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I Picked Up a Comic and Ended Up Somewhere Unexpected A Comic Book A Day

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A Comic a Day Why are we doing this, and will you join us?

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Ugh! Even when I was *very* young, I knew that Good & Plenty was sent by the Devil to trick good children and make them suffer…

👿🤨😢

Btw, you notice how I was able to respond *without* insulting you…?

Amazon and Wal-Mart *intentionally* undercut small mom & pop stores and force them out of business so people have *no choice* but to shop with the giant corporations.

How is pointing that out “defending [my] ignorance”?

And how does that then mean that I “love Amazon so”?

I did not make an argument about being poor. I asked a *question* about whether or not OP had experienced being poor in the US.

I fail to see how that makes me a stupid idiot.

“Nonsensical apathy and complacency”…?

So, you don’t think, perhaps, that corporations have set things up in such a way as to leave some people with basically no options apart from what they offer?

Genuine question: have you ever been poor in the US?

Uh...I'm pretty sure some people are also too old, or too disabled, or too poor, or too far away from stores/lacking transportation to do anything *but* order from Amazon...you know, frivolous stuff like food and meds...🙄

The image is of the cover of the CD "Season of Dread" by Markus James.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just album covers.

Day 11.

"Wuthering Heights" was my introduction to Kate Bush in the early 80s. There was a local SF tv station that had a music video show (*just* after Mtv started) and the video was in *heavy* rotation. I've loved her since. And WH is *still* one of my favorite songs/videos!!!

The image shows the cover of the book "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke. The cover is solid black, with a white band across the middle that says "Penguin Classics" in black print, with an image of a penguin between the words. Above the band is the author's name; below the band is the book's title; both are in white print.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11...

The image is the cover of the album "Ma Fleur" by The Cinematic Opera. The picture shows the corner of a house hidden in shadow on the left side with several stalks of tall wheat and/or grass in the foreground and a lake or pond in the background. There is more wheat/grass on the right side of the image that is in sunlight.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just album covers.

Day ...10...?

I mean, if all you're going to do is sit on your ass and wait for a black woman to say something, you should have voted for one, no?

I’m not a therapist or guidance counselor but I’m fairly certain that the first step in positive mental health is to read comic books on your morning commute

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor There are a lot of them.

This is the most helpful list I've seen despite being in interview format (annoying)

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The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta. A teenage Black mixed heritage boy sits with black feather boa, surrounded by pink flamingos

Black queer book rec of the day

A gay British mixed heritage boy grows up questioning his identity. When he discovers drag however, he learns to truly love himself

This is a beautiful illustrated novel told in verse. The last chapter made me happy cry!
#booksky #queerbooksky #blackbooksky

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

There will never be a good time to write. Life won't stop until you're dead and then you really can't write. Do it now.

The image is the cover of the album "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite", by the artist Maxwell. The top half of the image shows a pair of women's shoes on a reddish carpet and the bottom half is of whitish wallpaper with a yellow design. The picture appears to have been taken from the wall and looking down to the carpet. The title "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite" is just above the line where the carpet meets the wall. Below the title are listed the names of the 11 tracks on the album.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just album covers.

Day 9 (in theory).

The image is the cover of the book "D'aulaires' Book of Greek Myths", written by Ingri D'aulaire and Edgar Parin D'aulaire. The cover shows the greek god Apollo dressed in white robes, standing in a reddish-gilden chariot that's being pulled across the sky by four white horses. They are flying above a what looks to be a forest of low trees and in front of the trees are four small figures: a yellow satyr, a blue satyr, an orange centaur and a woman in red robes holding a jug or vase.

The image is the cover of the book "D'aulaires' Book of Norse Myths", written by Ingri D'aulaire and Edgar Parin D'aulaire. The cover is just the image without a title, as all of the images I found had updated information and I could not find a cover from my childhood. The image is of the one-eyed, Norse god Odin, wearing a yellow, horned, helmet and a star-covered cloak, and brandishing a spear as he rides across the sky on the back of his eight-legged horse, Sleipner. His two ravens, Huginn and Muninn are flying a bit ahead of him. Beneath him are figures in a hazy, fog-filled battlefield.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10 (well, in ADHD-land, anyway)

#books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Never forget that the “I came here legally” is a false narrative because this was never colonizers’ land to decide who can be here and who can’t.

Jules Feiffer said that “graphic novels” is a term for people ashamed of “cartoons” and says that’s idiotic. He’s thrilled and proud to be a cartoonist

tearing up!!!!!!!!!!! 🥹

The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.

Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting.

You can't appeal to decency or empathy. They have none. They are not going to feel shame or remorse. If they can feel those things, it wouldn't be for strangers. Empathy isn't for anyone they perceive as beneath them. They don't see most people as humans like them. Stop expecting them to care.

Ruby Bridges exiting her school by armed guards

The little girl in this photo? Ruby Bridges? The first Black child to integrate the schools in New Orleans? The inspiration for Norman Rockwell’s painting?

She has a podcast on Spotify. She’s younger than my MAMA. She’ll probably be at Mardi Gras again this year.

So miss me with the nostalgia.

Dude, *seriously*, what is your end goal in asking these questions? Several people (including OP) have pointed out your *clear lack* of reading skills. Why are you here? What do you want???

BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.

Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.

Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

Armed protesters set fire to US and French embassies in Congo US embassy in DR Congo set on fire as angry crowd chants 'death to imperialists'

Armed protesters set fire to US and French embassies in DR Congo capital Kinshasa, accusing accusing themof supporting the M23 rebels who captured the key eastern city of Goma yesterday!