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About Me


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Hi. I'm Chef Mayhem, a graphic designer based in the Silicon Valley, and I'm currently involved in many different things, including freelance design (you can read more about that at my business site, Zyzzix Media ), music (I've spent over a hundred hours in the studio with a Grammy-nominated producer), and volunteer work (which includes different things, including playing keyboards for a band that plays inside prisons - spreadin' a little rock-'n-roll gospel to the faithful behind bars. It's interesting.)
I served a full term on the Disneyland Creative Advisory Council in 2003-04, and my Disney web sites have won both Yahoo! Site of the Day and USA Today HotSite designations. Some of my past graphic design clients include Apple Computers, Inc., Intel Corporation, and Billy Graham Ministries... but enough with the resumé.
I live in the Silicon Valley, and try to get down to Disneyland at least four times a year for creative renewal. I'm sure many of you can relate. Being surrounded with the product of so much collective imagination is like finding an oasis in the desert of mediocrity that pop culture often becomes. I've found that Disneyland is a refreshing place to be, both professionally and personally.
I've always adored Disneyland, ever since the days when I'd run around the park with friends back in the '70s. I've also always loved spook houses, Halloween masks, bones and dime-store-type creepy stuff in October. I went through three different copies of the 1968 Disneyland Haunted Mansion record LP -- I kept breaking the records because I would trace the pictures in the album booklet. By the time I was 12, a friend and I got together and produced the first of many annual Haunted Houses to raise money for homeless aid organizations. Needless to say, Halloween is often a big event around the Mayhem household.
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My Interests

My interests include Disneyana and theme park history, Halloween, graphic design, ephemera, and general studies of pop culture.

Fun Links

DoomBuggies.com

TellNoTales.com

Haunted Mansion on eBay

Official Disneyland podcasts

Monsterama

Old Haunts

Laughing Place

Secret Fun Spot

Entertainment Earth

Sideshow Toy

Master Replicas ..

Drawn!


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My Blog

Haunted Mansion event special guests announced!

Greeetings, Foolish Mortals, There's just over a week remaining until the DoomBuggies.com Swinging Wake, to be held Monday, Feb. 25 at Disneyland Park, and tickets are sold out - although we've had on...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:14:00 PST

Last chance: Join us for a Swinging Wake at Disneyland!

Come join with like-minded fiends at DoomBuggies Tenth Anniversary Swinging Wake - it'll be a graveyard smash! While our original registration deadline is past, a few cancellations hav...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:25:00 PST

Join DoomBuggies for a haunting special event at Disneyland!

Greetings, Foolish Mortals! I'm writing to share a very limited special opportunity with you. As you may know, this year marked DoomBuggies' 10th anniversary, and to celebrate, DoomBuggies is hosting ...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:02:00 PST

DoomBuggies 10th Anniversary Halloween Contests!

Hello Mortals, There are just three days left to enter the DoomBuggies Tenth Anniversary Halloween contests on the DoomBuggies forums, so check them out soon! Prizes include DoomBuggies t-shirts, fan ...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:46:00 PST

Arrrrgh!

Ne'er too late it be to be celebratin' Talk Like a Pirate Day, mates! In honor of the day spoken of, we the crew of TellNoTales.com have designed a piratical puzzle of a bewitchin' nature that, once s...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:49:00 PST

Imagineering on the WDW Haunted Mansion updates

Death Becomes ThemLike its counterpart in Anaheim, the Haunted Mansion at the Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom will be getting some new magic when it re-opens in September, after its current r...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:41:00 PST

DoomBuggies reborn!

Hey foolish mortals,DoomBuggies.com has been totally rebuilt, redesigned, and rewritten from scratch and is now online with new content, new multimedia, and about twice as much Haunted Mansion goodnes...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:01:00 PST

Behind the Screams - Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion updates

"Eek"-Streme MakeoverBehind the screams of the creepy new touches at The Haunted Mansion"When hinges creak in doorless chambersand strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls,Whenever candle...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:59:00 PST

Fan Mail.

Here at DoomBuggies central, we occasionally receive a fan letter here and there, typically from a Boomer excited to be reliving a memory from childhood. But as I was filing some ephemera away today, ...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:15:00 PST

TellNoTales.com sets sail!

Arrrgh! Just a note to let you all know that TellNoTales.com, having been totally redesigned, has just re-launched with tons of new media and features. There's also a brand new TellNoTales.com myspace...
Posted by DoomBuggies on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:03:00 PST