Donald, His Nephews and Uranium

The other day I'm watching TV (yeah, big shock) and a battery commercial comes on.  In the commercial a woman is frantically looking for her wayward son.  She whips a device out of her purse and is able to track his location.  Cut to happy ending.

Besides thinking this commercial was a little creepy, it also reminded me of a Donald Duck comic.  Donald has taken Huey, Dewey and Louie camping, and in the height of laziness, he attaches uranium buttons to the tops of their caps (see above scan) so that he can track them with a scintillator. (yeah, I had to look it up.)

Could you just buy uranium during the 50s?

Imagineering Legends

It's finally here! After waiting and watching Amazon for almost two plus years, Jeff Kurtti's homage to the early years of Walt Disney Imagineering finally arrived on my door-step.  And, boy, was it worth the wait.

It's part biography and part Disney history lesson.  Each Imagineer gets the multi-page treatment.  No more confusing Marc Davis with Marvin Davis.  (Yeah, two different guys - for years I thought they were the same person). Or confusing the map makers - Herb Ryman and the map that sold Disneyland to the bankers with Sam McKim, who created the fun maps for sale at Disneyland.

There's a few other reviews posted by the Disney community right now.  Check out Werner Weiss's review over at Yesterland, or Ken Pellmans review at Laughing Place.

I'm Semi-Famous

Shameless self-promotion...

Today, my web site , and an interview, are featured on The Daily Earful.  

Go, check me out!