According to the newest Disneyland Podcast, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride will be getting a facelift this year, including a new digitally restored soundtrack, Jack Sparrow, Barbosa and Davey Jones figures from the movies added to the set and their musical themes added to the ride score.
Since moving to California, I’ve probably gone on the ride 50+ times (it’s slightly different than the Disneyworld one), so I’m a little nervous about this, but they’re saying Jack Sparrow, for instance, will just be inserted into the existing scenes instead of being made part of new ones which would displace some of the classics. (The pirates pulling the treasure up the final climb of the ride will be going away, though.) The revamp was apparently planned before the first movie was released, just to modernize the classic.
I had no idea that one of the ships on the ride was called the Wicked Wench. Neat.
Much like the pain is now more than the NapraPAC drug combo can handle, sometimes I still get heartburn stemming from all the anti-inflammatories I dump in my gut all day long nowadays. Mmmm, tasty way to wake up in the middle of the night.
But while I’m up … great episodes of Boston Legal and Supernatural this week, no?
I just got back from Topaz Elementary School, where I read Robert Munsch’s Show and Tell for Mrs. Guiterrez‘s fourth grade class for Read Across America Day.
This went tons better than Career Day at Hesperia High School last year: In addition to enjoying the book and being a great audience (even the few who didn’t like the book were exceptionally well-behaved), the fourth graders absolutely grilled me about being a reporter.
I think there might be a Hesperia Star column in next week’s paper about this, so I’ll save the details for then, but I will note that the kids were absolutely flabbergasted that I wasn’t rich.
Please direct similar sentiments to Editor Peter Day and Publisher Stephan Wingert.
So, prior to being diagnosed with sarcoidosis last year, I was in the middle of a heavy-duty regimen of dental care repairing the effects of being too long without dental insurance on my gums. (Kids, don’t try this at home.)
I was just at the end when I went into the hardcore downward spiral, and missed my follow-up appointments and all the rest. (I was actually in surgery on the day I should have been getting my teeth looked at, if I remember correctly.) My illness precluded really focusing on getting back in the swing of things for several months. Today, I went back for my first cleaning since the operation. It didn’t go great — I’m feeling pretty thrashed right now after all the digging around in my mouth with The Hook of Doom and all the rest.
I did learn, from my horse-crazy hygienist, that horses can get sarcoidosis. I now have to come to terms with the realization that I will never run in the Kentucky Derby.
When I was born, the world was jamming to “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye. Not a bad little tune and possibly an auspicious song for my later career.
What song was #1 when you were born?
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