F. O. K. A. T.

St. Baldricks Day

2007-03-14T23:27:00.000-04:00

Well, they did it!! Thank you to those who donated to team Justin & Keith!! Their team raised over $1500 and the overall Fairfield event raised over $336,000!! Doesn't that feel good? Below are some before and after pics from the event. Nice heads!

No Reason To Stop Now!

2007-02-17T00:48:00.000-05:00

Just because Tom and Kerry are back is no reason to stop our postings! Pete Galub and The Annuals played the Magnetic Fields in Brooklyn. There was even a Chuck and Laura sighting!

whassup with the rilleys?

2007-01-02T11:19:00.000-05:00

Seeing as how I am a faithful follower of the online tabloid, kerryandtom.com, I thought maybe I should return some news. Now that it is the new year (my resolution is that I am not going to get older this year -- think I'll keep it? Okay, maybe I'll just try not to LOOK older.) Kerry and Tom might be wistful at the thought of their loved ones from home and some real down home plumbing. I do admit I did not check in during the month of December. After all, I am a mom and we know what December means for moms. It means absolute chaos. So, assuming you are still well and somewhere far east of here, I'll check in again tomorrow (couldn't connect with your site today -- you having a server problem?), as I am having withdrawals from vicarious travel.

The Rilleys and Mackins are all grrrrrrreeaaat. Did you all know that Jimmy and his lovely wife, Meghan, had a baby boy, Liam James Rilley in August? He's a cutey and the spitting image of his dad. Freaky, in fact. We're hoping he grows into his ears and hands and feet. Billy is happy doing accounting things. I am happy singing in my first real rock band. Now that is way cool. And a fantasy at 41 -- hope they don't find out how old I am. LOL. Mckenna (5) is still running me ragged and charming everyone in her path. When you next meet her, hold onto your wallets. Cassidy, (9) just started a weekly podcast, of which she now has 2 entries. Link: http://web.mac.com/meremer When you find yourself languishing in some ho-hum exotic rice patty (sic), listening to Cassidy's podcast is a good pick-me-up. She dons the NPR voice quite well!

I guess I don't really have anything of substance to say after all! Hmpf. It all pales in comparison to trekking in Nepal (You had no idea that has always been a life goal of mind, did you? I'm not kidding!). Take care of those cute red shoes, Kerry!

Meredith (representing all the Rilleys)

P.S. the photos: Liam, Cassidy & Mckenna, the Mackins looking their best, the 4 of us holding Liam (not in that order). I hope I did it right and they are not too obnoxiously big, or anything. If they are, sorry!

Christmas in Brewstah

2006-12-26T22:50:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas, Kerry & Tom! We all had a blast - as we usually do - but we missed you both dearly. We wrapped a beard for Tom, though the dog got into it...

See MORE PICS HERE

mmm...American Shite Food

2006-12-18T23:07:00.000-05:00

What do you miss most about America?
Don't you miss McDonald's? i know you do...

Merry Xmas

2006-12-05T15:51:00.000-05:00

Merry Xmas Kerry and Tom!
We desperately miss you and hope your last weeks of travel abroad are the best:)

xoxo
Callie, Justin & Indy

Happy Holidays from Indy and the Grinch!
(aka Assquatch)

Hello Blog gods, I have answered your call...

2006-11-06T17:48:00.000-05:00

So, there I was, a few days ago, googling myself (mmmm) as I rarely do (okay, a few times a day at least), and I saw that somene wanted to hear from me. Someone wanted me to tell them about myself on the computer! Someone wanted to sell my cd for only $1.99. Okay, well, maybe all of the above. The truth is, I miss Tom and Kerry and the FOKAT community. Goddammit, I miss them so much, I actually called them on my cell, to see if they might answer. When I heard Tom's monotone voice, a tear welled up in my eye. I left them a message. Did you guys get my message?
Anyway, a lot of things are happening in my world. The biggest recent change is that I moved in with my lovely girlfriend and am now BACK on the Upper West Side. It's been over 13 years, but Mama, your boy is home. I actually was a little skeptical at first, but am enjoying the vibe and the place a lot. I also got a new kind of working situation which suits me way better. I am teaching guitar a lot. In fact, if any of you want lessons, know someone who does, let me know. Then I have a part time job working at an interesting organization called The American Composers Orchestra. They have been around for about 30 years and help.. you guessed it.. American composers to get heard. So that's cool. I also teach on the guitar staff of Henry Street Settlement every Thursday. I've been teaching "rock band" to one 9 year old kid- the only person enrolled. His favorite band is Joy Division. No joke. What are these parents teaching their children these days?
In music releated news, the new Pete Galub album (as yet untitled), which features Tom's excellent bass-playing and voice is in fine form, but won't be finished til next year. An MP3 single is in the works, possibly for each song, but we'll see. the Annuals played a nice show a month ago with the Silos and Amy Allison. A funny highlight was that Freedy Johnston was in the audience and really dug it. If you knew me in high school and college, you would have known I was a HUGE Freedy Johnston fan, and still am to some degree. So there he was at the bar because a friend of his is a fan, and he tagged along. Wow, that was a little nerve-racking. He said we were great and I was an amazing guitar player, so that just about made my year.
FInally, who are these impersonators that simply call themselves ANNUALS? Has anyone heard this band? I hope they're at least really good. Might this mean the end of Pete Galub and the Annuals as a band name? A name I came up with in 1997? Just in case I have a backup name- Pete Galub and the Moils...
Tom and Kerry, and FOKAT I hope you got some sense of what I'm up to and are having the best time.. I don't think New Zealand can happen due to funds and lack of funding, but next year.. in Jerusalem..
love always
pete galub

Marching Cigarettes

2006-11-06T13:04:00.000-05:00

I put this very short film together for all the cigarette lovers and haters out there. My brother composed the music. I just figured out how to put this on a web page. I hope I'm not overstepping my posting bounds.

Tom and Kerry have heard of YouTube, right? How long have they been gone?

Assorted piles you are missing in New York

2006-10-31T16:14:00.000-05:00

Some recent NY strangeness that may be considered strange, even for New York...

- crossing the street near 24th and 6th other day, I came across a pile on the corner that was large, gelatinous, and purple. I paused about 4 feet from it, standing just short of the curb and now vulernable to the ass-bumping whim of cabbies, bike messengers, and blind pedestrains (btw - I work near a freindly neighborhood Home for the Blind, so there are plenty of stick-weilding sunglass-wearing types around) So, back to the purple glob pile - wotdahellizdat? for a moment, i thought it was the beginnings (or end of) some street coagulation, a blacktop "red tide"; perhaps this is the sort of thing that was once looked over, and next seen taking over a bowling alley and then the entire city. I eventually figured out that someone dropped an industrial sized jar of jelly on the ground, and was kind enough to pick the glass out - leaving just the 2 gallons of jelly, free from the burdens of glass, free to just wiggle in the street breeze. Trust me, it looks stranger than it sounds.

- then of course there was this. I had nothing to do with it, mind you...

Da Boy lost in Paris

2006-10-23T22:32:00.000-04:00

4 nights, 5 days in Paris.
Ah divine!

Cosmic Guidance & the Afterlife

2006-10-21T17:15:00.000-04:00

Doggie Defender - Agra

It takes the ever-presence and epic-travels of super-special peppy-people through very special-spacious palace-places to enable the necessary unfolding of exceptional events to take an historic place among us. As many of you may have known, our PuppyKins - our BeautiBaby - our LoveLove Nico passed on to other dimensions back in March exactly ten days after the best-wedding-in-the-whole-world took place on the 4th. After the reasonable passing of just 48 hours, sightings of our PrettyPoopie began to arrive from friends across the country - she was seen illustriously begging food up in a former San Diegan's Harlem kitchen, carousing in the dreams of many... oh, our LumpyLumpkins was just about everywhere.

But on viewing Kerry and Tom's pictures from Agra - I realized that our NobleNico had become their DoggieDefender and was watching over those very shoulders of our esteemed daring duo. That all three are ever-watching over each-and-all's sleepy-shouldered-shleppings gives me joy guaranteed never-in-need reassurance that life is cosmic ever-after. Woof! Woof!

Carolina Shack Impact

Meanwhile, stateside my WonderWife FieFie is living in the ghetto of Waynesville, NC with her two cockatiels (UnunctuousUla & CleverClarisse) and her new PeePeePuppy Clementine - a wise-ole-woman rescued from the puppyfactory with her vim'n'vigor intact and her bladder ever-untrained... I'm sure everything will dry out in due course, she is in the desert mountains of North Carolina, n'est ce pas?! In the in-between-times when she is not pet-caring, Fields is taking/ teaching classes at Western Carolina University in the especially-esteemed focus-field of Restoration Ecology. One of her fellow students, J*nny, expressed deep concern for the recent influx of Tree-Hugging-Hippies, not to mention "Mexicans!Oh MY!", and so pledged her deft-duty to maintaining the Sea of Red despite Droppings of Blue ever-so-often into the Region of Green. The other folk present at the time (Fish & Game Warden track) missed the comment for turkey season was upon them and much was to be planned.

Badge of the Butterfly

Completing the global circuit, I attempt to anchor the meanderings of all my LovedOnes with root in San Diego. Oh precious moment of approaching graduation... it has been a longtimecomin' and I'm all about the senioritis and bad attitude expected of an antsy-anchor. To maintain supple sanity I have recruited the edge of the jade to cast readings of the butterfly upon my back - meaning is of little consequence, it is the process that holds the pearls clenched in its tenacious grasp - how I would love a meal at table with our Daring-Darling-Duo so we could exchange pearl, jade, persimmon, turmeric, and thyme - the wonders of the world never cease to surprise, invigorate, and nourish. Now, as I look to reentry into the cosmic life of the living and the world of the ever-after I hold Mark Twain's words at breast, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

Where are ya', Pete?

2006-10-11T09:39:00.000-04:00

Pete Galub?
Pete Galub?
Where art thou Pete Galub?
When is your next show, Pete!
We've missed the last few, and are in need of a fix only a dealer like you can provide...

Some Quick Catching Up with Laura & Chuck

2006-10-11T00:15:00.000-04:00

Laura and I went to Cape Code this past weekend and had an absolutely wonderful time. Great sandy beaches, giant dune cliffs, and the leaves were changing colors. Windy as hell, bu it's a nice place. In fact, we're thinking of renting a place for a few days next year in Wellfleet, and hoping for a decent band playing at The Beachcomber. Lots of white people up in that Cape Cod, though...

Last week we went to see Built to Spill with The Boy, Callie, and Billy Kow Fung. Camper Van Beethoven opened, and were a joy to see. Lots of bushy beards on stage - but not like Tom beards, more like science teachers . And of course, amongst all those beards were lots of white people.

Went to Colorado a few weeks back for Big Ed's wedding. Nice place, that Colorado is. Wore a kilt, because Eddie's a Scottish/Irish mutt, like us Ackers. Saw an elk. Now THAT'S an American animal. I know on this trip you have seen many exotic animals: elephants, yak, camel spiders, and the occasional hair lice. But an elk is a good ol' American animal. Scrubby. Raw. Pantless. And bearded. Just like an American animal should be. Saw lots of white people out there, too.

We all threw that party a few weeks back for Mom & Dad. Christi and Steve cooked up a hell of a meal on that lovely mountain, and we all had a ton of fun. Grandpa was his usual fantastic self, we all sang songs about Barb & Chuck, who were in a wonderfully loving mood. Lots of white people here, too. But the GOOD white people. In fact, the greatest. Here are my favorite pics:

How do I get in on this FOKAT thang? Read below, or click here

2006-10-09T10:50:00.000-04:00

Calling all Friends of Kerry and Tom!!

Calling all friends and allies of the happy newlywed couple from Brooklyn!

Calling Lynn Messinapotemia!
Linda Barthelona!
Pete Galibpoli!
Judy Pray-for-a-peaceful-Thai-coup!
Johnathon Yangsterdam!
Dan Nepali!
Greg Howes-the-Himalayan-mountain-oysters!
Rachel Kappr-illegal-alien!

Welcome to FOKAT - Your source for news on the Friends of Kerry and Tom.
The intent of FOKAT is simple: as they make their brave, adventurous, and mostly unshowered journey across the 20% of the world that is considered dry-and-sometimes-mooshy land, they sometimes have access to the wonderful on-line world to check email and make posts to the popular kerryandtom.com site . If you post at FOKAT, it will allow them quickly and easily access to the latest news and gossip back home in one fun place. And it also allows us all to keep track with each other, now that we don’t see you all anymore…

As a FOKAT member you have the exclusive right (and gosh darn duty!) to:
* post pics of your new baby!
* share news about the latest ass kicking at the local pub!
* pass secret codes to the clandestine CIA-sponsored hit squad who pose as a "happy newlywed couple from Brooklyn"

What are you waiting for? Become a member TODAY by emailing chuck at chuckack@hotmail.com

wheeeeee!!!!!!!

Indy on line

2006-10-06T14:31:00.000-04:00

Callie and I got home from work late one day and found Indy on the computer surfing the net, clicking on porn, chat rooms, etc. We later learned she even created her own website. What a sick animal she is......any way, view for your pleasure..as you can see she has a few friends

click here to see Indy be Not-such-a-good-boy

Dennis makes a video -- and wears fleece!

2006-10-06T13:29:00.000-04:00

Hey! What's wrong with fleece? Don't Kerry and Tom know just how warm and comfy it is? It's getting colder here in Brooklyn. I'm breaking out my fleece.

And I put this short music video/film thing together. It was fun.
Maybe there will be a Chris Moore and Sons video soon, too.

Hopscotch

Hope things are going great out in the world!

Josh Diesel in Greece

2006-10-05T16:11:00.000-04:00

Josh Diesel recently visited the hallowed ground of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The Uber Band was greeted with enthusiansm by the locals. In the picture above, the band spreads their aural cheer with a resounding rendition of "Mr Mo Po Ding Dong" at the foot of the Parthenon.

After the show, the band consumed copious amounts of cheese and wine.

As they say in Greece, Alpha Omega, Tau! Josh Diesel!

Here is a pic of me in Block Island

2006-10-02T14:40:00.000-04:00

Looking for Kerry and Tom Dot Com

2006-10-02T11:57:00.000-04:00

Ok. We've posted the latest for now in our simple lives. Now we want YOU Kerry and Tom to fill us in on how things are going in Thailand etc...

Kristen and Omar get hitched

2006-10-02T11:52:00.000-04:00

Here is a photo of Kristen and Omar from their wedding. Omar's dad surprised them with a 3 piece Lebanese band and we all learned a traditional fun native dance. Sort of similar to hava nagila (however you spell that!). Even Da Boy and Glenn boogied to it. Priceless!

Sebastian Rivera Morey

2006-10-02T11:46:00.000-04:00

Sebastian Morey was born 8 lbs, 20 inches on Thursday, September 21st. Here are a couple of pics of the new babe. He already has multiple nicknames. Elvis (due to his sideburns), Sea Bass, Micro Meat... oh the list is endless. All are doing well and Sean is stepping up as the big brother.

Charles & Barb's Anniversary Party

2006-10-02T11:36:00.000-04:00

Here are a couple of pics from the anniversary party.

Welcome to FOKAT!

2006-09-26T15:20:00.000-04:00

is this working?
can someone tell me if this damn thing is working?
Hello?

Helllooooo?

its not plugged in. Laura. i don't think you plugged the damn thing in! aaaah crap...