Author: Chuck
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The Brave Little Barfly
Today was the first day I’ve had off in a couple of weeks. I spent the bulk of it napping, interspersed with rides on the Tower of Terror. After being awakened (awoken?) by fireworks, I headed to Downtown Disney to the Adventurers Club. Full disclosure: this was my second night in a row there, and…
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It’s Fun to Be Free
Okay, yeah, this kind of sucks. Somehow “you get to spend over a month at Disney World” didn’t register with me as “you get to work from around noon to 4am or later every day sitting in an abandoned store staring at a computer screen, occasionally going out into the heat to have mediocre food…
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Living at Disney World
Today I moved into what’s going to be my new home for the next month. It’s one of Disney’s timeshares, with a nice tree-obstructed view of Spaceship Earth at Epcot and fireworks visible from my balcony. Even though I didn’t get to sleep last night until around 2, I suddenly woke up at 7am —…
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Speaking of Marketing
Speaking of the ineffable genius of marketing types: By way of The Disney Blog, here’s Kroger’s press release for Old Yeller Chunk Style Dog Food. You can go ahead and read that press release without fear of spoilers; for some reason, they don’t mention how the movie ends. So look forward to a long life…
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PS: Boners!
I was thinking more about those Hummer ads, and something just occurred to me: For decades, we’ve had hundreds of ads for dozens of products where the underlying message has been the same: Buy this product and you’ll get a huge boner. In the past few years, advertisers have been able to run commercials for…
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Walt Disney’s Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
I must be all kinds of dense, because I’m having a hell of a time making it through The Odyssey. I was meaning to be reading it for pleasure but I can’t tell one name from the next and it just feels like homework. So I switched to The Once and Future King. And it…
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Restore the Balance (you impotent, self-indulgent little stain of a person)
Car commercials are getting a lot more aggressive lately. Used to be the worst was that Mistubishi ad with the creepy woman in the beret pop-locking in somebody’s passenger seat like she was having an event. Now it’s hard to watch commercial TV for too long without feeling like you’ve been assaulted. VW has been…
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I Love the Fri Jul 28 2006 21:27:13 GMT-0400 (EDT)’s
Usually I like being over-worked, because it distracts me from my normal self-involved maudlin navel-gazing. But apparently my inner blogger is fighting for attention, because the weirdest bout of unexpected nostalgia popped in my head this morning. I was in the shower, convincing myself that the code I’d written last night would work while washing…
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Vast Wasteland
It’s counter-intuitive, but having a TiVo encourages a healthier relationship with the television box. You’re always hearing from TiVotees who go on about how they watch less TV than they did before they got one, but now I’ve got proof. Over the past month I’ve been subjected to more TV at my parents’ house and…
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Decompression
The day after crunch mode ends on a project is like a bullet train hitting a concrete mammoth. “Brick wall” seemed too mundane. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, instead of finding myself sitting in a hotel room with nothing to do and too bored even to nap. There’s still plenty to…
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Blur
Hard to believe I’ve been in LA for a week already. On one level it feels like it’s just been a day or two. On another level, it feels like I’ve been here for months. That would be a side effect of the wicked crazy crunch we’ve been in. Any notion that I’m no longer…
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10 Things I Hate About Georgia
I always remember myself as having had Scout Finch’s childhood. Even though the reality was mostly me indoors watching cartoons or playing with my Star Wars men, the parts that stand out were wandering around creeks and catching lightning bugs and riding my bike down Main Street to the old red-brick buildings of downtown to…