About a year ago, when I joined Facebook, I immediately began connecting with “Fireheads” from all over the country. Heading my list of friends was Phil Fountain, who created some exclusive Firesign Theatre cartoons for Chromium Switch some months earlier. Phil suggested that we incorporate the wealth of Firesign information from my various websites, along with current news and features, into a downloadable magazine. The second issue of Chromium Switch is now available in a PDF download; see the Add To Cart button on the right. Phil handles the creative aspect of our magazine such as design, layout and art direction. I sit at the controls of the trio of Firesign Theatre sites (Chromium Switch, fireheads.org, and WikiRococo) while overseeing digital downloads and mailing lists. Phil and I recently joined Peter Bergman's Radio Free Oz Team in developing a new website, with the aid of Scott Wild. His Wild Inspire firm specializes in Internet Marketing Consulting and Training.

The Firesign Theatre are unparalleled in their contributions to American comedy. Not only on recorded media, but live performances on stage and radio. For almost forty-four years (unprecedented) they've influenced our culture and reflected it back to us. It's audio theatre in warp-drive. The experience is there in the recordings of Waiting For the Electrician, Don't Crush That Dwarf, Boom Dot Bust, or Box of Danger. Call it parody, improvisation, satire or "stream of consciousness." It fits all these and more; the language of surreal imagination and intellect. Austin, Ossman, Proctor and Bergman -- can't imagine a world without them!

~~Tom Gedwillo & Phil Fountain, Publishers