Map of Newbridge

[Mr. Spacely]

The DeMartinis are also active musicians and Chub is one of Tom's neighbors, too, on Velndenum Way. This is mentioned in the Newbridge Neighborhood Watch call. Tom was given the silent-treatment at Chub DeMartini's cookout, if I remember correctly. Or was it that he tried to ram Chub with a shopping cart? I can't remember.

[JRSly]

I have always spelled it Velndonom Way.  I definitely hear an "n" before the d.

Great updates!

Yeah, I like that first N in there, the more awkward and clunky it is to pronounce it, the better. And good further info Mr. Spacely, just listened to that call and you and Omar were spot on, I didn't recall ever hearing the street name before the Keith Kincaid call. Awesome, love it when I can get solid confirmation on things like that. On Chub, I had him marked down as in the neighborhood, but hadn't decided if that meant he was on Velndonom Way exactly or just in the vicinity. I'll relisten to the Neighborhood Watch call and see if it's more concrete than I remember. Interesting that there's Dr. Charles DeMartini that works at Kern Nuclear Systems and Charles "Chub" Demartini, despite the odds in favor of it, they don't really sound like the same person. And it was Merv Reynolds who Tom rammed with his shopping cart.

This map makes me think there should be a Newbridge-themed table top RPG! 

Oh, my mind has gone to all kinds of additional weird tangential avenues that could be fun to explore once the map is done. Using it as a base for an isometric video game map, or yeah, a board game could be cool. I'd also toyed with the idea of creating Newbridge in SimCity 4 as well as I could and adding all the residents to watch them drive around and make up little narratives...along with my love of maps, I've also always been fascinated by model railroading and being able to create a little fully realized world.

[Omar]

Since I've never actually seen it written in any official document, Spacely's alternate spelling of "E. Paul Velndenum" is certainly a viable option.  Does Gene spell that out during the call in which he references E. Paul?

[Omar]

I remembered the source of my "Velndonom" spelling. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20070223123613/http://www.stereolaffs.com/vault.php

Click on "Claude" -- Claude Y. Velndonom, CEO Velndoco Entertainment Inc.

[buffcoat]

I thought I'd wait a little bit until I made more substantial progress. Our hero now has a home! Veldenum Way....oh, and I wanted to ask, did I hear that right? (it's from the call with Tom's satanist neighbor), ....

I have always spelled it Velndonom Way.  I definitely hear an "n" before the d.

Great updates!

Omar is right. "Velndonom" is one of the rare holdovers from the Rave On! days, which is where TS and JW honed their comedic talents before and right after the start of the Best Show.

http://fotpediadotgeocities.com/index.php/E._Paul_Velndonom

You can probably find "Rave On!" using the Internet Archive. It's a very funny but murky look into two guys - who happen to be world-class comedy writers - posting on a fake alt-zine website to make each other and themselves laugh.

There are references to HRR and PBR, but most of the site is about Claude Velndonom and his complete control of Western Maine. Rivalries with Eastern Maine and town government scandals get a lot of press. In many ways, Western Maine was the precursor to Newbridge.

If some enterprising FOTchaeologist finds online copies of Rave On!, please post the links here.

Oops, I found them. That FOTchaeologist in question turns out to be me: http://stereolaffs.friendsoftom.com/old_site/

This is the too-complete glossary of Western Maine: http://stereolaffs.friendsoftom.com/old_site/glossary.htm


The FOTPedia had some references to Rave On!, especially this page: http://fotpediadotgeocities.com/index.php/Toilet_rock. These are hilarious.

'King of Toilet Radio' Dies in Spectacular Pay-Per-View Death: Rory Blake 1969-2000

Self-proclaimed "King of Toilet Radio" Rory Blake passed away August 26th due to injuries incurred while performing on his pay-per-view TV special. "It seems that Mr. Blake was attempting do perform a stunt in which he....orally pleasured himself... while seated in a glass enclosure filled with with several thousand bees," said Searidge County coroner Walter Mertz.

Assistant beekeeper Marvin Bloom attempts to corral some of the deadly bees

Mertz continued: "On reviewing the tape of the incident, it appears that Mr. Blake was in trouble just moments after entering the case. He was, how do I put this tactfully, having trouble achieving the necessary state of 'excitedness' and appeared to have gone into a panic. At about this time, a local music group by the name of...do I have to say this...Turd Burglar... began performing one of its numbers. The low bass frequencies apparently agitated the insects and caused them to attack the now fully-panicked Blake. Rescue was rendered impossible when the entire crew, head beekeeper included, fled the scene."

Blake's ashes will be given to the woman attending his funeral with the largest breasts as per his last will and testament.

[JRSly]

Since I've never actually seen it written in any official document, Spacely's alternate spelling of "E. Paul Velndenum" is certainly a viable option.  Does Gene spell that out during the call in which he references E. Paul?

He does indeed spell it out with two Os. So that's Newbridgian-canon for me. Oddly though, listening last night I noticed that in that call about Gene Simmons Toyota Tom says he "lives outside of Newbridge now", where I had thought he was a resident by 2003.

Thanks for all this Rave On goodness! This will be fun to read through and enjoy. I wanted to acknowledge "Western Maine" in some capacity on the map, it's frequency of appearance and vagueness always cracks me up. I was thinking of making a note like "To Western Maine" at the point in the north when Route 869 goes off the map. Likewise I was planning on doing something similar for Philadelphia in the southwest somewhere.

[buffcoat]

The final piece of the Rave On! era is the stereolaffs messageboard, which now seems to exist only on Archive.org. However, that means it still exists, at least in part!

Here it is:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070814183254/http://stereolaffs.com/old_site/wwwboard/messages/

For example, someone posts about "Pudge," as a name, all the way back in 2000. And here's a post from Roy: http://web.archive.org/web/20061215050149/http://www.stereolaffs.com/old_site/wwwboard/messages/24.shtml

Man, you have no idea how deep this thing goes.

[JRSly]

The final piece of the Rave On! era is the stereolaffs messageboard, which now seems to exist only on Archive.org. However, that means it still exists, at least in part!

Here it is:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070814183254/http://stereolaffs.com/old_site/wwwboard/messages/

For example, someone posts about "Pudge," as a name, all the way back in 2000. And here's a post from Roy: http://web.archive.org/web/20061215050149/http://www.stereolaffs.com/old_site/wwwboard/messages/24.shtml

Man, you have no idea how deep this thing goes.

Wow wow. Was the message board actually thriving or is it mostly Tom and Jon just goofing around for each other? Man, this will be a great place to mine a lot of funny street names from and pay homage to the early days.

And now, another request for help, can anyone remember where the Panty Pagoda was mentioned. I've been trying to track it down today and haven't come across it yet. It was mentioned in a call where someone(I reaaaaallly wanna say Philly Boy Roy, but I might just be thinking of him because of the incident at Kern Park with the WWII helicopter) stole the memorial WWII plane in Newbridge Park and crashed it into the Panty Pagoda. Looking at my original list of locations I thought I had this one really narrowed down since I remembered where the locations around it appeared on the show. I believed it would've been mentioned near the Banksy of Human Interaction and Kyle Rove calls, but no luck yet. But there's always the possibility, looking likely now, it was from a show I listened to completely out of order for some reason.

To flesh out the map some more, I've started to add little historical or informative notes when it seemed appropriate and funny and when space allows. Like this...



So I want to get all the details on the Panty Pagoda crash and add it too.

[buffcoat]

Stuff like this:

Western Maine's premier art rock combo "Horshach Test"

And some of this predates the Best Show or came about as they were ramping up.

[JRSly]

Didn't realize it had been so long since the last update... http://i.imgur.com/zDJfbwk.jpg

So let's see...reworked some of the roads in West Newbridge as I added Newbridge Estates, Newbridge Downs and Newbridge Mews. Route 0 is now going to be a more rural road running westward by the farms and Mount Bridgemore. I think Appliance Boulevard is going to be a bit of a hard border on how far west the town has developed. As much as it pained me to lose Blanchard Dunleavy, I excised Willowbridge and all associated entities. On a relisten, I realized I was mistaken in jotting down Willowbridge as a neighborhood. As a fan of all things spooky, I was excited to get Whiting Manor fully drawn. Continuing in the north...got "North Newbridge" pretty much finished just need to add a store or two or a few houses to fill in the gaps. Fleshed out Pancake Avenue as another significant commercial vein. I've been working on the Harbor today, that area is basically done. Moving southward, some retail blobs, added the Pizza Promenade and Newbridge Park south of the Mini Ocean. I also remembered to finally implement an earlier idea to have a stream running into the Mini Ocean, since there's no outlet stream this creates a salt lake, which adds to the idea of it being a "mini ocean" and not just a lake. Oh, and in the southwest, added the Stores of Newbridge Swamplands, where Charles Schwabb and Jacqueline Cassette are located.

That's just about it for major additions. You can see some of the notes I've been adding to give the map a little more personality and elevate it to being more of an encapsulation of the Best Show. In that vein, I also got the idea to call out the sports arenas with team logos. Three so far, the Ratmen, Green Rockets and Mallets. I'm planning on making the Newbridge Knights for the high school, one of the hockey teams for the Ice Barn(probably the Newbridge Hockey Players), the Red Faces in the Triskaidecagon and any others as I find a place..I'm not sure yet if I'll call out Kern Dome for any team specifically. These little side projects are nice distractions that keep me motivated when filling in the map gets a bit tedious and grueling.

Happy Labor Day!

[Crusherkc]

TBSOWFMUWTS has the best fans.  I love maps and now I can reference this when I dig into old shows.

[Omar]

The Map continues to amaze and delight.

[FredN.]

Thought of this thread immediately upon hearing a MAP will be included in the Box Set...

[JRSly]

Well, I suppose now that the cat's out of the bag I can reveal that by making this map I had the amazing chance to talk with Tom and Jon a few months ago, where I got a little sneak peek(listen?) of the boxset and the map Scott Teplin was working on. It was surreal that just a few days after posting my map, barely really started at that point, to the forum, where I did it solely out of just sharing something I thought other fans would get a kick out of, that I would get a chance to talk to the men themselves and hear them praising it. Just wow. We talked for a few minutes about what Mr. Teplin's map would be like and I very happily and humbly agreed to lend the research and info I'd gathered for my map toward the project. What exactly that amounted to, I don't know, a small drop in the bucket I'm sure, but it was no question to be able to possibly help the project out a bit.

[nrt4]

Well, I suppose now that the cat's out of the bag I can reveal that by making this map I had the amazing chance to talk with Tom and Jon a few months ago, where I got a little sneak peek(listen?) of the boxset and the map Scott Teplin was working on. It was surreal that just a few days after posting my map, barely really started at that point, to the forum, where I did it solely out of just sharing something I thought other fans would get a kick out of, that I would get a chance to talk to the men themselves and hear them praising it. Just wow. We talked for a few minutes about what Mr. Teplin's map would be like and I very happily and humbly agreed to lend the research and info I'd gathered for my map toward the project. What exactly that amounted to, I don't know, a small drop in the bucket I'm sure, but it was no question to be able to possibly help the project out a bit.

Pretty cool of them to let you know of the project as well.