club cinnamon's april newsletter

subway sandwiches

May 01, 2025

Saw this a few days ago on Instagram lol

The term “recession indicator” is thrown around a lot these days…

Club Cinnamon In Memoriam

Ok so he wasn’t a Club Cinnamon member but he meant a lot to me. RIP Seymour Weiner. Glad you were around to experience the 2024 gay grimace OMG New York Mets. You made so many people smile — hope you are up there yelling at blue for calling that a strike.

Club Cinnamon Item of the Month

April’s item: Feathers McGraw slippers

I posted the slippers on Twitter before but I want to archive them here because I love them. I wanted to have a Wallace & Gromit item of the month but I realized I don’t have much W&G stuff beyond a shirt, Gromit mug (posted the mug too many times), these slippers, and a little Gromit plushie that I gave to my dogs. Feathers is truly a perfect villain — dead-eyed stare, doesn’t talk, waddles, overall quite menacing. If you don’t know who Feathers McGraw is, please watch The Wrong Trousers or Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The latter is the newest W&G film and I found myself wanting to recreate the Scorsese Absolute Cinema pose several times while watching it. This post was sponsored by Big Claymation.

A guy I think is cool

This month I found out there’s a guy who built a banana car and drives his banana car around America. The Twitter user who posted about it is on private now so I can’t link out but I’m so thankful the banana car made it to my feed. I love you banana car guy.

He has the coolest website ever by the way.

He’s just like me.

The Man Who Would Be Twitter King

It’s decided. Michael Caine is the greatest poster on Twitter (sorry Ice-T). Banger after banger — he has been putting in the work for years. Something that we all love about Michael Caine’s tweets is that it’s so obvious it’s him tweeting. From posting pixelated images in 2025 to simply tweeting the words “Super Bowl in Las Vegas” — you never know what to expect. He tweets like he’s still using Twitter in 2008 and it rules. Here are some of my favs:

It was a big day for me when he brought back the chilled weekend tweet after a 13 year hiatus.

Honorable mention: Henry Winkler is also a good follow if you want to see how your grandpa would post if he used Twitter. Mr. Winkler will fall for AI slop, reply to Food Porn accounts, and will also post about his fishing trips. Fun fact: I accidentally ratioed Henry Winkler and it resulted in GQ interviewing him about it. He’s aware that we love the fishing trip posts! He might also be aware of my boobs! My work here is done! (Yeah, sorry I wish I could do more with my little platform and solve legitimate issues in the world but for now, I am balancing out the horrors with Henry Winkler fishing trip tweets.)

When your goat is washed

What the hell is going on at Subway? It’s heartbreaking to see them go out like this. Look, Subway was never top tier but it always came through during tough times (we will never forget you $5 Footlong). My friend in middle school would always want to go to Subway after school because she thought it was healthy and would help her lose weight (she was already very slim). I just enjoyed hanging out with her at Subway and didn’t have the heart to tell her that the Italian BMTs we were scarfing down weren’t exactly health foods. I feel like many had similar perceptions of Subway being a healthier alternative to most fast food but that perception has never been more dead. They now sell Footlong Doritos Nachos, Footlong Cookies, Footlong Pretzels, Footlong Churros, and sell something called a Footlong Dipper. When did it all go wrong? Oh yeah..right.

I understand the need to innovate but less is more in this case. They just need to sell sandwiches (preferably sandwiches that are good), chips, and a side cookie. That’s it. Maybe they can follow the fast food trend and do a collab meal with Scooby Doo branding. It’s so obvious. It could be a Scooby Doo meal and it’s just a big sandwich and it’s yummy and maybe there’s a cardboard cut-out of Scooby Doo in the restaurant. Pictures of Shaggy on the soda cups too. Whatever.

when they eventually go out of business, I call dibs on the wall art

Always loved sitting in the bread booth.

cb’s diary entry #5:

I feel helpless and frustrated — more than usual. I find myself getting upset reading article after article. My country is an embarrassment. My country is aiding a genocide. My country is leading with cruelty instead of compassion. My politics are consistent, I was angry with the prior administration as well but I wasn’t opening up my phone and seeing Studio Ghibli-style AI slop mocking a woman being deported posted by the official White House Twitter account. I don’t know what to do. Go to protests? Organize? I’ve done that and failed. Support progressive candidates who do not stand a chance? I’m addicted to doing that. I can’t say I’m optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party either. They don’t learn from their mistakes. They’re like compulsive gamblers — the Liz Cheney strategy will definitely work next time.

Some positives from this month: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith was re-released in theaters (Did anyone else cheer when General Grievous started coughing?) and Warren Zevon and Chubby Checker are finally in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Switch 2 is around the corner as well. It’s almost Halloween too. Not really but I’ve started thinking about my costume. It’s the final year of my 20’s so it has to be the dumbest, sluttiest costume ever. I’m still narrowing down some ideas but I might open it up to a Club Cinnamon vote. Tell me what you want me to be. This is a democracy.

I also thought about getting a haircut this month but each time I ask Eric J, he tells me to get the Farrah Fawcett haircut and I don’t feel like it suits me very well. I might do bangs again but actually have a professional cut them this time. I’ve had the same hairstyle/long hair since college and I definitely think a new look is long overdue. I’ve liked keeping my hair long for two (2) reasons: I like having hair long enough to cover my boobs so I can get away with not wearing a bra in public and I like eating soup and having the man I love hold my hair back so it doesn’t get in the soup (sure, a hair tie could solve the issue but that’s not very fun). Maybe a new hair color too? Blonde might not work (dating a brunette enjoyer) but I could go lighter. I also don’t wear that much makeup but I feel like I should experiment (blue eyeshadow and douse my face in blush perhaps?). I’m 29 and I never learned how to do a smokey eye. No, I am not going through a late 20’s crisis.

I posted about the grocery store this month in case you missed it. There’s a grocery store playlist too. I made it collaborative if anyone wants to add to it (you have to use this link for some reason.) Only rule is it has to be songs you’ve heard at the grocery store. Music you heard at Subway restaurants do not count.

Apologies in advance but May is Star Wars month so I’ll share new selfies with my dumb, beloved, never before seen Star Wars items from my collection and share my favorite prequels lore. It’ll be a busy month — leaving the chickens for a bit and traveling again in May (birthday trips plus going back to California for Mother's Day weekend). I promise I will not go to Disneyland.