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The Top 9 Reasons to Go to Pittsburgh’s Small Press Festival Expo

If you live in Pittsburgh, then you should be at the Small Press Festival (SPF) Expo this weekend. It’s that easy.

I’m going to be there on Saturday from 12 PM to 6 PM at the table labeled AudioShocker (and/or Nick Marino). I won’t be there on Sunday but my awesome table-mate, Shawn Atkins of Workshop13.net (comic creator of Gello Apocalypse and Explorers of the Unknown), will be there holding it down and still selling my merch.

But if all that’s not enough for you, here are the Top 9 reasons you should get your ass over to the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on the Carnegie Mellon University campus this weekend for the FREE SPF Expo:

9. It may be called the Small Press Festival, but everyone knows that size doesn’t matter. Unless you’re talking about penises. Then size definitely matters.

8. I’ll be there with my laptop and my brand new copy of Street Fighter IV, so come kick my ass in public and humiliate me before I get really good at it.

7. Be one of the first eight lucky humans on Earth to go home with a copy of Patio 1.5, the remastered and (sort of) remixed version of the classic Unlicensed Attorneys at Law track, Patio. This song is unreleased and awesome, so come snag a copy of it on the Original Recipe CD.

6. Buy a copy of Apartment 307 and revel in the ensuing insanity.

5. Get Zombie Palin! in ashcan form. Sarah is all the rage right now since she quit being an officially recognized politician to go on a fishing trip and wear goofy fishing overalls, so don’t miss this printed representation of our lovable webcomic.

4. Get your copy of The Fur Bucket EP, a Frank Sanchez / Dirty Weekend split EP packed with 9 tracks of excellence. This is the first time these songs have been out as anything other than streaming files, with the exception of the few tracks that ran as Beatcasts here on the AudioShocker.

3. Catch a sneak peak of my upcoming comic book release, Time Log! It’s written by Culturology’s Pete and I, penciled by Shawn, and inked by yours truly. If you get out to SPF, then you’ll see me inking it at the expo when there’s some downtime.

2. Pick up a copy of Cracked: Rejected, an SPF-exclusive 20 page zine by myself and Pete that details our failed pitches to Cracked Magazine (now Cracked.com). If you don’t pick this up, you’re going to be really confused when you listen to next week’s AudioShocker Podcast #89.

1. Yeah, it’s the Pittsburgh Small Press Festival, but everyone knows that big things come in small packages… unless you’re talking about penises, of course. Then small things are REALLY small and big things are REALLY big. But this is a Small Press Festival – not a penis – so it’s gonna be all good.

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Why the Top 9? Because 10 is too many and 9 is better. 3 X 3 = Awesome. Now that’s what I call math.

AudioShocker Podcast #84 – Pittsburgh Podcast Crossover, part one

Part one of the Pittsburgh Podcast Crossover begins NOW!!! Live from Phantom of the Attic Comics in Oakland, the AudioShocker teams up with the Comic Book Pitt and Yamagato Industries Business Report to talk about Antonio Banderas, Jesse James Is A Dead Man and his wife Sandra Bullock is a man, Elan Luz Rivera, Write Now!, transsexuals on Jerry Springer, Fraggle Rock, getting bored watching Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon, The Roots vs. Better Than Ezra, Captain America #600, the Falcon, and tons more.

The Pittsburgh Podcast Crossover listening order is:
Part 1 – AudioShocker Podcast #84
Part 2 – Comic Book Pitt Special #6
Part 3 – Yamagato Industries Business Report Annual #3 (scroll down!)

(As the subsequent parts are posted, links will be added to the listening order.)

 
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