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MisterJayEmbalmed
@misterjayem.bsky.social
Chicago's #1 Fan.
Utility-Grade Content from Parts Unknown.
Post-Hip/Pre-Retro.
Avant-garbage.
Un gringo blanco.
he/him 😷
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
middle-class/middle-aged/middle-brow
gmail: misterjayem
1k followers807 following13.6k posts
!["Here's [my true story]. I have no photos, because I am certain the funeral home in question did not want to be sued.
"It was a gig I had for about two weeks in October of 1989. I was broke, ready to take any job. And I ended up dressing in a Keaton Batman-like suit and attending wakes and funerals in a suburb South of Chicago. The funeral home honestly thought that the kids would be less sad if they knew that whomever was in the casket was friends with Batman. No idea why ANY kid would believe that, but there I was, bat-ears and all, sitting in the back of the viewing room and on at least four occasions, being a pallbearer and standing at the gravesite looking properly somber.
"I was in college and was paid $15 in 1989 dollars for each viewing I was able to attend, with an extra $2 thrown in if I was a pallbearer."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2msyqncztbbz2vszcb3luinm/bafkreiflxwycnkque3oifpyscgzqyoxt3najcmirld5472quoi6mthifom@jpeg)
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MisterJayEmbalmed
@misterjayem.bsky.social
Chicago's #1 Fan.
Utility-Grade Content from Parts Unknown.
Post-Hip/Pre-Retro.
Avant-garbage.
Un gringo blanco.
he/him 😷
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
middle-class/middle-aged/middle-brow
gmail: misterjayem
1k followers807 following13.6k posts