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Depending on your geography, jimmies is either old-hat or it makes no sense. As a young’n growing up on the (not so) mean streets of Pittsburgh, I was exposed to a lot of Pittsburgeese including slippy and redd up. For me, jimmies represents a way of life and for that matter ordering dessert. South of PA, my requests are met with jeers and guffaws, but I gets no static at ice cream parlors throughout the Northeast.
jim·my [jim-ee] noun, plural -mies
-noun
1. The delicious little sprinkle things you get on ice cream, cupcakes, and donuts - usually rainbow or chocolate colored. Best enjoyed at Rita’s or Dave and Andy’s: Yo, make sure you put some rainbow jimmies on my wafflecone! I need my jimmies!
[Origin: Physically speaking the Netherlands if this Wikipedia article can be trusted]
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Tom Scioli, Pat Lewis, Ed Piskor, Jason Lex, Jim Rugg, and Chris Moeller talk about their published comics and upcoming projects. Phantom of the Attic customers weigh in what’s hot in comic books while they reveal shocking personal moments. Technical difficulties (a.k.a. I forgot to hit record) meant we missed some choice moments (sorry Mel, I wanted people to know about dirty balloon animals for adults too!).
Nathan is one of my favorite pieces of slang that I picked up while living in the FTC house junior year. My roommate was a complex character named J Feezy. A Pittsburgh native, Feezy was always hip to the next big vernacular craze. If anyone had lingo, it was him. I’m not sure, but Nathan may have been his magnum opus, a creation all his own. This is an advanced term, it invariably leads to raised eyebrows and convoluted explanations. Casual use with the uninitiated is not recommended.
na·than [ney-thuh
n]-noun, Na·than Ri·ley [ney-thuhn rahy-lee]
-noun
1. nothing, as in nothing important: Speaker 1: Hey holmes, what’s crackin? Speaker 2: Nathan, just chillin at the crib.
2. vernacular alternate and personification of ‘nothing really’: Speaker 1: Are you doing anything tonight? Speaker 2: Nah, just hanging with Nathan Riley doing fuck-all.
[Origin: 2003, Pittsburgh, PA. Popularized by FTC housemate J Feezy]
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From the White Hen Pantry in Geneva, Illinois where I bought Age of Apocalypse: Omega to San Francisco’s Isotope “the comic book lounge” where owner James Sime ran down the bus so I could get back to my hotel, I’ve bought comic books all across the United States.
Without a doubt, the best of the best is the Phantom of the Attic (PotA) comics division on S Craig St in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Save for a few missing summers and a few months spent in Brooklyn, I’ve been shopping at PotA for going on eight years now and the experience only gets better with time.
PotA used to sit in a cramped second-floor space where they had it all… but it was small. Now they’ve moved across the street into a gorgeous loft with tons of room and even more comics. If PotA’s previous space was a like a delicious Dagwood sandwich of comic book merchandise, then the new PotA is a bountiful smorgasbord of comics, graphic novels, manga, toys, and more.
Wayne Wise (seen above) is a longtime PotA employee and my comic book mentor. He let me in on a few interesting facts about the relocated shop. I was surprised to learn that all the racks are custom made. The design allows for individual clear plastic shelves to be interchanged every Wednesday as the new books hit:
Back issues are now stored inside large custom drawers that have been balanced to accommodate the cumbersome weight of two long boxes:
Continue reading ‘Check Out the New Phantom of the Attic Comics in Pittsburgh’
Welcome to our new feature, Slang of the Week. Every week we’d like to share with you a phrase from our shared vocabulary. Some of these phrases and terms are available in the Urban Dictionary, some are not. This week’s term is squirrel. Nick and I have had this one in heavy rotation for a couple years now. Don’t be afraid to use it.
squir·rel [skwur-uhl, skwuhr-uhl, skwir-uhl] noun, plural -rels, (especially collectively) -rel, adjective, -rely.
-noun
1. an attractive female: Cindy Crawford is a total squirrel!
-adjective
2. resembling or possessing the traits of an attractive female, mainly in appearance: The checkout girl at the record store is looking kind of squirrely today.
[Origin: 2004 Pittsburgh, PA. from an observation by Matt Johnson that attractive girls are like squirrels because 'they like nuts']
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Okay, seriously, if these nine comedy movies were actually bad, I wouldn’t like them. By “bad,” I mean “in bad taste” or not received well by the movie going public.
9. Houseguest (1995)
8. Bachelor Party (1984)
7. Irish Jam (2006)
6. My Boss’s Daughter (2003)
5. Orgazmo (1997)
4. Screwed (2000)
3. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
2. Soul Plane (2004)
1. Kingpin (1996)
What are some common themes here? Sex, for one. And big losers for another. In fact, every main character is a “loser” or “down on their luck” at the beginning of the film. Pittsburgh is also a reoccurring theme, acting as the setting for Houseguest, Screwed, and a good part of Kingpin.
Notable exceptions to this list are the Naked Gun and Night Shift, if only because they are generally well received and accepted as quality comedy films.
Next: The Top 9 Best Synthesizer Solos!
Why the Top 9? Because 10 is too many and 9 is a better number. 3 X 3 = Awesome. Now that’s what I call math.
Musing on The Happening, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Caramel, waxing, Captain America II: Death Too Soon, Mama’s Boy, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, The Onion Movie, Suck.com, Spectacular Spider-Man, Weeds, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, The L Word, Queer as Folk, Pittsburgh, no new Ex Machina TPBs, a Y the Last Man omnibus possibility, Batman: The Killing Joke, Avengers: The Initiative #14, strawberries and pickles, New Avengers #42, Mighty Avengers #15, Uncanny X-Men #499, an invitation to the Uncanny X-Men #500 release party, supervillain costumes and the Pussycat Dolls, and more.
But not without something special by way of Neal, of course (last I checked, there should be an AIMcast coming your way in place of the podcast). I know all 10 to 20 (HA!) of our regular listeners will be devastated to know that the AudioShocker needs to take a week off.
But listen, this weekend I:
- finished packing my entire apartment
- moved from 9:30am to 3:30pm on Saturday
- made it to the airport by 4:50pm for a 5:35pm flight that got pushed back three hours
- made it to Philly and crashed
- woke up on Sunday and moved an entertainment center
- picked up a dog that is now officially a Pittsburgh resident in my apartment
- made it back to the airport for another delayed flight
- got to my new apartment by 11:45pm
- crashed late but still made it to work today
- replied to Tom Brevoort on my Cup O Joe blog post
- just now finished reviewing five new Marvel comic books coming out this Wednesday
With that said, you’ve got to pick up Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #3. It’s nuts. Liquid tentacles, Iron Man armor with ponytails, and a wiseass Merlin wearing a traditional Bavarian getup. We’re talking mind@#$% Iron Man. It’s awesome.
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