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Nothing Could Be Finer

We are back home from Oz. Well, not really from Oz, because if I could go there, it would be difficult to get me to leave. But we’re back from the CharlOz convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The events took place … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Comics, Corporations, Education, Eric Shanower, Families, Feminism, Food, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Libraries, Magic, Magic Items, Mathematics, Music, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Relationships, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amusement parks, amy chu, angelica shirley carpenter, batman, carol gilligan, carousel, carowinds, charloz, conventions, danielle paige, dina schiff massachi, domestic violence, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, eric gjovaag, fairy ring lights, gita dorothy morena, glinda, great book of records, gregory maguire, heather greene, hiroe suzuki, holly humes, in flesh of burnished tin, international wizard of oz club, j. l. bell, james ortiz, jane albright, janet k. lee, jason black, jeff walker, judy bieber, katharine kittredge, laurence brenner, magic picture, margaret hamilton, mark i. west, martin gardner, matilda joslyn gage, megan lynn isaac, monarchy, nimmie amee, nome king, oz the great and powerful, ozma, paige gray, president richard nixon, return to oz, roller coasters, scarecrow, sea sirens, sky island, the characters of oz, the sea fairies, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, the woodsman, tin woodman, vibiana cvetkovic, visart video, visitors from oz, walter squire, wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz |

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 Hip to Be Hypocritical

I’ve been thinking of a few things recently with regards to politics, especially in terms of Republicans. They’re hardly original ideas with me, and I’m sure many people have expressed them better than I have, but I’m going to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Economics, Education, Politics, Prejudice, Television | Tagged abortion, abuse, alec baldwin, amazon, authoritarianism, brett kavanaugh, chris christie, disney, donald trump, elon musk, facebook, hillary clinton, homophobia, hypocrisy, jeff bezos, misogyny, pedophilia, president richard nixon, racism, rape, republicans, roe v. wade, ron desantis, saturday night live, supreme court of the united states, transphobia, twitter |

Too Much Malarkey

I watched the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden last night, so I might as well comment on that and related political issues. Do people really change their minds about whom to vote for based on debates? It’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Economics, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Television | Tagged 2020 presidential election, abortion, chris wallace, coronavirus, democrats, donald trump, green new deal, health care, impeachment, jeb bush, joe biden, president richard nixon, presidential debates, racism, republicans, senate, supreme court of the united states |

Neglected Films

The Florida Project – I remember seeing a preview for this while at the movies with Beth, and she had wanted to see it, but we only just recently got around to it. She likes depressing media, and this definitely … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Families, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amusement parks, bebe's kids, magic castle, president abraham lincoln, president richard nixon, robin harris, robots, the florida project, tone loc, walt disney world, willem dafoe |

Let Me Finish

I checked out the third volume of Walt Kelly’s Pogo strips, Evidence to the Contrary, which runs from from 1953 to 1954. As acknowledged in the notes at the back of the volume, this is when the strip started getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, History, Music, Politics, They Might Be Giants | Tagged albert the alligator, churchy lafemme, cold war, deacon mushrat, evidence to the contrary, howland owl, indian charlie, joseph mccarthy, mole maccarony, patrick mccarran, pogo, president richard nixon, simple j. malarkey, walt kelly |

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Futurama, Television | Tagged bender bending rodriguez, calculon, crushinator, emperor nikolai, g.i. joe, ghosts, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, marvin the paranoid android, nibbler, president richard nixon, professor hubert farnsworth, robots, scooby-doo, so long and thanks for all the fish, strawberry shortcake |