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A Most Ingenious Parrot-Ox

This time, I’m taking a look back at some of Edward Einhorn’s Oz work. I wrote a review of his The Living House of Oz back in 2005, when it was new; but I read his other book and two … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Plays | Tagged absurd city, absurdism, bumblebeast, continuity, contradictions, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dr. majestico, eugene ionesco, glinda, hungry tiger, hungry tiger press, illusion, logic, mombi, omby amby, oz-story magazine, ozma, ozma sees herself, ozziverse, paradox in oz, tempus the parrot-ox, the bald soprano, the emerald city of oz, the living house of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, time travel, tin woodman, tippetarius, unauthorized magic, unauthorized magic in oz, water of oblivion, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz |

I Like Birds

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh |

Gee-Whiz, More Oz!

I am now the proud owner of the 2014 Oziana, the fiction magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club. This issue contains six stories about Oz, starting with David Tai and Jared Davis‘ “Lost and Never Found,” in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged aaron solomon adelman, abby, alexander volkov, david tai, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, emerson hough, gilbert sprague, hank the mule, international wizard of oz club, j. l. bell, jinjur, joe bongiorno, kabumpo, kim mcfarland, labor of love, lost and never found, magic land, merryland, oziana, patchwork girl, rob zombie in oz, roselawn, scarecrow, tempus the parrot-ox, the king of gee-whiz, the new fellow, the patchwork bride of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, urfin jus, wilbur d. nesbit |

Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me

The theme of time travel is so prevalent in fiction and general speculation these days that it surprises me a little how recent it really is. I guess part of it is because the idea of time as something through … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Einhorn, Fairy Tales, Futurama, Humor, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Science, Television | Tagged a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, a sound of thunder, angels, back to the future, bender bending rodriguez, bender's big score, bill and ted's excellent adventure, demons, edward bellamy, el anachronopete, enrique gaspar y rimbau, h.g. wells, looking backward, mark twain, ozma, paradox in oz, philip j. fry, presentism, ray bradbury, rip van winkle, samuel madden, tempus the parrot-ox, the time machine, time, time machines, time travel, washington irving |

Tempus in a Teapot

Getting back to apocryphal Oz characters who seem to have gained a marginal amount of fame, we now turn to Tempus the Parrot-Ox. We meet this character in Edward Einhorn‘s Paradox in Oz, one of the most popular Oz books … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged beak the parrot, dr. majestico, eric shanower, oxen, paradox, paradox in oz, parrots, tempus the parrot-ox, the hidden prince of oz, the living house of oz, unauthorized magic, unauthorized magic in oz |