Ron O'Dell

I was a motorsport journalist for 18 years (wish I still could be!). Founding member of GPLEA. Now I'm just this guy, you know? I compose and arrange ragtime.

[Ron O'Dell @RealKeeper1st]

@MuseumCommodore People complain about loading times today. Choplifter took about five to 10 minutes to load from a cassette. All the “Choplifter” remakes have sucked. The best ‘modern’ take was Strike Force Foxx on the 3DS, but the protagonist was such a jerk that you wished him dead!

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@wbuxtonofficial His qualifying mistake actually could be the best thing to have happened in his career.

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@IndyCar I asked Jimmy Vasser that question over lunch about 25 years ago. https://t.co/8NRAJxsAhv

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Apparently it’s World Tetris Day, so… Коробейники sight-read & improvised from a lead sheet by Tom Brier https://t.co/81z0plR052 via @YouTube

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@IndyCarOnFOX @wbuxtonofficial @townsendbell @Hinchtown @bobpockrass @Ghenneberry47 @KevinLee23 @jack_harvey93 @WWTRaceway Hey, how did Rossi’s car get behind the fence?

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@straczynski It could have one chapter, with a massive foreword all about writing.

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@FP1Will @YouTube Looks like Will Power gave you a clip for you to do a voiceover of at the end of the Detroit race review…

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@DJSnM And in Welsh, “moron” is a carrot. Makes sense. They are orange…

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@foundring1 Rarely seen Tom vid. https://t.co/72RX8Pjpu4

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@thatgamecompany Reminds me of the early part of Spore.

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@DomenicTencati @HelldiverL61685 All were taken from a compilation of posts known as the Cultural References Guide to Animaniacs, the latest edition of which is https://t.co/XveSyc3yVa

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@NotReallyVegan @HelldiverL61685 In the case of Animaniacs, Babylon 5, and Douglas Adams, this was not true. These online fandoms in the 1990s were in direct communication with the creators.

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@R_YayOFFICIAL @HelldiverL61685 And the crew have kept in touch to this day. They were as geeky about cartoons as we were. (I’m the skinny guy in the trilby hat in that video.)

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@Robmightytrex86 @HelldiverL61685 This was not about toxic fans — just obsessed ones. They invited us to the studio and showed us this episode before it aired. They were very pleased that we loved it. They were/are just as cartoon obsessed as we were, and many have remained in touch to this day.

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@ConorDaly22 @DreyerReinbold So what did Daniel think of his first 500?

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@wbuxtonofficial So glad the rain stayed back. Had the race been called at half distance before most anyone actually started racing, it would have been such a letdown.

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@llandoneasley @IndyCar @IMS Except Felix was in third at the last lap.

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@legendslayer98 @IndyCar @AlexanderRossi He could in an emergency. It would re-injure his foot to do so, thus he used help when it was not an emergency, but it was possible, hence the clearance.

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They mentioned “so many traditions” about the victory celebration, right as I was noting the absence of the pipers. Why thumpy DJ dreck to ruin the atmosphere? #Indy500 @IndyCar @IMS

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@Hinchtown My annual post of a couple guys I know jamming on today’s tune… https://t.co/wKkpIRdgfN