Weekend 521.3
“It’s been remarked many times that Walt was Mickey, Mickey was Walt—and nowhere is that more evident than in the iconic scenes of Mickey eagerly improvising an airplane and taking Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Walt Disney
Weekend 485.0
(1) A quote from How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of your Life by Pat Williams with Jim Denney: “Walt Disney was a walking paradox. He was Continue Reading →
Grim Grinning Milestones
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of fifteen-days to flatten the curve. Still drafting a post on Walt and the Walt Disney Co. but Sarah Hoyt linked to this on Chicago Continue Reading →
Weekend 473.1
“Michelangelo and Walt Disney are the stars of my show.” — Robert Moses (1) A quote from Tomorrow-land by Joseph Tirella: “Although not one to share the spotlight—or the credit—Moses Continue Reading →
Walt Disney
Do you remember being younger and hearing old geezers tell you things like ‘that’s a slippery slope?’ What happens if we’ve slipped and are now in the midst of a Continue Reading →
Weekend 461.1
(1) A quote from Walt Disney and the Quest for Community: “The EPCOT philosophy continued in other ways. Disney’s favorite community topic was transportation, be it model railroading or promoting Continue Reading →
Weekend 459.1
“A station is far more than a group of buildings where the passenger catches [the] train, buys a ticket, a meal or a newspaper. It expresses the very nature of Continue Reading →
Weekend 445.1
(1) Leopold Stokowski Collection (Penn Libraries) (2) “He could feel the music. In Fantasia, there’s a lot of his soul in that picture.” — Joe Grant in Remembering Disney (3) Continue Reading →
Weekend 445.0 (Terminus)
(1) A quote from Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami: “In that sense, Seiji Ozawa is simultaneously an unschooled ‘child of nature’ and a fountain of deep, practical wisdom; a Continue Reading →
Weekend 437.0
“The music was somehow addictive, as he had warned. An uninterrupted stream of emotion, Musical instruments in colorful profusion. It was Strauss who boasted, ‘I can describe anything in music, Continue Reading →