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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 6h

The guy left her four years ago to go become Evil Bald Sorcerer #437, and she hired Conan to track the guy down

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 7h

Every day after school when we showed up for work he would look at us and say “You’re fired!” That was his joke. His other joke was “I love working in a cemetery, I have so many people under me.”

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 7h

One fall as a kid I had a groundskeeping job at a cemetery. The head groundskeeper was a man named Dana who constantly sang “Oh why’d you leave me Bo Derek?” to the tune of Kenny Rogers’ Lucile. Every day his mom brought him a Pepsi. It was known among the crew that he had had a nervous breakdown.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 19h

Conan the Exposition

Speaking to a villain, Conan relates “I had made a vow to your wife—whose name is Annia, in case you’ve forgotten—“

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 19h

None more erotic

Miles O’Keefe as Tarzan, Bo Derek as Jane, an orangutan as an orangutan, strolling along the beach

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 19h

So erotic it has Richard Harris on the bagpipes

Richard Harris in Safari gear playing bagpipes in a still from Tarzan the Ape Man

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 20h

Great Tower Records ad on the back

Headline: 30,000 take up residence in Portland
Ad copy: But you mind mind, with neighbors like Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, Kim Carnes, Neil Diamond, Grover Washington, Pat Benatar, Count Basie and the Oak Ridge Boys.These and thousands of other artists are represented by over 30,000 different record titles at Tower. We heard you needed us, so we’re bringing along the whole neighborhood!

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 20h

Found this in a 1981 Conan the Barbarian comic book. I salute you across the gulf of time, Horny Enough to Cut Out a Newspaper Ad Kid.

Ad for Tarzan the Ape Man starring Bo Derek and Richard Harris, with the line “The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time” and art of Derek in a straw bikini swinging on a vine against a white background

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

My Rudolph collection:

The Rudolph digest and five of the six treasuries

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently DreamWorks (via Columbia, via Screen Gems) owns the Fox and the Crow, which is at the very top of my reprint wish list along with Sugar and Spike

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

The rights to the character are held by the Rudolph Company. In a time when Marvel is cutting deals left and right on Shang-Chi, ROM, Micronauts, etc. you’d think it might happen but I guess it’s not a priority for DC.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

My treasury grail is the very first Rudolph one, but alas those seem unreprintable

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

This also gives me hope that DC might reprint the Christmas treasuries

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

I hope they follow up next year with the Ghosts treasury, as I’m missing that one

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

Someone is an Alex Chilton fan

Today’s NYT Connections, with words including big, star, third, sister, lovers

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

My wife was unfazed by my referring to our kitten Ida B. by the names of Band members—Rick Danko Cat, Robbie Robfurtson, Meow Meow Manuel, Levon Helm Kitty—until I called her Garth Hudson. That was a bridge too far.

Ida B. Applesauce stretched out on her back with her back toe beans pointed at the camera

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

Jesse Waters exclusive interview with the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Split-screen of Waters and the masked guy who pretends to be antifa, a gang member, Isis, you name it

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

It’s all the early silver age appearances—pure, uncut Doom. I get that some people find that hokey, but some people need a good talking to.

A list of silver age Marvel stories featuring Dr. Doom: FF 5, 6, 10, 16-17, 39-40, 57-60, 73, annual 2 and 3; Spider-Man 5, Avengers 25, Daredevil 37-38, Marvel Super-Heroes 20

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 3d

me after five minutes on social media

In panel one of this comic book sequence by Jack Kirby, a giant shudders, saying “No! I’m afraid of the pain! It hurts! It hurts bad!” The Demon says to its master “Poor creature! You’ve made him a slave to fear!” In panel two, the Giant wails “I-I can’t stand it any more! I’ve got to escape!”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 3d

What’s your sign?

The “IEC” freezer at the country store in Ripton, Vermont

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 4d

MAKE HOOP WAR NO MORE

The cover of DC’s Blackhawk #135, “The Villain with 1,000 Hoops!”—the Hoopster charges at the alarmed Blackhawks in a flaming hoop

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 5d

Third coastal D

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 6d

The Beam Team

Our cats Titus and Ida B. Applesauce sharing a sunbeam

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 6d

Carroll O’Connor was to Archie Bunker as James Gandolfini was to Tony Soprano, and they both had to deal with large chunks of the audience misapprehending their characters in similar ways. It’s a fairly straight line.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 6d

Today I got first-hand confirmation that my 76-year-old father’s cursing repertoire still includes the term “motherhumper”

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