{"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: 'Bus Life' fan comments)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of these days, this would be a blast to do<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\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

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

(via Wil<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Also: Thanks to the randomness of the ‘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 Bus Life<\/a>. I found one episode of Bus Life on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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