It's been a great 12 years. We have two more shows: one on Oct. 27 at the Continental Club, and one next month at Fitzgeralds around Thanksgiving.
Ryan Scroggins and the Trenchtown Texans are going on tour in November, hitting the following cities: Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, San Francisco, Reno, Sacremento, and Los Angeles. All of these shows are with Hub City Stompers. I noticed last week that linked to a blog called .
I thought, "hey, isn't Joe Mathlete in the Houston band called ?" and I looked at his blog and, yes it's the same guy and, lo, the blog was funny. This week I saw that the St.
Petersburg Times that mentioned the blog and "Houston rock band the Mathletes."
So I asked Joe Mathlete when the interest in his blog began.
I started getting a bunch of e-mails about the blog three or four weeks ago; I googled it and realized I'd recently been linked to by a bunch of other blogs and such.
I have yet to hear from anyone associated with the actual Marmaduke comic strip, but it would be kind of neat if I got a cease and desist or something just for writing a stupid blog.
The real question is whether or not the blog has resulted in interest in the band. Joe explains:
At least a little bit.
I did get an unusual number of MySpace friends the week and and everyone else linked to me, so I tried to capitalize by posting a bitter, petulant message detailing how strenuous explaining Marmaduke was, and how everyone who became Internet band buddies with the Mathletes just 'cuz of the Marmaduke thing should buy my album to give me more incentive to keep it up. Surprisingly, it worked on at least a few people, so maybe I'll be known as "the Marmaduke guy who guilts people into buying his CDs" instead of just "the Marmaduke guy." I can only hope.
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