Obese Alice & Cannabis-smoking Caterpillar in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle
The Blog of the LCSNA
Author: James Welsch
-Blogger for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
-Editor at www.itwaslost.org (O it was lost for ever! and we found it not) an art & music weblog.
Dodgson “perched in the middle” of the “two chunks” in the history of voting math
Lewis Carroll and the Liddell family made the July 26th 2010 issue of the New Yorker in reference to his work on election mathematics. Anthony Gottlieb, in his article in… [read full post]
Dalí’s Alice in Wonderland featured on Pawn Stars
There’s an interesting anecdote in a June 4th 2010 New York Times article about Pawn Stars, a History Channel television show about Las Vegas’s Gold and Silver Pawn Shop. Shelby… [read full post]
2010 Alice in Wonderland is currently the 5th highest grossing film of all time
According to the Wikipedia, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is now behind only two James Cameron films, the final Lord of the Rings movie, & another Disney Johnny Depp flick,… [read full post]
The Future of Alice Books, Part III of an Infinite Part Series
Several LCSNA members have noticed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland featured in magazine advertisements for something called 100 Classic Books. Gary Brockman describes one ad thus: “Against a background of bookshelves… [read full post]
The Future of Alice Books, Part II of an Infinite Part Series
There’s more discussion on the Alice pop-up book app for the iPad (originally mentioned here in the post Through the LED Screen). The Atomic Antelope app ($9, or a free… [read full post]
The Brum and the Oologist
The Brum and the Oologist Were walking hand in hand; They grinned to see so many birds On cliff, and rock, and sand. “If we could only get their eggs,”… [read full post]
The Joker, the Hatter, & an armed Alaskan Alice
The buzz from the DC universe is that the Batman spinoff, The Joker’s Asylum II, June 16th, 2010, “is devoted to the Mad Hatter and his Alice obsession” (thanks, Devra… [read full post]
Seattle’s new oyster bar, The Walrus and the Carpenter
The picture above is from the website for Seattle’s new oyster bar opening in July, The Walrus and the Carpenter, “located at the South end of Seattle’s Historic Ballard Avenue… [read full post]
And now, a few more strange new books: Two Boer War romps and one odd book with just words of one syl-la-ble.
Michael Everson released six Carroll books in 2009 from his publishing company Evertype, starting with the Irish AAIW, Eachtraí Eilíse, and continues now with more new unique oddities. All this… [read full post]