Enough Un-Anniversaries, July 28th is actually the day Disney’s Alice in Wonderland was released in 1951. To celebrate properly, we’ll re-post from reigning expert Matt Crandall’s excellent Disney Alice blog,… [read full post]
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.
New Scientist: “Some words really do evoke Humpty’s ‘handsome’ rotundity.”
Linguists have been ruminating on Humpy Dumpty’s theories for over a century. Now, his discussion about words’ meaning is being used by scientists in conjunction with new studies about an… [read full post]
Galumphing? It’s a perfectly cromulent word
Children’s author Lil Chase compiled a list of her favorite made-up words in the Guardian today. What’s interesting is how many of the words, invented fancifully by literary wordsmiths, have… [read full post]
Theater Simple stages interactive Wonderland in parks around Seattle
This Lewis Carroll-inspired theater installation seems interesting for its interactive aspects and impressive scope. It’s happening in different parks around Seattle during weekends in July and August: today at 4pm… [read full post]
Rethinking Maps: “…Without the least vestige of land”
How do you like front cover for the new paperback edition of Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory? (Routledge, $44.95, greatly reduced from the $150.00 hardcover edition.) It pays homage… [read full post]
Extremely Abbreviated Wonderlands; or, Which side of the mushroom will make Alice only 38 words long?
Clare Imholtz reports, with a mini review for a mini book: Dalmation Press has published a new Disney Alice in Wonderland for children aged 2–4, perhaps, as Dodgson wished for… [read full post]
Gillian Welch sings “White Rabbit” on NPR
The great country revival duo, Gillian Welch (with Dave Rawlings), released their first album in almost a decade, The Harrow & the Harvest. (It’s really good.) They went on Fresh… [read full post]
Introducing: Snarked! comic from BOOM!
BOOM! studios is debuting a new comic series written and drawn by Roger Landridge called Snarked! (Landridge also does The Muppet Show comic for BOOM! as well as The Mighty… [read full post]
Alice Photoshopped: Maggie Taylor’s art
Maggie Taylor’s beautiful altered digital photography will be on display in Carlsbad, California, at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery from July 17th thru September 9th. She explained her inspiration, what… [read full post]
György Ligeti’s “The Lobster Quadrille” from his Nonsense Madrigals
There’s at least one performance on YouTube of György Ligeti’s take on “The Lobster Qaudrille,” a movement in his later work, the vocal a capella Nonsense madrigals (1988-1993). (Ligeti was… [read full post]