Saturday, April 10
About a year ago a tag was placed on rotten.com's front page rating it at "Disney" level. The action was then promptly forgotten until this certified letter arrived.
Warning: sometimes nakedness can be seen in conjunction with this otherwise innocent portrait of a Ride Theorist in training...
Encourage her growing sense of self-confidence with the [Walt Disney Productions] movie that has helped millions of young girls.
Thursday, April 8
Wednesday, April 7
Still more from Meyer Berger's "At the Fair" column:
(05/24/39)
The saddest note we’ve heard yet in the World of Tomorrow, came to us yesterday as we drifted unhappily through the haze and cold mist on the mournful meadow. It was the voice of a lonely man in one of the sales booths, doleful as Elijah in the wilderness. "Get your frozen custard here," it said, over and over, "Nice and warm. Nice, warm frozen custard."
What could be scarier than an abandoned amusement park? How about a radioactive abandoned amusement park? Elena is a young Ukrainian biker who takes us for a ride through Chernobyl.
"In the Russian language a big dipper is a devils wheel."
(Ironic Note of the Day: the spell checker wanted to replace "Chernobyl" with "carnival")
(Thanks and a tip of the ushanka to K.A.)
# posted by Dan @ Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Tuesday, April 6
Meanwhile, in Big Thunder Deathtrap News:
So hail to thee, Unknown Complainer! The Blue Fairy will be arriving soon with your medal!
LOS ANGELES -- Disneyland was ordered Tuesday to retrain two employees who run the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which was involved in a weekend collision between two empty trains while the ride was shut down. The two trains collided at 10:40 p.m. Saturday during the restarting of the ride after it shut down when a passenger at the loading area pushed open a gate, officials said...
Big Thunder Mountain was shut down Sept. 5 after a fatal accident. It reopened March 10 after state officials were satisfied Disney had taken all corrective action -- which included retraining of staff assigned to the ride...
Because no guests were involved, there was no requirement that Disney report the collision. Calif.-Occupational Safety & Health Administration learned about it through a complaint, Fryer said.
So hail to thee, Unknown Complainer! The Blue Fairy will be arriving soon with your medal!
Monday, April 5
Thanks to Jon at Scribble.com, I now have a little server space to post my odd collages, like this one:
Apr. 2--BURBANK, Calif. - In his first meeting with investors since being stripped of the chairmanship of The Walt Disney Co., Michael D. Eisner spoke Thursday of being freed up to focus more on the creative endeavors of the entertainment conglomerate. During a tame question and answer session hosted by Credit Suisse First Boston, the embattled Eisner acknowledged that the shareholder revolt at the last month's raucous annual meeting in Philadelphia is not likely to be the end of the storm of criticism against him. "There's still noise out there," said Eisner, who remains Disney's chief executive officer and a member of the board. "There will be noise out there as long as my enemies are still my enemies."I seem to recall someone else who kept track of his enemies.
Sunday, April 4
"I wouldn't want my fingerprints in a big Busch Gardens file."
"Behind the magic Simon (Reeve, host of BBC 4's Outrageous Fortunes) finds unhappy workers who say Disney deprives them of breaks and pays them well below average rates, and who are willing to fight for concessions from the company. He discovers a whistleblower from Disneyland who thinks cuts in maintenance staff could endanger the lives of Disney’s customers. And he learns the inside story of how Disney built a self-contained state in Florida with its own police force whose loyalty is to Disney, not its customers. Are Disney powerful enough to make their own laws?"
