Showing posts with label holiday spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday spirit. Show all posts
27 November 2019

The Busytown Neighborhood in New-York

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Every December the New-York Historical Society lays out a big model train set to visit, and this year’s design celebrates the centenary of...
13 December 2017

Happy Holidays from Highlights

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This week H-Net’s American Studies discussion site published Patrick Cox’s article “What's Wrong with Christmas in Highlights for Chi...
27 November 2015

Turkey in the Straw Poll

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This week Public Policy Polling released the results of a Thanksgiving survey ( PDF download ) which provided new evidence of OIP Derangem...
26 December 2013

Keep the Holiday Spirit Rolling

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Most people haven’t had the pleasure of seeing comedy writer Steve Young clean a kitchen, but I promise you it’s artistry. The same atte...
25 December 2013

The Tradition of the Gävle Goat

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For this holiday, Oz and Ends brings you the story of the Gävle Goat. As Slate describes , the Gävle goat was instituted all the way ba...
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24 December 2013

Santa Claus and the Modern World of Central Heating

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One of the hallmarks of L. Frank Baum’s fantasy writing was the crossover—and often conflict or rivalry—of fairy-tale traditions with mode...
22 December 2013

Christmas Colors

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For some unaccountable reason, this snapshot is included among the embarrassing family photos in the You’ve Got to Be Kidding blog’s posti...
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06 December 2013

Ragging on the Vatican Embassy

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The past two weeks allowed us to observe the birth and death of a fresh manifestation of OIP Derangement Syndrome . The phenomenon surfaced ...
03 December 2013

Parade Balloons Over 75 Years

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Macy’s 1939 parade included a Tin Man balloon to promote MGM’s new movie, The Wizard of Oz . For the movie’s seventy-fifth anniversary (...
28 November 2013

Let Us Be Thankful That This Isn’t Rerun Every Year

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In 1980 the Muller Rosen animation company released a half-hour holiday special for television titled Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz . Tha...
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05 July 2013

A Holiday for OIP Derangement Syndrome

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At Salon, Alex Seitz-Wald reported on how FOX News has been trying to exploit the Independence Day holiday and present President Barack O...
25 December 2012

Who Brings Dad His Neckties and Stockings?

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The last act of The Road to Oz is basically cross-marketing, with L. Frank Baum bringing in characters from most of the other fantasies ...
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25 November 2012

Never Work with Children or Animals

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The second installment of Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolf’s Li’l Gotham digital comics appeared this month, pegged to Thanksgiving. It e...
04 November 2012

Remaking Batgirl in Li’l Gotham

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This week DC published a digital comic called Batman: Li’l Gotham , by Dustin Nguyen and co-writer Derek Fridolfs. It’s a Halloween tale abo...
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25 December 2011

Weekly Robin Holiday Greetings

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This weekly Robin shares a few highlights from the holiday story in Batman , #15, dated February-March 1943 but on sale the previous Decemb...
11 November 2011

Billion for the Guy?

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Over at Boston 1775 , I’ve been tracing how a particular stylized depiction of Guy Fawkes has become an international symbol of political p...
10 November 2011

Grand-dad the Mummy

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I admire people who donate their bodies for science, but Alan Billis is the first I know who donated his body for history. Or rather the sci...
28 July 2011

Something Wicked This Way Comes

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The Boston Comics Roundtable publishes three comics anthologies: Outbound , featuring science fiction; Inbound , covering everything else o...
25 December 2010

Weekly Robin Christmas Story

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This weekly Robin is appearing one day early, and perhaps a few hours late, because it points to a fanfiction short story set on Christmas ...
22 December 2010

Comfort and Joy

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If you’re in the mood for Ozzy holiday decorating, check out this posting from John Nickolaus’s Adventures in Oz blog. I suspect that’s one...