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Prof. Jason Bostick, Ed.D.
@profjasonbostick.bsky.social
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English adjunct faculty, Santa Monica College & El Camino College
Composition/Rhetoric/Pedagogy
LMU Ed.D. Cohort 16
Disneyland AP/MKey/DVC, student of all things Disney
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Yeah, I don't think AI is the problem in this case. The image on the laptop is for a slide deck written by a "Dan-Asabe Zonnyari" for another business course. Versions of this deck abound on Google (see photo). This was an old school cheat sheet.
image of page from Studypool.com labeled "Lecture Slides, course code DOTM 115. Course Title: Introduction to Business. "
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Chilling at Disneyland DVC lounge playing #MouseAdventure in a box!
MouseAdventure box with multicolor answer sheets in the Disneyland DVC Lounge. MouseAdventure box with multicolor answer sheets in the Disneyland DVC Lounge. Mindy reading questions.
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Not technically a sign, but close enough for #SignageSunday. Art by Jeremy Fulton. #DisSky #Disneyland #TikiRoom
Artwork by Jeremy Fulton depicting a stretched leather sign that reads: "Wahine a me keonimana, ladies and gentlemen. Come with us to a world of joyous songs and wondrous miracles, Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room. At the Gateway to Adventureland. "
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The Hench-Robison mentorship is explicit. But in a broader sense, the market for Disney art grew in the late 80s-1990s. Tony Baxter designed the NOS Disney Gallery in 87. The Disney Store added a Disney Gallery to Main Place in 94. Each Eisner Era movie got an "art of" book by Hyperion.
A combined print of two line drawings of Mickey Mouse. The first is "The Sorcerer" by John Hench and the second is "The Apprentice " by Eric Robison.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I think Greg Boyle, SJ, puts it best when he speaks of the Circle of Compassion.
No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Clarabelle still slays, no matter the time of year! Here, she's modeling her lab coat costume and custom moo-boutin shoes!
Clarabelle dressed as a mad scientist, in a green lab coat. From Disneyland, CA. Clarabelle dressed as a mad scientist, in a green lab coat. From Disneyland, CA.
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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More like the United Citizens Federation.
Neil Patrick Harris wearing a black nazi-style hat and black coat in Starship Troopers.
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Many of these statues at MONUMENTS @moca-la.bsky.social are immense, hulking. The statue of Generals Lee and Jackson on horseback dwarfs visitors, and is placed in a huge room opposite Hank Willis Thomas' sculpture of a crashed "General Lee" muscle car that looks like a tombstone to white supremacy.
A bronze statue of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on horseback loom over the viewer. From Monuments at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. Seen from a second floor overlook, the statue of Generals Lee and Jackson on horseback line up with a sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas of a red muscle car, painted to look like the "General Lee" from Dukes of Hazzard, crashed nose first into the sand so that the entire car stands on end. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. A close-up of the Lee and Jackson statue, with the Confederate Battle Flag design on Hank Willis Thomas "General Lee" muscle car in the background. The two pieces appear to align neatly when viewed from a second-story balcony, even though they are on opposite ends of a very large room. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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MONUMENTS @moca-la.bsky.social provokes reckoning by placing removed statues with contemporary works that respond to their narrative of the Lost Cause. The pietà trope in the Confederate Women of Maryland is placed opposite Jon Henry's portraits of Black mothers holding their sons in the same pose.
The Confederate Women of Maryland Monument. A mother holds her dead son, a soldier still grasping the battle flag, its tip pointed downward in defeat. Another woman stands resolutely over the pair, her eyes cast forward, with her cape billowing behind her. Smatterings of blue paint highlight the features of the statue. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. A close-up of The Confederate Women of Maryland Monument. A mother holds her dead son, a soldier still grasping the battle flag, its tip pointed downward in defeat. Another woman stands resolutely over the pair, her eyes cast forward, with her cape billowing behind her. Smatterings of blue paint highlight the features of the statue. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. Portrait by Jon Henry, part of his "Stranger Fruits" series. A mother kneels and holds her son, who is barefoot and bare-chested, leaning against her with his eyes closed. Another woman who appears to be younger, stands to the mother's side and places her hand on the older woman's shoulder. In the background rises the facade of Little Rock Central High School, the site of protests when the "Little Rock 9" were the first Black students in Arkansas to register at a formerly segregated public school. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. Portrait by Jon Henry, part of his "Stranger Fruits" series. A mother kneels in the middle of a street and holds the limp body of her son across her lap. The mother is stone-faced, looking directly into the camera lens so that she appears to be directly confronting the viewer with the body of her son, who lays in a pose invoking the pieta. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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MONUMENTS @moca-la.bsky.social tells the story of the Confederate statues erected by Daughters of the Confederacy, and the protests before and after 2020 that resulted in their removal. Fragments of the Robert E. Lee monument lie next to the bronze ingots & slag left over from its smelting.
The inscription of Robert E. Lee's name at the base of his monument is overwritten with a spray painted slogan "as white supremacy crumbles." From the MONUMENTS exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. Bronze ingots and barrels of metal slag remain after the statue of Robert E. Lee is melted down. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. A stack of bronze ingots from the smelted statue of Robert E. Lee. Imprinted on each ingot is the slogan "Swords into plowshares." From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. A fragment of the stone base of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia. A lion's head with red paint on its mouth. From MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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MONUMENTS @moca-la.bsky.social features several decommissioned monuments to the Confederate Lost Cause. On their own, they are impressive works in bronze, but ironically, protest paint brings out details lost to decades of weathering, as seen on Baltimore's Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
Front view of Baltimore's 1903 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, removed in 2017. An angel with a laurel crown holds aloft a laurel wreath in its left hand, while cradling the lifeless body of a young man, his head tilted down, his shirt opened to the chest. Red paint splatters the face and torso of both figures. Side view of Baltimore's 1903 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, removed in 2017. An angel with a laurel crown holds aloft a laurel wreath in its left hand, while cradling the lifeless body of a young man, his head tilted down, his shirt opened to the chest. Red paint splatters the face and torso of both figures. From the left side, you can hardly see any paint and the statue looks mostly unchanged. Side view from the right of Baltimore's 1903 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, removed in 2017. An angel with a laurel crown holds aloft a laurel wreath in its left hand, while cradling the lifeless body of a young man, his head tilted down, his shirt opened to the chest. Red paint splatters the face and torso of both figures, dripping down to cover the base. A close-up from the left side of Baltimore's 1903 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, removed in 2017. An angel with a laurel crown holds aloft a laurel wreath in its left hand, while cradling the lifeless body of a young man, his head tilted down, his shirt opened to the chest. Red paint splatters the face and torso of both figures.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Canvas (Instructure) continues to be down due to the #AmazonAWSoutage. User report heatmap by Downdetector shows the issue seems to be mostly in the West Coast and Southwest.
User report "heatmap" showing Canvas outages centered around Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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About to watch the Bob Gurr doc for the first time. Hopefully not the last...
Props to @fhw.bsky.social !
The Bob Gurr window on Main Street USA, Disneyland. The sign reads: "Leading the race to the future. Motor Cycye Co. Our vehicles pass the test of time. Fast, Faultless, Fadless. Bob Gurr, Master Impressario."
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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For Halloween, Grand Californian Hotel put out bat & raven lanterns!
A lantern at Grand Californian Hotel decorated with bats and a yellow moon on its side panels. A lantern at Grand Californian Hotel with ravens and a yellow moon.
October 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Walt &
Roy &
Ub &
Hazel &
Lillian
The storefront of the original Disney Bros Studio on Kingswell Blvd in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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👨🐸🎩
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Frame from "One Froggy Evening." A construction worker looks at the camera while imagining himself as a rich producer in top hat and tuxedo while his frog fills the theater in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Already got my ticket! See you there!
A picture of Bob Gurr with the Disneyland monorail. A caption reads "Tickets on Sale Now" with a QR code.
October 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Listening to stories about Sleepy Hollow and Imagineering's special effects in Haunted Mansion, Runaway Railway, and Rise of the resistanceat the Glendale Creative Campus. #D23
Becky Cline from the Disney Archives and three imagineers whom I can't remember their names because they made us put away our phones. The Grand Air Terminal, Disney Creative Campus in green and purple lighting. "Singing busts" modeled after Marc Davis, Paul Frees, and Blaine Gibson, from the 2003 Haunted Mansion movie.
October 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Better Midler is a stone witch. #D23
October 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Charles Boyer, Disneyland's master illustrator. #DisSky
"Partners" (1981) cast member limited edition print depicting the iconic image of Walt Disney holding Mickey's hand. This print was released on the occasion of Disneyland's 200 Millionth Guest. "A New Day" (year unknown). Mickey, Goofy and Donald cross the bridge in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle as the morning sun rises between the castle and Matterhorn. Digital illustration by Charles Boyer. Certificate of Authenticity suggests this is one of Boyer's last projects before retirement. Disney's California Adventure. Cast member print commemorating the opening of DCA. Illustration by Charles Boyer features the California Screamin' coaster, the Sun Wheel, the Golden Gate Bridge, hang gliders, Grand Californian Hotel, Grizzly River Rapids, a grandfather reading a book to a boy and a girl, a 1940's era person operating a film camera, a farm worker carrying a basket of produce, and an indigenous woman weaving a basket.
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Good boy Rusty helping me finish setting up a late-start class for tomorrow.
Rusty, our orange kitty, curled up on my desk while I work on the computer.
September 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We met him at the signings for Tikiland Day and the release of the parks prints. He's been playing with the look of the mid-century United & TWA travel posters by David Klein & Stanley Galli. The flying ride vehicles & the parrot in the Tiki poster are a reference to the TWA jet.
Vintage United Air Lines Disneyland poster by Stanley Galli. A Jungle Cruise boat is in the foreground with Sleeping Beauty Castle rising above the trees. Vintage David Klein TWA Disneyland poster with images of the Moonliner, the Jungle Cruise, Main Street, Frontierland, and the castle. Enchanted Tiki Room print by Eric Tan. The flying parrot references the TWA travel posters by David Klein. Close-up of Eric Tan's Disneyland poster with the TWA style flying ride vehicles.
September 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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As we left, staff gave us one pack of 12 Lorcana cards and one of six "books" showing which four cards we needed to collect. There are six books, each with a different set of four cards. Presumably, this should encourage guests who need different cards to trade with each other outside Off The Page.
Trading area with tables and umbrellas outside Off The Page.
August 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The cast member we got did a wonderful job storytelling and explaining the core concept of Lorcana. The room's sound and visual effects made for an entertaining show.
August 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I adore the Sorcerer's Workshop, and Lorcana fits very well in this space. I suspect they hope to use this space for future pop-up events, as Lorcana logos and symbols have been inserted into the decor.
A Lorcana logo taking the place of a Disney character at the entrance to Beast's Library/The Great Illuminary. A sign informs visitors that guest responses will be monitored. A book in the library features the Lorcana logo and the symbols for the ink colors from the game: Amethyst (purple), Amber (gold), Emerald (green), Ruby (red), Sapphire (blue), and Steel (gray).
August 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM