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Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · Apr 5

Looking to balance out my Bluesky feed with more non-politics stuff. Accounts to follow or starter packs for the following would be appreciated:
-NY Rangers
-NY Yankees
-Japanese language (vocab/kanji/expression of the day)
-Archaeology
-80s pop culture

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Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 1m

I liked young Ben Shapiro as the creepy preacher kid.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 1d

Interior shot of The Eclectic Chic. You can see the old department store layout filled up with vendor booths. You browse the unattended booths and pay for everything up front. The Eclectic Chic filled up the space and then expanded into the store next door for a total of about 250 vendors.

Interior photo of aisle running the length of the store at the Eclectic Chic. There are about 20 vendor booths along this aisle. Mostly antiques and collectibles, but you can also see booths selling snacks and candy t-shirts, and handicrafts.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 1d

They also have catering/fundraising food trucks that go out and set up all over Central New York.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 1d

Doug's has been there for decades. Depending on how you left campus, you might have passed it on the way to Ithaca. It's on West Rd right before it merges into Highway 13. Doug's stands out because there's a dearth of good restaurants in Cortland.

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Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

Ever go to Doug's Fish Fry in Cortland?

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Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe he works at the neighborhood deli in between jobs...

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

Next up: The Eclectic Chic in Oneida. The Eclectic Chic is a very large multi-vendor space in a former department store (either an Ames or a Jamesway) that anchored a strip mall. Antiques, collectibles, primitives, and crafters.

Department-sized storefront with mirrored glass frontage reflecting the parking lot. Signage reads: The Eclectic Chic-Antiques*Primitives*Eclectic Finds.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

An anglerfish? A Komodo dragon? A horseshoe crab?

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

Is there anything you can’t make cute?

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Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

🎶Lines, Lines, Everywhere there’s lines!
Crowdin’ out the scenery!
Breakin‘ my mind!🎶

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 3d

He got into the food business initially to jar his sauce because his restaurant customers were demanding extra sauce to take home.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 4d

Alas, I read it so heavily that the binding cracked and all the pages fell out.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 4d

Saw this when it was broadcast and then begged Mom to buy me a tie-in trade paperback heavily illustrated with cels from the film that we saw in the book section at a department store (Remember those?).

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Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 4d

I think Rainforest Crunch and Wavy Gravy were the two flavors that put B&J on the map, culturally speaking.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 4d

Did anyone on here actually send away for this?

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 4d

This weekend’s laundromat reading: Elfquest: The Original Quest, Book 3 by Wendy & Richard Pini @elfquest.bsky.social.

Me holding the above mentioned book while at the laundromat.

Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social · 4d

Reading/To Read:

-Hirayasumi, Vol 2&3 by Keigo Shinzo
-Elfquest: The Original Quest by Wendy & Richard Pini
@elfquest.bsky.social
-JLA: The Hypothetical Woman by Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
-When The Earth Was Green: by Riley Black @restingdinoface.bsky.social