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Stuck a Feather in Glooscap

One name that came up on two different occasions while looking up other mythical topics was Glooscap, a cultural hero from the legends of the Wabanaki, in northern New England and southeastern Canada. The stories about him vary quite a bit, … Continue reading →

Posted in algonquin, Animals, Drugs, Magic, Medicine, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Native American | Tagged beavers, birds, creation, frogs, giants, glooscap, grasshoppers, loons, malsum, mikchich, odziozo, squirrels, tabaldak, tobacco, trees, turtles, wabanaki, whales |

This Isn’t My First Odio

I’ve finished Live a Live with two different endings. There are a few others, but I think I’m done with it for the time being. There are SPOILERS for the game in what follows. I wrote about the first four … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Final Fantasy, History, Middle Ages, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Video Games | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, akira tadokoro, alien, aliens, artificial intelligence, behemoth, captain square, cogito ergo sum, corporal darthe, cube, doc tobei, hasshe, hor bishop, kenichi lawless matsu, kingdom of lucerne, kirk wells, lei kugo, live a live, martial arts, masaru takahara, o. dio, oboromaru, od-10, odeo, odie o'bright, odio, oersted, pogo, princess alathea, robots, steel titan, streibough, sundown kid, taroimo, turtles, uranus, yoshiyuki kato |

The Strange, Silent Type

SPOILERS, as usual. Strange World – It’s weird that Disney came out with a new big-budget animated feature that just fizzled out at the box office, and I’m not quite sure why it did. I guess it was largely bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Families, Greek Mythology, Humor, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Sexuality, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged airships, anne bancroft, avalonia, bernadette peters, burt reynolds, callisto, diversity, dom deluise, james caan, liza minelli, marcel marceau, marty feldman, mel brooks, paul newman, sid caesar, silent movie, slapstick, strange world, turtles |

Let’s Go Back to Your Childhood

There are some pretty major SPOILERS for all three of these movies, especially the first two. Skinamarink – It’s weird, because I wouldn’t necessarily say this was a good movie, but it was pretty effective in what it was trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Dreams, Families, Health, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atreyu, bastian balthasar bux, bimbo's initiation, childlike empress, gmork, gnomes, horror, lionel richie, michael ende, morla the ancient one, nome king, pica, return to oz, rockbiter, sharon lois and bram, skinamarink, small fry, swallow, the neverending story, the neverending story 2, turtles |

Drainpipes and Dragons

Dragons are a mainstay of fantasy fiction, and of course have appeared in a number of video games. Even Metroid has them, and that series is more science fiction than fantasy. Dragons in the Super Mario universe in particular are … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Biology, Cartoons, Chinese, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Science, Semitic, Television, Video Games | Tagged baba yaga, bahamutt, blarggs, bowser koopa jr., captain toad treasure tracker, czar dragon, dinosaurs, draggadon, dragohoho, dragon driftway, dragons, dragonzamasu, earth dragon, final fantasy vi, gaburyu, gobblegut, gold dragon, humbaba, king bowser koopa, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mario kart 8, paper mario, paper mario color splash, paper mario: the thousand-year door, ruined dragon, sauropods, sea horses, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land, super mario odyssey, super mario rpg, super mario world, tarasque, toad, turtles, tyrannosaurus rex, unbaba, wario's woods, yoshi, yurarin |

Baskets Full of Easter Joy

Now that Easter is over, I suppose I should write about the relevant cartoons Beth and I watched this year. A Claymation Easter – This was on the same DVD as A Claymation Christmas, and I thought it would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Easter, Fairy Tales, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Stan Freberg, Technology, Television | Tagged a claymation christmas, a claymation easter, bears, berenstain bears, burl ives, casey kasem, chickens, claymation, danny kaye, daws butler, dr. spike rabbit, ducks, easter bunny, fairies, frosty the snowman, hallelujah jones, here comes peter cottontail, irving berlin, january q. irontail, mike berenstain, paas egg dye, paul frees, peter and the magic egg, peter paas, pigs, rabbits, rankin/bass, ray bolger, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus is comin' to town, sheep, stan and jan berenstain, the berenstain bears' easter surprise, the easter bunny is comin' to town, the first easter rabbit, the little engine that could, the velveteen rabbit, tobias tinwhiskers, trains, turtles, vincent price, will vinton |

A Whale of an Island

There are many tales of gigantic sea monsters, perhaps because what’s under the sea is pretty mysterious, and some of what people see really IS pretty monstrous. Northern Europe has many such legends, and this is where people really did encounter … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Inuit, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged aspidochelone, fish, giant squid, greenland, hafgufa, imap umassoursa, jasconius, kraken, lyngbakr, odd, ogmund, orvar-oddr, sea monsters, sinbad, squid, st. brendan, trolls, turtles, vignir, whales |

From the Animated Arcade Archive

I’ve already looked at the Saturday Supercade Donkey Kong cartoons, but I wanted to talk a bit about the others as well. They certainly went all out as far as games they covered, with a grand total of seven over … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Castlevania, Donkey Kong, Humor, Mario, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aliens, borf, coily, cowardly lion, don bluth, dragon's lair, fanny frog, frogger, frogs, infanto-ray, joey kangaroo, kangaroo, katy kangaroo, lions, monkeys, nosers, pauline, pitfall, princess daphne, princess peach toadstool, q*bert, quickclaw, ruby-spears, saturday supercade, scooby-doo, shellshock turtle, slippy doos, snagglepuss, snakes, snots and boogers, space ace, super mario world, swamp gazette, turtles, ugg, wreck-it ralph, wrongway |

Yikes, Spikes!

I thought it might be worth looking at the Mario enemies known as Spikes, since they seem to be rather prominent nowadays. I’ve even seen them as stuffed animals at the Nintendo store in Manhattan, although I don’t have one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Donkey Kong, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, Toys, Video Games | Tagged clubbas, don bongo, donkey kong country, flails, gabon, giants, glitz pit, grubba, hammer brothers, klubbas, koschei the deathless, lakilester, lakitu, luigi mario, mace penguins, maces, magikoopas, mario mario, morning stars, new super mario bros., nintendo power, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, penguins, ptooies, snow spikes, spikes, stone spikes, super mario 3d world, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, the blubbening, the giant who had no heart in his body, tubba blubba, turtles, weapons, yoshi's island, yoshi's story |

Mario’s Early Enemies

Do video games not come with manuals anymore? I know some of them have links to online manuals, but that isn’t exactly the same, even if they’re more convenient. I miss looking at the brief descriptions of various enemies. Still, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Focus on the Foes, Mario, Monsters, Television, Video Games | Tagged amps, birds, chain chomps, clawgrip, crabs, crows, donkey kong '94, donkey kong country, donkey kong jr., fighter flies, freezies, fuzzies, hawks, hotheads, jays, klaptraps, koopa troopas, li'l sparkies, mario bros., mario vs donkey kong, nitpickers, paper mario, shellcreepers, sidesteppers, slipices, snapjaws, sparks, spinies, stookybirds, super mario 64, super mario advance, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario land, super mario world, touch fuzzy get dizzy, turtles, watt, yoshi's island |