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Tall Rob
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Blog: https://thetallrobreport.blogspot.com/

Tesla Takedown Northbrook zines: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eDqHdqHSWMnS7dJLFTSIG-fIrgbq-C4U
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Tall Rob @grandrobert.bsky.social · Feb 4
Please let me know if you have any of these zines or recordings.
We can work out a trade.
Want List (digital copies are fine) -footage of The A-TEAM’s last show (2003/12/06) -footage of MUNICIPAL WASTE’s “Waste ‘em All” record release show (2003/02/08) -footage of KILLED IN ACTION’s gig in Palos Heights (2002/08/04) -Behind the Times, issues #1 and #2 -Killer Man, issue #1 -Breakout, issues #1.5 and #2 -Quick, all issues -Disgruntled Goat, all issues -Hey Soundguy, issue #1 -The Big Hurt, issue #1 -DANNY and The KETCHUPS CD
grandrobert.bsky.social
Reposting for the morning commute. Watch out for the animals.

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February 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
One important shift Goodyear and Gordon ask of us is to use “crash” instead of “accident” because the elements that lead to a crash can reveal who is at fault or what could be changed to prevent future crashes.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social

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I use crash here purposefully, as do the authors. The euphemism of a "traffic accident" instead of a "car crash" removes the violence of the action and also makes it seem like it's just one of those things that happens, like spilled milk. Nothing worth getting upset about. Happens all the time. The intent of using crash rather than accident is to illuminate the decisions that went into making the crash happen, whether "the driver did something wrong, or that better road design might have prevented tragedy, or that multiple factors -all of which could be addressed-stacked up to contribute to the outcome" (p. 13). It doesn't have to be this way and we can do something about it. The smallest thing you can do is to change the way you talk about these violent collisions of metal, plastic, and flesh. A crash has a cause, an accident does not.
February 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
“Is there Life After Cars?” ask Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon in their recent book.

Yes, and it is achievable in our time.

Read my review of Life After Cars in this week’s installment of The Tall Rob Report.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaon Naparstek; Thesis; 2025)
I know from having worked in publishing that the choice of cover art or design is not always up to the authors. Sometimes what is marke...
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February 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
Wait... I think this may be a new career path. A matchmaker but with an early literacy focus.

I'll administer spelling bee words to the pool of prospects my clients bring me.

"Yeah he's hot but when I had him spell 'meet,' he said M-E-A-T before I could give him the definition of 'a greeting'."
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d
Dating a man who can’t read is WILD. Ain’t no dick that good. Lord have mercy. Now I’m gonna have to institute reading tests for prospects, SMHHHH.
February 15, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
The 13-year-old in me is way stoked at this choice of cover song. It’s not like they were gonna do something by SARCÓFAGO or SEX TRASH or what have you. Still kinda funny though.
Fall Out Boy - Roots Bloody Roots (Sepultura Cover)Live in Sao Paulo/Brazil 2014
YouTube video by Fall Out Boy Obsession BR
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February 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
The other day, a friend of mine sent me a video of FALL OUT BOY covering SEPULTURA at a show in Brazil in 2014.

Seemed like it would along with this week’s post on The Tall Rob Report.

#falloutboy
None of This Rocks: A Memoir (Joe Trohman, Hachette, 2022)
The last time I saw Joe Trohman in person was at the Fireside Bowl at a THROWDOWN / BLEEDING THROUGH / NO WARNING show in December 2001...
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February 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
The other day, a friend of mine sent me a video of FALL OUT BOY covering SEPULTURA at a show in Brazil in 2014.

Seemed like it would along with this week’s post on The Tall Rob Report.

#falloutboy
None of This Rocks: A Memoir (Joe Trohman, Hachette, 2022)
The last time I saw Joe Trohman in person was at the Fireside Bowl at a THROWDOWN / BLEEDING THROUGH / NO WARNING show in December 2001...
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February 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Let's play a game called "Name that Band Based on the Music Critic's Description":

1 - "Trendy electro-disco beats go hand in hand with choirboy melodies (not cloying!) and a merry-go-round of neo-folksy synths to make a perfectly uncontrived pop soufflé."
February 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
All time?

Donald Rumsfeld
Rahm Emanuel
Charlton Heston

But also

Liz Phair
Bobbi Brown
Virginia Madsen

While I was there…

Chris Cox (inventor of FB’s News Feed)
Jaimie Branch
Joe Trohman
Liesel Matthews
Beck Bennett
williamadler78.bsky.social William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 7d
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Here are the two flyers for the show where Joe Trohman gave me the FALL OUT BOY demo on CDR. This was in 2001. I think the flyer with the revolver has the correct lineup. I kind of remember The KILLING TREE playing and I probably left after NO WARNING played.
Flyer for a HC punk show Saturday Dec 29th fireside bowl 2646 w. fullerton 4pm doors 5pm show $8 more info xtiradex@aol.com The image is a revolver with four bullets lined up under it, featuring the bands' names: THROWDOWN NO WARNING The KILLING TREE BLEEDING THROUGH Flyer for a HC punk show SICK MOSH There is a live shot of (probably) THROWDOWN and the band names are running vertically along the right-hand side of the flyer: THROWDOWN BLEEDING THROUGH NO WARNING BLACK WIDOWS (ex-BY THE GRACE OF GOD) PAYBACK Dec 29th fireside bowl 2646 w. fullerton doors 4:30 PM show 5:00 PM Price $8 more info xtiradex@aol.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
I’ve removed the photos that I had put in the original version of this review. They’d appeared in a zine with low circulation, so I feel weird about sharing them on here.

Later, I will scan and post the flyers from the show where he gave me the FALL OUT BOY demo, though.
None of This Rocks: A Memoir (Joe Trohman, Hachette, 2022)
The last time I saw Joe Trohman in person was at the Fireside Bowl at a THROWDOWN / BLEEDING THROUGH / NO WARNING show in December 2001...
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February 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Even though I haven’t spoken to him since 2001, I can still hear how he’d have set up this story as a monologue if he were to tell it to me in person.

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As for the content related to the band that made him iamous, the bookis informative without being boring. Some of the writing probably sounds better in an audiobook or stand-up performance because the jokes don't quite land in print. The reference to a bat mitzvah being a good deed involving purchasing his father one of Hank Aaron's bats is indeed hilarious (i.e., it's a mitzvah related to a bat, not a bat mitzvah in the sense of a Jewish girl reaching religious maturity). The fact that his mom later gave the bat to a contractor who was admiring it while working on their house tells you a lot about how she navigated the world and caused problems for their family.
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
Joe also showed that he was bound for a life beyond our suburban high school with his webzine, A Helping Hand. I was meant to do show or record reviews as “The Angry Green Giant.” I never ended up doing that but he got some interviews done.

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Later that year, he was doing an online zine called A Helping Hand and he interviewed CLUBBER LANG and FIGURE FOUR over email. I was supposed to help with the zine in some way by doing show reviews but I never did. I think he gave me the nickname of the Angry Green Giant and used a picture of Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z as my avatar. He also put his own spin on Adele Collins' mainstay question from I Stand Alone by asking both bands "When was the last time you made someone cry?" If you're not familiar, all of the interviews in ISA featured the questions "When was the last time you cried?" and "Pick a scar and tell a story about it." Steve Wiltse memorably used them in his interview with The A-TEAM in Town of Hardcore #6. In light of the way he was so clearly driven to do more than fuck around in the suburbs and go off to college, it makes sense that he wouldn't include these experiences in his memoir. They probably don't register because they were just part of him finding his way.
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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One of the parts of the memoir that was hard to read was about the kids who were a grade above me in high school brutally severing ties with Joe, who was a year below me. It didn’t seem to faze him in the long term but it had to sting at the time.

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It was hard to read that part, given that I remember how he looked up to those they guys and how they seemed to welcome him just the same . That ease with making friends seemed to have served him well with connecting with the scene elders in the city as he was putting together the idea for FALL OUT BOY. He was the one who introduced himself to me at the RACE TRAITOR / BURN IT DOWN / GOOD CLEAN FUN / BROTHER'S KEEPER / The JUDAS FACTOR show on March 6, 1999 at the Fireside. (Let me know if you have the flyer for this show.)
February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
I was thinking about Joe and his band and the scene we came from as I was replying to this thread from last week.
grandrobert.bsky.social Tall Rob @grandrobert.bsky.social · 12d
Pat Stumph’s evil twin brother Patrick Drumpf.
joeymcallister.com Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 13d
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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For this week’s Tall Rob Report, I have a lightly revised review of Joe Trohman’s memoir “None of This Rocks,” which came out a few years ago.
None of This Rocks: A Memoir (Joe Trohman, Hachette, 2022)
The last time I saw Joe Trohman in person was at the Fireside Bowl at a THROWDOWN / BLEEDING THROUGH / NO WARNING show in December 2001...
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February 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
Yo they changed the display but the text is still misspelled.
Along the way, we have never stopped in pursuit of excellece! Providing premium coffee blends is of utmost importance, while delevering the best quality of service is a must have. That's why maintenance team will make visit once a week, to restock, refill, clean and maintain the machine, so you don't have to.
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
For this week’s Tall Rob Report, I have a lightly revised review of Joe Trohman’s memoir “None of This Rocks,” which came out a few years ago.
None of This Rocks: A Memoir (Joe Trohman, Hachette, 2022)
The last time I saw Joe Trohman in person was at the Fireside Bowl at a THROWDOWN / BLEEDING THROUGH / NO WARNING show in December 2001...
thetallrobreport.blogspot.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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lol

Hamburger Straße
arandommap.bsky.social Random Map @arandommap.bsky.social · 10d
Somewhere near Kaltenkirchen, Germany

53.83313, 9.95235

🕢 👨‍👦 🍚 🏡 🚩
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February 9, 2026 at 10:28 PM
grandrobert.bsky.social
The names of the teams in Super Bowl LX can be parsed as two-word sentences:

Pat riots.

Sea hawks.

[a person named Pat engages in rowdy public behavior]

[a body of water makes a sound akin to clearing the throat]

Combined, they form a sentence implying cause-and-effect:

Sea hawks; Pat riots.
February 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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grandrobert.bsky.social
Unpacking has a great soundtrack, too!

The only song with lyrics tugs at my heartstrings.
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 AM
grandrobert.bsky.social
Unpacking has a great soundtrack, too!

The only song with lyrics tugs at my heartstrings.
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 AM
grandrobert.bsky.social
Happy Bandcamp Friday (better late than never edition)
KASSIE KRUT Kassie Krut KHADIJA AL HANAFI !OK! UM, JENNIFER? Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark PRESERVATION & GABE 'NANDEZ Sortilège
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Pat Stumph’s evil twin brother Patrick Drumpf.
joeymcallister.com Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 13d
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
A very emo looking ICE agent.
February 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM