This was an idea I scribbled in my sketchbook upon waking one morning and decided to turn into the Friday the Thirteenth nightmare. Naturally, it turned out longer than I bargained for, even though I kept cutting it. In some ways, the final script represents which ideas ended up with drawings I liked. For example, the car originally had a balloony-looking driver who never spoke, and Alex eventually realized he was just a part of the car. But I never liked my drawings of the driver, so, there ended up being no driver.

The radio speech is stuff from Rush Limbaugh's book, which I got from a scholarly paper on his rhetorical use of different metaphors, but with all the "triggers" taken out. Like, everywhere it says "liberals" or "feminists" or "America" or whatever.

Some of the language during the "pack of heads" scene is taken directly from the end of Alice in Wonderland.

Alex's outfit is intended to be a punkified version of what Alice wears in the John Tenniel illustrations, but too small for her -- an adult wearing a child's clothes. The Tenniel illustrations -- or, rather, the reproduced engravings of them, though as a kid I had no idea that they weren't the same thing -- are one of my earliest and most enduring artistic influences. So, it was time for a homage.