My friend Mike Scopa is one of those folks who seems to be at his happiest when he is making others happy - and usually working himself into exhaustion in the process. He writes for several Disney fan web sites, participates in podcasts, helps with research for one of the best Disney World guidebooks extant, and donates tremendous time to helping out at Disney fan greetings like the Magic Meet and MouseFest. He's also an avid runner, and loves to cook Italian food.

When Mike's birthday came around recently, lots of people who love and admire him wrote parody songs or poems in tribute to him and his tireless efforts to help spread Disney Magic throughout the internet, and I had to join in.

"For whom the Belle Tolls..."

2008-07-12
Adapted from For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne

No man is at Aloha Island
Entirely by himself
Each is a piece of the Team
A member of Team Scopa
If some clod drops his Dole Whip
The Team is the less
As well as if a park pass were
As well as if the cash of thine own
Or of thine Team's were
Each Whip's ending diminishes me
For I am involved in Team Scopa
Therefore, send not to know
For whome the Belle tolls
She tolls for thee,

Mike Scopa
Scopa-san
Leader of the Team

HB, MS.