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  1. The most recent Disney Star Wars stuff may seem slightly less offensive than the initial movies, but I think that’s because they’ve downgraded Star Wars from theatrical features to streaming series, figuring the fans won’t be as demanding because ‘it’s only television.’ Sadly, the streaming series are pretty pathetic anyway. Disney scored a semi-success with The Mandalorian because everyone loved cute little baby Yoda. But it still wasn’t all that good. And everything else Disney has made (Obi Wan Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett) are pathetic, even as fan service, because the writing is so amateurish it can’t hold the plot from one episode to the next, not to mention being constantly smothered in woke bullsh*t. No matter what their so-called points of view are, deviating away from the story to showcase something unrelated is bad art. I don’t think they could have salvaged the sequel trilogy by the time they got to episode IX, no matter what they did. The damage was already done and no amount of tinkering could have fixed it. Palpatine’s return was a typical tool of desperate writers who can’t come up with anything compelling on their own without borrowing off the originals, and I agree that it effectively erased everything that had been accomplished by Luke and Anakin. But the Disney crew has no respect for the original saga, and only uses what it needs to make a quick buck and move on. As for any of it being canon, forget it, no way. Nothing Disney has created will ever be canon as far as I’m concerned. They discarded the EU, but I discard DU (Disney Universe). I’m not saying all the EU was great stuff, but it was a lot better than Disney’s toss-offs. Filoni, while more competent than Disney’s board room tools, is still not the authority Star Wars needs to get on track. George Lucas is the only one to do that, and Disney (and Kathleen Kennedy) fear that he’ll show them who’s truly the boss. J.J. Abrams. Destroyer of worlds and art.
  2. Nothing is safe anymore. I hope it falls through.
  3. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002). I like to get back to basics and hit my Star Wars movies for a quick fix. I love this movie and there’s nothing I like more than seeing Yoda throw down with that lightsaber!
  4. Music is subjective and everyone responds to certain kinds of music for different reasons. The only thing that strikes me as incongruous and inexplicable is that the majority of people from each generation will completely dismiss anything that isn’t from their generation, as though it can’t possibly have merit if it isn’t a clone of the last 100 songs released to the current market. Whenever I ask people to listen to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Jack Jones, Nelson Eddy, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, etc, and give an opinion, I’m invariably greeted with a low moan and total disregard without even listening, just because the music is considered old. When this music was new, it was extremely popular, especially among the ‘younger generation’ of the time. Fans were screaming and fainting in the aisles at Frank Sinatra concerts, and disregarding the stuff that came a generation earlier than that. Now it’s the same thing with the latest music, and the only thing that’s changed is the dates. Good music and bad music have existed in every generation, but the deciding factor seems to be how recent the music is rather than the quality of the composition. I know music is subjective, but the prejudices that influence the opinions and tastes of listeners remains baffling to me.
  5. Tiny Toon Adventures (1990), a great cartoon that really brought quality back to some pretty generic cartoon lineups. Greatest American Hero (1981), a unique action comedy from Stephen J Cannell about a school teacher who is given a super hero suit with special powers but loses the instruction manual, and spends the rest of the series trying to figure it out and fight crime, with mixed results. Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, (1980), another Cannell production about an awkward accountant (Jeff Goldblum) and savvy con man (Ben Vereen) teaming up to solve crimes.
  6. Pink hearts for me. Hey, what happened to the little orange stars? Those were my runners-up.
  7. I see fireworks pretty often at my place of work. It’s just part of the territory.
  8. I agree 1000% This parasite knows only how to rip off the work of others, call it his own, and utterly destroy it. How he can continue to have a career is staggering. He destroyed Star Wars, Star Trek, and last I heard he was targeting another of my all time favorites: Your Name/Kimi No Na Wa. The lattermost, being a perfect movie, doesn’t need to be rendered into live action and screwed over by this talentless piece of sh*t. But hey, it’s another successful movie with a built-in audience that he can leach off of. Others that belong in this category are Michael Eisner, and pretty much every Disney CEO since.
  9. Reputation is only fragile if those perceiving it are malleable and incapable of making their own discernments. A person’s reputation is just word of mouth, usually spread by people who don’t have or want the full story, and have no interest in pursuing it. The value of a human being should be based on personality, how they’re evaluated by qualified, intuitive minds, and confirmed facts. But nowadays, reputation means very little when it’s used by dishonest people as an underhanded weapon to discredit quality human beings.
  10. Since my last post here I have had a child and I would love to have many more. There’s nothing more life-affirming than having a family.
  11. I’d rather disappoint Bill Bye because in my opinion he’s an ass and disappointing him would mean nothing to me. Mr. Rogers on the other hand, is such a great human being I’d feel terrible if I disappointed him in any way. But even if I did, he’d probably be nice about it. Fred Rogers is one of my heroes
  12. Me and me would probably fight over who gets to wear certain outfits from my wardrobe. But aside from that I think we'd see eye-to-replicated-eye on most things.
  13. I’m 31 so that leaves me out of this. But I'm happy that I accomplished what I mentioned in my previous post here.
  14. I had chicken parmesan for dinner with pasta and green beans on the side. Now I'm chomping on a fistful of sugar-free Jelly bellys (they ain't bad for sugar free).
  15. As much as I love the variety of hand dipped, I’m gonna go with soft serve because you just can’t beat that smooth texture. Some of my best ice cream memories have been soft serve. I favor vanilla or strawberry if available, or the very nice chocolate/vanilla swirl. Toss on some sprinkles and we’re good to go.
  16. I used to ride a silver-blue Schwinn ten speed and it was really fast and pretty. I don’t remember if it had a model name; it’s been a very long time. I always liked my first bike though; it was a small used bike with a banana seat and goose neck handlebars (anyone even remember those?) and the best thing about it was coaster brakes. I hate hand brakes because they never work; coaster brakes were flawless and responsive so naturally they got phased out while antiquated hand brakes endured. I don’t remember what kind of bike that first one was; it was older than me. Fond memories though.
  17. I like having a fan blowing in my face. I sleep with a very loud fan on my bedside table because it keeps me cool and I need the noise to help me sleep. I also have a tiny little A/C fan, which is a box fan that blows air through a slotted ice tray. I like all my fans and they feel great in the hot weather, even if I have my apartment air conditioning on.
  18. I'm so afraid to cry it brings tears to me eyes.
  19. I bought a little pendant charm of Ste Therese of Lisieux for my phone case. It only cost a couple bucks on ebay so I can’t beat the price.
  20. Some aspects of KFC seem disproportionate in size and shape (like gigantic chicken pieces but tiny little sparrow-sized wings) Picture Bulk Biceps as poultry. So the chicken may be real but really weird looking on the farm. I doubt they use ‘fake’ chicken. I mean, what exactly is a fake chicken; a genetic mutation? I very large pigeon? Making a fake animal of any kind sounds like more trouble than it’s worth. They might as well stick with the real thing, even if they are mutants.
  21. I've been here since April of 2016. Still hangin' in there.
  22. Defunctland has some very cool vids. I need to get back to some of those!
  23. The Million Dollar Duck (1971). I really liked this thing. It’s a perfect example of old Disney live-action at its finest. It doesn’t have to be ‘epic’ to be extremely enjoyable, and I loved it. Sandy Duncan kind of stole the show in the female lead; she was so funny. Rambo (2008). In striking contrast is this goulash of gore from our old pal Sylvester Stallone in this fourth installment to the series. Sadly this is not quite equal to the standard of the series up to this point, as it lacks the comic book super-warrior vibe of the first three. This is what happens when franchises take more than a decade between chapters; they lose their spontaneous identity. The movie suffers from too much realism and focus on the atrocities of the badguys. But if it’s going to go that route I need to see a better pay-off at the end (don’t cut the badguy halfway through when you can chop him cleanly in half!) Come on guys, this is basic!
  24. I found this to be both creepy and cool. What a strange alternate reality!
  25. Thank you! I'm feeling better every day! Happy upcoming birthday!!!
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