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With this year’s version of the D23 Expo right around the corner, it is anyone’s guess as to what Bob Iger and minions will announce when it comes to theme parks, especially Disneyland. Plenty of...
View ArticleA stumble in the Force
I’m sure I will get flack for saying this, but I think the announced plans for additional lands featuring Star Wars at Disneyland and Walt Disney World are a mistake. Yes, a mistake. I will admit to...
View ArticleAccused Curmudgeon Stands Before You
Yes, it is true. I have been accused of being a curmudgeon. As described by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, “a person (especially an old man) who is easily annoyed or angered and who often...
View ArticleThe Disney Store Comes To Town
“Talk about your trunk space!” No secret here, but I am a fan of most things Disney. Maybe not the current incarnation of the Disney Channel (being outside the desired demographic), but pretty much...
View ArticleAmerican Experience: Walt Disney
So… I watched all four hours of the American Experience: Walt Disney from PBS. From my perspective, it had a number of issues. Perhaps none more striking than this – You cannot begin to know the man...
View ArticleDisneyland Annual Passports – Crossing the $1000 Price
So, it has finally happened. A Disneyland Annual Passport is being offered at a cost of more than $1000. It has been said that timing is everything. In this case, is anyone really surprised? Given...
View ArticleWhy Not Explore A New Destination?
It is a fair question. If the price of a vacation to a Disney theme park is so extreme and beyond your economic reach, why not look for a new destination? Sure, Walt Disney wanted to create a place...
View ArticleMore thoughts on Disneyland Annual Passports
And the comments continue on the recent announcement of the increased price of a Disneyland Annual Passport. Christopher Elliot of Fortune.com chimed in with a story this morning on the controversy....
View ArticleStar Wars – The Easy Way Out
I often find it amusing that so many people want to have Star Wars as the mythic tales of their time. Yes, with no heroes of epic proportions in the real world, one can understand how people can...
View ArticleTo Boldly Go, Again…
No bloody A, B, C or D… So, word from CBS, parent company of Paramount that a new Star Trek series will be coming in early 2017. No details on what the focus will be of the story to be told. As a fan...
View ArticleIt’s not the years…
So, it is coming down the home stretch in 2015. Last page on calendars and all that. Time for a bit of reflection between those holidays and more shopping opportunities, right? For my part, it is the...
View ArticleBack to the printed page.
In many ways, I am right back where I started. Writing, that is… Over the years, I have been lucky enough to have written for school newspapers, newsletters, press releases, online columns and of...
View ArticleHumbug!
Ah, in my heck of the woods, it just would not be the holidays without this sign. And therein lies the tale! In the mid 1960’s my family moved into a new home in Mountain View, California. On San...
View ArticleWould you believe…
As odd as it might seem, I have not set foot in a Disney theme park since May of 2015. And even more interesting, is the fact that I am okay with that. Yes, I was an Annual Passholder. Disneyland...
View ArticleTime and the Machines
I have indeed been very lucky. With Time and Machines, I have been able to connect. For there have been more than a few moments when I was able to experience a direct connection to the past. And the...
View ArticleWestward Ho!
Or How We Learned to Love the Past as the Future and Stop Worrying About It? Oh, the sound of wailing at the end of all things Frontierland… If you haven’t heard, Disneyland is making some changes...
View ArticleSurvivors from the Industrial Past – Baldwin Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives
Industrial archeology tends to be a subject that you don’t often think about. Unless you happen to be a fan of scenes like the one above, that is. Railroading in the days between 1870 and 1890 was a...
View ArticleMatters of Perspective
It is funny that there are times when we can be reminded of how the simplest things in life can provide the most satisfaction. Take the image above, for example. These two balls of fluff spent the...
View ArticleAfternoon Musings
Ah, the promise of an afternoon… Changes ahead, in all kinds of ways. Disney fans got a bunch of changes out there. Starting at the top, will Bob Iger be staying on now that Tom Staggs has declared...
View ArticleNo Matter Where You Go…
Ah, Home, Sweet Home… Maybe. Sorry, no Disneyland stories today. I needed a good exterior view of a home and that’s a photo I have. What I do want to share is some thoughts on the places we choose to...
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