I refrained from posting in this topic last week because I wanted to be polite.
But my God, this woman is not intelligent. Or at least she's too intelligent to be doing this kind of work. The Small World thing was beyond the pale, and bordered on just being mean for the sake of a few extra clicks on her silly gossip column. Pretending to have news that Disneyland is going to close It's A Small World on a Disneyland fan website is almost like yelling fire in a crowded theater. It's not nice.
I've seen her online here and there since the late 1990's. She was never an insightful asset to the Disneyland online fan community, aside from her sometimes interesting but always a bit gag-inducing stories of how she would meet famous 20th century Imagineers at a fan event and then fawned all over them. Or how she named her daughter Alice after Alice Davis.
Last week's Small World dumpster fire of fake news she offered, plus today's assemblage of words that say almost nothing except WDI and TDO are trying to decide what to do with the miserably bad Imagination pavilion at Epcot (duh!) and that Pete Docter was in a meeting once about it, has proven to me that she's not only jumped the shark, but that the shark then ate her and won and then did a shark dance.
I saw her in the park once about 15 years ago, just before she went offline for a decade and got really into Korean pop bands instead of Disneyland. I was going to the Harbor Galley to get a Coke, and she was standing there at the Columbia holding court with a gaggle of socially awkward grown men with unkempt beards. This was around '03 or '04, before that neckbeard look was so prevalent among the socially awkward. She was regaling them with stories of the Sailing Ship Columbia and how she once talked to Tony Baxter about the boat at a fan convention or something. I recognized her face instantly from grainy byline photos of that era, and even back then she looked absolutely nothing like her current avatar. I eavesdropped for a minute or two at the Harbor Galley condiment bar, and then shuddered and walked off feeling like I needed to get a new hobby.
I'm really surprised the website editors/owners allow her to get away with what she's been authoring recently. Her current level of work is doing damage not just to her personal brand, but also the website brand.
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