Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/25/2024

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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 January 25, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
the Firesign Chat & Show starts at
7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight:
Firesign's I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS
plus from Box Of Danger “The Case Of The Missing Shoe” and
a replay of parts 1 & 2 of the Cat Collage
“Lanier and Virtual Pete”
Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 25, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Deputy Dang tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Bottles, just back from Funfun Town."
Bottles: Hey yall
Tweeny: Hey Bottles
Tweeny: Catherwood is having problems with the time
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 8:00 PM"
||||||||| 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..
Deputy Dang: Howdy Tweeny! Howdy Bottles!
Bottles: Hi DD and Tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet 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.
Beet: Hello all.
Beet: Hey, Bottles, Deputy, Tweeny.
Tweeny: Hey Beet
Deputy Dang: Howdy Beet!
||||||||| 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 Cat falls out at 8:00 PM.
Cat: I love this album.
Beet: Hey, Cat.
Deputy Dang: Howdy Cat!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
||||||||| morlog bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Tweeny: Evenin' Cat
morlog: corn
Deputy Dang: Howdy morlog!
Tweeny: Hey there morlog
Beet: Hi, Morlog
Cat: i was living in Hamamatsu, Japan when my friend sent me this album in the mail
Tweeny: "Corn, now we can make tortillas!"
Cat: and tom collins
Bottles: Hi Cat, Beet and Morlog.
morlog: happy thurseday
Cat: Hey wonderful Bottles
Cat: I will be in Vegas in a few weeks and Spain in a few monthes and am very happy abvout that
Beet: Full Moon tonight.
Cat: Even more happy is what happened yesterday
Cat: If y'all recall, I did a project for Ossman 4 years ago and he told me it would go into the Library of Cognress, along with the rest of my collages
Beet: Cool.
Cat: well, it didn't exactly happen then but appantlly it is now
Cat: yeah i'm Really happy. that's what every artist wants. give me immortality or givew me death
Bottles: That made me think - the future will never arrive, because when it does, it's not the future anymore - it's already become the present.
Cat: true
Bottles: Bottles' first law of physics.
Beet: You may already be there.
Cat: but we are here now
Cat: i put together collages, mined from tons of firesign pastr and thus, thrust into fireswigfnh future
Bottles: and as soon as you say "now" it's instantly the past
Cat: indeed
Cat: i'm hip like a zip let's take a trip
Bottles: on a ship
Beet: Standing on a bridge watching life flow by.
Cat: dylanesque
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
the Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign's I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS
plus from Box Of Danger “The Case Of The Missing Shoe” and
a replay of parts 1 & 2 of the Cat Collage “Lanier and Virtual Pete”
Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign'
Cat: what?
Tweeny: just trying to compress all the information at the top of the page a bit so there's more room for chat
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Elayne', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Tweeny: Hey Elayne
Cat: Hi El
Beet: Hi, Elayne.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Cat: I am always delighted to see you
Bottles: G'day Elayne!
Elayne: Can't stay long, exhausted from my 200-mile drive to bring food to Mom...
Cat: You are not a long stayer
Beet: Family Doordash
Elayne: Very true, Cat.
Cat: How is Mom?
Elayne: Beet, Kosher Meals on Wheels doesn't deliver in her area, so I have to schlep to Lakewood then to her house then collapse before coming home and collapsing again
Elayne: Mom is 92 and hanging in
Cat: I expect trip to VEgas in March to be fantastic
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's one crawling up my leg!"
Cat: 20 years older than me
Bottles: Well bless her heart.
Beet: You are obviously very devoted to Mom.
Cat: do you have living parents?
Cat: at our age, few do
Beet: If you are asking me, no I do not.
Bottles: Nor I
||||||||| 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 llan falls out at 8:00 PM.
llan: howdy folks
Cat: so, Elayne is unique among us in havingf a living parent
Cat: bhi llan
Beet: Greetings, llan.
Bottles: Hello llan
Tweeny: Hey llan
llan: hows everybody?
Tweeny: Doin' OK, and you llan?
Bottles: Not bad llan
Cat: hey llan, you're going into the library of congress, if you're not there already
Cat: am goinbg forward with ossman on that project
llan: how so, cat?
Elayne: Hi Llan!
llan: well that sounds really cool
Tweeny: The Dear Friends album next week Cat, right?
Cat: it was supposed to happen 4 years ago but seems to be happening now. wil contacrt you
llan: Hi Elayne
Cat: I told Ossman to include Elayne in the Firesign fan stuff
Elayne: What Firesign fan stuff? Sorry, so tired...
Cat: Falafal
Deputy Dang: I see... you are... a sailor...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!"
Cat: Keep awake if you can. Otrherwise we should chat, eh?
llan: I have seen an interview with groucho marx on the dick cavett show where groucho said how proud he was to have a book in the library of congress in washington
Beet: Wonderful.
Elayne: Um, I guess?
Cat: My favourite firesign line. I see, you are, a sailor
Elayne: Look, I don't remember most of those things now, you'll have to ask Dr. Memory.
Elayne: And with that, I'm outta here...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Elayne by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cat: ok, el. I know you don't do memory.
Beet: Nice to see you, Elayne. Asta la vista til next time.
llan: catherwood, ask dr m about the porridge bird
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past llan
Cat: one problem with being a firesign fan, is that we keep dieing
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
Beet: I die nightly.
llan: lol
Cat: vedry firesign
llan: but theyre born again in the morning
Beet: Exactly.
Cat: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Cat: tween, do still have the intros i did for the lanier colages?
Beet: One of those towns was called, "Spazmodic".
Deputy Dang: the phone company is a division of US Pork?
Cat: does anyone know how extensive the mafia was in your country>
Beet: Break that station.
Beet: TEhere are several different mafias.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Cat: the godfather mafia
Cat: oh thanks, tween, for keeping these intros
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Beet: They're all over the country. We had them in Texas.
Cat: the mafia that seemed to have taken over the ford motor company i 1975
Cat: yesh there are a lot of groups of crimnials
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llan: I think of detroit more as rampant crime city than organized
Cat: Crime is a
Cat: Way of Life for people
Beet: I have always been aware of Chicago's crime reputation, but I have always had a great time there.
llan: catherwood, bring us a topic for discussion
||||||||| Catherwood gets us a topic for discussion.
llan: lol
Beet: khhhl,,'/;k' ;L;m;, /jk' vvvhjj.
Tweeny: Cat: yesh there are a lot of groups of crimnials << government? :P
llan: I saw chicago for a day back in the early 70s
Tweeny: Beet, I had no idea you spoke Welsh
llan: lovely city
Beet: One of my hidden talents.
llan: you recognize the punctuation, tween?
Tweeny: lol
Cat: I was in Chicago with my cousin in 2008, I loved it.
Cat: Actrually, most of my interactions with American cities have been deligthful
Beet: I actually attende a White Sox game in the old Comiskey Park.
Cat: Will be lin Vegas soon. Love
Cat: Vegas
Cat: I saw a game at Wrigley Field
Beet: Always wanted to do that.
Cat: what?
Beet: See a Cubbies game.
Cat: ok, i think this one of my best collages
Cat: in that it goes in different direcrtioss
llan: I have only been to a ball game twice
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llan: I saw the pirates beat the mets at shea
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cat: were you dragged there?
llan: and I saw the expos beat the astros in montreal
Not Ed: I have returned for regrooving.
Cat: hi hot
llan: hardly dragged
Cat: hey not, big news.
llan: Hi Not
Cat: some of the stuff you hear here will be in he library of congress
Not Ed: Hey Cat wazzup
Not Ed: Oh cool
Cat: ossman said it would happen 4 years ago. so maybe now
Not Ed: Haha cool
Cat: i
Beet: Hey, Not.
Not Ed: Hey Beet!
Not Ed: This sounds really good Cat
Not Ed: Needed it
Not Ed: (one of those days -but improving)
Cat: I'm older than Bergman so I want to record stuff
Not Ed: oh yeah
Not Ed: haha this is great Cat
Cat: y6eah
Cat: home made glass eye
Not Ed: lol yeah
Deputy Dang: Wow--I can really hear Lenny Bruce in George Carlin now.
Not Ed: Hi DDang
Not Ed: Oh hey llan 2
llan: llan 2 ?
llan: have I made two entrances this evening?
Cat: i love that story
Not Ed: oh sorry I meant "hey llan as well"
Cat: einstein is in my new play
Cat: trhat'
Not Ed: doppelganger?
Beet: My favorite Leon song
Cat: that's llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy Not Ed! Howdy llan! Belated howdy Elayne!
Not Ed: Clone
Beet: Yo, Deputy
Not Ed: Sure is
Beet: Weren't you here earlier?
Cat: Good voice, eh?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "No, no my boy, you're confused. The horizon's moving up!"
Not Ed: Catherwood give reveryone some good news in a basket
||||||||| Catherwood brings reveryone some good news in a basket.
Not Ed: Rev Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Not Ed
Beet: Thanks, Cather
Cat: This is a good collage
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
Cease: Ok, I'll show as many people and get famous
Deputy Dang: Radio Gaga?
llan: was that joni mitchells voice?
Cease: this is an ossman production
Deputy Dang: I think it was joni mitchell, yes.
Cease: yep
Cease: he called lt, radio, any questions?
llan: cool
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now."
Cease: tha'ts beautiful.
Cease: the beginning of every radio show is a mystery
||||||||| 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 Plague
||||||||| Bottles - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by
Tweeny: headin' to bed, nytol...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You people are soooooo superstitious!"
Beet: The really big diseases strike again.
Cease: this is hilarious
Beet: See you later, Tweeny.
Cease: by tween
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Bottles 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.
Deputy Dang: Allegedly, CAPTCHA is quite a challenge while on shrooms.
Bottles: Back from my nap. What the h are we listening too?
Deputy Dang: Night night Tweeny!
Deputy Dang: Fun times! Thank you Tweeny and Cat!
Beet: This was fun. Nice to see everyone. Check you out next week. G'Nite all.
||||||||| Deputy Dang 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..."
Cease: we do our best
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Cat - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Rufus - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llan: great show! nite everybody
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llan vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Bottles - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bruster in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Bruster - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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
Cat
Cease
Deputy Dang
Elayne
llan
morlog
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/firesign