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The lyrics to White Rabbit

-- Jefferson Airplane

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call

Call Alice
When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low

Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"

Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head,
feed your head,
feed your head" 

I always thought it said "... have fallen from your head", and never picked up on "sloppy dead". Two online sources which may have the same stem and which may not have it right give it as it is above.

Based on Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: read that book here.

Apropos of:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

The book, and the film.

Dr. Gonzo: Music, man. Put that tape on.

Raoul Duke: What tape?

Dr. Gonzo: Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit". I need a rising sound.

Raoul Duke: You're doomed. I'm leaving here in two hours and then they're going to come up here and beat the mortal shit out of you with big saps. Right there in that fucking tub.

Dr. Gonzo: [Splashes and screams]

Raoul Duke: Alright, I'll do it. But do me one last favor, will you. Can you give me two hours? That's all I ask man, just two hours to sleep before tomorrow. I suspect it's going to be a very difficult day. 

 Speaking of "the mortal shit", this quote from F&LiLV reminds me of Mortal Online:

Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes.

Also recommended, by the IRC Warrior-Poet (and Stratics.com moderator) known as "Pendragon",

Where the Buffalo Roam.

Moving right along...

The War of the Worlds (1953)

85 min  -  Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Modern viewers often complain that the wires used to suspend the Martian war machines are plainly visible throughout the film. The film was originally shot in three strip Technicolor, with prints made using a dye transfer process that resulted in very saturated colors but a slight reduction in overall resolution. This reduction in resolution "fuzzed out" the wires in original prints, making them effectively invisible. Later prints were made in Eastman Color, which uses a photographic process and yields sharper prints, but here had the side effect of making the support and electric wires plainly visible. (The models had electrical wires as the side pods of the machines really lit up green and the "cobra heads" lit up as well.) It is common practice in the film industry to take into account what details will be visible when a print is projected so as not to waste production time and money on details that will never actually be visible to a viewing audience, especially in the areas of effects and matte paintings. Thus the filmmakers never thought the wires would be visible and in fact they weren't until the first Eastman Color prints of the film were struck in the late 1960s, and they have become even more visible on modern video releases as there is no dye sublimation resolution loss when making video masters from the original negatives.

And we finish up with a quote from the mistress of innuendo, Mae West, which your Editrix had occasion to paraphrase recently:

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

Reminiscent to me of a bit of Marlene Dietrich's, found here:

Dietrich would inform the audience that she could read minds, and ask them to concentrate hard on thinking about whatever came into their minds. Then she would walk over to a soldier and earnestly tell him, "Oh, think of something else. I can't possibly talk about that!"