#dave macpherson

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Dave MacPherson, Disneyland’s first-ever customer, has been using his lifetime ticket every year since 1955. [1, 2]

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Dave purchased the first ticket to be sold to the general public - thus becoming the very first person to enter Disneyland on its very first regular day in business. In honor of the event, Dave was later rewarded with lifetime passes (which he continues to receive in installments every year). "Each January I eagerly await the arrival of the next installment of the pass which is then good for another year at any Disney park, and I have received these annual passes since 1955. At the beginning it was just a paper or cardboard pass and for years it was silver. In recent years it has been red in color and is made like a credit card and says on the front "VIP MAIN ENTRANCE PASS." The reverse side has my name and says: Admit Passholder and 3 Guests."

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[victorinfante]

Today in Pop Culture Notebook, I take a look at one of Worcester's oddest and coolest literary offerings, The Hangover Hour, hosted by David Macpherson, at Nick's Worcester.

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Let me start off by saying something that should be patently obvious: Dave Macpherson is a fucking star. I think a lot of folks in the Worcester poetry scene might have gotten a bit too used to him to really appreciate how good he is. But if you saw him at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center on Sunday, reading a bevy of Halloween-themed poems and ultra-short stories to an audience who, save myself and Lea, were completely unfamiliar with him, you could see with fresh eyes just how good he really is. I'll admit, I was terribly nervous to follow him. His energy and his humor were absolutely at the top of their form.

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In place of a column, I offer this roundup of the gazillion poetry events happening this week in town. Like, seriously: David Macpherson, Kristina England, Jenith Charpentier, John S. Blake, WCPA contest, The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show, the Poetry & Print in Early America discussions at the American Antiquarian Society, Christopher Merrill ... this week has it all.

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Sometimes I just write about random stuff in Worcester, including That's Entertainment, Worcester Art Museum, The Poets' Asylum and Nemes. Because Worcester's the sort of town where putting those things together makes sense.