Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/03/2023

Archive

||||||||| 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 August 03, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 Rufus_T_Firetween gets out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW FIRESIGN CHAT TIME **
** THE FIRESIGN CHAT HAS MOVED TO 7PM -9PM EASTERN **
The Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starts at 7pm Eastern this evening.
Warm-up music now begins around 6:40pm Eastern.
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:15 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, August 03, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with johan amadeus myjetski close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the sitting room.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
johan amadeus myjetski: yes catherwood i could vouch for this firehead, if mr. washington had a mr lincoln to go with it...
||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside johan amadeus myjetski and mumbles "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hey a bit early but i thought, why not?
johan amadeus myjetski: there's a cb radio show on listen.ehhh.usM8000/rfd.m3u right now
johan amadeus myjetski , not M.
johan amadeus myjetski: this hasn't happened to me since "M"!
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "DJTweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as DJTweeny enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
||||||||| DJTweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| DJTweeny steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
johan amadeus myjetski: Tell mr. Time to climb down off that radio!
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'johanamadeusmyjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
johan amadeus myjetski: kurt - do you know anythinge about vivian stanshell being the billy shears campbell that replaced paul mccartney when paul died in the car wreck in 66?
johan amadeus myjetski: that's vivian stanshell of the Bonzos...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Never heard of that johan
Rufus_T_Firetween: sure a fan of Neil Innes
johan amadeus myjetski: a book i haven't read yet appearantly says this:The Memoirs of Billy Shears (The Memoirs of Paul McCartney) The Memoirs of Billy Shears (The Memoirs of Paul McCartney) Part of: The Memoirs of Paul McCartney (5 books) | by Thomas E. Uharriet , Gregory Paul Martin
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
johan amadeus myjetski: the forward is written by Geo Martin's son, which seems to lend some credence to it
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 7pm Eastern this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 6:40pm Eastern
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)'
||||||||| Catherwood leads Tweeny into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – JONI MITCHELL-WILD THINGS RUN FAST
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)'
johan amadeus myjetski: Jaco!
Rufus_T_Firetween: could be
johan amadeus myjetski: sounds like
||||||||| It's 10:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johanamadeusmyjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Hey folks--I'm taking a night class through the end of the month, so won't be here. I can't even listen. :-(
DJTweeny: awww, well, you can always listen to the archive
DJTweeny: Good luck with the night class and we'll see you next time :)
||||||||| Catherwood leads Merlyn into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
DJTweeny: What's the night class for Dang?
Deputy Dang: Cheers!
||||||||| Deputy Dang is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Deputy Dang jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
DJTweeny: aaaand, he's gone
Deputy Dang: I'm getting my CDL.
Merlyn: Hey DJ
DJTweeny: cool
Merlyn: and DD
Deputy Dang: It's way out of my comfort zone, but I'm pretty sure it will provide stable income until the self-driving trucks take over.
johan amadeus myjetski: GeyDD!
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah
johan amadeus myjetski: Het DD!
Deputy Dang: try again
Deputy Dang: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: Hey Merlyn!
Rufus_T_Firetween: he's Gey?
Deputy Dang: gnight all
johan amadeus myjetski: Hello DD
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gator
||||||||| Deputy Dang dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Deputy Dang?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
johan amadeus myjetski: hoho onono
Merlyn: Hi johan
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Merlyn: Hey Cease
johan amadeus myjetski: i have the lights down low with Joni blastin' out - can't quite make out the letters on the keyboard.
johan amadeus myjetski: no offence intended
johan amadeus myjetski: Hey Cease!
Cease: somone appeared on Tweeny's Tuesday show who had no idea who Joni Mitchell was. hard to believe
johan amadeus myjetski: didn't he say he had been born in the late 80s?
Cease: sounds like Ricki Lee Jones on this one.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah johan
Cease: that could be it, jammy
||||||||| 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)'
Cease: hope we get a good turnout this afternoon in honour of Melinda
johan amadeus myjetski: the 'nothing important existed before i got here' generation
Cease: Fish is playing 2 hours of Melinda on his Sunday show. The Firehouse Theatre: Sunday 8-10 PM Eastern Time (UTC -5) over WFHB-FM, 91.3 -- streamed live at https://wfhb.org/listen/
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Beet: Evening, Friends!
Cease: Beet
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
johan amadeus myjetski: Hey beet!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween, Dr Cease, Dr j.a.m.
Merlyn: Hi Beet
Beet: Hey, Dr Merlyn
||||||||| New notice: '**R.I.P. FIRESIGN DEAR FRIEND MELINDA PETERSON **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's POWER
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
Read about POWER at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-rv'
Beet: Happy Trails, Melinda.
Cease: Indeed
Cease: Yet another Melinda voice. She does all the female voices in this. 1990.
Cease: 2 years before they were married. I hadn't realized that until now.
Rufus_T_Firetween: interesting
Cease: Another Melinda
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Proctor & Bergman’s “POWER” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
Cease: is there a problem with this? it just repeated.
Rufus_T_Firetween: The playlist is playing properly. I don't know if there's a problem with the version I have.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
Cease: i'll check my files. i first taped it offf the radio in 1990 and then Proc gave it to me as a cassette in 97
Cease: it seems odd that they talc about letting lassie go before they find the demand
Cease: Melinda flexing her talent
johan amadeus myjetski: this story keeps reminding me of that Tim Robbins film called 'the Player' a movie about making movies
||||||||| 8:00 PM: llanwydd jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Merlyn: Yep
llanwydd: hi folks
Beet: Hey, Dr Llan
Cease: that lastr "y'all" was hilarious
Merlyn: hey llan
Cease: i getg more out of this at each listening
Cease: hi llan
Cease: indeedd, jammy. i should watch that again
Cease: i just started watching long bio of salinger there.
johan amadeus myjetski: dare i say, this is as good as the core four?
Cease: hard to keep up with all the stuff i'm into regularly listening to, watching and also producing new stuff
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Cease: this is as intense and bizarre as most firesign
llanwydd: what year is Power? you guys know?
johan amadeus myjetski: exactly, Cease!
llanwydd: I dont remember it from the 70s or 80s
Cease: 1990. it was seriealize on john hockenberry's Heat on NPR
llanwydd: thanks, cat
Cease: i taped off the distant seattle station
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Proctor & Bergman’s “POWER” at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: llan ^^
llanwydd: thanks, tween
Cease: dr benway again
Cease: and yet another melinda voice. and another.
Beet: They put a lot of energy and creativity into this.
Cease: sure did
||||||||| 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..
johan amadeus myjetski: i reiterate: as good as core four.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm Eastern every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net where I play Firesign Theatre and take your music requests - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
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
Cease: it is a vastly rewarding work.
||||||||| New notice: '**R.I.P. FIRESIGN DEAR FRIEND MELINDA PETERSON **
Currently playing: THE PROCTOR PODCASTS
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 The Proctor Podcast >> https://www.podbean.com/premium-podcast/TheProctorPodcast'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Currently playing: Peter Bergman and Ted Bonnitt's THE DIGITAL DINER— check out Firesign's new web site at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/
||||||||| Elayne steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Elayne: Evenin' all
llanwydd: hi Elayne
Beet: Hi, Elayne.
Cease: Hi El. Glad you could join us.
Elayne: Just dropped in to pay my respects to one of the most vibrant women I've ever met.
Cease: I have your footage of visiting Melinda and Phil at their house.
llanwydd: just saw the email you sent me, cat. thans for the link
Beet: Time to go. Next week, everyone. All best to Mr. Proctor and family.
Elayne: I have no interest in listening to myself, Cat, but thank you for preserving it.
Elayne: Night, Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Son, it's in the water - that's why it's yellow."
llanwydd: nite, Beet
Cease: Be well, Beet
Cease: I am constantly combining whatever sounds I have or can find.
Cease: I wonderf if there is any more script to this?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Cease: This is the commercial podification PP did of his book.
Cease: How's it going, El?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not responsible! Park and lock it!"
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: Evenin Kurt!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The Proctor Podcast - https://www.podbean.com/premium-podcast/TheProctorPodcast
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A stiff idiot is the worst kind."
llanwydd: who you callin a stiff idiot
Cease: of course
Cease: do you have this book, in print or audio, el?
Elayne: Which book would that be, Cat? I'm sorry, I don't have the audio on, I'm listening to the baseball game in the next room.
Cease: Where's My Fortune Cookie, Phil's autbiography
Cease: We're listening to it on the chat now
Elayne: Yes Cat, I read and reviewed it
Elayne: And of course Phil insisted on signing it for me :)
Elayne: He's like zero degrees removed from almost everyone, isn't he?
Elayne: Which makes me one degree removed. :)
Cease: indeed
Cease: I hadn't realized until today that Melinda recorded all her 17 partrs in Power 2 years before they werfe married
johan amadeus myjetski: lol!
johan amadeus myjetski: firesign's back - lol!
Cease: i had the misfortune of being in the same restaurant as him in vegas
johan amadeus myjetski: gotta go - nite all!
llanwydd: nite JAM
Cease: by jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: nite Llan!
Elayne: Me too. Possibly next week, all.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elayne, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden.
Cease: it'll be my new Paul Krassner collavge nextg week
Cease: Also more Melinda delights
Cease: This is stunning writing, about something that stunned him
Cease: You must have known Melinda quite well, Merl?
Cease: Phil told this story at the memorial service at Kirkland
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Is it just us, Tween?
llanwydd: I am still listening
Tweeny: looks like lol
Cease: good for you, llan
llanwydd: lol
Cease: they sure did
Rufus_T_Firetween: You would have thought a tribute to Melinda would have received more attention :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: Grid knows we advertised it well
Cease: you would think
Cease: it's like my radio plays. they're been heard by tens of people, and not all of them very happy
Cease: Austin was a wonderful writer, as these menus show
llanwydd: radio plays? was neal amid on the radio?
DJTweeny: It has been here :)
llanwydd: that had to be heard by more than tens of people
Cease: small muptiples perhaps
llanwydd: but I know how you feel about that. my radio play hasnt had radio airplay in more than 20 years
llanwydd: I am talking about AM/FM radio
Cease: it was melinda who told me to create radio plays and i thank her for that.
llanwydd: if its a large audience you want, you usually have to pay for it. I certainly did.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
Cease: how wonderfult for him to link to cheech and chong, fellolw revolutionaries
llanwydd: I was really impressed when I learned a few weeks ago that fst got to meet groucho marx
||||||||| 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: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
DJTweeny: That must have been something, llan
Cease: indeed, llan. paul krassner next week, eh?
llanwydd: thanks tween. thanks cat. thanks merl
Merlyn: nite all
Cease: nite merl
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Cease: what album is this, tween?
DJTweeny: The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Cease: ah yes, thanks
DJTweeny: I think it's the closing track
Cease: havent heard it in a lnog time. i hear she's going back out on tour now.
DJTweeny: Yeah, how cool is that?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: so we'll talk on email soon about krassner show.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: off we flit
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Tweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| 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
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-ln
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=power-rv
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://firesigntheatre.com/
https://wfhb.org/listen/
https://www.podbean.com/premium-podcast/TheProctorPodcast