Just got back from a weeklong cruise that left from New York and made all-too-short stops in Florida, Nassau and some wacky private island filled with crude shacks selling ten dollar Mai Tais that probably didn't have any alcohol in them. I'm too tired to do anything more than blurt out random goodnesses right now (Cuban cigars, flying fish, smuggled liquor), but hope to cull together an article detailing the ins and outs of fine quality cruising in the next week or so.
Oh, we picked an overpriced Disney World excursion for our Florida stop, which probably won't make the article because I already wrote 72,000 words about Disney World last year. But! Whereas Pirates of the Caribbean was closed for movie-related renovations last year, now it was open, and I finally got to ride it for the first time. Gotta be honest...it's really nothing special. I mean, I love all dark rides -- especially ones with a creepy slant filled with ugly animatronics and shadows and echoes -- but there was something hilarious about standing on an hour-long line filled with kids who adored the movies and who had every reason to expect something more than an enclosed space filled with decades-old pirate statues singing the "yo ho ho" song. At least they added a couple of Jack Sparrows and a pretty neat holographic Davy Jones waterfall.
While I really want to tell you about love bugs smashing against bus windows and the ten thousand hand sanitizing machines that littered the ship, it'll have to wait for the article. Happy SNT.
Posted by Matt on 06/02/2007. E-mail me!
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yes MuppetBaby you have to agree everything with litebrites involved is by default awesome right? Too bad they don’t have a Transformer in there someplace it would of cranked the coolness up a notch.
You talking about satellites reminded me of my childhood with my Grandparent’s satellite. They got a satellite before I was born to watch cable channels and other channels for free. They live in Portland Oregon and love watching Blazers games so they got to watch those games the ppv ones and the ones on cable. My Grandma told me of my older cousins sneaking porn every now and then when she was in the other room and her busting them. But after the channels became blocked that was overwith. I enjoyed watching music videos a lot. I watched much music they played a little bit more then just the videos i would watch I was exposed to music canadians liked. Aqua more then the song Barbie girl, Alanis before she became an angry white girl, and others. I also watched feeds, sometimes a news guy waiting for his cue, blowing his nose, shuffling papers, etc. which was amusing for a minute or two. I watched show feeds too, tales of the crypt, rossanne, saturday morning cartoons on friday night, home improvement, ninja turtles etc. except for the saturday morning cartoons you would watch like 10 episodes at once, I remember a couple of years the night of the super bowl, about 9 or so you would see the winners enjoying themselves, and footage of people earlier that day begging for free tickets. I also watched cable networks before they were popular, like tv land, fx, tlc, disney channel sometimes, and i remember also about 4 of those free weekends that are free hbo and showtime and all of those channels I snuck up late one night just to see what the deal was with the sleazy shows at night, I had to mute the tv and i dubbed with my own thoughts, which i vividly remember and I would have a blast watching that movie again. it had a cartoon guy on it, a monster, he was in this house with these blond bimbos, he killed one by scratching uniform even scratches on her chest and her dying. Anyway my Grandparents about a year after I moved out they broke down and bought cable. It’s just how it goes sometimes. I hope you and others enjoyed my story.