomized and Bewitched

I often end up making posts on books I’ve written long after the fact. I’m trying to at least take some notes in the meantime, but I don’t always. Anyway, this time, there’s a Mickey Mouse classic comic collection, one … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Television | Tagged a nameless witch, alice in wonderland, atomo bleep-bleep, atomo bloop-bloop, betsy bobbin, carl barks, christopher sterling, cowardly lion, demons, disney, disney masters, dorothy gale, dr. einmug, eega beeva, floyd gottfredson, magic belt, mickey mouse, mickey mouse in the delta dimension, ozma, patchwork girl, peg-leg pete, romano scarpa, shan-grilla, shangri-la, silver shoes, the delta dimension, the fabulous city of shan-grilla, the silver shoes of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tralla la, trolls, trudy van tubb, wicked witch of the east, witches |

Playing with the Queen of Hearts

Heartless, by Marissa Meyer – The author of the Lunar Chronicles turns her attention to the work of Lewis Carroll, presenting the back story of the infamous Queen of Hearts. The book explains why the Mad Hatter and March Hare … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Nursery Rhymes | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, duchess of wonderland, gregory maguire, heartless, jabberwock, king of hearts, mad hatter, marissa meyer, mock turtle, peter peter pumpkin eater, queen of hearts, red queen, through the looking-glass, white queen, white rabbit, wicked |

To the Victor Goes the Spoiled Music

The Lonely Phonograph of Oz, by Debbie Bumstead – Victor Columbia Edison, the phonograph who was accidentally brought to life with the same powder as the Patchwork Girl, only appeared in The Patchwork Girl of Oz for some brief comic … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Music, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alice in wonderland, ben avery, bungle and the magic lantern of oz, bungle of oz, carrie bailey, casey herring, cowardly lion, debbie bumstead, dorothy gale, frogman, greg gick, john tenniel, king rinkitink, oz-wonderland chronicles, queen of hearts, rinkitink in oz, sean carlson, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the lonely phonograph of oz, the songs of l. frank baum's rinkitink in oz, victor columbia edison, wicked witch of the west |

Nonsense That Makes Sense

This Tor article presented the idea of mapping fantasy lands along two axes, nonsense vs. logic and virtue vs. wickedness. Obviously there’s a lot of opinion involved here, but the first thing I thought was kind of weird was Neverland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdism, alice in wonderland, his dark materials, imagination, james barrie, kingdom of wisdom, logic, metaphor, neverland, nonsense, norton juster, peter pan, philip pullman, puns, spirituality, The Phantom Tollbooth |

Two (or More) Become One

One of the main complaints that fans of the Oz books seem to have about the MGM movie, aside from making Oz a dream, is that they combined two Good Witches into one character. Now, it makes a certain amount … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Comics, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, arwen, batman, calypso, circe, glinda, glorfindel, good witch of the north, joe chill, joker, lord of the rings, mombi, odyssey, peter jackson, princess langwidere, queen of hearts, red queen, return to oz, robin, the hundred and one dalmatians, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, through the looking-glass, tim burton, tony zucco, two-face |

And Juster for All

Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth was a favorite in my childhood, and I’m pleased to say it still holds up. I recently checked out The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, with annotations by Leonard S. Marcus, which was published in 2011. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice in wonderland, butch patrick, chuck jones, dictionopolis, flatland, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jules feiffer, kabumpo in oz, leonard marcus, mathematics, norton juster, rith metic, synesthesia, the annotated alice, the annotated phantom tollbooth, the dot and the line, The Phantom Tollbooth |

I’ve Got an Anglo-Saxon Attitude

When I first read the Alice books, I was rather confused by the White King’s two messengers, Haigha and Hatta. We’re informed that Haigha’s name is pronounced to rhyme with “mayor,” which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to … Continue reading →

Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday, But Never, Ever Jam Today

Lewis Carroll’s Alice books have been adapted for stage and screen many times. What stands out about the 1985 made-for-television version is that it’s full of celebrities, but many of them were past their prime by the eighties. I remembered … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Celebrities, Lewis Carroll, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, carol channing, george gobel, humpty dumpty, jabberwocky, jonathan winters, karl malden, ringo starr, sammy davis jr, through the looking-glass, white queen |

Tweedle Twaddle

You probably know Tweedledum and Tweedledee from their appearance in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and works derived from that. You may also know that they’re characters from a nursery rhyme. What are the origins of this poem? As is … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Lewis Carroll, Nursery Rhymes | Tagged alice in wonderland, disney, giovanni bononcini, handel, j.b.s. haldane, john byrom, martin gardner, the annotated alice, through the looking-glass, tweedledum and tweedledee |