A Firesign Chat
03/10/2011




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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 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for March 10, 2011 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Babe close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 7:02 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
Babe: Well, that’s it! Here’s your keys. Goodbye, friends and happy motoring back on the Freeway, which is already in progress . . . !
Babe: Nice feel. Let’s see . . . [sings to himself] “Oh how can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at a-a-all!” . . . I think I’ll give this old baby a spin on the Freeway . . .
Babe: Freeway, . . . . that way, . . . . OK!
||||||||| At 7:03 PM, Babe hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| 8:21 PM: ah,clem jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: '"a few minutes with FireSign Theatre" at about 9 eastern", dwarf & bozos'
||||||||| At 8:23 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, ah,clem!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 10, 2011 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
cease: come back babe. paul bunyon needs you
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:05 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Princeton."
llanwydd: good evening
cease: hello llan
cease: i thought i was going to be alone here
cease: how is acting work, llan?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:07 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Principalpoop coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Principalpoop: what is the rod?
cease: hi poop. hello urine
llanwydd: well, guess what I'm having, cat. a tall glass of shiraz with a splash of orange juice, two slices of orange and two slices of apple
llanwydd: you gave me the idea
llanwydd: Hey Princi
cease: a man who has hit far too many homers for the yankees, poop
Principalpoop: throw out the shiraz and put in sloe gin
cease: wow, sound sangria-esque
llanwydd: and some ice cubes as well
cease: you need a seltzer of some nature. i'm using president's choice sprarkling lemonade
Principalpoop: what did you do with the rest of the orange and apple? come on now
cease: yeah yeah cubes
cease: i always slice up a granny smith and a big orange to make sangria
Principalpoop: seltzer works good for seltzer
llanwydd: I put the rest of the fruit in the fridge for tomorrow
cease: by which i mean something carbonated
Principalpoop: collin mix, but ok ok
cease: you're unliklely to ever get as involved with booze as me, llan. good for you
llanwydd: I''ve got diet lemon lime soda in mine. not much
Principalpoop: you guys are pods!!!!
llanwydd: you having a sangria too, cat?
cease: i went to the almost last night of a vancouver institution last night
Principalpoop: making weird sangria things, run for your lives
Principalpoop: oops only me with the pods
cease: high end restaurant. i couldnt drink any booze cuz i was driving. bummer
cease: in vewgas or other places, food good enough not to need booze. not so here
llanwydd: I haven't been to any high end restaurants since I've been in florida
Principalpoop: somebody should drink a singapore sling for me
cease: i run for my liver
llanwydd: my favorite is a lebanese bakery on International Speedway Blvd
cease: my first girl friend loved singapore slings. i loved how she got when she drank them
cease: this is more than 40 years ago
Principalpoop: i forget how they taste, they and gin and tonic were a spring drink for me
llanwydd: I saw a tv special about an amazing vegas buffet
llanwydd: it's very unlikely I'll ever set foot in a casino though
cease: wow i hear dwarf but where is bambiclem?
Principalpoop: i don't have my headphones on
cease: you have to walk thru casinos to get to the lobby, et all in vegas
Principalpoop: dog wants out bbl
cease: i have no interest in gambling but eating is kind of to me what acid was to tim leary
llanwydd: well, leary was looney tunes
cease: as we know from 1st firsign album. tiny dr. tim
cease: odd the firesign seemed most down on leary cuz he was drunk, but considering how much alcohol was consumed during firesign album production, that is kind of hypocritical
llanwydd: its "bike week" here in FL and the place is rather noisy
llanwydd: I didn't know fst were big drinkers
cease: as long as its not bisexual week. than it would be really noisy
cease: yeah we tend to think of them as dopers, but....
llanwydd: I know they were into the white stuff. they spilled the beans about that
cease: austin could show up here any minute and say no, they were never drunk
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: I need to get a firesign video one of these days. I've never owned one
llanwydd: I've seen some great stuff on youtube though
cease: be thankfull of than, llan. i have most of them and they all suck
cease: no you havent
llanwydd: hmm?
llanwydd: I nearly died laughing when I watched Frame Me Pretty
llanwydd: I watched an italian film called Allegro Non Troppo today
llanwydd: kind of inspired by fantasia but not a kid's film
cease: both of those flicks sound familiar
llanwydd: Frame Me Pretty is a live Nick Danger piece that I saw on Youtube
cease: there is some firesign vid that doesnt suck immediately but you watch it enough and you really wish you wrere doing something else.
cease: unlike listening to their albums
cease: i know llan
cease: i have many hours of firesign video. it all sucks
llanwydd: well, they were busier doing audio material. video wasn't their forte
cease: the closest to non sucking is the proc/berg ann arbour thing they did in i think 71
cease: llan, indeed they often talk about about that.
cease: vid aint for them
cease: maybe qwhy they never got as famous as python
cease: vid has much greater audience than aud
llanwydd: very strange that there are only three of us here at almost 9:30
Principalpoop: it is because they offended corporations
Principalpoop: back
cease: i dont think so
cease: carlin and pryor offended far more corpses and got rich doing so
cease: unlike fst
Principalpoop: i think so, python attacked the old sacred cows
cease: even fucking eddie izzard
cease: who is as good as fst, ive seen him live twice here in van
Principalpoop: they were less insightful than fireside, fireside was dangerous lol
cease: he was MUCH better than them
Principalpoop: but that is now, corporations are not afraid anymore of it lol
Principalpoop: there was a window, back then, we might have reined them in
cease: corps aint afriand of anything anymore. they have your supine court on their side
cease: only on the net or facebook or something. look at richard metzger
cease: the firesigns new BFF
llanwydd: of course, you really have to pay attention to fst to understand them. I don't know of any other artists who were as much like that
cease: yes and no, llan
cease: there have long been comedians who expected intelligence on the part of their audiences
cease: think of lord buckley, for example. long before firesign
Principalpoop: name one? lol
cease: he was dead before they started
Principalpoop: in america
llanwydd: I'm not familiar with lord buckley
cease: he was making al capon laugh at his surrealism during prohinhibition
||||||||| Elayne steps in at 9:32 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Principalpoop: hi E
Elayne: Evenin' all!
llanwydd: Hi Elayne
Elayne: Hello Cat, Llan, PrinPoop!
Principalpoop: name an intellectual comedian from the old days E
Principalpoop: firesign holds that ground I say
cease: chicago guy who pretended to be a british lord speaking black dialect in the 20s. capone gave him his own nightclub. definitne influence on firesign
Principalpoop: carlin was clever, no doubt
cease: hey el, i was just telilng llan about lord buckly. you think he influenced firesign?
cease: poop: fuck you. carlin was clever in the sense that firesign were clever.
Principalpoop: was he on vinyl? they probably did not go to his nightclub in chicago
Elayne: I'll have to ask Robin, Cat. I don't know from Lord Buckley.
llanwydd: it would be interesting to hear a standup comic from the 20s. are there any recordings?
cease: there was no vinyl in the 20s
Principalpoop: i don't think carlin would even want to be called an intellectual
Principalpoop: the firesign guys cannot avoid it
cease: ok we have a connection to buckly. wew meaning elayne and other falafal readers
llanwydd: intellectual is a vague term
Elayne: Robin doesn't know who Lord Buckley was either.
cease: that arizona shirnk whose name i forget was a friend of dell close
cease: close was a freiedn of buckley, along with starting sctv
Principalpoop: many serious and topical references necessary to grasp the commentary?
llanwydd: I had heard of him and I believe I've seen his picture but I'm not familiar with his act
Principalpoop: that is intellectual, using the intellect, come on now
cease: he wrote to el's mag falafal and thats how i got ot know him .
cease: ok bergman used to play buckly on his radio freee oz shows
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'no_anchovies', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:36 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llanwydd: I like falafel sandwiches but I don't know the mag
no_anchovies: sniffs...
Elayne: Hey No Anch!
cease: my introduction to buckly aftrer he died.
cease: hi no
llanwydd: Hey Paul
Principalpoop: my dander is up, woof woof, hi no anchovies
Elayne: Lord Buckley wrote to FALaFal? When?
no_anchovies: Lord Buckley was brilliant.
llanwydd: you know lord buckley, n_a?
Elayne doesn't remember Lord Buckley, she is about to Google him.
cease: no llan, the arizona dude did. who knew dell close, who was buckleys' freiend
cease: mayb e you remember his name el. very famous firesign freimd
llanwydd: I was saying I had heard of him but I've never been very familiar
no_anchovies: he was once on Groucho's "You Bet Your Life" by the way, if you're interested... it's on one of the dvd sets of it.
cease: dr. fuckin arizona shirnk
cease: yes indeed no
Elayne: There we go: http://www.lordbuckley.com/LBC_Home/LBC_Home_A_Primer.htm
cease: he is also an actor on the austin play Down Under Danger
cease: firesign actor=del close=buckley is no big stretch
llanwydd: I only remember one thing I read about lord buckley. he challenged a heckler to a fight and the heckler wiped the floor with him
cease: hows it going, el?
Elayne: Okay, it says he died in November of 1960, he couldn't have written to FAlaFal.
cease: indeed, el. who was the ariziona dude?
llanwydd: where does the name falafal come from elayne?
Principalpoop: he sounds like trouble for corporations too, maybe that is why I never heard of him
Elayne: I don't remember, Cat. As my ex would say, that was a life ago.
Elayne: Llan, it was short for "Four-Alarm FIRESIGFNal."
cease: indeed
Principalpoop: you don't remember hows it going? lol
llanwydd: cool
Elayne: FAlaFal, I believe was the way we did it with the upper and lower case.
Principalpoop: severe short term memory loss that
no_anchovies: Hey Llan... to paraphrase George Carlin: What are you doing in New Jersey?
cease: he was the doctor in charge of dtermining who was crazy in arizona
Elayne: Cat, it's going a little better than yesterday, but I still have a godawful foot cramp that hasn't let off yet.
llanwydd: oh, does nino have me in the wrong place again?
Principalpoop: that is a tough job
Elayne: I took percoset for the first time ever last night, the pain was so bad.
cease: i know he had an influence on the firesigns
Elayne: Little better today, but I think I'll still be dosing and dozing.
cease: i hope you are getting healthier and healthier, el
Principalpoop: eat more calcium, or less, do something, that is not fun
cease: is robin getting lots of paid work?
Elayne: Thanks, Cat. Robin is not getting any additional paid work, but he's very busy with the Aussie thing.
llanwydd: I've never taken percocet. the strongest thing I ever took was hydrocodone after I had a difficult root canal
no_anchovies is pickin' at his Sneezer's Chicken...
cease: busy is good
Elayne: Aborigines against drugs. There's a time for using them, and a time for reeeee-fusing them.
llanwydd: no, it was an extraction now that I think of it
Principalpoop: we take drugs seriously in my family
no_anchovies: and a time for REusing them
Elayne: Llan, the Percocet didn't seem to actually dull the pain, it just put me to sleep pretty quickly.
llanwydd: yes, nino has me in princeton of all places
llanwydd: like I'm ivy league material
cease: sleep is good
llanwydd: well, that might be good elayne. I like to sleep through pain too
Principalpoop: i am unknown, maybe my 20 proxy loop has hidden me, I can visit the bad sites again
Principalpoop: time wounds all heels, ooops wait
no_anchovies: Catherwood, get Elayne some more drugs.
||||||||| Catherwood gets elayne some more drugs.
llanwydd: just roll a couple of bombers and leave them on the side table
Elayne: Thanks, Catherwood! Now bring me some happy pizza to go with them.
||||||||| Catherwood brings Elayne some happy pizza to go with them.
cease: i'll have a b52
Elayne: Tony Bourdain was talking about happy pizza in his Cambodia show this past week.
Elayne: http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/03/video-anthony-bourdain-eats-the-marijuana-pot-laced-happy-pizza-of-cambodia.html
cease: we no longer get tony here, for some reason
llanwydd: what's happy pizza?
Principalpoop: cambodia haiti nicragua, the scenic tour this season
cease: his vegas show was an influence on my trip.
llanwydd: sounds like nick's swell
cease: wow, places i will never go
cease: my friend was just over this aft and i showed him my vegas footage and he said that is a place i'll never go
llanwydd: I almost went to haiti once
cease: i thought the same thing until i discovered what i can eat in vegas
cease: llan you're glad you didnt i'm sure
llanwydd: I've only been to two foreign countries, canada and england
cease: hash good, haiti not so much
Principalpoop: lool the clip
Principalpoop: Thanks E, that was fun :)
cease: and we're not nearly foreign enough
llanwydd: well, actually no. I had a chance to help out after the earthquake. some friends of mine went down there but I didn't get to go
no_anchovies: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/08/seriously-jaw-dropping-picture-of-the-sun/
||||||||| 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 llanywdd disembarks at 9:53 PM.
llanywdd: pardon me. brb
llanwydd: sorry merl
Elayne: Wow, No Anch, that's beautiful.
no_anchovies: strange, eh?
cease: wow llan. that's really noble of you.
llanwydd: I tried the link. it won't work for me for some reason
no_anchovies: you're Jinx'd
Principalpoop: they have a stereo picture of the sun made recently, i cannot find the link
Elayne: I'll see your sun and raise you one:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41927089/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Elayne: Is that the stereo picture of which you speak, PrinPoop?
llanwydd: I finished watching Rosselini's war trilogy last week. now I'm in the middle of andrzej wajda's war trilogy. it's really interesting
Principalpoop: no, there are 2 nasa craft around the sun now
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:56 PM and Bambi waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Elayne: Hey Fran!
Bambi: Hello Dear Friends :-)
llanwydd: Hi Bambi
Principalpoop: hi bambi
Bambi: hey E! llan!
Principalpoop: oops easy to find in google, I could not find it in my history hehe
Bambi: Hey princep
Principalpoop: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html
cease: hi bambi
Bambi: Hey Cat and NA
Principalpoop: how are you and ahhhhh, ah,clem doing
llanwydd: but my biggest excitement is I'm going to see Yes on saturday for the first time in 31 years
llanwydd: as far as I know it is the only free concert they have ever done
Principalpoop: which war is that llan?
cease: good for you llan
Principalpoop: cool, I am jealous
llanwydd: wwii
Principalpoop: ahh a short war, i wanted one about us in afghanistan
Bambi: as well as can be expected in this current economy lol
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Caterino in through the front door at 9:59 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
cease: when i was younger, music used to have the same influence on me
cease: is it a cat or is it a rino?
llanwydd: good evening Caterino
Bambi: hey Caterino
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanywdd - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Caterino: how is everyone???? Hope all is well
cease: as well as possible
no_anchovies: yeah, my last YES concert was '75, i think.
llanwydd: well it's very optimistic to say all is well but...
Principalpoop: going for the one, whenever that was
Caterino: No yes but King Crimson back in 75 than 79
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bambi: yeah, I hear ya llan
llanwydd: gfto was 1977
llanwydd: I had a friend who went to that show
cease: hows it going, bambi?
no_anchovies: they were in my area last year, but i had no interest in looking at Chris Squire's spandex.
llanwydd: but my first was the tormato tour 1978
cease: my abilitiy to appreciate music has atrophied seriously
Principalpoop: I don't remember 1978, I might have gone
no_anchovies: i gave up on YES after "Relayer."
cease: as my ability to enjoy good has increased
llanwydd: what is all this talk on pe about squire's spandex?
cease: my daughter was born in 78
Caterino: My son in 78 too
cease: good food
Elayne: I think I shall betake my foot to bed now. Say hi to Dex when he gets here (we lunched yesterday)!
Principalpoop: best of luck E
Caterino: Hi Elayne
llanwydd: hope you feel better, elayne
cease: i hope you had a good lunch
Caterino: rest the foot
Principalpoop: ahh fong stepped on your foot while dancing no doube
no_anchovies: nite E.
Principalpoop: doubt
Elayne: Hi Bob, bye Bob!
||||||||| Around 10:03 PM, Elayne walks off into the sunset...
cease: off you go, el
Caterino: She left me hi and bye
cease: at least it wasnt bye and sell
Caterino: or by the by
Principalpoop: wam bam thank you mam
llanwydd: she's leaving home bye bye
Bambi: have a great night and week Elayne!
cease: hows it goin bam
Principalpoop: i thought of that song the other day llan, have not heard it in years
Caterino: Bams how U feelin?
llanwydd: I love sgt pepper
Principalpoop: idee fixe for a few days, and you woke it again, thanks alot
Bambi: have been better, have been worse
Bambi: lol
llanwydd: but it's one of those albums you don't want to wear out by listening to it often
Caterino: Cease, we seenm to have the same brain tonight or theres an echo in here
Principalpoop: leaving the note that she hoped would say more
Caterino: We gave her everything money could buy
Principalpoop: pretty not bad you cant complain bambi?
Principalpoop: oops pretty good...
Caterino: Thats the only song on the album not arranged by George Martin.
no_anchovies: i'll second that Sgt. Pepper... Beatles Rule!
Bambi: no point in complainin' ;-)
Principalpoop: why do people always have to say that? whine!
Caterino: The Beatles, still fresh today
Bambi: lol
cease: fresh beatles. a real african delicacy
Principalpoop: if I fell in love with you
llanwydd: but I've found that some younger people don't understand the beatles
Caterino: Paul, well he called me handsome, I called him fresh
cease: i may have been young once, but i forget
Principalpoop: that could be trouble llan
Bambi: sad
llanwydd: back in about '03 I met a teenage girl who couldn't name them and I said "I don't believe it!"
Principalpoop: i remember hearing some youngster explaining that paul was in some band before wings...
Caterino: Uncle Floyds brother s have a great beatles cover band. The Fab Faux
llanwydd: lol
no_anchovies: indeed... Beatlemania seems to have eluded recent generations.
Caterino: U tume them and their great. They will use a real ochestra if needed
Principalpoop: please please me, oh yah
Caterino: U tube that is
no_anchovies: not to mention the generation prior... i recall Allan Sherman wrote a Beatles hate song.
cease: has anyone here read Paperback Writer?
cease: funniest book i've ever read, faux bio of beatles
Principalpoop: its a dirty story of a dirty man...
Caterino: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhDCIftfdA
cease: poop, look for the book on line. you will almost die laughing
no_anchovies: i thought it was the story of a rice-picker in church?
cease: or maybe really die, in which case we wont see you here anymore
cease: fuck, anchovies. i had a job doing something like that. after wedding people would thru rise so i had to sweek it up
Caterino: I am a paperback writer, writing them and selling them are two different animals
||||||||| doctecazoid bounds in at 10:14 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: and this was on flagstones that werent really aligned
cease: picking rice out of flagstones is no fucking fun at all
cease: hi doc
Caterino: Doc, how you beeen
no_anchovies: another superb Beatles cover band was "Rain"
doctecazoid: good eeeeeeveninggggggg....
Principalpoop: wow bob
Principalpoop: hi doc
Caterino: Flagstones, meet the flkagstones
doctecazoid is channeling alfred hitchcock
no_anchovies doctecazoid is for the birds
Principalpoop: that gave me a chill doc
doctecazoid: i've been, caterino
Bambi: hey Doc!
Caterino: Well, now for a disgusting mess we like to call, our sponsors.
doctecazoid channeling dyslexics: "workers of the whirled untie!"
doctecazoid: we'll be back to jiving for jumpers in just a moment...
Caterino: I am dyslexic
doctecazoid: ...but first, this word from our sponsor: "spend!!!!!"
Principalpoop: no bollective cargaining for them
doctecazoid is lysdexic, but he heaps it to kimself
Caterino: Alfred Itchpocs
llanwydd: didn't see you come in, doc. welcome
Caterino: He is hitched
doctecazoid: hitchfred alfcock?
Principalpoop: i for one welcome our computer overlords
doctecazoid: i come well lland
doctecazoid: thanks!
llanwydd: lol
Caterino: Oh, ok, thats more like it
doctecazoid is rather punchy tonight, having had a couple of martinis to lubricate his sensibilities
llanwydd: I've seen every hitchcock film except Waltzes from Vienna and a couple of his silents
cease: i'm sure lili is happy about that, doc
Bambi: teh wrodl si a stargn palce
Caterino: Yes it is Bams
doctecazoid: lili is well lubricated as well, and dozing on the couch at the moment (as is her want)
Bambi :-)
llanwydd: wrodl took me a moment
cease: dozing is good
Principalpoop: wrong chat hehe hehe, i will be good hehe
doctecazoid: bambi: deedni ecalp egnarts
cease: doc, i went to lumier last night, the danieul restaurant here
Caterino: I have been dosed before, but never doze it is either full blone sleep or none at all
cease: food not nearly as good as we has in nyc
Caterino: blown
Caterino: Where Cease
Bambi: Dislexics Untie! Together we can trip up the world...
cease: at daniel's vancouver restaurants. used to be as good as nyc. no longer. but close soon
doctecazoid: the light that shines half as long shines twice as bright
llanwydd: best restaurant I ever went to in nyc was an indian curry place near town hall the night I saw FST. I wish I could remember the name of it
cease: llan, i thikn the reason the food was as good as it was, was because of the firesign
llanwydd: could be, cat
doctecazoid: ok, poll: is it correct to characterize "not insane" as firesign's contractual obligation album? thought?
cease: the reason my first meal in vegas was as good as it was, was because of the visual imagery i'd seen on the elevator on the way up to the 65th floor
Caterino: I remember that place and as you know, was at Town Hall also, mid section left
doctecazoid: thought?
doctecazoid: thoughts?
llanwydd: I had a really great day in nyc before I saw the show. really big day
Bambi: from Klok's buttons: http://bambismusings.wordpress.com/klok-brian/
doctecazoid: i used to think of it as their contractual obligation album, but it may be a case of the guys trying to bite off more than they could chew
llanwydd: caterino, are we talking about the same show?
cease: the firesign have fucked up at least as much as they havent
llanwydd: what place do you remember caterino?
doctecazoid: but not by design, right?
llanwydd: the show I went to was on april 2nd, 1981
no_anchovies: Catherwood, get us some nice Saag Paneer.
||||||||| Catherwood gets us some nice saag paneer.
doctecazoid: everyone fucks up - and part of firesign's charm is their willingness to walk the tightrope of improv as far as they could
Principalpoop: no underwear will be worn by the year 2020
doctecazoid: not many are willing to take those kind of risks these days
llanwydd: saag is great
Principalpoop: saag paneer is a happy pizza brandname?
llanwydd: so saag paneer is spinach curry with cheese
llanwydd: I meant no, not so
Principalpoop: sounds like a good pizza topping
Caterino: I subscribed Bambi, I am also a wordpress.
llanwydd: so what will be worn in place of underwear, princ?
Caterino: I saag, not so great
Principalpoop: i don't know, that is what doctor memory said
Caterino: What will be worn? A who O a 2 O, I don't know.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ah,clem close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:29 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
doctecazoid: doctor ah....
Caterino: Ahhhhh Clem
Bambi: hey Clem
doctecazoid: i used to be able to remember ... what what his name...
llanwydd: Hey ah!
Principalpoop: well worth a dollar
Bambi :-)
doctecazoid: ah clone!
llanwydd: I don't remember the future
cease: hey clem
cease: no one does, llan
doctecazoid: m c escher walks into a bar
Caterino: I haven't worn underwear since 68. The government wont let me.
doctecazoid: the bartender says "want to hear a joke?" escher says yes
llanwydd: I heard a guy on Coast to Coast AM saying that past, present and future are concurrent in the big picture. that was very though provoking
ah,clem: hi all ;)
Principalpoop: the voice of ahh, clem
doctecazoid: the bartender says "m c escher walks into a bar..."
Principalpoop: oops toad away
Principalpoop: thanks so much you
doctecazoid: da capo sine fine
Caterino: I listen to that
ah,clem: and nytol
Principalpoop: good luck
doctecazoid: nytol indeed
Caterino: A bartender walks into m c esher.
Bambi: have a great week folks!! see ya next time
llanwydd: Nite Bambi
Caterino: I will try, I miss this
doctecazoid: nite bambi
no_anchovies: Catherwood, show Bambi out.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to no_anchovies and says "My ears are burning..."
||||||||| 10:33 PM -- ah,clem left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
doctecazoid: a loop a whirl a vertical climb...
||||||||| Bunnyboy tiptoes in around 10:33 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Bunnyboy: lo dere
cease: hi bun
Bunnyboy: Better late than later.
Principalpoop: hip hop bunnyboy
Bunnyboy: llan: So, ALLEGRO NON TROPPO, eh?
no_anchovies: you can say that again
doctecazoid: hey bb
Caterino: So, ALLEGRO NON TROPPO, eh?
doctecazoid: allegro non topo gigio (oh eddie...)
Bunnyboy: I first saw it in it's theatrical run, back in the 70s.
Principalpoop: non topo? allegro!
Caterino: Oh Eddie
Bunnyboy: Caterino is the echo chamber?
no_anchovies: (hums) "You're getting to be a rabbit with me...
doctecazoid: n_a: allan sherman rulez!
Principalpoop: you went the wrong way old king louie
Caterino: Little Jack Amouski couldn't find his house key
Bunnyboy: (sings) You went the wrong way, Old King Louis...
no_anchovies: yup. Allan Sherman was hysterical.
Bunnyboy: Aw, damn. Poop beat me to it.
doctecazoid: my house key couldn't find it's amouski - it was seriously bummed about this
cease: i saw allen sherman in la
Bunnyboy: (sings) One hippopatimi...
Caterino: Pop hates the Beatles
doctecazoid: one jackai...
Principalpoop: mudda fadda kindly disregard dis letta
no_anchovies: he didn't last long. drank & ate himself to death.
cease: thats not funny. seeing him in saskatchewan would have been funny
doctecazoid: oops, four hackai,,,
doctecazoid: oops again ... four jackai!
Bunnyboy: Eddie Izzard is playing the Hollywood Bowl.
doctecazoid thinks the vodka might be imapiring his ability to express himself typographically
Caterino: La Plume de ma tante
Principalpoop: jeessy peassy
Bunnyboy: First solo comedian to do so.
cease: ive seen izzard twice in van
cease: the first time funny. the 2nd time profoundly funny
doctecazoid notes the misspelling of impairing as an example of this phonemenonnononono....
no_anchovies: I'm Dr. Prentice, the painless dentist; By that what's meant is, It really doesn't hurt. This is Miss Klinger; you've met her finger.So open wide, and Miss Klinger will squirt.
doctecazoid: iz eddie zard?
Bunnyboy: Second comedy show, since the Python show, in the 70s. Ah, the 70s...
llanwydd: didn't see you come in, bunnyboy. welcome
cease: imp[airng his typogroa[hty? i have never drank vodka and i still cnat fuckni tpe
Bunnyboy: llan: So, ALLEGRO NON TROPPO. You like, no?
Caterino: my dentest's patient jumped out his office window on the thirteenth floor
cease: fuck the 70s
Principalpoop: JIm Nabors played the hollywood bowl I thought
no_anchovies: on one of Izzard's videos, he does his entire act in French. impressive.
llanwydd: Bb, I thought I would mention to you since you are into old movies, I watched rosselini's war trilogy last week and I'm halfway through andrzej wajda's war trilogy right now
Caterino: some people aint superstitious I recon
doctecazoid: alkihol is alkihol, cat - regardless of the preparation methodology
llanwydd: I thought ANT was just okay. the valse triste segment was great though
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bambi - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bunnyboy: n_a: Ja, he's fluent in Francais.
Principalpoop: to get to the 70s, you must go through the 80s and 90s, fuck that
doctecazoid: la gramere sur la flambe
Caterino: all I know is La Plume de ma Taunt
cease: i am fluent in mistyping
no_anchovies: Nous Somme du Soleil.
doctecazoid: the '80s and '90s are like bouncers with attitude
cease: i was sober on aug 5, 1970
Caterino: I am fleuint in nada
cease: no, 71. see how bad my memory is?
Principalpoop: Vo lar EEE
Caterino: woah woah woah woah
Caterino: cantadi
Bunnyboy: cat: Between Hour Hour and Dear Friends?
llanwydd: ich spreche de doytchers
Bunnyboy: (sings) Cirque Internationaaaaaaale!
no_anchovies: ich bin der chrome dinette.
Caterino: Felichi, my Pinto is blue
Principalpoop: ach de lieber august teen hehe
cease: there is no such space, bun
Caterino: Poop, this way and that
Bunnyboy: I'm midway through ep 17 of Hour Hour.
Principalpoop: he said he is a doughnut, just clap
cease: yeah bun
cease: keep on houring
Bunnyboy: cat: Au contraire. August 5, 1970 would be about smack dab.
Caterino: I had the 45 rpm Hour half hour
doctecazoid: ich ben ein berliner - i am a donut
Principalpoop: ahh doc, knows his lizard
doctecazoid: hey, he's a fuckin' donut!
Caterino: what a hole
Principalpoop: an american thing, a fucking doughnut, ok?
doctecazoid: i'm from england - where the history comes from
cease: indeed bun. so what is that? the hour hour show ended in july. i left in late augst
no_anchovies: what an ultra-maroon.
Bunnyboy: Don't be cruller.
Principalpoop: eh wot
Caterino: donut touch
doctecazoid: you people in america with your "this building was constructed over FIFTY YEARS AGO..."
Bunnyboy: And Dear Friends started in...September 1970?
doctecazoid: nooooo - no one was even alive then!!!!!
Caterino: Times are so bad, Dunken Dougnuts is now selling the holes. The box is empty
Principalpoop: that lot has opposable thumbs, crazy they are
Caterino: Doc, we have buildings that reange at least two hundred years.
no_anchovies: i thought holes were just caves on their sides.
doctecazoid: so what could be more surprising - than the first transvestive batallion brigade
llanwydd: I've seen much older buildings than that in the U.S.
Bunnyboy: I was between 3rd and 4th grade, summer of 1970.
Principalpoop: don't tell me what I need, I am darth Vader, I need nothing. You need a tray for the food, it is hot
llanwydd: I knew some people who lived in an 18th century house
Caterino: In 70 I wasfourteen
doctecazoid: caterino: i'm sure your history dwarfs ours - we are myopic in our view of the world, for sure
Principalpoop: it was a very good year, oh hell no it was not
llanwydd: in fact I was in an older one than that in massachusetts
Caterino: yes, this history here is neither there or here.
no_anchovies hands doc the pliers.
Principalpoop: we are young and perky, get out of our way hehe
Caterino: Our history consists of the British, we speak british by the way.
doctecazoid: pp: lol (lili and i got to see eddie at the start of the decade when he did his circle tour - the vader bits were just killer!!!)
cease: i am neither young nor perky. but sometimes i can spell them
Principalpoop: ahhh lucky, wow
Principalpoop: i only have had a little taste
doctecazoid: (i have, and still wear, the tour shirt)
no_anchovies: Izzard did this TV show called "The Riches" which was pretty good.
cease: thats better than having only a little tongue
doctecazoid: (lili and i are major izzard fans)
cease: i watched an episode, no.
Caterino: "Doesn't he wear eye makeup"
Principalpoop: it lost me after a while
doctecazoid: lili and i both loved the two seasons of 'the riches' - he and minnie driver were great in that!!!!!
no_anchovies: yeah, he's a real talent. almost as good as Proctor.
no_anchovies: `_~
cease: the tape of izzard you sent me, doc, was the funinest stand up i've ever seen
Caterino: La plume de ma tante
cease: different species, no
doctecazoid: eddie is hard!
Principalpoop: the voice of god is who?
doctecazoid: morgan freeman i think
Principalpoop: nooo
Bunnyboy: James Mason.
Principalpoop: ahh yes LOL
doctecazoid: oh right
Bunnyboy: And the password to the Pentagon computer system is?
doctecazoid: in this play, the role of james mason will be played by morgan freeman
Principalpoop: oops ok
no_anchovies: Swordfish?
cease: free man? what about free women?
Bunnyboy: Jeff.
Principalpoop: i don't know
doctecazoid: (you just need that voice of authority thing going for you, right?)
Principalpoop: jeff? that is brother of the guy who runs the catering service, jeff vedar that is
no_anchovies: Ossman could do that voice.
doctecazoid: i know - i'll start my own church - the psychotic bastard church!
no_anchovies: of SCIENCE............................... fiction.
doctecazoid: maybe church of england would be better....
Principalpoop: do I get my own pew?
doctecazoid: cake or death!!!?????
no_anchovies: Pepe Le Pew.
Principalpoop: in the cashbar
cease: there's more death in cake then there is cake in death
no_anchovies: true.
Principalpoop: devils food
doctecazoid: i think i'm fraying fast - gotta call it a knight
doctecazoid: don't get rooked
no_anchovies: nite doc.
doctecazoid: see y'all next week with any luck ... nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz................................
Principalpoop: stay crispy, hold that bus, all have a great week
Bunnyboy: nite doc!
||||||||| At 10:56 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, doctecazoid!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Around 10:56 PM, Principalpoop walks off into the sunset...
cease: by doc
Bunnyboy: oh, nite Poop!
cease: poop
cease: everyone has to go sometimes
||||||||| "Hey cease!" ... cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:57 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Bunnyboy: (sings) Something in my heart just tells me...
llanwydd: there's biker bar or something that's having an annoying outdoor concert near here
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Caterino - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: I was glad to hear it get rained out yesterday
llanwydd: glad bike week is over tomorrow
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: is anyone still here or did everybody leave?
Bunnyboy: Next week; Monster Truck Week.
llanwydd: lol
Bunnyboy: There's always worse.
llanwydd: well, I'm going to leave to finish watching Kanal
Bunnyboy: Case in point: Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Bush.
llanwydd: ever seen that one?
Bunnyboy: nite llan!
Bunnyboy: Kanal? No, do tell!
llanwydd: the second of andrzej wajda's WWII trilogy
llanwydd: I finished watching rosselini's war trilogy last week and now I'm watching wajda's
llanwydd: pretty fascinating so far
llanwydd: anyway, see you next thursday
Bunnyboy: Criterion imprint?
Bunnyboy: Sure thing!
llanwydd: yeah, criterion
llanwydd: nite
Bunnyboy: sweet!
Bunnyboy: Ready to pull the plug, n_a?
Bunnyboy: So be it.
Bunnyboy waves.
||||||||| Bunnyboy leaves at 11:07 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..."
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| no_anchovies - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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 4:32 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:
ah,clem
Babe
Bambi
Bunnyboy
Caterino
cease
doctecazoid
Elayne
llanwydd
llanywdd
no_anchovies
Principalpoop
URL References:
http://bambismusings.wordpress.com/klok-brian/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/08/seriously-jaw-dropping-picture-of-the-sun/
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/03/video-anthony-bourdain-eats-the-marijuana-pot-laced-happy-pizza-of-cambodia.html
http://www.lordbuckley.com/LBC_Home/LBC_Home_A_Primer.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41927089/ns/technology_and_science-space/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhDCIftfdA



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