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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · 14d

Sorry, @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social only just seeing this now. V glad you like the interview: there's a few more things like that coming.

Tom Lehrer at a rave is a pretty good idea. I assume you know his immortal letter (scribed at age 84) granting 2 Chainz permission to sample "The Dope Peddler"?

Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · 19d

Final ep of an 8-part series on radio sources for the Firesign Theatre's *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.*. This last installment felt eerily up-to-the minute. @firesigntheatre.bsky.social
[Links to all 8 episodes at the bottom of the post]

Firesign sources #8 / FDR Pearl Harbor address

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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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Sep 3

I mentioned a while ago that I was obsessed with the Firesign Theatre's comedy LPs as a teen. I just got a copy of Jeremy Braddock's Firesign, which deconstructs the technical and cultural composition of these albums. Talk about a treasure trove!

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The Firesign Theatre @firesigntheatre.bsky.social · Aug 15

"Eggs to Market: The Story of Automated Egg Processing" (1964, Film Associates of California), featuring uncredited narration by our own David Ossman (who says "I think I did a half dozen voiceovers for these guys"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRH...

Eggs To Market (1964)

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jul 15

part two of my trip into Ginsberg, audiotape, war, rock, &c.

Allen Ginsberg's 1965

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.” ...

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jul 9

Great news. Good luck with the book!

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Stand Up! Records @standuprecords.bsky.social · Apr 20

The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social had a long piece about Jeremy Braddock's book about the @firesigntheatre.bsky.social. Now available through @ucpress.bsky.social.

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We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.

There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute | Los Angeles Review of Books

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

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jul 9

Your podcast was a great thing, and not only the Firesign episodes.

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jul 1

I wrote about the audiotape Allen Ginsberg used to compose his great Vietnam-War-and-media poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
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Ginsberg goes electric }}}}{

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

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 30

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 6 // Artificial Intelligence, as reality //

with Steve Jackson, Mendi and Keith Obadike, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and The World According to Sound @mendiandkeith.bsky.social

Media Objects 06: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2

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

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 26

I could not agree more.

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 26

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 5 // Artificial Intelligence, as metaphor //

with Gili Vidan, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and The World According to Sound

Media Objects 05: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1

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

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 25

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 4 // Typewriters //

with Philly Typewriter and The World According to Sound

Media Objects 04: Typewriters

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

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 23

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 3 // Buttons //

with Rachel Plotnick, Roger Moseley, and The World According to Sound
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Media Objects 03: Buttons

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.

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 20

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 2 // Containers //

with Brooke Erin Duffy, Jeremy Packer, and The World According to Sound / @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social

Media Objects 02: Containers

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

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 18

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 1 // Extensions //

with Andrew Campana, Anna Shechtman, Erik Born, and The World According to Sound
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Media Objects 01: Extensions

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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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks for the good words, @johnebranchjr.bsky.social -- I'm delighted to know that you liked the book. And fair warning, I do have some forthcoming words of praise for Cheech & Chong, too (but not another book!) @firesigntheatre.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · May 9

The Library of Congress is a research library.

The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.

Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.

NO children’s section.

Even the general public has very limited access.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · May 9

Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?

Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · May 8

THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN

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Internet Archive @archive.org · May 5

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine.

“A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish.

🔗 Explore: web.archive.org
🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

Can the Internet Archive save our digital history? | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Apr 30

I had a blast talking with @leev.bsky.social on his great STS Peoples & Things podcast. Topics discussed: Firesign Theatre, the history of recording, Trevor Pinch, obscure robot statues. @ucpress.bsky.social @firesigntheatre.bsky.social
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Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums" - New Books Network

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Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social · Apr 29

and the Natural Guard!

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · Apr 26

An insightful article in #LARB by Colin Marshall brings back memories of 1960s-1970s Firesign Theater like "the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist." Contextualizes them, uncovers layers I had no idea were there. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther...

There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute | Los Angeles Review of Books

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

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