feminist poultry farmer

I joined because I like TMBG but I don't know what I'm doing here otherwise.

[teomodo]

AHHH!

[crittaslink]

I liked the part where they showed a group of men in their mid 60s something on a small screen.

[crittaslink]

don't forget! tomorrow!

[bloggingintheflowers]

(A photo of John Flansburgh with his Gibson ES-330 guitar and John Linnell with his Titano accordion, taken in the early 80s)

[glamourradiation]

Linnell, on BlueSky: "Back in the day we taped a polaroid camera to a stick. Hilarity ensued."

[crittaslink]

[tmbgareok]

hand embroidered the flood logo!!

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[tmbgpics]

Day 769

[crittaslink]

"high"

[tmbgareok]

how did you manage to put such raw emotion into the beast of horns version of i'll sink manhattan?? the original was incredible too but like ... wow

JF: well, thanks! To be candid I'm just trying to sing it like a real singer. In pitch and with some power. Like a lot of self-taught performers, there is a fair bit of imposter syndrome rolling around in the back of my head, so having a piece of material like that is a challenge. I don't want to pretend it isn't a "big" vocal, but I am always a bit nervous about delivering it.

[tmbgareok]

[guywithartism]

Just finished my Flans portrait!

Started and finished on 30/01/2026

[tmbgareok]

What does the phrase "both eyes in the same socket" mean?

JF: I have been told it means really drunk or really high or really nuts.

[cornerphonebooth]

@ Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY (2023-01-14)

[tmbgareok]

JF: as you may know, I am on TikTok at FlansyFlans, and TMBG has a feed at tmbgofficial. I also watch TikTok, and my algorithms have stirred my nascent interest in antique watches. I ended up getting shown videos by this fellow Andy who tracks people showing (and sometimes showing off) their watch collections "without their permission" as he says. Although the format kinda invites cruelty, he remains surprisingly positive. This is a video I made hoping to have him rate my (imaginary) watch collection--essentially riffing on the unique terminology of this watch collector world, but I fear he didn't take it in the spirit it was posted. (Hard to know but he posts daily and has definitely not replied).

So, in hoping it can find another audience, I am posting it here. #andyswatches #flansyflans

[tmbgareok]

TMBG MANDELA EFFECT!

Ok, I don't think it counts as a Mandela Effect when it's just one random guy misremebering something but I will swear on my immortal soul that I used to hear the king of liars line in the studio version of Road Movie to Berlin. I don't even listen to live versions so the only explanation I can think of is that I read the lyrics and imagined it 😅.

Still, it's such a cool line, is there any particular reason you didn't include it?

JF: So I believe I left out a verse by accident when recording it (nerves I guess) but it was discovered before the album came out so we included the full lyric in the printed materials...

[sirbun-tmbg]

Linnell with the Dial-a-Song accordion <3

full pics below

1988, shot by Lynn Goldsmith (i posted this full shoot here)

1988, shot for Infashion magazine

1988, shot for Newsday by Erica Berger

1989, shot for New York Magazine by Lynn Goldsmith (again!)