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

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 · 10h

What’s your sign?

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

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

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 · 2d

Third coastal D

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

The Beam Team

Our cats Titus and Ida B. Applesauce sharing a sunbeam

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

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 · 3d

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

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

I was just in Northampton yesterday record shopping—spending down the last of my store credit at Turn it Up after trading in a stack of vinyl at my hometown Brattleboro VT TiU. both stores have some excellent jazz CDs right now. Well, not these anymore.

Red Hot and Cool by Brubeck; Traneing In by Coltrane and the Red Garland Trio; a 12 Classic Albums box set by Bill Evans, Ella Sings the Rogers and Hart Songbook; Soul Station by Hank Mobley; and Night Train by Oscar Peterson, all on CD

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

this is a wild trip youtu.be/0hLKru4QhdE?...

Pharoah Sanders - Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt

YouTube video by Anthology

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

Along with Sugar and Spike this might be the best thing DC ever did

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

I first heard of George Carlson and Jingle Jangle Comics via the Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics. Today at His and His And Hers Comics in Greenfield, MA, I picked up issue #12; mildewed and with its spine stitched, but a 1944 comic by a great cartoonist for $10 is too hard for me to pass up.

The comber Jingle Jangle Comics from 1944. Aunty Spry peeks out from behind the body of a snow person as a couple of kids take her picture. The spine is hand stitched.

In a sequence from Jingle Jangle Tales, the banjo-jo clock creature runs across the curved landscape, and has to wait for a train to pass

The Pieface Prince of Pretzleberg is shot out of a cannon with a big BOOM!

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

No 3 Feet High and Rising? NO SEX PACKETS? You dolt. You dullard.

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

Moment of Truth over Daily Operation or Step in the Arena? You buffoon.

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

No Dr. Octagon on your 100 Greatest Rap Albums? You fool. You worm.

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

Also 501(c)(3) always giving you a smiley face

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

My youngest got his masters in computer engineering in May, and yesterday was applying at bars and retail stores in his neighborhood in L.A.

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

Abandoned by his father at the 1894 Chicago World’s Fair, little Jimmy Corrigan died of hunger and exposure

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

Never mind the implications of Casper, Jimmy was clearly an elementary school student crossing guard who got thrown in a barrel and sunk to the bottom of the river

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

Bull Moose in Keene NH—small New England chain of record/CD/DVD/book stores

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

That’s not all! $12 Mar-Vell!

Two Marvel Masterworks reprinting Captain Marvel #10-33

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

$12 Kirby Thor!

Five Marvel Masterworks reprinting Thor #131-#183

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 8d

I apologize profusely for ”doomer boomer”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 8d

This is what I constantly try to communicate to my father, who is a doomer boomer, and who lives in despair that Trump has already conquered the world forever

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 9d

MCU Steve Rogers just doesn’t like bullies, right?

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 9d

This is a perfect example of 1) the belief among many pundits that only Democrats have agency. Liberals decided not to like conservatives, so the GOP has no choice but to go fascist;
and 2) the assumption that American politics’ most pressing concern is that conservatives be *liked*