Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/16/2025

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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for January 16, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign's DON’T CRUSH THAT DWARF HAND ME THE PLIERS
plus from LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM “A Life In The Day”
and selections from Doc Technical’s DEAR FRIENDS TOO
Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign | Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 16, 2025 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Deputy Dang: iwon'tbe here tonight.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Bottles jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
Bottles: Hello Dang
Deputy Dang: Hottest Bottles! I'm juststopping by to day i won't behere tonight.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Tweeny: Evenin' folks
Bottles: Hey Cease & Tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Evening, folks
Cease: hi folks. delightful bottles. i can't quit the stuff
Cease: hey beet
Bottles: Hi Beet
Beet: Hi, Cease, Bottles, Deputy. Tweeny.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Tweeny: This is The Fresh Chef from Doc Technical's DEAR FRIENDS TOO
Cease: i will have a new collady in a couple of weeks, about my fall.
Beet: Bottles, nice to see you tonight.
Cease: collage
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?"
Tweeny: Elayne said on FB that she might pop in 'to listen to her favorite album' (Dwarf)
Bottles: Awesome.
Tweeny: Cat have you heard anything from Doc Tech recently? I haven't heard back about the AWS access yet.
Cease: hope she does. thic chat is her baby
Bottles: Coffee break time.BRB
Cease: bim tween. i called him last inght but no answer. the increadsing non prodction of my play is increasingly annoying
Bottles: Coffee
Bottles: ... is brewing
Cease: never liked coffee, except as a recepticle of booze
Bottles: I got into it working the swing shift, to stay awake fifty years ago.
Beet: What selection is this?
Cease: i stopped wearing a sling this week.
Beet: Congratulations, Cease.
Cease: that ws from jeremy braddock's interview with OSSman which he posted on substack recently.
Bottles: Seems like I recall you broke your arm or something Cease?
Tweeny: Great to hear, Cease :)
Bottles: I'll be in a cast in a month or so
Bottles: And I don't mean a theatrical cast.
Cease: thakns, beet. doc told me to use arm to get it back working again. silll a bit painfujl to do that, but i understand the need for movement
Cease: yes, bvottles. fell down at a party on dec 7 and dislocated srm from shoulder. still occaionally sore, but not constantly
Bottles: Owie! That must've hurt!
Cease: most paIni've ever been in for such a period of time.
Cease: as we age, our defences crumble
Bottles: Last fracture I had was a rib, from falling off a lectic bike
Beet: I can relate.
Bottles: Our balances get worse too
Cease: true
Cease: falling down is a bitch
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: i fell 3 times last year.that's a discouraging tremd
Cease: by dang
Tweeny: ehhh
Tweeny hopes Cease stays upright when needed
Cease: thanks, tween
Cease: i have jusrt started new play, so am very happy.
Tweeny: kewl
Bottles: Excellent, Cease
Cease: you writing anything new, bottles?
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Beet: Hi, Elayne.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Cease: had a dream about the Weimar Republic's centential, cuz they kept hitler in jail, thus no nazi govt, no ww2.
Cease: Hey El
Cease: Whatg a delight to see you here
Beet: WWII didn't happen?
Bottles: Elayne! Good to "see" you again.
Cease: in my play, no
Elayne: Heya Bottles!
Cease: in firewsign land, nazis won
Beet: Heil
Elayne: I'm just fed up with this Wandy person on the Facebook group, he doesn't really get how the group works.
Elayne: I agree with him politically, he's just not going about it correctly (in my opinion).
Cease: a lot of people don't know a lot of things
Tweeny: T minus 4 before Trump takes office
Tweeny: should be quite a time
Elayne: His heart's in the right place but his head is up his ass.
Elayne: He has, as the record just said, two shelves where none are needed.
Bottles: And some people know some things...but no people know no things. "I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
Beet: Direct quote, I think.
Cease: there us no such thing as nothing
Cease: is
Cease: that was bottles
Cease: war,,,who wore...
Elayne: Ah, always nice to hear Dwarf again. Thanks Kurt!
Cease: this is as good as albums ever got
Beet: Great album
Bottles: Indeed
Tweeny: Elayne: Ah, always nice to hear Dwarf again. Thanks Kurt! << As has become a tradition, we're playing the first four studio albums 'quadrilogy' at the beginning of every year :) Bozos next week...
Elayne: Yikes, this Magic Mushroom show is giving me a bit of a headache. Think I'll go bother Wandy on FB again...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Elayne by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Tweeny: haha E
Cease: by el
Bottles: Adios Elayne
Beet: Nite, Elayne. Have a nice time.
Cease: hope to see you here more often
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Not Ed enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'ModeratelyGinchy', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Tweeny: Hi Not Ed
Tweeny: Hi Ginchy
Beet: Hey, Not
Cease: Hey Not
Not Ed: Beet,Tweeny, Cease, Bottles, Mod jello!
Beet: Hi, Ginchy
ModeratelyGinchy: Hi Beet!
Not Ed: Getting the audio on
Bottles: Hello Not Ed
Not Ed: It's just this little chromium switch here....
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Cease: LA? My favourite LA person
Not Ed: hey Bot!
ModeratelyGinchy: AmI? Well, it's my luck day, Cease!
Not Ed: Ahh there we go
Not Ed: gummi droppers ; )
Cease: You make this a better universe, Moderately
ModeratelyGinchy: Merv the Perve *lol*
ModeratelyGinchy: Thanks for reminding me, Cease.
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh good lord. The end of the world. Sounds like out chat.
ModeratelyGinchy: *our
Not Ed: Catherwood bring everyone hemp wheels and some meatless hot creatures
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone hemp wheels and some meatless hot creatures.
Cease: i think anyone who appeciatres firesign is of a higher level intllectually. do you gree?
ModeratelyGinchy: No question
Not Ed: I have a short question.
Not Ed: Who am us anyway?
Cease: ask away
ModeratelyGinchy: You should see my new hoodie, Cease. It's Nick Danger. I don't know if it's official, though, since I didn't buy it.
Cease: short people have no body to love
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: I Ain't Got No Body
Cease: i would appreciate seeing whateve you're wearing
Beet: Well, it's time again. Must go. Enjoyed the offerings and seeing everyone. Have a great week. G'Nite all.
ModeratelyGinchy: Bye, Beet!
Tweeny: be well, Beet
Cease: by beet
Not Ed: Later alligator
Bottles: Adieu Beet
Cease: ae you leving us not, so soon after joining us?
Cease: the number of folk who congegate here is tiny, at best
ModeratelyGinchy: Need some outreach
Cease: how does that happen, ginchy>
ModeratelyGinchy: What groups are getting messages?
Cease: the 4 fsacebook groups
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh, I think demographically Facebook is a good place to start since they have various groups organized by generation. But, also, Reddit.
Cease: you can be our person LA
ModeratelyGinchy: I could.
ModeratelyGinchy: For now, I'm going to laugh
ModeratelyGinchy: I figure I have about 4 days of guaranteed life left
ModeratelyGinchy: Going to enjoy them
Bottles: Maybe some people don't do chat rooms is because they can't visualize other people in type
ModeratelyGinchy: It is a 2-step process... signin in to chat and then clicking the stream
ModeratelyGinchy: but, it's not that difficult.
Bottles: No, not difficult. But many people I've asked don't know of FT
Cease: you got to be a certain age to know of Firesign
ModeratelyGinchy: I know lots who know FST but they are creatives and getting them to sit down and listen is a struggle
ModeratelyGinchy: But lots of film and music people can quote them from heart
ModeratelyGinchy: Just have to get them high first
ModeratelyGinchy: LOL
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Not Ed: too many references youngers won't get
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Not Ed: get them high yes!
ModeratelyGinchy: How did they ever do all of this live?
ModeratelyGinchy: Wish I'd been able to see it
ModeratelyGinchy: I am going to go back to your archive, Cease. While I work.
ModeratelyGinchy: Ha, when it still rained in LA
ModeratelyGinchy: That doesn't happen anymore
ModeratelyGinchy: I don't think we've seen rain in more than a year.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "My nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume."
Cease: i;ve nade hundrfeds of collgages by now. i'm happy abouot that
Bottles: Mein Gott, hundreds! Amazing.
ModeratelyGinchy: Can someone post the FST merch site, please?
Cease: am thrilled to see you here. acftualy, thrilled ot see you anywhee. you'e a wonder
Cease: you ca probably just type in fiewign and find it, wondreful you
ModeratelyGinchy: IThey usually have it here
ModeratelyGinchy: Got it though
ModeratelyGinchy: ba ba loo
||||||||| Cease is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Not Ed: https://firesigntheatre.com/store
ModeratelyGinchy: Thanks Not
Not Ed: U betcha
ModeratelyGinchy: So do all sales go where they're supposed to?
Not Ed: I heart Firesign honk honk!
Cease: Me too, ginchy, i am inclined towards your happiness. i have been high for a long time, but am thrilled wha your current highness brings about our contact can you imagine connecting with me?
Not Ed: RIP David Lynch
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, ModeratelyGinchy walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ModeratelyGinchy close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
Not Ed: welcome back!
ModeratelyGinchy: Launched myself out the window *lol*
Cease: I adore Ms Ginchy
ModeratelyGinchy: Or maybe I ran into a stunted tree... perhas I'll go sit in the waiting room
ModeratelyGinchy: or, you know, wait in the...
Not Ed: heh
ModeratelyGinchy: LOL
ModeratelyGinchy: Hoisted on your own peter
ModeratelyGinchy: I'm dying
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
ModeratelyGinchy: I have to listen to this again
Bottles: Was this scripted, or ad libbed?
ModeratelyGinchy: Wondering too.
Tweeny: probably a little of both
ModeratelyGinchy: OMG
Tweeny: there were scripts, but went into improvisation in a heartbeat
ModeratelyGinchy: So, you've mostly heard all of this before?
Tweeny: I imagine the 'scripts' were more of a suggestion ;)
Cease: tweebuas is right
Not Ed: seems so sure
ModeratelyGinchy: Is Tweebuas just alright with you, Cease?
Tweeny: It's all from the Dear Friends radio series, available on the Duke Of Madness Motors collection
ModeratelyGinchy: THANK YOU!
Tweeny: Ossman did the same thing making the Dear Friends album
Tweeny: This is Doc Tech's compilation of bits from that radio series
Not Ed: Such. A. Fan. It's so cool they got all of that out. What a project!
ModeratelyGinchy: No!
ModeratelyGinchy: Too soon.
Bottles: Ah gee, time is up already?
Not Ed: Hey guys! Great to see you & meet you too Mod
Tweeny: Thanks for listening, folks
Bottles: Thank you Tweeny!
Tweeny: We'll see you for Bozos next week :)
Not Ed: Have a groovy -- see you on the "other side" ; )
ModeratelyGinchy: Bye Not
Not Ed: Thanks Tweeny!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Bottles hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
ModeratelyGinchy: Thank you, yes!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ModeratelyGinchy - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Cease - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Bottles
Cease
Deputy Dang
Elayne
ModeratelyGinchy
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.com/store