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Gone with the Northeast Wind

The 1988 Oziana has a game on both the front and back cover, derived by Fred Meyer and drawn by Bill Eubank. For each of fifty different transformations, the player has to guess who was transformed into what. I like … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Camilla Townsend, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Poetry, Relationships, Star Trek, Technology | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, a side view of the nonestic islands, angela garvey garvey, army, aunt em, betsy bobbin, bill eubank, break dance, corwin davison poe, dorothy gale, fairies, fred meyer, frogman, h.p. lovecraft, hungry tiger, king evoldo of ev, li-mon-eags, limericks, magic belt, martha cornog, mcwogglebug, military, neal wilgus, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, polychrome, professor wogglebug, scarecrow, smith and tinker, spock, stuff and nonsense, the blue raindrops of oz, the computer wizard makes a comeback, the magic of oz, the northeast wind in oz, thorgose, tik-tok, timothy perper, tin woodman, tollydiggle, trot griffiths, two's of a kind, typhonic, ventilation, wendy roth, winds, wizard of oz |

Coping with Immortality

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo |

Reformation Nation

The Cardboard King in Oz, by Gil S. Joel – The sequel to Joel’s Healing Power deals with many of the same characters, this time in vignettes rather than a book-long story. The confidence man Willie Lie returns to Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, History, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adolf hitler, adolf hitler in oz, ali cat in oz, and justice for oz, andrew heller, emerald city, frankenstein, frankenstein's monster goes to oz, gil joel, glinda, golden cap, good, halloween island, joshua toritto, kalidahs, kinglet of phreex, lark vandergrace, mary shelley, matthew dennion, morality, nomes, ozma, patchwork girl, pterodactyls, sam sackett, scarecrow, take me back to oz, the cardboard king in oz, the healing power of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the puppet-mistress of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tollydiggle, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches |

Lockup: Emerald City

My wife, who has read several books about prison and watched many episodes of Lockup on MSNBC, has mentioned to me that she doesn’t like the way the prison system in Oz is set up. Of course, thanks to an … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, amazons, dc comics, emerald city, george van buren, jinjur, justice, ojo, omby amby, ozma, reform island, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, tollydiggle, transformation island, william moulton marston, wonder woman, zimbo and the magic amulet |

Advance to Boardwalk or Follow the Yellow Brick Road?

Recently, I’ve been engaged in reading about the history of Monopoly and listing Oz characters, so it’s not too surprising that my mind has gone back to the idea of an Ozopoly game. I referred to the idea and its … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Games, Monopoly, Oz, Places | Tagged chance, community chest, jail, omby amby, ozopoly, railroads, tollydiggle, utilities |