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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 |

Getting to Nome You

The physical appearance of the Nome King was something that came up recently in an online chat, and we have a pretty good description when he first appears in Ozma of Oz: “This important monarch of the Underground World was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Gender, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, dorothy gale, eggs, imps, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic belt, mardi gras, mary lenard, matriarchy, nome king, nome kingdom, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, patriarchy, pirates in oz, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, santa claus, sexism, sherwood smith, the baum bugle, the characters of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, the nome king, the tik-tok man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz |

The Ozual Suspects

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi – This collection of essays by different authors, some of whom I know personally, discusses various Oz characters and how they’ve been used over time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Christianity, Eric Shanower, Feminism, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Live Shows, Magic, Magic Items, Muppets, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Plays, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged a good man but a bad wizard, a living thing, all wound up, angelica shirley carpenter, aunt em, but first there was a scarecrow, charlotte greenwood, cowardly lion, danielle paige, david maxine, dee michel, dina schiff massachi, dorothy and the heroine's quest, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, feathertop, fred woodward, gita dorothy morena, glinda, glinda and gender performativity, golden cap, hank the mule, heart over head, intelligence, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, james satter, jinjur, katharine kittredge, knitting, louis f. gottschalk, love magnet, mark i. west, mary lenard, matilda joslyn gage, miss piggy, nathaniel hawthorne, nome king, oliver morosco, ozcon international, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, paige gray, patchwork girl, piecing together the patchwork girl of oz, polychrome, prince silverwings, private jo files, queen ann soforth, queen coo-ee-oh, rinkitink in oz, robert b. luehrs, ruth berman, scarecrow, scoodlers, shaggy man, shannon murphy, straight outta oz, the characters of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the muppets' wizard of oz, the nome king, the proto-sissy the sissy and macho men, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, todrick hall, trading knitting needles for pistols, walter squire, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witch's familiars or winged warriors, witches, witches wicked and otherwise, wizard of oz |