I don’t understand why people attempt to denigrate Hallmark Christmas films by referring to them as “too cheesy”, as if that is a bad thing? I mean, have you *had* cheese? It’s not exactly the insult that you think it is.

Why yes, I did get Bob Iger's book (secondhand) to have quotes handy for moments like "what do we think of the 3rd anniversary of his return from his already-postponed retirement?"

"We all want to believe we're irreplaceable. The trick is to be self-aware enough that you don't cling to the notion that you are the only person who can do this job." - Robert A. Iger, "The Ride of a Lifetime" (2019)

It shouldn't be so complicated.

I've seen very few, but Beauty and the Beast soured me forever. Another teacher showed One Jump Ahead from the new Aladdin during homeroom today and it started my day on the most horrible note. I'd never seen or heard it, and that arrangement was SO BAD.

The really depressing thing about AI is it proves how little most people care about art. This is very funny, but also, so many people will have had to look at this and not one of them stopped and said "what is this absolute shit?"

The Disney company, as it exists in the year 2025, losing rights to play in the sandbox of others' creations seems like a win for creativity as a whole. Look at the treatment of their own work! Reading this on Mickey Mouse's birthday and on the heels of a Moana remake teaser is weirdly satisfying.

no one ever talks about how bad the emma watson beauty and the beast is, but i remember. i remember how bad that movie is

So, so good.

"A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miserables "... and rain will make the flowers grow..." 😭

100 years of Disney films and at no point have I ever seen one that I wish had been made by robots instead of humans

“Hey we could put all the OOP Disney Treasures DVDs on streaming” “Nah, let’s let our users generate AI slop”

Me, age 9ish, learning that Elton John would be writing the music for a new Disney movie, The Lion King: "... Oh, the guy who sang with Minnie Mouse!"

JB Kaufman's latest epic, about the making of Fantasia, is out today and I Am Very Very Excited: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTXB439...

Monday December 8th is rapidly approaching. Have you got your copy of SCOUNDRELS, VILLAINS, and KNAVES yet?? amzn.to/3JEsCyQ

Not more than any others, but boy has my appreciation of them increased with time. Love them. Melody Time is my personal favorite.

This pretty much sums up why Disney Parks are being ripped up to shove up random franchises in every corner. Just a stunning lack of awareness of what makes these things special, why they work. Sometimes, most of the time, it ain't about storytelling.

It's November here, but I'm playing "Masquerade" and remembering the time I worked wristbands at Not So Scary and a guy came in wearing an INCREDIBLE Red Death Phantom costume. The best thing about the Halloween parties was always the guest costume creativity.

One of the best theme park books out there, exploring the allure of pirate stories in history, literature, and film and how the attraction was shaped by, and now shapes, that fascination.

I'm just a girl. Standing in a 7-11. Begging you to wear headphones if you're going to watch a video in a public, indoor space.

I try to only post obscure anniversaries, so here’s one: 61 years ago, Oct 26, 1964, a curious episode of The Andy Griffith Show aired. The timing was perfect, and thus an iconic theme park sight gag was born!

If you see this, post a Frankenstein! (Finally read it, and it was SO GOOD.)

If you know, you know. Great Moments in #DisTwitter History

This is one of the classic children's books I recently reread, and it's just as beautiful as ever. Even for one who doesn't otherwise care for spiders.

I can write my headline and closing line of the review already: "Sky's Amadeus a pointless sacrifice to the patron saint of mediocrity" "To those involved, I do not absolve you."

My husband just rescued all these Disney comics from the discard bin at a school library!!

Taco Bell

And... Phillies season 2025.

And the Philadelphia Phillies

Phillies season 2025!!

Plenty of good stuff has been said about classical music in cartoons (from Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny to Bluey), but a different example that really stuck with me was "In the Hall of the Mountain King" as the puppet show on Zoobilee Zoo.

Hooray!! focustaiwan.tw/business/202...

The Beach Boys, and "making me" is really not the way I'd describe that, honestly 💕

Inside you is one wolf, but it's David Hasselhoff in Jekyll and Hyde.

Awesome shared birthdays: Dick Van Dyke and Christopher Plummer. Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. @epcotgal.bsky.social and @thewickedwench.bsky.social. happiest of birthdays to the ones celebrating today like they'll never be another!

Slightly diminish a book. A Tale of Two Subdivisions

Boosting, MD area!

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I remember reading some Beauty and the Beast book in the pediatrician's waiting room once and the story was about Mrs. Potts being too stressed, and Lumiere suggested she have a cup of tea. Yes she was still a teapot. I was bothered. 😂

Ok, this looks fun. I'll post these over the next several days.

What about a sore back from reading a huge coffee table book in your lap in an armchair? (Marc Davis: In His Own Words, and it was worth it, @cdylanm.bsky.social)

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

It was such a big part of my family experience growing up and my early adult life through my 20s, but seeing numbers like this (even knowing enough to know that NYE is always more $ than typical...) the urge to return isn't particularly great...

I think Victorian England is becoming my Roman Empire, and it's thanks to Charles Dickens and Stephen Sondheim.