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Final Post
Chickens, it is time to bid adieu to LiveJournal, and, at least for the forseeable future, this will be my last entry. This has been fun. But for me, at least, LiveJournal has outlived its therapeutic purpose. Besides, I have found I have nothing to say in this forum. I will miss LiveJournal because you can write longer entries than the standard ( Read more... ) -
A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
After 41 years, I am finally, finally going to Walt Disney World tomorrow.
When the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, I begged to go. I remember having a brochure from the place, a Mad Men-era advertisement using colorful production drawings of attractions instead of photographs of happy, clean people in bright situations that you see today. That ( Read more... ) -
Something Nasty in the Woodshed
Tales of good people doing unselfish good works and deeds always effect me deeply, and I find myself weeping at unselfishness and good happiness more than I do at tragedy or supposedly heart-wrenching drama. Today, I returned to Cold Comfort Farm (1995). The last time I looked in on this film (and novel) was in 2008, and I blogged about it here ( ( Read more... ) -
Some Realizations
1. It occurred to me that one of the reasons that my Livejournalling became less and less frequent, even as far back as 2009, is that my work privacy was seriously curtailed and I couldn't make journal entries as quickly or as events were happening. By the time I got home, I either couldn't remember or things weren't really as important as they ( Read more... ) -
Cercopithecus
A new species of monkey has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Cercopithecus lomamiensis. This is great news. Of course, now that it's been discovered, its days are probably numbered. God, I hate the concept of bushmeat. Read more about it here.
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Au Reservoir!
I am winding down Livejournal, my account for which expires in January. To that end, I have been compiling a Word document of my old entries, for what purpose, I do not know. Maybe a publishing sensation! At all events, the old entries have been fun to read ( Read more... ) -
Toward a Theory About The Films Released by Walt Disney Productions in the 1970s
So, in thinking about the Disney studio output of the 1960s and 1970s, I began with surveying its films and classifying them by genre. Eventually, my treatise will focus on the 1970s, but I start in the 1960s, laying the groundwork and establishing recognizable trends. In thinking about Disney, one notices almost immediately how outside the ( Read more... ) -
The Wonderful World of Disney
So I have this theory: that the majority of the Disney films from the 1960s and 1970s owe their form and format to two movies: Old Yeller (1957) and The Shaggy Dog (1959).
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The Great Game
I received my latest magazine from the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. There is a lengthy article about recent discoveries and developments in research, including the treasure trove that is the dispersed Tams-Witmark collection, which has brought to light significant amounts of material, including manuscripts and marked-up libretti and scores dating ( Read more... )