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Medea vs. Jason

Kirby Manga Mania Volume 2, by Hirokazu Hikawa, translated by Amanda Haley – More gag-based adventures of the round pink hero, each with a theme of sorts but not much of a plot, instead mostly just consisting of Kirby goofing … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, jules verne, Kirby, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged amanda haley, atalanta, captain nemo, circe, coo the owl, dream land, euripides, gooey, hirokazu hikawa, jason and the argonauts, john m. ford, kine the ocean sunfish, king aeetes of colchis, king dedede, kirby manga mania, kracko, medea, meta knight, mr. tick-tock, rabbits, rick the hamster, the dragon waiting, the mysterious island, the witch of colchis, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's story book, vampires, witches, wizards |

Children of the Night, What a Mess They Make

These are the last few Halloween-related media Beth and I watched this spooky season. There are SPOILERS for all of them. The Devil and Daniel Mouse – A weird and cheap Canadian cartoon from the seventies loosely based on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Halloween, Harry Potter, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged charlotte rae, count dracula, dark night of the scarecrow, dracula dead and loving it, fairuza balk, jill murphy, john sebastian, larry drake, leslie nielsen, mel brooks, mice, satan, the devil and daniel mouse, the devil and daniel webster, the worst witch, tim curry, vampires, witches |

All He Does Is Drink Your Blood, ‘Cause He Don’t Like Ginger Ale

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair – This is a weird and often sad movie about a teenage girl who plays an online game that has something to do with the World’s Fair, but we never learn how the game … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Games, Health, History, Language, Monsters, Sexuality, Television, The Simpsons, Video, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anthony hopkins, bram stoker, bram stoker's dracula, carnivals, charles montgomery burns, count dracula, dracula, gary oldman, halloween, keanu reeves, psycho, renfield, the funhouse, vampires, vlad the impaler, we're all going to the world's fair, winona ryder |

Focused on the Future

We’ve now seen all of Season Twelve of Futurama, which I think is part of the ninth production season because of all the weirdness with how the show was originally aired. I noticed that, while there were still some commentaries … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Big Bang, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Humor, Monsters, Science, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Toys | Tagged aliens, amy wong, beanie babies, bender bending rodriguez, bender's game, bill nye, buggalo, cara delevigne, chatbots, coffee, encyclopedia brown, fashion, hardy boys, hedonism bot, hermes conrad, hypnosis, jack-in-the-box, john steinbeck, kif kroker, kyle mclachlan, levar burton, lrrr, mermaids, moths, nancy drew, ndnd, philip j. fry, pin the tail on the donkey, planet express, professor hubert farnsworth, robert burns, robots, scruffy the janitor, starbucks, tim gunn, tintin, turanga leela, vampires |

Jinn and Tonic

I’ve written about jinn before, but something I don’t think I’ve touched on is the different varieties among them. As with a lot of attempts to categorize mythical beings, there’s no real consensus on this. I just finished G. Willow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Islam, Kirby, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged abu tha'labah al-khushani, aladdin, alawi, alif the unseen, angels, arabian nights, bahamut, druze, dungeons and dragons, efreeti, fairies, g. willow wilson, ghouls, gustave flaubert, hadith, hinn, iblis, ifrit, jinn, king solomon, king vikramaditya, kirby's dream land 2, marids, muhammad, nasnas, night of the living dead, queen of sheba, quran, shaitan, shiqq, sila, succubus, the fisherman and the jinni, the temptation of saint anthony, vampires, vetala, zombies |

Madam Lucifer, You Never Looked So Sane

Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves, by James Branch Cabell – The books in this series that I’ve read so far are pretty formulaic, usually about a somewhat sleazy guy who philosophizes a lot without doing much of anything, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Board Games, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Chess, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Games, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Humor, Korean, Magic, Mythology, Playing Cards, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Wayward Children | Tagged ahasuerus, alexander the ratcatcher, biography of the life of manuel, demons, dinosaurs, dom manuel, fox snare, foxes, james branch cabell, kalki, king solomon, lucifer, madam lucifer, merlin, michael scot, mislaid in parts half-known, odysseus, peter of abano, poictesme, pope alexander vi, pope alexander viii, prometheus, richard garnett, rodrigo borgia, saints, salamanders, satan, something about eve, the bell of saint euschemon, the claw, the demon pope, the poison maid, the rewards of industry, the talisman, the twilight of the gods, thousand worlds, tigers, vampires, vishnu, yoon ha lee |

Mundus Vult Decipi

Sleep No More, by Seanan McGuire – Pretty early on in this book, I was reminded of The Wishing Horse of Oz. Someone has cast a spell to put them in charge and make everyone else accept that, but it doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Authors, Book Reviews, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Piers Anthony, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Ruth Plumly Thompson, seanan mcguire, Xanth | Tagged asherah, baal, biography of the life of manuel, candles and starlight, changelings, dinosaurs, dom manuel, dragons, fairies, figures of earth, funtunfunefu-denkyemfunefu, golems, james branch cabell, jurgen, mark s. smith, moloch, poictesme, rick riordan presents, roseanne a. brown, serwa boateng, serwa boateng's guide to vampire hunting, serwa boateng's guide to witchcraft and mayhem, sleep no more, the early history of god, the wishing horse of oz, time travel, titania, vampires |

Coming of Age, with Monsters

SPOILER WARNING for three different movies. Anna and the Apocalypse – This is a Christmas movie of sorts, and we meant to watch it before the big day, but we ended up watching it on the fourth night instead. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Monsters, Music, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anna and the apocalypse, horror, let me in, let the right one in, vampires, zombies |

Through an Uskglass Darkly

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke – The author’s debut novel was recommended to me because I liked her Piranesi.This book was much longer and more complicated, but I liked it. It takes place in the early nineteenth … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christmas, Comics, History, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged adze, anansi, beagle boys, big bad wolf, bob gregory, carl barks, christmas in duckburg, donald duck, fairies, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, jonathan strange and mr norrell, napoleon bonaparte, piranesi, rick riordan presents, rocket-roasted christmas turkey, roseanne a. brown, scrooge mcduck, serwa boateng, serwa boateng's guide to vampire hunting, susanna clarke, the lovelorn fireman, tristan strong, vampires, vic lockman |

I Guess You Can Kill the Boogeyman After All

I have three movie reviews this time, all of fairly new films, although that wasn’t really intentional. Two are relevant to the Halloween season and one not, and it should probably go without saying that there are SPOILERS for all … Continue reading →

Posted in Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Sexuality, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged billy eichner, bros, butch patrick, daniel roebuck, elvira, frankenstein, hallmark channel, halloween ends, halloween kills, homosexuality, it, jamie lee curtis, jeff daniel phillips, laurie strode, michael myers, pat priest, pennywise, rob zombie, romantic comedy, sheri moon zombie, stephen king, the munsters, transylvania, vampires, werewolves, young frankenstein |