To the tune of Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)Let them sail, do not fail, let the ball of dittos goLet them reach, they can teach drones to doubt all that they seeLet them fly, let them try, let them hide the parts we showLet them reach, and impeach and confuse drones’ memory(Bridge)Drive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayFrom Endtown they came down to the depths of AlbionThey’re with me, don’t you see, they’re protective companyAnd they tried, but my pride and my temper made them goneGlad to see there can be a new chance to get us free(Bridge)Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Drive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayFrom high space to the wastes we have fought Topsiders tooFrom the deep monster sands to the lands of frozen doomHide us now, ditto friends, so we never can be seenHide us now, make amends, just as if we’d never beenWe can hide, not be spied, now just watch the dittos goWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayWe can drive, stick with Clive, don’t need people at the wheelDuck this, and alone, we’ll escape our destinyWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayFrom Endtown they came down to the depths of AlbionWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayLet them reach, they can teach drones to doubt all that they seeWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayLet them fly, let them try, let them hide the parts we showWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayLet them reach, and impeach and confuse drones’ memoryWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayAhhha….Ahhha….Ahhha…Ahhha….=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books
And of course, both of Carroll’s Alice books made perfect sense. Sorry about the line breaks in The Jabberwocky, it can better be found here:
Jabberwocky etc. . Now, I will meet any challenge to play croquet with hedgehogs and flamingos, without borrowing the caterpillar’s hookah. We’ll send our little disappearing moggie to, ahem, borrow, the Lagomorph’s timepiece. Now support Aaron Neathery, or it is “Off with Your Heads!”
Select Prints and make donations via PayPal . Notify
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Which prints and books you wish to purchase, and make the arrangements. . And of course, Cafe Press is the best location short of a convention to buy your Endtown merchandise, like t-shirts and glasses, so everyone will know you are one of the cool kids. Well, at 58, more cool than kid, but I am sure you get the point.Can I take a minute of your time to tell you the Good News about Voting? Ouch! See, my good people, to support Aaron, and Jenner too, simply go vote, and spread the Good News about Endtown and Doc Rat. Or i’ll send the Red Queen’s playing cards for you, one eyed knaves are wild. .
Vote ENDTOWN
. Vote Doc Rat . Vote Hubris . Vote Kevin and Kell . Sincerely, . JusSayin You know, if you don’t like Jabberwocky, there were the Grace Notes if the 1960s.Grace Notes to Alice in Wonderland Enjoy, You are Quite Welcome.
Yeah, life was simpler when shooting someone didn’t result in a pile of dust. And that was before people turning into mutant animal people and the giant kaiju monsters in the desert the entire world.
Good fiction has to make a certain amount of sense for a story to hold together. That doesn’t mean that every element of a story has to conform to “normal” expectations but that the elements of the story have to work together in some ways. Otherwise few readers would make it through the story.
That was back in my day too.Doing my job I don’t stammer/stutter but quietly sometimes and nervous for like social events I can just feel it starting so I do a long pause like a voice track that hangs up then starts.Took terrible teasing from others back then which I am sure probably happened to you too.
I still see them as childrens stories but you are right. Disney and such changed them in so many ways. I would just like them to say “based on” rather than sell it as what was written.
I had not known the video I posted was lifted from a Disney® production. I did not know Disney had done much of anything after Aristocats. But I went back to rewatch video, and under the suggestions, was an optical illusion wheel, like we used to put on turntables for vinyl records to calibrated their speed. That was back in the vinyl age, when we tried not to “scratch” records.
I found another version, done for a school project, in Hamburg I believe, that actually credited Disney AND Jefferson Airplane. It used some of the same scenes, but other scenes also. I didnot know Jabberwocky was used for speech therapy. When I was young, the standard treatment for stuttering was to put some marbles in your mouth and go down aways to lecture the bayou. “If it was good enough for the greatest orator in Athens, it oughta be good enough for you!”.
It became an allegory for drug usage, but laudanum was legal, and I am certain Carroll knew tea was a stimulant. Lsd had not been synthesized when Carroll was alive, and I honestly do not know when amphetamines and other psychoactive drugs were created. The song, Puff the Magic Dragon, was one of the first songs accused of being a drug reference. I was a child, we all knew it referred to someday we would have to grow up, and I promise, someday i’ll look into it someday, and put away our strings and sealing wax and bent nails and marbles and imaginations. Time magazine published an article listing drug references in many children’s songs, and Puff took the most damage. Later, Jefferson Airplane would interpret Alice in a different way, and after all the press Peter, Paul and Mary got for Puff, lots of artists sought attention through the “drugs are cool trope”, and I think the media even turned Mighty Mouse, or another Mouse, into a cokehead. Cheech and Chung made Peter Pan’s magic dust into cocaine. Okay, there may have been some hidden basis for that. But the point is, many wanted to sell magazines, newspapers, or records and concert tickets.
Paul Stuckey or Peter Yarrow, whoever wrote Puff, swore he knew nothing of marijuana when he write the words, as a school assignment at Cornell or Columbia, some solid straight laced school. An old saying is that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. More importantly back then, if people were always looking for drug references they can find them. Apologies for hitting submit too soon Night-Gaunt49.
“We have sites on our bodies, in the brain where drugs link up to. For LSD, methamphetamines, cocaine etc.”I don’t have such link-up sitesMorphine just has no impactNothing drugged puts out my lightsAnd no pain’s reduced or slackedSince I’d never drank or druggedI had no idea then. ButI woke during surgery, buggedBy a foot-long belly cutI was not to be awake!They gave more drugs: no effectThey gave all that I could takeNearly killed me, I expect.=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books
I’m a little dubious that Ralph Bakshi and Company didn’t try to “slip one by”—-but I’ve never seen more than a still of the scene, so I can’t say. Probably it’s on YouTube somewhere, but I haven’t hunted it up. Meanwhile…ever see the scene in Warner’s “The Scarlet Pumpernickel” where Daffy Duck takes a pinch of snuff? The last time I saw a broadcast version, it was cut—-but I know it was on YouTube once…
Maybe life has never really made sense, but please, can’t we at least return to normal? Oh wait, seems that that’s also a myth… In any case, the last panel gave me a much-needed laugh.
And, just to toss the cat amongst the pigeons, …Sometimes it goes the other way. Sometimes adult themes are taken by children.
Hey , I’m glad your children can sing, but listen closely to the words from some of Cohen’s songs before you let them put them up on YouTube. The same guy who wrote Suzanne , a song made popular by Judy Collins, has also written some of the greatest songs most people had never heard of, until one animated cartoon, Shrek, or a very violent film based on a true story, Natural Born Killers (NBK). That’s right, the same guy wrote Hallelujah and The Future_ (and some others sampled in NBK. I haven’t seen Shrek. L Cohen wrote Hallelujah from the point of view of an older, experienced, jaded man come to say goodbye to his latest lover. Personally, I don’t think anyone under 35 can possibly understand the meaning, much less the feeling in Hallelujah .
Sorry Wil Wheaton (Ordinary Bill from Google+), the first was the best. I’ll give Buckley, and even k.d. lang from the Olympics credit, they are very good. But they aren’t Leonard Cohen. Can we please ask eight year olds to stop posting songs about slipping the bonds of earth while making love? Pretty Please. Hey Parents, I repeat: I’m glad your children can sing, but listen closely to the words from some of Cohen’s songs before you let them make him a hero or role model or something. I will never unsee that 8 or 9 year old girl singing The Future . Someone will find a way to burn it to their computer and it will live forever. Most Sincerely, JuSayin
Trust him Jim, when one of Aaron’s characters says it’s a long story…Trust him. Blue Water Sailors would love this strip. CORRECTION*: Wil Wheaton is not the guy that draws Ordinary Bill. I knew that didn’t sound right, but OK Wil, thanks for the Google+ invitation. Really, Cohen is much better than Jeff Buckley was. Maybe if Jeff had lived, but L Cohen has been doing this forever. He almost makes Dylan seem an amateur.
Ok, this is where I think I came in.For anyone who cares and is reading these, this point in 2014 I first started reading this comic. It was cute and engaging, I went back and read from the beginning, went for 2 or 3 years and it got really dark and disturbing and chaotic. I gave it up. Well, 2 weeks ago I went back to the beginning and I’m trying again. See if I can make it through to the end. There is a great story here, and its slowly unfolding. I just think the absolute darkness and chaos of this world, while many necessary to be, and necessary to explain, doeant need to be so fully shown, (Aaron!). But we’ll see.Funny how so much of the story chapter I remember, but the details are so different. Almost like someone went through it and rewrote it. But that’s not possible, right?
Ida No about 10 years ago
Life has never made sense. Generally, though, people usually just sleep through the crazy parts.
Jenner Premium Member about 10 years ago
I do so love Holly.
Level_Head about 10 years ago
To the tune of Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)Let them sail, do not fail, let the ball of dittos goLet them reach, they can teach drones to doubt all that they seeLet them fly, let them try, let them hide the parts we showLet them reach, and impeach and confuse drones’ memory(Bridge)Drive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayFrom Endtown they came down to the depths of AlbionThey’re with me, don’t you see, they’re protective companyAnd they tried, but my pride and my temper made them goneGlad to see there can be a new chance to get us free(Bridge)Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Whip it up, fake it up, give us a new look ohh…Drive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayDrive Away, Drive Away, Drive AwayFrom high space to the wastes we have fought Topsiders tooFrom the deep monster sands to the lands of frozen doomHide us now, ditto friends, so we never can be seenHide us now, make amends, just as if we’d never beenWe can hide, not be spied, now just watch the dittos goWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayWe can drive, stick with Clive, don’t need people at the wheelDuck this, and alone, we’ll escape our destinyWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayFrom Endtown they came down to the depths of AlbionWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayLet them reach, they can teach drones to doubt all that they seeWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayLet them fly, let them try, let them hide the parts we showWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayLet them reach, and impeach and confuse drones’ memoryWe can hide, we can hideDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayDrive away, drive away, drive awayAhhha….Ahhha….Ahhha…Ahhha….=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books
JusSayin about 10 years ago
And of course, both of Carroll’s Alice books made perfect sense. Sorry about the line breaks in The Jabberwocky, it can better be found here:
Jabberwocky etc. . Now, I will meet any challenge to play croquet with hedgehogs and flamingos, without borrowing the caterpillar’s hookah. We’ll send our little disappearing moggie to, ahem, borrow, the Lagomorph’s timepiece. Now support Aaron Neathery, or it is “Off with Your Heads!”
Select Prints and make donations via PayPal . Notify
aaronneathery@gmail.com
Which prints and books you wish to purchase, and make the arrangements. . And of course, Cafe Press is the best location short of a convention to buy your Endtown merchandise, like t-shirts and glasses, so everyone will know you are one of the cool kids. Well, at 58, more cool than kid, but I am sure you get the point.Can I take a minute of your time to tell you the Good News about Voting? Ouch! See, my good people, to support Aaron, and Jenner too, simply go vote, and spread the Good News about Endtown and Doc Rat. Or i’ll send the Red Queen’s playing cards for you, one eyed knaves are wild. .
Vote ENDTOWN
. Vote Doc Rat . Vote Hubris . Vote Kevin and Kell . Sincerely, . JusSayin You know, if you don’t like Jabberwocky, there were the Grace Notes if the 1960s.Grace Notes to Alice in Wonderland Enjoy, You are Quite Welcome.crookedwolf Premium Member about 10 years ago
As when Wally met Holly, hope comes in small packages..
salenstormwing about 10 years ago
Yeah, life was simpler when shooting someone didn’t result in a pile of dust. And that was before people turning into mutant animal people and the giant kaiju monsters in the desert the entire world.
Darwinskeeper about 10 years ago
Good fiction has to make a certain amount of sense for a story to hold together. That doesn’t mean that every element of a story has to conform to “normal” expectations but that the elements of the story have to work together in some ways. Otherwise few readers would make it through the story.
the other ghost girl about 10 years ago
Topsider: Have I gone mad?Wally: We’re all mad here
Coyoty Premium Member about 10 years ago
Fiction is the dramatization of another world’s history. Continuity drawn from the discontinuous, with artistic license.
Ida No about 10 years ago
Fiction doesn’t need to make sense, it just needs to maintain internal consistency.
Vet Premium Member about 10 years ago
That was back in my day too.Doing my job I don’t stammer/stutter but quietly sometimes and nervous for like social events I can just feel it starting so I do a long pause like a voice track that hangs up then starts.Took terrible teasing from others back then which I am sure probably happened to you too.
Vet Premium Member about 10 years ago
I still see them as childrens stories but you are right. Disney and such changed them in so many ways. I would just like them to say “based on” rather than sell it as what was written.
dirtyoldlady1 about 10 years ago
Wally is holding this secret about "how you become a lagitimate change. Well they couldn’t gone this far safely.curiously and curiously.Blessed Be
JusSayin about 10 years ago
And @ Night-Gaunt49
I had not known the video I posted was lifted from a Disney® production. I did not know Disney had done much of anything after Aristocats. But I went back to rewatch video, and under the suggestions, was an optical illusion wheel, like we used to put on turntables for vinyl records to calibrated their speed. That was back in the vinyl age, when we tried not to “scratch” records.
I found another version, done for a school project, in Hamburg I believe, that actually credited Disney AND Jefferson Airplane. It used some of the same scenes, but other scenes also. I didnot know Jabberwocky was used for speech therapy. When I was young, the standard treatment for stuttering was to put some marbles in your mouth and go down aways to lecture the bayou. “If it was good enough for the greatest orator in Athens, it oughta be good enough for you!”.
Sincerely, Respectfully & Fraternally, JusSayin
JusSayin about 10 years ago
It became an allegory for drug usage, but laudanum was legal, and I am certain Carroll knew tea was a stimulant. Lsd had not been synthesized when Carroll was alive, and I honestly do not know when amphetamines and other psychoactive drugs were created. The song, Puff the Magic Dragon, was one of the first songs accused of being a drug reference. I was a child, we all knew it referred to someday we would have to grow up, and I promise, someday i’ll look into it someday, and put away our strings and sealing wax and bent nails and marbles and imaginations. Time magazine published an article listing drug references in many children’s songs, and Puff took the most damage. Later, Jefferson Airplane would interpret Alice in a different way, and after all the press Peter, Paul and Mary got for Puff, lots of artists sought attention through the “drugs are cool trope”, and I think the media even turned Mighty Mouse, or another Mouse, into a cokehead. Cheech and Chung made Peter Pan’s magic dust into cocaine. Okay, there may have been some hidden basis for that. But the point is, many wanted to sell magazines, newspapers, or records and concert tickets.
JusSayin about 10 years ago
Paul Stuckey or Peter Yarrow, whoever wrote Puff, swore he knew nothing of marijuana when he write the words, as a school assignment at Cornell or Columbia, some solid straight laced school. An old saying is that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. More importantly back then, if people were always looking for drug references they can find them. Apologies for hitting submit too soon Night-Gaunt49.
Sincerely, Respectfully & Fraternally, JusSayin
Level_Head about 10 years ago
@Night-Gaunt49, who said:
“We have sites on our bodies, in the brain where drugs link up to. For LSD, methamphetamines, cocaine etc.”I don’t have such link-up sitesMorphine just has no impactNothing drugged puts out my lightsAnd no pain’s reduced or slackedSince I’d never drank or druggedI had no idea then. ButI woke during surgery, buggedBy a foot-long belly cutI was not to be awake!They gave more drugs: no effectThey gave all that I could takeNearly killed me, I expect.=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown BooksRobert Nowall Premium Member about 10 years ago
I’m a little dubious that Ralph Bakshi and Company didn’t try to “slip one by”—-but I’ve never seen more than a still of the scene, so I can’t say. Probably it’s on YouTube somewhere, but I haven’t hunted it up. Meanwhile…ever see the scene in Warner’s “The Scarlet Pumpernickel” where Daffy Duck takes a pinch of snuff? The last time I saw a broadcast version, it was cut—-but I know it was on YouTube once…
The Rolling Cat about 10 years ago
Maybe life has never really made sense, but please, can’t we at least return to normal? Oh wait, seems that that’s also a myth… In any case, the last panel gave me a much-needed laugh.
JusSayin about 10 years ago
Hey , I’m glad your children can sing, but listen closely to the words from some of Cohen’s songs before you let them put them up on YouTube. The same guy who wrote Suzanne , a song made popular by Judy Collins, has also written some of the greatest songs most people had never heard of, until one animated cartoon, Shrek, or a very violent film based on a true story, Natural Born Killers (NBK). That’s right, the same guy wrote Hallelujah and The Future_ (and some others sampled in NBK. I haven’t seen Shrek. L Cohen wrote Hallelujah from the point of view of an older, experienced, jaded man come to say goodbye to his latest lover. Personally, I don’t think anyone under 35 can possibly understand the meaning, much less the feeling in Hallelujah .
Sorry Wil Wheaton (Ordinary Bill from Google+), the first was the best. I’ll give Buckley, and even k.d. lang from the Olympics credit, they are very good. But they aren’t Leonard Cohen. Can we please ask eight year olds to stop posting songs about slipping the bonds of earth while making love? Pretty Please. Hey Parents, I repeat: I’m glad your children can sing, but listen closely to the words from some of Cohen’s songs before you let them make him a hero or role model or something. I will never unsee that 8 or 9 year old girl singing The Future . Someone will find a way to burn it to their computer and it will live forever. Most Sincerely, JuSayin
JusSayin about 10 years ago
Try this instead:
HallelujahOr cut and paste, I give up. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Fkuq5Lf0Q&feature=g-soc JusSayin
JusSayin about 10 years ago
Trust him Jim, when one of Aaron’s characters says it’s a long story…Trust him. Blue Water Sailors would love this strip. CORRECTION*: Wil Wheaton is not the guy that draws Ordinary Bill. I knew that didn’t sound right, but OK Wil, thanks for the Google+ invitation. Really, Cohen is much better than Jeff Buckley was. Maybe if Jeff had lived, but L Cohen has been doing this forever. He almost makes Dylan seem an amateur.
Sincerely & Respectfully, JusSayin
Isaac Chen over 5 years ago
If I were them I would tell the transporter not to activate the ditto defense mechanism
kaystari Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ok, this is where I think I came in.For anyone who cares and is reading these, this point in 2014 I first started reading this comic. It was cute and engaging, I went back and read from the beginning, went for 2 or 3 years and it got really dark and disturbing and chaotic. I gave it up. Well, 2 weeks ago I went back to the beginning and I’m trying again. See if I can make it through to the end. There is a great story here, and its slowly unfolding. I just think the absolute darkness and chaos of this world, while many necessary to be, and necessary to explain, doeant need to be so fully shown, (Aaron!). But we’ll see.Funny how so much of the story chapter I remember, but the details are so different. Almost like someone went through it and rewrote it. But that’s not possible, right?