Evil witch holds hero prince hostage is the fairytale image, but gay revenge fantasy is what I read.

Maleficent was the ugly thin gay kid in school who now finds his fierceness (power) in dressing in outrageous, yet well designed outfits, while wearing excessive makeup and accessories to distract from his not-hot features (check out the shnozz and chin). In other words, feeling he possesses no celebrated masculine power traits he opts to gain attention by going full tranny – which of course just gets him/her labeled an even bigger freak who’s now not just ignored but shunned. (Remember the entire Sleeping Beauty debacle happens because Maleficent wasn’t invited to a baby shower.)

The tall skinny gay kid/Maleficent hates the prince because he’s the hot jock kid with rich parents who never had to work a day in his life and will get a sweet job from family connections by doing nothing. IT’S SO UNFAIR!  He lives in a bubble having no idea how the rest suffer. To make it worse, the tranny Maleficent also sorta wants to have sex with the prince but hates that she wants to – aghh, internal conflict, what to do? Tie him up – but not do anything to him! This way he’s forced to aknowledge you for once in you life and at least make eye contact, forcing him to see everything isn’t going as well for you because people like him disregard people like you.

Maleficent knows its a temporary victory and she will lose and he will win – like always. But before it’s over he’ll face the full force of her don’t-u-ignore-me bitch rage (when she becomes the dragon – FULL DRAMA QUEEN MODE!) After which, he will hopefully, she wishes, live the rest of his happily-ever-after days implanted with a tiny shrapnel of fear knowing there are people out there like Maleficent, who were not born pretty, rich, and connected, and they’ve got his number should he ever cross them again.

his site http://www.wildsiders.com

from benedictradcliffe.co.uk

unknown source:

from cyanatrendland.com

great looks from Ruven Afandor

Snow white from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hulk4598/

and the LOUIS VUITTON UNDERGROUND concept store

Can I get my hands on this new novel from McSweeney’s any faster?

God Says No By James Hannaham

“Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary Gray takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can’t.”

Do u care where they came from? probably not. no one reads this blah blah blah i’m taking a nap. Oh ok u can get them here http://shop.anotherenemy.com/

I just stopped by the Eagle in Silverlake and I shit you not there was a silent auction happening on the pool table which included an original cell from Song of the South, a Jagermeister gift basket, a set of Winnie the Pooh plates, a hot drawing of the owner…the theme was Sunday Furry Sunday so,ya know, the bears were out. And the Bears love the Disney.

Shirt from Suru.

I was just in the tub reading the latest Interview – the art issue – when I found this bon bon – photographer Taryn Simon asked Disney if she may photograph the utilidors underneath the Magic Kingdom park in Florida. The response she got read in part, “Especially during these violent times, I personally believe that the magical spell cast on guests who visit our theme parks is particularly important to protect, and helps to provide them with an important fantasy they can escape to.”

I’m not surprised she was denied but Disney has published a photo or two of the tunnels before, I guess during less “violent times”.

When it opened in the middle of the French countryside in 1990 it looked like this:

It contained a theater, a restaurant, and lots of displays of what would become Disneyland Paris.

The Robert A. M. Stern monograph Buildings says, “…when the building was new it literally stopped traffic. Once the theme park was opened, the facade was painted over and the [prefabricated buildings] were used for other purposes.”

Ah yes. I’d say so. Here it is in 2008:

More pictures of its abandoned state here.

And how the interior looked in 1990.

Being I adore abandoned sites, Disney parks, and graffiti – finding this was like early Christmas for me. Thanks to Le Parc-o-rama blog for the tip.

There’s also an unfinished/abandoned Disney resort in Florida. There’s great video of it here.

Sometimes I tell people Jake Deckard is my big brother even though I’m taller. 
  

Saw this Patty Wickman painting last night at the super crowded opening for LA Weekly’s “Some Paintings” show. My friend and I immediately recognized the setting as a photograph of a model for a scene in the (now gone) Imagination ride at Epcot, sans Figment the dragon.

I’d probably get pissy about her using the work of vintage Disney Imagineering designers but I sort of blew my wad on Dan Colen earlier. What I can muster makes me say, “So Patty, why didn’t you just sculpt your own little set and use that as your source material? Because I highly doubt you meant to reference a Kodak-sponsored creativity pavilion when you painted ‘Struggle Garden’ in 1998.” 

Meh, who cares but me anyway. Everyone else will think it’s from a Tord Boontje installation. His whole oeuvre seems inspired by that scene. Maybe that’s what both Patty and Tord are really saying  - “Hey Disney, we liked the old Imagination ride, could you bring that back please.”  

He is here, with more here.