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Firesign Theater: Excellent "Sixties" Comedy Radio Shows -and- The Fourth Tower of Inverness: Cosmic Mystery Radio Show

Temporarily Humboldt County:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUyI5IIDOM

The Further Adventures of Nick Danger - Third Eye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8e_UTlhKA

W.C. Fields Forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_l25G33Co

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Lothar and the hand people-space hymn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqnu__c8vk

Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE&t=15s

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It's difficult to Find all the Episodes of the Fourth Tower of Inverness...

https://archive.org/details/jack-flanders-the-4-th-tower-of-inverness-a-162k

I Think This is the Entire Trip... 7 Hours!

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Experimental Theater that goes beyond Just Shaking a Spear...

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My Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... and the PG&E Bill Quadrupled!

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.

It seemed so Important and the Senators were really Grilling the General with Very Significant Questions. I remember that he got away without going to prison. He Plead Guilty of Lying to Congress and Got Two Years Probation. He also was involved with Air America (CIA Opium Smuggling) During the Vietnam War. A Classic Example of Doing Evil For Money...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Secord

We also went to the National Colonial Farm Park and my Mom went off with the docent for a private tour of the herb garden. That's a Park Very Close to The FORT in Fort Washington, Maryland. I Do Remember Going to That Fort but I Can't Remember Who Went With Me.

https://www.nps.gov/pisc/planyourvisit/ncf.htm

Now is the Time for Me to Forgive my Mom and Be Happy we Met... I Missed her Funeral because I was Living on the East Coast and Drinking Heavily... SO... I Couldn't Be Bothered to Fly Out! She Died of Cirrhosis of the Liver... and Her Death DID Motivate me to Join AA and Stop Drinking... Saved My Life! Thanks! In This Photo she is all the way to the Right.

Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving Dinner

My First Wife JoAnn and I went to a private wedding reception at a Georgetown Club. Rubbing elbows with the ruling class. The bride was the daughter of one of Dad's friends and she was a student at Georgetown University. The club only had a small brass plate marking the entrance but inside it had a large garden area... surrounded by the building. That Style is Popular in Mexico so the Owners of the House are Safe from the Peasants... I did not like the people in the ruling class. I Did Like the String Quartet. That was the Only Time I Got to Go To one of THOSE Insider's Parties. I went to Many Parties for Low Level Employees of the NSA and CIA. Those Agencies Employ Many Women to Perform Office Work. JoAnn Listened to Intercepted Russian Phone Calls and Wrote Down What she heard into a Computer for Analysts to Read. 98% of the Phone Calls were Unimportant. Regular People Talking About Regular Stuff. Mostly Complaining... as Life in Russia Generally Sucked. The Lady That I Knew from the CIA Read Newspapers in 10 Different Languages. Boring Work.

I liked going to The Biograph Movie Theatre in Georgetown. I saw Atomic Cafe, Starstruck, (and then I wrote a song that night walking down the street. "City of the Future"). Liquid Sky (The UFO movie that had an Alien that ate heroin brain waves and Sex Orgasm brain waves. Brother from Another Planet and That John Waters Movie in smell-o-vision; POLYESTER. That was a Disaster because all the different odors merged into one horrible smell... and they did NOT air out the Theater between Shows.

At Tower records. I Liked walking from one sound proof room to another and the music switched from one genre to another. Open the Door and Flow from Rock to Jazz... and then to Classical...

I also bought 10 Grateful Dead tickets for Oakland at Tower and then flew to Los Gatos and sold the tickets to high school friends... I ended up taking a trip with Friends of LGHS Classmate Richard Bergholdt... "Laser" Lester, Marsha And the POND Family. Sunny Walden Pond and Merry Walden Pond and their mom... One of them wrote lyrics in my miss Piggy Songbook and I later put chords to those lyrics when I was visiting Walden Pond in Massachusetts... At That Concert "Laser" Lester and I Purchased LSD and I Had a Trip With the Overwhelming Wonderful Feeling of FAMILY... Later I Rode Home in the Back of a Pickup Truck... Outdoors on the Freeway... and Played my Guitar, sang songs... What a Fantastic Blessing it is To Have been Alive After the Invention of LSD...

Some People Say LSD was Invented at the Same time as The Atom Bomb in order to Balance the Universe... Increasing Spiritual Wisdom When It Was Truly Needed... Others (Crazy Politicians) Say it's a Schedule One Drug... and Then the US Government Made it ILLEGAL... I Believe that The government was Afraid that People Were BECOMING DISOBEDIENT and would no longer Fight their CrazyWars® ... That's True! Hippies Have No Interest in Risking Their Life for Someone Else's Corporate Profit!

I Remember Making Diffraction Grating Glasses... I Bought a Three Inch Round Plastic Sheet at the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and Cut it into Four Pieces... Enough to make Two Pairs of Glasses... Then Scotch Taped Them In Place of the Lenses in Paper 3D Glasses... It Causes Rainbows All Over Everything... Especially Intense at NIGHT Riding around the Freeway... WITH SOMEONE ELSE DRIVING... This Picture is What ONE WHITE LIGHT looks like when wearing the Glasses. IMAGINE 20 CAR HEADLIGHTS MOVING... and Taillights and Stationary Streetlights... buildings... THE MOON! COSMIC!

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I was once Employed to Redraw German Machine Drawings DONE IN METRIC so American Companies could bid on jobs. I Had to Convert Metric to inches... Difficult Job because of the rounding off errors... I did the Math and the Calculator showed a number with 8 places to the right of the decimal point... well... you can't give a number like that to a factory... so I rounded off to Two decimal places... and then the errors added up... I still don't know why the USPS (my employer) didn't just send out metric drawings for bids... It's Pretty simple...

Rainbow Spiralism

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics

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Read more of my autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Photo of a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops ...and... Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... We Have a Couple of Redwood Trees... AND NO RIOTS!

On a Weekend that has the People on the TV NEWS Rioting, I Noticed that Things are Pretty Good Here in Rural California. Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and Not Having Fun... Glad I'm Here and Not in the City!

a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops

I Often Question IF the People I See On The TV NEWS Are Real... and then I Change the Channel, Turn Off The Sound and focus my Attention on the Birds Chirping...

LINKS TO OTHER BLOG POSTS:

A Sign stating "This is a Sign" spotted Outside Roger Stone Courtroom Hearing... Absurdist Theater OR an End Time Warning from the Book of Revelations?

Trump is the AntiChrist - A Sign stating "This is a Sign" spotted Outside Roger Stone Gag Order Courtroom Hearing... Absurdist Theater? End Time Warning? WTF?

The Book of Revelations in the Bible Predict a SIGN
That the End Times are Approaching...
Could it be TRUE?
Could Donald Trump BE THE ANTI-CHRIST?

is this Guy Just a JOKER?

One Thing is For Certain...
ROGER STONE IS GUILTY!
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-stone-found-guilty-counts/story?id=67015102
Will He Go To Prison?
Or Get a Pardon From tRUMP?

Former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone, center left, walks to his vehicle as he leaves federal court Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in Washington, between members of the media, security, and protesters. A judge has imposed a full gag order on Trump confidant Roger Stone after he posted a photo on Instagram of the judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun.
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190221/news/302219853

Federal judge says there is ‘zero evidence’ that Stone’s guilty verdict was tainted by anti-Trump bias... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/16/roger-stone-trump-denied-new-trial

Trump's "base" is the 1% [the super rich]. They pretend that his "base" is Uneducated White Men but that's a Misdirection. Like a magic act...

... they use misdirection to keep our attention focused on what they want us to see, not what they are really doing. Note that the Environmental Protection Agency has switched mission from Protecting the Environment to enabling corporations to increase profits by reducing expenditures for cleaning up pollution caused by their factories.

The Department of Education has switched mission also. It used to be about educating students but now it's all about increasing profits for "Charter" Schools therefore reducing the quality of Public Schools through the concept of "School Choice". Go Figure. That mission changed when Trump appointed a lobbyist as Secretary of Education. "Charter" Schools are often used to promote Christianity. AND... If you have "school choice" you may choose to have your white children go to a school without Black or Brown skinned students. Enabling "Separate but Equal" schools... Code words for segregation. "Make America Hate Again".

Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome CAN BE CURED.

While the historical solutions of the USA in 1776 and France in 1789 appear appealing on first glance, they would simply not work in a global economy of 2017. A 12 step program might be more efficient. Greed Freaks Anonymous can help the most absurdly addicted capitalists.

OR MAYBE "REGROOVING"

Addicted to Profit: A CURE for the Mental Health Disease that is Causing the Destruction of the USA. Exploration of "REGROOVING" - First Suggested by Satire Comedy Group "Firesign Theater"

Addicted to Profit: A CURE for COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME... the Mental Health Disease that is Causing the Destruction of the USA. Exploration of "REGROOVING" - First Suggested by Satire Comedy Group "Firesign Theater"

Regrooving involves using Psychedelics and Brainwashing to Change the Worldview of Corporate-Corporate Greed Freaks to become more "Groovy." MIGHT WORK! Take for example the People that Made Oxycontin... They now plan to settle with consumers and the surviving relatives of people who died by paying $12 Billion Dollars in Damages. Well, why did they continue to promote their drug after it was OBVIOUS that people were dying? 400,000 People... In Comparison: 58,000 People Died in the Vietnam War... So the Opioid Crisis is as Bad as 6 Vietnam Wars... Answer: They Were Addicted to Profit...

Listen to the Comedy Routines...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I2PjLna4C0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Electrician_or_Someone_Like_Him

"Temporarily Humboldt County"
The first section runs 9 min 14 sec, and satirizes the displacement of the American Indians (David Ossman and Phil Austin), first by Spanish conquistadors, then by American frontiersmen, and finally by the US government forcing them onto a reservation, which it uses as a "cobalt testing range". The title comes from friends of the Firesign Theatre telling them that the local Indians in Humboldt County, California added "temporarily" to the name as a way of saying no one could really own the land. The section ends with a bomb explosion, followed by the sound of wind blowing.

"W. C. Fields Forever"
This 7 min 39 sec track continuously segues as the Indians wander silently through the desert and come upon Peter Bergman welcoming them to the "Lazy Ol' Magic Circle Dudes Ranch and Collective Love Farm", a hippie commune. The commune's spiritual leader, the perpetually drunk/stoned "Tiny Doctor Tim" (Proctor), is a parody of Timothy Leary. Philip Proctor's impersonation of W. C. Fields actually appeared on the first track, dedicating the cobalt testing range; this track title parodies the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever".

"Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde"
This 7 min 19 sec track continuously segues into a future world in which the 1960s hippie counterculture has now replaced the mainstream cultural establishment. Police (Proctor and Bergman) patrol searching for "non-groovy" people not in possession of drugs, such as a grandmother (Austin) whom they arrest to be "returned for re-grooving". A teenager named Malcolm X John Lennon (Austin) is still being breast-fed by his mother (Proctor), and gets in trouble with his school principal (Proctor) for studying instead of hanging out and "relating" with his peers by smoking marijuana. A US senator who sounds like Robert Kennedy (Proctor) chairs a committee which also returns people for re-grooving, and the "Secretary of Peace" (Ossman) directs bomber aircraft to drop copies of Naked Lunch on Nigeria.

Side two: "Waiting for The Electrician or Someone Like Him" [1]
This single, 17 min 48 sec track begins as a Turkish language instruction record, and immediately follows its listener on a Kafkaesque trip overseas. An unnamed innocent (Austin) is manipulated by mysterious strangers and authority figures into situations beyond his control. (In the written script, the character is called simply "P." for Phil, a reference to Kafka's use of "K." in The Castle.)

A highlight of side two is the "Beat the Reaper" sketch, a mock game show in which the contestant (Austin) is injected with a disease and must guess what it is in order to win the antidote; if the contestant fails to self-diagnose, he is sent home with the disease. and Dies!

meme - Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome - gvan42

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Firesign Theatre... THC (Temporarily Humboldt County)... a comedy record... with insight

My Favorite: Insight into the story of Western Expansion.
Westward HO!
Listen to "THC" at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I2PjLna4C0

THC

Bozos

Firesign Theatre: Bozos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWFrMq3qNY

Listen to the Record.

The Future is Fun, the Future is Fair,

You may have already have one,

You may already be there!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_We're_All_Bozos_on_This_Bus

In part based on the computer program "Eliza" and

The Turing Test. The creepy part uses Univac code to

Overwhelm the Amazing "audioanimatronic" Mr Nixon

by asking unanswerable questions.

This is The First mention of Computer Hacking in Pop Culture.

Beautiful Victorian Ferndale, California

located in the Eel River Valley

an IDEAL place to live if you are a COW.

Backyard Garden at the Loleta Cheese Factory

Firesign Theater: Excellent "Sixties" Comedy Radio Shows -and- The Fourth Tower of Inverness: Cosmic Mystery Radio Show

The Further Adventures of Nick Danger - Third Eye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8e_UTlhKA

W.C. Fields Forever:

Lothar and the hand people-space hymn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqnu__c8vk

Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man!

"Drama Free Zone" Gifts for sale... Stickers, Buttons, T-Shirts... and... "Free Drama Zone" Gifts! - All My Royalties Donated to a Worthy Charity!

"Drama Free Zone" Classic Round Sticker for sale... Prohibited within 1000 yards. You may take your "Yadda-Yadda" on down the road.

Free Drama Zone Button

My Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... and the PG&E Bill Quadrupled!

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.

Photo of a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops ...and... Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... We Have a Couple of Redwood Trees... AND NO RIOTS!

A Sign stating "This is a Sign" spotted Outside Roger Stone Courtroom Hearing... Absurdist Theater OR an End Time Warning from the Book of Revelations?

Trump's "base" is the 1% [the super rich]. They pretend that his "base" is Uneducated White Men but that's a Misdirection. Like a magic act...

Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome CAN BE CURED.

Addicted to Profit: A CURE for the Mental Health Disease that is Causing the Destruction of the USA. Exploration of "REGROOVING" - First Suggested by Satire Comedy Group "Firesign Theater"

Addicted to Profit: A CURE for COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME... the Mental Health Disease that is Causing the Destruction of the USA. Exploration of "REGROOVING" - First Suggested by Satire Comedy Group "Firesign Theater"

Firesign Theatre... THC (Temporarily Humboldt County)... a comedy record... with insight

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