There's a guy at work who's even more into Disneyland than my family and I are. We talked Disney yesterday and he told me about a couple of neat websites about the park and people who are crazy into preserving it.

And it's weird for me to talk about Eisner. John being John, I know Disney has been having problems. Like, for example, when we were on our honeymoon in Walt Disney World and we toured what was then the recently defunct Florida animation studio. It is no longer "recently" defunct. Now it's just gone. Like the money they spent making Treasure Planet and Brother Bear.

But I still think of Michael Eisner as the guy with the red and black Mickey ties who did the spots after commercial breaks on "The Wonderful World of Disney."

He seemed like such a nice guy. A bad actor, but a nice guy. And now that I'm older, I find out that he's really shady and a capitalist nightmare.

Which is basically the same realization I came to about Ronald Reagan, who, when I was six, seemed dignified and righteous.

Labels: childhood., disney., friends.

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