Author: Firesign Theatre (Performing group)
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vwadek P. Marciniak
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781433103599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Politics, Humor, and the Counterculture discusses the post-war period (1945-1972) through the lenses of three artists: Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, and Firesign Theatre. Their humor cut through the hypocrisy of the Cold War and the prevailing culture and expanded our horizons. From the Beats to the peace and civil rights movements, these humorists illuminate America from their unique perspectives. Vwadek P. Marciniak highlights the poetic nature of humor as well as its insights on our political and social habits: addiction, conformity, marketing, and fear. The modern is giving way to the post-modern, the fixed to an existential attitude: humanism and humor.
Author: The Firesign Theatre
Publisher:
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781593936624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finally available after thirty years, MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH collects all the words (and sound effects) to Firesign's favorite audio comedies of the Seventies, including Waiting For the Electrician; How Can You Be In Two Places At Once; Nick Danger; Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers; I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus, and The Giant Rat of Sumatra. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH, now under the imprint of Bear Manor Books, reproduces both of Firesign's "Big Books," originally published in 1972 and 1974 by Straight Arrow. Designed by Jon Goodchild and Richard Silverstein, the texts are full of photographs, collages and weirdly cool typography typical of High Seventies Style. Phil Proctor edited the visuals and David Ossman the album transcripts for Firesign. Alan Rinzler was editor for Straight Arrow. Both books have been collector's items for a couple of decades. Collecting both under one cover 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 and Nick Danger, Third Eye has become the classic send-up of both the "noir" detective story and Golden Age radio.
Author: Russell Kick
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781567317015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Greg Mandel
Publisher: KenArnoldBooks, LLC
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0979963419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the daughter of a Vatican archeologist is kidnapped and ransomed for St. Peter's bones, it up to the pontiff to take on her kidnappers, the splinter Neo-Canadian Amish Mafia. A pontifical satire, this hilarious spoof of life behind the papal walls reveals an ordinary man who ventures into the irreverent and the unknown to accomplish extraordinary feats for the faithful.
Author: Charles Ludlam
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780573640469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cover title: The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. presents Charles Ludlam's The mystery of Irma Vep.
Author: Richard Greene
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0595312632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the moment he boards a mysterious bus marked ECSTASY, Dan Slam's life will never be the same. Whisked away to a fantastic alternity called Ovula, he meets the gorgeous (and naked) Vangi who convinces Dan to join her on a search for a mythical object of great and pungent power. The scene shifts back and forth in time and space from Cleveland, Ohio to Ovula as the mounting mystery, murder, action and shrimp intensifies in an epic, crazed conflict of good versus evil. Dan and Vangi encounter a colorful and dangerous cast of characters including the deadly Lemon People, the Dread Chowder Turks, The Man Of Whom To Which Pain Is Nothing, the evil and cunning Lord Draegon and the fearsome monster Boofalo himself! Their epic journey takes them from The Metagorical Mountains to The Ancient Caves Of Endless Percussion, from the bubbling mud pot caverns of the Tiger Ants into an inescapable Wheezer Sink Hole! Boofalo! is a hilarious, exciting, entertaining fantasy! Take Stephen King and Billy Crystal, put them both in a really large blender, throw in some issues of Mad and Playboy magazines and hit 'puree' and you've got Boofalo! As well as endless legal troubles as you've just killed two celebrities and ruined several leading periodicals.
Author: Sarah McCartney
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0711242194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'An authoritative guide from two experts who really know their way around scent' – FUNMI FETTO The Perfume Companion is a beautifully illustrated compendium of almost 500 recommended scents, designed to help you pick out your next favourite fragrance. Perfumes have the power to evoke treasured memories, make us feel fabulous and help us express our best self. But with so many out there, how do you choose something new? When the scents in the perfume shop are merging into one aromatic haze, how do you remain focused? And if your favourite scent goes out of stock, how do you replace it? The Perfume Companion is here to help. Sarah McCartney and Samantha Scriven deliver a host of scents for you to try – including bargain finds and luxury treasures, iconic stalwarts and indie newcomers, the lightest florals and the deepest leathers. With insider information about how perfumes are really made, discover hundreds of new fragrances and find the scents to share your own memories with. This is the perfect companion for your scented adventures.
Author: Bill Mason
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2019-01-09
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1479449210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognizable—and most parodied—names in western literature. Bill Mason, BSI, collects and annotates these parody names, from the first one that appeared in 1891, to the present day. As Mason says in his introduction: One of the great aspects of Sherlock Holmes is the fact that, just as the character himself is subject to endless variation, so is his name. Ellery Queen noted that the name itself “is particularly susceptible to the twistings and mis-shapenings of burlesque minded authors.” Surely, Arthur Conan Doyle, who struggled a little with what he was going to call his detective hero, could not have known just how perfect the name he finally selected—Sherlock Holmes—would be for parody, for rhyme, for the transposing of letters and sounds, for the substitution of suggestive words in the name of a comic character. Mason’s listings are an invaluable resource for the Holmsian scholar, researcher, or for those interested in whiling away a few hours with a delightful and chuckle-inspiring volume.