Alices old and new

So, my lovely friend Emma surprised me at work the other day with a random present. It was an old edition of Alice in Wonderland from 1943 (I think). The illustrations are by Rene Cloke, who is apparently quite collectible and most famous for illustrating some Enid Blyton books.






Alice in popular culture sighting no. 79: Another one I forgot is that I was looking at music magazines in WHSmith a while ago and turned around to be faced with a new magazine named Wonderland.

Oh so many!

A bumper crop of sightings now. They've been collecting up as I no longer have the internet at home...

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 76: "When I grow up" by Garbage, features the line "Floating out to Wonderland".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 77: Paul Kaye's intro to Being John Malkovich on Film Four features him making the Alice influence on the film explicit. Saying that when you enter the office in the film you "enter Wonderland".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 78: Another US episode of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" features a talk show skit based around Wonderland/Looking-glass. Including Ryan Stiles playing the part of the "man who sold her the mirror". He notes that he thought "it was just a mirror, otherwise I would have charged her more".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 79: In this weeks batch of PostSecrets, this card came up:

Also, today's XKCD is this:

Featuring the alternate text of "Except for anything by Lewis Carroll or Tolkien, you get five made-up words per story. I'm looking at you, Anathem."