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Back in the old days, it was actually possible to visit every site on the Internet about Disney. Nowadays, it's not even possible to count all the sites on the Internet about Disney. I visit quite a few of them compiling the Hullabaloo, and often I find gems - digitally buried treasure - maintained by folks who love Disney so much it doesn't matter that the traffic to their sites may be a trickle. In Daily DIZcovery, I'll pick a different dynamite Disney site every day, typically one you've never heard about, and hopefully turn their trickle into a torrent.
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A Magical Year Without Disney
Lisa Rays says nay to the Mouse in all its guises
Last year, when Disney Dispatch was a dinky little personal blog, I ran some commentary on Lisa Ray's resolve to abstain from everything Disney for a year.
Neither her nor her family are allowed to watch Disney movies, watch Disney TV shows, buy or play with Disney toys, read Marvel comic books, consume Disney food, or even think positive thoughts about Disney.
You'd be surprised how hard it is to pull that off.
Whatever you think of the motivation behind Lisa's media event, her site does have a very useful (and eye-opening!) list of everything Disney owns. For that list alone, it's worth a visit to her site, A Magical Year Without Disney.
On sites like these, it's always fun to read the comments because often they're left by fire-breathing true believers.
The comments on Ray's site, however, are fairly well-balanced, and some readers even take her to task, such as when she wrote that folks 'simply must see [some] photos of Celebration and its residents'.
So I took a look.
They're great photos. The town is clean, the people healthy and smiling.
Who'd want to live there, right? Ray seems to imply that she'd prefer to raise her family in the inner city. And it's unsettling that she used last year's well-publicized deaths in Celebration as an excuse to make a poorly pitched point about the town's 'imperfections'.
Overall, A Magical Year Without Disney is a novelty site, totally and unapologetically biased against Disney. Even Ray's 'essential reading' list has nothing but anti-Disney books. Ditto her 'blogroll'. (Then again, Disney fan sites have links only to pro-Disney books!)
As a media event, A Magical Year Without Disney is sorta fun though ultimately empty.
Come back tomorrow for another Daily DIZcovery!
Stuff Not to Skip
- A Magical Year Without Disney
http://www.yearwithoutdisney.com