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New Adventures In Listening To Me Talk About Stuff

Just a heads-up that the folks at WEDway Radio were kind enough to ask me to guest-host an episode last week discussing Tokyo Disneyland. It was, as always, a great time, and even though neither of us have actually been to the park we’re talking about, hopefully it’s somewhat informative!

The episode in question is […]

Beanyland

Yesterday, Foxx from Passport To Dreams Old & New tweeted a link to this great cartoon from the 1962 Beany and Cecil animated program. The Beany and Cecil characters were invented by former Warner Brothers animator Bob Clampett, and were originally featured in a televised puppet show called Time for Beany which ran from 1949-1954. […]

Trippy Tomorrowland

“Modcinema” on YouTube emailed me to let me know of some “remix” videos they’d created using, in part, footage from the Progress City YouTube Channel. Modcinema has its own channel, which you should absolutely check out post-haste because it is a mindbending cornucopia of midcentury retro-madness; jet-age spy-chic lounge-era cool right on the taupe edge […]

Deja News

Andreas Deja with Eric Larson, 1980

Disney animation stalwart Andreas Deja has set up his own blog with which to share his vast collection of vintage artwork and stories of working with the legends of Disney animation. I’ve no doubt it will be a project to follow with great interest…

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WALT DISNEY WAS NOT ANTI-SEMITIC.

A couple of blogs I read have linked to this post today; it’s an “expose” about what a horrible person author Roald Dahl (allegedly) was. I know nothing of Dahl except for his books, which I read voraciously as a kid, and the story of his early years and dealings with Walt Disney. So I […]