#how time flys

[starks-hero]

[geminicollisionworks]

An interlude in my posting of albums by the great surreal audio comedy group (and biggest influence on Life With Althaar) The Firesign Theater.

Kind of.

After Bozos, the Firesigns went through a bit of an internal crisis, breaking up and getting back together several times in a year. They put out a 2-LP collection of short pieces from their 1970-71 radio show, Dear Friends, hoping to get the radio airplay that had eluded their longform records (some excerpts from that coming soon), and another album, Not Insane, which threw together bits from an aborted studio-recorded Shakespeare parody, Anythinge You Want To, and a live performance, Martian Space Party. This album was not well received -- understandably, it is, as one Firesign wrote, "noisy and unfocused," though a few pieces of it have become classics.

While not breaking up again, the group decided to separate for 1973 to make a bunch of solo albums (though two of them still featured all the Firesigns as performers), all of which continued the dystopian science-fiction style and musings of Dwarf and Bozos. Frankly, Phil Austin's Roller Maidens from Outer Space is the least interesting by far, so I won't bother linking it, but the other two records are very special to me, and BOY did I lift many sonic ideas from them for Althaar, so I share these whenever I can.

First up here is Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman's TV or Not TV, which takes place in the then-future world of 1985. Making some fairly accurate prophesies about the future of televisual entertainment, the album shares a "charged viewing cycle" of cable channel 85, bought by two children with their daddy's stolen "charger card." During their pay-per-view period, we get a number of shows, serials, PSAs, ads, and government announcements painting a fairly bleak picture of this future world -- including a talk show hosted by an AI hologram that changes face, voice, and costume based on audience desires. Interrupting the regular programming however are break-ins on the signal by a group of chaotic teenage pirate transmitters, with no apparent specific agenda but to tear apart the overly regimented society they're living in.

This was my favorite record in the world from age 5 through grade school, and absolutely started me on a love of comic audio science-fiction (though I didn't understand the vast majority of it; I just liked the funny voices and cool sounds). Here's Act One and Act Two:

Meanwhile, David Ossman's album, How Time Flys, takes place in the then-even-more-future year of 1999, as New Year's Eve 2000 approaches (a day the Firesigns would revisit on their 1998 CD, Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death).

Here, Mark Time, an astronaut sent on a 20-year space mission to Planet X in 1979, returns to Earth in 1999 to find himself ignored and forgotten in a USA now apparently practically government-less and run entirely by large entertainment corporations, one of which wants to steal Mark's classified data recordings of aliens from Planet X to turn into holographic viewing for paying customers. However, Mark's struggle to make his statement to the world may be sidetracked by a black hole heading for Earth...

Besides featuring all four Firesigns, the cast of this album includes familiar voices Wolfman Jack, Richard Kind, and Harry Shearer. Here's the whole LP in one piece:

Back with more Firesign material soon...

[galaxyspeaking]

Save me lesbian jayvik save me

[egophiliac]

still rolling around on the ground over the contrast between Jack and Mal. it's so...🤌🤌🤌

[ethosiab]

eeeeethoooooooOOOOOOOO!!!!

[and-corn]

just like riding a bike

(part 3 of this comic)

[bluerosefox]

Stellar Collisions

Back at it again with a DPxDC prompt.

It does have deaged Dani (Ellie)

Only this time its KonxDanny idea!~

Supernova, Kon's new hero name since Jon took over the Superboy name now, wasn't expecting to be called out to... especially in the sky... by another floating/flying person and-

WOW

They were cute as heck.

Glowing green eyes, and white hair, a bit shorter than him. He was floating in the air with a soft glow around himself as well.

And he was holding a white haired, very similar looking toddler in his arms, only the toddler had longer hair that was tied in pigtails. And the toddler was staring at Kon with large, almost sparkling eyes.

The young man, around Kon's age if he guessed, smiled and floated a bit closer, his face friendly and warm. When the young man stopped he kindly asked "Hey, would it be any trouble for you to autograph something for my daughter? She's a huge fan!"

[nell0-0]

Based on a fic called A Wild Time at Calamity Ganon

This was a gift fic from @musical-chan about Mask ending up at the end of another hero's journey (Wild). Yeah, I'm still thinking about this fic aksgfshdn

[anglerflsh]

the

[suja-janee]

I’ve been losing my mind over these guys recently

[joyfuladorable]

Comic redraw of a 40th Anniversary page but make it a Rise Capril AU where Casey doesn't meet any of them until after she becomes a vigilante UwU👌🏼

+ Bonus textless page!

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[bunnieswithknives]

Creepy old guy

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles in Demand: Soldier Boy Will Return For Final Season of THE BOYS

Looks like "Countdown" will start filming in September, in Los Angeles.

[puppppppppy]

whatever. go my scarab

ive been watching scruffys pikmin 4 playthrough (go check it out!!!!)

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.