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Coping with Immortality

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo |

Batoose, Batoose!

It’s on to the 1973 Oziana, and I feel like this one is somewhat lacking in unique content, as some of it was published elsewhere. That said, these publications were quite limited and I don’t have copies, so that’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Fred Otto, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry | Tagged bible, bill eubank, fairies, george van buren, gospel of luke, gregory maguire, harry mongold, ix, kevin harris, latin, lulea, oziad, oziana, ozma, ozma sees herself, paradox in oz, sawhorse, tempus temporis in terra ozis, the improbable forest, the patchwork girl of oz, the sawhorse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, time travel, tippetarius, wicked, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz |

Now I Know My ABCs

When listening to albums randomly the other day, the They Might Be Giants record Here Come the ABCs came up. This is one of the children’s albums they did for Disney, and as such it doesn’t stand up to repeated … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Music, They Might Be Giants | Tagged alphabet, deeply felt puppet theater, greek, here come the abcs, john flansburgh, latin, phoenician, robin goldwasser, who put the alphabet in alphabetical order? |

The Roots of Language in Oz

My recent post on language in the Oz books has led to some interesting discussion on this topic. Many of the names of native Ozites are either descriptive of the characters or puns, if not both. There are also frequently … Continue reading →

Posted in Etymology, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aaron adelman, boq, buzzub, captain salt in oz, chinda, english, gayelette, german, glinda, good witch of the north, handy mandy in oz, happy toko, hippopotamus, jocasta, king gugu, king sizzeroo, latin, michael patrick hearn, mogodore, nikobo, nimmie amee, nox the ox, oedipus, ojo, omby amby, oogaboo, ozish, pastoria, potaroo, professor wogglebug, quelala, scarecrow, silver island, sleeperoo, sultan of samandra, swahili, the annotated wizard of oz, the royal book of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, ugu the shoemaker, woot the wanderer |