Jeremy Braddock

Jeremy Braddock

@jbraddock.bsky.social

media studies sound studies modernism book history dub techno shoegaze music scoring baseball games Giant Slide 19 Holes Underground Parking https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/

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Jeremy Braddock
@jbraddock.bsky.social

These were so fun to do. (And I have color versions, for those who want even more obsessive detail.)

william_ leonard@williamleonard.net

shoutout to my fave firesign, 'Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers', such a normal and linear comedy album that the author has to draw diagrams like This to explain what the hell's going on:

Jeremy Braddock
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I'm not at all shocked to find Kate Culkin's terrific Emerson's Daughters on this list! @klculkin.bsky.social

KLC@klculkin.bsky.social

I'm shocked and honored to find myself on this list. Thank you @biographersintl.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #lifewriting biographersinternational.org/news/2026-pl...

biographersinternational.org2026 Plutarch Award Longlist AnnouncedThe 2026 Plutarch Award Longlist Announced by the Biographers International Organization.

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Mark Goble
@goblemark.bsky.social

Along with @jbraddock.bsky.social and @jordanrbrower.bsky.social ,I'm helping to organize a convergence of sorts for ASAP/17 in Madison, WI, Oct 15-17! @asapartsnow.bsky.social Propose papers here: asap17.exordo.com/login?redire...

asap17.exordo.comAssociation for the Study of Arts of the Present 17 | Ex Ordo
jordanrbrower.bsky.social@jordanrbrower.bsky.social

For the 20th anniversary of Henry Jenkins's CONVERGENCE CULTURE, some smart people and I are organizing "Media Convergences Since the Sixties," a seminar at ASAP/17 (Madison, WI, Oct 15-17). Propose papers here. We're looking forward to converging with you! asap17.exordo.com/panels/35/co...

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Captain Su boo ru Baja blas
@coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social

One other goddamned thing Blue Jam and Firesign theatre Are not great comparisons They are way different in humor Firesign theatre is like ween plus shoegaze Blue jam is Francis bacon and Peter greenway backed by coil

Riggsveda@riggsveda.bsky.social

If you were so unlucky as to have missed growing into adulthood with Firesign Theatre, this is the 2nd-best way to meet them (the 1st being to just listen.) My only bitch is Katzenstein’s insistence that it was boys who loved them. I wasn’t & neither was my best frend www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

nybooks.com‘Not Insane!’ | Andrew KatzensteinThe Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.

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davidtdorais.bsky.social
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Firesign Theatre David Salzberg Featured in the New York Review of Books April 9 2026 The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums By Jeremy Braddock Philip Proctor David Ossman Peter Bergman Phil Austin

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Kate McClare
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Replying to @prum.bsky.social

Best day: -Browsing for hours to find the album worth spending my meager babysitting fund. -The clerk who got me to buy a Firesign Theater album by acting out his fav bits. -Sliding my fingernail along the plastic wrapper to take out the record. -Reading the cover while listening to the music.

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The Firesign Theatre
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social

Replying to @firesigntheatre.bsky.social

Yes, ripped from the maw of the historical void—or more specifically from an open reel tape marked simply "Claypool"!We've uploaded WAV and MP3 files to the Internet Archive where they'll be saved for posterity and free to all comers. Now FINALLY this great art by @mahendra.bsky.social can pay off

Jeremy Braddock
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Final ep of an 8-part series on radio sources for the Firesign Theatre's *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.*. This last installment felt eerily up-to-the minute. @firesigntheatre.bsky.social [Links to all 8 episodes at the bottom of the post]

jeremybraddock.substack.comFiresign sources #8 / FDR Pearl Harbor addressradio sources for the Firesign Theatre's *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All*

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Neglected Books
@neglectedbooks.com

I mentioned a while ago that I was obsessed with the Firesign Theatre's comedy LPs as a teen. I just got a copy of Jeremy Braddock's Firesign, which deconstructs the technical and cultural composition of these albums. Talk about a treasure trove!

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Stand Up! Records
@standuprecords.bsky.social

The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social had a long piece about Jeremy Braddock's book about the @firesigntheatre.bsky.social. Now available through @ucpress.bsky.social. Link in replies. We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.

tinyurl.comThere’s a Seeker Born Every Minute | Los Angeles Review of BooksColin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”
Jeremy Braddock
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MEDIA OBJECTS episode 6 // Artificial Intelligence, as reality // with Steve Jackson, Mendi and Keith Obadike, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and The World According to Sound @mendiandkeith.bsky.social

soundcloud.comMedia Objects 06: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2In the previous episode, we heard how so-called artificial intelligence is being sold to the public as a revolutionary, inevitable technology that is going to completely transform society. This claim

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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social

The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO children’s section. Even the general public has very limited access.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?  Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.

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David Weinberger
@davidweinberger.bsky.social

An insightful article in #LARB by Colin Marshall brings back memories of 1960s-1970s Firesign Theater like "the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist." Contextualizes them, uncovers layers I had no idea were there. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther...

lareviewofbooks.orgThere’s a Seeker Born Every Minute | Los Angeles Review of BooksColin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”
Jeremy Braddock
@jbraddock.bsky.social

Like so many others, I am so sad to learn of the death of Jonathan Sterne yesterday. A decade ago, he came to Cornell and asked why the humanists, STS people, Information Science, and Communication faculty weren't collaborating (look at the people you have!).

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social

We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend. buff.ly/HcoVX9x

Jeremy Braddock
@jbraddock.bsky.social

His visit was our bellwether as we began to build Media Studies here. I later sent him the prospectus for Firesign and he wrote me back—*within the hour*—with an encouraging and substantive note. I did not know him well enough to have expected that. I'm sure many people have stories like that one.