{"id":1651,"date":"2003-08-25T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T22:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/disney-goes-goth\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:11:28","slug":"disney-goes-goth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/disney-goes-goth\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney goes Goth (also: &#039;Bus Life&#039; fan comments)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of these days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocweekly.com\/ink\/03\/51\/news-kane.php\" title=\"When You Wish Upon a Scar\">this would be a blast to do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  For the fifth year in a row, Disneyland will be creeping with mobs of black-clad death-rocker types for what organizers officially bill as Bats Day in the Fun Park, but what most people just call Goth Day.<\/p>\n<p>  So why would a tribe of people largely typecast as gloomy, depressed, trench coat-wearing, Bauhaus-worshipping creatures of the night want to spend a day at the Happiest Place on Earth? The sheer irony of it all, for one thing. Plus the always welcome chance to make the eyes of non-Goths bug out: one year, Korda managed to get eight boats on the It\u2019s a Small World ride and an entire Davy Crockett Explorer Canoe filled with Goths.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/mt\/archives\/001359.php#001359\" title=\"Look at me! I am three! Wait. Uh, two.\">Wil<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Also: Thanks to the randomness of the &#8216;net and the first few comments that this post got, the comment thread has turned into a fun little conversation between the fans (and a few cast members, particularly Daniel Bickerdike and Ashley Jones) of a 2004 Disney (England) series of shorts called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bus_Life\" title=\"Wikipedia: Bus Life\">Bus Life<\/a>. I found one episode of Bus Life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yzQKAkneadw\" title=\"YouTube: Bus Life\">on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yzQKAkneadw&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yzQKAkneadw&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth year in a row, Disneyland will be creeping with mobs of black-clad death-rocker types for what organizers officially bill as Bats Day in the Fun Park, but what most people just call Goth Day. (Also: Disney&#8217;s &#8216;Bus Life&#8217; fan comments!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}