Jeremy Braddock

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"?

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*

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]

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!

YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films Eggs To Market (1964)

"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...

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.” ...

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

Great news. Good luck with the book!

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.”

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

Link in replies.

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

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

Ginsberg goes electric }}}}{ poetry and audiotape in the year of revolver and blonde on blonde

I wrote about the audiotape Allen Ginsberg used to compose his great Vietnam-War-and-media poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
@firesigntheatre.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

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

I could not agree more.

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

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

with Gili Vidan, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, 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

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 4 // Typewriters //

with Philly Typewriter and The World According to Sound

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.

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 3 // Buttons //

with Rachel Plotnick, Roger Moseley, and The World According to Sound
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social

@andrewcampana.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

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 2 // Containers //

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

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

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 1 // Extensions //

with Andrew Campana, Anna Shechtman, Erik Born, and The World According to Sound
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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

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.

THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN

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

📺 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

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
newbooksnetwork.com/firesign

and the Natural Guard!

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.”

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...

I'm reading Daniel Weizmann's neo-noir debut and a book about the media collective/comedy group the Firesign Theatre

What is reality?

He was right

His visit was our bellwether as we began to build Media Studies here. I later sent him the prospectus for Firesign and he wrote me back—*within the hour*—with an encouraging and substantive note. I did not know him well enough to have expected that. I'm sure many people have stories like that one.

Like so many others, I am so sad to learn of the death of Jonathan Sterne yesterday. A decade ago, he came to Cornell and asked why the humanists, STS people, Information Science, and Communication faculty weren't collaborating (look at the people you have!).