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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:09:31 EDT Nate Cull

   so there's a great big beautiful tomooooorrow
   shining at the end of every daaaa - y - y - whirrr - click

   ptang

   klunk

   1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:15:05 EDT Nate Cull

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      True fact:

      My dad smuggled an early Phillips cassette tape recorder into Disneyland sometime in the 1970s, on a work visit to the States, and brought back a very precious tape of random park ambience as well as Carousel of Progress and It's A Small World.

      I played the HECK out of that fuzzy little C60. That and the 1978 JC Penney catalog. And aerospace magazines with literal missile ads.

      'America' was this magical land of miracles and wonder to me, as a kid.

      Sadly, , it isn't any more.

   2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:16:34 EDT Nate Cull

      in reply to

      True fact:

      My dad smuggled an early Phillips cassette tape recorder into Disneyland sometime in the 1970s, on a work visit to the States, and brought back a very precious tape of random park ambience as well as Carousel of Progress and It's A Small World.

      I played the HECK out of that fuzzy little C60. That and the 1978 JC Penney catalog. And aerospace magazines with literal missile ads.

      'America' was this magical land of miracles and wonder to me, as a kid.

      Sadly, it isn't any more.

   3. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:17:40 EDT Nate Cull

      in reply to

      True fact:

      My dad smuggled an early Phillips cassette tape recorder into Disneyworld sometime in the 1970s, on a work visit to the States, and brought back a very precious tape of random park ambience as well as Carousel of Progress and It's A Small World.

      I played the HECK out of that fuzzy little C60. That and the 1978 JC Penney catalog. And aerospace magazines with literal missile ads.

      'America' was this magical land of miracles and wonder to me, as a kid.

      Sadly, it isn't any more.

   4. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:18:06 EDT Nate Cull

      in reply to

      True fact:

      My dad smuggled an early Phillips cassette tape recorder into Disneyland sometime in the 1970s, on a work visit to the States, and brought back a very precious tape of random park ambience as well as Carousel of Progress and It's A Small World.

      I played the HECK out of that fuzzy little C60. That and the 1978 JC Penney catalog. And aerospace magazines with literal missile ads.

      'America' was this magical land of miracles and wonder to me, as a kid.

      Sadly, it isn't any more.

      1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:20:57 EDT Nate Cull

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         actually you know I'm not sure if it was Disneyland or WDW. I don't even know what year it was he took that tape.

         When did Compact Cassettes come out?

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney%27s_Carousel_of_Progress

         1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:24:31 EDT Nate Cull

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            hmm

            that's no moon
            that a great big beautiful space station

            1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:37:58 EDT Nate Cull

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               I wish the Tomorrowland movie had actually had the guts to deal with the fact that the shiny industrial Future promised by Walt Disney was built on bones and skulls and is in fact what is literally killing the biosphere

               it would have been a bit more honest than saying 'stop thinking about massive and accelerating wealth inequality and surveillance and fascism and extinction and climate change, you lazy Millennial kids just aren't BELIEVING HARD ENOUGH in the American Dream'

               1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:43:29 EDT Nate Cull

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                  but seriously what dream does come after the American Dream

                  cos that one's become a terrifying nightmare, the kind that might actually give us a heart attack, and we can't seem to wake up