Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/27/2025

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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 March 27, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign Theatre's IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN
plus tracks from Phil Austin's TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE
and some bits from David Ossman's The Reverend Bill Barnstormer
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Billville."
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 27, 2025 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Tweeny 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwyddorsomeonelikehim should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwyddorsomeonelikehim enters and sits in the comfy chair.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: hi tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Cease', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: I'm back
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: hi cease
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Deputy Dang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Deputy Dang enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Cease: Hi llan
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: hey dang
Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners!
Deputy Dang: Welcome back, Cease! I saw you popped in last week, right when I was away from the computer.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Evening, folks.
Beet: Hi, Deputy, Cease, llan, Tweeny.
Cease: Dang, Beet. Y'all survived without me last week?
Beet: It was tough, but we hung in there.
Deputy Dang: Somehow, we did, but we didn't like it.
Cease: This is the Austin side. I hadn't realized until I read Braddock's book that Ausrtin wrote this side and Ossman wrote the other side.
Beet: How was Vegas?
Cease: Thanks, Dand. My Vegas/Seattle flight was just unloading when my Seattle Van flight was boarding so couldn't get into chat until it ended.
Cease: I ate well there, which is why I go there.
Cease: Still, there was a diminuation of quality from last year.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: did not know they each wrote a different side of the album
Cease: Had some real bumers. My credit card was hacked on my 3rd night there, which caused various problems
Cease: yeah, new stuff, eh llan?
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: hearing this again, I can hear the difference. It adds more dimension to the whole thing
Cease: 3 of the large rfestaurants I went to were almost empty. that's odd.
Beet: I've been having credit card problems myself.
Cease: thankfully i had another card, but it was in Canadsian dollars.
Cease: will have detailed collage about the show ready for next week's show.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: what do I need to try the next time I am in vegas, cat?
Cease: about the Trip
Cease: what do you lke, llan?
Cease: one revelatin was the crab chowanmushi at Jose Andre's new seafoody place Bazaar Mar
Cease: it was about 65% crab, 35% egg custard. the perfect ratio
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: I dont like gambling but you might call me a foodie
Cease: gambling is totally alient to me, but when they legalized weed there and I could cruise the city stoned, the slot machines became really pretty
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: any indian buffets?
Cease: i know nothing of buffets, but i'm sure there is good indian food. very eclectic
Tweeny: Evenin' folks
Cease: more into French food. fish, seafood
Cease: hey tween You're Here
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: Hi Tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
Beet: Hi, Tweeny.
Tweeny: I happen to have tonight off work :)
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
Cease: hows the scooter, tween?
Tweeny: Got it back a little over a week ago, and it's running fine now, thanks
Cease: every trip i visit the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art and this time their show was about the marriage of jazz and ART. thsat really gives me an idea for the new collage.
Tweeny: Took a month to fix it because they had to wait for parts from the PRC
Tweeny: including a new ignition assembly, which is apparently a pretty big deal as they have to legally report it as a change to the VIN records
Cease: they wre so happy for my regular visits, they gave me a voucher for a free drink. so i walked around the corner and had a great apricot cocktail. apricots are mentined prominently in my new play. llan plays albert einstein in it.
Tweeny: but great to have it back after all those weeks of walking long distances and riding the bus
Cease: i can imagine, tween.
Cease: my first full day in vegas, i walked 19,000 steps.probably the most ever. Fumiyo noticed my shoes were almost worn out.
Cease: 700 dollars. thsat's a day's pay.
Tweeny: Cease: my first full day in vegas, i walked 19,000 steps.probably the most ever. Fumiyo noticed my shoes were almost worn out. << Wow, great exercise :)
Tweeny: How's the arm coming?
Cease: strill not completely healed, but pain is minimal.
Tweeny: Good to hear :)
Cease: and almost 17,000 the 2nd day. i was afraid my feet and legs would complain, but they were cool.
Cease: the high level of intoxication probably helped.
Tweeny: heheh
Cease: for a Canadian
Cease: ossman revealed that the original title for this album was sex and violence
Deputy Dang: I almost miss those disaster movies from the 70s.
Cease: the last thing i visited in vegas was called The Haunted Museum.
Deputy Dang: Why was it called that?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not responsible! Park and lock it!"
Cease: too much death and devils and ghosts. this album does that shit a Lot Better
Cease: https://thehauntedmuseum.com/
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: I wonder if frank clearwater represented a real person
Cease: could be, could be
Cease: as an ex cia director, i always chat on unsecured sites
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: lol
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: I think my favorite disaster movie of he seventies was the poseidon adventure
Cease: thatg's edgar bullington, breaking that glass
Deputy Dang: I really like this album, but it somehow feels very different from their prior works. And yet... much the same.
Cease: true, dang
Cease: maybe their darkest.
Cease: but then electrician was pretty dark.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: to me it seems like the next step ahead. They cant keep doing Dwarf
Cease: i was trying to spend some quality time with a young lady when I was in University and I made the mistake of playing Electrician for her.
Tweeny: hah
Tweeny: Was her reaction, "that's weied"?
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: lol
Cease: Neal Young's cousin Joan.
Tweeny: *weird
Cease: there's me.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: that reminds me I appeared in a play bu Peter Shaffer called Black Comedy which took place during a power outage.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: by
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: the lights were on in the audience and they were off on stage
Beet: Sounds interesting.
Cease: sounds disconcerting
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: it was a one-act play by the author of Amadeus
Cease: aha
Cease: i write plays, but try not to be disconcerting
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: how does black comedy sound disconcerting to you , cat?
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: we were all waiting for the electrician
Cease: being in the light while the stage is dark would be disconcerting
Cease: my plays all have elements of darkenss, and light.
Cease: electrician is not a romantic album. but are any Firesign albums?
Cease: maybe EOBE
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: well we had the light from the audience but they understood the scenario
Cease: Hollywood has a vast fascination with Hollywood.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: yeah, think of sunset blvd or any of bob fosses films
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: well, the fosse films were about show business itself
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: not all set in ttown
Cease: beautiful stories, both.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: I am not getting any audio for some reason
Cease: this was a real house. austin told me where it was, but i couldn't find it when i was last in Frisco
Cease: wonderful long sentences, eh?
||||||||| 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: the dark actress was Katherine Ross.
Deputy Dang: My audio is working fine. No dropouts.
Beet: I like hearing Austin do his stories.
Cease: The Graduate
Beet: She was hot.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: friendly to a fault, the fault being one of agression
Cease: still have evil inentions
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: funny line
Cease: peppy fecundity
Deputy Dang: I read somewhere that Ron Jeremy said The Internet killed the porn industry.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: I knew a Ballinger when I was in england many years ago. he was easy to play jokes on and I remember some english guys got him to keep yelling into a broken telephone so the operator would hear him
Beet: Well, gotta go. This was fun. Welcome back, Cease. Everyone have a great weekend. See you next Thursday. G'Nite.
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: he had little sense of humour when he figured out what was going on
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
Cease: my play CAST, Act 1 takes place duirng that earfthquake.
Cease: by beet
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim: nite beet
Deputy Dang: Gn'ite Beet!
Tweeny: later, Beet
Cease: more gorgeous writing
Cease: i was just in one of those sunwashed cifties of the southwest
Deputy Dang: He's lost me a little. Not in an unpleasant way, but I'm happy to follow without knowing where I'm going or where I came from.
Cease: it's weird with a beard
Cease: i once knew LA very well. long ago
Cease: night spider
Cease: austin's obsession with women, thorughout his work
Deputy Dang: Antelope Freeway, one and a half miles...
Cease: there are worse things to be obsessed with
Deputy Dang: True
Cease: this sounds like now
Deputy Dang: Yeah, kinda disturbing.
Cease: my cousin in LA just called. not at all happy about what's happening
Cease: Vegas is a bubble, not so much part of the US as a part of capitalisticly inclined surrealism
Cease: people beccame super friendly when i told them i was from canada.
Cease: i think canadians are becoming a vanishing species there.
Cease: 3 of the restaurants i went to were virtually empty
Deputy Dang: I've been cutting back. I used to go to a local restaurant at least twice a week. I think I've only been there 3 times this year, though possibly twice.
Cease: i rarely eat out in Van.
Cease: travel is mostly about eating, generally.
Cease: i'm thinknig of going to Istanbal and Egypt, but they are definitely not food oriented trips
Cease: next week, my collage about the Vegas trip.
Deputy Dang: Turkish food would be good. I don't know about Egypt.
Cease: will find out.
Deputy Dang: I'm looking forward to your show!
Cease: se ya next week
Deputy Dang: Thank you for your work on tonight's show. Goodnight Tweeny and Cease!
||||||||| Cease scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Deputy Dang: And llanwyddorsomeonelikehim, if you're still here!
||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwyddorsomeonelikehim - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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
Cease
Deputy Dang
llanwyddorsomeonelikehim
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://thehauntedmuseum.com/