Category: Ozblogging
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Ozblogging: Ozma of Oz, Part 2
Episode Two: Operation Ev Freedom Dorothy, Tiktok, and Billina make their way to the royal palace of Ev, where they meet the current ruler, Princess Langwidere. Langwidere is extremely vain, and takes fashion obsession to a new level. Instead of changing outfits or hats, Langwidere has a collection of thirty heads and wears a different…
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Ozblogging: Ozma of Oz, Part 1
Episode One: The Return of Dorothy! The third in L. Frank Baum's immortal Oz books, Ozma of Oz is the first of what can be called a "sub-trilogy" of stories. Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard In Oz, and The Road to Oz all chronicle journeys by Dorothy through weird countries with the ultimate…
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Ozblogging: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Part 6
Episode Six: Metamorphosis (and Conclusion) Glinda hauls old Mombi back to her army's encampment, and after some polite grilling (with only aa few death threats) the old witch comes clean. Yes, the Wizard did steal away the infant heir to the throne of Oz, Princess Ozma. He brought her to Mombi to conceal, which Mombi…
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Ozblogging: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Part 5
Episode Five: Glinda The Scarecrow & co. drop in (literally) on Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. When the Scarecrow asks for her help in getting rid of Jinjur, Glinda brings up the pretty valid objection that the Scarecrow only had the throne in the first place because some wandering con man gave it…
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Ozblogging: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Part 4
Episode Four: Thrilling Air Adventures! The heroes gather up a weird assortment of junk — sofas, a broom, leaves from the royal Palm Tree, and the stuffed head of a deer-like animal called a Gump. They bind all this stuff together with clothesline and then Tip uses the remaining Powder of Life to animate it.…
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Ozblogging: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Part 3
Episode Three: There and Back Again The Scarecrow and company seek refuge with the Tin Woodman in Winkie Country, then attempt to reconquer the Emerald City. Most people in a situation like this would raise an army, call up the CIA, maybe see if other powerful regional rulers in Oz might want to help restore…
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Ozblogging: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Part 2
Episode Two: The Scarecrow and Jinjur Tip and Jack Pumpkinhead leave Mombi and travel south, aiming for the Emerald City for no very good reason. It turns out to be pretty close: they spend a day hiking through the countryside and then come to the main road only nine miles away from the city. This…
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Ozblogging: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Part 1
Episode One: Tip L. Frank Baum published The Marvelous Land of Oz in 1904. His publisher wanted a new Oz book for Christmas and he obliged. Because Baum was so pleased with the success of the stage play based on The Wizard of Oz, he wrote the new book with an eye to adapting it…
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 6
Episode VI: The Long Slog Home In the movie, once the Wizard is off the scene, Glinda the Good drops down out of the fly gallery to send Dorothy home and wrap everything up in the last five minutes. In the book we still have six chapters to go. Dorothy and her three companions set…
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 5
Episode V: The Wild Wild Wizard After the Witch dies, L. Frank Baum kind of loses track of his story. I suspect he realized he was getting close to the ending, but was nowhere near the word count. So he did what all of us do in a situation like that: he started padding. How…
The Cambias Digression 