June 2024 - Arkhaven Site

28JunJune 28, 2024

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turnThat Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,So we left them...

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27JunJune 27, 2024

Disney Gives Up Without a Fight

In 1990 Universal Studios Orlando opened up. The idea was to use it as a combination of movie studio and theme park attraction. Michael Eisner immediately set about making MGM/Disney Studios in Walt Disney World. Both were a failure. at least as far as the movie studio thing went, it turned out to be a wildly impractical idea, there weren't that many people from Hollywood who were willing to work in Orlando. It's hot enough in LA, why add muggy...

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27JunJune 27, 2024

Hump Day Dump 6/26/24

I was counting on the new James O’Keefe leak to provide me with material tonight. I’m afraid he let me down in a pretty serious way. The Indian guy O’Keefe nailed is so low-level he may as well have been interviewing a gate guard at Disneyland. My typical reader has a more knowledgeable opinion about Disney’s leadership than “Steve from Tech Support” here.I guarantee this dude is too low-level to have an NDA. If he hadn’t been dumb enough to...

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26JunJune 26, 2024

The LucasFilm Heathers

I was honestly kind of surprised when Brett Cooper spoke up on Leslye Headland's behalf. It turns out she had worked for Headland on a show called Heathers that Paramount buried for political reasons. It was only loosely based on the 1988 movie. In this TV version, the Heathers are "body-positive queers," and they are the ones that bully the entire school by simply threatening to destroy anyone who opposes them with accusations both online and IRL. Now that is...

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24JunJune 24, 2024

The Iger Succession

I know it seems like Bob Iger is never going to leave but that is only because he hasn’t. So why do I think he is? Being the CEO of Disney used to be the best job in the world so far as he was concerned. Being the popular boss of the most beloved company in America which is also the number one company in movies, theme parks, and even sportscasting, is the dream of every business major in Hollywood. ...

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21JunJune 21, 2024

The Six Best Doctor Who Stories From the Tom Baker Era (Part II)

(Part One)I was honestly, surprised by last week's episode of Doctor Who. It actually evoked an emotional response from me. Hatred. Disney Doctor Who dragged the Pyramids of Mars through the slime just by them touching it. That is what kicked off this list in case you are wondering.3. Seeds of DoomThis is the last of the Third Doctor stories, or at least it may as well be because it very much feels like one of the Jon Pertwee...

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21JunJune 21, 2024

Why the Old G4 Was Great

This would have been a stoning offense in Frosk's day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0jrp34jaU

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20JunJune 20, 2024

The O’Keefe Disney Bombs (Chapter One)

How does O’Keefe do it? Well, actually that’s pretty easy. First, you study the senior executives and try to determine who is the most vulnerable to what bait, and likely why they might be loose-tongued.A white male executive at Disney who appears to be overdue for promotion and is single, works nicely. By now someone at Disney has told him, “Look, my dude, it’s not happening. Taniqua is getting that job instead of you. Don’t make me say why, because...

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19JunJune 19, 2024

The Six Best Doctor Who Stories of the Tom Baker Era

Source Radio TimesA friend recently asked about Doctor Who stories for his son. While the current Doctor Who is unwatchable pig vomit, there was a time when the BBC made a deliberate effort to overcome any of the shortcomings of a production budget by concentrating on the quality of the story and the actors’ performances.The Tom Baker years of Doctor Who produced some of the best stories in the sixty-year history of the show. There's a reason some of...

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19JunJune 19, 2024

Why I Hate the Killing Joke by The Legend Chuck Dixon

“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.”That pretty much describes most of the career of Alan Moore. V-For Vendetta appears to be an original work, so was the Ballad of Halo Jones (I think). Aside...

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