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Central Park black squirrel sighting! 😯🖤

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"Analog horror Johns aren't real. They can't hurt you."

Analog horror Johns:

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I MISS ABI WHERE IS SHE 😭😭😭

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cc @bells12

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WHY DO THEY LOOK SO HICK?!

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That's Dan Hickey, he and Brian Doherty both attended this Daryl's House show. Here they are with Marty. Three drummers, collect them all 🙌

Day 529

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Happy holidays! Here's a second season TMBG reference on "Third Rock from the Sun", circa Christmas 1997. It was presumably placed in the script by the creator of "Malcolm in the Middle", a Third Rock writer. Great to hear those familiar names from another amazing John, but why did Linwood have to stick Alex Chilton between our guys?? OK BOOMER

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If by "item" you mean official release and by "TMBM" you mean TMBG.. maybe the flexi-disc?

What item do you think is the most valuable TMBM-related item out there?

JF: I have no idea!

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Flans without glasses

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From the TMBG collection: It's my Steve Keene Pink Album cover painting. Keene is a Brooklyn artist well known for his extensive series of album cover interpretations and his "assembly-line Picasso" approach to mass production of his work. His technique is to cover the walls with 12" plywood canvases and paint many copies of the same work simultaneously.

Keene has stated, "I want buying my paintings to be like buying a CD: it’s cheap, it's art and it changes your life, but the object has no status. Musicians create something for the moment, something with no boundaries and that kind of expansiveness is what I want to come across in my work."

About twenty years ago I came across Keene himself selling some of his work on eBay, and I was lucky enough to acquire the one TMBG painting that he was offering 🙌

I presented it to the Johns for autographs at a 2005 in-store signing

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I had to go ahead and write the transcript for my Polka Club video, in which John & John talk about me during the show. This is without a doubt the most amazingly insane thing that I have ever typed up. Seriously, how the actual fuck is this real?? There are no words. I am losing my mind over this. 🫠

transcript:

(handed The Pick) TDK: Oh God. Oh God, it's happening. It's happening! (plays the guitar) TDK: Hey! (song ends) JF: Sorry, didn't mean to step on your solo there. This is uh, TDK over here stage right is celebrating his 300th They Might Be Giants show, ladies and gentlemen. He's been coming to our shows before we were in the band. (later on) JF: Holy shit, it's in the middle of the second set and it seems like it was only five minutes ago that I was.. 27 years old. JL: I wanna point out something on behalf of TDK, who is our longest standing fan. I think 300 is a major underestimation of the number of times you've come to see us. Am I right about that? TDK: It's 300 on Sunday. JF: No, no oh he's.. oh John, he's keeping count. JL: Oh, really. You are, okay. It feels like a thousand, I just want to say. TDK: The wiki keeps count for me! JF: He told me in the record store, John. JL: Oh okay, alright okay. JF: It's real. TDK: 300 is on Sunday! JL: Sure he's not lying? I think it was a thousand. JF: A thousand is a big number, John. JL: It's a big number, but it feels right to me.

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one of mine!

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Here's what happened to me on Friday the 13th. Before the first Seattle show we encountered John Flansburgh in Neptune Music, the venue's basement record store. I mentioned that Sunday would be my 300th show, and he congratulated me.

Later that night, when They began The Famous Polka I was hoping that Flans would let the front row play his guitar as is the tradition. Instead, he hands me The Pick. "Oh god. It's happening!" A moment later, I am formally inducted into Polka Club. 😲

John then announces that it's my 300th show. He's confused, but I'm overjoyed nonetheless. The show continues and later on in the middle of the second set, out of nowhere John Linnell decides that They need to discuss my show count again. Although he refers to me as "our longest standing fan", I'm not one to take undue credit. I didn't get started until 1993, missing out on the entire duo era of the live show 😭 and I think it's important to note that there are a number of fans that saw John & John in the 80's who are still attending shows today.

For example, in Seattle I had the pleasure of meeting one William Harker, who is just such a fan. If I wanted to take John more literally, I suppose one could say that I've spent the most time standing while attending roughly 11% of all known TMBG shows in history. 🤔

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Fast Forward to the final concert and I'm supposing that there might be some kind of acknowledgment of my actual 300th show.. but either way, I'm very happy with what has gone down. It's close to the end of the night when The Famous Polka rolls around once again, and I'm thinking.. no. There's no way that he's going to do it again and hey, I'm fine with that. Well, I was wrong.

Just in case, I already have my Polka Pick in my right hand when John places a second one in the left. I immediately pass it to Elizabeth and say GET READY. Then, we both get to play Flansy's guitar at my 300th show! How cool is that?? 🫠

Thanks to @realityminus3, @raventmbg and @valerie2776 for the footage! 💖

At the end of #298, I had let Marty know that my 300th was Sunday so he didn't go and write 300 on a drumhead via a sign that Elizabeth made for me to hold up before he ran backstage. She's the best!

So now it's that time and when Marty comes back out he's holding not a drumhead but his cowbell, which he has signed and personalized. Holy cow! I asked him to add the years that encapsulate my 300 shows. Wow, what a night! After 32 years and 300 shows, there's still never a dull moment. See you at the next 300! 🥰

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short jl noises compilation

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One of mine! (the last one)

✨️Flansy concert core✨️

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THREE HUNDRED THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS SHOWS, ONE BIRDHORSE 🐦🐴🙌