Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
07/17/2025

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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 July 17, 2025 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: Proctor & Bergman’s TV OR NOT TV
plus from ANYTOWN USA “Bergman & Ossman & Proctor—KZSU Berkeley”
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/anytown-usa-live-1974
and a new Cat Collage "The Howl Of The Peter Wolf Movie"
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’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat'
||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 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 ushers DJTweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Deputy Dang sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting '&y', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
&y: ... take a break, there, Ahmed. I'll be a bit busy for the next little while.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, DJTweeny!
DJTweeny: Howdy &y, Deputy
&y: Ahem ahem... testing, testing, is this thing on?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, &y!
DJTweeny: You are here, Player
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
&y: I just spent a rewarding few hours in the aviary, stunting some trees.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
&y: So what's the brouhaha?
DJTweeny: allo Cease
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
llanwydd: great to see see you all again
DJTweeny: Hey llan, how are you doing?
&y: I cannot see due to the Blinding Light!
llanwydd: last week I had heart sugery and could not join you
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today, and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth."
DJTweeny: excuses, excuses...
&y: Now THAT's some dedication, right there.
DJTweeny: Hope you're healing quickly :)
Cease: Hey all
llanwydd: lol
Cease: how are you feeling now, llan?
llanwydd: well, my cardiologis said that it was a success but I have some pain rom the catheter
llanwydd: that was my sisters name
&y: Did someone say Catheterwood?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now."
&y: Wait.. your sister's name is catheter?
&y: If so, my respect for your parents just went WAY up.
DJTweeny: haha
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!"
llanwydd: I have haveve sister named cathy. Cathleen, Ketherine, Catholic, Cathathode and
llanwydd: Catheter
&y: Presumably Catholic as well.
llanwydd: I tried
&y: Is she a Catholic cat-holic? Or is she more of a dog person?
Cease: Just used this in a collage recently.
llanwydd: I mised Catheterwood when I came in
&y: Toulouse change? What, are we in France now?
llanwydd: but I am suffering from a botched catheter right now
&y: That's unfortunate.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
&y: Or rather unforturinate.
Cease: ah, the French.
DJTweeny: Lids of Tizzard Meat?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now."
Cease: Thin Lizzy?
DJTweeny: Are you getting home nursing help, llan?
llanwydd: I cant think of a french phrase that sounds similar to botched catheter
Cease: The Bugs Are Back In Town
llanwydd: I can call nurses if it gets that bad
&y: Bosched catheteur, non?
llanwydd: lol
&y: Mai wee!
llanwydd: I have some hematoma
&y: Gee, Porgie, I didn't know you masturbated!
&y: (apologies... dark humor is where I live)
Cease: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Cease: proc has gotten a fuck of a lot out of short trip to the ussr in 1959
llanwydd: good thought. were all bozos on this bus
llanwydd: whose trip, cat?
Cease: someone posted on a firesgn facebook group, we're all bozos on this bus is inscribed on the outer wall of vancouver library! oddly, its attribed to vivian stanshell.
Cease: proc went to russia with the yale russia chorus in 1959. he was 19
llanwydd: vivian stanshall first said I think Were Bozos on this Bus?
llanwydd: stanshall is closer to the Goons than to FST
Cease: true
Cease: i must complain to the library. i go there all the time.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: well, it's hard to say when anyone said anything first, eh? the nature of language
Cease: Firesign had the album,though.
llanwydd: true
Cease: actually the phrase is something the goons could have said.
&y: I kissed a Communist and I liked it
&y: The taste of her cabbage chap-stick
llanwydd: sedrftgyhuiojinhjnhbgfvcdsxaybhunjmk,l.jnh
&y: you don't say!
&y: roly-poly fish heads
DJTweeny: llan is speaking Welsh again
&y: You wouldn't happen to hail from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, would you?
DJTweeny: heheh
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let's stand him on his head!"
llanwydd: sorry but no
Cease: allof them wrotre songs.
Cease: maybe not ossman, but he wrote poetry which can be set to music
llanwydd: I had the entire summer of 1984 to sneak into the country instead of looking it every night from across the channel but I never made it in
Cease: i heard him read a poem, and then ask, can anyone put that to music?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!"
llanwydd: someday
llanwydd: it is the land of my ancestry
&y: With a name like that it had better be!
&y: Unless it's your parents having some more fun.
&y: In which case my esteem for them has risen even higher.
Cease: my parents both changed their names, and even had passports in various names.
&y: Were they on the run, or did they just switch out of convenience to match the names that happened to be on the passports they stole?
Cease: lol.nah, they stayed in one place for lnog periods of time. i grew up in la in firesign times
&y: You mean before they changed the water?
Cease: my mother hated her ukrainian name so she changed it to an english one. a decade after her marriage. i didn'tnknow yhou could do that.
Cease: my fatgher had a german name so he anglicized, wise to do inww2
&y: Hey, it's a free country. Or was, anyway.
llanwydd: perhaps the same that so many immigrants had getting their names changed at ellis island and other ports
Cease: but also by whim, they changed their names and thus passports. a kind of hobby, i guess
Cease: my country is indeed, free. yours, i no longer know.
&y: It's getting pretty weird here, I have to admit.
Cease: actors and musicians change their names more often than not.
Deputy Dang: What of the fiery balls?
llanwydd: if you think your country is free, you underestimate the power of the american despot
&y: He'd be nothing without the support of millions of morons.
Cease: said despot underestimate's canadian's anger at his daffy beligerence.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?"
llanwydd: true
&y: Elbows up, my friend.
Cease: i used to love visiting vegas and other us places,but they will go unvisted by me and millions of others. deal with that
llanwydd: I am completely on your side, cat
Cease: there is indeed a vast blue america. i grew up in it, and Firesign are very much a product of it
&y: Indeed!
&y: LOL...
llanwydd: I am blue
Cease: this is brilliant
&y: Whelp, I need to gird my loins for the night shift at the Heisenberg desk in the Department of Double Negativity at the Ministry of Brownian Motion. Stay weird, dear friends. Signing off!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?"
DJTweeny: Join us again, &y :)
Deputy Dang: The Congress of Wonders (full albums) https://archive.org/details/the-congress-of-wonders-revolting-comedy-1970-full-album
Cease: by symbol person
Cease: sore bun
||||||||| Catherwood leads Mutt in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Mutt
Mutt: Good evening Mr. DJ
Mutt: Hey Deputy D, Llan and Cease
llanwydd: goodbye, whelp. hello Mutt
llanwydd: where is smutt
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Cease: Hey Mutt
Mutt: It’s The Hoove!
||||||||| 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..
Cease: only in england. on this side of the pond, it's a vacuum cleaner
Mutt: Praise the Hoove!
Cease: more coming and going on chat than usual tonight
Cease: plague the hoove
Mutt: Smog and Magog lol!
llanwydd: me and my high school english teacher used to trade fst albums
Cease: i did that with university profs too
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Deputy Dang: I had them on cassettes and loaned them to one of my profs.
Cease: i grew, and shrunk my collection with exchanges, but it was a good idea. it wqas so hard to communicate before intgernet
Mutt: I worked at the campus radio station and their library filled in the gaps for me
Cease: which university?
Mutt: University of Maryland, College Park
llanwydd: one night before we quit for the summer, mr collins let us hear side two of two places and I asked to borrow it and he loaned it to me along with Electrician
Mutt: WMUC 90.5 FM on your radio dial
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW."
Cease: just watched the movie about another maryland station, where phil proctor met adele
DJTweeny: I used to live in Bowie, MD, and hung out in College Park a lot
Cease: fred the anti-firesign fan is in maryland. odd the amount of maryland connection.
Mutt: It was a fun place to be in the late70s/early 80s
DJTweeny: Yeah it was
llanwydd: I have heard that Yes did their best show ever at college park md
Cease: i was there in 2003, staying with friend and meeting firesign people led to the firesign geting in library of congress a few years later
Mutt: I have known Adele for years. Wonderful lady. I was at the Ronald Reagan Assasination Show. I worked at Hoff Theater where the show took place
Mutt: Why do you call the freditor the anti-firesign fan? I don’t know him bit know he lives in western Maryland
DJTweeny: Fred hasn't struck me as being anti-Firesign either
llanwydd: what fst fans do we have in high places these days?
Cease: read his attacks on David Ossamn on Facebook, to answer your question. apparently his review of Bride's dick jokes pissed of Firesign and brought that relationship into a bad place. Fres stil spills bile against Firesing all the time on Facebook.
Cease: bummer.
Mutt: Wow. I don’t do facebook so I had no idea. I thought he’d just gone radio silent.
llanwydd: I have to admit those stupid dick jokes put me off a little
Mutt: I don’t think we have any fst fans in high places these days, Llan :(
llanwydd: not enough to put me off the whole album
Cease: yesah, llan.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Cease: it was a summation of their album career
Cease: just discovered the youtube video when i made this collage
Mutt: Tween: I was involved with some of the show production groups in College Park back in the day. Were you involved with any such?
Cease: i remember the song, but video was intense. from the early days of music vids
Cease: i mean, hard days night can be considered a music video, and it's still my favourite
Mutt: Hard Days Night is a treasure
Mutt: It set the tone for everything that followed
DJTweeny: Mutt: Tween: I was involved with some of the show production groups in College Park back in the day. Were you involved with any such? << Nope, al though I was the house mixer at The Childe Harold in D.C. in 76-77, and worked for other bands in the area
Cease: true, mutt
Mutt: I dowbed
Cease: my friend cliff and i, in 8tgh grade, used to go to flicks together. we went to see hard day's night and it was drowned out by girls screaming in the theartre
Mutt: I downed a few at Childe Harold
Mutt: Had some firends from the local scene who performed there
llanwydd: you should have demanded a refund for all the noise
llanwydd: or stood up in front of the screen and said Eat Flaming Death
Cease: lol
Mutt: Eat Fascist Death!
llanwydd: lol
Mutt: The Rolling Who!
Cease: stll rolling, bob?
Mutt: BingCrosbyStillsandOgdenNash
Cease: sctv riff
Mutt: Dr. Tongue’s 3-D House of Stewardesses
Cease: luchky both to be canadian and living in canada when sctv happened.
DJTweeny: SCTV was fun
Mutt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJY6w0HD50
Cease: in the sense that the beattles were fun. they brought a certain level of fun into existence
Mutt: Guy Caballero
Mutt: Sammy Maudlin
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Surrounded by a thin thin thin 16mm shell. And inside, it's delicious!"
Mutt: William B Williams
Mutt: Lola Heatherton
Mutt: And my favorite, Count Floyd
Deputy Dang: It's free for only a dollar!
Cease: all of sctv is my fave
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!"
Mutt: Just send … fifteen bucks to me, Count Floyd
Cease: likie firesign fot the eye, it it's intimation of a funnier universe
Mutt: I had a dog that I named Woody Tobias, Jr.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
Cease: things that used to call 15 cents now cost 15 dollers. we have cell phones.
Deputy Dang: I still wait for the weekend to call family to get the lower long-distance rates.
Cease: wow
Cease: i s that because of your phone plan, dep
Cease: canada is ridiculously expensive in phone, and internet. not enough competition
Deputy Dang: no, it's because i grew up when it mattered.
Deputy Dang: it's an anachronism.
Cease: if you good a god, it couldn't get norser.
Cease: what a wonderful line
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweeny: Peter Wolf - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wolf
Cease: i hope van librafy gets his book. sounds amazing. one lives to be amazed
DJTweeny: Great stuff, Cat :)
Mutt: Yes, well done ease
Mutt: Cease
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's MarkTime, just back from Hellmouth."
DJTweeny: Hi MarkTime
DJTweeny: Unfortunately, the show is about over :(
MarkTime: Hey Tween!
Mutt: Reading through tonight’s log before I joined - holy mother of pearl,Llan! Hope you are well and on the mend!
DJTweeny: Join us at 4pm your time next Thursday
Deputy Dang: I'm so glad we had this time together.
Cease: ih mark
MarkTime: yes I'll try to remember
DJTweeny: A good thing to do on Thursday evenings :)
MarkTime: Hi everyone
Cease: we value your visits, mark
Mutt: Hello Mr. Time
DJTweeny: MarkTime is my brother in Oregon
Mutt: Just in Oregon?
MarkTime: Thanks all....it;'s nice to hear from such an illustrious Host
MarkTime: just in OR
MarkTime: otherwise we really don't know each other...
Mutt: Wow. Border-specific relations!
MarkTime: just kidding...
Mutt: I love English
Cease: i have been in portland suburbs but never downtown portland. i'd love to visit
MarkTime: we have remearkably thought provoking chats
Cease: as opposed to welsh?
Deputy Dang: Thanks Cat! Thanks Tween! Thanks Merlin!
DJTweeny: Thanks for being here, everybody
Deputy Dang: Goodnight all! See you next week! Same bat time, same bat channel!
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Deputy Dang by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: i am avoiding travels to the us these years.
Mutt: Can’t speak for the good folks of Cymru, but English is so plastic
Cease: but love talking to you here, see you next week.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Cease left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Mutt: See y’allne t week. Thanks Tween,Cat, DD, Llan and Mark!
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Mutt left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
MarkTime: thanks everyone...I'll try to make it on time next Thrusday
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs DJTweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- MarkTime left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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:
||||||||| &y - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
&y
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
MarkTime
Mutt
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://archive.org/details/the-congress-of-wonders-revolting-comedy-1970-full-album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wolf
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/anytown-usa-live-1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJY6w0HD50