AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Firesign Theater hm maybe. Now I'm going back to my childhood, the things that made me weird. Mad Magazine ? Tom Lehrer? Not sure how much there is to say about those two, but Firesign would seem to have the necessary interpretive depth.
Braddock has a book, Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.
Bit of an academic slog, I don't know that I really need all these connections. Oh well its a very enthusiastic and thorough telling
Ch 1 Waiting for the Electrician. Bakhtin, oy vey.
OK impressive how he manages to articulate the meaning of tiny little details like sound effects (filtering, panning, etc). It's interesting if a bit much.
Weird how I don't think I've ever heard some of their later albums (like In the Next World). I'm a bad fan! No reason to feel guilty but I wonder why.
Cites Charles Tilly which amused me for some reason.
Also goes into early history of The Church of The Subgenius which was a direct descendent of Firesign fandom.
Clips
I'm high all right, but not on false drugs! [DCTDW, 4:30]