Her Own Abe!

 Hey, you sick, cynical comics and hipster artists!  Did you like your super-ironic Honest Abe Art Show?  Watch this, and if it doesn't melt your smirking black-hearted souls, then, as far as I'm concerned, you can just keep whining about not getting laid for the rest of your worthless lives!  

Love,

Your Pal Foz

New Abe

There is a new Abe at Cole's!

First.  The Honest Abe Art Show opened at Cole's last Sunday night.  Your old Pal, Foz and the rest of FtH was there to play a hot set of Abe-centric songs including Beautiful Dreamer and Hard Times, and Pablo Picasso.  The original art is fantastic, and Abraham Lincoln Book Shop provides a display of historic Lincolniana.  It's quite the thing.

But the purpose of the Honest Abe Art Show was to select a new Abe to grace the walls of Cole's, and for comics to make fun of.  We will never forget the Black Velvet Rivera Abe, but we can learn to love again.

That's why we have selected a new Abe, and it is an untitled work by Zachary Hart Baker called Untitled.

I like it because of the penetrating skeletal eyes and the use of multimedia wah wah wah...

You know how it goes.

Be at Cole's tonight for Cole's Comedy Open Mic, featuring Cameron Esposito and Adam Burke, and Cole's new Abe.

All hail!!

Bobblehead

You would think that one would think twice before selling a John Wilkes Booth bobblehead doll at a National Park like Gettysburg.  No.  I'm not going to link to the story, because I like those guys and they already pulled them off the shelves.

Too bad.  Where will I get my Booth bobblehead now, to round out my collection of Charles Guiteau, Lee Harvey Oswald, The Guy Who Shot McKinley, and of course, Jeffrey Dahmer?

Hey!  Meet us at Cole's tonight at 9:00 and we'll chew the fat!  Ha Ha Ha!

Jeffrey Dahmer - chew the fat.  Ha ha ha!

We play at 9:00.  The comics go crazy at 9:30.  You get to bed at 2:30.

Sic Semper Tyrannis!

William H. Townsend | The Lion of Whitehall Cassius Clay | CD Baby

William H. Townsend | The Lion of Whitehall Cassius Clay | CD Baby

Foz-related work topic.  This guy is a riot.  Buy the CD from my day job via CDBaby.

Love,

Foz

This is Awkward

You know that I never tire of writing about the subject of love.  Foz the Hook has a bunch of love songs, including My Kind of Mess, and the Ballad of Casino Kit.  Someday soon we will put songs like Between a Bed and a Chair and Her Head on a Pillow back in the set, which will shock and confuse you with their not-funniness.  In those cases we have substituted good for funny with the help of a dead gay playwright from St. Louis (Note:  As far as I know Tennessee Williams died of old age – we had nothing to do with it). 

Love.  This brings me to the subject if our recent appearance on the live podcast performance of Awkward Moments by Collin A. Bullock.  It was a pretty great show, and we recorded it with Collin and Mike Lebovitz, Chris Condren, Jacob Williams, and Byron.  Collin has completed the post-production stuff and the recording is now available for your listening pleasure.

We played a little at the beginning and the end.  But, in the middle Collin embarked on a mission of trying destroy as many romantic relationships as possible, and the comics who stood the lose the most played right along.  There are some pretty wild moments in there, and Mike Lebovitz provides some particularly hilarious and soul-searching insights.  It’s like he also understands that in comedy it is often useful to substitute good for funny.

Anyway, the show definitely lives up to its title this time – awkward and funny.  It is well worth your time listening to it, and not just because we play at the end.

Also, speaking of good and funny:  will you be at Cole’s tonight at 9:00?  FtH will be opening the comedy show like we always do.  We never play the same set the same way twice.  In fact, every single song we have ever played over the course of two years has been different than every other performance. 

That’s what I call love.

AB(e)DUCTED Art Show Announced

Hey, Abe Babies!

I don’t need to remind you that Foz the Hook is the only comedy band that is officially recommended by Abraham Lincoln, the Sixteenth President of the United States.  We discussed this some time ago with the lovely ladies at Re:COM Mag.

There are a number of factors this endorsement addresses.   These are important, so listen carefully.  First, if you do like Foz the Hook, and our album Gin-Soaked Yankee and Other Disgraces you are on the right side of history and your descendants will remember you as a Hero of the Republic.  Second, if you don’t like Foz the Hook then you are for the institution of human chattel slavery.  We’re not judging.  Make your own choices.

Next, we all remember that last December The Master Thief struck at Cole’s Bar and purloined the famous black velvet “Rivera” Lincoln (Seen here in one of the few surviving pictures).  This has broken hearts all over Logan Square, and even caused some comics to question the Meaning of Life.  In order to head-off this counter-productive streak of self-evaluation Tracy Kostenbader and the good folks at AnySquared arts cooperative are sponsoring a show:

The Honest Abe Art Show opens on Sunday, March 25 at Cole’s.  Check out the AnySquared events page for all of the details.  The most important thing to remember is that FtH is preparing an Abe-centric set list of songs that were Abraham Lincoln’s favorite songs, including Stephen Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer, Jonathan Richman’s Pablo Picasso, and the original 19^th Century arrangement of Vibrating Chicken Stomp.  So mark your calendar for March 25,  Be at Cole’s that night as a new Abe is selected and crowned.

Until then, be at the Cole’s Comedy Open Mic each Wednesday night at 9:00 to see FtH and your other friends drive you out of your mind.