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You Aren’t Going Nowhere, Fungus

Continued from this post, here are four more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews: Rolling Down the River – While not exactly the line from “Proud Mary,” they did originally play that song in this episode, earlier in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Beatles, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged bats in the basement, beezos, bob-ombs, brutius maximus grouchimus, clawgrip, dealin' delbert, frankenstein, goombas, horses, hot pepper pistachio ice cream, jack and the beanstalk, joe dolce, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, linguine ampire, lions, love 'em and leave 'em, love potion, luigi mario, mario and the beanstalk, mushroom kingdom, nintendo comics system, ostros, princess peach toadstool, queen of hearts, queen rotunda, rolling down the river, rotunda land, shyguys, spaghetti, subcon, super mario bros. 2, the great gladiator gig, the mario monster mash, toad, triclyde, vampires, you again? |

Playing with the Queen of Hearts

Heartless, by Marissa Meyer – The author of the Lunar Chronicles turns her attention to the work of Lewis Carroll, presenting the back story of the infamous Queen of Hearts. The book explains why the Mad Hatter and March Hare … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Nursery Rhymes | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, duchess of wonderland, gregory maguire, heartless, jabberwock, king of hearts, mad hatter, marissa meyer, mock turtle, peter peter pumpkin eater, queen of hearts, red queen, through the looking-glass, white queen, white rabbit, wicked |

To the Victor Goes the Spoiled Music

The Lonely Phonograph of Oz, by Debbie Bumstead – Victor Columbia Edison, the phonograph who was accidentally brought to life with the same powder as the Patchwork Girl, only appeared in The Patchwork Girl of Oz for some brief comic … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Music, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alice in wonderland, ben avery, bungle and the magic lantern of oz, bungle of oz, carrie bailey, casey herring, cowardly lion, debbie bumstead, dorothy gale, frogman, greg gick, john tenniel, king rinkitink, oz-wonderland chronicles, queen of hearts, rinkitink in oz, sean carlson, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the lonely phonograph of oz, the songs of l. frank baum's rinkitink in oz, victor columbia edison, wicked witch of the west |

Making a Killing

For someone who wanted to leave out the heartaches and nightmares from his fairy tales, L. Frank Baum included a fair number of executioners. I suspect this is partially due to the influence of Lewis Carroll, whose Queen of Hearts … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, charles napoleon bonaparte evans, executioners, fool-killer, gilbert and sullivan, gryphon, jesse holmes, john dough and the cherub, king terribus of spor, kinglet of phreex, maria simpson, noland, nome king, nomes, o. henry, ojo in oz, pang, prince marvel, princess fluff, queen of hearts, queen zixi of ix, reachard, sir john tenniel, tellydeb, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the mikado, tik-tok of oz |

Two (or More) Become One

One of the main complaints that fans of the Oz books seem to have about the MGM movie, aside from making Oz a dream, is that they combined two Good Witches into one character. Now, it makes a certain amount … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Comics, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, arwen, batman, calypso, circe, glinda, glorfindel, good witch of the north, joe chill, joker, lord of the rings, mombi, odyssey, peter jackson, princess langwidere, queen of hearts, red queen, return to oz, robin, the hundred and one dalmatians, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, through the looking-glass, tim burton, tony zucco, two-face |

The Carrollian Queens

One tendency I’ve noticed is for people to confuse the Queen of Hearts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with the Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass. This was the case in Tim Burton’s film; and while I haven’t played it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Board Games, Chess, Games, Lewis Carroll | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, american mcgee, glinda, good witch of the north, king of hearts, mgm, queen of hearts, red king, red queen, the wizard of oz (movie), through the looking-glass, tim burton, white king, white queen |

These Days, Down the Rabbit Hole

We’re now back on the Disney animated movies with Alice in Wonderland, from 1951. I’ve seen this one many times before, and it was also one of my favorite books in childhood (and, really, still is now). I guess I … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Carroll, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, cheshire cat, dormouse, ed wynn, jerry colonna, king of hearts, mad hatter, march hare, queen of hearts, sir john tenniel, through the looking-glass, tweedledum and tweedledee |

A Geographic Wonderland

I’ve always liked maps of imaginary lands. They satisfy both my love of maps in general and my fondness for verisimilitude in fantasy. So it’s kind of a shame that two of my favorite books that don’t have “Oz” in … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Chess, Games, Lewis Carroll, Playing Cards | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, humpty dumpty, james cook, john tenniel, king of hearts, knave of hearts, mad hatter, maps, march hare, queen of hearts, red king, the dictionary of imaginary places, through the looking-glass, white king |