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Shanower Shorts

I don’t think I’ve ever done a proper review of The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and Other Stories, by Eric Shanower, and I’m not sure I’m entirely doing so here either. I’ve recently written about two of the tales, “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Families, Humor, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aa the salt sorcerer, abby, bladgaar, bungle the glass cat, cap'n bill, clank, conjo, dorothy gale, emerald city, fardels, flicker, forest of gugu, glenn ingersoll, gugu and the kalidahs, hungry tiger, kabumpo, kalidahs, king gugu, lake quad, ma-dul-ma-dun, merfolk, multiplying overcoat, mushrooms, oziana, ozmapolitan, parts unavailable, patchwork girl, quaddle, queen piopelp, scarecrow, shroom city, shrooms, speedy in oz, the balloon-girl of oz, the final fate of the frogman, the flying girl, the ice king of oz, the purple prince of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the shaggy man of oz, the silver jug, tik-tok, trot griffiths, trot of oz, twiffle, twink and tom jones, waddy, woozy, world war ii, zyzzwyzz |

In Your Satin Tights, Fighting for Your Rights

I have finished watching the 1970s Wonder Woman, which looks to have been set up as a rather campy show in the vein of the 60s Batman, if perhaps not quite as silly. This is shown in the opening credits, … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Music, Mythology, Technology, Television | Tagged amazons, amusement parks, batman, carolyn jones, cloris leachman, dc comics, debra winger, etta candy, eve plumb, frank gorshin, hippolyta, jessica walter, john saxon, lyle waggoner, lynda carter, martin mull, paradise island, robots, steve trevor, themiscyra, wonder girl, wonder woman, world war ii |

There’s No Crying in Baseball

Electric Dreams – Beth had wanted to watch this pretty much just because of the connection to Giorgio Moroder, who wrote the music. He’s known for his work with synthesizers, and was highly influential in the development of disco and … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Drugs, Games, History, Music, Religion, Sports, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a league of their own, all-american girls professional baseball league, baseball, behind the candelabra, benito mussolini, electric dreams, fascism, geena davis, giorgio moroder, human league, liberace, lori petty, madonna, matt damon, michael douglas, phil oakey, philip k. wrigley, rosie o'donnell, scott thorson, synthesizer, tom hanks, virginia madsen, world war ii |

I Know Those Words, But That Sign Makes No Sense

White Christmas – I guess this was the last of our Christmas viewing for the year, although it’s mostly not even about Christmas. It’s a sort of a spiritual follow-up to Holiday Inn, which I haven’t seen, but apparently has blackface … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christmas, History, Holidays, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Science, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged albert einstein, bing crosby, danny devito, danny kaye, death to smoochy, edward norton, ernest rutherford, holiday inn, irving berlin, jon stewart, marie curie, puppini sisters, robin williams, tasmanian devil, white christmas, world war ii, yahoo serious, young einstein |

Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child

Beth has mentioned to me that she really likes the Coventry Carol, which I can’t say I was particularly familiar with. It’s a very bleak sort of song, which makes sense considering what it’s about. But we both know it … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Christmas, Donkey Kong, History, Holidays, Mario, Middle East, Music, Mythology, Plays, Religion, Roman Empire, Tori Amos, United Kingdom, Video Games | Tagged benjamin, bethlehem, bible, coventry carol, epiphany, genesis, gospel of matthew, gospels, greensleeves, jeremiah, jesus, john henry hopkins jr., joseph campbell, king herod the great, massacre of the innocents, moses, nativity, rachel, thomas paine, three wise men, we three kings, what child is this?, william chatterton dix, world war ii |

Shipping Out

Cabin Boy – Chris Elliott is known for playing dumb, hapless, obnoxious characters, and this is no exception. Beth used to watch Get a Life back in the day, and we’d been watching the DVDs, but never finished with them … Continue reading →

Posted in Families, History, Humor, Music, Plays, Relationships, Sexuality, Snobbery, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alley cat, andy richter, biloxi blues, brighton beach memoirs, cabin boy, captains courageous, chris elliott, christopher walken, corey parker, eugene trilogy, get a life, jonathan silverman, matthew broderick, neil simon, rudyard kipling, world war ii |

A Koschei Deal

Her Majesty’s Wizard, by Christopher Stasheff – I saw this book on a list of recommendations somewhere, and I didn’t realize at the time that the author had just died in June. This is the first book of the Wizard … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, History, Magic, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic | Tagged a wizard in rhyme, an artificial night, baba yaga, blind michael, buyan, catherynne valente, christopher stasheff, daniel horne, deathless, deep secret, divine right, dragons, fairies, fletcher pratt, harold shea, her majesty's wizard, herne the hunter, koschei the deathless, l. sprague de camp, luidaeg, marya morevna, matthew mantrell, princess alisande, russian revolution, satan, sorcerers, werewolves, wild hunt, witches, wizards, world war ii |

Son of a Peach!

I was watching a video about the possible mythological origins of Princess Peach in the Mario series, and it mentioned the story of Momotaro. I don’t think I’d ever heard of it before, although it had elements that appeared in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Fairy Tales, Japanese, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Video Games | Tagged demons, inuyama, kibidango, megijima, momotaro, momotaro festival, ogres, okayama, oni, onigashima, ozma, peaches, princess peach toadstool, propaganda, the great mission to rescue princess peach, world war ii |

Gotta Nuke Something

It seems that the Trump administration is determined to bring back the Cold War and its arms race, only this time they’re on the same side as Russia. Or are they? I’ve been trying to get through my old e-mail, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Cold War, Current Events, History, Japan, Politics, Popeye, Prejudice | Tagged adolf hitler, atomic bombs, donald trump, Iran, kim jong-un, north korea, nuclear weapons, president barack obama, surrender, vladimir putin, war, world war ii, you're a sap mr. jap |

Magic, She Wrote

Bedknobs and Broomsticks – I seem to recall liking this movie pretty well as a kid, although even then I recognized it as kind of a second-rate Mary Poppins. It’s again set in England with precocious children, a stern caretaker … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, History, Magic, Music, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged angela lansbury, bed-knob and broomstick, bedknobs and broomsticks, bonfires and broomsticks, david tomlinson, great fire of london, mary norton, mary poppins, nazis, robin hood, sherman brothers, the magic bed-knob, time travel, witches, world war ii |