travel Miscellany

Posted August 29, 2006 • Comments Off on Miscellany

I’m utterly addicted to McSweeney’s DVD magazine series Wholphin, which has had all of two issues so far. The first issue had a half-hour Turkish sitcom with several different sets of subtitles. Even the original “true” story was funny, but the ludicrous invented stories were even better. I’m just now starting watching issue two.

Space Mountain has been completely changed from what I recall. It may just be that I’m so familiar with the way things are in Orlando that I don’t recognize the ride in Anaheim, and of course it was closed when Jeff and I were at Disneyland last (in 2003), but the ride is better than I ever remember it being. You don’t sit single-file anymore, which is a great improvement, and the ride is smoother, darker, and above all faster. It may just be the darkness (the star effect is much improved), and they may be doing some crazy-ass Innovention wind-machine crap, but it feels like you’re going way, way too fast in there. Space Mountain is really just a mousetrap roller coaster in the dark, but I rode the damn thing twice last night, waiting half an hour even at the last chance (10:40 pm) because it was just so damn great.

I’m somewhere over Arizona. I thought you’d like to know. Retroactively.