||||||||| 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 25, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: A massive new Cat Collage based upon Firesign’s new release NOT INSANE 1980! CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/not-insane-1980-campaign-chronicles “Nobody for President” 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 departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 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?" ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Deputy Dang 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. ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Mutt coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, Mutt! ||||||||| llanwydd waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd! llanwydd: hey folks Cease: Hi chatters! Cease: Ready for the campaign? Mutt: Ah, my iron lung is working again llanwydd: nobody fo president is hilarious llanwydd: for Mutt: Hey DD, Cease, Llan, Tween llanwydd: what warmup music did I miss? Mutt: Heck, I’d vote for Nobody! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not responsible! Park and lock it!" Tweeny: Evenin' folks llanwydd: Hey Tween Deputy Dang: The warmup music was about 73s with static ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan." llanwydd: lol Cease: Good afternoon Tweeny: No warmup music anymore llan, it's an automated playback now the material has to fit into the RFD time slot :/ Tweeny: The 'warm-up' is now the Houston AMSAT broadcast ;) llanwydd: do you mean 78s? I remember those Cease: Hey Llan, I just talked to Doc yesterday. Our deadline for the complete Smetana is by the US election. Mutt: Boo! We wants live music (just kiddin Tween) llanwydd: good idea, cat Cease: Something to cheer up my fellow Ukrainians just in case they need cheering up Tweeny: If you want live music join us for my Tuesday show :-) I'm live and take music requests from the RFD chat - www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow Tweeny: Johan and Cat are there regularly as I start off the show with a bit of Firesign llanwydd: NOT SENILE Mutt: Tanks! You just might see me dere Tweeny: hope so, Mutt :) Tweeny: 6pm Central Tuesdays at www.dishnuts.net Cease: I always hear music I've never heard before on Tweeny's Tuesday show Tweeny: me too lol Mutt: Unknown music is the best kind Tweeny: as people requests stuff I'VE never heard :) Cease: In fact, I got the idea for my last collage, based on the Ram album, from Tweeny's Tuesday show llanwydd: ram on Mutt: Ever heard of WITCH? A band from Zambia in the mid 70s. Best band you have never heard. Tweeny: nope Cease: the bands i've never heard of are infinite llanwydd: world music is cool Mutt: Highly recommended. They played what is referred to a Zamrock. Unbelievable. Deputy Dang: I can't make it _this_ Tuesday, but I'll try to be a more regular attendee. Cease: did reagan have red hairf? I've forgotten llanwydd: no, cat Mutt: He had Devo hair llanwydd: he had superman-colored hair Cease: didnt Devo wear helmets? Deputy Dang: Spotify shows me Dave Seville's Witch Doctor. Deputy Dang: Yes, Devo wore helmets. Mutt: Yes, and even the hair was a helmet at one point Deputy Dang: But at least one album's helmets was hair. Mutt: DD: the full name was We Intend To Cause Havoc Deputy Dang:https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/53acde9ae4b061056cf62d52/1407129156857-SLM41HOJVZCDMB94WU8Z/devo-pomps.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg llanwydd: I saw fst spoof devo live llanwydd: vey briefly Tweeny: wow! llanwydd: very Cease: hadnt realized devo was that big? Mutt:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_(Zamrock_band) Tweeny: Aire We Not Firesigns?? Tweeny: *Are llanwydd: this was at town hall in nyc nineteen eighty one Deputy Dang: Spotify shows me Witch: We Intend to Cause Havoc Mutt: That’s them llanwydd: pars pleadon me. my numerals are not working for some readon llanwydd: reason Mutt: Hmm … digit issues Tweeny: I'm sure you add some good requests to the Tuesday show, Mutt Tweeny: *you'd Mutt: Introduction and Lazy Bones!! are two great albums llanwydd: I am lookingat the notes above. what is the new fst album called llanwydd: got that wrong llanwydd: sorry Tweeny: click on the link, llan llanwydd: shall do Cease: didnt john glen have red hair? Mutt: No, he had a helmet, too Cease: lol Mutt: John “Devo” Glen Cease: both from ohio Cease: like peter bergman Mutt: Yes! Mutt: Coincidence? YOU decide! Deputy Dang: white rice university! lmfao! Cease: also jd vance though Cease: kind of the anti-bergman. Deputy Dang: And Devo, from Ohio Mutt: Ohio has more than its share of bat-shit ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix." Cease: and Joe Walsh, one of my favourite musicians Mutt: Joe is great and cool llanwydd: what vip is rice university named after? Deputy Dang: I lived in Maryville (NW of Columbus) for many years. If you were downtown at a certain time in the evening and year, there would be bats coming out of the old buildings. llanwydd: I like walsh too Deputy Dang: I don't know if it was more than its share. Deputy Dang: ILBT! Mutt: Lol! Cease: condoleeza? llanwydd: I like welsh even better vbhnjmk,ll,mhbgfdvghbnjmk,lkmjhgb Mutt: Stop that, Llan! Your confusing the Anglishers! Cease: you would, lllllan llanwydd: lol llanwydd: Angland is a fishing village Cease: Sounds Danish llanwydd: does indeed Mutt: Think they were all Piseces, working for scale. Cease: Scaled down Danger Mutt: The Angles camd from Jutland, didn’t they? Cease: Probably Justland. Everyone on the boat said, "Just land already!" ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "My nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume." Mutt: LOL llanwydd: jutland is nothing but a big tourist trap today llanwydd: good one, cat Mutt: I’ve never been. Sad to hear, tho Mutt: Hoping to travel more, soon. I retire next week (yippee)and hope my health permits some travel Cease: good luck, Mutt Cease: travel is great. Cease: begin collaging my spain trip next chat Mutt: I did some when I was a sproutling, but the last 30 years have been largely travel-free Cease: the first 5 years of life were spent in a car driving around north america for 6 montehs a year, until we settle in LA in 56 Cease: Saskatchewan winters are to avoided. LIke Japanese summers. Cease: Though bad weather is becoming ubiquitous llanwydd: what are you retiring from mutt? Mutt: Thanks for the warnings. I’m not as good with extremes anymore Mutt: Llan: 40+ years of representing kids and families in the justice system, the last 20 from the bench. llanwydd: if I go to japan in the summer, I will visit the higher elevations llanwydd: I see. well somebodys got to do it Mutt: That’s the rub Cease: don't go. the whole country is ridiculously humid. we were in sapporo, in the far north and it was unbearably hot Cease: the fall is the best time. spring second best. llanwydd: hokkaido? Cease: very pretty llanwydd: or hoeer you spell it Cease: yeah Mutt: Gezundheit llanwydd: however llanwydd: I couldnt spell it in japanese with my keyboard Mutt: Cease: Is it always humid to that extent, or are there bettertimes to visit? Mutt: Sorry, just saw earlier answer Cease: in the original Godzilla, Hokkaido is prounouced "ho ky AH do" llanwydd: well florida is ridiculously humid Cease: Much hilarity. llanwydd: I loved that movie Cease: i havent' been to florida since 1955 and don't plan to return. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice." llanwydd: florida is just a tourist trap covered with palm trees ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan." llanwydd: but if you want to get out of the cold... Cease: I lvoe to escape the cold of Vancouver by going to Vegas for a few days in the winter. Cease: I'd never go there inthe summer. Cease: Summer's are usually pretty nice here llanwydd: I can understand that Mutt: Catherwood bring us a major hit from the cockpit ||||||||| Catherwood hands us a major hit from the cockpit. Mutt: Ta llanwydd: I feel like getting on a plane tonight to head to my old stomping ground in the north country llanwydd: thanks cathy Deputy Dang: I moved back to Florida in 2014 and am a decade older. :-/ Cease: The Arctic? Mutt: DD: LOL llanwydd: no, ticondeoga, vermont, new jersey... Mutt: UK? Deputy Dang: I'm ok. llanwydd: you live in florida, dang? Mutt: Bada bing! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last." Deputy Dang: Yeah, just a little south of you, if I recall. llanwydd: cool. lets party sometime llanwydd: I have been in the UK Cease: Speaking of UK, I'd love to visit Ukraine but I suspect this isn't the time. Mutt: I thought you meant northern UK. Vermont and NJ I get now llanwydd: lol Deputy Dang: Hey, where's Beet? llanwydd: ask nino Mutt: With Artie? llanwydd: lol Cease: Yeah, Beet is missing Deputy Dang: lol Mutt: Don’t see him sogned in tonight Mutt: Signed, but maybe soged Cease: Seined perhaps. In Paree llanwydd: the change of seasons in thenorth country is wonderful but someday you get too old to take the brutal winterst e Mutt: Yes, like a fish. Trapped in a net! Cease: He's reperesenting Firesign Chat in the Olympics. Mutt: Yes, the winters suck here llanwydd: LOL Cease: I agree Llan. Cease: I hope he brings us the Golden Chat. Mutt: But with global warming, we expect to cut our heating bill in half. Don’t ask about ac Cease: The golden statue of a Cat lady llanwydd: and I am 62. I have only a few weeks left to be that young Mutt: Yer a sprout Cease:Tweeny just turned 70 the other day. Cease: He's so old he's just faded away from chat. Mutt: Flag on the field. llanwydd: I remember seeing the film U2: Rattle and Hum when it cam out and it had BB KIng shuffling across the stage saying "yeah I'm 62." Deputy Dang: I hit the big five nine recently. llanwydd: I thought I hope I am not like that when I am that age Mutt: Yes, Bob. Cease has been flagged for excessive personal information sharing. That’s ten yards and a fress oizza for everyone at home. llanwydd: now I have bursitis in my right hip llanwydd: I shuffle occasionally Mutt: Whippersnappers llanwydd: lol llanwydd: the bursitis only bothers me occasionally, though Mutt: That’s good Mutt: Not fun, I am sure Mutt: But we do what we can, right? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again." Cease:Tweeny was bragging about it on his Tuesday show. Mutt: Then no yardage penalty and everyone gets to keep the pizza Cease: Phil and Dave luxuriate in their productive old age ||||||||| 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.. llanwydd: but only if they like anchovies Mutt: I first read that as “reproductive” Cease: I think Phil's 84th is this month. Cease: By the way, there's a new radio play out called Hindsight. It's the last thing Phil and Melinda did together. Cease:https://sites.libsyn.com/519123 ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?" Cease: I'm going to start listening to it toniight llanwydd: phil didnt look 84 when I met him in New York City in 1981 Cease: lol Deputy Dang: that's very logical llanwydd: I still have a very clear mental image of him as he signed my autograph llanwydd: and explained to me what Firesign meant when I asked him Cease: He wanted Your autograph? Cease: He was the first Firesign I got to know. A very social guy. Tweeny: Cease: Tweeny was bragging about it on his Tuesday show << Tweeny holds his fist in the air like Trump when he was almost assassinated and shouts "I made it to 70, you bastards!" Cease: Indeed, Tween. llanwydd: yeah he was very friendly llanwydd: remember john b anderson? llanwydd: i almost voted for him llanwydd: I remember a saturday night live sketch about him during his campaign Tweeny: Yeah, I remember Anderson Cease: vaguely Cease: i was in japan then. didn't follow american politics much Tweeny: May I suggest you at least read RFK, Jr.'s web site pages on his policies - https://www.kennedy24.com/policies Tweeny: He's going to get my vote this time around llanwydd: I was eighteen. I voted for reagan instead. I was somewhat naive in those days llanwydd: wish I had voted for carter Cease: I enjoyed his radio show on Air America, Tween llanwydd: first time I ever voted Tweeny: I turned 18 in 1972 and my first vote (18 years olds had just been given the right to vote) was for McGovern Cease: At least you didn't join the military, llan llanwydd: I did the following year, cat llanwydd: fortunately all I did was work in an office Tweeny: This material will all be really useful a couple of months from now llanwydd: USAF Cease: Not the Free Mexican Air Force? llanwydd: I wish Tweeny: I was eligible to be drafted for Vietnam, but had a student deferrment Cease: We haven't had a draft in Canada since WW2 Cease: My dad was drafted into that. llanwydd: I remember I was in sixth grade the year mcgovern ran for president Tweeny: Heck draft dogers were fleeing to Canada during the Vietnam War Cease: HIs older brothers were drafted into Russia's war with Japan in 1905 llanwydd: a rumor was gong around my school that mcgovern would make us go to school on saturday if he was elected llanwydd: so everybody wanted nixon Cease: My play CAST is about that. They jumped ship in Frisco while delivering food to SF during the fire after the earthquake and helped rebuild the city Cease: I knew many of them, Tween. But thousands of Canadians also went to the states to volunteer to fight in Vietnam llanwydd: I never knew that russia went to war with japan llanwydd: sounds like herb alpert Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War llanwydd: thanks Cat Cease: Two of my uncles werfe in it. ||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Mutt - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: Their dad, my grandpa was so pissed off at that, he took his remaining 2 sons and fled Russia. Cease: That's a good thing as he met my grandma in Vienna in 1905 and thus, I'm here to type this llanwydd: indian pudding? Tweeny: Cease: I knew many of them, Tween. But thousands of Canadians also went to the states to volunteer to fight in Vietnam << wow, I never heard of that phenomenon Cease: Oscar Bergman is Pete's dad llanwydd: does that figure in any way into the story of the battleship potemkin? that was set in the same year. Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Vietnam_War Cease: Yes, llan. llanwydd: claiol head. LOL llanwydd: great film Deputy Dang: I could use some newt oil. Cease: i've always liked amphibians Cease: Much better than amphetamines Deputy Dang: lol llanwydd: I would have thought that jimmy clicker was a one off llanwydd: what a wealth of firesign material there is Cease: they milk as much as they can get out of all the characters they create Cease: true, llan. Cease: there is an hou'rs worth of New Material in this collection. Deputy Dang: i hear something i haven't heard before almost every week Cease: Thanks, Tween Deputy Dang: That was wonderful! llanwydd: COOL Cease: And you always will, Dang Deputy Dang: Thanks, Tween! Thanks Cease! Thanks llanwydd! llanwydd: great show Tweeny: Thanks for listening, everyone!! llanwydd: thanks kurt and cat Tweeny: You you Tuesday Cease: My firesign collection is immense and ever expanding ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Deputy Dang left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). Tweeny: See You Tuesday Cease: we do our best llanwydd: grateful dead llanwydd: cool Cease: next week ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset... Tweeny: The Jerry Carcia Band llanwydd: aha Tweeny: Cats Under The Stars album Tweeny: Love this tune llanwydd: I have heard it long ago ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Tweeny: 1974, I think Tweeny: Until last time, again... llanwydd: nite folks ||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown. ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| 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:
Cease
Deputy Dang
llanwydd
Mutt
Tweeny
