| HAPPY
PLACES
Normdate 4-10-2007:
This week, I have full reign of the apartment
whilst my brother and his new bride Lori cavort, if that's a real word, in
the Happiest Place on Earth (trademark, registered and copyright 2007 the
Disney Corporation, all rights reserved), lodging inside a hotel with a giant
cowboy boot built into its facade. I do appreciate the freedom, and have
been making good use of it -- singing loudly along to headphones, peeing
with the door open...
I've been to Disney World, once, myself, back
when I was in my single digits -- and it WAS a happy place, in those
fifteen-minute bursts between the hour-long queues. The "Pirates of the
Carribbean" ride had one of the better line-setups of the park, being largely
indoors and air-conditioned, but also featuring pirate-themed decor, some
animatronic, to entertain you in the meanwhile. This stood in stark contrast
to, for instance, the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which featured helpful
signs that said things like, "45-Minute Wait From This Point."
When you're a kid, and you barely have the
attention span for a half-hour episode of G.I. Joe, 45 minutes is a long
time. Disney World may well be the Happiest Place on Earth, but that's not
a blanket designation -- it's an average, taking into account small,
highly-concentrated happiness pockets.
One of the souvenirs me and my brother Jason
both got from Disney World were a pair of fake, shoulder-mountable parrots
from a stand outside the "Pirates" ride. They were hard foam, covered in
feathers, and had wire feet. We got pretty heavy use out of 'em over the
next year or so, and unfortunately one of our dogs did, too, leading to their
disappearance, which I suspect may have been the work of our mom, undercover.
It's a crying shame, too -- sure, a fake parrot with half its face gnawed
off may not have been the height of fashion, but I remind you that I was
nine years old, and this was in the days before the popularization of the
internet, so it wasn't that easy to find a reliable fake parrot provider.
Anyways, I guess that's it for today -- oh!
Wait, I actually meant to put this notice up top, but I guess it's just as
well it stays down here. The next few months are gonna be rather on the busy
side for me, and I'm afraid that, to compensate, I'm moving the webcomic
to three strips a week, for a while. Of course, if you've been paying attention
to the site through all this wedding business, you'll realize that's not
so much an earth-shattering announcement as it is me finally copping to it.
Sorry!
Still, "Penny Arcade" gets away with it, right?
And they got TWO guys.
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