Harvey Pekar (1939-2010)

"As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored...." - Pekar

Maybe you have to be from Cleveland to understand the kind of power an underdog can have.  It certainly helps to be from a place perpetually associated with misery, bad luck, unemployment, provincialism, and really bad pro sports.  I could waste your time and mine with remedial observations such as Cleveland has the world's greatest orchestra, one of the best art museums anywhere, and a terribly advanced collection of medical facilities; not to mention the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  But most people just reply by asking, "Isn't that where the river caught fire?"

Yeah, let's just talk about what it is to be an underdog, shall we?