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Give God Your Strength!
Breath of Fire 2 – I watched my brother play through this years ago, but I never did myself. I was getting a little frustrated with the other games I was playing, so I downloaded this on the 3DS and … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Dragon Quest, Magic, Monsters, Names, Phantasy Star, Religion, Video Games | Tagged armadillos, aspara gus, bleu, bow, breath of fire 2, cats, deathevan, demons, dogs, dragon clan, dragons, eichichi, ekkal hoppa de pe jean, frogs, habaruku, katt, kilgore, kilgore trout, kurt vonnegut, monkeys, nagas, namanda, nimufu, nina windia, rand marks, ryu bateson, st. eva church, sten legacy, tiga lee, translation, trout, witches |
He Blinded Me with Scienstein
The video game I’ve actually been playing the most as of late is Breath of Fire 2, which I remember from the Super Nintendo. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it soon. I just got past the part … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Food, Humor, Kirby, Mario, Monsters, Science, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged arewo shitain-hakase, breath of fire 2, croakians, custard kingdom, dr. ivan knit, dr. mario, dr. mario 64, dr. wright, earthbound, frogs, golden pyramid, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, kilgore, kilgore trout, kurt vonnegut, link's awakening, lord delarin, lost woods, luigi mario, mad scienstein, mandola, mario mario, masakachotto university, megavitamins, mille-feuille kingdom, minister crepe, moldorms, nantendo island, paper mario: the thousand-year door, prince of sable, prince richard, princess eclair, princess shokora, princess tiramisu, pudding continent, robots, rudy the clown, shigesato itoi, simcity, snakes, strudel continent, the frog for whom the bell tolls, trout, waffle kingdom, wario, wario land 3, wario land 4, witches |
A Case of the Mondays
I understand that the day before yesterday was Blue Monday, the saddest day of the year. Well, at least that’s what an advertising campaign from a British travel agency called Sky Travel says. There was some nonsensical equation used to … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, History, Holidays, Language, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Urban Legends | Tagged black friday, black tuesday, blue monday, bluing, breakfast of champions, cliff arnall, grampa in oz, kurt vonnegut, laundry, lent, monday, monday mountain, posies, sky travel |
Throwing the Books at You
The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, by A. Lee Martinez – I haven’t read all of Martinez’ books, but I believe each one takes place in a different universe, at least as far as we know. He definitely has a … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Urban Legends | Tagged arthur rackham, ayn rand, carl barks, castle waiting, cats, demons, don rosa, donald duck, donald trump, fantagraphics, flintheart glomgold, giants, gyro gearloose, howard hughes, huey dewey and louie, j. edgar hoover, kurt vonnegut, l. frank baum and the perfect murder, linda medley, lloyd alexander, magica de spell, matt ruff, mystery, racism, return to plain awful, robin hess, roy cohn, scrooge mcduck, sewer gas and electric, simple simon, sleeping beauty, the last adventure of constance verity, the life and times of scrooge mcduck, time cat, walt disney |
London Frog
Falling Sideways, by Tom Holt – While Robert Rankin claims to have invented the term “Far-Fetched Fiction” in hopes of getting his own shelf at the bookstore, I don’t know that he’d necessarily be the only one whose books would … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Humor, Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdity, falling sideways, frogs, heqet, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, kurt vonnegut, sirius, tom holt |
We’ve Got Your Number
Picture by John Vernon Lord I mentioned on Twitter last night that, when I hear the number forty-two, I don’t think of Jackie Robinson, but rather of Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll. I guess that’s largely because I’m just not … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Douglas Adams, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged 27, 42, 47, alice's adventures in wonderland, jackie robinson, kurt vonnegut, numbers, player piano, queen zixi of ix, sky island, the hunting of the snark, the magical monarch of mo, through the looking-glass |
Let Them Eat George
The Greatest Show Off Earth, by Robert Rankin – Fantastic Fiction has this listed as part of the Cornelius Murphy series, but it isn’t. Cornelius and Hugo Rune are nowhere to be seen here, with the focus instead being on … Continue reading →
The Campbell Is Coming
The Book of Ultimate Truths, by Robert Rankin – By now, I’ve read enough of Rankin’s books to notice that there are certain recurring characters who show up in many of them. Their circumstances aren’t always quite the same, but … Continue reading →
Make My Millennium
I have three book reviews for you today. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, by Norman Cohn – I bought this on a whim when I found it at the school bookstore … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Cults, France, Germany, History, Holy Roman Empire, Humor, Oz, Religion | Tagged alexander volkov, aliens, arzaks, bible, big trouble, dave barry, hurricap, jesus, kurt vonnegut, magic land, menvits, middle ages, nimrod, norman cohn, peter blystone, rameria, revelation, tales of magic land, the mystery of the deserted castle, the pursuit of the millennium, urfin jus |