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Post number 37674

Sticherbeast — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:27:17 -0800

Disney's War Against the Counterculture. Parody Mickey Mouse and see your life turn to madness, even if things are more or set straight in the end. "The main point," O'Neill says, "was to buck corporate thinking. We just didn't like bullshit." [via]

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:48:09 -0800

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By: ba

ba — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:12:16 -0800

"Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid," says O'Neill. "Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy. When you're down $190,000 in a poker game, you have to raise."

That's going in my new, highly derivative book Everything I Need to Know, I learned in Atlantic City.

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:54:26 -0800

fascinating read! what a character. disney is the beast. but disney vs o'neill, unfair fight... how about a REAL GRUDGE MATCH?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:35:41 -0800

Thumbnails, linking to sizable jpegs of the Air Pirates Funnies covers mentioned in the Reason article, can be found, along with related text, on The Hippie Years, Page 2 of Mogo Zuzu.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:12:47 -0800

Its good-hearted, uplifting, family-oriented fare drew upon values—patriotism and Puritanism, consumerism and conformity—that the cultural revolution of the '60s had called into question i boil everytime i see a reference like this. disney owned subsidiaries have been pumping out a steaming geyser of explicit violence and implicit sex since the 1970's.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:50:04 -0800

Here's an old post of mine about Disney's killjoy attitude toward counterculture parodists in the 1960s. Disney's role as 800-pound gorilla in intellectual property disputes goes back many decades.

By: undule

undule — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:07:56 -0800

Odd Bodkins I guess he's still doing them . . .

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:50:38 -0800

We just didn't like bullshit. Steinbeck, through Cannery Row's Doc, warned us of the rarity of love for true things. I used to think a contempt for outright bullshit (like that emanating from the corporation in question...as well as from most corporations) was universal. Then I awoke in them there good ol' U.$. of A. Keeps one's idealism in firm check. ~wink~