Time runs differently here

Oh look, it's been months since I updated this. This is what having a full-time job does to me.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 108: My friend Grace did a recent photography shoot with an Alice theme for a competition.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 109: A recent picture from I Can Has Cheezburger features the Disney version of the Cheshire cat.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 110: A recent blog by Amanda Palmer talks about her high school theatre experiences. One play was "Alice", "an original piece that married different versions of “alice in wonderland” together, including jan svankmeyers. it was basically a play about drugs and death."

And now, various Twitter posts:

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 111: @Zoetica:Escaping the sudden accidental rabbit hole for some proper Russian dining at Traktir. Mы пируем, суки.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 112: @MollyCrabapple: Drawing Alice in Wonderland pictures for the Box

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 113: @NeilHimself: RT O frabjous day calloo etc @mantene: @neilhimself The Graveyard Book won Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks! Congratulations!

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 114: @JephJacques: I'm at the Dirty Truth, tweeting about my characters drinking at the Horrific Revelation HOW DEEP DOES THE RABBIT HOLE GO

There's possibly a few more that I've missed/forgotten about. It just gets silly these days...

I couldn't be bothered at first

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 71: So, two recent episodes of the US version of "Whose line is it anyway?" have featured Alice references in the "props" round. The first was Colin turning his props into a large smile and Wayne calling for "Cheshire cat, party of two". Then today there was Wayne making his prop into a hookah and saying "Welcome, Alice, welcome". Way too much Alice in that show...

Going halfsies once more

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 61: Another one found through Stumbleupon. Contrariwise is a site that showcases people's tattoos that feature quotes from "books, poetry, music, and other sources". Of course, one of the tattoos featured is the line that gave the site its name, "“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 62: This one was another random encounter, but not using Stumble this time. Instead a Google search led me to the Cheshire Cat car club a "Radio Control Car Racing in Congleton, Cheshire".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 62 ½: This one's not quite a sighting, but instead an acknowledgement of an influence. I recently got a chance to play Super Mario Galaxy. In a game set in an alternate reality, near the beginning of the game you find yourself waking up and having to chase white rabbits.

We're going even further out

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 59: "Not always right" is a site where people post humorous stories about customer service. Once such story about strange requests for prizes is entitled "Tweedledee and Tweedledum".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 60:I've been following the Phoenix Mars lander on Twitter and it just posted this message: "Will continue to monitor the first dig site (AKA Dodo-Goldilocks) while I start a new test dig in "Wonderland." Still baking samples, too." Apparently, Wonderland is "part of the larger 'national park' area named 'Cheshire Cat'" Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything about why these places have been named as such.

Back off my shoe box

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 33: I recently bought the first two volumes of "Fables" by Bill Willingham. There's multiple Alice references in both books, though Alice is conspicuously absent from the entire series. In vol. 1, "Legends in Exile", Snow White is carrying a sword, which she notes "is the vorpal blade of Jabberwocky fame. Kills in one cut, snicker-snack and all that? Does all the fighting for you?"

Then in vol 2, "Animal Farm", some of the residents of "The Farm" are shown to be the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit (not to be confused with Br'er rabbit, who is depicted as white and wearing a waistcoat, the actual White Rabbit is dressed in his herald's uniform), and various playing cards. Also, a quote from Wizard on the back of the book states that the book "Tosses traditional fairy tales down the rabbit hole."