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The Grinch Is Back

I guess it’s not too late to do a Halloween-related review, is it? Even if it is, I’m doing one anyway, because I kept meaning to watch the 1977 cartoon Halloween Is Grinch Night. I guess this is technically a … Continue reading →

Hey Baba, Humbaba

One advantage to being an epic hero is that, if you feel like killing someone, you can just paint them as a villain. Sometimes the giants and dragons slain by heroes have committed evil actions that need to be stopped, … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Final Fantasy, Mythology, Semitic, Video Games | Tagged demons, dr. seuss, enkidu, enlil, epic of gilgamesh, gilgamesh, humbaba, kefka palazzo, monsters, phunbaba, shamash, the lorax |

Fantasian Studies

Disney’s third full-length animated feature is a departure from the two full-length fairy tale adaptations that preceded it. Fantasia is, as I’m sure you all know, a series of cartoons set to classical music, played by an in-house orchestra. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Greek Mythology, Music, Mythology, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amilcare ponchielli, ave maria, bacchus, centaurs, chernabog, clio, cupid, dance of the hours, deems taylor, der zauberlerhrling, dinosaurs, dionysus, dr. seuss, epic mickey, fantasia, franz schubert, harpies, igor stravinsky, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, jupiter, kingdom hearts, ludwig van beethoven, mickey mouse, modest mussorgsky, night on bald mountain, nutcracker suite, paul dukas, pegasus, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, racism, satan, sunflower, the pastoral symphony, the rite of spring, the sorcerer's apprentice, toccata and fugue in d minor, unicorns, walt disney, yen sid, zeus |

Heartbreak Hostel

Havenly Dreams Beneath Oz, by Marin Elizabeth Xiques and Chris Dulabone – This book focuses on two goblins from the underground Goblin Grotto who have problems with their home lives. At first the focus is on a female goblin named … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Oz | Tagged chris dulabone, clintonav calloogaderm, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dr. seuss, goblin grotto, havenly dreams beneath oz, horton hears a who, hungry tiger, marin elizabeth xiques, piers anthony, princess ida, raspberry surely, soulae sunchip, tails of the cowardly lion and friends, tin woodman, xanth |

Who Put the Thwomp in the Thwomp-Ba-Domp-Ba-Domp?

Moving on down the list of Mario enemies (well, figuratively speaking, anyway; I’m not actually working from a list, and I’m not sure how many more I’ll write posts about), we come to the Thwomps, giant stone blocks with faces … Continue reading →

Posted in Japanese, Mario, Mythology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged big bob-omb, bob-ombs, boos, dr. seuss, general guy, giga lakitu, goombas, goomboss, grindels, head thwomp, lakitu, mario & luigi partners in time, monsters, nurikabe, paper mario, petey piranha, piranha plants, shyguys, sneetches, spindels, super mario 64, super mario bros. 3, super mario galaxy 2, super mario world, thwimps, thwomp volcano, thwomps, whomp king, whomps |