Once again Gadisa has expertly captured the magic of a visit to Disneyland Paris on her blog. Using YouTube her Video Trip Report sets the standard for Disney trip reports. The writing is in Dutch, but her feel for the magic of Disney is universal. The night before the trip Disneyland Paris endured a huge… Read More »Gadisa Captures The Magic of DLP
I was first introduced to the daily staple of life that is ESPN back in 1987. I worked at a summer camp and weekends were spent in the local town drinking up life, pizza, and sports. The big screen TV at the Pizza joint was playing a new type of football, something they were calling… Read More »ESPN Gets Some Football On, Arena Style
Of all the new shows of the fall season at ABC ‘The Nine’ held the most interest for me. I thought the pilot was excellent. But I was only able to tolerate three episodes of the show before it fell off my rotation. I wasn’t alone either as the ratings numbers never materialized in the… Read More »Where did The Nine go wrong?
Congrats again to Kevin Yee for scooping everyone on the existance of a master plan for the Western Beltway property. The Orlando Sentinel has now verified the project’s existence with county planners. Sounds like any serious development is still a long way off, however. Disney might, however, want to consider building some low income housing… Read More »Western Beltway Project now official, if still far off
Cartoon Brew is reporting that Chris Sanders, director of "Lilo and Stitch", has been removed from his role as Director of "American Dog". Having spoken to some people who are close to the production, the decision to separate Sanders from his "baby" most likely came from John Lasseter and Ed Catmull. Even though MEET THE… Read More »Chris Sanders removed from “American Dog” Director’s Chair
Like Pinnochio, Celebration, FL, the town that Disney built, has never really been a real town. It is an planned community run by an managment company and local board, but is just a part of unincorporated Osceola County. Now, the community of Celebration appears to have found it’s Blue Fairy and the process of granting… Read More »Celebration moves one step closer to becoming a real city
Neal Gabler, author of the most recent biography of Walt Disney, has an editorial in the Los Angeles Times on the 40th Anniversary of Walt’s death and how he continues to be viewed in our culture. To a surprising degree, however, he has managed to survive in the national consciousness, and not just as a… Read More »Neal Gabler Editorial
These Disney shaped lanterns have a wonderful beauty about them. Thanks to Deddy for emailing me the link. There’s more at this blog post, but it’s in Javanese and I can’t find a translator for it.