Jon will be playing with the Mountain Goats on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight at 12:30 am on NBC!
Listen to the Best Show on WFMU from 8-11 tonight as The H Man and Wally Wackiman battle for co-host honors! Posie/Big Star legend Jon Auer will also be in the studio!
Human Giant co-founder and 30 Rock regular Paul Scheer recently penned a nice article on the Best Show for MF magazine. Here it is. You can just type in 39 in the little page box to go straight to it:
MF magazine
Best Show Gems –a podcast featuring Scharpling & Wurster bits on Tom’s “Best Show on WFMU” radio program– was recently named a “best of 2009″ podcast by the staff of iTunes.
Check out Best Show Gems!
Scharpling and Wurster’s 2005 release, Hippy Justice, was named one of the top comedy cds of the decade by the Onion’s AV Club.
Check it out here.
Jon played with the Mountain Goats on last Tuesday’s episode of the Colbert Report. Check it out here:
Mountain Goats on Colbert
Tom recently did a couple interviews with the Village Voice and Marvel.com. Check ‘em out here:
Village Voice
Marvel.com
Come out to the Iron Monkey tonight at 8:00 pm and listen to the Best Show! There will be a meet and greet to follow on the Monkey’s rooftop. Lots of guests and surprises!!!!
THE IRON MONKEY
See you tonight,
Tom and Jon
Just wanted to say I hope you’re all havin’ a great Hoagie Fest.
I’ve taken a lot of heat for shuttin’ down Newbridge’s public transportation system (including cabs). But a new mayor wants to do something special for his employees and there ain’t nothin’ more special than takin’ a month-and-a-half off from work to enjoy fresh hoagies of all varieties.
To all you hoagie haters, it’ll do you good to walk to work. You think Mike Schmidt took the bus? Hell no! He ran to work…in cleats!
Ok, you may all sit down now,
The Honrable Roydon Ziegler
It’s been a busy couple years for Jon. He’s been touring the world non-stop with the Mountain Goats, Bob Mould, Superchunk and others. He just got done a UK tour with AC Newman, the solo project of New Pornographers leader, Carl Newman. You can read all about it over at Magnet Magazine.
John Mulaney is a standup and a writer for SNL and he’s super talented and he’s only halfway through his twenties. More…
This is the latest masterwork from Robert Popper, one half of the brain trust behind LOOK AROUND YOU, a show I put right alongside I’M ALAN PARTRIDGE in terms of sheer brilliance. More…
It’s like seeing Scrooge realize that he was once an innocent young goofball with all the world ahead of him. More…
Between the ramp up for the fundraising marathon, the two incredibly stressful weeks of the marathon, the inevitable post-marathon crash and the filming of a Nicholas Cage movie at the station during the 3/24 show, I feel that The Best Show has not been on its natural rhythm, as fun as some of those shows have been. More…
Hey, everyone! It’s Tom.
WFMU’s two-week long fundraising marathon just started. If you’re not aware of it, this is how the station raises money to stay on the air. More…
This just bums me out so much: More…
Nem Eagles let me down today. I ain’t been this upset since…well since yesterday when I couldn’t find my lucky 1970s Eagles toilet paper. Had to use my 1980s Phillies toilet paper. Hey, you don’t think that’s why we lost, do ya? Oh. My. God. It’s all my fault. I’m sorry nem Eagles!!!
Any guesses? Think hard! More…
I knew it the second I saw this go down on television New Years Eve. More…
What’s up every body? Guess who’s a published arthur?!
I, that’s who!
I got asked to write up my favorite rock and roll memories for a magazine called “Magnets.”
Thanks to Roy Jr. for help with the spelin’ and stealin’ the magazine for me.
A NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN:
I will use the word ‘manque’ three times through the course of this review. But I do not use it in jest; it for a very serious reason. I volunteer for a charity called “Stroke Off”, which promotes the prevention of Type One (extremely low grade) heat stroke. More…
Just wanted to to take a minute to wish everyone out there in computerland a merry Christmas. More…
In the face of all the nastiness out there - a group of fifty men dressed as Santa robbing a Cheeseburger In Paradise in broad daylight?! (couldn’t find link to story, sorry!) - here are THREE QUICK THINGS THAT I LIKE A LOT: More…
Hello, fine people! How does this winter morning find you on this winter morning? More…
A couple weeks ago I got a DVD in the mail from Patton Oswalt for a movie called THE SNAKE. More…
December 7th marks the 83rd birthday of my uncle Alvino Rey, inventor of the legendary ‘talk box’. More…
Long time no blog. DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT. More…
Pick up the current issue of the Onion for a nice AV Club feature on “The Best Show on WFMU.” (No online link available –this story is just that HOT!)
I wanna thank everyone in Newbridge for voting for me for mayor of your town. I would right more but I’m getting drunk. I hope you are to.
See you on January 20th!!!!!!!
As youse all know…well, those of youse in Newbridge, New Jersey who can read…EEEEHHHH HHEEEEEEEEE EHHHH HEEEEEEE!!!….tomorrow is election day in your awful town in that awful state. I think it’s also the Presidentnubenortorial election day, too. But that ain’t as important as this… More…