Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} 's Big Book of Plays by The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays by David Ossman. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH reproduces both of Firesign's Big Books, originally published in 1972 and 1974 by Straight Arrow. Packed with photos, explanatory prefaces, collages, and the weirdly cool typography typical of High Seventies Style, these must-have script collections at one stroke put to rest any question of just what these guys were saying on all those records and stoked new, unending arguments about just What It All Meant (and simultaneously deployed a hysterical, historical motherlode of theatrical lore guaranteed to trump anyone at a Booth or Barrymore family picnic). Out of print for at least three decades, both books have been rebuilt from the ground up using original source materials to exactly match the original layouts. Collected under one cover, MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH puts the best known Firesign works together for the first time and provides readers with the unique word-for-word wordplay which was often confusing - er, confused with that of James Joyce during Firesign's heyday. The four major titles - Electrician, How Can You Be, Dwarf and Bozos - collectively present Firesign's prescient look at technology, the media, American history and paranoia (especially in the classic "Beat The Reaper!" gameshow.) The Giant Rat is their tribute to British "Goon Show" humor; , Third Eye has become the classic send-up of both the "noir" detective story and Golden Age radio; and Everything You Know Is Wrong mashes up every New-Age trope of the Seventies in an always-timely reminder of what happens when gurus come in the front door and critical thinking goes out the window. Features a new introduction by author, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus. PAPERBACK EDITION AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE FIRESALE STORE. The Firesign Theatre began their long comedy career in 1966 as radio satirists, based in Los Angeles. Before their debut LP Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him appeared, Firesign began performing together live over the newly-hippified KRLA-AM. Direct from their sold-out broadcast performances in late 1967 at The Magic Mushroom, a popular rock club in Studio City, EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE presents ten surreal classics in which the Four Firesign undertake to play dozens of characters in stoned variations on prison escape movies, whaling sagas, jungle adventures, Roman epics, Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Ali Baba along with "educational" films and a day in the life of your TV set. Tokes and jokes take the four or five crazy guys a little higher by the end of every show. Some said Firesign itself was a new psychedelic drug! Exorcism and Your Daily Life The Séance The Last Tunnel to Fresno Twenty Years Behind The Whale By The Light of the Silvery The Sword and the Stoned Sesame Mucho The Armenian's Paw Tile It Like It Is A Life In The Day. PROFILES IN BARBEQUE SAUCE brings together sixteen of the Firesign Theatre's stage, recording and broadcast performance scripts from the earliest years of their long collaboration. From 1967, the Summer of the Love-In, to the Not Insane! Martian Space Party of 1972, Firesign performed on stage at small clubs and large venue benefit concerts, over AM and FM radio and on the road. PROFILES collects the group's timely political satire along with the most surreal, psychedelic and politically incorrect humor from the classic high times of the "Beatles of Comedy." International Youth On Parade Temporarily Humboldt County W. C. Fields Forever 38 Cunegonde A Shadow Moves Upon A Land Freek for a Week Profiles in Barbeque Sauce Thanksgiving, or Pass The Indian Please! The Fuse of Doom The Count of Monte Cristo . nd Of The World The TV Set Mutt 'n' Smutt The Dr. Blojob Show The Ash Grove Encore The Bob Sideburn News The Martian Space Party. More than just a rousing send-up of Shakespeare, ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO is a full-length theatrical entertainment, written and re- written continually throughout The Firesign Theatre's long performing career. This volume collects every iambic double entendre and silly soliloquy into a surreal comedy opus, complete with Firesign's "scholarly" introduction, tongue-in-cheek footnotes, diagrams, and even recipes! Firesign has infused the classic Shakespearian scenes of hurricanes at sea, witches capering about a cooking pot, apparitions on the battlements, graveyard passion and mortal combat in ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO with their notoriously twisted political and social humor - a devastating oil spill, alchemical terrorism, sleezy politics and Hollywood shenanigans are all part of the laughs. As Firesign tells it, the legendary writing/acting quartet has been around, writing and performing plays since 1600 when they collaborated with the Bard on ANYTHYNGE before taking their act on the road to the New World. Reborn in the Old West as "Dr. Firesign's Theatre of the Plains," these have since worn many disguises and had countless high adventures on stage, in movies and over the radio. The tales told here fill in the comic mythology of Firesign's most popular recorded worlds, connecting Nick Danger and George Tirebiter to Hemlock Stones, The Electrician, and "Everything You Know is Wrong." Bonus scripts include 1967's radio saga "The Armenian's Paw" and an early club-act favorite, "Waiting for The Mount of County Crisco." Filled with photographs from performances, along with graphics by Bruce Litz, ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO is truly Firesign's major work of high comedy. (Also of note: the companion Anythynge You Want To CD, available here in the Firesale store!) Marshmallows & Despair is David Ossman's shocking, awesome, poetic coverage of 21st Century War and Politics, tales of neo-noir nights in strange places, poems of aging, dying, and seeking refuge. This definitive collection celebrates Ossman’s 79th birthday and features a captivating cast that includes Beat St. Jack, Banana Clip Republicans, Funny Skydivers, as well as an Elegy to Rock Snot. You’ll be sold on Presidential Butts In Butter, exposed to Heisenberg at Holmes Harbor, visit the House of Garden Gnomes, and celebrate the Tulku’s Birthday. Enjoy a healthy dose of Ossman's Firesign humor matched with his own outrage, anguish and hope. Additional details can be found here. Autographed copies are available WHILE THEY LAST!! Dr. Firesign's Follies combines Ossman's insights on the Art of Radio and the creation of Firesign's audio oeuvre with his scandal-filled account of a tumultuous year as Surrealist Party candidate for U.S. Vice President. Included in the book is material from "The Firesign Theatre: An Intimate Geography, Essays by David Ossman 1972-1998" (his self-published book from 2000, long out of print). The radio play scripts in the book feature many of Ossman's favorite comedy characters - George Tirebiter, Ben Bland, Peggy Koolzip, Beat St. Jack, Maxwell Morgan and Mark Time. Additional details can be found here. This comedy/mystery novel, set in Malibu, Mulholland and Musso's and in CBS Radio's Studio A during the Golden Age of Radio, introduces George Tirebiter (then a 25-year-old comedy star) in his first "celebrity detective" role. The book is illustrated with archival photos of the major characters and contains a Tirebiter filmography and David Ossman's memoir of his long friendship with Tirebiter, one of his personal Radio Heros. For readers who can't get enough of George, the opening chapters of Tirebiter's next mystery, "The Flying Saucer Murder Case," are included as a preview of his future adventures. Additional details can be found here. NEW! It's been such a long exposition, you know. Countless hours spent poring through the personal archives of Firesign group members and devoted fans alike. Fragile, aging reel-to-reel tapes handled with great care and transferred to digital media for restoration. Information and images gathered, processed and refined. Interviews conducted, transcribed and edited. The whole enchilada cubed, reheated, inspected, injected, detected, filtered, digitized, edited and assembled to perfection. Yes, thanks to the tireless efforts of official Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen, we are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the complete, mammoth, authoritatively definitive and totally awesome : The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era 1970-1972 book and DVD-ROM combo pack. The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays by David Ossman. "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH" AVAILABLE JANUARY 14! FIRESIGN PLAYS ARE BACK IN PRINT! PAPERBACK VERSION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FIRESALE STORE. (Please Note: Pre-Release Orders Only) (Los Angeles, CA - December 3, 2013) - Out of print for more than 30 years, the Firesign Theatre's two classic script collections, The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays and The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book are returning to print in a single volume with never-before- published bonus material, MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH, available exclusively from Greil Marcus. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH presents all the words to Firesign albums whose titles alone have entered the American language: Everything You Know Is Wrong, How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All and I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus. This new Big Big Book features Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers, called "the greatest comedy album ever made" by Rolling Stone, described by the New York Times as "a multifaceted work of almost Joycean complexity," and placed in the Library of Congress' Archive of historic recordings. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH also contains Firesign's most popular works, Nick Danger, Third Eye, an occultly noir radio gumshoe who has inspired innumerable copy-cats; Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him with its famous "Beat The Reaper" game show; and The Giant Rat of Sumatra, their definitively druggy Sherlock Holmes parody. Several shorter pieces include "Temporarily Humboldt County," a savage pageant of Native American exploitation. And the book includes, for the first time in print, the complete script to Firesign's 1974 Nude Age opus, Everything You Know Is Wrong. Called "The Beatles of Comedy" by The Library of Congress, the four-man Firesign Theatre collaboration wrote and performed together for over forty years, but their early studio work (1968-1975) for Columbia Records remains their best known and most influential. Innumerable phrases from their albums have entered the English lexicon: What's all this brouhaha? More Sugar! What you don't mean won't hurt you! Not Insane! ! Shoes for Industry! Your brain may no longer be the boss! He's no fun, he fell right over! The iconic comic voices of the counter-culture generation, Firesign chronicled pop, politics, media, and technology in a tense one listener called "the Future Inevitable." Reading the scripts gives clarity to their layered dialogue and presents the group as the original and innovative writers they are. The Firesign Theatre has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey and Bob Dylan in their original use of language and to the surrealists in their psychedelic story-telling methods, including the time-and-space altering concept of "channel-switching." The original albums, intricately produced in multi-track recording, were designed for multiple listenings and meanings - an audio Theatre of the Absurd. The Firesign Theatre's passed away in 2012. Remaining Firesigns , Phil Proctor and David Ossman have worked since then to preserve the long heritage of their partnership. All their major albums are still in print, some eighty hours of their early radio broadcasts have been released in Duke of Madness Motors, and two matching volumes preserve their early radio plays ("Exorcism In Your Daily Life") and stage plays ("Profiles in Barbeque Sauce"). A fourth book, Anythynge You Want To, not only captures the many variations of Firesign's Shakespeare send-up, developed in their stage repertory over thirty years, but offers a scholarly account of the heretofore unknown adventures of Ye Olde Firesygne Theatre, from 1600 to 2000. Their next scheduled re-release is a deluxe CD reissue of their 1985 album "Eat or Be Eaten", to include 28 minutes of never-released bonus tracks and a bonus video, coming soon from archival comedy label Laugh.com. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH will be sold only from the group's official Firesale Store on FiresignTheatre.com. It is currently available for pre-order. The book's official release date is January 14, 2014. Price postage-paid is $35 ($40 for International orders). The latest news from Firesign can be found at their Website, and on the Firesign Theatre's Facebook page. The members of Firesign are available for interviews - please direct inquiries to the Firesign Theatre contact form. To request a review copy, please contact Taylor Jessen at. Publicity images can be downloaded from this page. PAPERBACK EDITION AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE FIRESALE STORE RESERVE YOUR COPY BY PLACING A PRE-ORDER IN THE FIRESALE STORE. Pre-order now through the Firesale Store. One of the last remaining out-of-print Firesign titles, Eat or Be Eaten, is returning to CD very soon exclusively from Laugh.com. The 1985 comedy saga of "Player" (Peter Bergman) and his quest to get in and out of a buggy video game before it eats him alive has been out of print for two decades. The album's world of Kudzu County was built and developed by Firesign over four years in a project that took the form of a computer game, a Cinemax special, a comedy album, and even a never-produced sitcom pilot. Laugh.com's new CD reissue includes the complete original album, 28 minutes of unreleased bonus tracks, and a bonus Quicktime movie of Eat or Be Eaten with subcode graphics: until now seen only by that rare few that purchased the original 1985 CD release (the world's first CD+G disc!). The package also features never-released game art, plus a new historical essay by yours truly explaining the whole convoluted history of Eat or Be Eaten, starting with the never-produced video game that's now lost to history. or is it? Check the Firesign home page as well as the Press Release index, Facebook and/or Twitter for more information and updates. DR. FIRESIGN'S FOLLIES by David Ossman (paperback) Author David Ossman has been contributing to popular culture since he chronicled Beat-era poets on his New York radio show, The Sullen Art , in 1960. He became a Boomer-era icon on The Firesign Theatre's classic albums, Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him and as Porgie Tirebiter on Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers . Ossman has played Carnegie Hall, voiced an elderly ant for Pixar, gigged with John Cage, portrayed Mark Twain, e. e. cummings and Catherwood The Butler. He was an early FM broadcaster and contributor to underground media, later a prize-winning producer for NPR, a playwright and performer for the BBC, three-time Grammy nominee, and co-creator of the Mark Time Awards for Science Fiction Audio. Ossman and his wife Judith Walcutt share a Lifetime Achievement "Angie" Award given at the 2007 International Mystery Writers Festival. The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays by David Ossman. Hail Satire! is talking about comedy! Hosted by Vic Shuttee, Hail Satire! has gotten interviews with some of the best in the business: stand-ups, screenwriters, directors, actors, improvisers, content creators and more! And then there's the specials: comedy brackets, best of lists, debates and discussion, live improv, original sketches and series recaps. Plus critical analysis of comic institutions like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live and the films of Christopher Guest. Keep laughing, keep crying, keep yourself from dying. Phil Proctor and David Ossman on Firesign Theatre's Return with "Dope Humor of the Seventies" on Vinyl. Conversation #183, recorded on October 28, 2020. It's a two-parter with the surviving members of the FIRESIGN THEATRE, the great Phil Proctor and David Ossman. As one of the best selling groups of comedy vinyls from the late 60s, including DEAR FRIENDS and DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, Phil and David share the details on their first vinyl release in decades entitled DOPE HUMOR OF THE 70s! Featuring 44 tracks and a PDF book of amazing original writing scraps, Phil and David tease their upcoming books, podcasts and digital releases. Hail Satire! is hosted and produced by Vic Shuttee. Further credits at hailsatire.com - Big thanks to Robert Price for our original theme music and Brendon Duran for the Hail Satire! logo design. About the Podcast. Hail Satire! is all about comedy! Host Vic Shuttee has landed interviews with some of the best in the business: stand-ups, screenwriters, directors, actors, improvisers, content creators and more! And then there's the specials: comedy brackets, best of lists, debates and discussion, live improv, original sketches and series recaps. Home of The Daily Show Weekly Podcast, co-hosted with Chandler Dean, The Christopher Guest List, co- hosted with Mike Bloom and Scott White Rants, starring Scott White. Keep laughing, keep crying, keep yourself from dying. Credits: Hail Satire is hosted by and produced by Vic Shuttee. Vic Shuttee (brown shirt) headshot by Pin Lim. Vic Shuttee (salmon shirt) headshot by Colin Sims. Vic Shuttee (blue shirt) headshot by Caitlin Turnage. Vic Shuttee (pink shirt) headshot and Scott White headshot by Natasha Nivan Photography. Hail Satire logo by Brendon Duran. The Daily Show Weekly Podcast logo by Riad990 on Fiverr. The Daily Show Weekly Podcast and The Christopher Guest List artwork by Felipe Flores Comics. Hail Satire theme song and Guest List intro song by Robert Price. The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays by David Ossman. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING UPDATE, July 2020: Please note that due to the COVID19 pandemic, international packages outbound from the U.S. are experiencing a Customs delay in the U.S. of at least 30 days, with additional delays of a week or more in the country of their destination. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience. Shaped sticker featuring everyone’s favorite mythical creatures from the cover of “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers”. Exclusive limited edition of 250 stickers: comes with two bonus stickers, “Raw Raw Raw” and “Holy Mudhead, Mackerel!” (Firesign Theatre does NOT recommend sticker-bombing these slogans on every public interface in your town, so of course you totally should.) Dimensions: shaped sticker is 4” square, smaller stickers are 2-7/8” square. From the birth of Hip radio in L.A. the classic Radio Free Oz logo sticker returns. Celebrate a cantilevered dialectic of topical righteousness with this little classic no one’s seen since the Johnson administration! Dimensions: circlular, 3.5” diameter. Ya gotta clone, so show your Firehead pride by joining the Brotherhood of Zips & Others. Guaranteed to turn any object into a bus! Dimensions: 11.25” x 3”. (Previously, this bumper sticker was only made available with the purchase of a Ralph Spoilsport License Plate Frame. Now, the sticker is available as a separate purchase item.) You're On the Airlie: A History of the Art of Radio , written and performed exclusively for the Airlie public radio conference in Virginia on 4/22/1979. Revisit radio's greatest moments –The Egyptians invent the wireless society! FDR reads the funnies by the fire! And the glorious Hindenberg lands safely in New Jersey! Joey's House : a channel-switching fantasia featuring Joey Demographico and his family watching (and making) a full day of TV. Yves Sanstoul goes up against American celebrity fashionistas, Bosun Bob teaches the kiddies to draw a dead cat, Nick Danger stars in "Frame Me Pretty", and the whole household shills for God on "Pay the Lord". Fighting Clowns : The complete 1980 album based on their Roxy stage show. Firesign goes into full Brecht mode as they rip hell out of America's presidential candidates in The Year The Brain Stood Still. Songs galore! Plus a slew of bonus tracks including the never-released "Meanwhile in Billville", their one-act play about the town fathers who put drugs in the milk so their kids could take home the gold at the Billville Alternate Olympics (an idea they later stole from themselves to form the kernel of their 1999 CD )! American Pageant 1981 : Live on tour in the first months of the Reagan administration, Firesign unpacks and re-builds their "American Pageant" piece from 1969's How Can You Be album, taking it down new roads never travelled in the original. Featuring those classic new old folk songs "The Four John Browns", "No One Came Marching Home" and "Dropping Those Bombs Again". By the Light of the Silvery : Firesign reprises their classic 1967 Magic Mushroom play at the Sherlock Holmes fan convention Sherlockon in Los Angeles, 1/24/1981. Hemlock Stones and Batson return from chasing the Giant Rat of Sumatra only to face a new, more challenging plot – the moon has disappeared! Lawyer's Hospital : In 1981 Firesign captured two killer live performances on tape, one in Denver and one in San Francisco, that formed the backbone of the 1982 Rhino LP Lawyer's Hospital. Featuring the soap opera of the same name, singing group The Eight Shoes, and TV matinee host Ben Bland, this expanded version includes all the live material from the LP plus much more from the original tapes. And there are more extras, including bits rescued from the only known recording of their 1979 live show "The Owl & Octopus Show" and Firesign radio appearances from their 1981 tour. Meanwhile the included PDF features 80 pages of photos, posters, drawings, LP artwork, liner notes, articles, interviews, and more. Fighting Clowns of Hollywood: Live 1979-1981 is available exclusively from Firesign's store on Bandcamp. A 9-track, 34-minute free promo album and promotional JPGs are available for download now from this link. It is January, 1977. James Earl (Jimmy) Carter has been elected, and he will soon be sworn in as the 39th President of the United States. The Firesign Theatre (fresh off their own Surrealist Party Campoon) takes on the task of welcoming the new President and introducing him to the residents of his new home, Ducktown, USA, which is inhabited by the usual unusual Firesign characters, from drunkards to truckers, and from TV hosts to rocket scientists. Plus, the occasional Indian is passed around for good measure. 2017 remastered version includes 18-page PDF with original album artwork, press kit, news articles, live performance photos & more. More than 7 hours on two DVDs, most of it coming to home video for the very first time! In Everything You Know Is Wrong , reporter/seeker Harry Cox finds reality overtaking his conspiracy theories as the American Southwest is hit by aliens, comets, nudists, daredevils, psychics, fried eggs, holes to the center of the Earth, and proof that our Forefathers took drugs! Also included: Martian Space Party , a half-hour concert film from 1972; Questions & Answers Live at UCSC , a full 1975 stage show; Firesign's 1971 appearance on local L.A. TV show About a Week , featuring their short play "The Bob Sideburn News" and a group interview; The Jack Poet Volkswagen ads, a beyond-belief series of eight real TV ads Firesign performed in 1969; More than three hours of home movies ; . and much more , including new commentaries, photo galleries, and extra surprises! Seekers, you'll say: "Now I've seen it all!" International customers: This DVD is Region Zero (i.e. No Region) so it should play in any DVD player in the world - as long as your player can play NTSC video. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH reproduces both of Firesign's Big Books, originally published in 1972 and 1974 by Straight Arrow. Packed with photos, explanatory prefaces, collages, and the weirdly cool typography typical of High Seventies Style, these must-have script collections at one stroke put to rest any question of just what these guys were saying on all those records and stoked new, unending arguments about just What It All Meant (and simultaneously deployed a hysterical, historical motherlode of theatrical lore guaranteed to trump anyone at a Booth or Barrymore family picnic). Out of print for at least three decades, both books have been rebuilt from the ground up using original source materials to exactly match the original layouts. Collected under one cover, MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH puts the best known Firesign works together for the first time and provides readers with the unique word-for-word wordplay which was often confusing - er, confused with that of James Joyce during Firesign's heyday. The four major titles - Electrician, How Can You Be, Dwarf and Bozos - collectively present Firesign's prescient look at technology, the media, American history and paranoia (especially in the classic "Beat The Reaper!" gameshow.) The Giant Rat is their tribute to British "Goon Show" humor; Nick Danger, Third Eye has become the classic send-up of both the "noir" detective story and Golden Age radio; and Everything You Know Is Wrong mashes up every New-Age trope of the Seventies in an always-timely reminder of what happens when gurus come in the front door and critical thinking goes out the window. Features a new introduction by author, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus. PAPERBACK EDITION AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE FIRESALE STORE. The Firesign Theatre began their long comedy career in 1966 as radio satirists, based in Los Angeles. Before their debut LP Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him appeared, Firesign began performing together live over the newly-hippified KRLA-AM. Direct from their sold-out broadcast performances in late 1967 at The Magic Mushroom, a popular rock club in Studio City, EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE presents ten surreal classics in which the Four Firesign undertake to play dozens of characters in stoned variations on prison escape movies, whaling sagas, jungle adventures, Roman epics, Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Ali Baba along with "educational" films and a day in the life of your TV set. Tokes and jokes take the four or five crazy guys a little higher by the end of every show. Some said Firesign itself was a new psychedelic drug! Exorcism and Your Daily Life The Séance The Last Tunnel to Fresno Twenty Years Behind The Whale By The Light of the Silvery The Sword and the Stoned Sesame Mucho The Armenian's Paw Tile It Like It Is A Life In The Day. PROFILES IN BARBEQUE SAUCE brings together sixteen of the Firesign Theatre's stage, recording and broadcast performance scripts from the earliest years of their long collaboration. From 1967, the Summer of the Love-In, to the Not Insane! Martian Space Party of 1972, Firesign performed on stage at small clubs and large venue benefit concerts, over AM and FM radio and on the road. PROFILES collects the group's timely political satire along with the most surreal, psychedelic and politically incorrect humor from the classic high times of the "Beatles of Comedy." International Youth On Parade Temporarily Humboldt County W. C. Fields Forever 38 Cunegonde A Shadow Moves Upon A Land Freek for a Week Profiles in Barbeque Sauce Thanksgiving, or Pass The Indian Please! The Fuse of Doom The Count of Monte Cristo . nd Of The World The TV Set Mutt 'n' Smutt The Dr. Blojob Show The Ash Grove Encore The Bob Sideburn News The Martian Space Party. More than just a rousing send-up of Shakespeare, ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO is a full-length theatrical entertainment, written and re- written continually throughout The Firesign Theatre's long performing career. This volume collects every iambic double entendre and silly soliloquy into a surreal comedy opus, complete with Firesign's "scholarly" introduction, tongue-in-cheek footnotes, diagrams, and even recipes! Firesign has infused the classic Shakespearian scenes of hurricanes at sea, witches capering about a cooking pot, apparitions on the battlements, graveyard passion and mortal combat in ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO with their notoriously twisted political and social humor - a devastating oil spill, alchemical terrorism, sleezy politics and Hollywood shenanigans are all part of the laughs. As Firesign tells it, the legendary writing/acting quartet has been around, writing and performing plays since 1600 when they collaborated with the Bard on ANYTHYNGE before taking their act on the road to the New World. Reborn in the Old West as "Dr. Firesign's Theatre of the Plains," these fighting clowns have since worn many disguises and had countless high adventures on stage, in movies and over the radio. The tales told here fill in the comic mythology of Firesign's most popular recorded worlds, connecting Nick Danger and George Tirebiter to Hemlock Stones, The Electrician, and "Everything You Know is Wrong." Bonus scripts include 1967's radio saga "The Armenian's Paw" and an early club-act favorite, "Waiting for The Mount of County Crisco." Filled with photographs from performances, along with graphics by Bruce Litz, ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO is truly Firesign's major work of high comedy. (Also of note: the companion Anythynge You Want To CD, available here in the Firesale store!) Marshmallows & Despair is David Ossman's shocking, awesome, poetic coverage of 21st Century War and Politics, tales of neo-noir nights in strange places, poems of aging, dying, and seeking refuge. This definitive collection celebrates Ossman’s 79th birthday and features a captivating cast that includes Beat St. Jack, Banana Clip Republicans, Funny Skydivers, as well as an Elegy to Rock Snot. You’ll be sold on Presidential Butts In Butter, exposed to Heisenberg at Holmes Harbor, visit the House of Garden Gnomes, and celebrate the Tulku’s Birthday. Enjoy a healthy dose of Ossman's Firesign humor matched with his own outrage, anguish and hope. Additional details can be found here. Autographed copies are available WHILE THEY LAST!! Dr. Firesign's Follies combines Ossman's insights on the Art of Radio and the creation of Firesign's audio oeuvre with his scandal-filled account of a tumultuous year as Surrealist Party candidate for U.S. Vice President. Included in the book is material from "The Firesign Theatre: An Intimate Geography, Essays by David Ossman 1972-1998" (his self-published book from 2000, long out of print). The radio play scripts in the book feature many of Ossman's favorite comedy characters - George Tirebiter, Ben Bland, Peggy Koolzip, Beat St. Jack, Maxwell Morgan and Mark Time. Additional details can be found here. This comedy/mystery novel, set in Malibu, Mulholland and Musso's and in CBS Radio's Studio A during the Golden Age of Radio, introduces George Tirebiter (then a 25-year-old comedy star) in his first "celebrity detective" role. The book is illustrated with archival photos of the major characters and contains a Tirebiter filmography and David Ossman's memoir of his long friendship with Tirebiter, one of his personal Radio Heros. For readers who can't get enough of George, the opening chapters of Tirebiter's next mystery, "The Flying Saucer Murder Case," are included as a preview of his future adventures. Additional details can be found here. NEW! It's been such a long exposition, you know. Countless hours spent poring through the personal archives of Firesign group members and devoted fans alike. Fragile, aging reel-to-reel tapes handled with great care and transferred to digital media for restoration. Information and images gathered, processed and refined. Interviews conducted, transcribed and edited. The whole enchilada cubed, reheated, inspected, injected, detected, filtered, digitized, edited and assembled to perfection. Yes, thanks to the tireless efforts of official Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen, we are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the complete, mammoth, authoritatively definitive and totally awesome Duke of Madness Motors: The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era 1970-1972 book and DVD-ROM combo pack. The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour (24 episodes) Dear Friends (21 episodes) and Let's Eat (12 episodes) Complete rundowns of every broadcast A lengthy and thorough historical/hysterical essay on the troupe New intereviews with each Firesign group member Interviews with long-time Firesign associates, producer Bill McIntyre and engineer The Live Earl Jive Collages by Phil Proctor Vintage found objects, original scripts and more. PLEASE NOTE: We are temporarily out of the data DVD that accompanies "Duke of Madness Motors". While we await the arrival of new stock, if you'd like to buy a copy of "Duke" we can ship you a book immediately and email you a link where you can download the complete contents of the DVD (appx. 7.6 Gb). When new DVD stock arrives, we'll then ship you your DVD separately. The casual Firehead may not know that today's fab Firesign is merely the latest incarnation of a writing/acting troupe that's been bringing avant- garde laffs to the swells since 1600! From the nethermost regions of their traveling trunk, the Fyre Sygne Theatre unearthed this, the oldest script in their repertoire, to record for NPR in 1980. Knock your lobes to the Bard-basting play that had Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Coffeebean audiences alyke in stitches. This CD features the full NPR Earplay version of Anythynge, complete with wraparounds. Soon to be a fully-annotated book! Wow, fer sher, totally, whatever! It's the start of the Reagan era Contra-temps, and the 101st Fighting Clown battalion brigade wants you! This album combines Firesign's full-frontal live "Eight Shoes" vaudeville-style song & revue show with additional studio segments, captured just as the Sappy Seventies gave way to the belligerent and self-satisfied Empty Eighties. War is the answer, but what was the question? Just stare at the incredible Phil Hartman (yes, that Phil Hartman) cover art and maybe you, too, will remember. Includes the songs "Oh, Afghanistan" and "This Bus Won't Go to War". Recorded in 1999, this two-disc collection captures Firesign just after the release of "Boom Dot Bust" performing live at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland. As the world awaits the premillennial punchline, the RadioNow crew of Bebop, Dwayne, Hal and Ray mix it up with Joe Camel, Princess Goddess and Dr. Winkiedinque, plus we visit the Wall of Science, buy a new car with Babe, melt some dry ice with Nick Danger, and please the groundlings with a full staging of "Anythynge You Want To". Back by popular demand! Your car is just begging for one of these license plate frames. Or two, even. The top of the frame states: "Head In Any Direction On The Freeway Of Your Choice!" - the bottom of the frame is emblazoned with our favorite new used and used new automobile dealership: "Ralph Spoilsport Motors". These frames are guaranteed to make you the envy of every harried commuter, hopped-up joy rider, Sunday driver and mother-trucker on the interstate.