RIP Peter Bergman 1939-2012
DON'T TOUCH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS
is the title of the first LP, which i still have,
put out by the brilliantly surreal Firesign Theater
(which the obit declares is now in The Library of Congress)
a staple of KPFK L.A. radio in the late 60s.
it began as the Proctor & Bergman Comedy Hour
(Radio Free Oz" in the obit)
which evolved,as more and more friends topped by,
into the Firesign Theater and a LPs and stage shows.
"Waiting for the Electrician, or someone like him"
and the convoluted COMMIE MARTYRS
high school weirdness of
"How Can You Be In Two Places
at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.".
without them Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert
would still be working their day jobs.
they went all the way from satire then
weirdness into sheer brilliance.
they gave me hope,when i needed it, that
smart peeps could have Fun in this fukt up country.
"Pampoon-NOT Insane." was the mock
motto of their fictional candidate ....
BTW on another subject,
took an online ESP test about synthesia
( a common side fx of hallucinogens)
and various other parathesias.
reading it i was reminded of Korak the Killer's wife
(shudder) who was a genuine Ghost Whisperer
and had the shades of the dead trooping in
and out of my apartment
while she stayed there.
loaned them $1000 to move next door,
which i never got back.
anyway i needed yardsticks of crazy for
my Psychological Measurement Class
at SFState, so i turned in tests of me,
her and Wolf Girl. now Korak's wife,being a psychic
answered honestly about hearing voices and
seeing things and peeps that other people couldn't
but the test was not weighted for ESP
so she tested out as schizophrenic as Wolf Girl,
which she wasn't.
me i was pointed out as "boringly normal"
me? me of all peeps
NORMAL?!
i didn't know whether to laugh or weep.
so i took my A and letter of sponsorship
for getting a Masters elsewhere.
why bother? it's all bullshit ultimately.
anyway back to the test yesterday
i mentioned auras,Rhine cards, Tarot Cards,
rune stones,psychometry, a terrifying haunting
of Pure EVIL, a ghost who "lived" under the stairs,
a possibly vampire nurse in 50s garb sucking the Life
from a dying man i shared a room with at Kaiser in 1991,
soul; travel on LSD,several Near Death Experiences
not sure about the White Light,feeling presences
which were unseen and harmless-you get the idea.
i doubt they'd have a straitjacket to fit me anyway.
"I am a gentleman,I live by robbing the poor."
George Bernard Shaw
Occ py This!
namaste
mega
DON'T TOUCH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS
is the title of the first LP, which i still have,
put out by the brilliantly surreal Firesign Theater
(which the obit declares is now in The Library of Congress)
a staple of KPFK L.A. radio in the late 60s.
it began as the Proctor & Bergman Comedy Hour
(Radio Free Oz" in the obit)
which evolved,as more and more friends topped by,
into the Firesign Theater and a LPs and stage shows.
"Waiting for the Electrician, or someone like him"
and the convoluted COMMIE MARTYRS
high school weirdness of
"How Can You Be In Two Places
at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.".
without them Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert
would still be working their day jobs.
they went all the way from satire then
weirdness into sheer brilliance.
they gave me hope,when i needed it, that
smart peeps could have Fun in this fukt up country.
"Pampoon-NOT Insane." was the mock
motto of their fictional candidate ....
BTW on another subject,
took an online ESP test about synthesia
( a common side fx of hallucinogens)
and various other parathesias.
reading it i was reminded of Korak the Killer's wife
(shudder) who was a genuine Ghost Whisperer
and had the shades of the dead trooping in
and out of my apartment
while she stayed there.
loaned them $1000 to move next door,
which i never got back.
anyway i needed yardsticks of crazy for
my Psychological Measurement Class
at SFState, so i turned in tests of me,
her and Wolf Girl. now Korak's wife,being a psychic
answered honestly about hearing voices and
seeing things and peeps that other people couldn't
but the test was not weighted for ESP
so she tested out as schizophrenic as Wolf Girl,
which she wasn't.
me i was pointed out as "boringly normal"
me? me of all peeps
NORMAL?!
i didn't know whether to laugh or weep.
so i took my A and letter of sponsorship
for getting a Masters elsewhere.
why bother? it's all bullshit ultimately.
anyway back to the test yesterday
i mentioned auras,Rhine cards, Tarot Cards,
rune stones,psychometry, a terrifying haunting
of Pure EVIL, a ghost who "lived" under the stairs,
a possibly vampire nurse in 50s garb sucking the Life
from a dying man i shared a room with at Kaiser in 1991,
soul; travel on LSD,several Near Death Experiences
not sure about the White Light,feeling presences
which were unseen and harmless-you get the idea.
i doubt they'd have a straitjacket to fit me anyway.
"I am a gentleman,I live by robbing the poor."
George Bernard Shaw
Occ py This!
namaste
mega
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