Ode to the Blingrupt

Check out Laura Rich's (Recessionwire) "Jabberwocky" parody, "Ode to the Blingrupt" using economic-crisis terms coined by Trevor Butterworth:

‘Twas ponzipaloosa, and the slithy brokerers
Did scofit and fraudit in the Davy Jones Index;
All bankholed were the financial sucktor,
And the drivelatives quantitatively fassets teased...

Arty Alice

Sue Johnson's "Alice Redux" panorama will be on display at New York City's Schroeder Romero/Winkleman Gallery Project Space through April 26. "The 20-foot-long panorama imagines Alice grown up and finding her way through a dream world cluttered by the flotsam and jetsam of modern consumer culture. Advertising images of everyday products appear alongside allusions to the Lewis Carroll tale, making the work a contemporary fantasia of incongruous imagery." http://somd.com/news/headlines/2008/7363.shtml

A belated congratulations to Bryan Talbot: His Alice in Sunderland was placed on the shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association's Best Novel award back in January. Winners will be announced at Eastercon this coming week: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa/website/awards.aspx.

Some of you may have read the review in the most recent Knight Letter about the Theatre Gajes (www.gajestheater.nl) "stilted" open air performance in Germany. The group recently toured in Toronto, where LCSNA member Tania Ianovskaia attended and took photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/bianovski/AliceNathanPhillipsSquare?authkey=PMdOt4f-P4o.

Last but not least, the one of the winners of the New York Times "Pi Day" (3/14) Poetry Contest (http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/contest-winners/) is Mike Keith's Cadaeic Cadenza, in which each succeeding word of the poem has the same number of letters as the corresponding digit of pi... to the 3,835th digit! Section 3 of the poem is a strange, but clever parody of "Jabberwocky." http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/cadtext.htm