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Conquest by Computer

The 1986 Oziana is the first issue I ever read, even though it was around 1993 when I did so. I just started out by ordering the earliest one the Oz Club was offering at the time. The cover here … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Christmas, Games, Holidays, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, bini aru, blair boudreau, corwin davison poe, easter bunny, edgar allan poe, emerald city, fairies, forbidden fountain, frosty the snowman, glinda, grinch, how the grinch stole christmas, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, laughing valley of hohaho, little bun rabbit, mother goose in prose, mount munch, mrs. claus, much ado about kiki aru, nome king, north pole, old mother hubbard, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, pyrzqxgl, richard capwell, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus in oz, sean patrick duffley, sir hokus of pokes, smith and tinker, the easter bunny of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, tik-tok, tim hollis, trot griffiths, water of oblivion, wilbur canard, wizard of oz |

The Rest of Nonestica

The International Wizard of Oz Club’s map of the countries surrounding Oz includes a few places, mostly in the southeastern part of the continent (which most likely isn’t technically a continent), that were never directly linked with Oz. They are, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cults, Dick Martin, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, arol, aurissau, bilkon, burzee, earl of highlough, fairies, gregory maguire, groves of trom, gump, gurd, hallita, international wizard of oz club, jack frost, james e. haff, junkum, king gruph, king scowleyow, lady lindeva, macvelt, mary ann brodjinsky de la porkus, mary-marie, mother goose in prose, mount mern, mulgravia, old king cole, prince melra, quok, slave of the royal bedstead, the king who changed his mind, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the queen of quok, the runaway shadows, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wizard of aurissau, thumbumbia, tik-tok of oz, whatland, witches, zendik |

A Space Ozyssey

I’ve examined the possible location of the Land of Oz and its surrounding fairylands in the past. To sum up, the earlier books seem to place it in some hidden part of our Earth, while more recent ones tend to … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Gina Wickwar, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged anuther planet, argo, big dipper, cancer, demon of electricity, gump, james howe, jupiter, kass stone, kenneth gage baum, man in the moon, mars, mister tinker in oz, moon, mother goose in prose, neptune, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, polaris, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, saturn, scarecrow, sky island, smith and tinker, speedy, stars, stratovania, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the man in the moon, the martian invasion of oz, the master key, the silver princess in oz, the yellow knight of oz, three-headed elvis clone found in flying saucer over oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, uranus, ursa minor, yankee in oz, zodiac |

Oz Con Artists

I’ve written before about how L. Frank Baum’s position on trickery is somewhat mixed. As someone who had worked as a salesman, he knew the value of a certain amount of balderdash in order to sell things to people. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged bell-snickle, deception, frogman, humbug, kiki aru, kwytoffle, mother goose in prose, nome king, ozma of oz, phanfasms, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wheelers, whimsies, wizard of oz |

Baum vs. the Bible

When we discussed John R. Neill’s Lucky Bucky in Oz on the old Nonestica mailing list, J.L. Bell mentioned how Bucky recalled the story of Jonah and the Whale when riding inside Davy Jones. Biblical allusions are uncommon in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Theosophy | Tagged american fairy tales, bible, cap'n bill, captain salt in oz, garden of eden, goliath, j. l. bell, jonah, king anko, king solomon, lucky bucky in oz, mother goose in prose, nebuchadnezzar, noah, noah's ark, paradise, policeman bluejay, queen zixi of ix, samson, satan, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the laughing hippopotamus, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the uplift of lucifer, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wond'rous wise man, twinkle and chubbins, twinkle tales, uncle henry, uplifters, zog |

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 |

A Pauper, on the Other Hand, Is Ruling, Strong and Wise

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s three companions all end up as rulers: the Scarecrow of the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman of the Winkie Country, and the Cowardly Lion of the Quadling Forest. In later books, only Nick … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aurex, cap'n joe weedles, chick the cherub, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dragons, emerald city, glinda of oz, halidom, handy mandy in oz, happy toko, hiland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, kaliko, king timothy of noland, loland, merry go round in oz, mombi, mother goose in prose, nifflepok, noland, nome king, old king cole, ozma, pastoria, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, queen coo-ee-oh, queen rosalie, queen tourmaline, queen zixi of ix, quilties, quox, robin brown, roundabout, scarecrow, silver island, silver mountain, sir greves, skeezers, sky island, the gnome king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the royal book of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, whatland, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog |

Cole Mining

While we know that Old King Cole was a merry old soul with a love for music, whether he actually existed is a matter of some debate. There are records of a few different British rulers named Coel, dating back … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Comics, England, History, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Robert Rankin, United Kingdom | Tagged bill willingham, coel hen, constantine, fables, geoffrey of monmouth, king arthur, merlin, mother goose in prose, old king cole, the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse, the toyminator |