Kaliko Vision

In L. Frank Baum ’s Ozma of Oz , Roquat the Nome King is served by a Nome introduced this way: Meantime the King ordered refreshments to be ...

INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY | $300 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO ETIIKA JEWELRY

From the moment I laid my eyes on this gorgeous neon stack bracelet, I became an instant Etiika jewelry fan. That is why I'm so excited ...

I Remember When Barney Frank Was in Worse Shape Than Me

Barney Frank has represented me in the U.S. Congress since before I could vote. [Well, in some college years I voted in another state.] I w...

When Did Dick Grayson Become a “Ward”?

Prompted by an Oz and Ends reader, I plan to devote the next few installments of the weekly Robin to explore the legalities of the relatio...

SUNSET CITY SNAKEPRINT

( Dress, used as a top -  inlovewithfashion.com , Old Jeans - Diesel, Bag - Treesje , Boots - Asos ) Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope yo...

One of the Book Fair Faithful

I grew up with the New England Mobile Book Fair as one of my local bookstores. It was a store like no other. The company started as a whole...

Greatest Insight Ever—A New Age of Overstatement?

Back in 2008 I quoted Adam Gopnik writing in the New Yorker about an early-20th-century shift in prose style: Writers like Shaw and Cheste...

“The ever-amazing Jefferson Mays”

Charles Isherwood’s review of Blood and Gifts , J. T. Rogers’s new play about Afghanistan in the 1980s, is positive all around, but singles...

BLUE JEAN BABY

( Gifted Joe's Jeans - in Blueberry wash, Sana Platform Boots - Dolce Vita , Old Shirt - True Religion, Old Leather Jacket - Kinder Agg...

The Tin Woodman’s Head on My Mind

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , W. W. Denslow gave the Tin Woodman a skull-shaped head. Of course, the long nose and ears riveted on that ...