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Dorothy the Dictator

Operation Luna, by Poul Anderson – The follow-up to Operation Chaos follows up on Steve and Virginia Matuchek about twelve years after the end of the first book. They now have three children, and are working on a project to launch … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, jules verne, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Places, Poul Anderson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Vietnamese | Tagged amtor, cayke the cookie cook, charloz, cowardly lion, coyote, danielle paige, demons, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, dwarves, eugenics, fairies, four immortals, frogman, from the earth to the moon, fu manchu, girl giant and the jade war, glinda, guns, hecate, hecuba of troy, hellhounds, jellia jamb, journey to the west, lost on venus, mombi, moon, naiads, nome king, nymphs, operation chaos, operation luna, ozma, peter stuyvesant, polychrome, pumperdink, scarecrow, sun wukong, swords, the chalice of the gods, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, van hoang, venus, weapons, witches, wizard of oz, wrath of the triple goddess |

Possession Has Its Privileges

The Wonderful Land of Oz – This weird low-budget 1969 adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz is something I’d never seen, but Beth found online that there’s a Rifftrax version of it, so we watched it. I guess that … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Characters, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, sparks, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Wicca | Tagged aliens, ami dolenz, barry mahon, chan mahon, coronavirus, fairuza balk, ghosts, jinjur, mombi, neve campbell, ouija board, ozma, possession, professor wogglebug, rifftrax, russell mael, the becomers, the craft, the wonderful land of oz, tippetarius, witchboard, witchboard 2, witchcraft, witches, zach clark, zisca baum |

Women’s Realm

The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – The second Oz book is 120 years old, and since I just recently reread the first one, I thought it made sense to do the same with this. While Baum … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Feminism, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cowardly lion, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, fighting trees, glinda, griffins, hammer-heads, illusion, jack pumpkinhead, jinjur, misogyny, mombi, ozma, pastoria, professor wogglebug, sawhorse, scarecrow, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), the woggle-bug, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, transformation, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz |

All Together Again

It’s interesting that the Land of Oz seems to become more unified over the course of the series, and in fact over the first few books. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz doesn’t even make it entirely clear where the main … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged boq, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, gloma, good witch of the north, hammer-heads, how the wizard came to oz, jinjur, kimbaloo, mombi, ozma, ozma of oz, pastoria, paul dana, queen orin, scarecrow, seebania, singra, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, tippetarius, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz |

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 |

Not Pumpkin Pie!

Beth and I are back from California for the second time in a month, and from this year’s OzCon International, the first full one since 2019. I think the Friday programming might have been shorter than in previous years, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Futurama, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atticus gannaway, beetlejuice, changelings, cinar, david hulan, dina schiff massachi, dorothy gale, dumbo, earthworm jim, elephants, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, fairies, faith, filmation, freddy fogarty, glinda, hungry tiger, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, ken mclellan, lollipop guild, marsupilami, mombi, munchkins, nate barlow, neil cuadra, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, peter hanff, phineas and ferb, professor wogglebug, puns, return to oz, rugrats, ruth cuadra, ryan bunch, sam milazzo, sarah crotzer, sawhorse, school days in the land of oz, spirituality, te craft, ted eshbaugh, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the oz kids, the tik-tok man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the tin woods, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the west, zoe o'haillin-berne |

A Most Ingenious Parrot-Ox

This time, I’m taking a look back at some of Edward Einhorn’s Oz work. I wrote a review of his The Living House of Oz back in 2005, when it was new; but I read his other book and two … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Plays | Tagged absurd city, absurdism, bumblebeast, continuity, contradictions, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dr. majestico, eugene ionesco, glinda, hungry tiger, hungry tiger press, illusion, logic, mombi, omby amby, oz-story magazine, ozma, ozma sees herself, ozziverse, paradox in oz, tempus the parrot-ox, the bald soprano, the emerald city of oz, the living house of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, time travel, tin woodman, tippetarius, unauthorized magic, unauthorized magic in oz, water of oblivion, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz |

Down on the Farm

Here are a few Oz things I’ve read recently. Dark Wind in Oz, by Tarl Telford – It’s been some time since I read the first two books in the Hidden History of Oz series, but now I’ve finally read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, abby, ages of oz, angela garvey garvey, aunt em, billina, bitty bit, conjo, corwin davison poe, dark wind in oz, dorothy gale, fairies, foiled by the iffin, frogman, gabriel gale, gilbert and sullivan, glinda, glinda's letters to oz, grampa in oz, guardian of the gates, gump, imogene the cow, journal of a journey, king skamperoo, mary rakestraw, mombi, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, pastoria, pigasus, role-playing, smith and tinker, sundays at sam's, tarl telford, the computer wizard of oz, the final fate of the frogman, the giant garden of oz, the glinda letters, the hidden history of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, timeline, toto, truth pond, uncle henry, water of oblivion, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, yips, zim greenleaf of oz |

Pendexter’s Laboratory

Today, in my ongoing look at obscure Oz books, I’m looking at the work of Hugh Pendexter III. He dives into some unanswered questions from the series and includes quite a few references, although he mostly uses his own characters, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Places, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged cap'n bill, curtis dunham, dogs, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. nikidik, dr. pipt, elephants, ev, farhold island, forest of gugu, great gillikin forest, how the wizard came to oz, johnny dooit, mombi, morrow, nine tiny piglets, oz and the three witches, ozma, paul clarendon west, robots, saturn, shaggy man, silico, tales of the crocheted cat, the crocheted cat in oz, the golden goblin, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the pearl and the pumpkin, the road to oz, the sea fairies, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz, wooglet in oz |

All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise

My Oz reading recently has been a bit slow, both because I’ve had other things to read and because I was a little embarrassed to reread my own “Prince Pompadore in Oz.” I did like it, but I didn’t want to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged charlene gretski, corinne morris, dagmar in oz, danica libutti, david rose, deadly desert, dolls, dorothy and the magic belt, doug morris, dr. angelina bean in oz, dr. nikidik, elves, emerald city, fleas, frogs, jeremy steadman, joy marie morris, lunarr and maureen in oz, mombi, noyzy boyz, oziana, ozma, peter morris, prince pompadore in oz, ruth morris, scoodlers, scrabble, snakes, susan saunders, the flying bus in oz, the lost king of oz, the road to oz |