Best day:
-Browsing for hours to find the album worth spending my meager babysitting fund.
-The clerk who got me to buy a Firesign Theater album by acting out his fav bits.
-Sliding my fingernail along the plastic wrapper to take out the record.
-Reading the cover while listening to the music.

Very New Year, Jane

Man in all the times I've heard that song I never allowed myself to hear "sweet banana"

for the occasion I also pulled together the full series of audio posts that I wrote about Firesign and radio history this fall. These spoke more and more about the contemporary sitch as they went on.
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social @bartona104.bsky.social

An excellent idea. Do you know this one? Sort of the opposite of Tangerine Dream, but a pretty great appropriation of EYKIW mrdibbs.bandcamp.com/album/outer-...

(unintentionally sanctimonious post, above ^)

Satire is complicated in ways that the satirists sometimes don't consider. Kind of amazing that the Onion has stayed strong all these years (or is once again strong)

v. sorry to hear it - I don't mind the ramble

consider it done

Unless it *is* flying in places we wouldn't look for it. In any case, I agree some of that stuff is great, but I couldn't stop thinking that it's actually them pointing the gun at the dog, and telling you you're responsible for the dog.

Thanks, @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social baja cranberry whatever! The Lampoon story is vast and deserves someone from the outside to take it on (i.e. not fanboys or themselves). Looking (listening) back to that stuff I kept thinking how it would never fly today .

Yes, ripped from the maw of the historical void—or more specifically from an open reel tape marked simply "Claypool"!We've uploaded WAV and MP3 files to the Internet Archive where they'll be saved for posterity and free to all comers. Now FINALLY this great art by @mahendra.bsky.social can pay off

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"?