Just when we needed it most, Radio Free Oz comes out of its decades-long hiatus on this new-fangled webernet thingy. Yes, the original Wiz, Peter Bergman, and co-host (and Firesign Theatre cohort), David Ossman are back! If you haven’t heard it, well, go ahead and check it out. Podcasts are free on iTunes as well. [..

Wow! In Redding!!! PHIL AUSTIN! PETER BERGMAN! DAVID OSSMAN, PHILIP PROCTOR! The one and only, the LEGENDARY Firesign Theatre! Tickets are only $35 each and seating is general admission… but there are no bad seats at The Cascade, and if you’re within earshot… you’ll laugh… a lot! The guys usual

This would have been my presentation in the 20×20 Pecha Kucha Redding event April 16th. That’s 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide, each with my brilliant running commentary. I got the bit in late so the organizers didn’t get a chance to see it until the day before the event. Well, they didn’t deserve

Here’s my latest cartoon, as seen (much smaller) on A News Cafe Dot Com… and, below my latest masterpiece (I colored inside the lines, didn’t I?) is a snapshot taken by (I think) Larry Harris at Pecha Kucha Night Redding this past Friday wherein I blathered on for 6.67 minutes about the trials and travai

I’ve had brushes with capital “J” Journalism, I worked at a newspaper for Christ’s sake. But, I wasn’t a “journalist.” I was never accepted into The Fraternity Of News Professionals. Mainly because I never sat through the requisite hours at some state university listening to old p

I don’t really have much use for poetry I like the way words look on my computer screen I like to arrange the letters in patterns I like to think that somehow    their Randomness gives them meaning But that cavalier attitude flies in the face of the measured discipline that poets claim makes Their Words [...]

I’m working on a series of prints documenting the work of Leonard Cohen. If you’d like to order a nice 9×12, signed and numbered print, let me know. Filed under: Thoughts & Musings Tagged: Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen prints, Phil Fountain, Philbert, prints, Suzanne

It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here Tom Gedwillo and I have made available the second issue of “Chromium Switch,” a webzine dedicated to the legendary comedy troupe, The Firesign Theatre. This issue includes tour news, updates on The 4 or 5 Crazee Guyz, a full-length e-interview with David Ossman an

On assignment at Redding City Council 2/2/10 Filed under: Thoughts & Musings

I did this quick take on Andre Dawson in honor of his election to Baseball’s Hall of Fame today. The pose is from an old baseball card. I was testing some new tablet settings and these kind of sketches help me get the “feel” back. Posted in Thoughts & Musings Tagged: Andre Dawson, baseball, Cartoon, [.

I don’t know… nobody I know knows. You might know, but you ain’t talkin. Here’s what  I really want to know… are we calling it: 1. “Twenty-Ten”? 2. “Two-thousand ten”? Or should we go with, “Two Oh One Oh” so that eventually we can say, “Nine-Oh-Two-On

Some oldie but moldy ‘toons courtesy of The Flying Penguin… I was so much older then… … but, I’m younger than that now… Posted in Thoughts & Musings

OK, my wife and kids HATED the Christmas card I did. I sent it out to some folks via e-mail without consulting The Familia, and they were horrified by my lack of taste and dearth of Christmas Spiritedness. I thought it spoke from the heart and was wildly amusing. Here is is… See? It has pathos, [...]

http://mag.chromiumswitch.org/CSMagazine-01.pdf CLICK HERE!!! Posted in Thoughts & Musings