Taylor Jessen

@sidfudd

Archivist for Firesign Theatre, Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre, and Negativland. Considered irresistible by some men. "Great Syntax" - Mr. Ward, 8th grade English 🌈

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Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· 29d

Tonight, definitely #SamNeill #NicoleKidman #BillyZane #PhillipNoyce

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· 29d

Cheesy comp of a hot air balloon over Colorado, trailing a police cruiser underneath it on a cable

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jul 7

This lousy t-shirt

T-shirt design, plain white shirt on which has been scrawled "I SHOPLIFTED A WHITE CREW NECK AND SOME SHARPIES FROM WAL-MART, AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT."

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jul 5

Visit my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/people/xxxpo... Shirts that throw real Americana in your face and say "Deal with it!... You know, seriously or ironically, either's fine, we're flexible."

Redbubble shirt design, "Hand Made American Citizen Popular Everywhere"

Redbubble shirt design "Muntz TV - Stop staring at your radio"

Redbubble shirt design, "I.O.U." (with a cherubic toddler at a cash register making a shocked face to the viewer as he realizes the pigs around him drinking milk and eating sausages have paid him in I.O.U.s)

Redbubble shirt design, cartoon by Pud Lane "I Faw Down an' Go Boom"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jul 5

Friday was nice

A nice day in Southern California, 7/3/2026

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jul 5

Tonight like every patriotic American I'm going to watch "Monty Python's Life of Brian"

Criterion Collection 4K disc, "Monty Python's Life of Brian"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jul 2

"Flame-shdance", an equal-parts mix of "Fame" and "Flashdance", which in many ways were the same movie, would make a great one-sheet, but I won't even bother asking an AI to make it for me because it is simply too stupid. I have had the idea, I have uttered its stupid name aloud, and that is enough.

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jul 2

Visit my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/people/xxxpo... Shirts that instruct and explain, to assist you and those around you.

Redbubble shirt design, "Let's have an awkward conversation"

Redbubble shirt design, "We don't need no steenkin'" (over an image of Weeble-Stuff's iconic "Badgers" animation with the badger head replaced by Gold Hat from "Treasure of the Sierra Madre")

Redbubble shirt design, "Cut Your Meat Bill in HALF - EAT A NAZI!"

Redbubble shirt design, "This is my body which is given for you" (icon of dinosaur), "Do this in remembrance of me" (icon of gas pump)

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 30

Visit my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/people/xxxpo... Shirts you're going to have to explain every time. Or refuse to explain, every time.

Redbubble shirt design, "Antimacassar / Anti-massacre"

Redbubble shirt design, "Liminal State Cougars"

Redbubble shirt design, "Speedraserhead"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 30

Dear asshole who did this to the entire book You are an asshole

A library copy of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia", in which an asshole has underlined half the lines in the book, because he is an asshole

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 30

Death to Ming. DEATH TO MING!!!!! DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH TOOOOOOOOOOOO MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING #DeathToMing

4K cover, "Flash Gordon" (Dir. Mike Hodges, from Arrow Video, 2020)

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 26

Barry-Um

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 26

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 24

Shark poem #TerribleComicDay

4-panel comic of a shark with no dorsal fin ("I miss my dorsal fin"), then the open ocean ("I hear it's doing fine"), then the ocean meeting a beach ("It washed up on a beach"), then the missing dorsal fin on a lounge chair on the beach next to a bucket with wine and a wine glass ("And not it's sipping wine")

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 24

I've completely changed my mind about AI agents, I want an agent trained on Ignatius J. Reilly to take charge of my life from now on

Book cover, John Kennedy Toole "A Confederacy of Dunces"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 21

Intersection of Barham & Forest Lawn, Burbank. Never realized until having my eye led to it by the "Supergirl" paint-over, but the Warner Bros. lot water tower as seen from this intersection falls directly under the window cluster of 3500 W. Olive Ave., the one shaped like an ethernet port.

Corner of Forest Lawn and Barham, Burbank, CA. Former "New York Film Academy" building foreground right; Warner Bros. studio lot background left

Corner of Forest Lawn and Barham, Burbank, CA.: closeup of the Warner Bros. studio lot, with the water tower with "Supergirl" paintover directly beneath the top floors of the building at 3500 W. Olive Ave.

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 21

"Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (novel by David Peace, 1971): In this crime drama, five children enter a chocolate factory; two hours later a small capsule emerges from the roof; they are never seen again

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 18

It's hard to make out in Google Maps, but Verdugo Ave. in Burbank points WSW towards a little hill on Mulholland Dr. overlooking the Valley. Traipsing up & down Verdugo daily as I do I've often wondered what it is but never looked it up until now. It is in fact Warren & Annette's place

Google Maps: Burbank, Verdugo Ave. looking WSW

Google maps: hill at the intersection of Mulholland Dr. and Beverly Ranch Rd.

Google maps: 13671 Mulholland Dr., Hollywood, residence of Dick Tracy and Carolyn Burnham from "American Beauty"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 18

Here's what I've got. If you want this to become part of the historical record, you should become a Genius.com contributor! And then tell us how to become a Genius.com contributor! Because at some point I'm definitely going to have to proof all of their lyrics to the songs from "Escape from Noise"!

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 17

Where is Gus Gorman when we really need him to go in and move the decimal point on all these Facebook payments three places to the right

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 17

You won't be hearing this copy of my neighbor's LP, "The Sound of Tennis with Everett Covin", because this is just part of the dirt I managed to wipe off of side two, which I believe he may have left on his (now missing) turntable for two years uncovered. (It's signed! 😁)

"The Sound of Tennis with Everett Covin" on a turntable, with a dust-free rag covered in the dirt wiped off side 2

"The Sound of Tennis with Everett Covin" LP, obverse

"The Sound of Tennis with Everett Covin" LP, reverse, signed by the artist to "Joycie"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 17

As The Sparks Fly Upward, That Is To Say The Clouds, Insofar As It Looks Like They're Sort Of Flying Up Maybe, We Gaze Upon The Neighbor's Silvered Windows In The Summer And Wonder When The Adorable Dog Sukiyaki Will Come Out To Play (June 9, 2026)

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 16

@michaeldaly64.bsky.social Do we know if one of these classic promo posters of the Bonzos and their pet eggs riding the magic hotdog over Tomatoland has ever gone to auction? I'd sure love to find a higher-res image

Imperial Records promotional poster for the Bonzo Dog Band, circa their 1967 album "Gorilla": the band collaged along with two fried eggs atop a rocket-powered hotdog, flying above a colorized Hans Vredeman de Vries engraving from his 1604 book "Perspective" (plate 40, a terraced plaza inside a palazzo with fountain) in which the fountain has been replaced by a giant tomato. On the top edge is a row of vintage illustrations of the heads of pigs in fancy dress, with each image connected by a thin white line to some element of the band/fried eggs.

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 16

This slander, this egregious, unforgivable travesty of historical character assassination...I love it so 😍

Cover, 4K disc, "Amadeus (Theatrical Cut")

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 11

@lartist.bsky.social For your Lisa Frankenfurter images, can you get the saturation you need if you add a UV layer? I've never printed such a thing but our @jackfoster.bsky.social here in L.A. has. Maybe he can advise. Under blacklight this Sidequest print of his is bitchen 😁

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 3

I'm not a collagist, but I play one when I produce reissues. From the @firesigntheatre.bsky.social Book+DVD "Duke of Madness Motors", now available from www.firesigntheatre.com 😁

Random vertical slices from magazines arranged to spell out the Jean Cocteau quote "The living language of dreams, the dead language of waking...we must interpret and translate". Original collage for the Firesign Theatre book+DVD "Duke of Madness Motors"

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 2

Burbank, May 29. Watched "Nope" the previous evening. Leave it to our #JordanPeele to give me a (temporary) terror of puffy white clouds. (featuring bonus kitty photo)

Burbank, California, May 29 2026, around noon, a beautiful day full of puffy white clouds

Same as previous photo but close-up of window across the court, in which a kitty sits perched on the sill

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· Jun 2

From "Charles Ives and His Music" (Henry & Sidney Cowell, 1955): a) Charles asserts that love of art & the common man is not incompatible with rugged masculinity b) Charles feels no need to keep up with every bit of music produced up to last night c) Charles has his ass checked out by Mark Twain

From "Charles Ives and His Music" (Henry & Sidney Cowell, 1955): "Like Whitman, Ives passionately, even vociferously, asserted the right of the American artist to be himself and therefore different from any European, and both men drew on the same flooding prose rhythms to express what they felt in the world. They were both constrained, as well, to lifelong insistence that a preoccupation with art and a profound feeling for the common man have nothing about them that is incompatible with a rugged masculinity and all the heroic pioneer virtues."

From "Charles Ives and His Music" (Henry & Sidney Cowell, 1955): "I find that most musicians take it for granted that a man who composes music must, as a result, be conversant with all the music that has been written in the world up to last night... As I see it, there are two reasons why I do not. One is that, being in business for so many years, I had only evenings, Saturday afternoons and Sundays, and summer vacations of two or three weeks, in which to work. For this reason, as far back as 20 or 25 years ato, I got out of the habit of going to concerts..."

From "Charles Ives and His Music" (Henry & Sidney Cowell, 1955): "Not long before they were married Miss Twichell took Ives to call on the [Samuel] Clemenses at their New York house on lower Fifth Avenue. Mark Twain took it that the prospective bridegroom was being submitted for his approval and said genially, looking him over: 'Well, the fore seems to be all right; turn him around and let's see about the aft!'—a remark that Ives still enjoys repeating."

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· May 31

I'll never tire of the incandescent, flatulent insincerity of stock image models. Here for example is the mood board in the window of David's Bridal in Burbank, depicting three women on a fancy-free adventure thinking hard about their bridal wear options: for, you know, that casual first marriage.

Taylor Jessen@sidfudd· May 29

Who lives in an all-in-one platform with user-friendly templates designed to establish your online presence quickly and painlessly, under the sea