16 track album

The Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.

the Beatles Christmas records and the Beatles-Firesign connection

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vernacular Firesign Theatre scholarship of 1974

comedy and airplay in the 1970s — the game Cheech & Chong won (and then got tired of winning)

comedy and radio airplay in the 1970s — the game Cheech & Chong won

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radio sources for the Firesign Theatre's *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All*

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In my last post (see above), I was writing about Allen Ginsberg’s audiotape experiments, which he began in late 1965 and produced one of his greatest poems the following year, “Wichita Vortex Sutra.” ...

Colin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”

poetry and audiotape in the year of revolver and blonde on blonde

In the previous episode, we heard how so-called artificial intelligence is being sold to the public as a revolutionary, inevitable technology that is going to completely transform society. This claim

With today’s so-called generative artificial intelligence, we’re being told that we have finally arrived. We’re now beginning to build true “thinking machines,” machines that will do everything a huma

Text written with a typewriter is not the same as text written by hand, composed on a computer, sent in a text message, or generated by artificial intelligence. Like all media, the typewriter does not

We increasingly interact with the world through the binary, on/off medium of buttons—from keyboards and appliances, to the digital interfaces of phones and tablets; but it didn’t have to be this way.

While extensions are masculine coded and deal with tools that extend what human beings already do, containers offer a different and more feminine concept of media: something that selects, stores, and

Writing is an extension of our voice, cars of our legs, guns of our fists, telephones of our ears, televisions of our eyes…Marshall McLuhan considered all media to be technology that extended the huma

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Colin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”

Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, the daughters of Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, grew up in the heart of Concord, Massachusetts’s f...

More Firesign promotional doings.

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President Donald Trump, still bitter about the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago, has asked for a "list" of National Archives staffers to fire.