Fearless Five Super Hero Review

I received the Fearless Five Super Hero books.  They were beautifully packaged and wrapped with a pretty orange ribbon.  There are five book...

Never Work with Children or Animals

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...

Three Dick Graysons and the Representation of Change

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

CURRENT OBSESSIONS | GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI NEON COLORBLOCK PLATFORM WEDGE

( Giuseppe Zanotti Neon Colorblock Platform Wedge - cute ones here , here & here ) Always on a look out for a bright simmer wedge, my...

Teleprompter Fixation as a Sign of OIP Derangement Syndrome

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

The Real Glinda

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:...

What if the Deadly Desert Isn’t Deadly?

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

Developing the Deadly Desert

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...

Are We Giving Up On Marriage Too Soon?

Are we giving up on marriage too soon?  It seems to be quite a few break-ups in Hollywood recently, or maybe I'm just noticing.  Jennife...

StyleMint GIVEAWAY WIN A T Shirt OF YOUR CHOICE | OUTFIT POST

( StyleMint.com - "I'm Almost Not Crazy" T Shirt, All Saints - Jodhpur Skirt & Ashlar Leather Jacket , Rebecca Minkoff Mo...

“On the shelf, he noticed another novel…”

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,...

Sitting with the Tiny Titans

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...

Bad Baby Names

When I heard the name of Beyonce and Jay-Z's baby girl, Blue Ivy, I immediately thought damn here we go with these crazy celebrity baby ...

CURRENT OBSESSIONS | MARC BY MARC JACOBS BOB'S MEMPHIS COLORBLOCK SATCHEL

( Marc by Marc Jacobs Bob's Memphis Colorblock Satchel, YSL Arti Ring, Etiika Bracelets - similar here , here   & here , Essie Na...

Rick Santorum’s OIP Derangement Syndrome

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...

Moorcock: “the prose of the nursery-room”

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

Historicity as a Difference Between Baum’s Oz and Maguire’s Oz

Last month I had the pleasure of hearing Gregory Maguire interviewed about Out of Oz and his entire Wicked Years series at the Cambridge ...

Wordless Wednesday

My daughter's Birthday Cake