Feb 1, 2013 – Monday Bookshelf and Blogging Focus: Research the life, work, and ideas of Walt Disney to separate the wheat from the chaff. … The juxtaposition of Walt Disney on Monday, Robert Anton Wilson on Wednesday, and now Ayn Rand was not intentional. … How did Disney, Wilson, and Rand use the cultural work they created to shape themselves and America?…

Feb 19, 2013 – The world changes while we snore. … The more kids can’t pay for college, the more college looks like Disney World. … The world we knew is not the one we wake up to after a short nap.…

Feb 18, 2013 – Jackson to Roosevelt forgotten presidential chain because U.S. federalism had not yet been compromised and the U.S. had yet to be a world … That’s Disney-level motivation. My 8th grade history teacher would have done this lesson back in the day.…

Mar 30, 2013 – A few days ago, PJ Lifestyle ran an excerpt from Leonard Mosely’s book Disney’s World, in which Walt Disney, in a letter to his partner … It’s like Disney must have felt — another 24 frames, another day’s work, and what did he have? Another lousy second of film.  …

Apr 10, 2013 – When I’m finished with it then I’ll move on to a book more hostile to Disney, Richard Schickel’s The Disney Version: The Life, Times … , Art, and Commerce of Walt Disney.  … And Other Forbidden Disney Stories and please let me know what kinds of articles about Disney you’re interested in seeing him write…

Apr 4, 2013 – So gamers may come to regard Disney since its acquisition of the Lucasfilm family of companies, including video game developer LucasArts … Practically effortless aside from some paper pushing among lawyers, the move would provide LucasArts (and parent company Disney) with … Related at PJ Tatler from Vodkapundit: Disney to Lucasarts: Drop Dead!…

Jul 19, 2013 – Chris Queen on Disney Culture: The Evolution of EPCOT Through The Eyes of Preview Films Also Around the Web Thursday: Ben Shapiro … the trailer for the “Calvin & Hobbes” documentary Friday Dawn Reading: From page 172 of Leonard Mosley’s biography Disney’s World … I think we should phase him out.” — Roy Disney Friday Reflections: At the end of his presidency I wonder what Barack Obama will…

Jul 19, 2013 – Many writers and critics have suggested that the Disney Studios has cultivated such a rarefied image of Walt Disney that some people … immediately that it was Disney material. … How will they react to the portrayal of Walt Disney — and other legendary Disney figures?…

Jul 14, 2013 – Like the ones at Disney who charge 3-year-olds $89 for a day’s admission to the Magic Kingdom. … At the end of his article, Smith notes: Every summer the Brad Pitts of the world have to relearn the wisdom of MGM mogul Sam Goldwyn…

Jul 11, 2013 – This time last year, I wrote a piece on the appeal of the Disney villains. … …to many Disney fans, the villains are just…well…cooler. […] The villains put on the best show — and they make the fantasy world … The most harmful evil traits among the Disney villains match up well with the evils of the real world — tyranny, false hope, dependence…

Jul 29, 2013 – penetrate the fog of the future, I keep reminding myself that we are in a big war, and that the big war is very similar to the Second World … Lifestyle Featured on PJ Home Page on Friday: Rhonda Robinson: Restoring Our Judeo-Christian Culture Chris Queen: Forgotten Walt Disney … World: River Country Walter Hudson:BREAKING: Sex May Result in Children Though atheistic, Rand condemned a few choices as sin, including…

Jul 26, 2013 – For me, it’s Disney culture (don’t act so shocked), college sports, and Star Wars. … Of course the world of Cars has been overtaken by pollution. That explains the open blue skies and clean car world perfectly! … But what about Boo, the girl who ventures into the monster world era in Monsters Inc.?…

Jul 26, 2013 – When used in a positive and holy way, there is nothing more powerful and valuable in the world. … Chris Queen: Forgotten Walt Disney World: If You Had Wings Charlie Martin: The Earth From a Great Height Also Around the Web Thursday … It’s time we started seeing the world more in the context of where we really emerged.…

Jul 25, 2013 – We remember some retired Walt Disney World attractions for their revolutionary ideas or innovative layout and presentation, while … When Walt Disney World opened in October 1971, Tomorrowland was not complete, and the company looked for attractions to fill in certain … The fingerprints of If You Had Wings found their way on to other Walt Disney World attractions at Epcot.…

Jul 22, 2013 – Chris Queen: Walt Disney And The Fight For Mary Poppins Kathy Shaidle: Yippie-Kay-25th-Birthday Die Hard When I was single and … This is the world in which we now live: a Hispanic man kills a black boy, likely in self-defense, and the media portray the killing … Finally, from page 202: Quote of Note: “We are dreamers and world-shapers, and in fairly short order we will reshape the heavens…

Jul 22, 2013 – high school, most have spent a great deal of time in adult settings, where they learned to interact with the community in the “real world … Liberty Kids whenever I was sick with a migraine, and my younger son laments that he’s the only kid he knows who hasn’t seen all the Disney…

Aug 7, 2013 – dislike-able protagonist is what gives Orange some spice and sets the stage for a possible transformation in Piper’s conduct and world-view … Piper-The-Perfect-Princess would win over all the inmates in proper, Disney Princess fashion and rehabilitate them into perfect people … —and needs to realize the world isn’t always a happy, Kate Spade clutch. She’s also a total ditz. …

Aug 7, 2013 – Politics Istanbul Intrigues The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East Modern Dictators: Third World … The 2012 Disney flop reportedly cost $300 million to make. … Disney could have just bought the Post and, well, they’d still have lost money.…

Aug 6, 2013 – And I would say the vast majority of Biblical scholars would agree that the illiteracy rates in Jesus’s world were somewhere around … “The first reason I am writing this book is to tell the world we never forget our heroes and the second reason is to tell [everyone … He says it is against the terrorism culture so often expressed in the Islamic world.…

Aug 15, 2013 – “It’s A Small World.” “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” “Let’s Get Together.” “Tall Paul.” “There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.” … Though they did not work exclusively for Disney, their work for the Mouse is their most well-known. … years before working for other producers and studios – along with Disney – in later years.…

Aug 15, 2013 – Whereas the foreign-policy scholars provide important analysis for making sense of the world, these next four writers are each in the … ‘Elevated Its Charges’ Against Swartz Because Internet Community Rallied on His Behalf Michael Walsh: Obama, the Media, and Dog World … The Rosenbergs provided military and atomic information to the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin, both during the years of World War II…

Aug 13, 2013 – Goldman perpetually provide clear-eyed analysis illuminating world events. … What made the end of World War II definitive was the purging of the mindsets that had occasioned it. … Simple Principles of a Judeo-Christian Diet Saved My Family Charlie Martin: The Tomato on My Desk Is Ticking Chris Queen: Walt Disney…

Aug 28, 2013 – to a club and everyone is simulating sex on the dance floor, perhaps she will remember Romans 12:2, “Do not be conformed to this world … However, if her dream is becoming a Disney pop star, steer her toward something far less damaging like quilt-making or debate team. … Disney has turned into a slut factory.…

Aug 28, 2013 – Our kids “missed out” on the Disney Channel, the Cartoon Network, and other stations aimed at the younger demographic. … not only to protect our kids from exposure to these things when they were young and impressionable, but also to prepare them for a world … But I’m confident that our sons won’t be the guys leering and twerking along with the Miley Cyruses of the world.…

Aug 27, 2013 – Camille Paglia writes in Time: The Cyrus fiasco, however, is symptomatic of the still heavy influence of Madonna, who sprang to world … Pop is suffering from the same malady as the art world, which is stuck on the tired old rubric that shock automatically confers value … Related: “The most disturbing thing about this ex-Disney star’s sordid routine? My teenage daughter’s blasé reaction.”…