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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 1d

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The True Story of Ray Bradbury and Theme Parks with Dr. Phil Nichols | by Kelly McCubbin | Oct, 2025 | Boardwalk Times

The True Story of Ray Bradbury and Theme Parks with Dr. Phil Nichols Or… Pete and Kelly Become Desperate for Validation and Call an Expert! Ray Bradbury had a fascination with themed entertainment …

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 1d

Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more!
Dr. Phil Nichols joins us!
Link below...

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 1d

The textual analysis is REALLY strong, though. Livingston's family believes that he wrote it. It sounds like Livingston's writing and Moore never wrote anything even remotely similar in tone.
Moore's writing was severe.
I don't know for sure if Livingston wrote it, but I don't think Moore did.

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 1d

You'll get no argument from me. In fact, you might get a delightful little gopher dance in celebration!

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 1d

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The Poet and the Boy Wonder — Orson Welles in The Fall of the City | by Kelly McCubbin | Oct, 2025 | Fanfare

The Poet and the Boy Wonder — Orson Welles in The Fall of the City The strange tale of how a single poem created an auteur. 22-year-old Orson Welles must have thought his director had gone …

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 1d

With AWS knocking out half the internet earlier, I thought I'd hit this again...

In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece on "The Fall of the City."

Link in the thread...

#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more cruel things I've seen from the Republican Party has been Republican Governors refusing to expand Medicaid deliberately to make the ACA look like a failure.
I have family in Texas that completely lost their health care because of it.

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 2d

Available wherever you get podcasts or at lowdown-plus-up.com/

The Lowdown on the Plus-up - A Theme Park Podcast

Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plus them up!"   No considerations of safet...

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 2d

Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more!
Dr. Phil Nichols joins us!
Link below...

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 2d

In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, under extremely strange circumstances.
Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece for Fanfare on "The Fall of the City."

Link in the thread...

#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 3d

In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, under extremely strange circumstances.
Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece for Fanfare on "The Fall of the City."

fanfare.pub/the-poet...

#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds

Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 4d

Lady Elaine's got a posse.

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 7d

Busy doing what? Not assembling the House or swearing in elected representatives?

Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 10d

Brother Mamdani speaks for me

youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 11d

I'm fascinated by this phenomenon. "No Tron movie has ever made a profit, but here's an idea... Let's do one that's NOT in the videogame world and cast Jared Leto!"
And then more than one other person must have agreed with this idea.

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 13d

A couple of errata for this ep of The Lowdown on the Plus-Up:
Bradbury's book about the making of "Moby-Dick" is "Green Shadows, White Whale."
We mispronounced an Imagineer's name; it's Joe LanZISero.)
The story that made Marta Becket famous was in National Geographic, not Time or Life.
Mea Culpa.

Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 13d

We talk about Marta Becket quite a bit in our new episode: Here's Ray Bradbury talking about her, too!
youtu.be/P869Tf-h9m0...

Listen to the new Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Ray Bradbury’s Theme Park — The Great Electric Time Maze wherever you get your podcasts! #Disney #RayBradbury #ThemePark #EPCOT

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 13d

We talk about Marta Becket quite a bit in our new episode: Here's Ray Bradbury talking about her, too!
youtu.be/P869Tf-h9m0...

Listen to the new Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Ray Bradbury’s Theme Park — The Great Electric Time Maze wherever you get your podcasts! #Disney #RayBradbury #ThemePark #EPCOT

Amargosa (2000) - Clip - Documentary - Marta Becket - Ray Bradbury

Clip from the Great documentary about Marta Beckett and her "Amargosa Opera House and Hotel" in Death Valley. I stayed at the "Amargosa Opera House and Hotel...

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 16d

That is 100% true.
Also, have you ever seen Phil Collins and Charlie Brown at the same place at the same time?

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 17d

Lowdown on the Plus-Up presents: Ray Bradbury's Theme Park - The Great Electric Time Maze

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 23d

A friend of mine described the current President as "the best example of all the worst qualities that Americans seem to admire."

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d

"the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.” 🤬

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 26d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 25d

Portland = Ghorman

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Kelly McCubbin @kellymccubbin.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you!

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