(artwork by our fairportfan http://mog.com/fairportfan, from the happy days of MOGgingland)
Introduction
Once upon a time, MOGgingland was a lovely place. Birds were singing, sun was shining, tea was flowing around. Anna had gone through the looking glass and deep into the rabbit hole, almost 2 years ago, and she was still having the time of her life. Only lately, she could feel that something was wrong. MOGgingland was changing. And it was changing into something with claws:
Chapter I: A Mad Tea-Party
Walking around, Anna saw a table set out under a tree in front of a house. The Hatter (www.mog.com/contrabandwidth) was having tea at it. The table was a large one, but he was sitting at one corner of it: "No room! No room!" he cried out when he saw Anna coming. "There’s plenty of room!" said Anna indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. "Your hair wants cutting, and perhaps your neck could use a trim. Would you like some milk with your tea?", the Hatter told Anna. "How many times must I tell you? I only take tea with friends!", was her response, only to see the Hatter throwing the sci-fi looking milk box at her. She put her ninja skills into good use, grabbed it and run. On its side she saw these cursed words written:
Feeling experimental?
1. The Trip - Kim Fowley
Perhaps this will make you small?
2. Magic Potion - The Open Mind
Everything's alright...Or is it?
3. Sweet Dreams - Probot
Your descent...
4. At The Mountain of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
5. Monsters In The Parasol -Queens of the Stone Age
this isn't happening this isn't happening this isn't happening
6. Astro Zombies - The Misfits
7. I Walked With A Zombie - Roky Erikson
8. The Argus - Ween
The Serpentine Temptor
9. The Snake - Pink Fairies
Robotic Minion...
10. Cyborg - Pinnacle
Straight from the mouth of hell or slow country death?
11. The Four Horsemen - Iron Horse
In the end, you are complicit in your own fate...
12. Alice - Tom Waits
Chapter II: Advice from a Caterpillar
The Caterpillar (www.mog.com/amber) and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of her mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. ‘Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar. Anna replied, ‘I hardly know, madame. All I'm sure of is that I should like to be a little larger". The Caterpillar put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again. In a minute or two she took the hookah out of her mouth, and pointed at a gigantic mushroom next to her, ‘One side of the it will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.’ Anna looked at the suspicious-looking mushroom. "I enjoy the taste of mushrooms, but not the ones that bite back", she said. Putting her Hulk skills into good use, she kicked the mushroom and knocked it over. Underneath its roots she found a menacing looking book by a well known evil genius called Edward Gorey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey), a jewel skull (she dreaded to think who it used to belong to....) and a Medusa-decorated CD, with a note saying:
1. Devil You Know - Pinback
2. We Looked Like Giants - Death Cab For Cutie
3. Zombie Like Lovers - The Warlocks
4. Beast of All Saints - The Dandy Warhols
5. Ghost - Rogue Wave
6. The Wizard - Bat For Lashes
7. Bloodstone Goddess - kay kay and his weathered underground
8. Coin-Operated Boy - Dresden Dolls
9. Zombie - The Trucks
10. Herculean - The Good The Bad & The Queen
11. Zyghost - Feral Children
12. White Unicorn - Wolfmother
13. Patterns of Fairytales - The National
"Yet another trap", Anna told herself. And walked away.
....to be continued...
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PS This is not 100% my writing. It includes quotes from the PC game American McGee's Alice and from Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland.
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Brilliant!!
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Can I be the cat..Well told tale Anna!
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Aw thank you, B! All credit is for monsieur Carroll, really :)
Cody....you want to be the cat....does that mean what I think it means?!
Bollocks! runs away
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didnt you say there will be BLOOD!
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Whew! Those near-misses had me scared for a bit, but then I saw the bllodthirsty-kitty avatar and I knew: Anna is free to kill more. Heaven help us all.
:D
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Not yet, dear Kevin.....I AM ALIVE AND ON A KILLING SPREE....
:)
Oh yes, my brother......a third lethal CD was sent out today.........mwuahahhahahahah
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I wanna hear the Probot track!
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Cody....you want to be the cat....does that mean what I think it means?!
Bollocks! runs away
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Around brillig time a nice run through the borogroves can be refreshing, but beware the bandersnatch.
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It took some coaxing, and she finally drank it. Too bad I was dead.
Here you go Troy:
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Damn and here I am still waiting for my cd from last years Mogwars. Meh!!!
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Man I'm gonna update the map here sometime today. I gotta go over the posts of near misses and deaths, though...
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Thanks, Contra. Ummm...interesting. How's the album?
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I have yet to receive a CD this War..Very strange. I'm sure I'll go on vacation next week and it'll come 'round about then.
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The Albums bad ass. Pretty much every track has a different vocalist from a metal or thrash/death metal band. Lemmy's on one, The dud from Sepulcura is on another. It might be hit or miss, depending on how you feel about a certain vocalist, but it's pure Grohl and his love for metal.
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Sorry, Troy, Tyler beat me to it (connection = snail).
Thanks, contra!
And needless to say, your map of carnage is magnificent :)
Sorry, Adam :(
Cody, I have no idea what that means, which makes me even more scared!
But if you are the one that kills me, you get to be King of Hearts :)
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But, the king of hearts was a pussy.
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Not in my fairy tale ;)
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Guilty as charged,Troy. I aspire to pussy-hood.
Anna my words were stolen from Mr. Carroll and Alice:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Don't go for it, Cody! She's tryin' to punk you!
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If that's what it takes to get the job done Troy..I'll wear it. I don't embarass easily.
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Come to think of it, if Anna was killed by THAT guy it'd be even BETTER!
Carry on.
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Oh sweet! I should read it in English at some point (with a dictionary right next to me...) :)
Troy, Cody will either wear that suit or be Queen of Hearts. His choice, I'm fine with both ;P
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Wiki Jaberwocky
The link above has the translation. He made up most of the words.
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Oh, Cody will wear the suit...but it will be drenched in your blood. I'd actually buy it for him just to see that.
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underneath the suit,I'm more like the Jack of Spades
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HELL, YEAH, CODY!!! THAT'S WHAT'S UP!!!
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"...crashing through the door of that whore/puttin' and end to this gold chain war..."
Cody B...you ARE the man.
The word whore in no way meant to be a reference to my beloved Anna. That song works for this thread on so many levels though.
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Cody, if you try to affect Troy's judgement like that again, I will most definitely make you the Queen of Hearts!!!
(but thank you for the link!)
Troy, dear, if you take my side, I'll tell you about my hot Greek lady friends.
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Sorry, babe. The Jack of Spades has spoken.
Greek women are psycho anyway. :p
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Forget 007, Jack Spade is my assassin role model. Although fly-guys goldfish shoes are pretty cool and would also fit in with a Lewis Carroll tea party.
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WERD!!! Didn't Redman use this music for his last installment of Supaman Luva?
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Fishbone and Curtis Mayfield..YES!! I love I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Almost every scene clicks for me..
MR. Rocks debut:
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LOL!!!
"Fuck the cup. Po' it in my hand for a dime."
Classic shit!
What was this post originally about?
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Near Death Mog experiences through the looking glass.
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Anna, you have officially been thread-jacked!
Cody, you can be Jack Spade, and Anna can be Cherry!
Don't make me hop after you!
See, Anna. Movies like this are the reason America is still the coolest place in the world. :)
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Men in hot {?} costumes, male bonding, and goldfish shoes!
I think this is the first time someone {=me} got derailed in the post and the comments brought him/her back to the topic in mind. We are writing MOG posting history, gentlemen.
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DAMNIT! How does she do that?!!?
A jacked post is supposed to STAY jacked!
You are a worthy adversary, Anna of the Blood-Kitten Clan.
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It's all related,for the most part..But I'll glady wear the mantle of thread jack(er) of spades whether the MOG wars go my way or not. Thanks Troy,Anna..
This thread and the plying card theme also remind me of that scene in Apocalypse Now, but I don't dare post that clip..
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Those 'weapons' are beautifully produced; Unfortunately for my victims, I have the desktop publishing skills of a 7 year old who got into the drinks cabinet while my parents where out looking at the 'special' school they are going to send me to next year...
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the only reason you are still alive is because you are hiding in Greece. I cant wait till I see a death post..............and of course the blood
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Is it because I is Cherry? :)
Merci, oh Panther my Panther :*
You're very welcome, fellow jack(er) Cody.
Maybe you should, it would be the cherry (not me, the other one) on the derailed thread :)
Neill, same here. Add to that that I want to write the song titles and artists by hand because I feel that it's more personal on my behalf that way, plus my DIY obsessiveness and you get the picture...someone should kill me just to stop me from sending out more CDs like that...
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Kevin, no it's not! The 2 CDs I sent out were chronically fine! I'm still alive 'cause my assassins died too soon! (yes, I know you're teasing :P)
But I promise you that my death post will have ALot of blood.....
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It all started so innocently and then,poof, off to the stars.
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...great post - no matter the inspiration...
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I've never met a mushroom I didn't like... :)
tell me, my assault at least drew some blood...a flesh wound perhaps?
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So you got killed twice? I KILL YOU! Great post dear!
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Things that start innocently tend to go in mysterious directions, Cody. That's why I always prefer those that start un-innocently. At least with those, you know where you're standing from the start :)
Merci, van! :)
Amber oh Amber....bit more than a flesh wound........you and Tyler have weakened me for the final blow........I'm bleeding.....
Actually, uncle A, I got killed zero times. There is a new rule this year, that says that if your killer dies before you get the CD, then you do not die :)
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Live long and prosper Queen Anna. (Damn, I can't believe how long mail takes to get to Greece.)
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It's official. Dead or alive, Anna's a killer.
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WHOAH x a million! fave post of the week. and fave thread of the week.
though the mogwars do not reach my soil, i am hanging out here for the scent of blood. kill 'em all, Anna!
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She needs only go to her mail(cat)box for deliverance..
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Mikey, Cody's trying to kill me! Help!
poe awwww thank you so much! :)
And thank you for that pic! Lucy as a vampire was the only thing I loved from Coppola's film!
I read somewhere that this transformation even inspired a big fancy designer firm to make its models look like that at photo shoots and the catwalk. Can't remember more details though.
Cody, I ain't going I ain't going! LALAcan'thearyouLALALA
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lets just say I got your back - we're family & we take care of our own - don't hold it against you that you let me die so brutally at the hands of Hello Mimi... but I know you sang songs - the ones we love - over my grave & I am ever at peace knowing you love your fellow Philly sis (almost as much) as I love you !!!
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Anna, indeed Lucy rocked that movie, i'd bet the fashionable population drooled all the way to the cemetery. no wonder Jude Law thought she was to die for!
Cody, why are you trying to kill Anna?? aren't you on vacation? ;D
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