Fire-Heads Up
As some of you know, I edited and published The Firesign Theatre's fan newsletter Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal for about ten years in the '80s and '90s, slightly before the advent of the World Weird Web. And of course I still keep in touch with other Fireheads via our Thursday chats and e-mail. As far as I'm concerned, after umpteen albums over 30+ years they're more relevant and prescient than ever. And sure enough, I just got an e-mail alert that Peter Bergman (yes! he coined the phrase "love-in," not skippy!) has been asked to step down as the producer of Laugh L.A., told by the L.A. County Natural History Museum's VP of Public Programs that "the museum doesn't trust you anymore." She claims "the decision was to just change course. And try something different... Just for this particular time of where we are in the trial process, he doesn't quite fit," but that sort of decision doesn't usually engender comments about trust. What is she so afraid of? It's not like California's a swing state...
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