Becky came down to visit me and see Despicable Me 2 this weekend. Her visit was awesome! But the movie itself, not so much ( Read more... )

Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life - indeed, Frank Capra’s entire oeuvre - is often snidely described as “heart-warming.” Presumably these are the same people who deride Disney movies as sweet, fluffy tales, never mind all the manifoldly scarring moments in Disney movies: the deaths of Bambi’s mother and Simba’s father, the dragon in Sleeping ( Read more... )

I'm working on my course syllabus about American carnival, so I've been looking for articles about Disney World. Everyone writes about Frontierland and Tomorrowland - because they're easy to slot into narratives about the tension between American nostalgia for nature and hope for technological utopia, the American mythic West, etc.; and of course ( Read more... )

I saw Brave! In the theater at the Union, which was not quite packed but very busy! I had forgotten how much I enjoy seeing movies in theaters, when everybody laughs and claps and gasps together. It's a pleasure to feel in tandem ( Read more... )

New life goal! I want to grow my hair out so long that I can use it as a grappling hook. If it also gains magical glowing healing powers that would be ace, but I won't insist.

As you might have guessed, I just watched Disney's Tangled and was most favorably impressed. And not just by Rapunzel's hair, though its manifold superpowers (let me repeat ( Read more... )

It being finals week, my friends and I have been studying constantly, sitting up at all hours of the night staring at our textbooks until - hahahaha, who am I kidding? We've totally been sitting around watching movies. Many movies. Because movies are awesome!

Despicable Me is totally adorable. I WANT A MINION. Or maybe three minions, because one ( Read more... )

First: I am SO EXCITED about Yuletide already! Even though sign-ups aren't technically open yet! (Though they may be by the time I've posted this. I will exert myself not to check every five minutes ( Read more... )

This weekend I filled a terrible gap in my knowledge of Disney cinematography, and watched Sleeping Beauty. This is clearly one of those movies you have to see as a child, because I'm just not feeling it. The pacing seems off-kilter (it takes Aurora nearly an hour to prick herself on the spindle!) and the movie doesn't have the visual richness of ( Read more... )

15,000 words on the rewrite. Also, I've figured out the outline for the unwritten part of the book, but as I've promised a friend that she can read the first part over her spring break I'm going to finish the rewrite first ( Read more... )

My dad and I drove out to look for covered bridges this morning, and we saw the best vanity license plate ever


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