That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 31, 2023

Years later, Alice’s mother would ask her when she got interested in drugs, only to be reminded of the stories mother read to Alice.

/// Alice, next to her Mom, snuggles close

on the couch, but the girl seems morose.

Her Mom can’t understand,

that she’s ”in Wonderland,”

from a small lithium overdose.

Either that child is sick, or that’s the best book ever, because she looks anesthetized.

Molly loved playing with life-size animatronic doll

“So that’s what modelling is; you pretend you’re reading and I pretend I’m a good girl.”

In the first book, Alice is unimpressed with her sister’s book, which has “no pictures or conversation.”

Alice’s mother mistakenly thought Edward Albee’s play “Tiny Alice” would be suitable reading material for a five-year-old. Years of psychological therapy would henceforth be necessary for the sensitive child. That failing, she eventually ran for Congress as Marjorie Taylor Greene. (—

Yes, dolly is dead. But we can’t flush her down the toilet like the goldfish and the turtles. We’ll have to get a shovel and put her in the backyard next to daddy.

The hours of posing for the portrait took their toll on poor Alice.

“I can see why they call it the ‘Tale of Sleepy Hollow.’ I could barely get through the first page.”

See, I told you I could make things levitate….

Little Abby knew something wasn’t right but didn’t dare stop her. Her mother, in a sleep deprived state, had mistakenly grabbed one of her “Mommy’s alone time” novels.

“Mom, the DOLL doesn’t even believe the bit about the stork.”

Girl; ((“She let him put his… Wha?”))

A sweet moment of teaching your daughter the incantation to make her doll levitate

Mommy, I’m tired of dressing up like a girl. I want to join the boys watching the World Series on TV.

Call me daft, call me sentimental………but this picture makes me miss my Mom.

All Alice hears is “Wha, wha, wha.”

No honey, it says right here in Raising Children for Dummies, I only have to feed you twice a day. So, the two eggs at breakfast was all you needed.

Alice took candy from strangers on November 1, and shared with her dolly. Now dolly is dead, Alice is frozen stiff, and Mommy is desperately searching her child care books for an antidote.

There was a time when the people who lived within a child’s walking distance of their own house were not strangers.

Pattern on the couch has hypnotized the kid…

“and then the witch stuffed Hansel and Gretel into the pot…”

“This tale, Mother dear, is moronic-/

And my intellect- though embryonic-/

Rejects superstition:/

Plus, placed in this position/

I shall certainly grow catatonic…

“Why does Mommy’s book talk about ‘heaving bosoms’ so much? I don’t even have one of those!”

OK, let me try reading from Corinthians. Maybe that will exorcise the doll.

Alice in Wonderland: 

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"Category:George Dunlop Leslie" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Alice, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3213 (October 31, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 7 works by him have been used here (8 times total, including 1 repeat), the November 30, 2022, strip being the prior.

This cartoon embodys my objections to Halloween: Never take candy from strangers, kids, because they are all creeps who will kill you or worse! Except on Halloween when you can take all the candy you can get from them. But for God’s sake don’t take anything that isn’t wrapped because they poisoned it or put razor blades in it! So it’s fine to take candy from strangers on Halloween as long as you realize they all want to poison you. If the creeps try to give you a homemade popcorn ball or brownie or cupcake, throw it on the floor and run screaming into the night. Then we will send to police to get them!

“Alice in Wonderland,” ca. 1879

Is it wrong that I wanna trade places with that little girl?

Luncheon on the Grass: 

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"Category:1863 oil on canvas paintings in France" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Grass, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using either the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this huge painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3224 (November 20, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 19 works by him have been used here (21 times total, including 2 repeats), the April 21, 2022, strip being the prior (a repeat).