Ed Note: Boingboing’s current guest blogger Gareth Branwyn writes on technology, pop and fringe culture. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Maker Media. Recent projects have included co-creating The Maker’s Notebook and editing The Best of MAKE and The Best of Instructables collections.
Back in the early ’90s, at print bOING bOING, we all took a shine to a Bloomington, IN cable-access TV show called “J & B on the Rox,” or just “Rox” (in Wired, Mark called Rox “the best TV show in America”). It was pre-Vlog, proto-YouTube, Wayne’s World meets Michael Moore’s TV Nation (on prodigious amounts of herb and alcohol). These guys were good. They made it look effortless. And they never took themselves, or their show, too seriously.
Now, through the reconnective magic of Facebook, I’ve found my Bartender J again! Turns out, he and B are back to putting out periodic episodes and releasing some cutting-floor specials, like the video seen below. The most recent episode, Fifteen Months of Katrina, is a moving look at B and (wife and Rox regular) Xy returning to their home after the hurricane and trying to make sense in the aftermath.
J & B also have a new podcast, called J & B’s Nightcap.