Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Friday, April 14, 2006

My Favorite Comedy Album, Preserved for Posterity

Via Cat (whose restaurant and food reviews are a must-read!), The Firesign Theatre album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers has made the 2005 list of announced recordings to be preserved at the Library of Congress. (Here's the entire registry.) My fondest memory of this record, aside from having it signed by all four members of the troupe, was listening to it in my old Apartment Third-Eye about 20 years ago sitting alongside the "star" of the piece, David Ossman, who was staying over for a couple of days. And who, as it turns out, shares a birthday with Robin, who is fond of saying that everything happens for a reason. Indeed it does. Hey mister, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeeee....

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