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Infrequently posting nonsense from Pittsburgh, PA.

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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 22/09/2026
Cronenberg-ass Waffle
A malformed belgian waffle that has both sharp and organic looking structures. It is the waffle that the space jockey would eat for breakfast on the giant H.R. Giger designed spaceship from ALIEN (1979). Despite appearances it was delicious.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 16/09/2026
Man a lot of Billy Joel songs are just grumpy old man grievances. I should record an iconic piano rocker about the trash trucks being too loud in the morning.
Cover of a Billy Joel single where he’s kinda passive aggressive about post-Beatles popular music trends. He also recorded two (2) singles about how he wishes his mom would complain about his life less. My garbage truck hassles jam is going to number one with a bullet.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 13/09/2026
Photograph of two serious-looking Yorkshire terrier puppies
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 04/09/2026
The last four:
The aforementioned last four: a cropped screenshot of Letterboxd profile page showing “A Hard Days Night”, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”, “Ring-A-Ding Rhythm” and “The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow” as the last four movies I’ve talked about over there.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 31/08/2026
Day two of new puppies and I literally cannot imagine having a life that isn’t just a marathon of chaos and constraints ever again.
Two adorable puppies. They are tiny tornadoes of biting, pooping confusion that demand more or less constant and complete attention. Their names are “Noodles” and “Sprout”.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 29/08/2026
You should subscribe to @rusty.todayintabs.com ‘s newsletter
Screenshot from a recent “Today in Tabs” newsletter reading, apropos of nothing: “It’s the year of Linux on the desktop. It’s the year of Linux in the cloud. It’s the year of Linux on the warm, dry skin of your lover. It’s the year of Linux in the icebox, so sweet, and so cold. It’s the year of Linux in the Malheur National Forest’s 3.5 square mile underground Armillaria ostoyae fungus. It’s the year of Linux in the dreams of the comatose and all those touched by the ruinous gift of prophecy.”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 26/08/2026
El Santo and the Blue Demon wearing natty outfits when outside of the ring, probably doing detective work or science in order to defeat Dracula or the World Crime Syndicate or an invading alien force or something. They are smooth but serious operators.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 21/08/2026
Checks out
Promotional photo for the Glen A. Larsen series “Manimal” featuring a man in a blazer who has done cocaine. Also present are Dale Arden from FLASH GORDON and a falcon. The falcon has probably also done cocaine.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 17/08/2026
*bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid man*: HACKERS (1995) is a Hot Rod movie!
Lobby card for THE GHOST OF DRAG STRIP HOLLOW showing cool teens hanging out next to a dragster, basically their doing the rollerblades and fishnets thing from that one scene in HACKERS where Matthew Lillard shows off his copy of “Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools” in an all ages video game bar.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 09/08/2026
Season premiere of Ted Lasso bringing a lot of “I Heart Connecticut” vibes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heart...
Still screen from “30 Rock” showing a murder dungeon that has been approved by a state tourism board. Also a puppet is there.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 29/07/2026
The cover of “We Can Build You”, illustrated with an Abe Lincoln automaton that I thought was imaginary until just now.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 21/07/2026
The song “Particle Man” has 166 words. The “Lyrical Content” section of the Particle Man Wikipedia page has 215 words, including a quotation from one of the song’s authors that assuring you that “nothing is missing from your understanding of 'Particle Man'" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particl...
Screenshot from the Partical Man Wikipedia page that describes all of the lyrics of the song indirectly, line by line, for example “Triangle Man, a belligerent entity who hates Particle Man, fights him, and wins.”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 09/07/2026
… formerly "Ghost Town in the Sky at Ghost Mountain Park"
Screenshot of the opening sentence of a Wikipedia article, beginning “Ghost Town Village (formerly ‘Ghost Town in the Sky at Ghost Mountain Park’) is an abandoned Wild West-themed amusement park…”, a real Jacob’s by Marc for Marc Jacobs of a name.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 26/06/2026
Get thee behind me, Satan
Screenshot of a draft BlueSky post that requires readers to recall a 1987 pop hit by Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam and also navigate an awkward joke structure that includes the phrase “Repulsive Knees”. We all deserve better than this.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 13/06/2026
Cropped screenshot from en.wikipedia.org showing the text “The film ends with the cast saying goodbye to the audience one by one as their names are shown on-screen.”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 12/06/2026
SIGNAGE
A “now leasing” real estate sign sitting in a large, empty field in the Southeast US. It has a picture of what is (presumably) the buildings to come.A closer view of the sign from the last picture, revealing a clearer view of the buildings. They all have signs with the word “SIGNAGE” written on them in all-caps Papyrus.It’s SIGNAGE
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 29/05/2026
Reading the Beagle Boys Wikipedia page but *not* constantly quoting Beagle Boys facts at my significant other.
A comic panel with five identical Beagle Boys doing the Monkees walk. Did you know the first appearance of the Beagle Boys was titled “The Terror of the Beagle Boys”? My wife doesn’t .
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 21/05/2026
Point of order: technically DEVO and most of David Bowie are fictional bands. “Most of David Bowie” being the most correct way I can phrase this.
Cover of a comic book where Prince fights his evil twin who has the power to drive humanity mad with music. Fictional band?
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 17/05/2026
Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone
David Cross as the host of the pre-taped call in show, mind broken to pure hate, committing his life to teaching the rest of humanity a lesson by achieving mastery of time itself.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 06/05/2026
What
Wikipedia screenshot for the “Casper and The Angels” article, showing the first paragraph of the “Plot” section. Why is Casper the Friendly Ghost a member of the space police? What is happening here? Did somebody dream this?
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 01/05/2026
Waylon Jennings hands and guitar, the image often seen as a drawling narrator wondered how those Duke boys were gonna get out of this on right before the commercial break on THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 25/04/2026
“What are your thoughts on how robotics might change the way we enjoy football in Pittsburgh?”
A photograph of some business people standing around looking important, with the caption “What are your thoughts on how robotics might change the way we enjoy football in Pittsburgh?”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 19/04/2026
Ahh, there we go.
Cropped screenshot of a Spotify “Grief Mix” that recommends that I should “Also try hindi pop, Bollywood, slowcore, singer-songwriter, indie folk”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 18/04/2026
TIME EXPANDER
Close up photograph of a widget on a pinball table prominently labeled “TIME EXPANDER”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 18/04/2026
This bird you cannot chain
Jabberjaw, a talking shark that played in a rock band with mystery solving future teens, living that rock and roll lifestyle
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 15/04/2026
Peter Gabriel wrote his own bio on Spotify
The end of Peter Gabriel’s Spotify profile reads “Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.” I don’t know what that means.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 13/04/2026
Black and white photograph of a clean cut Willie Nelson, an image you should only see if you specifically search for “clean cut Willie Nelson”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 13/04/2026
Do not show me this square-ass picture of Isaac Asimov. The immortal Asimov will always have big wild sideburns and like a green plaid bell bottom suit with a bolo like a superhero. The true Asimov was groovy.
Black and white photograph of Isaac Asimov looking pretty good in a 1940’s college student kinda way, but nowhere nearly as groovy as he deserves to be depicted. Using it to refer to Asimov is like using a high school yearbook picture of David Bowie.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 07/04/2026
The past is another country
Screenshot of the Wikipedia article on Mr. Magoo, describing in detail that his is an alumnus of Rutgers University and why Rutgers in particular. I can’t even.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 04/04/2026
Swing revival revival when?
A recent publicity photo of The Squrrel Nut Zippers, a gigantic orchestra of mostly old people. Mostly they’re just standing there but there is somehow still quite a lot of theater kid energy in the room.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 20/03/2026
Tiny dog sleeping on an enormous Djungelskog
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 20/03/2026
Swear to god it was like this when I found it
A book sitting on the doorstep of a used bookstore. It has an innocent but unfortunate title, and a prominent bookmark-style flag in it that says “FREE IT SMELLS BAD”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 14/03/2026
Men should be allowed to wear enormous hats like this
A big-ass flexible strew gardening hat that would be good to wear if you were a dude but would definitely get you made fun of
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 10/03/2026
Jaime Hernandez where can I buy these shirts
A comic frame from “Maggie the Mechanic” by Jamie Hernandez. A woman is wearing a hoodie with the words “EL SANTO” written on the back in smallish comic lettering. Her brother stands behind her in a button down shirt with “RODDY PIPER” on the back with similar styling. They are both incredible garments and if I owned them I would wear them together every day.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 06/03/2026
A detail from an old 2000AD strip where an actor is crushed to death by the collapse of a giant pile of oranges while their manager (?) calls out “Mind the Oranges, Marlon!”

I think Alan Moore wrote this panel, probably?
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 05/03/2026
Turns out my dog looks like a baby bat
A photo of a baby bat that looks a lot like my Yorkshire Terrier. So let’s just say “a photo of my dog”, it’s basically the same thing.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 02/03/2026
Unique value proposition
Cropped photo of a sidewalk sign. Whatever it is advertising is allegedly “Great for the Lymphatic System!”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 23/02/2026
This stream actually evolved from a cohost art thing I did a few years back (years?!) - it’s sort of a spiritual successor to whatever this nonsense was
A collage of a pile of little robot / astronaut guys in what is maybe an 8-bit dungeon chamber, along with a telephone on a small table.Collage of a robot with an exaggerated Elvis pompadour. It is a robot wrestler who only wrestles over the phone.A collage that looks a little like a battle screen from the old Wizardry or Phantasy Star games, but the monster is a large fish named “Big Probs”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 21/02/2026
Turns out Circus Caper for the NES was real and not a Candle Cove thing like I assumed : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_...
An obviously sinister clown in an old Nintendo cutscene. Apparently creepypasta, it has a Wikipedia article. Sheesh.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 08/01/2026
Not gonna go for AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY until they announce they’re bringing back Rowsdower
Zap Rowsdower, heir to the legacy of the ancient supermen of the Ziox, smoking and wondering about his next beer. He wears the traditional mullet and jeans jacket of his people.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 21/12/2025
www.angryflower.com/750.html
Comic panel: Praetor Jez announcing that he has received from the worldsweave; the crusible has ceased to flow.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 07/12/2025
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 07/12/2025
Check out my SoundCloud
Page 1, photograph of a yellowed page of a recipe book. Recipe follows: 

LOUISIANA GUMBO (BIG JIM'S)

Note (JWB): This is a dish with the most humble of beginnings that has become fashionable, and our family has always liked it for special occasions. At its heart, however, it is nothing more than a vegetable stew made with roux, using whatever vegetables and left-over meats or seafood you have in the kitchen. We like it best with seafood (crabmeat, crawfish and shrimp), but have eaten wonderful versions made of chicken or turkey, andouille (smoked sausage or Kielbasa) or even wild duck meat. The secret is really plenty of vegetables and the spices. With some hot french bread it even makes a good meal for company.

Ingredients:

Chop up about four-six cups of green and leafy vegetables.

We use about the following, but it varies (i.e. you can use leftover green beans or green peas, for example, and perhaps a can of corn, etc, depending on what you have on hand. Lots of folks use a few tomatoes or a can of peeled tomatoes):

1 cup chopped celery.

2 cups chopped onion.

1 cup chopped green pepper.

1-2 cups cut okra. (I usually buy it cut & frozen).

1/4 cup chopped parsley

6 cloves of garlic chopped finely

3-4 cups of water

1-2 Tablespoons of Tony's Gumbo spices or an equivalent amount of gumbo spices of other sorts.

2-4 Teaspoons "File" (sassafras powder?)

1 lb. of small peeled shrimp

1 lb. of crabmeat or leftover chicken, or whatever

1 lb. crawfish tails

1 qt. shucked oysters in their liquor.

1/2 Cup vegetable oil

1/2 Cup FlourSecond photo of a recipe. Recipe is too long for alt text, an abridged version follows

Directions:

Make a Roux out of the oil and flour.

The foolproof method is to do the roux in the microwave which will not scorch unless you simply get incredibly careless. The technique is to whisk the oil and flour into a paste with your gravy whisk, and put it on high for about 4 minutes in your microwave. Take it out then, whisk it some more, and put it back in for about 2 more minutes. Then take it out, whisk it some more, and put it back in for consecutive 60-90 second bursts until it gets brown and bubbly. (I do this in the bottom of a 1 quart pyrex measuring cup.) When you have the roux to the color you like (and it begins to have that slightly acrid smell of gumbo flavor), then you scoop out the roux into your bowl of cut vegetables.

Stir the vegetables up so they get coated with the roux, and then heat the roux-coated veggies for about 5 minutes at high in your microwave to begin to soften the veggies. (If you insist on the traditional black-iron skillet method from the beginning, you saute the vegetables in the browned roux for a spell.)

Then, add the softened veggies and roux mix to the water and the Tony's seasoning in a big microwave bowl. (I use the big corningware covered casserole dish 6" deep). Let the veggies and water and roux cook on high for about 15 minutes in your microwave. (or boil them for a spell in your black-iron skillet).

Next: Add your uncooked meat or seafood. (i.e. the shrimp, or crab or crawfish, or sausage, turkey, etc. but NOT the oysters). Let the stew of vegetables and meats or fish cook for about 25 minutes on 50% power in your microwave, or else simmer on low for a long while in your skillet.Final, brief page of a yellowed, three hole punched three page recipe. Text follows:

After the seafood or meat has been cooked like this, add oysters if you're doing the seafood variety, and cook for the last ten minutes on high in your microwave, or until the oysters curl in your skillet.

Sprinkle the file' on top of the stew and let it cool for about 5 minutes before you serve it.

(I make no warranties about the skillet method, being a lazy microwave type myself.)
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 07/12/2025
Magic is everywhere for those who have eyes to see
A photo of a snow covered car parked on the side of a street under a gray winter sky. The snow on the windshield of the car looks disturbed.A close up of the snow on the windshield. It is the face of popular comic strip cat Garfield.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 03/12/2025
Don Draper pitching, a marketing genius at work
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 01/12/2025
Cyborg Monday
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 13/11/2025
The past is another country
A photo of a vintage box of “Doctor Who and the Daleks Sweet Cigarettes”, a candy which made a lot of sense in 1964
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 13/11/2025
It is an Acorn release, it’s this one:
The cover of the “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” blu-ray, a close-up of Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Guinness’ face bleeds out of the frame, he looks thoughtfully sad.
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 08/11/2025
If both ends of a single bar of a fun sized Kit-Kat bar are bitten off, warm coffee can be drawn through the remaining candy like a straw.
Jeff Goldblum as weird glamourmatician Ian Malcom in a still from the 1993 film “Jurassic Park”, in front of diffuse blurring light that would not be out of place as the background of a late 20th century mall portrait. Superimposed over the image is the character’s trademark phrase set in a font very like but not quite the same as the traditional “image macro” Impact font of the can haz cheezburger : “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 07/11/2025
Last four was pretty fun this week!
Cropped screenshot of my Letterboxd profile screen showing the last four movies I watched: Bleeding Skull’s “Phantasmatapes”, “Deadly Friend”, “Viy” and “Cuckoo”. No romantic comedy unless you count “Deadly Friend”
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