Rand Posts About Comics and Music

Simpsons meme with the top robot Itchy’s head removed, revealing the circuits and wires. Text (spoken by Marge in the show) says, “See all that stuff in there, Homer? That’s why your robot never worked.”

I’m not sure what it is — the writing or maybe the editing — but I’m really enjoying the NFL this season.

Next prompt: “Now have Jesus at the front door delivering a pizza with extra sausage.”

Page from Avengers 34, written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu.

My mood, courtesy of Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Dear news media,
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.

I watched it a few years back, so can’t speak to specifics, but I remember absolutely loving the final episode. I would enjoy hearing more from you about this, and maybe discussing it with you after I rewatch. Hope you’re doing well.

Ookla the Mok randbellavia.bandcamp.com adamenglish.bandcamp.com viabellaband.bandcamp.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ookla_the_Mok_(band)

Today is Bandcamp Friday, the perfect day to get a copy of the two EPs I released this year, Ookla the Mok’s Folk Song Army Men (from August) and Via Bella’s The Hope EP (from November).

There is a link to Via Bella’s Bandcamp page (as well as my and Adam English’s solo pages) from the Ookla page.

YouTube video by Ookla the Mok - Topic The Wrecking Crew

Buffalo’s own Ookla the Mok has a song about The Wrecking Crew. Was happily surprised to see lines from the song used in the Wrecking Crew Heroclix cards.

Photo of Gene Wilder from Young Frankenstein saying, “Nice grouping!”

fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. " ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.

Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.

Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

Indeed. She way fluffier right now, as her winter coat is coming in and she being particularly ornery about us combing it out.

Reba, a Siberian cat, sits on a couch arm and looks directly at the camera.

Reba says hello.

#CatsofBluesky
#RebatheSiberian

Ug. So many typing errors (and clearly rewritten on the fly). So sorry.

You know how there are several reasons why the Roman Empire fell, but centuries later we weirdly focus on the lead pipes, to the exclusion of the more obvious and overtly evil stuff?

This is a post about journalism.

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This means that nurses, physical assistants, physical therapists, speech language pathologists, educators, social workers, and more will have their federal student loans capped at $20.5K ($50K for "professional). And I can't find a list of those occupations outside of a meme.

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Newsweek FTW: "The department determined that the following programs were professional: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology."

[3/5] <-- I miscounted the men

I just spent a stupid amount of time looking for a list of the 11 programs. So many pieces (many by academic associations) didn't list them. I even found one with the headline "What are the 11 professional categories recognized by the U.S. Department of Education?" that didn't list them! [2/3]

As you may have heard, starting June 2026, only 11 academic programs that will be classified as "professional" (as opposed to "graduate") starting June 2026. This distinction affects student loans and will likely decimate the newly non-professional programs. [1/3]

I am a fan of Jason Aaron, so will give this a look, and not just because of the Ookla connection. (We did get Steve Gerber’s blessing to use the name, by the way. He was amused that “You’ve lasted longer than my character did.”)

For those who long for the good old days, before comics got all political, here’s a page from Avengers 148 (released in 1976).

#ComicSky

New Via Bella EP is out today! Available at Bandcamp (or wherever you stream music).

viabellaband.bandcamp.com/album/the-ho...

And Looking for Mr. Goodbar is such a wild tangent in another direction entirely.

"In her state of goofy grace, [Diane] Keaton possesses a kind of reality denied to ordinary beings. She is such an incandescent link to otherness that we introverts emerge blinking from our hiding holes and beg to have those strange hands touch us." -- Tom Robbins, 1987

i’m not here to tell the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social what to do, but they must know if they put out a coffee table book of all the read posters, people would buy that

New cover to Swamp Thing 88, which should have been published in 1989, and will be published soon: Swamp Thing holds a lamb in his arms, his eyes closed in serenity.

Rick Veitch says this is really happening. (DC will finally publish the cancelled issue of Swamp Thing that prematurely ended Veitch’s run.)

Those who will be attending OVFF will be able to get a CD a week before the official release date!

Duff’s has great wings but no pizza. La Nova on Main Street in Williamsville gets high marks for both. Wingnutz is another solid option.

Duff’s has great wings but no pizza. La Nova on Main Street in Williamsville gets high marks for both. Wingnutz is another solid option.