All the great themes have been used up and turned into theme parks.

[offbalance]

Irony is dead.

Wasn't this a gag on the Simpsons not too long ago? I know they did a really funny bit on the Ben Stiller Show with an Oliver Stone Theme Park. I mean, a Charles Dickens theme park? What's next? Shakespeareville? Austenland?

I weep for the future.

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[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

I read "Disneyfying Dickens" as "Disneyfucking Dickens" and I was like, "awesome."

But I totally want to go to this park. I think I'm probably the only one on Earth.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Well, for the sake of those pumping time and money into this thing, I hope not.

I'm just so flabbergasted by the whole thing - I mean, on the one hand I should be in favor of it, because it's based on literature instead of some corporate creation, but it just feels odd to me, somehow.

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Also, speaking of Austenland.

Isn't that Publishers' Weekly review just knock-yer-socks-off awesome? I thought so. ;-)

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

It's such a well-written review. I wonder who could have POSSIBLY penned something so utterly brilliant.

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Whoever they were, they must have been really awesome.