Quotes from David Ossman

I was going to a spot where I knew the water still flowed directly from the earth. A long time ago, with an Indian guide who knew something of the territory, I was shown a spring which never dries, where the Caweng-na Village sat, between the paws of Bear Mountain. (All this may sound hokey, but it is, of course, true.)

I still do think fondly about my days in Edendale and Mixville — the little-known corners of the city limits where the movies actually were born. Tucked into the once barren hills just west of Downtown were the studios of Western hero Tom Mix and fledgling cartoonist Walt Disney. Behind razor wire near Glendale Boulevard lingered a small stone monument to Comedy. Why? Because the ancient Selig Company had once made movies there.

My skull connects with a hard, flat thing I think is the wet asphalt pavement of the parking lot, but turns out to be a bolt of greasy lightning that knocks me off a high wall into a deep, wet place that covers me up tight under a blue-black blanket of blankness…

ROSCO: Rosco is on. MARK: Try morphing into something a little less combat-ready. ROSCO: It's a glitch in my program. Travolta virus. You could call the help-line…

ROSCO: I haven't been happy with my part, Bunny. It's totally underwritten. Just listen to that last line, for instance! Who could do anything with "It's totally underwritten?" Where's the heart in a line like that? Where's the character?

It was time to use the audio medium to look into the future once again, and the opportunity was taken by The Firesign Theatre to transport its fans to The Future Fair, which introduced a new generation to the fast-arriving Digital Age. "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus" (1971) took its listeners into the Hard Disk of Darkness