MetaFilter posts tagged with Alice

It all started with Alice...

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:04:32 -0800

Last month, Virginia Davis passed away at 90 years of age. She was the real life (warning: lousy formatting) little girl (warning: teh kyoot) whom Walt Disney sent into the land of cartoons, responding to the popularity of Max Fleisher's Out of the Inkwell series, which used his "rotoscope" and brought cartoon figures into filmed space. Walt reversed the formula, and found his first star.
1923: Alice's Wonderland 1924: Alice's Day at Sea 1 2 Alice's Spooky Adventure Alice's Wild West Show Alice's Fishy Story 1 2 Alice and the Dog Catcher 1 2 Alice Gets in Dutch Alice and the Three Bears 1925: Alice Cans the Cannibals Alice the Toreador Alice Gets Stung Alice Solves the Puzzle Alice Loses Out Alice is Stage Struck Alice Picks the Champ Alice the Jail Bird Alice's Tin Pony Alice Chops the Suey Alice Rattled By Rats Alice in the Jungle

Ask Me Anything

WCityMike — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:19:28 -0800

I was shot in the head two years ago. I was in prison for six years. I live in a Taliban hub. I need to be an amputee. I'm four. I'm six. I'm eight. I have a micropenis. I've had sex both with and without a foreskin. My sister and I are in love. I'm in love with my mother. I married and had a daughter with my first cousin. I love my dog. I have killed someone while driving drunk. I have superpowers from chemotherapy. I was in a cult for seven years. I own a woman. I used to be asexual (I am still asexual). I was in porn (and I'm still in porn). I took a boy's virginity. I am killing myself in a few months. I started the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I started Reddit.

I have a "state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions". I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome. I believe free will doesn't exist.

I was driven gay. I am gay in a straight marriage. I was born a woman, became a man, and as a man, I'm gay.

I'm a pawnbroker, mortician, spammer, multimillionaire, working TV/film comedy writer, Freemason, actor's assistant, beekeeper, drug dealer, Catholic priest, kleptomaniac, nudist, prosecutor, suicide hotline volunteer.

I'm a pathological liar. I might be making all this up.

Ask me anything.

Alice Austen, American photographer

Morrigan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:34:58 -0800

Alice Austen (1866-1952) was a pioneering American female photographer who documented life in turn of the (last) century Staten Island. Her home, Clear Comfort, is a National Historic Landmark where she lived for many years with Gertrude Tate. Contrary to their wishes, they are not buried together. The board of Austen House discourages the use of the collection to study their relationship.

A real cut-up

flatluigi — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:54:39 -0800

You've probably seen (and heard) his version of Alice in Wonderland, but have you seen The King and I, Harry Potter, The Sword in the Stone, or Mary Poppins?

Words fail me, and drawing's too hard.

god hates math — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:39:40 -0800

Richard Thompson (no, not that one) is the writer and artist behind Cul-de-Sac, a delightful comic chronicling the lives of Alice and Petey Otterloop. He's also responsible for Richard's Poor Almanac, a weekly comic in the Washington Post known for regional humor and a series of political finger puppets, including Scott McClellan, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama (well, kinda), Ron Paul, and of course, everbody's favorite Vice-Presidential candidate. Unfortunately, while all of the comics are on the Post's website, there is no RSS feed, nor can you navigate through them in any reasonable order. He also enjoyed mild notoriety as a result of the much-forwarded poem, "Make the Pie Higher."

Quark-Gluon Plasma

netbros — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:33:33 -0800

The ALICE Collaboration is building a dedicated heavy-ion detector to exploit the unique physics potential of nucleus-nucleus interactions at LHC energies. The aim is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma, is expected. This website aims both at introducing non-initiates to the field of physics covered by ALICE and at providing regular information on the evolution of the experiment, with detailed reports of its results and analysis.

Wonderland

flatluigi — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:16:06 -0800

'Alice,' by Nick Bertke. MP3s of 'Alice' and three other pieces of music similarly created by sampling Alice in Wonderland can be downloaded from here.

Skelewags

Wolfdog — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:48:19 -0800

Skelewags - drawings from a delightful Burtonish/Goreyesque world, including some skewed takes on Carroll's Alice.

Alices in Wonderlands

carsonb — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:44:41 -0800

Alice illustrations other than Tenniel Favorites so far: Tove Jansson Khodozhnik S. Goloshchapov Debbie Boon-Jenkins Some Previously/Related stuff [filler; stuffing]: Alice In Civil War Land posted by Marxchivist EAT ME: Alice's Adventures Under Ground posted by Pretty_Generic The Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-engraved Illustration posted by thomas j wise The children's book illustrators archive posted by OmieWise

Esmeralda's final fade-out :(

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:40:19 -0800

"I knew I didn't look like an ingenue... My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress. But I also knew I'd find a way." One of the most accomplished scene stea lers in the history of TV comedy, character actress Alice Ghostley, is dead at 81. Here she was in 2003 on the Designing Women reunion show. From imdb: Alice Ghostley originally did not appear as Esmeralda but as maid Naomi who caused havoc at the Stephens'. In the same episode ("Maid To Order"), she is asked to help with a client dinner at the Tate's home because their own maid was ill that night. The name of the Tate's usual maid was Esmeralda.

You've got Mel

ericbop — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:36:24 -0800

Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?

It's the Chronic - what? - Polls of Zobgy!

DragonBoy — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:43:08 -0800

Nearly Half of Americans want to let states legally regulate and tax marijuana the way they do liquor and gambling.
Zogby International will pimp there services to just about anyone these days, including NORML for a poll on American's attitudes towards pot. According to the poll 65% of 18-29 year olds and 50% of 50-64 year-olds are cool with weed being legal and controlled like booze. The former slackers of Generation X, 30-49 year-olds, oppose it by 58% and the geezers over 65 oppose it by only 52%.

The pool shows some interesting generational attitudes. Is the 30-49 age group still following Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" mantra or is this the attitude of parents worried about their kids? I thought these folks were supposed to be the slacker generation, and now they're the strongest opponents to legalization.

Kiss mahhh grits, Mel!

miss lynnster — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:09:28 -0800

As I'm sure you all know, today would've been the 74th birthday of actor Vic Tayback, best known as everybody's favorite hairy, sweaty, ill-tempered (yet almost cuddly) diner chef on that wacky piece of 70's tv Americana Alice (Remember when Mel called Vera "dingy"? Sitcom gold!). Kept busy for years as a character actor with constant tv guest spots on everything from "I Dream of Jeannie" to "Gunsmoke," Vic embraced job security when given an opportunity to expand one character in particular, Mel Sharples from Martin Scorcese's drama "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (starring Ellen Burstyn [she won an Oscar], Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster). Thanks to Vic, the character of Mel smoothly adapted from his dramatic origins into his new home of sit-com hi-larity... one of the rare attempts of that kind to succeed.

RIP Vic. Oh, and kiss my grits.

semmi — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 07:21:51 -0800

"When he can't get along with the real world, Wallace goes back to the only thing he has left: his computer. Each morning, he wakes before dawn and watches conversations stream by on his screen. Thousands of people flock to his Web site every day from all over the world to talk to his creation, a robot called Alice. It is the best artificial-intelligence program on the planet, a program so eerily human that some mistake it for a real person. Richard Wallace has created an artificial life form that gets along with people better than he does." A fascinating article (NYT), how a beautiful and original mind survives in our corporate society with the help of "a daily cocktail of psychoactive drugs, including Topamax, an anti-epileptic that acts as a mood stabilizer, and Prozac. Marijuana, too -- most afternoons, he'll roll about four or five joints the size of his index finger."

otherchaz — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:04:27 -0800

Go for the gold! Concord 2002: Site of the upcoming Loebner Prize. Can reigning champion A.L.I.C.E. repeat her triumph? Chat bots from around the globe are scouting out their rivals on the AI competitive circuit and studying their crib notes.

andrew cooke — Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:16:02 -0800

Worth downloading the plugin. Well, I thought it was funny. And free, easy 3d graphics for the web sounds like a good idea to me. Pwaaak.

rushmc — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:19:14 -0800

Curiouser and curiouser... They are talking of making a movie based on the new game, of which some of us enjoyed the recently released demo. Since I thought the mood of the game was better than its playability (granted, I have yet to find a game whose playability satifies me), this could be pretty cool.

physics — Sat, 02 Dec 2000 01:33:48 -0800

Alice demo (Download, 78MB) has been released. Even if you're not big on video games you might want to give this one a try. *Requires a PC with 3D graphics accelerator and fast connection to download in sane amount of time.