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You Can’t Take it with You

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Nathan

Years ago, although it doesn’t feel like it, I wrote about the inconsistent rules for magic outside fairyland in the Oz books. There are a few elements here that I thought I’d expand upon. I’ll start with an exchange towards … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged button-bright, camels, circlets of halidom, david perry, dorothy gale, elixir of life, fairyland, glinda, hugh pendexter, humpty bumpty, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jewelry, jewels, jinrikisha, john dough and the cherub, kapurta, love magnet, magic belt, merry go round in oz, michael patrick hearn, nome king, oz and the three witches, ozma, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates, pirates in oz, polacky the plunderer, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, robin brown, shell city, silver shoes, speedy, speedy in oz, the annotated wizard of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the gnome king of oz, the road to oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tompy terry, umbrella island, uncle henry, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz | 2 Comments

Take the Faux Shop with a Grain of Salt

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Nathan

It feels like it’s been a while since I finished a video game, but this week I completed two of them. The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One – I don’t think I’d heard of this series of point-and-click adventure games … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, British, Cartoons, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Roman, Sierra, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged attis, bears, boogeyman, brandon of kyrandia, ceres, daventry, dogs, don bluth, eldritch, etheria, fairies, falderal, fates, fireberries, jackalope, jewels, kallak, king's quest, king's quest collection, king's quest vii, kyrandia, lolotte, malcolm the jester, malicia, mazes, oberon, ooga booga, prince edgar, princess rosella, puns, the legend of kyrandia, the legend of kyrandia book one, titania, trolls, valanice, wizards | Leave a comment

There’s Treasure Everywhere

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Nathan

The dream of a land where jewels and precious metals are plentiful is an old one, the implication being that you could take some gold that’s common in that country and become rich in your own. The Land of Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged carolites, david hulan, diamonds, emerald city, emeralds, gold, horners, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, jewels, mark haas, metals, ozma, radium, sapphire city, sapphires, the emerald city of oz, the emerald mountain of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gauds of oz, the giant horse of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the road to oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin | Leave a comment

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