Freakshowcase

The Freakshowcase is coming this Monday night. Everything should be ready. Just bring cash for booze. The nonsense begins at 9:00 and will wrap by 11:30 or so.

Come and see

Foz the Hook: Cheerful songs about Shame and Disgrace.

Cameron Esposito: The sweatered comic who brought you Grab Them Aghast. (That link to Amazon means yes, you are supposed to go and buy Cameron's album. Now would be a good time).

Band of a Thousand Names: Thay're not your grandmother's parody band!

Be there before 9:00 because FtH is prompt, baby!

(Click on Patrick's poster to enjoy the full awesomeness).

A Lurid Disgrace!

Did you see how much Foz the Hook drank later tonight at Cole's? They were so wasted! Erin took this picture of them about ten hours from now. I think they closed the bar tomorrow morning.

Patrick was so drunk he is going to fall off his drum stool. Leon is going to forget how Cutie Pie! goes, and it only had like two notes.

Did you see Foz trying to flirt with Cameron? I seriously don't think he even knows. Not that his drunken slurring of minor Neruda poems would work on any woman. Ooooh - he memorized Poeme XX! Watch the ladies swoon. What a dork!

Shameful! Disgraceful!

If you want to see how Foz the Hook disgraced themselves tonight come to Cole's Comedy Open Mic at 8:00 or so. Sign up if you're a comic. FtH should began playing at 8:45 or 9:00 and host Cameron Esposito takes the stage at 9:15-9:30. Otherwise just toss back some $2 PBR's from Travis Bartender and knock yourself out. Don't try to buy the band drinks. They're cut-off.

The Greatest Show on Earth!

For the record, I think Tod Browning's 1932 film "Freaks" is a poignant and jarring commentary on the skewed obsessions that people have with concepts like Beauty and Normalcy. Any lover of great cinema should put it in their queue and watch it seriously. That said -

GOOBLE GOBBLE!

Check out Patrick's fantastic poster for Foz the Hook's upcoming Freakshowcase. The inclusion of the Rev. Jim Jones as a member of the band stands as proof that sometimes ideas are still funny after you get sober.

Join Your Old Pals on Monday, August 2 as we welcome the great Cameron Esposito, along with the Band of a Thousand Names to FtH's first monthly Freakshowcase at Cole's Bar. As always, the show is free of charge - something Messrs. Barnum and Baily cannot say of their show.

There will be more. But for now get your details from Patrick's poster.

Come out to Cole's Monday night and be ONE OF US!

There Will Be New Pics

Because they are here!

As you all know Foz the Hook's staff photog, Erin Nekervis, shot some sensational and scandalous pics of the band before the comedy open mic at Cole's a couple of weeks ago. I have seen them, and they are wonderful.

Thank you so much, Erin! I will post a few of them from time to time. I especially like this one, which shows my good side.

Ladies! If you want to see Foz's bad side come to Cole's tonight for the weekly comedy open mic. All of your favorite comics will be there. FtH open the show at 8:45 or 9:00, and CameronorAdam will tickle your hippocampus at 9:15 or 9:30. It doesn't really matter when it starts, because you will be there around 8:00 to buy the band drinks.

See you tonight!

A Billion Stars Out Tonight.

No time for blather, kittie cats. Tonight is Rich Zito's debut of NIGHT OF A BILLION STARS, at the Edge Comedy Club at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts. Foz and the boys open the festivities at 8:30, and then Rich will host a night of comedy action involving the likes of Kent Haines, Lane Pieschel, Ever Mainerd, Dara Katz, Crish Sowa, and I don't know - like a billion other great comics.

Many Fascinating details are on the poster, which you will see right here.

It is Saturday. There are drinks. Come and see the show!

Cutie Pie!

Hey, kittens!

After almost a year of threats, I finally did the ten minutes of work needed to compose the bridge to the long-awaited Foz the Hook hit "Cutie Pie!" You will have to come to the show tonight to see us play the bridge, but here are the lyrics to the first, second, and fifth versus:


Hubba hubba,
Cutie Pie!

The song is empowering to women and establishes Old Foz's cred with Women's Studies majors and Roller Derby ladies.

I think you're going to love it. Especially if you like the Roller Derby like we do. Maybe the Windy City Rollers will make us their house band, and make Cutie Pie their anthem. They might do that. Or they might kill me dead.

Patrick thinks they're going to kill me dead.

Join FtH tonight at Cole's at 9:00 as we open the house for Cameron and Adam and every funny person in Chicago. If the list is long we might start early. This should not be a surprise. I suggest that you arrive by 8:00. That way, ladies, you can stake out a good seat any buy Old Foz a drink.

I think he likes you. Are you a Roller Derby lady? Oh yes, he likes you!

Are There Really a Billion Stars?

I suppose so. I've never counted. The real question is "Are there more stars than stacked turtles that all of existence balances on the backs of." But I don't know the answer to that either. I've never been able to count more than a few turtles at any one place at any one time.

Which brings us to your plans for Saturday night, Ms. Cutie Pie. Do you want to go out? There's going to be a swell night of funniness at The Edge Comedy Club at the Chicago Center for the Performing arts. Rich Zito is hosting A NIGHT OF A BILLION STARS, which features a peck of screaming good comics, such as Kent Haines from Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham," and Lane Pieschel from ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live National Comedy Championship," and Ever Mainard, the muse who inspired the FtH song Spring in the Square with her fine "Homeless Men With Boners" bit.

You know who else will be there? We will! Foz the Hook! Your best buddies and favorite band! We're playing! Playing, do you hear me! Oh, it's going to be awesome. We will be doing a set of greatest hits to open up the evening and make the room hot before the aforementioned stand-ups blow-out your brain plug like BP popping an oil balloon in the Gulf of Mexico. Who wouldn't want to do that?

It costs $12 at the door, and less if you talk to Rich, who will be at Cole's tomorrow night when we play there like we always do.

Read all the details here. I can't wait. In fact, I'm going to play the piano right now.

Will There Be New Pics?

We hope so.

After a frank consultation with FozMom it has been determined that Your Old Buddy Foz has failed to provide sufficient numbers of pictures or grandchildren. I thought that you Ladies would always enjoy the attached "All Belgians are Equal" head shot, but now I understand the importance of frequent updates and babies.

With an eye to addressing one or both problems tonight the talented and highly recommended Erin Nekervis will join FtH at Cole's to take some new publicity photos, and perhaps snap a few live action scenes of the evening's scandalous activities. The whole act, Foz, Leon, and Patrick are depending on Erin to catch some swell images of Your Favorite Band, so that You Ladies can swoon over our dreaminess.

Then, after the swooning, FtH will light up Cole's so that there is plenty of heat for Cole's Weekly Comedy Open Mic. It's the best comedy mic in town, so don't miss it. We think that the magnificent Cameron Esposito is back in town to host. If not, Good Old Adam Burke will escort you through and evening of brain-shredding laughter. FtH plays at 9:00! The comics go at 9:30. You can start drinking whenever Cole says it's ok, and it's always ok.

Be Safe This Holiday Weekend

Listen to your Old Pal Foz, my friends. I know how much fun it is to get a little wild while celebrating the 4th of July, but please be careful out there this weekend. Don't mix alcohol in if you wish to make safe fireworks. Just protect yourselves, that's all Foz is saying. Like it says here in an old favorite poster that Jeff Drake found, you can't beat the Axis if you get VD.

After you have your safe good times this weekend join FtH for some distinctly risky behavior at Cole's this coming Monday night, July 5th. Your Buddies begin playing at 9:00, and we go until we finish. So come on out to Cole's to put a cap on your holiday weekend. Your Crush Foz will be drinking whiskey, ladies, so get ready to make some poor life choices.