“How can you own water really? It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of life we trace. Because life is a stream. All kind of places are good for ads.”
Of course, even Disneyland is rife with underground, barely concealed debauchery. You can’t have an idealized magic kingdom without also having secret, sweaty, mascot-suited orgies, like you can’t have a veneer without something to attach it to.
Predators can grow camouflage too. Successful ones include using their victims’ desires to lure them in.
Plus, I hear Disney is now breeding stronger workers in the tunnels under Disney World. We should ask about it after we visit the new EloiLand attraction, which will be open soon.
The opposite of “authentic” would seem to be either “obvious” or “ubiquitous,” though the subject seems to not really demand (or supply) a significantly reciprocal likeness. Queue for disney after dark bit-minutes for only dollars per second. One thing is clear, though, or at least one thing: Cat and Girl is a magic place.
I just read the songmeanings.net comment thread on “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down.”
I learned that people miss the good old days when “half the fun of going into Manhattan was stepping around the detritus and filth, finding a hole in the wall restaurant where no one speaks English and being hassled by junkies for a nickel.”
“20 years ago 42nd Street was full of strip clubs, sleaze, derelicts and character. Today its become an annex of Disney’s Magic Kingdom. May be we needed to clean up the streets but today NY is full of tourists who treat my city as if it was part of Epcot.”
im wearing a What Would Batman Do t-shirt right now.
@appropriate clothing: im gonna go with “All kind of places are good for ads.” but now im thinking it was rhetorical and i just failed. either way i feel like i will learn something.
Flowers are all different shapes and sizes, colors, textures, fragrances, flavors etc. These subtle variations may “pop out” at any given moment and then recede again, like a sneezing reflex or chocolate desire. (And like the Batman from his solitary, unique darkness, of course.)
I think the authentic statement is “how can you own water really?”. Because I agree with it. Anything I agree with is authentic, and anything I disagree with is not. Duh.
I agree with @Tremblay…so, I think, that makes me inauthentic… ( see Billie Joe on ‘what’s punk’? -> http://shrunklink.com/ewhe )
@Athena I remember falling in love with my first pair of pink and white Nike Air trainers (so good I slept in them); then I discovered Converse yummm:) #ediblefootweardotcom
Hoist by her own petard. And Cat just loves applying the the match to the fuse. Fake flowers with fake pollen. Does that mean Girl’s allergy isn’t “Authentic”?
June 25, 2010
Spot the authentic statement in the following:
“How can you own water really? It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of life we trace. Because life is a stream. All kind of places are good for ads.”
June 25, 2010
And yet Disney World — the amusement park itself — is a real thing pretending to be fake thing.
June 25, 2010
Of course, even Disneyland is rife with underground, barely concealed debauchery. You can’t have an idealized magic kingdom without also having secret, sweaty, mascot-suited orgies, like you can’t have a veneer without something to attach it to.
June 25, 2010
If they look like flowers, taste like flowers, and aggravate allergies like flowers…
June 25, 2010
I’m allergic to fake flowers.
June 25, 2010
Predators can grow camouflage too. Successful ones include using their victims’ desires to lure them in.
Plus, I hear Disney is now breeding stronger workers in the tunnels under Disney World. We should ask about it after we visit the new EloiLand attraction, which will be open soon.
June 25, 2010
The opposite of “authentic” would seem to be either “obvious” or “ubiquitous,” though the subject seems to not really demand (or supply) a significantly reciprocal likeness. Queue for disney after dark bit-minutes for only dollars per second. One thing is clear, though, or at least one thing: Cat and Girl is a magic place.
June 25, 2010
I just read the songmeanings.net comment thread on “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down.”
I learned that people miss the good old days when “half the fun of going into Manhattan was stepping around the detritus and filth, finding a hole in the wall restaurant where no one speaks English and being hassled by junkies for a nickel.”
“20 years ago 42nd Street was full of strip clubs, sleaze, derelicts and character. Today its become an annex of Disney’s Magic Kingdom. May be we needed to clean up the streets but today NY is full of tourists who treat my city as if it was part of Epcot.”
June 25, 2010
Of course, no street crime means no Batman origin story means no Batman, so there.
June 26, 2010
im wearing a What Would Batman Do t-shirt right now.
@appropriate clothing: im gonna go with “All kind of places are good for ads.” but now im thinking it was rhetorical and i just failed. either way i feel like i will learn something.
June 26, 2010
Flowers are all different shapes and sizes, colors, textures, fragrances, flavors etc. These subtle variations may “pop out” at any given moment and then recede again, like a sneezing reflex or chocolate desire. (And like the Batman from his solitary, unique darkness, of course.)
June 26, 2010
I’m wearing Nike Skins(tm) right now. I wish you all could see them. On the other hand, they’re not edible. (I’m just sayin.)
June 26, 2010
I think the authentic statement is “how can you own water really?”. Because I agree with it. Anything I agree with is authentic, and anything I disagree with is not. Duh.
June 26, 2010
I agree with @Tremblay…so, I think, that makes me inauthentic… ( see Billie Joe on ‘what’s punk’? -> http://shrunklink.com/ewhe )
@Athena I remember falling in love with my first pair of pink and white Nike Air trainers (so good I slept in them); then I discovered Converse yummm:) #ediblefootweardotcom
June 26, 2010
In the end, I like Disney too. But it always leaves me with a softly bitter taste… may be we can make beautyful storyes without the denyal part.
July 11, 2010
Francois, you win.
May 1, 2012
I am so grateful for your blog post.Thanks Again. Really Great.
October 13, 2013
Hoist by her own petard. And Cat just loves applying the the match to the fuse. Fake flowers with fake pollen. Does that mean Girl’s allergy isn’t “Authentic”?