Your first FOT post

[yesno]

#1

http://www.friendsoftom.com/board/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=fotboard

#2

http://www.friendsoftom.com/newboard/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

If you just do /board it redirects to /newboard.

Hey, there's some spam up in there.  Awesome.  In fact it looks like spam posts are the majority on #1.

[dave from knoxville]

Here's mine

Tom Tom Tom,

I keep hearing these horribly ominous threats that the podcasts are going away. Sadly, if the podcasts go away, they will take me with them. Surely I am not the only one in this position of having the podcasts as my only real show access. Please keep it, I beseech you,

dave from knoxville

No insights to be gained, as is normal.

[Chris L]

Re: What are FOT members listening to?
« Reply #4 on: Jan 13th, 2003, 12:22am »    Quote Quote Modify Modify

1. Bunker Hill - "Hide & Go Seek" + "The Girl Can't Dance."  Two wiiiild songs from the 50's.  Link Wray plays on the latter and it's no surprise.  I think he only recorded one other song (Bunker Hill, not Link). 
2. James Brown - Love Power Peace.  Recorded in 1970, not released until 1992.  Easily one of the hardest JB live recordings, due in no small part to the presence of Catfish Collins on guitar.  JB lets him do his thing.  The "Brother Rapp/Ain't It Funky Now" medley from Star Time is from this. 
3.  Charles Mingus - "Scenes in the City."  Totally great jazz/poetry collaboration with Lonnie Elders about a struggling jazz fan who lives and breathes the music in Harlem.  A LOT better than it sounds, since this is Mingus and all.  Later sampled by Gang Starr!
4.  John Cage and some other guy  - "The City Wears a Slouch Hat."  An almost Kafka/Lynch-like surreal radio production, created and actually broadcast in 1942.  The central character wanders through a vaguely noir-ish urban canvas, exchanging non-sequiters and arbitrary pulp-ish dialogue with a series of floating characters (all voiced with oblivious 1940's dramatic gusto).  Meanwhile Cage makes a percussive racket in the background, and there's plenty of shortwave hiss and odd noises. 
5. Swing For a Crime - one of those Crypt 50's comp LPs.  Vintage movie dialogue interspersed with fun delinquient music and novelties.  Features the Hollywood Persuaders' "Drums-a-Go-Go" (used in Natural Born Killers, I'm told) and a Les Baxter song that was used in "Wild At Heart."

Some things nevah change. 

[Stan]

Post #1: Dull.

Nice work Chris and Gord- yet another means to 'Experience the Difference'.

Post #2: First Threadkill.

What are Tom and Terre thinking?
 
Somebody call PETA...

 Thanks to yesno for helping to relive awkward moments from the past.

[TacoSmith]

Couldn't be more appropriate:

Even though I rarely see them, I'm always pulling for the Rock's movies to do really well because I think he's a swell guy. He is, after all, the people's champion.

[buffcoat]

Always the completist/Newbridge obsessive:

144   TBSOWFMU Discussion / TBSOWFMU Discussion / kid midnight?  Feb 18th, 2004, 3:25pm 
where did the kid midnight character start?
 
he's mentioned by several Wurster villains (Augie Richards, for one) as a DJ competitor to Tom
 
Is he another alias for Hot Rockin Ronny Fuqua or what?  Does he ever make an actual appearance?
 
I gotta know... 

The answer to my question, which I think I never got, is "yes."

Second post:

143   TBSOWFMU Discussion / TBSOWFMU Discussion / Re: best show chracter question  Mar 25th, 2004, 4:00pm 
Yes, it was Wurster.  I liked when Bruce Willis was in the car on the way to the studio.
 
Did Howard Dean rip off that scream fior his speech in Iowa?
 
"Aaaah!  I didn't overreact at all, you PIECE OF FILTH!"
 
My favorite is still the first Zachary Brimstead: 
 
"I think I speak for all your listeners when I say 'play some barbershop quartet music!'"
 
"How about KISS?" 

Already a mention of KISS, plus more obsessive need-to-know.

[buffcoat]

ALSO. I NEVER GOT AN ANSWER TO THIS POST THAT WAS SATISFACTORY!!!! I WANT TO KNOW!!!!

136   TBSOWFMU Discussion / TBSOWFMU Discussion / what is Fudge?  May 12th, 2004, 12:30pm 
Jeff Cooper of Radio Hut makes an aside reference to "it's got something called Fudge" in describing (I think) the Port-A-Ghetto.
 
What is Fudge?  Is it some kind of inside joke?
 
Several people have mentioned how funny it is - I want to be in on the joke, too! 

[Regular Joe]

Boy, I really like myself and all but I never want to read my own internet posts again. My advice to myself back then would be to tone down the enthusiasm, because you sound like a dick, past me. That advice probably should still apply to me now, but you don't see any advice giving time travelers here, do you. Nice try future me, you lose again!

Actually I wouldn't change a thing. Still love it.

[fonpr]

ALSO. I NEVER GOT AN ANSWER TO THIS POST THAT WAS SATISFACTORY!!!! I WANT TO KNOW!!!!

136   TBSOWFMU Discussion / TBSOWFMU Discussion / what is Fudge?  May 12th, 2004, 12:30pm 
Jeff Cooper of Radio Hut makes an aside reference to "it's got something called Fudge" in describing (I think) the Port-A-Ghetto.
 
What is Fudge?  Is it some kind of inside joke?
 
Several people have mentioned how funny it is - I want to be in on the joke, too! 

Tragic Buffy Tragic!

[Pastor Josh]

Huh, silly but true:

271     The Best Show on WFMU / Hey New People! / Re: WELCOME NEW PEOPLE!    on: March 24, 2009, 06:36:59 PM
Hello.  I'm Pastor Josh.  I live in rural Illinois try to do good stuff.

The next few are a little embarrassing. 

[nec13]

Huh, silly but true:

271     The Best Show on WFMU / Hey New People! / Re: WELCOME NEW PEOPLE!    on: March 24, 2009, 06:36:59 PM
Hello.  I'm Pastor Josh.  I live in rural Illinois try to do good stuff.

The next few are a little embarrassing. 

Nothing at all embarrassing about your posts, Unicorn Commander Josh. I'd say you got off to quite a good start.

[Andy]

What an ass I was.

I'm listening to last nights shows and Tom eluded to the fact that the show wasn't going to be on terrestrial radio any more.  Does he tell us later if he's going to a satellite service and if so, which one?

But I made up for it with post #2

The masses are asses.

[Pastor Josh]

Huh, silly but true:

271     The Best Show on WFMU / Hey New People! / Re: WELCOME NEW PEOPLE!    on: March 24, 2009, 06:36:59 PM
Hello.  I'm Pastor Josh.  I live in rural Illinois try to do good stuff.

The next few are a little embarrassing. 

Nothing at all embarrassing about your posts, Unicorn Commander Josh. I'd say you got off to quite a good start.

I'm growing to love Unicorn Commander Josh.  Should I start using that as my call-in name?

[Sarah]

Hey, there's some spam up in there.  Awesome.  In fact it looks like spam posts are the majority on #1.

Jason gave me admin powers on the second board a while ago so I could get rid of all the spam there; I'd be happy to do the same for the original board as well.  I don't know who's still around who could do that, though.  Maybe Petey?

[senorcorazon]

Me in June 2007:

Indeed, a great show. In the past two weeks Tom has made fun of where I work and where I live, and done so well.

A mystery, however -- if Tom was in McCarren Park, was he there attending the Renegade Craft Fair?

Meh. I was hoping for more intrigue. It's no Pastor Josh First Post.