Disneyland

When I tell people that I prefer Disneyland over Walt Disney World, even though I've never been to Walt Disney World, they're usually incredulous and try to convince me that no I really DO love Walt Disney World MORE Than I love Disneyland and that I really really want to go to Walt Disney World instead of Disneyland. It's almost like they're *offended* that I'd rather go to Disneyland!

The best way I can put it is like this:

Disneyland is an awesome book, like... like The Hobbit. One of those books that you want to read over and over again, and every time you read it you pick up something new or a new hidden meaning or new understanding of a character and it just seems different every time you read it even though it's the exact same book.

Walt Disney World is like a DVD Boxed Set of The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. They did an awesome job on the adaptation even if they did have to make some parts shorter and omit certain scenes or characters, but they got it *right*. And the Deleted Scenes! And the extra disk of Behind-The-Scenes documentaries and interviews and don't even get me STARTED on the Director's Commentary! SO MUCH TO SEE AND DO, you'll need to devote several days to watching these DVD's to get everything! It's just so EPIC!

But really, I don't want to sit down and watch those DVD's... I just want to go back and read The Hobbit again. Lord of The Rings is awesome and all and I'll watch that when I'm in the mood... but for now I'd rather just read The Hobbit again :)

HOORAY FOR BIRTHDAYS!!!

This year for my Birthday, we're going to WOOTSTOCK!!!

THIS IS AWESOME!

It's easy to draw comparisons between the Geeks of today and the Hippies of the 1960's. A subculture that's always been there, just recently gaining popularity and acceptance in standard culture thanks to major exposure to the general populace through popular music, movies and TV... an entire generation of TRUE members enjoying/fearing/despising the "Posers" who are just in to the movement because it's trendy... we speak a language that our elders just can't understand or accept... it's down right eerie!

So this "Wootstock". It's not our version of "Woodstock" as the name would imply (that would be PAX), but it *is* the equivalent of seeing Janis Joplin jam with Hendrix and The Beatles. It's an opportunity to *be there* for something that right now may not seem like history, but years from now kids in a Space-Coffee Shop will gather around and ask me stuff like "You were really THERE when Molly Lewis got on stage with Paul & Storm in Seattle?" and I'll say "Yup... it was a wild time back then in the early Century..."