And now here comes a video from the unfathomable T Bill featuring Xy and yours truly at the Kroger grocery in Bloomington, Indiana, circa mid ’90s. I guess I gave this raw footage to T Bill when he visited years ago and then forgot about it. I never expected to see it again. But, lo [...]
I’d like to start a campaign to recognize July 7th as National ROX Day, because — Well, I think we all know what happened on this day back in 1992. However, modesty forbids me from launching such a campaign myself, just as I had to wait for someone else to write our Wikipedia entry. Any [...]
Probably my oldest friend that I am still in regular contact with is J, famous to some as the bumbling bartender on ROX. I’m on a first-name basis with his family, though I haven’t seen much of them lately. I almost feel like they are a second set of distant relatives.
So it was particularly upsetting [...]
April 15th is shaping up to be one of my favorite days of the year. Taxes are due, which is a drag, but so what? I always file early.
Thirteen years ago today I was amongst the team that put the first TV show online. I’ve been bragging about it ever since. I have to. [...]
Some friends have suggested posting old ROX videos on YouTube.
I wonder if this is a good idea?
Dear B,
My name is Adam and I have been recently tasked with interviewing a media figure for a journalism class. Since I was unable to contact the Watson’s girl, I am hoping that you can help me out. I have been a long-time and appreciative viewer of J&B on the ROX. The [...]
In anticipation of tonite’s massively hyped match between the Saints and the Colts, I’d like to draw your attention to ROX #82: The RCA State.
In this episode, we visit the famed RCA Dome, scene of tonight’s action. Note that this was shot back in 1995. But it’s still relevant, dammit. Watch it if you don’t [...]
ROX #94, “Hangover Cures,” is finished. The core video was shot in the Quarter about a month before Katrina. Putting it together was a labor of love.
Check it out. (Warning: Contains pickled herring.)
I’ll be hawking some ROX at the Antigravity Alternative Media Expo this Saturday, so come by and harrass me.
I am shocked to learn that rox.com and all its subdomains are being blocked by a Milwaukee law firm’s IT department.
Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the premiere of the very first episode of ROX.
In honor of this august yet shameful occasion, I’m posting a song by Scott Evans, fortuitously titled “Fourteen Years” (mp3, 1.5 MB) — although to be honest the title is a sheer coincidence. This was recorded live at the Neutral Ground [...]
A few months ago I helped some students at Indiana University who were working on a short documentary titled “From New Orleans to the Midwest.” They got in touch with me through my video mentor and teacher Ron Osgood and asked if I could shoot some footage of New Orleans. So I shot some scenes [...]
We’re looking for dubs of certain early ROX episodes.
I finally got to see “This House Must Go,” the special that aired on The Learning Channel last week, thanks to the efforts of a friend who recorded it and rushed me a DVD.
The program itself was somewhat interesting, but of course I’m precoccupied with the segment featuring Xy and myself. I’m happy to report [...]
Another .rox blogger: Welcome aboard to Lee, the DVD Guy who will be blogging at magic.rox.
If you’re a paid subscriber, you can read about us in today’s Bloomington Herald-Times. If you’re not paid up, you can’t access the article, because of newspaper has adopted an overly restrictive policy, and I would never, ever do anything to violate that policy. So I’ll just tell you that it’s a very nice write-up [...]
If you wanna get a flavor of what ROX #94 might be like, check out these segments I’ve posted. These man-on-the-street interviews were conducted in the French Quarter one month before Katrina. They are just rough cuts, so they’ll be subject to further editing.
Special thanx to Erik Brewer for running camera, to Scott Brown for [...]
Welcome aboard to another rox.com blogger. Avid fans of the ROX television series may remember Kelly from such classic episodes as An Amazing Concatenation of Events, A Toast to Poverty and Coping with the Shock. She’s now living in Milwaukee with her husband Paul and their beautiful baby girl.
Her blog is at cheese.rox.com.
The Beyond crew has come and gone. They consisted of an Australian director, a camera guy from Pittsburgh and an audio guy from Metairie. They shot an interview with us on Thursday, plus some scenes of us walking around our gutted basement. (Earlier in the day they got a termite expert to examine our damage, [...]
I was contacted last week by an Australian television production company. They were looking for a termite-damaged house and they’d read about us in the Times-Picayune. They were interested in shooting a segment about us for a special on real estate disasters which they’re producing for The Learning Channel.
I told them if they wanted to [...]
Xy and I are back in our flooded home, trying to help rebuild New Orleans.
If you are looking to get in touch, hit my celly at 812-391-0818. Or leave a comment on a post. Or you could e-mail me. I don't like to publish my address because of spam, but it's easy to deduce: the current four digit year at ye olde rox dotte com.
I use the sobriquet "Editor B" when writing here to maintain a minimal level of privacy and freedom. Plus, nicknames are cool, and I've always wanted to be cool.
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