A Firesign Chat
12/22/2022




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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 December 22, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Rufus T Firetween steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 6:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus T Firetween, just back from Billville."
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com
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||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 8:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 22, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Rufus T Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| 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 half hour!"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, DJTweeny walks off into the sunset...
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||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'johan amadeus myjetski', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
johan amadeus myjetski: "i'm not a drinking man on duty. i swear to hell i saw it"
DJTweeny: Hey johan
DJTweeny: music in a little bit
DJTweeny: EYKIW is my favorite :)
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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johan amadeus myjetski: that's because you KNOW that everything you know is wromg!
johan amadeus myjetski: wrong
DJTweeny: rong
DJTweeny: getting very chilly here, going to 12 tonight w/o the wind chill
DJTweeny: crazy cold for Austin
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
Currently playing: warm up music – CHICAGO-CHRISTMAS: WHAT'S IT GONNA BE SANTA?
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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johan amadeus myjetski: tomorrow's high is at midnight tonight. 40*F then it falls all day to 2*F by 5pm tomorrow that's in town, we'll be at least 5* colder than that. plus a signigant windchill.
Rufus T Firetween: yipes
DJTweeny: I guess they're calling it a 'bomb cyclone'
DJTweeny: 'once in a generation storm'
johan amadeus myjetski: there used to be a belief that when an artist recorded a xmas album, their carreer began to circle the bowl. the only next step would an album of their favorite christan hymns. then it was all over.
DJTweeny: like a Cat 3 hurricane of snow
DJTweeny: not Chicago ;)
DJTweeny: They really rocked out the traditional songs
johan amadeus myjetski: their 2nd album still knocks me out. kust like bottles & nicky
johan amadeus myjetski: just like
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Cease gets out at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
DJTweeny: can you Canuk folks please take your weather bacK?
Cease: speaking of cats...
DJTweeny: appreciate you sharing, but...
johan amadeus myjetski: we had snow early this morning,but it melted on contact. mostofthe snow willbeon the west side of themountain (that's Tennessee) but we'll get a dusting
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Zen Cosmos, just back from Funfun Town."
Cease: a lot more snow than we're used to here.
Cease: another dump happening tonight.
Cease: then it warms up and rains over xmas
Cease: hi zen
johan amadeus myjetski: lewis black weneedto build a wallbetween the US & Canada,not Mexico,because that'swhere the coldair is comingfrom....
DJTweeny: love Lewis Black
Zen Cosmos: Chicago?
DJTweeny: Hi Zen, yes, as the topis says ^^
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
DJTweeny: *topic
Zen Cosmos: freezing temps and rain soon- <>
johan amadeus myjetski: they've weaponized weather control& this is how wars are being fought.how'sthat for a conspiracy theory?
DJTweeny: That must be it johan, HAARP ;)
johan amadeus myjetski: hi zenc.you stayin'warm?
Cease: They: Putin and his pals
Zen Cosmos: P&B on Firesign Theatre FB site right now--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWh_rRKGVg
Cease: proc/berg were immensely productive. proc still is
DJTweeny: bergman hasn't done much lately
Cease: instead of drifting off into dementia, proc and ossie keep producing intelligent work
Cease: lol tween
Cease: well, he continues to inspire, so there's that
johan amadeus myjetski: hey cease!thx for sharing that donovan linkfor the hollywood bowl concerti am enjoying it!
DJTweeny: bless 'em, they give us older folks hope :)
Zen Cosmos: D.O. is my "northern neighbor" on Whidbey Is.
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
Now playing: from the DOMM LET'S EAT broadcast collection
“XMAS IN RAT-LAND”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=DUKE%20OF%20MADNESS
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Cease: the firesign wives were reallly good singers
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Deputy Dang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Deputy Dang enters and sits at the bar.
DJTweeny: oops, missed mentioning that we're going to have a Cat Collage in the 2nd hour called "A Charlie Firesign Christmas" (Charlie Brown/Firesign)
johan amadeus myjetski: hey deputy!
Deputy Dang: I love the name!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Billville."
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Beet: Howdy
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Cease: Dang, Beet
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
johan amadeus myjetski: hey beet!
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween, Dr Cease, j. a. m., Deputy.
Beet: Hello Zen.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=duke%20of%20madness
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: whaz real?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
DJTweeny: Hey llan
johan amadeus myjetski: whatever it is,Llan, it's realcold!
llanwydd: sneezings greetings everybody
Deputy Dang: The math gets confusing.
llanwydd: real cold where, jam?
||||||||| Elayne sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: what music did I miss this time, tween?
Cease: hi el
llanwydd: Hi Elayne!
Elayne: Evenin' all, and happy hollandaise!
johan amadeus myjetski: the realcold comes tomorrow - below ) western NC
Rufus T Firetween: Chicago doing Xmas classics, llan
Cease: hows nyc?
llanwydd: lol
DJTweeny: Hey E
johan amadeus myjetski: below0
Cease: i have some hollandaise in the fridge
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=duke%20of%20madness
llanwydd: dont remember ever hearing that tween
Elayne: NYC lucked out, lots of rain tonight and tomorrow but no other precip. Until, of course, the temps dip precipitously.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi elayne!
Cease: of course, it's all fridge here now
Zen Cosmos: Yaldy Yerking Yuletide and Happy New Orbit to all Fireheads...
Elayne: Naturally we'll be running out of milk around about Saturday AM
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy."
llanwydd: no place like home for the hollan... well you all know that one
Deputy Dang: Elayne (the y is silent, and there for its effect)! Welcome!
Elayne: My favorite carol is Deck The Halls With Vince Giraldi
Elayne: LOL, Dang!
Cease: ive been enjoying your facebook posts of food, el
llanwydd: its in the lower 60s down here in FL
Tweeny: Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_XXV%3A_The_Christmas_Album
Zen Cosmos: Batman does NOT stink
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now."
llanwydd: send some of your snow down my way
Tweeny: "The album was re-issued by Rhino Records in 2003 as What's It Gonna Be, Santa? with six additional, newly recorded tracks." << What I played this evening
Elayne: So Robin tells me the first weed dispensary in NYC is now open about a block away from where I used to work like 40 years ago. It's on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, where a GAP used to be. Anti-gentrification!
llanwydd: thanks for the link, tween
Beet: Hey, Elayne.
Cease: i hear that brandy was their beverage of choice when they were doing these radio shows
Cease: got your card/letter today, el. thanks
Deputy Dang: llanwydd You must be norther than I. It's still low 70s here.
Elayne: Oh good Cat, never sure how speedy Canadian mail is
llanwydd: not a big deal, elayne. pot has always been easy to get in nyc
Beet: Hi, Llan
llanwydd: where, dang?
johan amadeus myjetski: rice-burning pig
Elayne: Not for me, Llan. As a 65-year-woman I'm not blessed with connections
Elayne: However, my downstairs (basement) neighbor sells, so I'm set for the moment
Deputy Dang: Weed is overrated. Either that, or (as I'm starting to believe) I've grown a resistance.
Cease: we've had days with no mail because of blizzards of late.
Cease: maybe tomorrow
Elayne: All I have to do is text him and walk down two flights of stairs :)
Elayne: And a couple partners I support at work have been very generous Venmo-wise
Cease: compared to what, dang?
Elayne: Dang, it's not overrated if it works for things. Been using it medicinally since the days of menstrual cramps. My goodness it did such a good job on them, I'm almost nostalgic
Deputy Dang: Compared to how it was when I was young.
Elayne: The thing that confuses me most is I'm now supposed to self-educate about strains, and indica and sativa and all that stuff. Used to be, one kind was available, take it or leave it
Elayne refills pipe
Deputy Dang: Yes, yes, I apologize--I didn't intend to insult or dissuade its use. I should have been clearer up front. It seems that I am now immune to it. i am saddened by it, because I've never been a big user.
Elayne checks packet
Deputy Dang: Elayne, ask your supplier about Delta 8. Just for fun (mwahahaha).
Elayne: Hmm, running a bit low on "Emerald Canyon"
Beet: I always enjoyed Columbta. Nice body high.
Cease: got netflix for a month and watfhed one of their programmes about weed, which said our indica/sativa dichotomy is bullshit
Beet: Columbian
Elayne: THC 27.08%, harvested 6/21/22... my gosh they actually keep track of all of this stuff now, it's like buying wine
Cease: we used to call it The Colombo Plan
Deputy Dang: I don't know much about the strains, Cease, but what I've found is little to no distinction between sativa/indica.
Elayne: Dang, I had the chance to buy some Delta 8, no thank you
Cease: you have to try them for yourself. you can't rely on any info
Elayne: Cat, that's what I've always thought about wine :)
Deputy Dang: Whatever else I say, when I recommend not getting (or trying) any Delta 8 flower/bud, just say no. The vapes are at least tolerable. The flower is like ditchweed.
Cease: and things in general, el
Elayne: I think I might have gotten that in Manhattan the last time I lunched w Proctor. Not exactly what one would call potent
llanwydd: I find that cannabis does little for me in my old age
Elayne: Proctor looks like he's having fun in Hawai'i
llanwydd: and I am only 61
Cease: you're a decade younger than me, llan. at least in calendar years
Cease: yes, el. doesn't it look like proc has fun wherever he is?
Rufus T Firetween: as opposed to dog years?
||||||||| Not Ed enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
johan amadeus myjetski: it ain't the years,it's the milage...
Not Ed: Pork?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy."
Cease: hi not
DJTweeny: Hey NotEd
Beet: Hi, Not
johan amadeus myjetski: hi not!
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=duke%20of%20madness
Zen Cosmos: I love the monthly re-connection we get with the Planet Proctor newsletter...
Beet: Those are really good.
llanwydd: ten years older than me, cat? and do you still get much out of cannabis?
Not Ed: Hey all
llanwydd: I can still gt high but I gag and wretch on the smoke
Cease: yep
Not Ed: Just getting the Zound a-happenin
llanwydd: makes it all but useless
Cease: have you ever made butter, llan?
Cease: works for me.
Not Ed: yay llan
Not Ed: coff
Elayne: Hello NotEd
Rufus T Firetween: You could always make 'special' brownies
Rufus T Firetween: and skip the smoke in the lungs thing
Not Ed: Hi Elayne! good 2 C you!
llanwydd: I have tried and failed at that, cat
Elayne: Well, after a day of work and typing I'm going to wrest my rist-- I mean, rest my wrist before my physical therapy gives me an earful
Elayne: Um, therapist, I meant
Cease: i was listening to an interview with vince guaraldi's drummer and he tlaked aobut hanging out with miles davis, who only drank brandy
Rufus T Firetween: stay warm and well, Elayne
Not Ed: full haus tonite
Elayne: Have a cool Yule, y'all, and see you next week!
Cease: just as the guys are riffing on brandy here, that was their drink of choice then
llanwydd: merry xmas, E
Beet: See you soon, Elayne. Enjoy the holiday.
Cease: coincidence that miles and firesign liked to guzzle brandy mid-gig?
||||||||| Elayne dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Elayne?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Cease: by el
Deputy Dang: Don't slam the door!
Not Ed: catherwood get everyone a hot holiday log bursting with baby worms
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a hot holiday log bursting with baby worms.
llanwydd: please take back my log, cathy. it is grossing me out
llanwydd: throw it on the fire
Not Ed: they're festive grubs
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: please do
llanwydd: grumble, grumble
Deputy Dang: I remember when I used to be a festive grub
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
currently playing – from Phil Austin's Tales Of The Old Detective listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out OLD DETECTIVE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-rv
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Deputy Dang: From the introduction, I think this will be new to me! Yeeha!
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
currently playing – from Phil Austin's Tales Of The Old Detective
“X IS FOR CHRISTMAS”
listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out OLD DETECTIVE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-rv
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Not Ed: lol DDang
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln
Rufus T Firetween: They need to get this up on the new FST store
johan amadeus myjetski: 'turjid' is a word you don't hear much anymore...
Not Ed: I dig this album/collection muchly
llanwydd: tugid is archaic
Not Ed: true JAM
llanwydd: turgit
llanwydd: greed goof!
Not Ed: what's the dif between turgid anf flacid?
Not Ed: isn't a turgid a fish?
llanwydd: thats a sturgid
Rufus T Firetween: General Turgidson? (see Dr. Strangelove)
Deputy Dang: I remember when I was between turgid anf flacid.
Beet: sturgeon
johan amadeus myjetski: Kubrick's way of saying "general slow-witted
Rufus T Firetween: George C. Scott was amazing in the part
Beet: Some of his lines in that movie is kind of what the government is saying now.
Rufus T Firetween: Let's hope there's not a General Jack Ripper out there
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's Live At The Magic Mushroom
“TILE IT LIKE IT IS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out THE MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
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Not Ed: this is great good stuff tonight
Cease: I remember recording this when first performed
Not Ed: well as always : )
Cease: I'd borrowed a friend's Very Good tape recorder.
Not Ed: cool!
Rufus T Firetween: Not Ed: this is great good stuff tonight << Cat's choices, thank him :)
llanwydd: tween, I think we know there are Rippers throughout the world
Rufus T Firetween: Grid Help Us llan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
Not Ed: thank you cat!
llanwydd: for sure, tween
Cease: I'm working on a collage based on the various versions of A Chrsitmas Carol.
Cease: Hope to have it done by next week.
Not Ed genuflects whatever that means.
Deputy Dang: You never head about Jack the Tugger... things that make you go hmm....
Beet: Sounds good.
Deputy Dang: hear
Cease: hope so, beet
Zen Cosmos: went to log not found so repeating...
Deputy Dang: A repeating zen cosmos kinda feels right.
Zen Cosmos: Yaldy Yerking Yuletide and happy New Orbit.
johan amadeus myjetski: merry grimble & a happy new jeer
Deputy Dang: here here!
Cease: where where?
Deputy Dang: third base!
Beet: Are you exiting, j.a.m.?
johan amadeus myjetski: hanging on for a bit longer
Beet: Very good.
johan amadeus myjetski: i had to wish everyone top of the season while i thought of it, else it'd pass my turjid metal processes...
Beet: I understand.
Deputy Dang: sturgeon
Tweeny: 18 in Austin, going down to 12 with a wind chill far below. If there is a Saint of The Homeless, I hope he/she watches over them tonight.
Cease: same to you, jammy
Cease: -6 C here, going down
Tweeny: That's 21.2, which is damned chilly
Beet: 32 here. Positively a heatwave.
Tweeny: We won't get out of the 20sF tomorrow
Tweeny: get out the shorts Beet
Deputy Dang: I'm being quiet, just staring at my toes.
Tweeny: lol
Beet: Where did I put my suntan lotion?
Deputy Dang: You definiitely misplaced it. You're so red!
Cease: just trailng a red, with red hair
Beet: Embarrasing.
Not Ed: coff
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: scuse me
Deputy Dang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMxFp0_U3U
Not Ed: Aww that was sweet
Cease: ok let';s tracvel back in time to when i recorded that.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
Not Ed: static!
Cease: i had been writing plays since 1959 but when i heard that, i knew i had to get a lot better
Not Ed: I feel RFD-ed
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
”A CHARLIE FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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Zen Cosmos: FUN FACT: courtesy of my engineering physics prof.- steam trains that emit white smoke are properly fueled and running at the right high operating temperature, but trains emitting black smoke are just the opposite.
Not Ed: Coooool Cat
Zen Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9vQ_y9JJ1E
Not Ed: Yeah Zen
Not Ed: Well I'm not a crook
Cease: lol
Not Ed: brushes not stix
Not Ed: haha
johan amadeus myjetski: it's suppertime. nite all! stay warm one & all1 survive & we'll meet again , if not in this year, then in the next!
Cease: by jammy
Not Ed: be well n groovy
Not Ed: take good care
Cease: you too, not
Beet: 'Nite, j.a.m.
Cease: we just heard this
Not Ed: don't let your meat
Not Ed: loaf?
Deputy Dang: That's what I tell my girlfriend. Don't let my meat loaf!
Cease: imagine knowing, "no one likes me."
Not Ed: haha lol this is great
Cease: Peanutrs was Very Important to me in those days, mid 60s
Zen Cosmos: groovy? farm out, and out of state
llanwydd: I always liked charlie brown
Cease: here's me talking to Austin
Cease: 2010?
Not Ed: wow
llanwydd: the first charlie brown movie I ever saw was the one where somebody destroyed his blanket. that actually made me sad.
Cease: linus has the blanket
llanwydd: well it was a long time ago I saw it
llanwydd: 1965 I believe
Not Ed: I rem that one llan
Not Ed: real estate
Not Ed: surreal estate
Zen Cosmos: Musk wants to make/own more of it, by going to Mars...
llanwydd: I saw an episode of The Outer Limits when I was 4 and it gave me nighmares. when I saw it again about 50 years later I actually remembered a lot of the dialogue
Not Ed: ssome of them were very well written
Beet: Can you have suburbs when there isn't an "urb"?
Not Ed: Demon with a Glass Hand wow
llanwydd: technically no, beet
Not Ed: Harlan Ellison
llanwydd: it was the episode where a guy sees time slow down almost to a stop
Deputy Dang: I knew a guy who punched Harlan Ellison in the face.
Not Ed: yeah that's really cool
Cease: and lived?
Not Ed: he often deserved it
Cease: true
Not Ed: but I understood him
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Deputy Dang: Well, the guy was in his 20s when he told me, and in his pre-teens when he punched HE.
Not Ed: kind of a genius, great writer....a funny guy
Cease: wrote some great stuff.
Not Ed: ohhh
Not Ed: somebody took a shot at him at one of his appearances
llanwydd: I have read only two harlan ellison stories. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and Repent Harlequin Said the Tick Tock Man. I enjoyed them both
Not Ed: nobody was hurt
Not Ed: great story
Not Ed: twisted
Not Ed: Both actually
Zen Cosmos: my Harlan Ellison anecdote: at a book signing he went on and on about his expensive gold pen, I asked him how expensive the ink was and he just glared...
Not Ed: I like "Grail" and the "Jefty" one a lot
Not Ed: he's got a effing ton of stories
Deputy Dang: Yes, basically. I think he was with his dad. Maybe in his dad's arms? I don't remember the details, but yes--it was at an "appearance".
Zen Cosmos: Jefty is Five is one of the best spec fic short stories ever written...
Not Ed: interesting Zen
Cease: HE wrote a lot of great stuff
Deputy Dang: Definitely.
Cease: I encountered him in Vancouver at a reading, but found him intimidating. Had a nice chsat with his wife and joined his mailing list at her suggestion
Deputy Dang: dammit... i keep switching through my windows/tabs looking for the video that I see in my mind.
Deputy Dang: I've got dog germs!
Cease: mid 90s
Not Ed: I put the robin williams interview show on YouTube. It's great. Part 2 is better than part 1, better audio quality too, but one is great too -- Part 1 https://youtu.be/ICNwAgHgFrc -- Part 2 https://youtu.be/Bzy0KYLdGsU
Deputy Dang: I like what I read of his, but I don't think I'd call myself a fan.
Not Ed: sorry, Williams' interview of/with Ellison
Deputy Dang: Mid 80s
Deputy Dang: This dialog makes me think of South Park.
Not Ed: he's got some amazing stories -- some of them are actually true : )
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
Not Ed: the voices are brilliant, and the editing of them
llanwydd: my favorite sci fi author is ray bradbury and has been for most of my life
Not Ed: the kids voices
Cease: yeah llan, bradbury was the first sf writer i really connected with
Deputy Dang: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1997362/ or on video (NSFW: language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Me,_Ray_Bradbury
Deputy Dang: My ex never appreciated the humor of this song.
llanwydd: same with me, cat. the first I read was
llanwydd: the Illustrated Man
Deputy Dang: was that a Yoda impersonation?
Beet: I had an English teacher in high school that assigned Martian Chronicles as a reading assignment. Pretty cool.
llanwydd: about 5th grade. got totally hooked
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Deputy Dang: I read all of those. So good. Possibly life-changing, but who knows. It made a huge impression on me.
Cease: did i tell you i wrote a script for a peanuts tv show in 66?
Cease: jusrt sold it a few months ago.
llanwydd: glad I didnt, beet. I could not get into any mandatory reading
Cease: bradbury is great on radio.
Cease: i used his Mars is Heaven on a recent collage
Beet: That's why it was so unusual. Mybe the only book I read in its entirety.
Zen Cosmos: Catherwood: how about Poteet, TX?
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to Zen Cosmos and says "Someone mention my name?"
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A CHARLIE FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
llanwydd: never heard that cat. did it make it to tv?
Cease: no
Cease: but i was in the loop in the mid 60s
Beet: Even Snoopy is laughing at Charlie Brown.
Not Ed: indeed
Cease: Snopoy is NOT on Charlie Brown's side for most of the life of the strip.
Cease: If you doh't mind my saying so, Snoopy is a kind of Donald Trump characrter, living only in his own world
Beet: Not even man's best friend is Charlie Brown's best friend.
Cease: lol
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign
'
Rufus T Firetween: Cat's got some more Xmas stuff for us next week
Cease: i'm going to plunge into the alistair sims version of scrooge in a few minutes and have collage about it for y'all next week
llanwydd: looking forward to it, cat
Cease: fun to do
llanwydd: I played Scrooge for a Vermont company back in 05
Beet: A fun holiday project.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?"
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Bottles in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: dearest bottles
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles. Show's over :/
Beet: Hello/Goodbye Bottles
Bottles: Hi yall.
llanwydd: hi bye bottles
Zen Cosmos: to all Fireheads have a great rest of the season...
Beet: Good impression.
Bottles: Show's over? Darn, I had an xmas dinner celebration and I forgot about the show.
Cease: we'll do our best, zen
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: Good holiday offering tonight. Thanks everyone. Great stuff tonight, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. Joyous Yuletide to everyone. G'Nite all.
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Bottles by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: let;s meet on facebook, bogttles
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Cease left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
llanwydd: Happy Holidays to everybody! See you all next week
Not Ed: Happy merry krimble!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 4:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| llanwydd rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Not Ed: Good to see you all. Thanks Tweeny & Rufus & Merlyn the Magician
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the yaws
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus T Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-rv
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_XXV%3A_The_Christmas_Album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Me,_Ray_Bradbury
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc?rq=DUKE%20OF%20MADNESS
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1997362/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMxFp0_U3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9vQ_y9JJ1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWh_rRKGVg
https://youtu.be/Bzy0KYLdGsU
https://youtu.be/ICNwAgHgFrc



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