I had to explain what was going on in season 2 episode 1 of Loki to my dad. On his second watch.

I actually preferred the first episode to the second. I thought the pacing was weird in the second. All that time on ( spoilers )

It was amused reading Salon's "Walt Disney’s radical vision for a new kind of city," with its full drinking of the Disney Kool Aid about Walt's dream of a future city, the original E.P.C.O.T., Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. (Walt Disney's own video about it is here.) The article enthuses over its environmentalist, utopian, anti-car ( Read more... )

Defunctland has created a VR video simulation of what it was like to ride 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Disney parks. It no doubt has more impact if you watch with VR glasses on, but it was still interesting and memory-jogging to me without them. When I did the actual ride in 1989, the glass and water weren't this clear, but still....

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