Sunday, October 07, 2007
Weekend 30.3
Wrap it up, I'll take it...
My weekend productivity is only at 17.33%; it's the second week of October and it's still eighty degrees.
My posts were a little unruly this weekend. I have a stack of stuff on my desk that require updates. I found some old photographs from Walt Disney World that need to be scanned and posted. The old Canon Snappy emblazoned with logos from the 1984 Olympics is sitting on a shelf waiting for a carefully written back story to be posted. I have photographs of my perfect apartment (proximity, proximity, proximity) that also need to be posted. Finally, I have some other photographs from the archives I want to post as well as a Limestone Roof FAQ.
I finished Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World by David Koenig and need to post some comments. David does a superb job providing insight into the company after Walt's death. While tomes as large as Eisner's ego have been written about that reign, Koenig gives a very personal account of Walt's most immediate successors. Men like Dick Nunis, Card Walker and Donn Tatum, while not sorcerers like Walt and Roy, are heroes in their own right.
There's a certain sadness attached to every line of prose, and Koenig ends his work with a thought that haunts many of us in love with Disney. He writes, "Maybe one day another innovator will come along who can pull of a real, live Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Sadly, this world doesn't produce a whole lot of Walt Disneys." I think I'd go one step further. The world may produce another Disney but he would be savaged by our highly politized, ideological, and politically-correct culture.
My weekend productivity is only at 17.33%; it's the second week of October and it's still eighty degrees.
My posts were a little unruly this weekend. I have a stack of stuff on my desk that require updates. I found some old photographs from Walt Disney World that need to be scanned and posted. The old Canon Snappy emblazoned with logos from the 1984 Olympics is sitting on a shelf waiting for a carefully written back story to be posted. I have photographs of my perfect apartment (proximity, proximity, proximity) that also need to be posted. Finally, I have some other photographs from the archives I want to post as well as a Limestone Roof FAQ.
I finished Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World by David Koenig and need to post some comments. David does a superb job providing insight into the company after Walt's death. While tomes as large as Eisner's ego have been written about that reign, Koenig gives a very personal account of Walt's most immediate successors. Men like Dick Nunis, Card Walker and Donn Tatum, while not sorcerers like Walt and Roy, are heroes in their own right.
There's a certain sadness attached to every line of prose, and Koenig ends his work with a thought that haunts many of us in love with Disney. He writes, "Maybe one day another innovator will come along who can pull of a real, live Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Sadly, this world doesn't produce a whole lot of Walt Disneys." I think I'd go one step further. The world may produce another Disney but he would be savaged by our highly politized, ideological, and politically-correct culture.
