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		<title>Mickey Mouse Club 1977</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2012/04/04/mickey-mouse-club-1977/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When a television show is popular, profitable, a star-maker and iconographic, the best thing to do is let it runs its course and subsequently fade into the public consciousness as a fond memory. OR you could wait 20 years, then rehash it, make it hip, modern and in touch with today’s audiences and let &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2012/04/04/mickey-mouse-club-1977/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Blair, Walt Disney&#8217;s Modernist Ace In The Hole</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2012/04/04/mary-blair-walt-disneys-modernist-ace-in-the-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;Her vibrant colors and stylized designs pervade Disney animated films from 1943 to 1953… Beneath her deceptively simple style, lies enormous visual sophistication and craftsmanship in everything from color choices to composition.&#8221; - John Canemaker, author The Art and Flair of Mary Blair (2003) Walt Disney was a good at sketches, but by no means a &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2012/04/04/mary-blair-walt-disneys-modernist-ace-in-the-hole/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>OT (Original Trilogy)?&#8230; OP (Oh, Please)</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2012/04/04/ot-original-trilogy-op-oh-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As the Star Wars saga begins its return to theaters in 3-D, many filmgoers and Star Warsenthusiasts can’t help be reminded of the initial disappointment they felt upon the original release of Episode I. Back in 1999, it was common&#8211;if not expected&#8211;of any self-professed ‘real fan’, to take to the Internet and voice their anger and disapproval &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2012/04/04/ot-original-trilogy-op-oh-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Job Interview Tips</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/12/01/job-interview-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have compiled several tips collected from a variety of sources (most of which were college graduates now working at Starbucks and the former Silicon Valley CEO that delivered our pizza a few evenings ago) and present them here as a way to help you through those stressful interviews. <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/12/01/job-interview-tips/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Short Humour Site</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/22/the-short-humour-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s &#8216;humor&#8217; with an additional &#8216;u&#8217; in there, by the way. The British and their crazy English, right? This is a UK site that prefers pieces under 500 words. Here is a link to my piece that discusses or, at least, tries to rationalize what may seem to others to be a general apathy towards &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/22/the-short-humour-site/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Movie Preview</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/holiday-movie-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Ape Culture Magazine As the holiday season begins its downward spiral into an orgy of spending, gluttony and passive-aggressive behavior toward family members, Tinseltown delivers a selection of films, all opening on Christmas day, that are guaranteed to delight and entertain the whole family. First, it&#8217;s time to hitch up the wagons and &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/holiday-movie-preview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Look Into Rebound Relationships</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/a-look-into-rebound-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Johnny America Rebound and Bound We Go Ah, yes. L’amour, that’s amore, gettin’ freaky, romance. Whether it be May-December or one week while vacationing with the family at a Palm Springs resort (the latter involving either Tony the busboy or Sue the maid&#8211;both from the wrong sides of the track, of course, but, &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/a-look-into-rebound-relationships/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wham, Bam, Thank You, Spam</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/283/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in the Santa Clara Weekly Cobwebs outside the door of progress were shredded the day my mother made the leap from the punch card technology of 1965’s IBM 1130 to one of today’s personal computers. Although not wanting to dissuade her forward momentum, I felt it was my duty as her son (until the &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/283/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Because I Haven&#8217;t Got The Legs For Dancing</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/because-i-havent-got-the-legs-for-dancing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Backhand Stories Why do I write? I’ve been asked to explain this on more than one occasion, often in a Yuletide forum by relatives who want only what’s best for me. These questions are presented with a roll of the eye or an unassuming furrowed brow and often contain the words ‘what’, ‘in’, &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/because-i-havent-got-the-legs-for-dancing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civil War Re-enactment</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/civil-war-re-enactment-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Metro Santa Cruz &#8220;The Shot Heard Round the Block” Ask any Masters-degreed historian about the 1863 battle for Felton and they will reply, &#8220;Felton? What’s a Felton? Please, leave my office.&#8221; In fact, no reference to this Civil War battle shows up in any form, written or otherwise. But, friends, I am here &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/11/19/civil-war-re-enactment-article/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The More The Merrier</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/07/14/the-more-the-merrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Millions of filmgoers and aspiring dark lord conjurers worldwide anxiously await the release of the eighth and final Harry Potter film. While most will be saddened that their favorite film franchise is at its end, some will be angered as a result of that same fact. But why? Well, I imagine it is because die-hard fans &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/07/14/the-more-the-merrier/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>That Darn Hoover</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/06/24/that-darn-hoover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1993 book Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince was, at best, a borderline prosecuting attorney-style rant using hostility-fueled witnesses to paint a portrait of a Walt Disney who was a real bastard. At its shockingly ridiculous core is the implication that Mr. Disney was a spy for the FBI. Imagine Disney, decked out in a James &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/06/24/that-darn-hoover/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Dinner With E.T.</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/06/10/my-dinner-with-e-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My Force’s of Geek’s editor-in-chief and puppet master, Stefan Blitz, can pull some amazing strings when the situation is warranted. Need a few bootlegged dvd copies of a movies before they&#8217;re released in theaters? Done. Need a forged autograph of Harrison Ford to sell on ebay? Done. Need an exclusive interview with someone who has &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/06/10/my-dinner-with-e-t/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s A Brainwashed World After All</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/06/09/its-a-brainwashed-world-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, am I a sucker.

All these years, I have been seeing Disneyland and many Disney films and television as charming entertainment made by someone who wanted to entertain.

Recently, I discovered that, all these years, I have been wrong. In fact, as it turns out, I have been subjected to a great plot to brainwash America.

How could I have been so blind? According to paranoid and possibly schizophrenic author Fritz Springmeier, The Illuminati (yes, those same bastards that tried to kill Tom Hanks in The DaVinci Code) has been indoctrinating the public for years via the exploits of Mickey Mouse. <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/06/09/its-a-brainwashed-world-after-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not Quite Davy Crockett</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/05/27/not-quite-davy-crockett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Walt Disney was unaware how his 3-part mini-series about the life and times of Davy Crockett would become a national sensation. Merchandise was rushed into manufacturing to capitalize on the craze: everything from pocketknives and pencil boxes to comic books and, of course, coonskin caps. This latter item being the most lucrative, the most &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/05/27/not-quite-davy-crockett/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is There A Doctor Horrible In The House?</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/05/16/is-there-a-doctor-horrible-in-the-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 22:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when hearing Neil Patrick Harris and the words “Dr. Horrible” meant only one thing: Doogie Howser reruns. That all changed in 2008. Due to the insensitive, callous (dare I say, money grubbing) greed of the members of the Writers Guild of America, entertainment for the masses was on hold and production &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/05/16/is-there-a-doctor-horrible-in-the-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disney Films For Snuffies</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/05/04/disney-films-for-snuffies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 22:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Walt Disney liked to appeal to the varying aspects of everyone’s internal self. Disneyland was built, for example, to appeal to the child in all of us. The Haunted Mansion was designed to captivate both the morbidity and dark humor that many guests harbor (whether secretly or openly on a t-shirt of dead celebrity &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/05/04/disney-films-for-snuffies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Real, Honest To Goodness Indian Chiefs&#8230;Or Were They?</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/04/14/real-honest-to-goodness-indian-chiefs-or-were-they/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; One form of entertainment that is truly American is the Western. It portrays that wild, frontier attitude that drove Americans west in the 19th century. It is a genre that has been romanticized since The Great Train Robbery premiered in 1903. Entertaining the masses was one goal of the Western, but, for many of us in &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/04/14/real-honest-to-goodness-indian-chiefs-or-were-they/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks For All Your Hard Work…Now Get the Hell Outta Here</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/03/29/thanks-for-all-your-hard-worknow-get-the-hell-outta-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When I was a kid, I used to envy the child actors I would watch in the live-action Disney movies for getting paid to simply have fun at the Disney studios. What kid wouldn’t love that? That’s the kid equivalent of a creepy pervert getting a gig as cleanup guy at a strip club. &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/03/29/thanks-for-all-your-hard-worknow-get-the-hell-outta-here/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bros Before Ghosts</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2011/03/10/bros-before-ghosts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Thanks to Netflix Instant Watch, I have found myself mildly fascinated by the show Ghost Adventures. While I would approach any similar phenomenon suspiciously and with an intention of explaining them away, I’m not closed off to the idea of the supernatural. In fact, despite my not having any first-hand experiences to speak of, &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2011/03/10/bros-before-ghosts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When Licensing Goes Wrong</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2010/05/04/when-licensing-goes-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To this day, Disney continues to make billions from licensing, while other companies manufacture and sell.

...as Disney grew larger (the company, not the man), it was inevitable that some ideas that may have seemed great on paper just seem, well, odd choices. <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2010/05/04/when-licensing-goes-wrong/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mickey Mouse Disco Is A Bad Mutha&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2010/03/03/514/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally broadcast Sept. 6, 1979 via radio station KSLL. (transcribed by Mike Calahan) The following is an excerpt from the mid-day show Funkatronics, co-hosted by Frenchy Kiss and Cashanova&#8230; (intro music begins) Cashanova -Uh-oh, it’s that time, again. Frenchy -It is time for KSLL’s album review of the week. Cashanova &#8211; Tell ‘em what we &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2010/03/03/514/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So&#8230;Are Goofy and Pluto Both Dogs?</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2010/02/02/so-are-goofy-and-pluto-both-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s that great scene in Stand By Me where, sitting around a campfire, the boys pondered things that seemed important at the time. Among these talking points was Wil Wheaton’s question, “Mickey&#8217;s a mouse, Donald&#8217;s a duck, Pluto&#8217;s a dog. What&#8217;s Goofy?” The conversation ended with a chubby Jerry O’Connell’s somewhat frustrated, “That’s weird. What the &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2010/02/02/so-are-goofy-and-pluto-both-dogs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>High Ferality &#8211; Disneyland&#8217;s Feral Cats</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2010/01/05/high-ferality-disneylands-feral-cats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disneyland is a place of imagination, of escapism, a place where the unimaginable is a reality and fantasy comes to life. So, it seemed funny to me that, during my last visit, I noticed almost everyone at a particular restaurant in Frontierland getting excited and shutterbug-ish when they saw a cat. Not someone dressed in &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2010/01/05/high-ferality-disneylands-feral-cats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t We All Just Brer Along?</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2010/01/05/cant-we-all-just-brer-along/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got a chance to see Song of the South, the much-maligned, much-debated, rarely-seen in the US film that has generated so much rumor and hysteria that it borders on urban legend. The arguments against this Oscar-winning 1946 film are rooted in the “understanding” that it portrays blacks negatively, as slaves overly-gracious to their &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2010/01/05/cant-we-all-just-brer-along/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Davy Crockett, More Than Just a Craze</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2009/11/19/davy-crockett-more-than-just-a-craze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone under 60, the cultural impact known as the Davy Crockett craze of the 1950’s is hard to imagine&#8211;and may seem like a romanticized memory that adults keep alive for its representation of childhood innocence&#8211;but it really is more than that. If you’ve ever been to Disneyland or Disneyworld, it’s hard to escape the &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2009/11/19/davy-crockett-more-than-just-a-craze/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to Copyright Disneyland with the Hornblowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*A LOOK AT HOW EVEN MORE CORPORATE DISNEY WILL BECOME IN THE FUTURE* The Hornblowers had planned their family trip to Copyright Disneyland™ so that it fell on the first week of that July, 2029. Dad took a full week off from his job at the solar powered oil refinery and saved up enough money &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2009/11/19/trip-to-copyright-disneyland%e2%84%a2-with-the-hornblowers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disney&#8217;s Got Tat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even back in the 1950’s, when the American youth culture first began to rebel against the mainstream society, Disney was on the cutting edge of what the kids wanted. Back when Disneyland first opened, they put out a booklet to encourage the children, the youth and even some adults to rebel against the status quo&#8230;well, &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2009/11/19/disneys-got-tat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To All Who Come To This Happy Place&#8230;Aaaarrrrggh!</title>
		<link>http://mikecalahan.com/2009/11/19/forces-of-geek-pieces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I’d been serenaded “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” once too often while still in the womb or a steady diet of Donald Duck brand orange juice made with fruit concentrate that did it to me. Whatever the root cause, I was raised with an inherent love of all things Disney. To my sister and &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://mikecalahan.com/2009/11/19/forces-of-geek-pieces/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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