By now you’ve read about my previous exploits on my first ever trip to Walt Disney World, right? Well, if you are all caught up, it’s time to move on to the next chapter. And by that, I mean that we made our way over into Frontierland. The first iconic view that I remember seeing was the long drop of Splash Mountain. This iconic drop into the briar patch is 52 feet down at 40 miles per hour. You’ve gone…
Hopefully by now you’ve read some of the previous tales of my first trip to Walt Disney World so I don’t have to get you caught up. Let’s just advance up main street to the Castle where you have to make a decision to turn right into Tomorrowland, go straight into Fantasyland, or turn left into Adventureland. I followed Josh off to the left and we entered a world of adventure. After passing by some spitting camels in Agrabah, I…
I’ve previously started telling the story of my first ever trip to Walt Disney World, the only Disney park I have as yet visited. I’ve gone to great lengths to tell about how I was already a fan of The Haunted Mansion and had long held a deep desire to visit the parks. You can read that story here. I’ll also now mention that I had as yet never flown in an airplane before, so I’m hitting all kinds of…
If you’ve been keeping up with this story, you’ll have learned about how I was a Disney fan that had not once visited the parks with my family. We just couldn’t afford the trip. My parents did try, though, when I graduated from high school. They took me across the state to St. Louis to visit Six Flags while we camped in a Yogi Bear themed campground with air conditioned tents. This was the first year that the Batman roller…
When I was young it was as true as it is today, Looney Tunes are always available for viewing. I enjoyed all the laughter and fun that I had with Bugs Bunny and his pals…and even his nemesis, of which there were many. But of course the ultimate dream was to be able to watch a Disney animated film. They were like gold to us with their limited release schedules. If you were lucky, you’d see them in the theater.…
Every hero has their origin story. Well, I don’t know that I’m any sort of hero. I don’t know if there is anyone who even looks up to me, but I have managed to reach out into the world and unite a following under the banner of never growing up. I suppose there is a story behind how that happened, but I don’t know how to tell it. Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? Okay, perhaps that’s going back…
I know when I start to describe this game, you’ll recognize you may have played something similar to it before, and it might not have been so PG. This is a bit of a party game, and sometimes it really shows your friend’s personality or critical thinking at work. The idea is that you pick three people or characters and decide what you’d like to do with them. In the normal version…you choose from a more “adult” activity. But we’re…
I’ll only give this warning once, if you haven’t seen “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, I recommend you don’t read this yet. After two viewings of the film, I’ve also done a lot of thinking. There are a lot of things to be gleaned from the stories of the film. There are issues of the balance of the Force and of hubris. Science fiction has a way of pointing to something in our world, and though I wouldn’t call Star…
This is it Star Wars fans, the final week before the release of the next chapter in the Star Wars saga hits theaters, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. A title that caused a bit of confusion and speculation as to who the last Jedi really was. Thank goodness writer and director Rian Johnson has stated that his intent was that Luke Skywalker is indeed the last Jedi, as Yoda stated that he was back in 1983. Uh oh, did I…
By now I’m sure you’ve seen the blockbuster hit, Thor: Ragnarok. Twice in this film we hear the Led Zeppelin classic, “Immigrant Song”. In my head, this adds this classic to the pantheon of Disney music. Disney music has a long legacy of beautiful, magical, and toe-tappin’ tunes. Going back to the classic “Turkey in the Straw” featured in Steamboat Willie, Disney has made us sing along to delightful tunes, or hum along to The Skeleton Dance when you have…
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