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Arthur Rackham, illustration for Alice In Wonderland uploaded to Flickr by Foxtongue. She has many cool vintage photos you should look at!
 

It’s January 27th, which on the Oddbill Almanac is known as Rabbit Hole Day…

Both the idea for and the description of this day have been shamelessly cribbed from the LiveJournal entry of someone called Crisper.:

January 27th is the birthday of Lewis Carrol, author of ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Alice fell down a rabbit hole into a place where everything had changed and none of the rules could be counted on to apply anymore. I say, let’s do the same: January 27th, 2005 should be the First Annual LiveJournal Rabbit Hole Day. When you post on that Thursday, instead of the normal daily life and work and news and politics, write about the strange new world you have found yourself in for the day, with its strange new life and work and news and politics. Are your pets talking back at you now? Has your child suddenly grown to full adulthood? Does everyone at work think you’re someone else now? Did Bush step down from the White House to become a pro-circuit tap-dancer? Did Zoroastrian missionaries show up on your doorstep with literature in 3-D? Have you been placed under house arrest by bizarre insectoid women wielding clubs made of lunchmeat?

Let’s have a day where nobody’s life makes sense anymore, where any random LJ you click on will bring you some strange new tale. Let’s all fall down the Rabbit Hole for 24 hours and see what’s there. It will be beautiful.

I’ve modified it to make it a bit more universal, as it is a fantastic idea:

Instead of your normal daily life, do bizarre things you might never otherwise consider doing. Say yes where you might usually say no, and no when you might usually say yes. Is there a food you don’t eat on principal alone? Eat it! Is there a person you have always been afraid to talk to? Talk to them! You can do that today, because the upside-down rules of the Wonderlands are seeping out of reflections everywhere today.

(P.S. – while you are figuring out what to do, take a look at these amazing pictures. This is exactly the kind of beautiful strangeness you should be giving to someone today.)

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