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I am over that guy.
Award-winning headline writer, obscure novelist.
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I am over that guy.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
And we readers know who'll win in the end. What we don't know is how, so we read to find out. I always found it fitting that when the Avengers had their showdown with the omnipotent Korvac in that quiet home in Forest Hills Gardens, it was Captain America who went down last.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
OK, I looked him up. What an impressive guy. The avant-garde music is particularly cool.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
That's fallacious. There is a hood community. They talk. Why do you think they call it organized crime?
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
And kill insects.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
You should at least get a free salad.
Mark Hertling (@markhertling.bsky.social) reposted
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
The weird mid-century World's Fair mural art IS hard to resist.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm against it.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Interesting to see his sequential work in color.
Ted Rall (@tedrall.bsky.social) reposted
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
That is deranged. And wonderful.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I like how the secret plans on the cover of Mystic Comics are conspicuously labeled "SECRET PLANS."
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
"bellend" is my word of the day. And Septic Bellends is my new horrorcore band.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom Clancy's Little Women
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Dangling modifiers are fun!
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
Citi Field gives the Phillies the willies. If a parabolic mic or on-deck batter enters their field of vision, they freak out. #NYMets
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
You first, Megan. I'm right behind you, girl.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy shit
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Tuesday.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
They may not have understood you, but they noticed you, so they deserve a little squirt of dopamine.
Ted Rall (@tedrall.bsky.social) reposted
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Race and gender, that's all it's about.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
It only takes one, they tell me.
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope you realise what you're doing.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Ugh.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Craven lickspittles terrifed to lose whatever pitiful shreds of power and prestige they've convinced themselves they still retain.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Brilliant and very dark.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
FANTASTIC FOUR 16 (1963) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Very cool. I did not know that about 3 Villains of Doom.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Well earned.
The Midnight Society (@midnightpals.bsky.social) reposted
It's here!! Walk, don't run, to your closest bookmaker to fill your craw with quality literature!!!
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy crap.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Paging Dr. Wertham to the OR, stat.
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
He is so gonna win.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
To my wife it is.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
A decade after it originally aired, I am belatedly discovering the pleasures of AGENT CARTER.
Ted Rall (@tedrall.bsky.social) reposted
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
What could possibly go wrong?
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Wonderful.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the Adamsiest Adams news ever,
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I like 'em both, but the Trump one is a bit more pointed.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I met her at a con long ago. She patiently drew a sketch for my kid brother. A lovely, gracious woman and a wonderfully talented artist.
Ethan Sacks (@ethansacks.bsky.social) reposted
Out today! DARK HONOR #4 continues the thrilling @imagecomics.com crime saga set in New York during the deadliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Check out the art by this issue’s maestro, Gabriel Guzman!
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Essential. Galvanizing. I was shocked the first time I heard it on radio.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
The shift from "The Panther vs. the Klan" to "King Solomon's Frog" was vertiginous, to say the least.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
He's like a cross between Harpo and the Fifth Doctor (Tom Baker). And yes, plausible.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe that's called a win.
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Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless you're an oligarch.
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#GameOfThrones author George R.R. Martin explains how one of Edgar Allan Poe's stories helped send him on a twisty trail to literary stardom. Also: #Murderbot author reflects on her success, and an awkward moment at #Worldcon attracts notice. www.geekwire.com/2025/game-of... H/T @seattlein2025.org
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I would totally shell out a dollar for that, even a 1976 bicentennial dollar.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Jim Aparo WRAPAROUND cover.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
Baseball on ESPN makes me confused and depressed. Interviews drone on endlessly while action goes uncalled. Ads air in the middle of plays. It's like the game you've tuned in to watch is the least important thing on their minds. #NYMets
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Geronimo faces his greatest enemy, the dreaded Nun with a Gun.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
"We've all got to learn how to roll and take the punches" should be a framed sampler. A T-shirt, at least. I enjoyed your interview.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy crap.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
In spades.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe he gave Alaska to Putin in return for the right to build hotels in Moscow.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
That is beautiful.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that is way back. I don't even remember that show, and I am an old boomer suckled on the Glass Teat
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember Protecter. I thought it was a quirky collectible at the time.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm going to miss them. You will too, because you'll have to go back to writing your own material.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Julie should have had Carmine include a dog dog-paddling.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm trying to see you as Bashful. It's not working. The other six, fine. But not Bashful.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
oh like women don't
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Trump to Companies: Pay For Your anti-Sins, Real and Imagined! Read the cartoon: rall.com/comic/pay-fo...
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
Pete Alonso just broke Daryl Strawberry's home run record. #NYMets
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
More topical than ever, sadly.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't find any devil tails, but I did find the billboard promoting Usagi, Groo and Bone. The devil is in the details!
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, Magoo. You've done it again.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
A night at home with Ben Gazzara?!
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
Good news, New York public housing residents: free telescreens! They watch you while you watch them, just like in Orwell's "1984."
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
I had been thinking along the same lines....
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Mamie!
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Love the halo
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
He was as athletic a Tarzan as Weissmuller, IMHO. I like that serial.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Love the MULKO particularly.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Herman Brix later changed his name to Bruce Bennett and went on to a long and successful acting career.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Rule No. 1: Cheat.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
The alternatives are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump has always been Putin's beta cuck.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
So many Marvelesque titles occurring to me: "Peril Is the Parrot!" "Where Perches the Parrot!" "This Power! This Parrot!" "When the Parrot Talks... the World Trembles!"
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
That's almost too good a title to have expended on a children's book.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
When I was a kid The Buffalo News carried it every Sunday, in beautiful color.
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social)
No, he's projecting. Mamdani looks young and dynamic; it's Cuomo who's already winded. His heart isn't in this, any more that it was in the primary. What he really feels is: "I should be the fucking governor. It's mine by right. I shouldn't have to bust my ass for a crummy mayoralty."
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Total projection. Mamdani looks young and dynamic. It's Cuomo who's already winded. His heart isn't in this, any more that it was in the primary. What he really feels is: "I should be the fucking governor. It's mine by right. I shouldn't have to bust my ass for a crummy mayoralty."
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Except everybody on LinkedIn
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that took me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men
Rick Schindler (@rickschindler.bsky.social) reply parent
Now he's into Satan for $5K. He's working off the debt campaigning for Republicans.
Jennifer Rose (@jenni4iowa.bsky.social) reposted
The current situation, in three comments to the Athletic's latest WNBA dildo story, not to mention the fact the phrase "latest WNBA dildo story" is now a thing:
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Gotta go, my Uber's waiting