Tag Archives: ojo

Courses for Horses

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Nathan

I’ve had another one of my stories published in the 2025 issue of Oziana, and since I’ve now read my contributor’s copy, I suppose I should say a few things about it. The cover illustration is by Rob. Lauer. “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Diane Brzozowski, Food, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a catastrophic celebration in oz, a farewell to oz, birds, captain fyter, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, dr. pipt, emerald city, giants, gump, horses, j. l. bell, jim the cab-horse, liquid of petrifaction, magpies, margolotte, mel vavaroutsos, nine tiny piglets, ojo, otis frampton, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, princess marygolden of corabia, queen of the field-mice, rob lauer, samandra, sawhorse, scarecrow, scott b. blanke, sir hokus of pokes, snip the button boy, stampedro, stephen smith, sultan of samandra, the bricks, the joust of oz, the lost king of oz, the low mare of oz, the missing key, the patchwork girl of oz, the piglets and the tin soldier, the royal joust of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, where's my oil can?, winged monkeys, wizard of oz, writing, yellow brick road, zim greenleaf of oz | 4 Comments

A Couple of Baums

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Nathan

I’ve done some more Oz reading recently, and for once it isn’t stuff I’ve already read. First (and second) of all, I ordered the two most recent Oziana issues, 2022 and 2023, from Lulu. The 2022 is all stories by … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Dick Martin, Gina Wickwar, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television | Tagged a moment in time, a portrait of ozma, a rotten pumpkin, angry jack, anna-maria cool, autumn rose frodelius, bungle the glass cat, button-bright, button-bright and the professor, china country, david bishop, david s. skipper, dinner at the del, donald abbott, dorothy gale, early morning coffee with matilda, fortune favors the wogglebug, glinda, glinda and the glass cat, grampa in oz, great book of records, hammer-heads, how i met the scarecrow, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, lulu, matilda joslyn gage, maud baum, memory scraps, ojo, oz and the musical, oziana, ozma, paul dana, professor wogglebug, racism, robert baum, ryan bunch, sara philips, sawhorse, scarecrow, suren ognessian, telegraph, the maid of arran, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the trunk in the attic, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, wicked, wicked witch of the west, young frank and his imagination | 1 Comment

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

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 | 4 Comments

Standing Tall on the Wizard’s Dreams

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Nathan

The 1976 Oziana is the first with Jay Delkin as editor. The cover has an Oz alphabet designed by Bill Eubank. I know The Baum Bugle used these to start articles for a while, and at the time I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Celebrities, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged bee zum, bill eubank, books of wonder, bronson pinchot, charles schulz, david hulan, donald abbott, dorothy gale, electricity, emerald city, golden cap, great detective, how the wizard came to oz, how the wizard came to oz and what he did there, i-wish-i-was, jack pumpkinhead, jay delkin, joe bongiorno, jojee, linus van pelt, magic flower, michael patrick hearn, nathan flower, nomes, ojo, ojo in oz, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, ozmonga, peanuts, perfect strangers, richard paul smyers, sawhorse, scarecrow, sherlock holmes, snoopy, the adventure of the cat that did not meow in the night, the annotated wizard of oz, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gauds of oz, the lost sawhorse, the magic of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the road to oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, x. pando | 1 Comment

Balancing the Flutterbudget

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Nathan

I received my copy of the 2020 Oziana, the annual collection of original fiction published by the International Wizard of Oz Club, but I waited until it was available for purchase before writing my review. It’s actually the fiftieth anniversary … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged able tong, boy fortune hunters, cap'n bill, death, dennis anfuso, dinner at the del, dragonettes, dragons, emerald city, evangeline, fairies, flutterbudgets, grand gheewizard, hotel del coronado, international wizard of oz club, joe bongiorno, mitchell mayle, ojo, oziana, oziana 2020, patchwork girl, polychrome, polychrome's sky school, quiberon, robert baum, sam milazzo, suren oganessian, the giant horse of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, zinnia's wish | 1 Comment

Get Out of Town

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Nathan

There are a lot of characters who come to live in Ozma’s palace, or sometimes elsewhere in or near the Emerald City. Is the city becoming overcrowded? Probably not, considering that it has the same population in L. Frank Baum’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, belfaygor, bob up, bourne, bucky jones, bungle the glass cat, captain fyter, carter green, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, davy jones, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, emerald city, frogman, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, kabumpo, kiki aru, lake quad, lucky bucky in oz, mount munch, much ado about kiki aru, nickadoodle, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, pumperdink, ruth waara, scarecrow, sean patrick duffley, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic cryptogram of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, toto, unc nunkie, uncle henry | Leave a comment

Rings and Things

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Nathan

A lot of jewelry appears in the Oz books, but I can only think of a few magic rings. I believe the first one mentioned in the expanded Oz universe, albeit not in an official Oz book, is the one … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged beach blanket babyloz, boolooroo of the blues, christopher wayne buckley, circlets of halidom, david hulan, dorothy gale, fairies, glinda, glinda of oz, halidom, hind horn, jeremy steadman, jewelry, lurline, magic rings, mermaids, merry go round in oz, mood rings, mustafa of mudge, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, puns, queen aquareine, rash rubies, realbad, rings, ruby of naught, sky island, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wizard of oz, time travel, tippetarius in oz, tir na nog, trot griffiths, wishing rings, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz | 1 Comment

Magic to the People

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Nathan

Lost in Oz – They showed the first episode of this program at the latest OzCon, and I’ve since watched all the available episodes. There are sort of two seasons, in that there are two sets of thirteen each, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged agent wally pugmill, bureau of magic, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, fitz, glinda, guph, kaliko, lost in oz, mombi, nome king, nomes, ojo, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork, pearls of pingaree, princess langwidere, reigh, return to oz, scarecrow, the wishing horse of oz, tin woodman, toto, west, wicked witch of the west, witches | 1 Comment

It’s All About the Shoes

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Nathan

On Facebook, there’s been some argument on the cover of the latest Baum Bugle, which I haven’t received. It’s possible my membership has lapsed, because it seems like I never get warnings about that. It isn’t a great design, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a foolish fable from oz, betsy bobbin, boots, braided man, carter green, clothing, deadly desert, dorothy gale, dorothy of oz, enilrul, glinda, great book of records, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, karyl carlson, laura jane musser, magic belt, mercury, nome king, ojo, ojo in oz, oz and the three witches, oziana, ozish, ozlection, pingaree, quick sandals, r.k. lionel, realbad, return to oz, rinkitink in oz, roger baum, Ruby Slippers, shoes, silver shoes, sky island, snufferbux, tappy town, technicolor, the baum bugle, the braided man of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the romance of the silver shoes, the runaway in oz, the silver shoes of oz, the witch queen of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wam, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | 4 Comments

Clash of Cultures

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Nathan

Immortal Longings of Oz, by Paul Dana – The adventures of Button-Bright and Ojo, who have obtained magic powers and use them to help people, continue with this trip to the Land of Ev. As this neighboring fairyland doesn’t share … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Christianity, Gender, History, Inuit, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aesir, button-bright, death, ev, fairies, freydis eriksdottir, immortal longings of oz, immortality, ix, jesus, jordanna max brodsky, jotuns, king evardo xv, land of an, leif erikson, lurline, noland, ojo, onna val, paul dana, phoenix, prince inga of pingaree, queen regent eviret, queen zixi of ix, ragnarok, red jinn, sherwood smith, taqqiq, the wolf in the whale, trouble under oz, vikings, wheelers | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: ojo

Courses for Horses

A Couple of Baums

Coping with Immortality

Standing Tall on the Wizard’s Dreams

Balancing the Flutterbudget

Get Out of Town

Rings and Things

Magic to the People

It’s All About the Shoes

Clash of Cultures

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Blogroll

Celebrity Blogs

Comics

More Stuff from Me

Meta

Twitterpated