the mousefest drumbeat begins!

  you might THINK the way to a girls heart is through her stomach, her momma, her girl friends or maybe via shiny trinkets, but just an aside about THIS girl, i’d say it is by way of tinker bell ephemera….. i am getting SPOILED y’all!!!!   i will say no more for now..

on a different, but slightly related note, the planning for Mousefest 2008 is really rolling! i am thrilled that jennifer and i will be attending and that many friends old and new will be there too! and check it people – we are “underwriting sponsors“!!  thats fancy talk for saying that those darn cats are taking part in the mega mouse meet, the first ever reception kick off function and, yes, we are working on a couple of meets as well!!  my pal trace is even going to make it out!! woot! so, what with october here, i actually ventured forth and made (drumroll please) A SPREADSHEET!!!! yes, jennifer has taught me the ways of google docs - which i seem to be able to use as opposed to excel spreadsheets that make me cry – and i have begun mapping out the cruise and mousefest festivities!

the excitement has begun!!!

the new disfriends is here! the new disfriends is here!

please friend me and help me recapture my 6382 page views!

a wonderful series of posts about marceline

can be found at the blog of my pal, jeff w, over at snowy tundra training. i doubt most who read this blog do not already read his site as well, but just in case you dont, please check out his three posts about the day we all met up at toonfest!

• part 1
• part 2
• part 3

i have copious audio from the trip – i was there a long weekend – most of it is friends goofing around, but i did manage to capture some of the hosts of the events, contributing artists and the like talking about marceline and toonfest. and walt! i’d been mulling over how to get this into a TDCs sized show (we aim for 30″), but i think i will just put together this one supersized show, utilising the funny and the serious and nostalgic bits all at once….

so don’t freak if you are a listener and next weeks show is 2 hours long!

what time does the 10am parade start?

 

thanks to jeff w, my breakfast mate and the official flat stanley handler of toonfest 08.

back!

back from marceline! have thrown some pics on flickr if you to peek before i get to posting them here!!!

it was a lot of fun and would only be more so with the disney online community involved!

hellooooooo marceline!!!!!!!!!!!!!

photo(shop?) credit - Jeff W - Team Voice

the weather looks promising, and actual packing (versus the pre-packing, planning stage) has begun! yes, folks, toonfest awaits!

yes indeedy, it will be a fest indeed! best part is, i will be joining several friends and sure to be new friends for that marceline activities! So far, the itinerary looks like this:

• friday arrive Kansas City ~ 1pm. rent car. drive to marceline (this will take one or two years depending on which map you look at)
• meet fellow festers at the lovely brookville best western Hotel (i capitalize because trace keeps telling me its a motel).. ah well, you know what they say – hotel, motel, holiday inn?….. find wayne, trace and doug (i am thinking this is NOT going to be difficult)
• drive to heathers (yes, this means back towards KC, whatcha gonna do?) for a fabulous cookout!!! also meeting up with andie in atl aka disnyfan and heathers family
• saturday 8am – toonfest crew shall breakfast with another andy and his film crew. the film crew is completing documentary filming this weekend for a film about all things marceline. it is most fortuitous that i know people who know people that makes movies because we can just follow them around and see whats happening! also, with any luck, jeff w maybe in town and joining us before the festivities truly begin!
• after breakfast, we shall gather in marceline. there are many activities throughout the day… hopefully weather will permit everything to come off without a hitch! some of the highlights will include:
• 10am parade
• guided tours of the walt disney museum
• visiting the dreaming tree and walts barn
• additionally, i hope to see the theater there in town and perhaps the location of laugh-o-gram studios! there are cartoonist personalities appearing and talking, as well as apparently a pie eating contest that some dudes i know are threatening to enter… mostly i just want to see the place, take lots of pictures and eat fair food!
• saturday night – well, there may be goings on in marceline, so we are leaving that flexible, but i am going to bring the recipe for kungaloosh along, in case anyone wants to join me in a toast at “conversations”, the bar and grill that now resides at this location————->

  

• i return home sunday, but i will still have the morning to traipse around town and get lots of pictures!!!!

have you ever been to marceline? or toonfest? if you live remotely near there, you’ll find friends if you come on down!

this has nothing to do with disney (aka What The Cluck???)

WTF?

 

cruise!!!!

ok, my cruise is like less than 2 months away!!!!! as you may already know, i will NOT be d-listing it on this trip! nope, i’ve got a lovely cabin with the see through veranda all to my lovely self! i’ve got my passporter guide and have listened to all pertinent podcast episodes! so, now – heres what i am searching for…

• how much DID you actually eat on the cruise?
• is it worth is to get off the boat in nassau? what do people do there? i am thinking that should be my spa day…
• on the castaway cay day…. now i am starting to feel like i need to scuba dive! to parasail! to surf to hawaii! i don’t know… what did YOU do?
• did you spend much time in your room at all? did you try to go to bunches of shows? the show aspect doesn’t really interest me, but i am usually pleasantly surprised by things like that in the parks…
• where did i put my $%@$*!$#@ bathing suit? if you know, please share!

remember, i am going solo, though i know mousefesterswill abound! i am counting on that, actually! what things should i definitely NOT miss? what things would YOU definitely have done had YOU been solo? how should i decorate my door for the MF08 door decorating contest?? let me know!!

remembering 9-11-2001

“be the change you want to see in the world” -mahatma ghandi

 

good friends also remember…..

thanks for the ride, sir, you have lovely sheep

this was my first real date movie! ok, not exactly a disney one, but there is a connection, no?