Sign of the times...

Long, long ago, I was into Disney. I fell in love with the Lion King movie and I was collecting everything Disney I could get my hands on. Even wacky things, like the books auction houses gave out when holding Disney auctions and the Disney annual stockholders books.

I spent tons of money through eBay, and one of the things I bought were those stockholder books. Then someone gave me a clue: If you buy even one single Disney stock, you'd get that book free forever! So I did. One stock hadn't cost much ($25? $50?), and every year I got wonderful book after wonderful book, full of art you'd see no place else.

Even now, when I'm not into Disney so much anymore, I still enjoyed looking through those glossy pages.

This year's book? Black and white. Plain (newspaper quality) paper. Not one single picture in it. It's so depressing and boring! I hope they go back to pretty, color, glossy books when the economy recovers.

Also I was debating posting about this earlier, I didn't think it merited its own post, but I can tack it on to this one. voidmagus, would you please stop ( setting me up to be raped by a child molester in my dreams? )

Sign of the times...

Long, long ago, I was into Disney. I fell in love with the Lion King movie and I was collecting everything Disney I could get my hands on. Even wacky things, like the books auction houses gave out when holding Disney auctions and the Disney annual stockholders books.

I spent tons of money through eBay, and one of the things I bought were those stockholder books. Then someone gave me a clue: If you buy even one single Disney stock, you'd get that book free forever! So I did. One stock hadn't cost much ($25? $50?), and every year I got wonderful book after wonderful book, full of art you'd see no place else.

Even now, when I'm not into Disney so much anymore, I still enjoyed looking through those glossy pages.

This year's book? Black and white. Plain (newspaper quality) paper. Not one single picture in it. It's so depressing and boring! I hope they go back to pretty, color, glossy books when the economy recovers.

Also I was debating posting about this earlier, I didn't think it merited its own post, but I can tack it on to this one. voidmagus, would you please stop ( setting me up to be raped by a child molester in my dreams? )

"Who's more rock and roll than Justin Bieber?" (And Lois McMaster Bujold)

God. Glee, I was looking forward to you all week, and instead of being good, instead of continuing storylines, we get the most unreasonable, nonsense... just... no. I have no words. Nothing made sense. The characters are just so impossibly stupid sometimes. And Justin Bieber. God. How this show goes from so good one week to so bad the next is beyond me.

"Who's more rock and roll than Justin Bieber?"
My 18 year old cat is. An actual rock is. Anything is.

I suppose the young show fans were tickled pink at this ep.

Edit: Does anyone read Lois McMaster Bujold? I picked one of her books semi-at random (The Curse of Chalion), and it kind of feels like we're jumping into the middle of a story, like it's not the first book in the series. Wiki says it is, but I wonder if there was some other series that touched on this world/characters I should have read first? I don't mind when books just toss you into the middle of stuff and don't explain it (I like that, in fact!), I just don't want to be starting in the wrong place.

"Who's more rock and roll than Justin Bieber?" (And Lois McMaster Bujold)

God. Glee, I was looking forward to you all week, and instead of being good, instead of continuing storylines, we get the most unreasonable, nonsense... just... no. I have no words. Nothing made sense. The characters are just so impossibly stupid sometimes. And Justin Bieber. God. How this show goes from so good one week to so bad the next is beyond me.

"Who's more rock and roll than Justin Bieber?"
My 18 year old cat is. An actual rock is. Anything is.

I suppose the young show fans were tickled pink at this ep.

Edit: Does anyone read Lois McMaster Bujold? I picked one of her books semi-at random (The Curse of Chalion), and it kind of feels like we're jumping into the middle of a story, like it's not the first book in the series. Wiki says it is, but I wonder if there was some other series that touched on this world/characters I should have read first? I don't mind when books just toss you into the middle of stuff and don't explain it (I like that, in fact!), I just don't want to be starting in the wrong place.