It's hard to be a glassy cat

So today, I went out to eat with my brother, sister, and dad, and his wife and parents. That was pretty fun. I don't see my dad and grandparents that much, since my dad moved to New Mexico.

I read the entire 2004 Oziana today. David Hulan's "A Bungled Kidnapping in Oz" was a good story, explaining how Bungle the Glass Cat got her pink brains back after they were replaced with transparent ones at the end of The Patchwork Girl of Oz. I'm still sort of partial to the idea expressed in Greg Gick's Bungle and the Magic Lantern of Oz that messing with her nature made her want to drown herself in a bowl of lima beans, but David's explanation is definitely feasible. Besides, maybe both of them are true. David's story also gives some background for a very minor character in The Royal Book of Oz. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. Beth and I were recently talking about how fans love minutiae, and I'm no exception to the rule. Margaret Berg's "New Moon Over Oz" was short, but I liked the different characters' thoughts on the new moon. I had already read John Bell's "Evrob & the Nomes," but it was nice to be able to read it again. I like the story's characterizations of the Evian royals, and of the Nome King after having lost his memory for the first time (which happened in The Emerald City of Oz, by the way).

I think I'll put the answers to the lyrics quiz up next time I write an entry, which will probably be sometime either late Sunday or on Monday. So if anyone still wants to guess, hurry up and do it!