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Alice Through the Needle’s Eye: The Further Adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, by Gilbert Adair – I had first heard of this in an essay, which I think was about Oz. I didn’t think of looking for it until recently, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Dreams, Drugs, Games, Gender, Humor, Language, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Magnus Chase, Mathematics, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged 9 from the nine worlds, alice in puzzle-land, alice through the needle's eye, alice's adventures in wonderland, alligators, alphabet, alviss, baldur, charlotte's web, dr. possum, dragons, dwarves, e.b. white, flump, frigg, gilbert adair, grampus, greer fitting, howard roger garis, humpty dumpty, jack and jill, jenny thorne, logic, martin gardner, nidhogg, nurse jane fuzzy-wuzzy, pigs, puzzles, ragnarok, ratatoskr, rats, raymond smullyan, red queen, sir john tenniel, skillery scallery alligator, spiders, stephen king, the dark tower, the drawing of the three, thor, through the looking-glass, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's airship, uncle wiggily's automobile, uncle wiggily's fortune, valkyries, vanir, white queen |

Riddle Me This

When I first came across the term “riddles,” it was most likely referring to what you find in kids’ joke books, specifically puns or other simple jokes presented in question-and-answer format. You know, the “When is a door not a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Beatrix Potter, Cartoons, Games, Greek Mythology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry, Sesame Street, Television | Tagged batman, batman the animated series, bilbo baggins, brainteasers, gollum, humpty dumpty, michael showalter, minute mysteries, puns, puzzles, riddler, riddles, the hobbit, the tale of squirrel nutkin |

It’s an Egg’s Life

Of all the strange and oddly named characters in nursery rhymes, one of the most famous has to be Humpty Dumpty, perhaps the first egg to receive a name. Versions of the poem date back to at least 1797, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Beatrix Potter, Characters, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Jasper Fforde, L. Frank Baum, Language, Lewis Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Nursery Crime, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Robert Rankin | Tagged alan lindsay, colchester, coutchie-coulou, eggy mcshell, english civil war, george l. fox, humpty dumpty, james orchard halliwell-phillipps, k. kline, kaliko, kaliko in oz, king richard iii, mother goose, mother goose in prose, nome king, nomes, oz house, oz-wonderland chronicles, pantomime, patchwork girl, the big over easy, the case of the four and twenty blackbirds, the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse, the oz-wonderland war, the tale of squirrel nutkin, through the looking-glass, white knight |

Foster Children in Fairyland

Time for some Oz-related reviews! First of all, the International Wizard of Oz Club (I need to renew my membership in that, don’t I?) is offering an insert for Gina Wickwar’s Toto of Oz. It involves Button-Bright accidentally bringing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Fairy Tales, Gina Wickwar, Lewis Carroll, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alan lindsay, button-bright, carlo collodi, cookie giraffe, hans christian andersen, humpty dumpty, international wizard of oz club, mother goose, oz house, pinocchio, rumpelstiltskin, toto, toto of oz |

Martian Ham, Pork from Space

Dr. Seuss’s legendary Green Eggs and Ham recently made the news when Ted Cruz read it out loud during his not-really-a-filibuster against Obamacare. Strange that he would choose this book while decrying something he hadn’t tried. Wasn’t he kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Current Events, Dr. Seuss, Food, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Music, Television, The Simpsons, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged allan sherman, audrey geisel, charles montgomery burns, dr. seuss on the loose, green eggs and ham, grinch, homer simpson, how the grinch stole christmas, humpty dumpty, moxy früvous, paul winchell, sam-i-am, ted cruz, the cat in the hat, through the looking-glass, tigger, u2, what was i scared of? |

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 |

Ever Since I Was a Young Boy, I’ve Played the Silver Ball

Okay, I personally haven’t played much pinball, but I do find it kind of fascinating that it’s even still around. Arcades will usually have a few pinball machines, usually based on once-popular properties, off to one side. And they’re apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | Tagged baffle ball, bagatelle, billiards, contact, david gottlieb, fiorello laguardia, gadgets, harry williams, humpty dumpty, pinball, pinball machines |

Sitting on a Cornflake, Waiting for the Van to Come

I have a fondness for the Beatles song “I Am the Walrus,” as I’m sure many people do. Beth told me she found it scary, which I can see, but I don’t remember thinking that. I was, however, a little … Continue reading →

Comic-Ozzy

The Oz-Wonderland Chronicles #4 – As I mentioned in this post, I appreciate that this comic series is fairly faithful to the Oz books. Yes, Dorothy is grown up and living in Chicago with Alice as a roommate, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alice in wonderland, aunt em, ben avery, casey heying, dorothy gale, field-mice, glinda, gonzalo martinez, humpty dumpty, jabberwock, jack and cat tales, jellia jamb, kirk kushin, mr. tinker, nome king, oz-wonderland chronicles, ozopolis, the oz-wonderland war, tim burton, uncle henry |

A Geographic Wonderland

I’ve always liked maps of imaginary lands. They satisfy both my love of maps in general and my fondness for verisimilitude in fantasy. So it’s kind of a shame that two of my favorite books that don’t have “Oz” in … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Chess, Games, Lewis Carroll, Playing Cards | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, humpty dumpty, james cook, john tenniel, king of hearts, knave of hearts, mad hatter, maps, march hare, queen of hearts, red king, the dictionary of imaginary places, through the looking-glass, white king |