Is it me or is it just sad that the “Jabbawockeez,” winners of “America’s Best Dance Crew” discuss how much they like Mexican food but fail to acknowledge the source of their name? www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/dance_crew/crews.jhtml?crew=jabbawockeez

Xanthic Eye’s Wonderlost series of paintings gives the Wonderland characters the look of pale white porcelain dolls, with white clothing and black and blood-red details… some of which are actually blood. These “black, and white, and red all over” pictures can be viewed at http://wonderlost.xanthic.net/.

The U.K. publisher of Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars series has announced a mash-up competition to promote the series. “A mash-up is a remix of images, movies clips and sounds created by using simple editing technology… A series of mixable clips based on scenes, characters and events from the books have been created and are available to ‘mash’ at http://eyespot.com/mixables/TheLookingGlassWars.”

Marvel Comics continues its fairy tale/superhero crossovers with Avengers Fairy Tales #1-4. #1 (released March 12) was based on Peter Pan, #2 (April 9) will be based on Pinnochio, and #3 (May 14) will be based on Alice: “No one’s telling any “tall” tales this month as Cassie “Stature” Lang’s size-shifting abilities accidentally send her spiraling “down the rabbit hole” and into Wonderland! Stature finds herself on an Alice-like adventure through this warped world where nothing is quite what it seems. And when she finally runs into the other Young Avengers, will she be able to bring her twisted teammates to their senses in time, before Queen of Hearts has off with their heads?!” The lovely cover can be seen at www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=8727. (No word yet what #4 will be, but if they are going with the usual classic four, it will be Dorothy/Wizard of Oz.)

In case you were wondering, the best way to deal with a death on one side of the family and a blow-out 90th birthday bash on the other is NOT to get the flu. Just saying…

Here’s a few random Alician tidbits to catch us up a bit:

What does skiing have to do with Alice in Wonderland? Well, nothing, but that didn’t stop Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado from naming some of their ski trails after the Wonderland characters: www.winterparkresort.com/the-mountain

Speaking of tenuous connections, when in Rome you can stay at the Alice in Wonderland B&B. Looks like a nice place, but no explanation of the name is given on the website: www.romeby.com/aliceinwonderland.

Information on and photographs of Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson’s grave can be found at www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2213.

From our British correspondant: “The University of Kent is offering a ‘day school’ at its Tonbridge campus on Saturday 17 May 2008, 9.45am to 4.30pm. It is titled “Two Eccentrics: Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde” and promises ‘to look at the backgrounds and associates of these two writers including reference to the style of their houses and the influences of the period … and studying passages from their work, especially the controversial Alice in Wonderland and Wilde’s decadent The Picture of Dorian Gray. We will see how their lives impacted on the society of the times and assess the lasting legacy of their literary work.’ The fee is £32 and the course code ADT014. You can enroll by telephone, with a credit card, on 0800 975 3777, or else search their University website www.kent.ac.uk for information. They warn that their day schools get booked up very quickly, so prompt action would be advisable for those who wish to attend.”

View an eloquent American Sign Language-version of “Jabberwocky”, signed/performed by Carl Schroeder, on his blog Ka’lalau’s Korner.