Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/27/2023

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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 April 27, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 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?"
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| It's 11:45 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...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| 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)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| DJ Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – SANDY DENNY & THE STRAWBS-ALL OUR OWN WORK
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'johan amadeus myjetski', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJ Tweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hey there!
||||||||| Cease sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
johan amadeus myjetski: hello hello, Cat!
Cease: hi all
DJ Tweeny: allo Cat
Cease: Cat 2 is just warming up
DJ Tweeny: ah, the old Rutles classic, 'Happiness Is a Warm Cat'
Cease: this is the first time i've ever been on chat while drinking mohitos, is that the drink with orange juice?
johan amadeus myjetski: lol!
DJ Tweeny: Cat uses tube computers?
DJ Tweeny: There were some of those actually
Cease: half orange juice, half sparking wine. i had em at a bar in vegas and loved em
johan amadeus myjetski: what kinda chip you got in that thing - a dorito?
DJ Tweeny: sounds yummy
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'cat 2', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
cat 2: here's me with working audio
DJ Tweeny: allo warmed up cat
cat 2: hi again
Cease: we had a litre of orange juice sitting around we'd bought for a visitor who didn't like orange jiuce
Cease: finally getting rid of it, in a delicious way.
Cease: Mimosas, not Mojitos
johan amadeus myjetski: a beautiful tree, the mimosa
cat 2: Both start with M
johan amadeus myjetski: this hasn't happened to me since "M"!
Cease: Isee they attract hummingbirds. we should grow one in our yard. we have a variety of trees.
Cease: the magnolia is in bloom now. gorgeous, but a lot of work, sweeping the petals off the stairs
johan amadeus myjetski: Mimosas grow a lot here in the southeast USA, but usually in low, wet or swampy areas.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
Beet: Evening, Folks!
johan amadeus myjetski: yo beet!@
johan amadeus myjetski: beet@FSTchat
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween, j.a.m., Dr Cease.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
DJ Tweeny: yo Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Beet: I'm glad you're glad.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
johan amadeus myjetski: who am us anyway
Cease: Beet
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Deputy Dang by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
Beet: Good choice.
DJ Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
johan amadeus myjetski: hi DD!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Phil Austin''s “DOWN UNDER DANGER”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out PHIL AUSTIN at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin'
Beet: Howdy Deputy.
Cease: HI Dang
Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners!
Cease: It's wonderful to hear Austin's voice
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Merlyn inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cease: Hi Merl
DJ Tweeny: Hey Merlyn
Merlyn: hi
Beet: Hey, Merl
Cease: Aldous Isherwood
Cease: popular but not literary note. apparently austin tried to have his stories published in the new yorker with no luck
Cease: he wanted to be known as a writer, not just firesign member
Cease: that's firesign friend john scialli
Cease: small crowd tonight
johan amadeus myjetski: Christopher Huxley?
Beet: Only hardcores tonight.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits on the divan.
Cease: speaking of hardcore, this is the darkest "firesign" product since Electrician
llanwydd: good evening folks
Cease: hi llan
DJ Tweeny: Hey llan
Beet: Hi, Llan.
johan amadeus myjetski: hello llan!
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Austin sure could write
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT !! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“THE CASE OF THE MISSING SHOE”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook'
llanwydd: missing show is hilarious
johan amadeus myjetski: sshhh! i hear footprints!
Cease: yet another unsuccessful attempt at a series for the guys
Cease: the collage i'm working on now incorporates a lot of firesign commercials.
Cease: there is such a wealth of them
johan amadeus myjetski: & i love the ads second only to their tv guide spoofs
Rufus_T_Firetween: Their faux ads are wonderful
Rufus_T_Firetween: I love The Kamakazi Recall from EOBE
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT !! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“THE CASE OF THE MISSING GENERAL”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook'
Cease: uh oh. a sound effect
Cease: is it possible for nick not to be knocked out in any episode?
Rufus_T_Firetween: JL played the audio from Weirdly Cool (PBS special) but I don't think we've tried that
Rufus_T_Firetween: You don't get everything w/o the video, but it still pretty much works
Cease: we were planning to play the soundtrack from Missing Yolkls.
Cease: There was really clean version of Proctor Bergman's Soundstage we should definitely play.
johan amadeus myjetski: it's a Hollywoor law somewhere - every gumshoe must be knocked at least once per episode.
Cease: Maybe next week.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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
johan amadeus myjetski: let's go out to the lobby...
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “A FIRESIGN VEGAS (Part 2)”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
CHECK OUT CAT’S COLLAGE ARCHIVE AT >> https://www.kurtericson.net/cat'
Cease: i'm back in vegas and you're back in Shoe
Cease: this is some of my best writing since i was last in vegas 4 years ago
Cease: all that good food and colour really inspires me
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nothing like good food, and FST is great food. Let's Eat!!
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Bottles into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Cease: Firesign and great tastes fuel the brain.
Cease: Hi Bottles
Beet: Evening, Bottles.
Bottles: Hey yall
Cease: I don't mention walking from resorts world to what was billed as the biggest dispensary in the world
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
johan amadeus myjetski: hello bottels!
Beet: Hi, Not
Not Ed: Hey Rufus, Tweeny, JAM, C/cat, Beet, DeDang, Merlyn, llan & Botts!
Cease: Not
Not Ed: Hey all
Bottles: Hi Not
Not Ed: What's going down hep catz
Not Ed: Listening....
johan amadeus myjetski: hiNotthe doctor is on?
Bottles: Summer is here - over 90 here today.
Cease: i highly recomend that novel
Bottles: That's the one I was trying to remember. Skinny Legs and All?
Bottles: Or did I hear that wrong?
Cease: yes. wondrous book
Not Ed: I think that was it
Cease: fantastic to read in vegas.
Cease: i always try and matrch reading material with each trip.
Bottles: Wow, Tom Robbins is 90.
Cease: just got his autobi from the library today
Cease: i stayed in the pyramid in vegas
Cease: great place and cheap
Bottles: I'll be at the library tomorrow, I'll check it out.
Bottles: Did you get to sleep in a sarcofagus?
Bottles: I LOVE spanokopita~
Beet: Me too.
Beet: That's pretty cool.
Beet: That place looks amazing.
Cease: you could eat that spanakopita with a spoon
Cease: and the wine was divine. if only i hadnt ordered the halibut
Bottles: We're closing the studio tomorrow. Sucks.
Cease: yeah
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A FIRESIGN VEGAS” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
DJ Tweeny: ehhh, sorry to hear Bottles :(
johan amadeus myjetski: my condolences, bottles!
Bottles: But we will survive.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: yes you will bottles.
DJ Tweeny: So no more Scratched Up Radio Theater?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Bottles: We'll continue, just not from there.
DJ Tweeny: Is the web link still valid?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Not Ed: https://firesigntheatre.com/
Not Ed: Yes
DJ Tweeny: Hey Not Ed
Bottles: The station is still on air - for now. Just tight on the budget, partly due to covid-cancelled fundraisers.
Not Ed: Hi Tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Cease: will have new blot starting this weerkend
DJ Tweeny: Unfortunately, the new FST web site has none of the old albums
Bottles: And the station manager and program director want to retire.
DJ Tweeny: since Laugh.com stopped manufacturing/selling them
Not Ed is feeding cats--to dogs (kidding)
Cease: they need to sell them, not just give them away
Bottles: The world is changing, is it not
Bottles: What's the best way to cook a pork chop without grilling or frying?
DJ Tweeny: I used to use Shake & Bake
Bottles: Maybe I
Bottles: Maybe I'll marinate and bake it.
Cease: they're all good
Bottles: Wow, what was that??
Bottles: Havin a love in - kinda catchy.
Cease: its the song We're Having a Heat Wave
DJ Tweeny: Considered tat Peter coined the phrase Love-In, I'm sort of surprised they didn't make it to Laugh-In or The Smothers Brothers
Beet: cool
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT !! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“BACK FROM THE SHADOWS”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook'
Not Ed: nice cat
Not Ed: very entertaining
llanwydd: great collage, cat
johan amadeus myjetski: n i'm dik ranger 4 eyes defective
Bottles: Oh sure, I know the song, but was that a commercial for a 1966 love in? Wow, where did you find that??
Bottles: Sounded great, Cease, I'll go back and listen after a toke
Not Ed: lol this is nutty
llanwydd: I can swear I hear some of the nick danger theme in Duck Soup
Cease: bottles, its part of the mushroom play A Shadow Moves Over a LAnd, probly my favourite austin play
Bottles: Oh so.
llanwydd: but nobody believes me
Cease: my vegas experiences are infused with firesonian inspiration, so there's a feedback mechanism
johan amadeus myjetski: gotta go early tonight - GREAT collage, Cat, your food connoisseur chops never fail to amaze me. Thanks to everyone! g'nite!!
Bottles: I watched one of the non=Bogart Maltese Falcons a couple weeks ago. They're crazy.
Beet: See you later, j.a.m.
Cease: thakn s jammy
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gator
Bottles: Hasta luego Beet
llanwydd: so did I bottles. the one from 1931
Bottles: That's the better of the two, llanwydd, the other one with Bette Davis is really off the wall.
Bottles: "Satan Met A Lady"
llanwydd: just hearing different actors saying the lines makes them a little easier to understand
Cease: while i'm eating the food or drinking a great beverate, i'm thinking about How to Descrribe it.
Cease: that's useful here, but at the time, somewhat distracting
Bottles: OK I mixed soy sauce, teriyaki and Worschershire sauce - is that acceptable as a marinade?
llanwydd: soy sauce ginger and honey is a good one
Not Ed: I think so
Bottles: Wow that sounds great, but I don't have ginger or honey.
Cease: i ived in the the san fernandino valley for many years
Cease: sounds you need a sweeting agent, of some nature
llanwydd: I lived in the champlain valley for many years
Cease: justg now in nick danger. a joke. the name is san fernando. there is Another valey called San Bernadino
Rufus_T_Firetween: BANNER: ** 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
Bottles: Yeah Cease, but teriyaki has sugar or something.
Cease: i learn a lot of new music from tween's tuesday show
Cease: something
||||||||| 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'
Not Ed: Hey all good to see you!
DJ Tweeny: Please do join us on Tuesdays :)
Cease: you too not
Bottles: Thank you for the plug, Tweeny! And thanks Cease and Merlyn and all for the entertainment!
Not Ed: Hey I sure will thanks!
Beet: This was fun. Thanks everyone. Fabulous collage, Dr Cease. Nice work as always, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Not Ed: Great stuff
Not Ed: Great folks
Not Ed: Later!
Cease: new one will be about Omega Mart
Bottles: See you all virtually next week.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Bottles walks off into the sunset...
Cease: off we fly
||||||||| Cease leaves at 8:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
Merlyn: nitr
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Merlyn walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| DJ Tweeny - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| cat 2 - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the yaws
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| 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
cat 2
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJ Tweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://firesigntheatre.com/
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
https://www.kurtericson.net/cat
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber