Prepare to Party like Pixar!!!!

http://ontd-pixar.livejournal.com/ is having a party post Monday, June 20th 11 PM EST!!!!

The Monday timing weirds me out, too...but I've missed them so!!!!

Day 8: A picture of the ride you miss the most

Day 8: A picture of the ride you miss the most

This has two...I forget where RoboButler is from...Kitchen Kabaret and the original version of Journey into Imagination...Dreamfinder will be awesome for-ever!

I also really miss the canoes they used to have in Frontierland. It was the only ride that required real cooperation between guests. Now, the only things remotely close would be the games at Soarin' or Space Mountain when they're going and even then...it's not the same as physically achieving a goal together out in the open on the water. I loved it. I was too little to do anything but my mom was paddling a canoe. I'd never seen her do anything like that before.

Watch Kitchen Kabaret

Topolino

I'm writing an article on Friday about Topolino in Italy and I'm wondering if anyone has personal digital photos or scans I could use rather than having to hunt something down online. I have a Super Picsou Géant but nothing from Italy.

Sesame Street: SpiderMonster, The Musical - Sneak Peek!

I love Grover.

You know I think Stephen Colbert had a point last week when he mentioned how you never see Grover and Super Grover together...

hmm

;)

They did a Mad Men parody, too, but I wasn't sure if anyone was interested...

Life expectancy of U.S. women slips in some regions

Life expectancy of U.S. women slips in some regions

This is such an important article:

The widening gulf between the healthiest and least healthy populations is partly due to wealth. A key finding of the data is that "inequality appears to be growing in the U.S.," said Eileen Crimmins, a gerontologist at USC who also co-chaired the 2011 National Academies panel on life expectancies. "We are different than other countries."

Researchers found substantially fewer geographic disparities in Great Britain, Canada and Japan, for example.

An additional explanation appears to be cultural norms and differences in public health efforts, the researchers found.

Communities with large immigrant populations — Southern California, for example — fared considerably better than average despite relatively high poverty rates. The worst-performing counties were clustered primarily in Appalachia, the Deep South and the lower Midwest. In those places, women died as much as a year younger in 2007 than women did a decade earlier. Life expectancy for women slipped 2 1/2 years in Madison County, Miss., which recorded the biggest regression.

Read more here:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-womens-health-20110615,0,6790340.story