The universe is strange, beautiful, and utterly disgusting - but that's the small wriggly mindless parts, like this thing. It's from the gallery of 2014 photomicrography winners.

Nothing in most horror movies like this: spider eyes. You've been warned.

DISNEY Theme Park Tourist, a site about Orlando, discusses five WDW attractions that closed in 2014. That includes the Studio Backlot Tour. You're on an ordinary normal tour, watching the pros make movies. Exciting! Except of course they aren't making movies at all. They are pretending to make movies. That was the problem with the Hollywood Studio's original concept - it was supposed to be a real studio, but it didn't happen, so everything was a consensual falsehood.

Anyway. In the middle of the tour, your tram visits a "real movie set" where you can see movie magic happen right before your eyes. It's bracing and surprising if you're eight. In fact it's awesome if you're eight.

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You can skip to about 7:20 or so. If you're eight you're not thinking "this isn't real, because the idea that a studio tour would barge into a working set where millions of dollars are riding on this take is ridiculous.

Also closed: Maelstrom, the damp and exciting Viking simulation.

Everyone could see that coming. Cue the complaints, from the comments:

There are many legitimate gripes one may have about Disneyworld, but the presence of young children is not one of them. Also, the introduction of fictional elements into the World Showcase does not exactly ruin the pure, empirical realism of the place. It's a theme park. It's not an anthropological reconstruction erected for research purposes.

Related: Wes Anderson + DEVO = theme park. Telegraph:

I think it's a jape, but we'll see. I could see spending a day in the "Grand Budapest Hotel" world, though. Or a month. Or a year.

A ROGUE POET For some reason I thought of Dennis Moore. Paris Review relates the story of the bandit poet. Or the poet bandit. No, Bandit Poet. Thievery was his main vocation,

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