Monthly archives: March 2009
We Interrupt This Program
Posted by Trevor on March 19, 2009
The latest video clip from the live show of Working for the Mouse is up and running! Ever wonder about drug use in the park?
A Pirate's Life for Me
Part 7
Posted by Trevor on March 16, 2009
I caught up with them halfway down the service road. They were both very quiet as we approached the break area. We were all thinking the same thing. What if someone in Attractions radioed "Entertainment 1" and they radioed "Character 1" and then they sent someone to check? We still hadn't taken our heads off when Jerry popped out from behind a dumpster with two security guards dressed as keystone cops. They sauntered up to us.
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A Pirate's Life for Me
Part 6
Posted by Trevor on March 7, 2009
As soon as Peter could extricate himself from Psycho Billy's clutches and the rest of his adoring fans, the three of us ended our set over at the Entertainment Department's Green Room for New Orleans Musicians. We sat on the balcony looking out at Tom Sawyer's Island across the river sipping Mint Juleps that they'd previously ordered and which Jake spiked with the airline-sized bottles of bourbon that he'd carried in his Captain's coat pocket. We toasted the life of a pirate as Uncle Walt had himself dreamed it, as only a kid from Kansas could, with pillage and plunder galore. We listened to the sweet sounds of an Entertainment Department-approved New Orleans Jazz Band playing an amazing riff on a previous set's improvisational "New Orleans Jazz Funeral March." The crowd of tourists at the "chowder in a bread bowl"-style outdoor restaurant nodded appreciatively as the combo, against all the odds, played really good jazz.
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A Pirate's Life for Me
Part 5
Posted by Trevor on March 3, 2009
The skull and crossbones over the archway grinned down at us and said, "Psst! Avast there! It be too late to alter course, mateys. And there be plundering pirates lurkin' in ev'ry cove, waitin' to board. Sit closer together and keep your ruddy hands in board. That be the best way to repel boarders. And mark well me words, mateys: Dead men tell no tales! Ye come seekin' adventure with salty old pirates, eh? Sure you've come to the proper place. But keep a weather eye open mates, and hold on tight. With both hands, if you please. Thar be squalls ahead, and Davy Jones waiting for them that don't obey."
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