tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.comments2024-03-04T16:50:15.828-08:00Hungry Tiger TalkDavid Maxinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12672089188117065118noreply@blogger.comBlogger1279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-79651414991575033872024-03-04T16:50:15.828-08:002024-03-04T16:50:15.828-08:00True! I forgot that the "real" coloring ...True! I forgot that the "real" coloring contest map preserved Baum's original "backwards" compass. I'll modify my post.David Maxinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12672089188117065118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-63672885156110130352024-03-04T16:41:05.294-08:002024-03-04T16:41:05.294-08:00I notice that this one has "West" (on th...I notice that this one has "West" (on the compass icon) on the left, unlike the "coloring contest" similar one.sielerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10820342974443211685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-21331805728695033052024-03-04T13:56:17.396-08:002024-03-04T13:56:17.396-08:00In reply to Michael's comment about the Hollow...In reply to Michael's comment about the Hollow Earth theory: LFB could easily have been familiar with the Hollow Earth theory. I think it's very likely he was, since he considered Edgar Rice Burroughs among his circle of friends and Burroughs's first Pellucidar novel, At the Earth's Core, was published in 1914. The two authors could easily have discussed Hollow Earth theory. I don't really think Oz is located inside the earth, but LFB may well have known that Pellucidar is.ericshanowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-35468592407267064562023-10-27T11:09:24.866-07:002023-10-27T11:09:24.866-07:00I had forgotten those references and McGraw was ve...I had forgotten those references and McGraw was very much a Thompson fan. I also suspect Dick Martin was NOT a fan of Thompson's work even if he liked the lady herself. And obviously a new editor at Reilly & Lee, like Maxine, had probably not read thru the entire series - much less memorized trivia.<br /><br />I actually dislike a number of Dick Martin's "editorial" suggestions, including the "1000s of years" one. David Maxinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12672089188117065118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-12342068189121604892023-10-25T17:18:25.842-07:002023-10-25T17:18:25.842-07:00There are mentions of Ozma being about 1000 years ...There are mentions of Ozma being about 1000 years old in <i>Kabumpo</i> and <i>Wishing Horse</i>, which might have been where McGraw got the idea.Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17838510995365876113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-76583089488632094282023-10-25T13:17:16.666-07:002023-10-25T13:17:16.666-07:00The "thousand years" might be another si...The "thousand years" might be another sign of Thompson's influence on the McGraws. In WISHING HORSE Thompson wrote "all the thousand years of her young life" in regard to Ozma. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-58058143060859408712023-10-24T16:52:31.309-07:002023-10-24T16:52:31.309-07:00I am so glad that so much of the composition of Me...I am so glad that so much of the composition of Merry Go Round has been documented because it shows what a fine achievement the resulting book is. It does make me wonder, however, what Baum and Thompson's processes were like. AMWisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595022423888044915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-87311291214162022842023-04-28T21:48:39.567-07:002023-04-28T21:48:39.567-07:00Thanks for sharing such a beautiful information,
...Thanks for sharing such a beautiful information,<br /><br /><a href="https://www.akistours.com/tour/pylos-methoni-tour/" rel="nofollow">Tours in Pylos</a><br /><br /><br />Thanks!!!Akis Tourshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05774447474640999301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-32074309860386556462022-01-06T18:56:27.535-08:002022-01-06T18:56:27.535-08:00Interesting point! That is the first time I've...Interesting point! That is the first time I've seen Baum flip back to "conventional" compass directions.David Maxinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12672089188117065118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-74097091287862837172021-12-23T21:26:59.938-08:002021-12-23T21:26:59.938-08:00Hello,
greetings from a very Latecomer (but almos...Hello,<br /><br />greetings from a very Latecomer (but almost-lifelong Oz-fan since 1978)!<br /><br />I do realize that this blog post is almost 10 years old. But I only found it now, and while I'm here, I could just as well participate.<br /><br />About the reversed West and East directions:<br /><br />I wouldn't worry about it. Remember, this is not Middle-earth, where "miles are miles, days are days, and weather is weather".<br /><br />This is Oz. Pick any of the borderlands, for instance, and you'll see far stranger sights than mere reversed directions. (Mo, anybody?)<br /><br />Oz is a "fairy country", so it's not so odd that things we take for granted in the "civilized" world. Simply assume that Oz' strange natural laws cause the compass directions of East and West to be reversed... at least around the Emerald City of Oz.<br /><br />Whether West and East stay reversed outside of the four main countries, of course...<br /><br />But I am not so sure of the proposed idea that Oz might lie in the Earth core.<br /><br />For one thing, how do we explain the blue, open sky above Oz? There was never any indication in Baum's books that Oz was surrounded by an immense rock shell.<br /><br />For another thing, what about the Deadly Desert that separates Oz from all other countries while, at the same time, seems to connect Oz (and by extension) all the "Borderlands that are part of Oz's world) with our "civilized" world?<br /><br />That selfsame Deadly Desert is also the reason that I don't buy that Oz is on another planet, no matter what QUEER VISITORS may suggest. <br /><br />It is a canonical fact that the Deadly Desert surrounds Oz AND that the Deadly Desert is the direct link TO Oz. With physical, non-magical means, you simply CAN'T get to Oz without crossing that Desert.<br /><br />And if Oz was indeed on another planet in the sky, how can that possibly fit with what I summarized above? Is the Deadly Desert a sort of floating band made from deadly sand particles that spans the distance from Earth to another, who knows how far distanced planet?<br /><br />So, simply by the fact that, from the very beginning of the Oz saga, a hundredand twentythree years ago, the Deadly Desert has always been, on the one hand, both the link and the divide between Oz and the rest of our world, and on the other hand, clearly a part of our planet, we can dismiss the possible solutions that Oz (and the Borderlands around it) reside either within our planetary shell or on another planet, possibly in another galaxy yet.<br /><br />To say nothing of the fact that nothing of that kind has ever been suggested anywhere in Frank Baum's books, except as an vague allusion in QUEER VISITORS, which may be apocryphal, that is, not part of Oz' true continuity. <br /><br />QUEER VISITORS might be either a serial tale from some sort of "alternate" Oz, or it might be a series of stories told among the adult inhabitants of the Emerald City simply for their own amusement, or it might even be a series of tall tales dreamed up by the Woggle-Bug. <br /><br />Besides, the QUEER VISITORS or the WOGGLE-BUG BOOK don't seem any more authentic than Baum's own Oz musicals (although they're from Oz' very own creator himself), the Scarecrow & Tin Woodman newspaper strips or RETURN TO OZ.<br /><br />All of those works strongly seem to play outside of the "true" Oz continuity. So I wouldn't use those stories to make assumptions of Oz' supposed location.<br /><br />Okay, Happy Christmas to all!Andreas Kraußhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03561423946501346693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-4071375053257439832021-11-20T11:07:52.600-08:002021-11-20T11:07:52.600-08:00This is SOOOO Rare!
I only wish they could'v...This is SOOOO Rare! <br /><br />I only wish they could've done something as similar 2 Oz The Great & Powerful*<br /><br />If only Return 2 Oz was animated.<br /><br />The Disney Cast here is as presented above:<br /><br />Eilonwy from The Black Cauldron as Dorothy* <br />(Looks more like Anna from Frozen)<br /><br />Alice from 'Wonderland' as Ozma<br /><br />Lady Tremaine from Cinderella as Mombi aka Nurse Wilson <br />(I could be wrong if there is a different character illustration of Mombi)<br /><br />King Hubert from Sleeping Beauty as The Nome King <br /><br />Lambert the Lion as Cowardly Lion<br />(There are similar illustrations of hin in the disney story records of Oz)<br /><br />Mary Darling from Peter Pan as Aunt Em <br /><br />Last but not least, Scamp as Toto. <br /><br />Everybody else seems 2 be the same, only Billina is green here. <br /><br />A great color coming from Oz.<br /><br />Time 2 click my heels. <br />There's No Place Like Home<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05707148652950061290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-89676827870437735032021-08-31T13:24:13.700-07:002021-08-31T13:24:13.700-07:00Regnery ... yeah, that name has become notorious f...Regnery ... yeah, that name has become notorious for publishing right wing screeds. They picked up Josh Hawley's book after Simon & Schuster dumped it post Jan 6. <br /><br />Amusingly, I picked up at Half Price Books a copy of Zixi that was published by the right wing National Review Press. An intro claimed that the illos had been scanned from the St Nicholas magazine first publication. And they did look pretty crisp, which is why I bought it. Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-5748688359644792502021-06-16T00:07:35.371-07:002021-06-16T00:07:35.371-07:00So good to see you posting and blogging again!
I&...So good to see you posting and blogging again!<br /><br />I've shared your Oz CDs with my friend Matthew Beveridge and he seems fascinated by the music that he wants a copy, so I'm sharing him your other Vintage Blog and Hungry Links from here!Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397876293747859812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-89468465587557011182021-06-08T10:36:15.862-07:002021-06-08T10:36:15.862-07:00I’m coming in nine years late, but for completenes...I’m coming in nine years late, but for completeness’ sake we should mention another problem with this map and the text of “Lost Princess.” In Chapter 14 of that book, the Frogman tells a Winkie woman that the land of the Yips is "on a high mountain at the southeast of your country." That would seem to follow the map, but only if the compass directions are conventional (that is, east is right and west is left). If the map is reversed, as suggested above, then the country of the Yips would be in the southwest of the Winkie Country, not the southeast.<br />Josiah Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618215340012997051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-63244115234150575402021-06-01T01:16:18.387-07:002021-06-01T01:16:18.387-07:00Thanks for uncovering these!Thanks for uncovering these!saintfighteraquahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16195760262262189059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-6160697182825313282021-05-13T17:44:24.670-07:002021-05-13T17:44:24.670-07:00I am sorry to learn of Patrick Maund's passing...I am sorry to learn of Patrick Maund's passing. I attended grammar school with Pat Maund and he was a very talented kid even back then He played Gomez in the Adam Family skit we put on in maybe third grade and was one of the smartest kids in our class. Our class never had a reunion so I hadn't heard anything about him until I came across something his brother is involved with and remembered the name and did a little search to see. Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564516027714553994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-39038392452834443392021-01-05T01:13:55.357-08:002021-01-05T01:13:55.357-08:00I thought the same thing when I rewatch Return to ...I thought the same thing when I rewatch Return to Oz like that Jack reminded me of a lot of him!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17471965202794885196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-22712853133756663842020-08-16T02:51:22.306-07:002020-08-16T02:51:22.306-07:00Hi Maggie do u remember me Jimmy I was with u when...Hi Maggie do u remember me Jimmy I was with u when Dale diedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08115706516994852959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-21456151363318088472020-03-02T16:19:36.051-08:002020-03-02T16:19:36.051-08:00I second an audio transfer. I've been wanting ...I second an audio transfer. I've been wanting to use those for a site called. Moises.ai to split them into instrumental and vocal tracks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-19746402618918784602020-03-02T07:26:58.296-08:002020-03-02T07:26:58.296-08:00Hi - I was just wondering if you knew when this &#...Hi - I was just wondering if you knew when this 'white edition' was published?<br />ThanksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14151452463006490745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-31620832695597014332020-01-31T20:32:53.681-08:002020-01-31T20:32:53.681-08:00Another one from issue 27, not 32.Another one from issue 27, not 32.freddyflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09715687660078367315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-24001869282847709632020-01-31T20:27:23.293-08:002020-01-31T20:27:23.293-08:00This page is from issue 27, not 32.This page is from issue 27, not 32.freddyflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09715687660078367315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-57552941989204338422020-01-31T20:26:30.078-08:002020-01-31T20:26:30.078-08:00This one is from issue 27, not 32.This one is from issue 27, not 32.freddyflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09715687660078367315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-2117061316782376202019-12-02T21:32:07.419-08:002019-12-02T21:32:07.419-08:00Fascinating! I loved learning about this, thank yo...Fascinating! I loved learning about this, thank you!Bastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283741134010393708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930190065426288711.post-9192836796115341202019-11-25T22:40:12.493-08:002019-11-25T22:40:12.493-08:00I actually have this edition of Sky Island but wit...I actually have this edition of Sky Island but without the dust jacket. Just wondering how much it would cost me if I sold it today??Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16874729230361529617noreply@blogger.com