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Coming Home to Roost

SPOILER WARNING! Also, watch out for rotten eggs. Marriage Story – I think the only thing I really knew about this movie before watching it was a picture of Adam Driver yelling, which became a meme template. But anyway, Driver plays … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Dreams, elvis presley, Families, Music, Names, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adam driver, cats, chanticleer, charles nelson reilly, chickens, colonel tom parker, divorce, dogs, don bluth, foxes, geoffrey chaucer, glen campbell, magpies, marriage, marriage story, mice, owls, phil harris, reynard the fox, robin hood, rock-a-doodle, scarlett johansson, the canterbury tales, weather |

Holy Hanna-Barbera!

The Hanna-Barbera Now initiative at DC Comics started in 2016, with the idea to use characters from the old studio’s cartoons in more modern and often darker stories. I’d been interested in the Flintstones series for a while now; it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Environmentalism, Families, Humor, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons | Tagged aliens, astro, augie doggie, bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cosmo g. spacely, dc comics, dogs, dorothy parker, elroy jetson, exit stage left, frank pugh, fred flintstone, gay marriage, george jetson, george o'hanlon, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, hanna-barbera now, homophobia, homosexuality, huckleberry hound, jane jetson, jimmy palmiotti, marilyn monroe, mark russell, marriage, mike feehan, nasa, pearl slaghoople, pebbles flintstone, peter potamus, pier brito, president richard nixon, puns, quick draw mcgraw, robots, rosey the robot, roy cohn, satire, snagglepuss, squiddly diddly, tennessee williams, tony danza, who framed roger rabbit, wilma flintstone |

It’s Craning Men

When Sorrows Come, by Seanan McGuire – After a lot of build-up throughout the last few books, we finally get to see Toby and Tybalt’s wedding, at the court of the High King of the Divided Courts in Toronto. Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chris Dulabone, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged abuse, and with reveling, arabian nights, clark ashton smith, cranes, decemberists, doppelgangers, fairies, hippogriffs, jinn, kelly barnhill, kesrick, lin carter, marriage, mombi, ozma, robert e. howard, swords, terra magica, the crane husband, the crane wife, the marvelous land of oz, the merry mountaineer of oz, the tired tailor of oz, weapons, when sorrows come, wizards |

Ho Ho, Kerumph!

Kabumpo in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – You get two Oz posts in a row this week, because I’ve finished rereading this book for its hundredth anniversary. Thompson’s second Oz book is a clear improvement over her first, and Kabumpo … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dolls, elephants, emerald city, fairies, faleero, glegg, gnomes, illumi nation, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, luis ricardo falero, marriage, nome king, nomes, ozma, peg amy, prince pompadore, pumperdink, puns, rabbits, rith metic, tin woodman, trees, trot griffiths, twigs, wag the rabbit, water of oblivion, witches, wizard of oz |

A Dictionary of Ozian Marriage

There was a discussion on marriages in Oz at this year’s OzCon International, partially inspired by how The Tin Woodman of Oz includes two seemingly bad marriages. Mrs. Yoop is glad her brutal, uncouth husband, who used to kick her … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Economics, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, abuse, aunt em, chopyft, down town, dr. pipt, flatheads, gayelette, glegg, grampa in oz, grand duke hoochafoo, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jo cone, kabumpo in oz, king cheeriobed, king dad, king evoldo, king fumbo, king gos, king randywell, king sizzeroo, king theodore iii, lazy quadling, lord googly-goo, margolotte, marriage, mogodore, mr. yoop, mrs. sew-and-sew, mrs. yoop, nimmie amee, nome king, ojo in oz, ozcon international, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pastoria, peer haps, peg amy, pigs, planetty, pon, prince inga of pingaree, prince pompadore, prince tatters, princess gloria, princess pajonia, professor grunter swyne, queen adora, queen cor, queen fi nance, queen isomere, queen kabebe, queen orin, quelala, realbad, rinkitink in oz, rora flathead, speedy in oz, squealina swyne, stratovania, strut of the strat, supreme dictator, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, uncle henry, weddings, wumbo |

This Matrimony Is Full of Holes!

I seem to recall reading that the phrase “sanctity of marriage” wasn’t used until fairly recently, and was pretty much just a response to how marriage is changing in our society. That must not be entirely true, because a quick … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Economics, Families, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Mythology, Relationships, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, adultery, bible, deuteronomy, exodus, gay marriage, genesis, homosexuality, hymen, jesus, leviticus, marriage, prostitution, reproduction, sacraments, sanctity of marriage |

Moving to a Magical Monarchy

Happy birthday, Ozma! It seems common among Oz fans to consider Ozma to be, in a way, our monarch, and Oz as a place we’d like to escape to someday if it were at all possible. C. Warren Hollister’s essay … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged behave yourself, belfaygor, c. warren hollister, glinda, grampa in oz, great book of records, immigration, jack pumpkinhead of oz, lord high humpus, magic picture, marriage, monarchy, oz and the fifth criterion, ozcon international, ozma, patriotism, perhaps city, prince tatters, princess pretty good, refugees, ritual, shirley sunshine, the tin woodman of oz |

Not All Scumbags Are the Same

As of late, it seems like every celebrity or politician is turning out to be creepy and abusive. I’m glad people are speaking up about it, but it just appears disturbingly common. I’m sure part of it is due to … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Christianity, Current Events, Fundamentalism, Gender, Politics, Religion | Tagged abuse, al franken, allegations, bill o'reilly, donald trump, fornication, george takei, harvey weinstein, hypocrisy, jared fogle, marriage, michael jackson, morality, Neil deGrasse Tyson, pedophilia, rape, roger ailes, roy moore, sin |

Tempted by the Fruit of Another Mother

It recently surfaced (or resurfaced, anyway) that Mike Pence, infamous bigoted scumbag and Vice President of the United States (in that order, I assume), refuses to dine with a woman unless his wife is present. Actually, the wording I’ve seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Current Events, Fundamentalism, Gender, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged billy graham, billy graham rule, donald trump, glennon doyle melton, infidelity, jesus, karen pence, marriage, mike pence, misogyny |

The Devil and Webster’s Dictionary

Apparently a whole lot of people love the Devil, and most of them are poorly spelled. Did no one bother to proofread this before someone used it at a rally? Or are badly written signs just a tradition? If they … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Greek Mythology, Humor, Language, Mythology, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged dionysus, maenads, marriage, misogyny, promise keepers, protest signs, satan, shacking up |