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Joe Regan
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Music, travel, books, comics, 20th century pop culture, MKE, bikes, and then some
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So far the Newsboy Legion is good Golden Age silliness plus there’s a “CHEESE IT! THE COPS!” panel which made my day

(and yet I wonder—how do I even *know* this phrase? Looney Tunes?)
Panel from the Newsboy Legion where policeman Jim Harper busts into a gang hideout as a homely hood with chipped teeth (?) yells “CHEESE IT! THE COPS!”
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Current comics stack (pile?)—Marvel Two-in-One Epic Vol.3; Simon & Kirby’s kid gang Newsboy Legion; THE U-RAY, the last of the BDs I bought in Belgium; the Doctor Strange entry in the new Bloomsbury comics history series; and HATE REVISITED for a local comix book club (w/some back issues)
A bunch of comic collections, albums, a book, and a few back issues of HATE (see original text post for the listing)
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Sluggo is napping outside with his feet up on a rock. On the bottom of his shoes, he’s written “VOTE FOR NANCY” on the sole of right one and “SHE’S WIDE AWAKE” on the left.
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The 20th century examples in the sideburns wikipedia entry are absolutely perfect selections

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideburns
Wikipedia entry for sideburns has photos for 20th century examples featuring Elvis, Neil Young, and Lemmy
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Simpler times
Image from PlaidStallions.com of the 1971 G.I. Joe catalog featuring military action figures with “life-like” (not really) hair including full beards on 4 of the 6 men.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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FACE/OFF (1997)
Nicholas Cage and John Travolta pointing guns at each other in the movie FACE/OFF (1997)
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Was in Belgium visiting family/sightseeing and was lucky to get a taste of Belgian comics culture in Brussels.

Visited the three floor (with comics library!) museum, saw a few comics murals, and picked up a few albums for myself.

https://www.comicscenter.net/en/home
Comics Art Museum in Brussels, 2nd and 3rd floors with exhibit and Art Deco skylight Comics library at the Comics Art Museum Tintin mural in on the side of a building in Brussels; Tintin, his dog Snowy, and Captain Haddock descend down a fire escape My comics (aka bandes dessinées/BD [French] or “strips” [Dutch]) pickups in Brussels: XIII, Tintin Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon, The U Ray, and Blake & Mortimer The Gondwana Shrine
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Forgot that the back of the picture sleeve actually has the lyrics
Lyrics of “Nobody Loves The Hulk” from the back cover of the 45 picture sleeve NOBODY LOVES THE HULK Intro Poor Bruce Banner Was working at his laboratory When he saw Rick Jones About to go up in a blaze of glory, Well he saved the boy But at what a change, The explosion made him foel so strange. For his molecules had been rearranged Into the Hulk! The Hulk! Verse The Hulk ls a monster who is Ugly, oversized, and green. His strength is fantastic And his disposition's mighty mean. And whenever people see him All they do is run around and scream, Cause, Chorus Nobody loves the Hulk! Nobody loves the Hulk! Nobody loves the Hulk! (Cept you and me) We don't allow no green skin people in here! Verse The Pentagon announced that the Hulk has got to be destroyed. They shot at him with H-bombs but The Hulk only became annoyed. All he wanted to do was to settle down and get employed But, (repeat chorus) Copyright • 1969 QUEEN CITY RECORDS, INC., Box 67, Wykagyl Station, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 Character of The Hulk is a copyrighted feature of The Marvel Comics Group
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I’m seeing either Joel Grey or Klaus Nomi as Stan here…which is definitely strange
Joel Grey as the MC in CABARET with a heavily made up face and pursed lips Klaus Nomi (post-punk operatic artist) with a heavily made up face and black lipstick that makes his lips look pursed
October 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Been watching SLOW HORSES so thought to dip into SID & NANCY (1986), realized Gary Oldham’s career arc went from playing heroin junkie to negligible personal hygiene habits super-spy and I’m now wondering if it’s the same character
Gary Oldham and Chloe Webb in SID AND NANCY (1986) Gary Oldham as Jackson Lamb in SLOW HORSES
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Got to see this today on the big(ish) screen! Still quite the ride.
Title card for Tod Browning’s FREAKS (1932) featuring some of the movie’s performers
October 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I love me a record company promotional inner sleeve but this one with a Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara comedy record between Led Zeppelin IV and Exile on Main Street is 👨‍🍳💋🤌
LP inner sleeve with various LPs from the Atlantic/Atco/Cotillion/Asylum stable of artists including Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, CSN&Y, Yes, and oddly enough, utter classics from Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones framing a Stiller & Meara comedy album
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Today’s pickups courtesy of the Atomic Records pop-up: 2 comps, one with Milw. bands, one of post-punk NYC scenesters, taking a flyer on the Garland Jeffreys LP, and have seen “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” referenced a few times recently so felt like stumbling on a copy was kismet
Four LP covers—Garland Jeffreys’ self-titled; Start Swimming compilation featuring the Bongos, Raybeats, The dBs, Bush Tetras, and Fleshtones; Badger-a-go-go including a host of late ‘80s Milwaukee bands; and Heaven 17 Back cover of the Heaven 17 LP with “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” opening Side Two
October 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Got to see this silent classic on the big screen with live accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer
Title card for THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) starring Lon Chaney Intro screen for Milwaukee’s Oriental Theater with a gentlemen playing the Wurlitzer organ, just before he and the instrument descend into the pit
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Makes me wonder what Skurge 3:16 is
Pro wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin
October 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Y’know, I might be wrong here…

*This* is the guy he looks like—

(from the classic FF #51 story, “This Man…This Monster”)
Unnamed antagonist from the classic FF #51 story, “This Man…This Monster” The same unnamed scientist sets up his apparatus, including a harness on his body, to steal Ben Grimm’s appearance and powers
October 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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As an short aging guy with personal space issues, there’s probably a rapidly approaching expiration date for me and street fair/festival/standing room type shows.

That said, glad I made it out to see Brazilian music legends Os Mutantes for the princely sum of $0
Brazilian band Os Mutantes playing on an outdoor stage at a Milwaukee street festival
October 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Re-watched THEY LIVE (1988) tonight and while I knew it would hit hard in these times, I didn’t expect a callout to THIS EXACT YEAR
Clip from THEY LIVE where Nada, using the special sunglasses that see through the alien subliminal messages, sees dollar bills with stating “THIS IS YOUR GOD” Nada and Frank enter a ballroom of the aliens celebrating with the speaker saying “Our projections show that by the year 2025…”
October 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Reading a collection of Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. and it’s oddly satisfying in 2025 A.D. to read about a hero whose main superpower is to beat the living crap out of robots

(love how the robots go “squeeee” when he destroys them too)
A robot takes a book out of a kid’s hands saying it’s a forbidden book, the kid says “Machines can’t boss people” while the robot responds “Robots know better than humans” Magnus Robot Fighter karate chops the head off of one police robot, grabs another by the head, swings it around until the head comes off and the body flies away while the dying robot goes “squeeee”
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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You should really check out Mail-Order Mysteries if you haven’t already (no entry for the second ad though)

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X-Ray Specs novelty eyeglasses pages from the book Mail Order Mysteries
September 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Current reading stack—not sure if I’ve read the Brood Saga, reread of a certain JLA/JSA Crisis storyline (iykyk), the Comics and Modernism anthology is interesting, Jules Verne because of the GODZILLA MONSTERPIECE THEATER appearance and thought the 20,000 Leagues map would help!
Stack of books: COMICS AND MODERNISM anthology, a Jules Verne collection, a maps for 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, DC Comics Hawkman collection, JLA/JSA Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol. 3 (😉 to the Peacemaker fans), and X-Men The Brood Saga
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Most of my time travel scenarios involve going to see bands…but maybe I could sneak in and be a fly on the wall of this acting class?

Belafonte, Brando, Steiger, Matthau, Stritch, Wally Cox, Bea Arthur, Tony Curtis in one room learning their craft 🤯

(from THE VILLAGE by John Strausbaugh)
Harry Belafonte came to the Village from Harlem after the war. His mother, Millie, of mixed-race heritage, had come from Jamaica to Har lem's West Indian section during Prohibition. She joined a sister who was already there and running a successful numbers operation with a white partner, a Tammany Irishman. His father, Harold Bellanfanti, also a mixed-race Jamaican, was a cook on United Fruit Company banana boats. Millie did domestic day labor. Harold Jr. was born in 1927. His childhood was divided between Harlem-where for a while the light-skinned boy hid his black heritage from the white kids around him, going by the nickname Frenchie-and long stays with his mother's family in Jamaica. He fell in love with theater and got a few acting parts with the American Negro Theatre, where he became lifelong friends with another young actor, Sidney Poitier. Following a stint in the military he used the GI Bill to study acting under Piscator at the New School. On his first day, the only dark face in his class, he introduced himself to the other young nobodies: Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Walter Matthau, Elaine Stritch, Wally Cox, Bea Arthur, and Bernie Schwartz, aka Tony Curtis. Brando was, not surprisingly, the coolest guy in class, but right behind him was his roommate Cox, whose entire career would be spent playing nerds and…(end of page but he played Mr. Peepers and voiced Underdog!)
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Might be a while…
Amazon listing for Magnus Robot Fighter Archives Vol. 1—hardcover at $999, paperback at $104.03
September 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Not sure why in this year of our lord 2025 I’d buy a collection of “tales of weird media” but perhaps that’s where the horror lies

In any case, included in this volume is a tale by the delightfully named Oliver Onions
Book cover to THE NIGHT WIRE and Other Tales of Weird Media. Tough for me to describe—a sort of cloud figure with maybe a face, hands typing at a typewriter, a ghost face to the side or behind, a radio with a coiled cord heading upwards? Book page of an introduction to a short story “Benlian” by Oliver Onions
September 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Today’s pickups! Just finished the Pauline Black autobio so the 2 Tone was an easy choice. Also got a Townshend solo LP that I didn’t have for some reason, some fun surf vocal tracks, and a real oddball Stiff (USA) comp that includes non-Stiff bands like The Cure and Dexy’s Midnight Runners
LPs—Best of 2 Tone Peel Sessions (shown with Pauline Black autobiography), Pebbles Vol. 4 feature surf vocal tracks, Rough Mix by Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane, and Stiff Records (USA) The Last Compilation
September 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM