"FUNNK & MUNDAIGNE: THE FIREZINE INTERVIEW" featuring Phil Proctor and Melinda Peterson as the world's oldest and perhaps most obnoxious theatrical couple in an improvised interview with The Freditor done last spring at Minicon 33 in MPLS, introduced by George Tirebiter and featuring a pre-recorded song this 40 min. or so hilarious romp is available from Firezine Productions for only $12 ppd. It has also been released in a limited signed edition for only $25 ppd.

"VISIT TO PLANET PROCTOR" a brand new compilation featuring rare and unreleased recordings of Phil Proctor is being put together as we type. This fool length CD contains material drawn from Proctor's private archive, such as "The Candy Bar Song", Milkum Bodsky's Big Buck Tips, voice over demos and items especially recorded for this release like the special Planet Proctor reading, "How To Sing The Blues" featuring Long John Turner (Internet guitar God) plus many other surprises. Do not miss this CD! Just $15 ppd and in a limited signed edition CD for $30 from Firezine Productions.

"THE (SORT OF) HISTORY OF PROCTOR & BERGMAN ON THE ROAD" Recorded exclusively for Firezine readers on DAT, Proctor and Bergman interview each other and reminisce about their touring years. 35mins. Limited edition CD only $12 ppd from Firezine Productions.

"Cabbages And Kings", Chad and Jeremy's 1967 psychedelic opus featuring the Firesign Theatre doing background voices, etc on "The Progress Suite" will be released March 9, 1999 by M.I.L. Multimedia. Produced by Gary Usher it contains some of the first released Firesign. Bergman however is not on the album as he was out of the country at the time. The summer of '67 was a busy time for Firesign as they were writing and recording "Electrician", appeared on the Sagittarius single "Hotel Indiscreet", issued on the CD "Present Tense" from Sundazed Records, added battleground noises to "Draft Morning" on The Notorious Byrd Brothers album, released on a Sony CD with an alternate take, and starting to get ready for their Magic Mushroom shows in the fall, some released on the CD "The Firesign Theatre's Pink Hotel Burns Down" from More Sugar, which also contains some FT recordings from the early summer of love.

"IF I'M DREAMING" a new music CD by Firezine Ass. Editor Chris Palladino contains a song that features Firesign Theatre reading news items, (Love Today). Released by Nanook Productions it can be ordered through Firezine for $15 ppd.

New Firesign Related Video Releases: "Zachariah" (1971) The psychedelic western that the Firesign Theatre wrote while working on "Dwarf" has been released in a wide screen version. Starring a young Don Johnson, Country Joe and the Fish, The James Gang, Elvin Jones and John Rubinstein. Proctor and Bergman have bit parts in the film. Though the story was changed by the director 90% of the dialog in the film was retained. (Rated PG, 93 mins. Anchor Bay)

"Tunnelvision" the 1976 Neil Isreal film featuring Phil Proctor as Christian A. Broder and some of SNL people has been released on video. This segmented skit oriented movie is tied together around a then 'futuristic' television network and Broder appearing before a Congressional hearing. 67 mins.

Several days later they were chuckling the chicken chuckers at the gamey TED9 (2/17/99) conference also solo sortied Saturday by Peter Bergman.

From Proctor:

Met Matt Groening (in photo, with Phil) who signed his autograph; "From a HUGE fan!" He said that FST is brilliant because we "...reward people for concentrating." He says that fact inspired him to go in that direction as he developed the Simpsons. I am sending him and Terry Gilliam an autographed CD. Gave one already to Douglas Adams.

    Ossman will be included for the fourth year in Saturday Afternoon Journal. This year's edition is Volume 14 of the series and the subject is "Sin". His poems and many other terrific poems, stories and memoirs by an eclectic batch of writers including Edie McClurg, Phil Proctor. Marshall Efron, and Paul Krassner, are available from Saturday Afternoon, 3090 Lake Hollywood Drive, LA, CA 90068, $10 apiece for the last three numbers, "#13 Flashback", "#12 Illuminations Way After The Flood", and "#11 Excited Utterances". Order #14 for $12 and ask for the date of the Journal's public reading.

    DO regrets that he now has so few copies of the Turkey Press limited editions of his "Radio Poems" books that he can no longer offer them for sale. Qssman does have two different poem-broadsides hand-set and hand-pulled (from Turkey's flatbed press in Isla Vista, California), "Santa Fe Red", (12-1/2 by 17 inches, edition of 52 copies made on DO's birthday - 12/6/88), was printed by Sandra Reese in hand-inked shaded reds, suggesting two ristras - strings of chilis, "Hopi Set" (5-1/2 by 19 inches, edition of less than 100), printed for Christmas in 1985 at Turkey by DO from found type he had set into two poems and a title card and left in galleys back in 1972. Both pieces would make rare and interesting gifts. Sent flat. "Red" will set the giver back $85 and "Hopi" weighs in at $50. Both for a nominal $125.00. Checks to David Ossman, POB 566. Freeland, WA 98249. An Ossman voiceover collectable! >From WGBH (or PBS Videos) the NOVA program called "Eclipse of the Century". Produced and written by Tom Levinson in 1992, this thrilling episode is suitably narrated by DO And, speaking of collectables - Pixar will not be selling any action figures of "Cornelius," the Ossman character from "A Bug's Life" but Corny's supposed to appear in any number of the forty or so publications based on the film."