Someone on Twitter suggested that the journal might be a tribute to the “Joker Diary” that Heath Ledger kept while he was preparing to play the Joker in “The Dark Knight”.

I’ve tried reading Jerome’s diary, but I can’t make most of it out. I was able to decipher a few words here and there. Disturbing entries under the cut.Jeremiah, of course, talked about the references to killing himself and Bruce.



Food and food allegories seem to be a theme. He talks about flavor ice, and bacon sizzling in a pan on Sunday.

“She’s like a ham sandwich on the one day of the year you can’t eat it.”

He talks repeatedly about his hair getting pulled.

He says “They never have enough medicine in my cup”, and that he didn’t know whether to “smoke the cigarettes or sell them”. This could be a reference to his time in Arkham.



He talks about his hands being like”molten hot lava, the only source of unbridled and unchecked heat.”

He mentions a friend, Jeff, and adds the word “happy” to that reference.

