Taylor Jessen

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Archivist for Firesign Theatre, Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre, and Negativland. Considered irresistible by some men. "Great Syntax" - Mr. Ward, 8th grade English 🌈

Wooden sign, "NO HIPPIES"

Cover image, "The Penguin Leunig", 1974: a man with a butterfly net chases his own disembodied head flying a few feet in front of him

Image copied from the front page of timeanddate.com: "US House Passes Bill Making DST Permanent"

The same tree, five minutes later, with bloodstains on the "teeth" and little pools of blood on the sidewalk

One-sheet poster for Andrzej Zulawski's "Possession"

From the Dantixebiana store, Redbubble: clock with background text "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS"

Cheesy comp of a hot air balloon over Colorado, trailing a police cruiser underneath it on a cable

T-shirt design, plain white shirt on which has been scrawled "I SHOPLIFTED A WHITE CREW NECK AND SOME SHARPIES FROM WAL-MART, AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT."

Redbubble shirt design, "Hand Made American Citizen Popular Everywhere"

A nice day in Southern California, 7/3/2026

Criterion Collection 4K disc, "Monty Python's Life of Brian"

Redbubble shirt design, "Let's have an awkward conversation"

Redbubble shirt design, "Antimacassar / Anti-massacre"

A library copy of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia", in which an asshole has underlined half the lines in the book, because he is an asshole

4K cover, "Flash Gordon" (Dir. Mike Hodges, from Arrow Video, 2020)

4-panel comic of a shark with no dorsal fin ("I miss my dorsal fin"), then the open ocean ("I hear it's doing fine"), then the ocean meeting a beach ("It washed up on a beach"), then the missing dorsal fin on a lounge chair on the beach next to a bucket with wine and a wine glass ("And not it's sipping wine")

Book cover, John Kennedy Toole "A Confederacy of Dunces"

Corner of Forest Lawn and Barham, Burbank, CA. Former "New York Film Academy" building foreground right; Warner Bros. studio lot background left

Google Maps: Burbank, Verdugo Ave. looking WSW

"The Sound of Tennis with Everett Covin" on a turntable, with a dust-free rag covered in the dirt wiped off side 2

Imperial Records promotional poster for the Bonzo Dog Band, circa their 1967 album "Gorilla": the band collaged along with two fried eggs atop a rocket-powered hotdog, flying above a colorized Hans Vredeman de Vries engraving from his 1604 book "Perspective" (plate 40, a terraced plaza inside a palazzo with fountain) in which the fountain has been replaced by a giant tomato. On the top edge is a row of vintage illustrations of the heads of pigs in fancy dress, with each image connected by a thin white line to some element of the band/fried eggs.

Cover, 4K disc, "Amadeus (Theatrical Cut")

Random vertical slices from magazines arranged to spell out the Jean Cocteau quote "The living language of dreams, the dead language of waking...we must interpret and translate". Original collage for the Firesign Theatre book+DVD "Duke of Madness Motors"

Burbank, California, May 29 2026, around noon, a beautiful day full of puffy white clouds

From "Charles Ives and His Music" (Henry & Sidney Cowell, 1955): "Like Whitman, Ives passionately, even vociferously, asserted the right of the American artist to be himself and therefore different from any European, and both men drew on the same flooding prose rhythms to express what they felt in the world. They were both constrained, as well, to lifelong insistence that a preoccupation with art and a profound feeling for the common man have nothing about them that is incompatible with a rugged masculinity and all the heroic pioneer virtues."

Three-panel comic by Eli Bishop: first panel, a circle; text says "What is a comic?" Second panel, a bird in flight; text says "The question will never be resolved" Third panel, the stalk and roots of a small plant. Outside the panel, text says "We'll just eventually find some other way of talking about it."

Cartoon by Prims: A hot sun beats down on a suburban French couple. The man says "C'est pas possible...il fait extrêmement chaud!" Suddenly out of the sky comes a penguin screaming "EXTRÊME MANCHOT!! EXTRÊÊÊÊME MANCHOT!!" as he is seen in successive panels riding a snowboard marked "yolo", skydiving in a wingsuit, and riding a motorcycle gleaming with orange flames.

Snake sculpture, 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong district, Thailand, now in Bangkok National Museum

Photo from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book)": Neil Innes on set with a duck.

Opening title screen of TV series "Lassie" (1959), with extreme JPG compression artifacts.

US Govt. Printing Office poster, 1942, campaign from the U.S. Public Health Service, illustrated by H. Price: "Regular check ups keep him on the job"

US Govt. Printing Office poster, 1942, campaign from the U.S. Public Health Service, illustrated by H. Price: "Dental care keeps him on the job"

Event flyer, Eagle L.A.: "Eagle Scout", Sunday 5/24/2026. The illustration features a burly G.I. soaping up, his eyes drawn left to an inset illustration of another G.I. getting his pants on.

Possum outside my apartment drinking out of the water bowl, photographed through the slightly-cracked front door.

Steve Brule holding a trumpet, possibly in the act of dropping it. Caption: "Be learn. Go great."

Eric Idle from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as Roger the Shrubber, sporting a medieval hairstyle with the forehead hair gathered in a delta shape

LA Art Book Fair, Pasadena: main entrance hall

Inside the Argonaut (student newspaper), Student Union Bldg.

Some headline photos and illustrations depicting some things, who cares what.

Collage by Phil Proctor: Over an image clipped from 1960s-era Life magazine of an astronaut on a space walk, the astronaut sees that one foot in front of his helmet is a softball.

Fake book cover: "Sith Sith Sith" by Jules Feiffer. Dark Vader lurks on the right side of the image, looking back over his shoulder. A caption under the title reads "a guide to far, far-away living"