I consciously avoided Subway for a couple years because the Fogle thing was just too icky. I wouldn’t be suprised if that’s had some impact.

Yeah honestly the first Cars isn’t bad. It’s forgettable but still charming and funny. Now Cars 2, hoo boy, that’s the day I knew Pixar wasn’t infallible. 

Is is weirding anyone else that Bo Peep looks so different? Obviously they’re within their rights to redesign, but none of the other toys looks too different. How does a plastic toy change its look, anyway?

Do you put any seasoning on it? I imagine that might mask the rubberiness. 

So how’s it tasting? I heard the soles are a little rubbery. 

Lol

I take it the boot is tasting delicious, then?

How’s that boot tasting? 

It’s not really that there weren’t plenty of great movies released though, as I said. The fact that Eighth Grade and First Reformed weren’t nominated, just for examples, was a total joke. For whatever reason the Academy only nominated mostly weaker films, with a couple exceptions, even though they had plenty of better…

For mass art, not really. The majority of it has been consolidated into even fewer companies than ever. If you’re counting DIY stuff on YouTube or whatever, sure, but that’s not what we’re talking about.

I know you’re joking, but that actually could be close to the truth. The thing is, Netflix, much like premium channels like HBO, relies a lot on the appearance of prestige. Even people who didn’t watch Sopranos or The Wire always thought that they might watch it “some day,” and they wanted to have a service that…

Don’t get me wrong, I actually probably agree with you. It just felt sort of hard to stomach a Marvel movie being a best picture nominee, plus the OP made a reference to everything being superheroes now. The slate as a whole was definitely really poor though (which is especially striking as I feel 2018 was actually a…

I love Star Wars and still like Pixar even though they’ve caught sequel-itis, but there is still the issue that those are essentially “family” films and I don’t always want to be restricted to just that sort of thing. Disney’s old animated films were generally popular enough with adults, too, but they were the type of…

It gets even worse than that when you consider Black Panther was a best picture nominee. Talk about an insult to cinema.

It’s not just a matter of personal choice - in fact part of the issue here is that Disney is robbing us of a lot of that choice. It’s the fact that more and more media and popular art is being consolidated into just a handful of companies. That’s really really bad, and yes war and famine and slave labor (which, you…

Yeah I grew up in CO and spent most of my life there and he’s pretty lame. Not the worst you could have as far as Democrats to run a state that is gradually turning from red to blue, but nothing great. He opposed the CO equivalent of Medicare for All, is way into fracking, and was even against marijuana legalization…

The only one who actually calls himself that is Sanders. And it’s become so overused as an insult by right-wingers over the years that it’s no longer working. The majority of younger voters actually prefer it to capitalism.

You are right that Sanders is probably closer to a social democrat than an actual democratic…

I mean he’d still be a better candidate than Biden. 

Yeah, that’s the sense I get too. He’s not really a great campaigner and apparently his team is already trying to figure out how to work around or explain away some of his past positions and transgressions, like the Anita Hill stuff or opposing busing in the 70s.

That actually could be the case. The donors and establishment base seem to be vacillating between candidates in hopes of drumming up support for one of them, and then finding that their poll numbers just don’t stack up. Of the announced candidates, Bernie has led pretty consistently, next only to Biden who keeps dilly…