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This One’s for the Children
Here are some Christmas specials Beth and I have watched so far this year, as well as indications that she was way more attuned to pop culture in her childhood than I was. Pound Puppies: Happy Howlidays – Beth used … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Christmas, Dreams, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, Toys | Tagged a beavis and butt-head christmas, a christmas carol, beavis and butt-head, black sabbath, bob geldof, cabbage patch kids, christmas in july, dogs, dolls, donnie wahlberg, dr. claw, dr. john, elves, fairies, george r.r. martin, glomer, happy howlidays, inspector gadget, inspector gadget saves christmas, it's a wonderful life, it's punky brewster, katrina stoneheart, kevin geeks out, leon redbone, matt frewer, maurice starr, max headroom, max headroom's giant christmas turkey, new kids on the block, new kids on the block christmas special, north pole, nutcracker suite, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, pound puppies, punky brewster, robin williams, santa claus, storks, the cabbage patch kids' first christmas, the twelve days of christmas, tina turner |
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 |
Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas
We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift |
Save Your Drama for the Yamas
Yama Yama Land: Where Everything Is Different, by Grace Duffie Boylan, illustrated by Edgar Keller – There were several books released in the early twentieth century that were largely imitative of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, both in story and … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Buddhism, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, L. Frank Baum, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ada jones, bessie mccoy, bogeyman, collin davis, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, edgar keller, eva katherine gibson, grace duffie boylan, grampa in oz, hollow earth, karl hoschna, north pole, reilly and britton, the three twins, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yama yama man, w. w. denslow, yama, yama yama land |
Dragon Tales
The Book of Dragons, by Edith Nesbit – What creature represents fantasy in general better than the dragon? While the general portrayal of dragons makes them nasty, ravenous thieves, it’s certainly not unheard of for them to be noble and … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Fairy Tales | Tagged aurora borealis, cats, cockatrice, draco, dragons, edith nesbit, fantasy, griffins, kind little edmund, manticore, north pole, st. george, the book of beasts, the book of dragons, the deliverers of their country, the dragon tamers, the fiery dragon, the ice dragon, the island of the nine whirlpools, uncle james |
Bored in Hyperborea
In Greek mythology, it was said that the land of Hyperborea lay far to the north of the lands the myth-makers knew. The name means “beyond the north wind,” and it was regarded as being to the north of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Astronomy, Christmas, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Mythology, Science | Tagged apollo, arctic circle, arimaspoi, artemis, at the back of the north wind, atlas, boreades, boreas, bugs bunny, carpathian mountains, conan the barbarian, constellations, cygnus, danube river, delos, draco, eridanos, eridanus, george macdonald, giants, griffins, heliades, herakles, hercules, herodotus, hesperides, hyperborea, kyknos, ladon, leto, north pole, north wind, odin, olympic games, phaethon, pliny the elder, po river, rhipaion mountains, santa claus, star of eridu, wolves, zeus |