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First Star I See Tonight

SPOILERS for all five of these! I had meant to write about some of them earlier, but I haven’t been feeling well as of late. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV – This is a four-part documentary … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Corporations, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abuse, amanda bynes, brian peck, creep, dan schneider, drake bell, found footage, fozzie bear, head of the class, john wayne gacy, kermit the frog, long john silver, miss piggy, muppet treasure island, murder, nickelodeon, quiet on set, robert louis stevenson, sam the eagle, sexual harassment, stars, the poughkeepsie tapes, tim curry, treasure island, wish, wishes |

Purple Horse, Pink Goat, Blue Woozy

Scan by Jared Davis The 1992 Oziana gives us a rather striking cover illustration, a picture by Eric Shanower of the Wicked Witch of the East as she realizes she’s about to be crushed by a house. “A Christmas Tree … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Christmas, Comics, Eric Shanower, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a christmas tree for dorothy, afterlife, bill eubank, blue emperor, brent peddy, christmas trees, cindy jen, daniel han, david maxine, deepa mehta, dorothy gale, dorothy's christmas tree, emerald city, everett avila, fred meyer, gayelette, goats, henry blossom, high boy, horses, joe mcsweeney, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kingdom of dreams, krizzle kroo, lurline, magic mistake bag, nicole bent, oziana, ozma, pastoria, professor nowitall, ricky blount, robin olderman, sandman, santa claus, scarecrow, shaune anderson, stars, the blue emperor of oz, the giant horse of oz, the journey, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the silver princess in oz, the tail of the pink goat, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tin woodman, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizards, woozy |

Commonwealth of Common Wealth

Utopia, by Sir Thomas More, translated and introduced by Clarence H. Miller – This book introduced to world the fictional country that even now is used to mean an ideal society, from the Greek meaning either “no place” or “good place.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Economics, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Politics, Relationships, Religion | Tagged anxiety, charlie holmberg, clarence h. miller, colonialism, drew barrymore, Edward Wagenknecht, ever after, jen lancaster, king henry viii, martyrdom, maslow's hierarchy of needs, moon, raphael hythloday, sir thomas more, slavery, star mother, stars, sun, the emerald city of oz, utopia, utopia americana, welcome to the united states of anxiety |

The Secret Lives of Stars

It’s kind of an odd inspiration, I suppose, but I got an idea to write a post about star mythology from this tweet, for which I’m honestly not sure how serious the original posters were. There is some basis in … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Babylonian, Christianity, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion, Science, Semitic | Tagged angels, antiochus epiphanes, archangel michael, baal, bible, book of daniel, book of enoch, bootes, constellations, demeter, enoch, ezekiel, firmament, genesis, gospel of luke, heaven, isaiah, ishtar, jesus, job, lucifer, nephilim, persephone, pleiades, revelation, satan, scorpio, stars, underworld, ursa major, ursa minor, venus |

Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic

Next on my list of video games I haven’t played but watched playthroughs of to see what went on in them, it’s the Super Mario Galaxy games. They definitely look good, like how the Lumas resemble cuddly stuffed animals. Mario in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aliens, bees, comet observatory, galaxies, gearmos, goombas, honey queen, king bowser koopa, lubba, lumas, mario kart, mario kart 7, mario kart 8, nintendo comics system, octopuses, octoroks, orbulon, piantas, power stars, princess peach toadstool, quirks, rabbits, rainbow exploration agency, rainbow road, robots, Rosalina, shroobs, sky station galaxy, star bunnies, star festival, stars, starship mario, super mario 64, super mario galaxy, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land 2, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, tatanga, throwback galaxy, toads, yoshi |

Save Our Symbols

I’ve recently heard about white supremacist groups co-opting the A-OK finger symbol, which hardly seems fair to the rest of us. If they want to steal it, why should they just be able to get away with it? We can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Satanism, Theosophy, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged adolf hitler, anton lavey, aryans, atlantis, classical elements, donald trump, eliphas levi, goats, heimdall, isis, jesus, manji, nazis, pentagram, racism, satan, stars, swastika, symbolism, terrorism, the legend of zelda |

The Moon Has His Eyes on You

Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes, by Roshani Chokshi – The series based on Hindu mythology continues with this volume, where the reincarnated Pandavas seek out the magical tree Kalpavriksha with the help of a proud naga prince. Over … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Chinese, Hinduism, Humor, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged aldebaran, anasuya, antelopes, aru shah, aru shah and the tree of wishes, atri, brahma, brihaspati, budha, chandra, chang'e, daksha, elixir of life, ganesh, jupiter, mercury, moon, nagas, nakshatras, navagraha, ocean of milk, pandava quartet, pandavas, planets, rabbits, rick riordan presents, rohini, shiva, soma, stars, tara |

Moonstruck

In Jordanna Max Brodsky’s The Wolf in the Whale, the moon god Taqqiq was an antagonist of Omat. Looking up Inuit lunar mythology, there are many different names for this god, Igaluk being perhaps the most popular one, while he’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Inuit, Mythology, Native American | Tagged anigan, eclipse, jordanna max brodsky, malina, moon, rape, saturn, siqiniq, stars, sun, taqqiq, tarqeq, tarquip inua, the wolf in the whale, tulok |

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 |

Luma Park

I haven’t actually played Super Mario Galaxy, and when I saw Tavie play a little bit of it, it looked complicated. I guess it’s just that I’m old-fashioned, and used to seeing Mario in only two dimensions. Nevertheless, I can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged grampa in oz, king fumbo, lumas, maribella, mario kart, mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, nintendo comics system, prince tatters, princess daisy, princess peach toadstool, shigeru miyamoto, stars, super mario 3d world, super mario galaxy, super smash bros., waluigi |