1. lasseter walked into the pixar office and said guys, guys, get this: sir tow mater. and they said lasseter you sonofabitch youve done it again. and then they reverse engineered this entire movie so that they could deliver that punchline and nothing will convince me otherwise 
2. fuck mater i hate that guy
3. i revisited the list of questions i wrote for the original cars and i do think cars 2 provided some useful answers:

if california exists…

autistic pussy so good it sends u to a psych ward

idk! mixed feelings which i kind of expected, i knew going in i wouldnt be thrilled by the framing of bella's cognitive/physical disabilities (that magically go away to symbolize her "becoming a full person" 🙄) but i was more won over than i thought i would be. the mise en scene/filming choices were so consistently lovely i want to draw emma stone's entire wardrobe. very obviously cabinet of dr…

wow! i was expecting a good time but not a deep time & was so pleasantly surprised by the complexity nimona shows. an examination of security theater, the construction of "safety" and "crime" via the figure of the monster; it still cant fully escape the carceral logic it is critiquing though, eg. although bal comes around to nimonas suggestion that the  institution of the *institute* is the fault, the institute survives & order in the end is restored through its continued existence with…