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Focused on the Future

We’ve now seen all of Season Twelve of Futurama, which I think is part of the ninth production season because of all the weirdness with how the show was originally aired. I noticed that, while there were still some commentaries … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Big Bang, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Humor, Monsters, Science, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Toys | Tagged aliens, amy wong, beanie babies, bender bending rodriguez, bender's game, bill nye, buggalo, cara delevigne, chatbots, coffee, encyclopedia brown, fashion, hardy boys, hedonism bot, hermes conrad, hypnosis, jack-in-the-box, john steinbeck, kif kroker, kyle mclachlan, levar burton, lrrr, mermaids, moths, nancy drew, ndnd, philip j. fry, pin the tail on the donkey, planet express, professor hubert farnsworth, robert burns, robots, scruffy the janitor, starbucks, tim gunn, tintin, turanga leela, vampires |

Fraternizing with Fairies

Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery – Beth wanted me to read this, and let me borrow her Reader’s Digest edition, which does have the entire text. It took me way longer to read this than it probably should … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Comics, Fairy Tales, Families, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alberto manguel, anne of green gables, arthur henderson, david maxine, fairies, fashion, gianni guadalupi, giants, international wizard of oz club, kingdoms of elfin, l.m. montgomery, ozcon international, racism, sylvia townsend warner, the dictionary of imaginary places, the perhappsy chaps, umbrellas, werewolves |

The Fabulous Fashions of Oz

I’ve examined the typical styles of Ozian clothing before, but I think I can come up with a few more thoughts about them. To begin with, The Patchwork Girl of Oz has a more thorough description of the Munchkin costume … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged becky klein, boots, boq, clothes, david hulan, dorothy gale, fashion, glinda, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, merry go round in oz, mombi's pink polkadot vest, number nine, ozma, patchwork girl, pingaree, professor wogglebug, queen ann soforth, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, shoes, silver shoes, singra, styles, the glass cat of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, witches |

I Want Adventure in the Great Live Action

Beauty and the Beast (2017) – Disney remaking their animated classics in live action seems to have become a thing, and with no end in sight. I can’t really say I see the point, and this is the first one … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, France, History, Humor, Magic, Revisiting Disney, Sexuality, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged beauty and the beast, belle, belle et la bete, cogsworth, fashion, gabrielle-suzanne barbot de villeneuve, gaston, homosexuality, lefou, mari ness, mrs. potts, remakes, robin mckinley |

What Will Haven Be

One thing I’ve seen noted about the future in Back to the Future Part II is that it more or less assumed certain trends would continue in the same way. Inflation was particularly bad in the 1980s, so there were … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Futurama, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Music, Star Trek, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged back to the future, back to the future part ii, back to the future part iii, bender bending rodriguez, computers, elroy jetson, fashion, future, george jetson, h.g. wells, michael jackson, robots, science fiction, the time machine, time travel, zapp brannigan |

Hair, There, and Everywhere

Good Hair – A sometimes humorous and sometimes depressing documentary in which Chris Rock investigates the business behind American black women’s hair. Rock focuses most of his attention on relaxer and weaves, and on how there’s a prejudice against natural … Continue reading →

Clothes for Clods

I’m not sure why these quotes from Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries from 2006 are making the rounds on Facebook now, but as far as I know he still holds to them. So apparently girls above a size ten … Continue reading →