Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s march on Washington, D.C., yesterday, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, was estimated to be about 250,000 sane people strong (approximately triple the headcount… [read full post]
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New York Times obituary for Hypothesizer of Red Queen Theory
The New York Times today is running an obituary under the sing-songy heading “Leigh Van Valen, Evolution Revolutionary, Dies at 76.” The evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen’s eccentricities were legend… [read full post]
State of the City Address “Aliso is Wonderland”
Politicians are frequently accused of dwelling in an “Alice in Wonderland world” but few would deliberately claim the address. Not so the mayor of Aliso Viejo in Orange County who… [read full post]
Don’t worry, it’s just a phase he’s going through
Rebecca Mead’s article about the play Gatz, in the September 27th, 2010, issue of The New Yorker, had a nice parenthetical quip in re Alice adaptations: [John] Collins [founder of Elevator… [read full post]
Do feminists slay Jabberwocks?
Issue 48, Fall 2010, of Bitch Magazine, “The Make-Believe Issue,” includes “Alice in Adaptation-Land—How wanderer Alice became warrior Alice, and why.” In the well-written article, Kristina Aikens makes the interesting… [read full post]
Lang Lang galumphs
No need to report every time a Jabberwocky word is used somewhere, but this was a good one. Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s classical music critic (and author of the… [read full post]
Alice’s New Musical Adventure heads for Broadway
Back in November, Frank Wildhorn’s musical “Wonderland: A New Alice” premiered in Tampa Bay Florida. Yesterday it was announced that they are heading for Broadway and the big time. The show… [read full post]
Alice laughed: Amusing auto-abbreviations in yesterday’s Atlantic
Writing online for the Atlantic, staff writer Niraj Chokshi yesterday noted the surprisingly poetic nonsense that is generated by Microsoft Word’s “autosummarize” feature. Appropriately, he tested the feature on Through the Looking-Glass and… [read full post]
Obese Alice & Cannabis-smoking Caterpillar in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle
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]