Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
09/28/2023

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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 September 28, 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, September 28, 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 rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 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 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Zen Cosmos coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Zen Cosmos: where is the link?
Zen Cosmos: guess I'm too early...
||||||||| 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)'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Zen
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJTweeny bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – TRAFFIC-JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE
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 walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'meyer llansky', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
meyer llansky: good evening folks
||||||||| meyer llansky departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and llanwydd waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from Funfun Town."
llanwydd: thats better
Cease: Greetings.
Cease: Y'all get to follow me on a trip to Denver, via my collage tonight
llanwydd: hi Cease
Cease: Always liked Winwoods voice and keyboards
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
llanwydd: very unique
Cease: this is greaat jazz
Zen Cosmos: farmer's market stint and kidney stone operation now over so I may frequent this here nostalgia fest more often...
Cease: welcome back to good health, zen
Zen Cosmos: apaceba tvorachhes
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Merlyn steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: Hi Merl
||||||||| 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.
Cease: Dang!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
llanwydd: hi dang
Merlyn: Hey Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Cat, Deputy, llan, Merlyn
Cease: Am planning on mixing some Deputy Dan with Naomi Klein in the collage I'll be makming next, about her new book.
llanwydd: zen, did you have ultrasonic surgery?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd! Howdy, Merlyn!
||||||||| 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)'
Merlyn: llan, DD
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Evening, Friends.
llanwydd: hey beet
Merlyn: Hey Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW."
Cease: Beet!
llanwydd: now really is just an idea
Beet: Hi, llan, Merlyn, Dr Cease
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Howdy, Deputy, Zen, Dr Tween.
Deputy Dang: Hey Beet!
Deputy Dang: Heya Tweeny!
Cease: this is hilarious. why don't i know this better?
DJTweeny: from Box Of Danger
DJTweeny: The Case Of The Missing General
Cease: they did a Lot of Nick
llanwydd: I saw them do this sketch at town hall in nyc in 1981
Beet: That's such a great collection.
llanwydd: I remembered most of the lines afterwards
Deputy Dang: It sounds familiar, and of course there are lines that have been in other productions, but I've never heard this. Very enjoyable!
DJTweeny: 'tis Beet, and out of print :/
llanwydd: I dont mean this one, I was talking about mr liverface
DJTweeny: They're having lots of problems with copyrights, especially with the old Columbia catalog (early albums) which Sony bought
Beet: Fortunately, I purchased one while I still could.
llanwydd: a malady! lol
Cease: there really is an immense amount of firesign stuff available.
Cease: i can keep on making my collages with their stuff for the rest of my life.
Cease: ah, here's Tweeny
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s LAWYER'S HOSPITAL
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 LAWYER'S HOSPITAL at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=lh-rv'
llanwydd: great album
Cease: just another mouse in the house
Cease: i was thinking of this line when i arrived in denver
Cease: great test market
llanwydd: when I saw them do this in nyc he said bronx instead of greeley
Cease: they always had funny preachers
Deputy Dang: https://www.ebay.com/itm/276025836391?hash=item40446c0367:g:AvAAAOSwqUlk8gTA
llanwydd: real bronx silverfish
Cease: more than one lyft driver told me to be aware of the altitude but i never was
llanwydd: mexico city is about a mile high too
Cease: north van, where I live, is up pretty high.
DJTweeny: Good that you weren't affected by the thinner air
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
llanwydd: thats probably why you were used to the altitude in denver
Cease: not at all. of course, my level of intoxication was such that i was pretty much immune to any ill effects
DJTweeny: haha
llanwydd: lol
Cease: maybe, llan, didnt check the relative altitiudes
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!"
DJTweeny: did they have good weed stores?
Cease: a few blocks from my hotel.
DJTweeny: Boulder Blue?
Cease: really friendly locals. relentlessly friendly. even visitors from new york were freindly. maybe the air
Cease: it's kind of Canada without the free health care
Cease: if it is the only american city i ever visited, i would have a very high view of the US
Beet: With emphasis on "very high".
Cease: as it were
||||||||| Not Ed steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: hi not
Beet: Greetings, Not.
Not Ed: Ruf, Zen, Tweeny, llan, Cease, Merl, DDang & Beet waz real
Cease: i'm told i visited in a magic time of good weather.
Cease: Hi Not.
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
Cease: apparetly sumemrs are ridiculously hot, when you're pummelled by cold weather. snow, et al
||||||||| Catherwood escorts choker 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.
DJTweeny: Hi choker
Cease: the airport has signs pointing where you can go to escape a tornado.
Cease: hi choker
Beet: hello, choker.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “LAWYER'S HOSPITAL” at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=lh-ln
Cease: then, not when
Not Ed: waz real choker
llanwydd: welcome, choker
Cease: dead air there.
choker: Is this outback of the same ole place? I was reaching for the lawyers hospital
llanwydd: lol
Cease: you have reached it
choker: I know you can't get there from here...but where do I go to listen in
Cease: ah, this is the one I edited
Cease: click away
Cease: notice the absence of fucks
Not Ed: do the links work choker
Cease: unlike the real nixon
DJTweeny: Yes it is, and thank you Cat :-)
llanwydd: ah, yes. now I remember the original
DJTweeny: Yeah, Austin's Nixon is pretty profane ;)
llanwydd: yes this is heavily edited
Cease: the idea that fdr started ww2 is bizarre.
Cease: f/in
llanwydd: he started the second half
llanwydd: being facetious here
Cease: lol
Cease: comes Russian back at me
llanwydd: very good
llanwydd: Iran back myself
llanwydd: I think this is supposed to be vaguely like paul harvey
Not Ed: lol
Beet: I love the Paul Harvey. Perfect.
Not Ed: austin cracks me up
Not Ed: well they all do I guess haha
Cease: it was based on paul.
Cease: my cousin worked in the building with him in chicago
Cease: breen prams
Cease: breen prance?
llanwydd: green pants
Cease: first tripper
Cease: this is as good as the stuff on their albums
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease, what was that bit about the Germans wanting to get rid of the FST commercials?
Cease: composed at the same time
Not Ed: awesome
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “A CAT IN DENVER”
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'
Not Ed: 4:49 cat time
Cease: yeah when german overlords heard the ads, they Freaked Out. Got lads not only firedd, but their leased cars were repososessed while they weredriving them.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: ossmasn was kicked out of his car and it was repossessed on the street
Not Ed: haha
Merlyn: Hey Nut
Cease: they called the firesigns "motherfuckers" in their communication with jack poet.
Not Ed: oh my
Deputy Dang: why were they upset with the ads?
Cease: firesign is not for everybody, right?
Deputy Dang: apparently
Cease: lol
Cease: there was a time ib the 70s when i was really into tom waits.
Cease: he seemed to continute the Beat aesthetic far more than others of his generation
Not Ed: great track cat
Cease: at least Waits Aspires to continue the aesthetic on. As I do with my pay Neal Amid
Cease: play
Cease: i'm Always gonnna be a good dj, not
llanwydd: the music adds to that aesthetic
llanwydd: I think I mentioned that once
llanwydd: I mean the music in neal amid
Cease: i understood that very early in my life, when my cousin opened a radio statiion in my home town the year before i was born
Cease: audio is me
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: R.I.P. Zen.
Cease: by zen
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: couldnt say enought nice things about denver. never expectred to go there and will never return but it was wonderful
Cease: there are probably lots of cities i could visit and love but uncreasingly unable to do that
Cease: the reason i went to denver was to see meow wolf. let's say i learned a lot from the experience
Cease: that's why one travels, eh?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Glad you had fun in a U.S. city :)
Cease: wonderful. but. travel is exhausting
Cease: i'm getting too old to travel
Cease: what i learned frmo meow wolf denvef is they can do great video, bvut dont pcu the envelope anymore
Cease: push
Cease: i might even visit their santa fe place, but no lnoge see meow wolf as my chosen path in artistic life
Beet: Gotta go. Nice to see everyone. Will catch up with the rest of this later. See you next week. G'Nite all.
Cease: by beet
llanwydd: nite beet
llanwydd: I just looked at at meow wolf on wiki
llanwydd: looks fascinating
Cease: one reason for me to travel is to ceate new collages about my experiences
Cease: yeah i thought i would work with these folks. not to much any longer
Not Ed: night night Beet
Cease: here'sw a clip from my newest play
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Zen Cosmos jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Cease: zen
DJTweeny: wb Zen
Cease: always good to see you, zen
Deputy Dang: chemical pig exchange bank???
Cease: my next collage will be baseed on naomi promoting her new book.
Cease: i am thankful that my life has inlcuded going to denver and doing denver stuff for a few days recently
Cease: i dont think peopoe called genius is a useful thing.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A stiff idiot is the worst kind."
Not Ed: one of the best grooves ever devised
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: it's like you werde there with me in Denver
||||||||| New notice: '**WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's ALL THINGS FIRESIGN
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 All Things Firesign at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-rv'
llanwydd: great one, cat
Not Ed: that was WoNDeRFuLL Cat
Cease: good work, tween
Cease: thaks, not
Not Ed: Tween Tween Tween
Cease: i try ansd have fun, and saying fun thngs about it
Cease: my next plan is to go back to vegas, trip 10, next march.
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone Duck ala Moron for dinner.
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone duck ala moron for dinner.
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a side of meatless hot creatures
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a side of meatless hot creatures.
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a frosty mug of bear whiz
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a frosty mug of bear whiz.
Cease: this is great stuff
Not Ed: yeah
llanwydd: I used to have this cd
llanwydd: dont know what happened to it
Not Ed: it was great they were on NPR - it's good that the shows survive
Cease: they never did not do great stuff
Not Ed: except the indian piece lol NPR headz didn't get it--or air it
llanwydd: I remember when I heard them on npr. I think it was y2k
Not Ed: was it? I forgot it was so long ago
llanwydd: I was a bigfan of npr but I can hardly get it to come in clearly where I live now
Not Ed: ohh
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'Bottles', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Not Ed: I like their super fast news
Cease: hey bottles
llanwydd: hii bottles
Cease: how wonderful to see you
Not Ed: hey there bottles waz real
Bottles: Hola yall
Cease: you missed my story about denver but you can hear it in the archives
Not Ed: in a cloak of secrecy lol
Not Ed: who mentioned the CD? I still have it
Bottles: Thanks Cease it's wonderful to be here amongst earthlings
Not Ed: eathloids lol
Not Ed: earthlloyds
Cease: i am our fan, bottles. there are so few of us diong this, eh?
Cease: your
Cease: botles is a fine readio playwrite.
Not Ed: Cometland!
Not Ed: love this commercial
Deputy Dang: oh hi Bottles!
Bottles: Hey someone has to do it, right Cease
Bottles: Hi Dang
Cease: lol.,bott6les
Cease: no, we are kind of rare. few of us want to do this, you, me, others, but they arfe not numerous
Bottles: So where will be able to hear Treasure Island? I wonder
Not Ed: so far as we know
Bottles: Proctor, Ossman and Goodman - great team.
Not Ed: Pyst!
Cease: i think the current boom in podcast listeners if a gret opportunity for us bottles
Bottles: Right
Cease: goodman has done much good for firesigns over the years
||||||||| 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: miners & salters
Cease: how are things, bottles?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Bottles, a little late to the party ;)
Bottles: Things are good, recording plays again even.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Cease: my next collage will be from naomi kein's new book.
Bottles: Yeah, unfashionably late as usual
Bottles: You're making a collage from a book?
Not Ed: Yo every-1! Gotta fly! Will you all please do me a favor? Have a weekend of extraordinary magnitude!
Cease: i do that all the time, bottles
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
Cease: ok, off we fly
llanwydd: great show. thanks tween and cat
Not Ed: Thanks you guys for the cool place to be!
Merlyn: nite all
Deputy Dang: that was wonderful--lots of new stuff to my ears!
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, llanwydd!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Bottles: Thanks Kurt, Cease, and Merlyn. See yall later.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Bottles left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Deputy Dang: Thank you Cat and Tweeny. I hope to be here again next week!
||||||||| Merlyn hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Merlyn?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Deputy Dang departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| DJTweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, DJTweeny exits at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Cease - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| choker - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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
choker
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
Merlyn
meyer llansky
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Zen Cosmos

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