Entertainment and Music

If you are considering a vacation at a Disney park, you might have a dining plan option thrown at you. I don’t get them as I find that for what I like the eat, the math doesn’t work in my favour. But if you are looking for something “easy,” many travel agents suggest it. But […]

If you know me for more than 10 minutes, you know I’m a fan of Walt Disney World in Florida. There’s a special place in my heart for EPCOT. When people ask me my favourite Disney park, my half-joke answer is, “EPCOT in 1986.” Why. It was amazing. There was nothing like it. It was […]

Picking the right prop for a TV show is important! The wrong prop can be distracting. If your TV show is trying to show the time and place when the Old Testament, the props guy will do well with plenty of linens and metals. Like goblets… Which 2000 years ago would not have had a […]

Visiting WDW sounds easy enough! But especially if it’s your first time, I have some tips for you. I’ve been going roughly every few years since I was about 6, and I’m about to turn 42. So I’ve got some experience. There’s Way More to WDW Than A Castle And A Giant Golf Ball Some […]

I grew up outside of NYC. We saw lots of Broadway shows. One thing every Broadway show has in common is plot resolution. In fact, just about every movie and TV show has it too! Some shows are just someone’s dramatised life stories, and then they die. But that’s resolution. Whatever good or bad things […]

I watch “How It’s Made” nightly. I DVR them fanatically. In case you’re not familiar, “How It’s Made” is a TV show made in Canada where they show you how things are made. You’re in a factory usually, but you don’t hear factory sounds. You hear weird background music and a hypnotic narrator while you […]

Today we step briefly away from UX to talk music. Why? I have a degree in music, I’m a musician, and sometimes, I like to talk about music. Join me! I remember the Joan Baez song, “Diamonds and Rust,” from my childhood. Our family owned that album, and it was a great song. I think […]

There are SO many movies and TVs shows now all with the same plot. A race of robots or aliens is against us. They were here or they came here. They have way superior technology. The aliens are way more evolved than we ever imagined. They can’t be defeated. Even if we managed to shoot […]

A Facebook friend posted this on April Fools Day, though sadly, it appears to be real. Having worked for Donald Fagen of Steely Dan when I was just out of college, I can see him licensing the song for this use to be ironic. Thus proves the formula Steely Dan – (interesting notes x tempo […]

In February 2012, I took myself to Walt Disney World, Florida (as I sometimes do) for my 40th birthday. I spent a few days alone and a few days with Best Female Pal Katie. WDW’s Hollywood Studios park runs an American Idol style competition daily… on a set that’s built to look exactly like the […]