It’s Joe!

@joeatwork.com

Infrequently posting nonsense from Pittsburgh, PA.

"Remember when you lived in the city? The hustle and bustle infiltrated every cell in your body. You even had a MetroCard. Then you moved here. You gave up. I will not reward that kind of mediocrity. You’re lucky I even stay open." buff.ly/8tQYIFy

I’m the Owner of Your Town’s Mediocre Pizzeria, and There’s Nothing You Can Do About It

“Remember when you lived in the city? The hustle and bustle infiltrated every cell in your body. You even had a MetroCard. Then you moved here. You gave up. ...

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I don’t really hear the word “clown” much in everyday conversation, but it comes up in early Velvet Underground songs a lot. Do you think they used it so much just to be mean to Nico since she couldn’t pronounce it?

THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) rose from the grave and entered local Pittsburgh cinemas on 8/16/1985. Included are two reviews: One positive from Ed Blank of The Pittsburgh Press and one negative from Barry Paris of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 🧟 🪦 📽️ 🗞️

Newspaper Ad for RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 8/16/1985. RETURN a treat for the gore corps. The Pittsburgh Press. 8/16/1985. RETURN OF LIVING DEAD should go back where it came from. 8/17/1985. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

That part of recovering from a minor back injury where the weird involuntary tweaking and favoring you’re doing as a result of your original injury starts to create new minor strains and cricks in other, previously uninjured parts of your back.

Professor Harold Hill awakens to find he’s a captive in a small Midwestern town. The tight-lipped, insular residents call it River City. Who are the prisoners? Who are the wardens? Patrick McGoohan is THE MUSIC MAN. With: Leo McKern as the Mayor and Buddy Hackett as Rover

We see Prof. Harold Hill from the back as he enters the town of River City in the 1962 movie The Music Man.

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day