Firesign Theatre
Temporarily Humbolt County
I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama!
Ralph Spoilsport Motors
Stab from the Past
Forward into the Past
The Breaking of the President
Deputy Dan Has No Friends
La Bomba Shelter
Bear Whiz Beer
Give Up This Day
Take some remarkably prescient plotting (1974 s Everything You Know Is Wrong works as a parody of today s paranormal craze) and add absurdist wordplay ( May I take your hat and goat? ). Factor in a fertile social and polit.
more »ical milieu courtesy of always-good-for-a-yuck Richard Nixon (like our erstwhile president, they began campaigning in late 67 and by 74 were truly hysterical, albeit in a profoundly puzzling manner). Voil&aagrave; The Firesign Theater, the only comedy group that took full advantage of the recording studio and the long-play record (they aspired to be the Beatles of comedy, but it was the Beatles of Revolution 9, not Love Me Do ). Here is the fundamental overview of humorists who made mirt
Gillmor Gang: Off The Record
Of all the gin joints etc. etc. Clubhouse continues to confound those who don’t believe in the restorative powers of the Next Big Thing. It doesn’t make sense, they say, that an audio service based on live podcasts will change the course of human history. And they are right. Social computing is in the doghouse in the wake of January 6 and the former president. But the folks behind Clubhouse have gotten a few key things right.
The main thing is that in the beginning of the return to some rational possibility for the suppression of COVID, we’re opening our hearts to the hope we’ve abandoned for more than a year. Our children are crying at the prospects of returning to school, to the classroom, to the hallway rendezvous with friends, to the safety of the arc of life translating across generations and family stories. We’re tentatively daring to believe in things we took for granted even as we rebelled against them in our youthful exploration of th
R.I.P. ED PEARL, ASH GROVE
Feb. 25, 2021 at 6:00 am
I DIDN’T KNOW ED PEARL
Never even met him. Only went to the resurrected, mid-’90s Ash Grove on the Pier a few times during its brief run. What a surprise: Pearl said he got a lot of grief from the City, even though they were supposedly trying to revitalize the Pier as an entertainment center. Among other requirements, he had to spend more than half a million dollars to refurbish the old Billiards Building, next to the carousel. Then the City evicted him less than a year later.