tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208308342024-03-13T15:21:49.600-05:00FAILED BANDS OF OKLAHOMA (FBO)In its sixth year, the FBO strives to build parity between the failed and the successful.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger419125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-56031004629592870062011-08-15T08:31:00.002-05:002011-08-15T08:33:49.141-05:00FBO: "Oklahoma on LP.com? Sacre Bleu!"This happened: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTy-zgp4vag/Tkkf7On5-SI/AAAAAAAADpQ/Jj_ENgtfEEE/s1600/Picture%2B2.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 349px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTy-zgp4vag/Tkkf7On5-SI/AAAAAAAADpQ/Jj_ENgtfEEE/s400/Picture%2B2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641075110656473378" border="0" /></a>
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<br />Lonely Planet, who publishes guidebooks to more destinations than any other publisher, is leading the week... <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/travel-tips-and-articles/76773">with Oklahoma</a>.
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-72676041970245296832011-08-04T10:09:00.001-05:002011-08-04T10:11:04.937-05:00FBO: "Maiden on Fox"This happened:<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=1094046453001&w=466&h=263"></script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-27749011321853353732011-08-02T08:41:00.002-05:002011-08-02T08:43:19.691-05:00FBO: Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson<iframe width="410" height="263" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DYn2TNGWET8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />FBO's Robert Reid recently met up with Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, and talked travel & rock life. Music: courtesy of Tulsa's Bozack, featuring FBO member Terry Waska.<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />FBO Admin<br />Semi-Permanent HQ -- Queens, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-79126935966120873082011-07-27T09:55:00.002-05:002011-07-27T09:55:50.824-05:00FBO: "What Happened to All the Rage in Dallas?"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GkLP0ZS-sEM/TjAlMpXd71I/AAAAAAAADoo/38L42s6wus0/s1600/Photo%2B16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GkLP0ZS-sEM/TjAlMpXd71I/AAAAAAAADoo/38L42s6wus0/s400/Photo%2B16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634044033033432914" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O65A3LenGLU/TjAlMh5SfqI/AAAAAAAADog/0Wb7IDA7d3E/s1600/Photo%2B15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O65A3LenGLU/TjAlMh5SfqI/AAAAAAAADog/0Wb7IDA7d3E/s400/Photo%2B15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634044031027805858" border="0" /></a><br />Fisherman's Wharf in Victoria, British Columbia, at 8:30am is a little quiet. On a day with a bike in the 'most English town in Canada' recently, I pedalled there. Walked about the boxy floating homes. Saw a dog. Flower pots. Some Canadian flags. A few folks waiting to head out on a whale trip. And a box of free CDs with a hand-drawn sign: 'free CDs.'<br /><br />I immediately picked up one: the self-titled 1998 release of Edmonton's All the Rage in Dallas.<br /><br />Finally listening weeks later, I get the feeling ATRID really didn't agree on what they wanted. Thirteen years on, only the 'heavy metal looking guy' (and his haircut) survives -- Don Heberling, who is the 'band leader' per the website. Notably, the more country-leaning, flat-toned moustached singer Ralph Kendrick (no, <a href="http://www.ralphkendrick.com/">not this Ralph Kendrick</a>) is long gone.<br /><br />Their website sadly notes their 1998 CD 'enjoyed some airplay,' and offers a <a href="http://www.alltherageindallas.com/start.html">few mp3s</a> of more recent songs.<br /><br />Victoria. ATRID. The FBO just wants to thank you.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">FBO Admin<br />Semi-permanent HQ -- Queens, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-34796301171194648932010-07-15T10:30:00.001-05:002010-07-15T10:30:41.014-05:00Eight Songs You Shouldn't Like (But You Do)Some songs are better than others, and some are just off. But specks of golden nugget shine from these piles too. To find what I mean, throw out the music with any ironic or pure nostalgic appeal -- Poison, Britney Spears, "Material Girl," "We are the World," Cyndi Lauper -- and sift through those musicians that tend to take themselves a bit to seriously, put a little too much spice in their mustard. They aim for Dylan, but end up a bit south of Joel. And I love them for it.<br /><br />If you read this list, and say, 'hey that's actually really good.' Well, yeah, you're right. But know that you/we are are bonehead wrong too. Because we shouldn't like them.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cc12wtvbv0k&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cc12wtvbv0k&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Don Henley, "The Heart of the Matter." </span><br />There is no songwriter in the history of music that is harder to blare on your car speakers at intersections than Donald Henley. Look, he's good (and don't pretend you don't like "Desperado," plus his worst is much better than that Eagle dufus Glen Frey), but he's too uppity and chumpity to take too seriously. Plus he drums. This song -- from "End of the Innocence," an album where he actually stooped to collaborate with Bruce Hornsby -- is deceptively good, with a tolerable bridge (the '80s were hell on bridges). And I like how you never know who cheated on who, and how he says "I think it's about forgiveness," but not sure.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RSLPbl8Nigk&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RSLPbl8Nigk&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oasis, anything Oasis.</span><br />I once dared a friend to walk down St Marks Place in the East Village with an Oasis shirt on. He didn't do it. And I don't blame him. Oasis are kings of songs you shouldn't like, but you do -- and yes, you <span style="font-style: italic;">do </span>like them. The reason? Because Oasis are very very good. And the more they try to be serious, the more delirious the guilt is. Plus their haircuts are cute.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XxeWW3m2--E&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XxeWW3m2--E&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Gray, "The Other Side."</span><br />David really really wants to be taken seriously; he has that little head bob when emotion gets the better of him, as his fingertips pepper the piano keys in his aim to heart-break a sad-eyed lass of the Midlands. But that head-bob, seriously, I have to look the other way every time he does it. But dammit, the guy's good. This song is as embarrassing as any song I've heard over 10 times, willingly. And I'm charmed by the tenacity (couldn't quite say "specious") of the line "love is a raven when it flies." Um, no David, it's not.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ok6eIPx5S3U&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ok6eIPx5S3U&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jefferson Starship, "Find Your Way Back."</span><br />The Bay Area is a hotbed of musical mediocrity. I don't care about Metallica and CCR -- or rather not enough to change my mind -- but it cannot make up for a city built on rock'n'roll, Huey Lewis' sax solos, the kneel-down cries of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22344%22%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/z92bmlcmyq0&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowscriptaccess%22%20value=%22always%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/z92bmlcmyq0&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22344%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E">"you're motoring!" at the end of "Sister Christian"</a> or anything Steve Miller. But this -- sung with a dandy of a moustached singer -- is just good. The 12-string acoustics, the Ramones-like chorus progression freckled with unnecessary organ. Listen in during the second verse for that tacked-on, scaled-down segway ("you got no place to be/still you wonder where you're going") with all sorts of bearded NoCal bandmates chipping in on the vocals. Well done Jeff Star.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OlLzAWUY6Xo&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OlLzAWUY6Xo&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stevie Nicks & Don Henley, "Leather & Lace."</span><br />Henley, I'm telling you -- he just crumples all he touches. This little tender one from 1981 doesn't seem to get the airplay it once did. Expect a revival soon. But you shouldn't like it for a very clear reason: the image of Stevie letting her lace down, with Don -- bearded, hairy Texan Don -- leaning in towards her, covered in LEATHER (!?), then giving that long, meaningful pause in his second verse after he sings "and sometimes I cry..." He lets that hang for a while. Giving you the chance to just imagine him -- a serious Texan -- putting his hand down on his leather chaps and looking up to reflect, with mirrored tearways equally running across both of his bearded cheeks. Don, and I mean this, <span style="font-style: italic;">thank you</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exsatE-DUk&feature=channel">Collective Soul, "December."</a><br />Oh, this one hurts. There has never been a bigger group of posers than Stockbridge, Georgia's C-Soul. For proof, just listen to their <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m0bI82Rz_k&feature=channel">first big song "Shine,"</a> and how Ed Roland -- apparently in all seriousness -- pops in that affected "yeah" at each pause of the inevitable testicular riff (children, don't do what I've done). But "December." Despite the break into occasional palm-to-forehead-slapping Eddie Vedderish growls, easier-going "December" bubbles with violins, Byrds-y guitars with nice guitar crescendos and air-conditioned backing vocals layered on top of the building outro. OK Roland, you win.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QIc8tYOofJ8&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QIc8tYOofJ8&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Elton John, "I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues."</span><br />Elton, you had me as soon as you had that overly earnest, possibly English-as-a-second-language backing chorus echoing you at the end with overly enunciated lines "laugh-ing like chil-dren, livv-ing like luvv-errrs." Not to mention that fake Stevie Wonder harmonica solo. Rule: Never do that. But Elton did, and in the end some songs are better without rules.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ringo Starr & the All-Star Band, "Love Me Do."</span><br />This is very simply the best song of all time -- and I sort of mean it. Adding an extra minute to a song he never sang for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1_Storytellers_%28Ringo_Starr_album%29">1998 VH1 special</a>, Ringo and his cast of almost-huge bandmates (including Jack Blades of Night Ranger) try to fill every possible gap, with oversung vocals, 'oh yeahs,' and guitar trills that had no part, with reason, in the original. It's overstuffed with effort, and love, and for some reason it absolutely works. Perhaps just because Ringo makes everything happy. Actually I DO play this loud at intersections.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />FBO Admin<br />Mobile/Semi-Permenent HQ -- Queens, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-70139111771314182792010-02-18T11:15:00.002-06:002010-02-18T11:17:33.978-06:00FBO: "Oklahomans Group to Portray 12-Second Reenactment of the Shooting of James A. Garfield"In the recent <a href="http://reidontravel.blogspot.com/2010/02/76-second-travel-show-chester-arthur.html">22nd episode of SSSTS</a> (76-Second Travel Show), a group of Oklahomans (three, 'Garfield's admirer' is an out-of-state) recreated a moment in history.<br /><br />Here is the cast:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31qsQPtqVI/AAAAAAAADLM/-mKeo2kQ0r4/s1600-h/garfield.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31qsQPtqVI/AAAAAAAADLM/-mKeo2kQ0r4/s400/garfield.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439621233441089874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >ERIC DAVISON</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">as 'The Ohioan President' (James A Garfield)</span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31q4BkvT5I/AAAAAAAADLk/isb0gNDvbXY/s1600-h/charles-guiteau.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31q4BkvT5I/AAAAAAAADLk/isb0gNDvbXY/s400/charles-guiteau.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439621435661176722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >JOHN WHITAKER </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">as Charles Guiteau</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31q3xkR0oI/AAAAAAAADLc/8LXshK07UbY/s1600-h/garfield-friend.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31q3xkR0oI/AAAAAAAADLc/8LXshK07UbY/s400/garfield-friend.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439621431364276866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DAMON COOK </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">as Garfield's friend</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31q3jBdYCI/AAAAAAAADLU/5a-WhPMYtFU/s1600-h/garfield-admirer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/S31q3jBdYCI/AAAAAAAADLU/5a-WhPMYtFU/s400/garfield-admirer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439621427460136994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EHREN GRESEHOVER </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">as Garfield's admirer</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-88822830508374135892010-01-06T10:23:00.001-06:002010-01-06T10:25:18.653-06:00FBO: 'Song for Manhattan Bridge'Oklahoman Beau Jennings was asked to write a song for the Manhattan Bridge, which turned 100 last week. The party held for it drew about 11. Streams of pedestrians, even on a snowy morning, crossed Brooklyn Bridge just south. Here's the video with the non-failed song:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c7sSnh7RP4E&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c7sSnh7RP4E&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-48678407087469245042009-11-12T08:48:00.002-06:002009-11-12T08:49:13.436-06:00FBO: "Most Enigmatic Drum Solo of All Time"Please see the 1:10 mark of from this Hungarian new wave band TRABANT's version of "Eskimo Women Feel Cold." You won't regret the time spent:<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n4IkBpXhWKQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n4IkBpXhWKQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-74703158740014478222009-09-28T12:35:00.004-05:002009-09-28T12:51:19.651-05:00FBO: 'Failed Photographer at Vikings Game (Likely Fired)'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2xIR0GsI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/_cDfh0GapJk/s1600-h/DSCF0656.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2xIR0GsI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/_cDfh0GapJk/s400/DSCF0656.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386576478231337666" border="0" /></a><br />Everyone's talking about Brett Favre's winning TD pass (and Greg Lewis' winning catch) that felled the San Francisco '49ers with 0:02 remaining. What has only caught the FBO's eyes is the underachiever sports photographer, standing two feet from the amazing catch, who didn't think to raise his camera as a potentially game-winning lob was made to his doorsteps with a couple clicks to go. 'Probably will be incomplete,' he probably thought.<br /><br />NOTE the following. The photographer, in a snappy red vest, is to the right of 'TD' graphic on screen. He's slightly hunched, holding his $5,300 camera at belt level:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD1UqbKlAI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/3Z_3QU1KRe0/s1600-h/DSCF0648.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD1UqbKlAI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/3Z_3QU1KRe0/s400/DSCF0648.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386574889669530626" border="0" /></a><br />Greg Lewis falls at his feet. He looks placidly, without emotion or camera in shooting position. Even the fan above has a finger of disbelief already pointed at Lewis. Meanwhile, note the short-haired guy to the right, also caught out of position:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD1WbN9rNI/AAAAAAAAC2w/9WSbDTnge0A/s1600-h/DSCF0652.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD1WbN9rNI/AAAAAAAAC2w/9WSbDTnge0A/s400/DSCF0652.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386574919947365586" border="0" /></a>An audience member has time to lean over the stands, Greg Lewis to catch and now raise the ball, a ref signalling TD, but our paid photographer looks on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2vqcLYFI/AAAAAAAAC24/9_qEyJkxDxU/s1600-h/DSCF0653.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2vqcLYFI/AAAAAAAAC24/9_qEyJkxDxU/s400/DSCF0653.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386576453041872978" border="0" /></a><br />'Hold a tic. I better get this one,' he thinks. What's more bizarre, his short-haired counterpart starts taking the photographer's photo!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2wDFOWaI/AAAAAAAAC3A/YlpkTjm7rJQ/s1600-h/DSCF0654.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2wDFOWaI/AAAAAAAAC3A/YlpkTjm7rJQ/s400/DSCF0654.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386576459656485282" border="0" /></a>Our failed hero finally gets a shot of the back of Lewis already back in the endzone. The counterpart -- probably his supervisor -- gets documentary evidence of underachievement.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2wk-cQXI/AAAAAAAAC3I/8mMqJemTY0Q/s1600-h/DSCF0655.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2wk-cQXI/AAAAAAAAC3I/8mMqJemTY0Q/s400/DSCF0655.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386576468754841970" border="0" /></a><br />Someone make a t-shirt out of this:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2xIR0GsI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/_cDfh0GapJk/s1600-h/DSCF0656.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SsD2xIR0GsI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/_cDfh0GapJk/s400/DSCF0656.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386576478231337666" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-22112865188176910902009-08-20T10:10:00.002-05:002009-08-20T10:27:05.433-05:00FBO: 'Bans Scarborough Fair'Woodstock turned 40 recently, and a British group is trying to ban remembrances of it, called <a href="http://www.traditionalistbritsagainstwoodstock.blogspot.com/">Traditionalist Brits Against Woodstock</a>.<br /><br />It's worth reminding everyone that England's Scarborough Fair was originally a mall, and regardless what you think of CSNY's awful song 'Woodstock,' produced one of the most self-indulgent, inconsiderate songs of all time: 'Scarborough Fair.' (See its <a href="http://www.scarborough-fair.de.vu/scarborough.htm">offensive lyrics</a> here.)<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nv50UB1sHbo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nv50UB1sHbo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">FBO Admin<br />Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-29942278538620638112009-08-13T20:16:00.003-05:002009-08-13T20:25:42.222-05:00FBO: 'Oklahoma Gazette Endorses Failure, Tall Tales'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SoS9DBG8FiI/AAAAAAAACrs/zbXTUYVSxrc/s1600-h/Photo+17.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SoS9DBG8FiI/AAAAAAAACrs/zbXTUYVSxrc/s200/Photo+17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369624515267270178" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Tall Tales </span>is set to play its <span style="font-weight: bold;">second show in 15 years</span> tomorrow night at Norman's Deli, and Rob Collins of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Oklahoma Gazette</span> has taken note in <a href="http://www.okgazette.com/p/12853/a/4469/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=LwBEAGUAZgBhAHUAbAB0AC4AYQBzAHAAeAAslashAHAAPQAxADIANwA0ADgA">this profile</a> of all things past, and all things planned.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The article also celebrates, tributes and endorses -- by mention -- the Failed Bands of Oklahoma's planned show in Guymon: <span style="font-style: italic;">The FBO Night in the Panhandle</span>.<br /><br />This show -- which has an open invite to all failed bands (never signed), with at least 65% original songs, and at least 10 years ago -- simply must happen. It is not necessary to be from Oklahoma to be included in the Failed Bands of Oklahoma. And the show will also include failed magicians.<br /><br />If you qualify, let us know.<br /><br />Meanwhile, if you've ever wondered <span style="font-weight: bold;">how they decide who dies first in Civil War re-enactments</span>, here's your answer, of sorts:<br /></div><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VeUmAOnLE7g&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VeUmAOnLE7g&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-91215360198392070122009-08-09T18:01:00.000-05:002009-08-09T18:01:00.603-05:00FBO: 'Best Sax Player of All Time'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/Sn4EJZ7HP2I/AAAAAAAACqU/GS5Fvp_qQb0/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 340px; height: 263px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/Sn4EJZ7HP2I/AAAAAAAACqU/GS5Fvp_qQb0/s400/Picture+4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367732365496368994" border="0" /></a><br />Those of you paying attention to MTV in the early '90s remember this guy. Well. Pink Floyd was back together, again without Roger Waters who essentially wrote all their music, and hired Scott Page to play sax.<br /><br />Has there ever been anyone with a more immortal mullet than this? Ever?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com199tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-69770353488909670252009-08-08T09:23:00.001-05:002009-08-08T09:26:23.777-05:00FBO: 'FBO Nearly on CNN'Recently FBO member tried to talk about Failed Bands of Oklahoma on CNN International, but unfortunately the interview was cut off just before the subject of 'unusual travel' reached Guymon, Oklahoma.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2-fQkVGcq4g&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2-fQkVGcq4g&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Tall Tales will pick up the battle axe for failed-band awareness on August 14. There have been some TT interviews with the <a href="http://www.okgazette.com/p/12730/Default.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">Oklahoma Gazette</span></a>, so hopefully that'll appear soon.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-47912902827734095342009-07-28T09:12:00.002-05:002009-07-28T09:19:45.468-05:00FBO: 'Be In a Band'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/Sm8IxpaMcWI/AAAAAAAACnE/TxXrxr3fqus/s1600-h/base_image.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/Sm8IxpaMcWI/AAAAAAAACnE/TxXrxr3fqus/s320/base_image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363515330243883362" border="0" /></a>The FBO Band is on a summer hiatus -- 98 degrees and no AC is never good for inspired rock -- but a couple members WILL be seeing <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steely Dan</span> playing <span style="font-style: italic;">Aja</span> in its entirety at New York's Beacon Theater tonight. The last time I was there was February 1993. I moved from Oklahoma with a Keith Richards ticket for the Beacon and it's ended up being Keith's last-ever solo concert. For now anyway.<br /><br />To pacify eager listeners, here's <span style="font-weight: bold;">a demo version of a 'Be In a Band'</span> to listen to. Feel free to vote on whether it should be scrapped, extended, or ended with a long guitar solo.<br /><br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="335" height="28" id="divplaylist"><param name="movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8017135-3e8"><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8017135-3e8" width="335" height="28" name="divplaylist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-20583235413189832052009-07-26T21:51:00.002-05:002009-07-26T21:56:00.616-05:00FBO: 'This Happened'<span style="font-weight: bold;">FBO Member Robert Reid</span> has been very busy lately, but managed <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/travel/26surfacing.html?scp=1&sq=Bogota,%20Colombia&st=cse">an article in the New York Times</a> today. It's on a bizarre, fun neighborhood in Bogota, Colombia, that had crackhouses as recently as five years ago -- now a couple dozen-plus restaurants and a very welcoming crew of locals and expats.<br /><br />Meanwhile, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tall Tales plans</span> to preview one song from their 2009 LP, tentatively titled 'By Mitch's Candles/Day Ranger,' at the August 14 show at the Deli in Norman.<br /><br />Oh, did anyone know that the US had a<a href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/"> Board on Geographic Names</a>? Looking forward to more study on this, and why there are only five places in the country with apostrophes.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-24438645700897607972009-07-16T08:55:00.002-05:002009-07-16T08:58:45.050-05:00FBO: 'When Is This Right?'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/Sl8xhSfO3PI/AAAAAAAAClk/A1X5gf2JU2E/s1600-h/DSCF9998.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/Sl8xhSfO3PI/AAAAAAAAClk/A1X5gf2JU2E/s400/DSCF9998.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359056529562459378" /></a><br /><br />This image -- of a Belgian -- shows the mortal blow of a unicorn. It's from a 15th-century wall tapestry hanging at New York's fascinating <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/cloisters/">Cloisters</a> museum, part of the Met. It's sit on a hilltop at the very north of Manhattan, and missed by most visitors. The building itself is made from dissassembled/reassembled monasteries of Spain and France.<br /><br />Medieval times!<br /><br />Doesn't answer why you see a unicorn, and go kill it.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">FBO Admin<br />Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-35575380828893859632009-07-03T19:17:00.001-05:002009-07-03T19:19:02.097-05:00FBO: 'When Monuments Tweet'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SkzbW5UiThI/AAAAAAAACgE/GVi8PS3aLpo/s1600-h/DSCF8245_2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SkzbW5UiThI/AAAAAAAACgE/GVi8PS3aLpo/s400/DSCF8245_2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353895243427237394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Stolen from Reidontravel.com:</span><br /><br />This week the Statue of Liberty joined Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/StatueLibrtyNPS">@StatueLibrtyNP</a>), peppering its 92 and increasing number of followers with slightly-less-than-fun facts about its crown, history and sold-out tours. (I go in early August – managing to get what I couldn’t for the recent Leonard Cohen concert in NYC: a ticket.)<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />When I heard about her joining, I did what we all did – immediately reached out to other monuments (the St Louis Arch, the Liberty Bell, the Taj Mahal) to see if they have accounts and <span style="font-weight: bold;">I stumbled into a HIGHLY SECRETIVE Twitter mini-group of monuments</span> and spied on the following conversation between some of the world’s great monuments.<br /><br />Here's a portion of what was said:<br /></div><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.nps.gov/stli">StatueLibrtyNP</a></span> Hey, tours of my crown start this week – first time since NineLev.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.nps.gov/goga/">GoldenGateBr</a></span> Sounds cool<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.nps.gov/inde/liberty-bell-center.htm">LibertyBell</a></span> Awesome : )<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.myspace.com/tulsagoldendriller">TulsaGoldnDrillr</a> </span>Not to echo the Bell but awesome<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.nps.gov/jeff">StLouisArch</a></span> Big deal. You have to climb stairs don’t you?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StatueLibrtyNP</span> That’s right.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StLouisArch</span> Get back to us when you don’t have to walk up.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.searstower.com/">SearsTower</a></span> What, you mean have something like your old cranky ‘2001’-type elevator thing? No thanks.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StLouisArch </span>Beg your pardon, it’s a <a href="http://www.gatewayarch.com/Arch/info/arch.top.aspx">TRAM</a>. And it goes 4mph.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@TulsaGoldnDrillr</span> Gee, I just lean on a derrick.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@LibertyBell</span> Hey Sears, you have that <a href="http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/a-glass-bottom-skydeck-for-sears-tower.html">glass floor thing</a> now???<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@SearsTower </span>Yep, visitors get to stare down 103 floors below their feet. Can’t do that at KL’s Petronas.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@LibertyBell</span> Hope it doesn’t crack. ; )<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StLouisArch</span> Enough of that dumb crack. We need to start a new group for monuments that aren’t defective.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[enter @ArchesNP]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.nps.gov/arch">ArchesNP</a></span> Hey guys, what’s happening?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StLouisArch</span> Out!<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@GoldenGateBr</span> Yeah sorry ANP, but this group isn’t for natural monuments. @BigBend makes that mistake all the time.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@ArchesNP</span> My bad.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[@ArchesNP exits]</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[enter @EmpireStBldg]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.esbnyc.com/index2.cfm?CFID=34458053&CFTOKEN=83743904">EmpireStBldg</a></span> What’s up mofos?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@SearsTower</span> Hey shortie.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StLouisArch </span>Emp, don't you think mofus is more accurate?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@EmpireStBldg</span> Whatev. I see you haven't changed Archy.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[@StatueLibrtyNP exits]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@StLouisArch</span> What lights are you today, Mr <a href="http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-runway-season-6-latest-promo.html">Project Runway</a>?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@EmpireStBldg</span> July 4th is tomorrow. Take a wild guess.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@SearsTower </span>Green?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@EmpireStBldg </span>I wish.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@GoldenGateBr</span> Empire, what do you think about the Statue reopening?<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[@TulsaGoldnDrillr exits]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@EmpireStBldg </span>All for it. Anything to distract from that underachiever obs deck at @<a href="http://www.rockefellercenter.com/index.php/section/2#/2/1/-1/22/">RockefellerCentr</a>.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[@TourEiffel enters]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@<a href="http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/index.html">TourEiffel</a> </span>Bonjour, j'ai besoin d'un conseil!<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[@StLouisArch, @SearsTower @EmpireStBldg, @GoldenGateBr exits]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">@LibertyBell</span> Come again???!?</blockquote><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-45256749634021535702009-07-03T04:32:00.002-05:002009-07-03T04:37:45.479-05:00FBO: 'FB is not for FaceBook'Facebook hates the Failed Bands of Oklahoma, as it proved a few days ago by trashing FBO Member #001's account without warning. 'Tall Tales' had a FB account there, where photos and videos and tidbits were shared with a number of followers. Then access was denied, and an email explained, that it was cancelled because 'Tall Tales' isn't a person.<br /><br />The Gin Blossoms, a non-failed band, still have an active account with Facebook.<br /><br />Tall Tales will try to start over the process with a new account as a 'band' -- apparently a loophole easily missed during sign up. But <span style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook is not allowed to use the Failed Bands of Oklahoma site for two years</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile HQ -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-87603531888939804262009-06-28T21:03:00.002-05:002009-06-28T21:09:26.738-05:00FBO: 'Lamenting Mortality of Post Cards'Email. Twitter. Facebook. FAXES! Text messages. Skype calls.<br /><br />All is fine and good. But it spells the death of the post card.<br /><br />Not long ago, travel was about postcards. Shopping for bad ones shot by photographers in the '70s and repackaged in print throughout the '80s and Gin Blossoms-era '90s. We'd sit around on trains, in parks, on beaches, at hotel breakfast buffets WRITING, physically writing, post cards to let people know you are there, and they are not.<br /><br />That's done.<br /><br />At least we have the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.braums.com/epostcards.asp">free Braum's e-card</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-35033036392374543352009-06-23T04:10:00.002-05:002009-06-23T04:13:06.087-05:00FBO: 'In Melbourne'The Failed Bands of Oklahoma are in Melbourne, Australia, to gauge prospects of a performance in Victoria. Melbourne is an interesting city. Taxi drivers have no idea where they're going, for one thing. Today a cab went the opposite direction of my destination -- refusing to use the GPS system to find a location he clearly had no idea where it was; 'it's my second day,' he explained. Finally had to exit, flag down another taxi, get his map and direct him -- practically block by block -- to reach a fairly well known neighborhood.<br /><br />Last time here, I saw a dead kangaroo on the road to the airport.<br /><br /><em>FBO Admin </em><br /><em>Mobile HQ -- Melbourne, Australia</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-65680404947402707122009-06-17T10:43:00.002-05:002009-06-17T10:45:22.752-05:00FBO: Tall Tales to Play 2nd Show in 16 Years<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SjkPj3IipSI/AAAAAAAACek/xM-lpXd06Uc/s1600-h/welcome.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SjkPj3IipSI/AAAAAAAACek/xM-lpXd06Uc/s400/welcome.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348323141248787746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TALL TALES, FBO Member #001</span>, will perform - in concert - on August 14 at the Deli in Norman, Oklahoma. Bassist Mitch Newlin promised there 'will be a surprise.' It's not yet known if it will be a four-piece or five-piece version involving Robert E Reid.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the first recordings of <span style="font-weight: bold;">new Tall Tales songs are underway</span>. One song is called 'Fingernail Biter.'<br /><br />Dan Fallis explains, 'I put every ounce of my emotion into a two-minute song. I probably won't do that again.'<br /><br />In other news, you can vote on one of the three (possibly) cutest photos of all time at <a href="http://www.reidontravel.blogspot.com/">ReidOnTravel.com</a>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-83885412970734175362009-06-08T19:48:00.002-05:002009-06-08T19:51:45.571-05:00FBO: 'Detroit Red Wings'Not often you get snubbed by Stanley Cup athletes in an elevator. It's happened, to the FBO, in Pittsburgh.<br /><br />Here on a brief fact-finding mission to West Pennsylvania, FBO happens to be sharing a hotel with Red Wings players, who arrived today -- along with beards and big red bags -- to a hotel on the Allegheny downtown. Two players approached our elevator, and we kept it open for them. 'No, it's OK. We got that one,' pointed to the next elevator.<br /><br />We hope the Penguins win.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney played the Steelers football stadium on Saturday night, and a nearby sidewalk vendor -- standing with a cane -- was selling cowboy hats and Confederate flags. Asked if he normally sells the latter. "Not here, no."<br /><br />This man was not invited to the Failed Bands of Oklahoma Panhandle show.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile HQ -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-88478760315212738562009-06-04T15:52:00.003-05:002009-06-04T15:54:07.782-05:00FBO: 'Trying to Save San Diego'More cross-blogging...<br /><br />FBO member Robert Reid spoke with San Diego's FM 94.9 about how to save San Diego today (listen <a href="http://www.fm949sd.com/morning/story.aspx?ID=1099958">here</a>) and released a director's-cut <a href="http://reidontravel.blogspot.com/2009/06/trying-to-save-san-diego.html">video-feed</a> of the process.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-46651145265275954292009-06-02T12:20:00.002-05:002009-06-02T12:21:42.570-05:00FBO: 'Travel Meets Politics, Has a Drink'Travel to some Tulsa hotels, clearly, overlap into the world of Drug Travel (see post below). Others clash into politics. FBO member Robert Reid discusses so on <a href="http://www.worldhum.com/features/speakers-corner/travel-writing-as-a-political-act-20090601/">World Hum</a> today.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO</span> Admin<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20830834.post-67734423231293700972009-05-30T14:50:00.004-05:002009-05-30T15:01:27.748-05:00FBO: 'Lends a Comforting Shoulder for Sam Patel's Tears'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SiGQKnW-WUI/AAAAAAAACYI/2_MO6zUF_zY/s1600-h/20090530_Lab2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__rpbsiqj_tM/SiGQKnW-WUI/AAAAAAAACYI/2_MO6zUF_zY/s400/20090530_Lab2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341709145076554050" border="0" /></a><br />Everything is good when <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090530_16_A11_Theown877932">this happens</a>. Someone's been cooking up some meth -- an illegal drug -- in a $25 hotel room in Tulsa, the city found out, and wrote a letter to the hotel owner Sam Patel about it.<br /><br />And Sam Patel is FURIOUS.<br /><br />He's furious not about the druggies he checks into the hotel, or ignores the smells emanating from room 106 a few doors down from his office at all hours. He's furious about the city's 'TONE' in the letter.<br /><br />The letter read:<br /><blockquote><span id="ctl00_body1_art_lblArticleText">"You must cease allowing drugs to be used, sold or possessed on the property." </span></blockquote>Clearly the letter should have read:<br /><br /><blockquote>"It'd be great if we could stop all that meth and heroin going on at your hotel, considering it's illegality and such. Up for meeting for a coffee to brainstorm on how to keep it out? Btw did you catch the Idol finale? Ruled! -xoxo"</blockquote>Sam Patel, who has received four ordinance violations from the city now, may have to pay up to $500. He told the Tulsa World, <span id="ctl00_body1_art_lblArticleText">"The city needs to send a better letter than this."<br /><br />Sam Patel, the FBO is WITH YOU.<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">FBO Admin</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Mobile/Semi-Permanent HQ -- Brooklyn, NY</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2