Taylor Jessen

Taylor Jessen

@sidfudd.bsky.social

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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GEN X MEETS GEN Z: A SHORT PLAY Gen Z: We're the student movement and our idealism and drive will defeat oppression everywhere Gen X: We're ironic about everything because we grew up saying "Everything sucks, ha ha" and then we turned 50 and discovered we were right (1/2)

Gen Z: So you think we're wasting our time Gen X: No, go for it, you rock Gen Z: OK will you help Gen X: Sorry we're too busy being angry for the rest of our lives, but here's some retirement planning advice Gen Z: Cool thx THE END (2/2)

Social media is nothing but a rage-and-misery-generating machine, which is why I have come on social media today to pass along my rage and misery over the fact that, um, [jumps in river still holding phone]

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having the voice actor for daffy duck & bugs bunny on your picket line must have felt like having nuclear capabilities. peace to a legend.

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during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

Hey you remember that one time there was this really memorable thing, maybe it was a movie or a book, or maybe an album, and it was a thing but you forgot it and now you can't remember? You know?

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I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

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This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

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I turned a corner in Switzerland's largest city and came hard up against a busker singing "Never Gonna Give You Up". I'd been Zurichrolled.

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Going to invent one of these apps that people have to delete off their phones in order to get well. Coming at this from an arts background so it won't have any clever financial strategy behind it, it'll be addictive and upsetting for purely creative reasons

Standard Oil paid for it, San Francisco playwrights wrote it, California students sat through it in class, Negativland sampled it: The 20-volume history of America "Standard School Broadcast—Our Nation's Heritage" now up in full on the Internet Archive. taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2026/10/stan...

taylorjessen.blogspot.comStandard School Broadcast—Our Nation's HeritageBorne out of the very first instance of corporate reputation-washing, the Standard Oil-produced 20-LP series "Our Nation's Heritage", a pro...

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Often thought my family were alone in having the entire Value Tales set. A forerunner to the Little People Big Dreams style of kid-friendly biographies, they had the oddest tic; every subject would always have a thematically appropriate imaginary friend. Pasteur's was a talking syringe, I think?

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Shout out to The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Louis Pasteur Story for indelibly etching these illustrations in my mind for my entire whole life since like third grade

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We are all God's creatures And God didn't get us the pet insurance Even though God's friends were like "It's a pretty good deal, actually" But God was like Nah And now God is having to choose between a series of surgeries that might not even fix us And a jet ski And he's leaning toward the jet ski

Soderbergh thought this was the nadir of his career; but in fact two of these films are STONE CLASSICS and the third is a REALLY INTERESTING NEAR-MISS. "Kafka", "King of the Hill" and "The Underneath" coming to 4K & Blu-ray from Imprint Films, Aus., in November: www.blu-ray.com/movies/Direc...

blu-ray.comDirected By... Steven Soderbergh Blu-ray (Imprint Collection #637 - 639) (Australia)Directed By... Steven Soderbergh Blu-ray Release Date November 25, 2026 (Imprint Collection #637 - 639). Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. Cheap Blu-ray movies and deals.

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starting a service where a little guy chases you around demanding that you indulge his foot fetish. It's called Hot On Your Heels.

Efforts were unsuccessful today in a continuing effort to bolster recent efforts with promises of future effort. However efforts are underway to try again and this time make an effort.

"We keep dying!" "The media gets better and better at pretending to be us."

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AN INTERVIEW ABOUT OUR UPCOMING SHOW We'll be live and tiny at the bottom of a truly ginormous IMAX screen in downtown Tallahassee, FL! If you've ever wanted to see the Weatherman's forehead (and SUE-C's visuals) five stories tall, this is your chance...  www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4To...

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1978, Liverpool, Big In Japan on the steps of Probe Records, Button Street. This photo appeared in a 1985 article about FGTH in Number One magazine

In last night's dream I was watching a documentary about three college students who decided to get a severed head and keep it in their dorm room