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.

One is far superior to the other

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 74: Thanks to someone's msn name, I discovered that the McFly song, "Lies", contains the lyrics "And I'm just one drink away/And I'm back in Wonderland like it was yesterday". However, it doesn't feature on their second album, "Wonderland".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 75: Finding all that out jogged my memory that The Wildhearts have a song called "Geordie in Wonderland". They've also done a live album of the same name.

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.

Alice is Quite Interesting

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 7: Episode 11 of QI ("Endings", shown on BBC4 on Friday, to be repeated on BBC2 this coming Friday), finishes with a quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The King of Hearts to the White Rabbit: "Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

Another one...

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 6: From a Zendweller post on the Tabcrawler forums, talking about Tom Petty (and The Heartbreakers): "I recall a kind of freaky alice in wonderland theme to "Dont come around here no more" when I was little."

A quick note

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 4: I'm watching the "50 greatest comedy sketches" on channel 4. David Walliams just compared Vic and Bob's MasterChef sketch to Alice in Wonderland. He was probably talking about the Disney version as he mentioned it being disturbing and "all going wrong in the end", which doesn't quite happen in the original novel.