Chris Dee
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Latest in Chris Dees Blog
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Disneyland
Here's another one that I don't think needs a lot of unpacking or explanation. John Hench, who was essentially the architect of the original Disneyland, is one of the few people who knows what it is to make something out of your head that becomes a standard and benchmark in a million other people's heads. Here he is speaking about Main Street U.S.A. The forms of these buildings are locked into old associative forms. The old forms weren't designed by some person at a desk, an architect-the designers responded to a kind of group dream, a group aspiration. In the same way, a folk song was not written by some guy at a piano. That represents a lot of experience, and no one person can put it down. In a symbolic way, architecture is the same-an old architectural form has those reassurances locked in there. You take a certain style, and take out the contrdictions that have crept in there through people that never understood it or by accident or by som ekind of ... -
Tuscan Cooking
Had a fabulous meal last week which reminded me of the genius of Tuscan cooking. It's a story that not only tastes good, but is rich in lessons and metaphors for writing, for comics, for all sorts of human endeavors. In a way it begins with the Crusades. Crusaders and pilgrims returning from the holy land had discovered the rich pleasures that spices introduce to food. They came back, principally through Venice, with this new taste for spice, and Venice grew rich on the spice trade. What Venice had, Florence would have, and the Medicis invested heavily in the spice trade, growing even richer. Near the end of the 1400s, Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to Malabar and Calicut, exulting "For Christ and Spices!" and Italy soon had to share the spice trade with Portugal, and ultimately relinquish it. It is considered the best thing that happened to Italian cooking, because cooks now had patrons with extremely developed palates... -
Button Pushing
Best button pushing on record? A little known Alan Mencken musical called WEIRD ROMANCE. And yes, theatre trivia buffs, that's the guy from Disney's Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. The show consists of two companion one-acts, which I hesitate to call "ScFi" although it usually gets that label. If you consider The Twilight Zone science fiction, then this is too. (Um, spoiler alert for anyone who wants to experience this remarkable show cold the first time, it is impossible for me to discuss it without giving away major plot twists.) Act 1 there is a weird romance indeed for a very sympathetic character, a homeless woman experiencing a glorious Cinderella story, and this love story ends… badly. Act... -
I noticed a theme
Well, let's see. You're mixing together two different series by two different writers to make your observations. MyklarCure writes JLAin't, where your Aquaman and Wonder Woman reference is from, and I write Cat-Tales, where Ra's is, as well as other Diana appearances. A subtle nuance, perhaps, but worth mentioning before we continue.
While I don't know that Myk had a particular instance in mind of Diana saying she wanted a Meta-run state, she was actively DOING it in the graphic novel Earth 2. She was the face of Big Brother on a planet-size viewscreen, evangelizing the new world order of goodness and light they were imposing on this parallel dimension they'd conquered. And she was devastated when they had to withdraw and let the native... -
Resting up
Wow, that was one busy day for Gotham yesterday. After observing Respect Your Cat Day and finishing up the reformats for FFnet, the new chapter of I Believe in Harvey Dent went out. That's always a happy little flutter of excitement, but yesterday I did have to bag out of half of it and turn off the IMs. Much as I love hearing from the folks who like to respond privately and one-on-one that way, it's a luxury for me, timewise. Yesterday, it just wasn't doable. Sorry folks.
I also got a wonderful fan letter, the kind that just reminds you how many different kinds of people are out there, disenfranchised from the characters and comics they used to love. I don't have kids, of course, my disappointment is just my own. There was something I used to enjoy, now it is gone. But not having something that was important to you that way to share with your kids, that adds a whole new... -
Hello, Sailor
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house." Thus began one of the earliest computer text adventures, Zork. It was a vaguely D&Dish world with a quirky, slightly geeky sense of humor, as anything computer related was at the time. It was followed by Zork II, then Zork III, and then… the world changed. At least computers changed. Games came along with pictures, sound, and even short snatches of video, making the old-fashioned text adventure seem rather quaint. Not liking the idea of being placed on the memory wall next to Grandma's victrola, the franchise came out with Return to Zork. The opening screen, music swelled with the dramatic pretensions of Carmina Burana as a helicopter "camera shot" circled in on, you guessed it, a white house. Boy, did it suck. Return to Zork has to be one of the dullest, emptiest, most inanely stupid CD-Rom games out there. Why? Because it tried to actually show you what had only been evoked before from words.... -
Zen: real and faux
Ichigo ichie, or
"each moment, only once" is probably the ultimate expression of Zen.
I picked up some new incense on the trip. Enjoying one of the new scents for the first time, Mimosa.
I have been working with someone to proof the early Cat-Tales, and had to resist the temptation to polish or rewrite as I went.
Isaac Asimov, probably the most prolific fiction and non-fiction writer out there, had a rule about writing down the thought and never looking back.
I had a garden once that periodically produced the most deliciously sweet smell. It was a rented house, I didn't plant the garden and I don' t have
any knowledge of flowers to know what they were. Some of the new incense I bought, I picked because it might be that scent.
That is not artificially trying to capture a moment that is gone, but to evoke it and reconnect to...
