Widen Your World

The man behind "Widen Your World," Mr. Mike Lee, certainly has a way with words, and some intriguing information. Here he is talking about the effect Disney World had on him and his brother:

"...WDW provided us with an introduction to - or a prism through which we came to view - significant aspects of the world around us (foreign cultures, U.S. history, space exploration, classical music and English literature among them). The main difference between its impact on us as individuals was that Brian, being a paranoid hedonist, thought WDW was pretty much the ultimate pleasure zone (full of patently non-threatening fun) and I, an antisocial idealist, regarded it as the perfect example of how the rest of the world should be: immaculately planned, strikingly efficient and unfailingly cordial ... even to someone of a contrary demeanor."

His footnotes are priceless:

"*** I had not yet taken a prostitute to Ponderosa.
"**** In 1980 WDW had 27,443,666 employees and half of them were constantly high. As Walt Disney often said, that's twice as high as the island of Manhattan."

I read the footnotes first, and those are honestly the only reason I read the rest of his "About Me" page, which is well worth it.