Book #199 of 2025: We Could Be Magic by Marissa Meyer and Joelle Murray I don’t read a ton of graphic novels, but this one came so highly recommended that I wanted to make a point to check it out. And it is super cute — less so for the romance, which is fine but …
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Book #139 of 2025: Disney Adults: Exploring (And Falling in Love With) a Magical Subculture by AJ Wolfe An insider’s look at the phenomenon of Disney obsessives, and particularly those fixated on the company’s domestic theme parks in Florida and California. Like many of the people whom author AJ Wolfe has spotlighted or interviewed for …
Movie #13 of 2022: Live from the Space Stage: A HALYX Story (2020) This feature-length documentary, produced by Kevin Perjurer of Defunctland and available free on that YouTube channel, is a loving deep dive into an incredibly obscure topic: the rock band HALYX, a sci-fi themed act that performed nightly on the stage in front …
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Book #108 of 2022: Defunctland: Guide to the Magic Kingdom by Kevin Perjurer This first written spinoff of the eponymous Defunctland YouTube channel presents the same focus on change within theme parks and attractions that are no longer operational, but in the specific context of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom as it exists in the present. …
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Book #240 of 2019: Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow This is an informative history of the creation of Disneyland, with a few significant caveats. First is the scope: author Richard Snow mentions that his subject was intended by Walt Disney to be …
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