http://www.descope.com/ DeScope is a Cranky Journal of Themed Design and Development. Duh. en-us Copyright 2008, DeScope. All freaking rights (and wrongs, and they are legion) reserved Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:34:00 -0700 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.descope.com/images/rss/rsslogo.gif http://www.descope.com/ 100 75 http://www.descope.com/archive.html The DeScope Archive http://descope.com/archive/07_2008/07062008/tiki_room_war_chant_1974.html "I'm wearing a 1930's tux my girlfriend is in a 1950's prom dress, we just graduated high school, so we're gonna do Grad Nite at Disneyland. Cool. Your average mid-70's high school graduate sweetheart dorks. Except that we had both been doing lots of speed -- lots -- and we'd both been awake for at least 5 days. When we got there, we did the whole Grad Nite thing: pictures, stuffed Mickey with a diploma, and all that. Everything seemed OK until about 4:30 in the morning. Only about an hour left before we were supposed to get back on the bus. We're wiped out, but we can't really head out too early because we figure that people's think we were crashing from a massive speed overload, or so our massive speed overloaded brains were telling us. (More . . .) http://www.descope.com/archive/07_2008/07062008/comedy_warehouse_script.html Editor's Note: "R.I.P. Pleasure Island, we hardly knew ye," and all that "it's September 28th, and I'm outta a job!" jazz. Closing along with everything esle: The Comedy Warehouse, the home of improv on P.I.(well, except for The Advenuture's Club and any one of the P.I. gin mills where a desperate out-of-towner can be found attempting to get lucky with some other desperate out-of-towner: "'Jack Mack and the Heart Attack?' Man, I was into them before they got all commercial, too! Small world, hunh? So, uh, you staying on property?"). But before there was no script in The House, there was . . . The "COMEDY WAREHOUSE" Show!" Yes, what follows really is the script that was really written at the behest of Michael "Don't Let the Mouse Hit ya In The Ass On Yer Way Outta Here!" Eisner and was really produced and -- Yipes! -- performed, in public, for what passed for paying guests, in a Disney O and O venue. Damn, I miss the '80's. http://www.descope.com/archive/07_2008/07132008/dl_radio_spot.html It's been a busy few months, brother, and a half! Sure, you survived all the back-stabbing in the shake-ups at Aerospace and that's good. The Mercury project turned out to be a winner for you guys and that was good, too. Of course, the last of the Mercury shots went up in May and that was bad. But that means that Gemini is right on schedule and the Titan II - your baby! - is right there in the spotlight! Unfortunately, you got you got squeezed off Titan in the shake-up and that's a big bad. But, you're new baby is the Dyna-Soar - a real space plane, junior, and not just "SPAM in the can" stuff! - and you just know that's gonna be the future, man, and you are gonna stay handcuffed to that baby for years and years and years to come! That's the New Frontier written big across the heavens, man! (More . . .) http://www.descope.com/archive/08_2008/08242008/astroland_blues.html I don't dislike condos. I don't dislike people who are condo-dwellers. That said, I'd like to know why do condos have it in for amusement parks? OK, they don't, but condo developers sure seems to. Parks lost to condos include: * Whalon Park, Lunenburg, MA, * Freedomland U.S.A., The Bronx, NY, * Astroworld, Houston, TX (condo-fication pending), * Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, CA (on hold . . . for now) . . . And many more, more than likely (but digging through the list of dead parks on Wikipedia is, like, way bumming me out. In all unearned fairness to condo developers, it's not, really, that they set out to destroy amusement parks for the same of a place to build layer upon layer of 30 year mortgage apartments, but, like with the still-more vulnerable landed ozoners -- drive-in theatres -- amusement parks tend to be great tracks of freeway-close land more valuable for stacked housing development than their current lowly (i.e. "entertainment") uses can pay. Sic transit gloria places to go to have fun, drink over-priced fountain drinks, `n perhaps cop a feel come a Saturday night. (More . . .) http://www.descope.com/index.html December 25, 2008: OK, if I knew then what I know now, that "house arrest" included no Internet access, I would have never taken the plea bargain . . . one little Internet scam and suddenly you're a criminal or a loser or from Wall Street or something. But what of that, eh? DeScope is back (sort of), as bland as ever, and (here's the shocker) with nothing much of any vague importance to say! Except: Happy Holidays! Chappy Chanukah! Merrie Chrystmas! Happy Kwanza! Joyous Solstice! Happy New Year! Back soon enough with demi-regular postings of, you know, cranky, disaffected DeScope-y stuff.