David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, delivers the 2011-2012 Frank Porter Graham Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. KK: "In this lecture David Simon, the creator of TV mega-hit the Wire, riffs on prisons, cities, unions, newspapers, taxation, globalism and the American dream with more intelligence and truth than anyone I've heard in a long while. I don't consider myself politically Left, and normally I don't have much patience with bleeding heart cry-baby accusations against capitalism, but man, I could not stop listening and feeling Simon has his finger on the titanic dynamics at work in the what was once called the United States of America. Some people wonder where the Left went in America. David Simon may now be its most articulate spokesperson. I don't agree 100% but I believe he is speaking truth to power. You should watch the whole thing."

Some of the best story art created at Disney for Alice in Wonderland was done by David Hall in 1939 when the idea for adapting Alice first took shape. There is a lot of information about David Hall out there so I won't go into too much detail about him, but there is a good article about him here. David Hall was only at the studio for a short time in the late 1930s, and contributed story art for Alice and Peter Pan. Some of his Alice story art was published in 1944 in the book Surprise Package,

News of the upcoming 'Alice in Wonderland' adaptation from Tim Burton has brought me back to Disney's 1951 animated version. Though not the best Disney film, it is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and probably my favorite of Disney's 50s output - it does not work together cohesively as a whole, but showcases a great deal of imagination as far as style and staging are concerned.