Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/26/2023

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 October 26, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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, October 26, 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 dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| 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
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(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom.
||||||||| llandagochyn sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
llandagochyn: hey tween
DJTweeny: Hey llan
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – URIAH HEEP-LOOK AT YOURSELF
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
llandagochyn: ha yabin?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today, and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth."
llandagochyn: oh its hell in here
llandagochyn: uriah heep is a character in
Rufus_T_Firetween: Dickens
llandagochyn: David Coopefiled
llandagochyn: or something likethat
Rufus_T_Firetween: right, was just thinking it was that one
Rufus_T_Firetween: Copperfield
llandagochyn: a villain actually
Rufus_T_Firetween: I don't remember the character
llandagochyn: have not heard much of this band but I think the singer sounds like the singer from Boston
llandagochyn: the character in dickens is always saying I am a very 'umble man which really annoys copperfield
llandagochyn: now he sounds like bowie
llandagochyn: hows the weather in austin, tween?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Elmertown."
llandagochyn: Hey Dang
Deputy Dang: Howdy!
Rufus_T_Firetween: llandagochyn: hows the weather in austin, tween? << Lots of rain. T-storms came through today and the power flickered several times. Huge temperature drop coming late this weekend. Will be near 90 on Sunday, but Monday it might not make it out of the 40s! How are things in your neck of the woods?
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Bob's Dad, just back from Billville."
DJTweeny: Hey Cat
llandagochyn: we are heading into our mild season. was very pleasant today
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Son, it's in the water - that's why it's yellow."
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl, llan
Bob's Dad: Hi chatters
llandagochyn: yeah, tx has some crazy weather as I remember
llandagochyn: Hi Cat
Bob's Dad: you're in florida, llan?
llandagochyn: yeah, still
Bob's Dad: my family thought of moving there in 54-55
Bob's Dad: Firesign artist Bruce Snyder is down there
llandagochyn: I spent the afternoon painting a friend of mines bedroom for $50. if it was anyone but a friend I would have charged more
llandagochyn: I dont need the money, really
llandagochyn: firesign artist? not familiar with that name
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Merlyn', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llandagochyn: Hi Merlyn
llandagochyn: everyone knew him as nancy
Merlyn: Hey llan
||||||||| 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
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16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Bob's Dad: www.designandtime.com
Bob's Dad: he's fantastic.
Bob's Dad: Hi Merl
Merlyn: Hey DJ
Bob's Dad: every fan of firesign should buy one of his calendars. all are visual creations of Firesign bits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Merlyn: Hey Bob
llandagochyn: just looked at the link. never seen any of that. very funny stuff
Bob's Dad: Steer ei
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
Bob's Dad: llan, it's amazing!
Beet: Howdy, Folks.
Bob's Dad: HI Beet
Merlyn: Hi DD
Bob's Dad: You missed part 1 of my Naomi Klein collage. it's in the archive though
llandagochyn: Hi Beet
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Merlyn: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi, Dad, Llan, Merl, Deputy.
llandagochyn: I will definitely check out naomi klein
Bob's Dad: ok, merl, bruce, tom gedwillow, elayne, micahel packer and probably lots of folks i know not of, have used Firesign as launching pad. it's a great pad, but why aren't there more of us?
Beet: Hey, Tweeny
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's Live At The Magic Mushroom
“THE SWORD AND THE STONED”
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 MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc'
Bob's Dad: i'm one of the providers of this stuff
Bob's Dad: recorded the mushroom shows off the air in 67
Bob's Dad: a lot of people had tape recorders in LA in 1967. a lot of them listened to radio free oz. why aren't there manhy copiesof those shows
llandagochyn: its a mystery, cat
Bob's Dad: indeed
llandagochyn: lack of promotion probably
Bob's Dad: the show was publicized. i recall seeing ads in newspapers
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
llandagochyn: interesting
Bob's Dad: there were a LOT of us teens in LA in those days and we listened to the radeio all the time. it would have been well known
llandagochyn: maybe there are more copies than you know about
Bob's Dad: no
Bob's Dad: Firesign has been begging for them for decades with no luck
llandagochyn: well fst was brand spankin new in those days,(as they say)
Rufus_T_Firetween: There was a fire or something like that Cat, where recordings were lost?
Bob's Dad: theft
llandagochyn: oh I heard about that
Bob's Dad: i thibk bergman knew the culprit, but the tapes were neverf returned
Bob's Dad: i taped all the showss and then leant them to a cousin to play on his show in 69.
Bob's Dad: those tapes vanished.
Bob's Dad: or most of them. i still had some copies.
Bob's Dad: fund drive against fund drive
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Not Ed sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Not Ed: RufusTee, Tweeny, llan the man, DDang, Bob's, Merl & Beet to boot, waz real
Bob's Dad: Hi Not
Not Ed: Hey
Bob's Dad: Yuz real
Bob's Dad: Yuzu is a wonderful Japanes fruiit
llandagochyn: Hi Not
Not Ed: Heya
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
llandagochyn: Yakuza is dangerous, though
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
llandagochyn: Yuzu has taken over the town
Bob's Dad: all organized crime is dangerous. unorganized too
Not Ed: organized Kudzu?
llandagochyn: gugu is a dangerous japanese fruit
llandagochyn: I meant fugu
Not Ed: same to you buddy
Beet: Hi, Not
llandagochyn: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Son, it's in the water - that's why it's yellow."
Not Ed: Hey Beet
Bob's Dad: my greart uncle used to invent fruit. he has lines with you, llan, as einstein
Bob's Dad: truying to get the other actors for that scene
llandagochyn: who is steven?
Not Ed: Inventing fruit --almost like being a GOD lol
Bob's Dad: my mother's boy friend in southern cal in the late 30s
llandagochyn: aha
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone invented fruit
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone invented fruit.
Bob's Dad: not, fruit invent themselves all the time uncle alec's job was to travel around the world, collect fruit, bring it back to pasadena and mix them up to get something new
llandagochyn: praise the almighty burbank
Not Ed: ahhh
Not Ed: lol
llandagochyn: if I may...hygtfrdgbhnjmkfdbnmu6ytregbhnjmhbgfhnjmkl,
Not Ed: binging the bob newhart show (it's on Prime), the old show from the 70's --terrific
Bob's Dad: part of the valley, where i grew up. had a freind in burbank
Rufus_T_Firetween: Newhart was fun
Bob's Dad: i have to finish my ukraine play. it's getting too cold to go out and record.
llandagochyn: ah yes. hreat show
Not Ed: very gentle sweet and funny stuff
llandagochyn: every heard the record album, The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's Live At The Magic Mushroom
“SESAME MUCHO”
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 MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc'
llandagochyn: rather short album but very funny
Not Ed: more Mushroom!
Not Ed: cool llan
llandagochyn: must be on youtube. worth checking out, believe me
Not Ed: noted!
Bob's Dad: when i was in denver, i had a mushroom souffle at the barollo grill that was one of the best things i've everf ate
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!"
llandagochyn: love souffle
llandagochyn: nver even atempted to make one
Beet: We had the original vinyl. Listened to it over and over.
llandagochyn: cool, beet
Bob's Dad: i did not go to denver expecting major food and that was generallyh true but barollo was beyond my expectations
llandagochyn: I understand it is harder to cook at a high altitude
Not Ed: Was going to post this for Cat but you guys will dig it - one his faves, and he's not alone in that - Frederik Pohl's Tunnel Under the World (X Minus One, 1956): https://youtu.be/lEgx8V7MeTg It's also a Mark Time award Hall of Famer
Not Ed: Share & enjoy
Bob's Dad: got your club foot on?
llandagochyn: join the foot club
Not Ed: lol
llandagochyn: better than a spade foot
Bob's Dad: Thanks, Not. One of the best radio plays I've heard.
Not Ed: You betcha!
llandagochyn: thanks for the link. I love frederik pohl.
Not Ed: Tried to find the best quality recording - the OTRR on the Internet Archives provided a good one
Not Ed: You bet llan.
Bob's Dad: burn your down draft card
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
Not Ed: then we're a cigarette lighter....grooaaann lol
llandagochyn: theres a conscription in this room near the floor
Merlyn: Hey NotEd
llandagochyn: who doesnt prefer conscription beer
Bob's Dad: this was from a period of time when bergman was spending time in syria
llandagochyn: oh, yes and he waned his ashes scattered there but it didnt happen?
Rufus_T_Firetween: You sure wouldn't want to these days
llandagochyn: wanted
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, his daughter refused
Bob's Dad: speaking of ashes, wew just got Bob's ashes back today.
Not Ed: Proctor was/is nuts
llandagochyn: a comedian needs to be nuts, doesnt he
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone hard-boiled eggs and nuts
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone hard-boiled eggs and nuts.
llandagochyn: hmph
llandagochyn: thanks cathy
Beet: Catherwood is very generous.
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside Beet and asks "Something I can help with?"
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Catherwood is our AI
||||||||| Catherwood steps alongside Not Ed and mumbles "Someone mention my name?"
Not Ed: Not very bright but it's just as well
Not Ed: Which reminds me - if you're on X or even if you aren't I have a page just for my AI imagery that I make - no politics! https://twitter.com/indivisualist23
Not Ed: I started it a few days ago
Not Ed: the page I mean
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
Bob's Dad: do i have tojoin?
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
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
||||||||| 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..
DJTweeny: Yeah Bob, you get a secret decoder ring and everything!
Deputy Dang: Doppel yay!
DJTweeny: OOPS lolol
DJTweeny: I left last week's anncouncement in there :/
Not Ed: Oops is spoo backward.
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “DEPUTY DOPPELGANGER”
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: Ahh yes
Bob's Dad: still here, dang?
Beet: OK, gotta split. Had a great time. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “DEPUTY DOPPELGANGER” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Rufus_T_Firetween: Later, Beet
Bob's Dad: this is my fave firesign piece
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Bob's Dad: by beet
Merlyn: Bye Beet
Bob's Dad: i think these fucks are far enough in the background so I didn't need to edit them ouit, Tween what do you think?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, it's not rap music ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Don't sweat it
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
Bob's Dad: anyone still here?
Rufus_T_Firetween: iye
Rufus_T_Firetween: (that's Japanese for 'no', correct?)
Bob's Dad: correct
llandagochyn: hai
Bob's Dad: always liked tht word.
llandagochyn: no means of
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
llandagochyn: thats a trick question cahterwood
llandagochyn: heads of the pin trus lol
Bob's Dad: naomi makes me optimistic
llandagochyn: when did you put this together, cat?
Bob's Dad: this week
llandagochyn: she is a very good speaker
Bob's Dad: yes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hamas is going to get Gaza ruined. So many innocents who had nothing to do with the attack on Israel...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Then again, so many Germans who had nothing to do with or support the Nazis.
Bob's Dad: true
||||||||| 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'
Bob's Dad: off we drift
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
Deputy Dang: Lots of thinking. Good show(s)!
Merlyn: niyr all
llandagochyn: great show. thanks tween and cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
Deputy Dang: Thank you catcetera! :-)
llandagochyn: Beatles. cool
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llandagochyn: nite everybody
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, llandagochyn walks off into the sunset...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, DJTweeny scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bob's Dad - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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
Bob's Dad
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llandagochyn
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
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
www.designandtime.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://twitter.com/indivisualist23
https://www.kurtericson.net/cat
https://youtu.be/lEgx8V7MeTg