31 January 2012

Never Work with Children or Animals

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Terry Byrne at the Boston Globe really liked the Wheelock Family Theater's production of The Wizard of Oz . Of course, that might be a...
29 January 2012

Three Dick Graysons and the Representation of Change

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Reviewing the Robin news this week, I was struck by a statement in  Vaneta Rogers’s interview  at Newsarama with current Nightwing scripter...
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27 January 2012

Teleprompter Fixation as a Sign of OIP Derangement Syndrome

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After winning the Republican primary in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich (shown above in June 2009) threw out an unrealistic plan to challenge ...
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26 January 2012

The Real Glinda

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From the penultimate chapter of L. Frank Baum ’s The Emerald City of Oz , as Ozma , Dorothy , and her family go south to visit their friend:...
25 January 2012

What if the Deadly Desert Isn’t Deadly?

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Yesterday I described how over the course of five books L. Frank Baum developed the desert around Oz from a natural barrier that apparently...
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24 January 2012

Developing the Deadly Desert

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The new issue of The Baum Bugle , the International Wizard of Oz Club ’s main journal, includes two articles about the Deadly Desert that su...
23 January 2012

“On the shelf, he noticed another novel…”

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A story from Nicholas D. Kristof’s New York Times column yesterday about Judge Olly Neal: One day in 1957, in the fall of his senior year...
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22 January 2012

Sitting with the Tiny Titans

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DC Comics is bringing Tiny Titans to a close soon at issue #50. I’ve read only occasional issues and pages of this magazine, mostly those w...
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20 January 2012

Rick Santorum’s OIP Derangement Syndrome

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For this week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome I’m indebted to Nathan DeHoff for his pointer to this report by Charles M. Blow . Beca...
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19 January 2012

Moorcock: “the prose of the nursery-room”

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From Michael Moorcock’s essay “Epic Pooh,” as archived at Revolution SF  (it was originally written in 1978, revised in 1989, and revised ag...