Matt Ouimet leaving DL for Starwood Hotels?

[innerSpaceman]

Yes, bah.


Actually, looking at how things turned out .... Ouimet was, in my view, meant to save the 50th and nothing more. I don't think lightly of that. It was an important mission and, now that he is leaving right afterwards, it's clear to me that it was his singular mission. He accomplished it well.

There was a year of wonderfulness that began on May 5, 2005 ... and expired not unlike a fairygodmother's spell at the year's end. I thank Matt Ouimet for that wonderul year.



Everything is cyclical. The Bride and the Pirates overlay say, to me in the minority, that the party's over. Knowing nothing about Grier, I have hopes that Lassister will keep things from getting too stagnant. I no longer have any hope about the current crop of imagineers ... but we'll see what we will see.

The 50th Year was a smashing success. Matt Ouimet is aces in my book, and I'm sad to see him go.


None of my business, but I think he's making a big mistake.

Perhaps he's looking for better schools(?WTF), a better social standing for his wife (apparently, their income did not put the couple near the top of Orange County social strata, and she was reportedly not happy about it), or - sigh - money (and being a bigger fish in a smaller pond). Nonetheless, Master of All Hotels is simply far less sexy than Commander of Disneyland. But, feh, his life.



Thanks for the 50th, Matt.


Now, get out.





(I'm sorry .... please get out)





Sorry for the quote, but I thought it was the most appropriate goodbye under the circumstances.