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Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry – This is a pretty bizarre book, partially a satire on the medical industry, with the hospital system essentially taking over the world, then branching out from there into increasingly surreal territory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Buddhism, carl barks, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Humor, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology | Tagged city of the plague god, corn jenny, daffy-o, daisy duck, demons, donald duck, duck luck, dumuzi, franz kafka, fury of the dragon goddess, gulliver's travels, gyro gearloose, han song, hollow earth, hospital, huey dewey and louie, ishtar, jack frost, jack in the green, jonathan swift, junior woodchucks, lucian of samosata, ludvig holberg, lugal, magica de spell, michael berry, middlegame, monkeys, niels klim, niels klim's underground travels, rabisu, rick riordan presents, sarwat chadda, satire, scrooge mcduck, seasonal fears, seasons, sikander aziz, stingy jack, stranger than fiction, tammuz, the madcap mariner, the terrible tourist, true history |

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas – I kept seeing this recommended on Disney Plus, so I figured I might as well give it a shot. From 1999, it’s a collection of three different Christmas-themed cartoons, each featuring one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Disney Afternoon, Families, Holidays, Humor, Music, Names, Nursery Rhymes, Relationships, Television, Toys | Tagged a christmas carol, a very goofy christmas, a. robins, babes in toyland, banana man, beagle boys, cats, charles dickens, chip and dale, clowns, cricket on the hearth, crickets, crows, daisy duck, disney, dogs, donald duck, donald duck: stuck on christmas, ebenezer scrooge, figaro, gift of the magi, goof troop, goofy, groundhog day, huey dewey and louie, jack e. leonard, kelsey grammer, max goof, mickey and minnie's gift of the magi, mickey mouse, mickey's once upon a christmas, minnie mouse, monkeys, mortimer mouse, o. henry, peg-leg pete, pluto, rankin/bass, sam levine, santa claus, scrooge mcduck, silas barnaby, uriah caw, wally cox |

Duck and Cover

Today, I’m looking at two more Carl Barks comic collections. Uncle Scrooge: The Twenty-Four Carat Moon – The title story here has a rather wacky plot, Astronomers discover another moon behind the regular one that’s made entirely out of gold. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, Holidays, Humor, Technology, Television | Tagged amusement parks, beagle boys, bears, black wednesday, chickens, clara cluck, clarabelle cow, cornelius coot, daisy duck, disney, disneyland, don rosa, donald auf dem bauernhof, donald duck, donald duck and the one bear, donald duck and the witch next door, ducks, ducktales, flintheart glomgold, flying dutchman, goldilocks and the three bears, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, instant millionaire, little golden books, madam mim, mastering the matterhorn, pizza, riding the pony express, robots, scrooge mcduck, the christmas cha cha, the forbidium money bin, the twenty-four carat moon, the wax museum, uncle scrooge and his handy andy, uncle scrooge and the flying dutchman, uncle scrooge and the money champ, uncle scrooge and the twenty-four carat moon, under the polar ice, want to buy an island?, witches |

King Solomon’s Mines, Exit 75, I’m Still Alive

A Witch in Time, by Constance Sayers – This is another book I found at a discount from some promotion I don’t remember. It’s the story of Helen Lambert, a recently divorced woman who goes on a date with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Comics, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Norse | Tagged a witch in time, arizona goof, arizona goof and the tiger's fiery eye, beagle boys, constance sayers, daisy duck, disney masters, don donald, donald duck, donna duck, ducks, goofy, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john ruskin, ludwig von drake, massimo de vita, mickey mouse, morty and ferdie fieldmouse, pluto, scrooge mcduck, the golden river, the ice sword saga, the ice sword saga book 2, the mad doctor, the mines of king solomon, the money well, the prince of mists strikes back, the secret of 313, the sleeping beauty in the stars, witches |

Disney, My Head Is Spinning

This time, I’m reviewing some more collections of Disney comics. Donald Duck: The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama, by Carl Barks – One of the better stories begins with the bizarre premise that canner P.J. McBrine is trying to ruin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Comics, Humor, Video Games | Tagged andrea castellan, argus mcswine, atlantis, beagle boys, carl barks, daisy duck, dark mines of the phantom metal, darkenblot, dickie duck, dinosaurs, dodging miss daisy, donald duck, donald duck and the titanic ants, donald the milkman, ellroy bheezer, ellsworth bheezer, eurasia toft, flintheart glomgold, forbidden valley, goldie o'gilt, goofy, john d. rockerduck, magica de spell, mickey mouse, mickey mouse timeless tales volume 3, mynah birds, orichalcum, p.j. mcbrine, phantom blot, robots, rumpus mcfolw, scrooge mcduck, scrooge vs. scrooge, scrooge's last adventure, terries and firmies, the black pearls of tabu yama, the miner's granddaughter, the weregoof's curse, uncle scrooge timeless tales volume 3, william van horn |

Saving the Nine Worlds Again

When I hear about a new book coming out by an author I like, I try to put a hold on it at the library. Recently, it seems like all my holds came in at once, and since they have … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Magnus Chase, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan | Tagged a financial fable, alfheim, andvari, attic antics, beagle boys, carl barks, daisy duck, dangerous disguise, donald duck, grandma duck, his dark materials, huey dewey and louie, in old california, junior woodchucks, la belle sauvage, loki, lyra belacqua, no such varmint, odin, pete, ragnarok, scrooge mcduck, the book of dust, the ship of the dead |

Not Your Granny’s Fantasia

Fantasia 2000 – The idea of updating Fantasia with new segments was thrown around ever since the first one came out, but it wasn’t until several decades later that they began to actually take form. This was actually my first … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Music, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged al hirschfeld, camille saint-saens, chicago symphony orchestra, daisy duck, dmitri shostakovich, donald duck, edward elgar, fantasia, fantasia 2000, firebird, george gershwin, hans christian andersen, igor stravinsky, james levine, leopold stokowski, ludwig van beethoven, mickey mouse, noah's ark, ottorino respighi, paul dukas, the steadfast tin soldier |

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Cartoons, Muppets, Video Games | Tagged anthropomorphism, babs bunny, buster bunny, clarabelle cow, daisy duck, donald duck, gladstone gander, goofy, gus goose, horace horsecollar, kermit the frog, mickey mouse, minnie mouse, miss piggy, petunia pig, pluto, porky pig |