FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board

[colonel panic]

I designed and helped build a site that our company launched last night!

https://www.readability.com/

I love this bookmarklet and have used it daily for what seems like about a year?

Great website and I'm checking out the new service.

[DJ Clem]

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/16/2657975/kcs-michael-stover-is-the-swiss.html
The Kansas City Star did a piece on my musical exploits.

Here's the photo they used for the print edition. Check out the t-shirt!

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Any FOT in Western Mass from February 24-27, I wrote the play that is part of this: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=604

[davidgoeschatting]

My new webcomic, featuring dry humor and talking cars.

http://www.lacantdrive.com/2011/02/05/the-commute-5/

Please leave a comment, if you will.

"A LOL in Traffic" No?

[meamsean]

Hey guys FOT drosenb and I are playing a gig at the trash bar in Brooklyn tonight at midnight. The name of our band is black dick wolf and were going on after blues legend guitar lightnin lee. Come by if you have off tomorrow! $7

[MikeInManhattan]

A semi-live semi-funny video I cut for my band Family Fun.

Let me know what you think. We love brutally honest/just plain offensive criticism!

Best wishes,

Mike (in Manhattan)

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20103433" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/20103433">Family Fun - "Mitigating Circumstances" (live)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3529093">Family Fun</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

[Greggulator]

www.thevanpool.com

Although I live in Philly, I work in Midtown Manhattan. Since that commute is a bear and also really expensive to do every day, I stay with my mom and dad a few nights a week in North Jersey.

I started my job a little over a year ago. One morning, I was waiting for the bus to take me to Port Authority. Before it arrived, this white van (straight out of "I Know My Name Is Steven") pulled up. The guy riding shotgun asked me I wanted a ride. I said no but he started asking me where I was going. I told him NY. He insisted I get in. Then the door slid open and all of these people inside started beckoning me to enter.

So I did. It's a vanpool (which I have dubbed The Vanpool) and for $6 Charlie, the driver, will take you into the city. He drops me off about two blocks from work and I get to avoid the dread and terror that is Port Authority.

The people on this van are amazing. It's pretty much a sitcom episode every morning.

I have been chronicling every one of my Vanpool journeys since I started riding this thing. I think it's very much in the FOT wheelhouse.

[JonFromMaplewood]

You know what?  A sincere, thought-provoking, and kind rejection letter from Jonathan Galassi (Jonathan Franzen and Tom Wolfe's publisher) is not a half-bad experience.  I got rejected, yet I am walking on air! 

[Anthony from Ireland]

My band is slowly releasing an album this year. 1 song a month for 12 months, released on the 25th of every month. The 3rd song is out today.
http://largemound.bandcamp.com/album/another-year-of-rock

[amiright??]

Hi everyone,

Just made a short with some friends for a local 48-hour film festival. We're given a genre, a prop we have to use and a line that must be spoken. Then we're given 2 days to make something of it. We were give biopic, a VHS tape and, well, it'll become obvious in the show. 

Here's what we came up with:

The McNetwork

[davidgoeschatting]

Hi everyone,

Just made a short with some friends for a local 48-hour film festival. We're given a genre, a prop we have to use and a line that must be spoken. Then we're given 2 days to make something of it. We were give biopic, a VHS tape and, well, it'll become obvious in the show. 

Here's what we came up with:

The McNetwork

Very good! I like.

[ChipSuey]

www.thevanpool.com

Although I live in Philly, I work in Midtown Manhattan. Since that commute is a bear and also really expensive to do every day, I stay with my mom and dad a few nights a week in North Jersey.

I started my job a little over a year ago. One morning, I was waiting for the bus to take me to Port Authority. Before it arrived, this white van (straight out of "I Know My Name Is Steven") pulled up. The guy riding shotgun asked me I wanted a ride. I said no but he started asking me where I was going. I told him NY. He insisted I get in. Then the door slid open and all of these people inside started beckoning me to enter.

So I did. It's a vanpool (which I have dubbed The Vanpool) and for $6 Charlie, the driver, will take you into the city. He drops me off about two blocks from work and I get to avoid the dread and terror that is Port Authority.

The people on this van are amazing. It's pretty much a sitcom episode every morning.

I have been chronicling every one of my Vanpool journeys since I started riding this thing. I think it's very much in the FOT wheelhouse.

Well I just wasted a bit too much time at work reading some of that.  And trying not to laugh too hard.  Good stuff!

[courtney]

My band, Sat In What, just released our (sadly) last album - Six Solo Albums Pt. 2, the companion album to (you guessed it) Six Solo Albums Pt. 1

Get all of our goods at http://satinwhat.bandcamp.com for FREE

I think they're all great but I'm especially proud of the final 3 albums, particularly On Pyramid.

Let me know what you think, should you decide to venture there ...

[fonpr]

This is specifically for AP Mike:

http://cryptogon.com/?p=21882

[amiright??]

Hi everyone,

Just made a short with some friends for a local 48-hour film festival. We're given a genre, a prop we have to use and a line that must be spoken. Then we're given 2 days to make something of it. We were give biopic, a VHS tape and, well, it'll become obvious in the show. 

Here's what we came up with:

The McNetwork

Very good! I like.

Thanks David!