||||||||| 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 November 03, 2011 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 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 EnergizerTweeny gets out at 8:59 PM. EnergizerTweeny: It keeps Tweening, and Tweening... ||||||||| Merlyn bounds in at 8:59 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. EnergizerTweeny: Hey Merl Merlyn: hey ho tween ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 03, 2011 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Merlyn: now, we wait EnergizerTweeny: The student waits, while the master baits ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:04 PM and cease steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. cease: hi tween and merl cease: are you part of the firesign flick, merl? cease: earl jive was talking about it on facebook today Merlyn: Don't know what he was referring to cease: "a film about the firesign theatre" sounds like something you and your camera would be involved with Merlyn: I'm looking at the stills he posted, looks like a documentary sort of EnergizerTweeny: Evenin' cease Merlyn: a guy named Andre Perkowski is filming it EnergizerTweeny: Oooh, a FST Rockumentary? cease:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2424215768637.143998.1348783559&type=3 cease: how are things in texas, tween? cease: i was a surprised it was a merlyn flick EnergizerTweeny: Looks cool :) EnergizerTweeny: Dry, cease EnergizerTweeny: but generally decent weather EnergizerTweeny: Very busy apartment hunting EnergizerTweeny: How do you 'follow' it, cease? EnergizerTweeny: How are things in Van? cease: getting cold here EnergizerTweeny: We had quite a cold snap here. Was near 90 n Tuesday, will be headed into the low 30's tonight Merlyn: I think our economy is near the '30s cease: i hear nothing but bad news from the states. europe too EnergizerTweeny: hehe @ Merlyn EnergizerTweeny: If not worse, this time because the economy is global :/ EnergizerTweeny: Greece may leave the party altogether EnergizerTweeny: and Italy and Spain are not in great shape cease: i'm watching news from oakland cease: i have friends there Merlyn: the squeaky economy gets Greece cease: Greek freinds too EnergizerTweeny: Oakland is getting a bit 60's-ish, eh? Merlyn: maybe we should just have a global practice war to get everything going again cease: just made an omlette with some dried thyme from friend's farm in crete cease: salt too EnergizerTweeny: You should have your own cable show, cease - The Canuk Gourmet :-) EnergizerTweeny: Yeah Merl, that would seem about where we are cease: maybe odyssyes will lend me his nose cease: i'm far too ugly ever to be on tv EnergizerTweeny: Using the Middle East as a weapons/tactics proving ground for WWIII :( EnergizerTweeny: Well, Julia Child was not prom queen EnergizerTweeny: or are you afraid you'll end up like Dan Ackroyd's SNL impersonation ;) cease: at least she knew something about food EnergizerTweeny: and you do not?? EnergizerTweeny: d have fooled me Merlyn: julia child loved that bit and played it at parties EnergizerTweeny: could cease: compared to people who review food, no cease: yesterday's blog post, for example, which everyone knows is at www.seemrealland.blogspot.com cease: is more about my daughter than it is about the food i'm eating and filming cease: i didnt know what the bottom ingredient was, told it was a kind of cheese. EnergizerTweeny: "Was the Genocide Cafˇ already taken?" LOL cease: the blog has always been more autobiography and wordplay then any serious description of food. i often have no idea what i'm eating EnergizerTweeny: Hey, food can be an adventure in an of itself. EnergizerTweeny: and I sunderstand what you said about crab (I grew up near the Eastern Shore of Maryland) EnergizerTweeny: *understand EnergizerTweeny: Do you drink a lot of green tea? EnergizerTweeny: Cucumber on tea seems slightly weird cease: i never liked green tea. when i lived in japan, i was served it daily but drank as little as i could get away with EnergizerTweeny: "You'd expect Kerouac to peer out from behind the pears, and Ginzberg howling at the mint." EnergizerTweeny: lol again EnergizerTweeny: You do have a way with words ;) cease: thanks EnergizerTweeny: People are always pushing the good health effects of green tea cease: beets naturally conjured the Beat Generation to me cease: Fumiyo's parents drank oceans of green tea and died barely older than dex. my parents lived into their 90s and never drank a cup EnergizerTweeny: interesting EnergizerTweeny: Ah, the beet generation, of course cease: reading michael pollan's book In Defense of Food which has a lot to say about Nutritionism cease: you keep it sweet, beet-head EnergizerTweeny: Well, good nutrition has its place ||||||||| Principalpoop sashays in at 9:32 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. EnergizerTweeny: Hey P Principalpoop: hola cease: hey poop Principalpoop: you are what you eat, from soup to nuts EnergizerTweeny: Check out cease's new culinary op-ed - www.seemrealland.blogspot.com Principalpoop: a long one, I will catch it later cease: first elayne suggested i turn it into a book. then two of Bit's friends. the other night, i got an email from austin also telling me to turn it into a book. i guess i better take their advice Principalpoop: i am a philistine, i like macdonalds anyway EnergizerTweeny: mmmmm McRib cease: that's my project for next year. EnergizerTweeny: kewl, cease :-) Principalpoop: i have not had one yet, torture to only offer it sometimes hehe EnergizerTweeny: Do it, guy Principalpoop: next year? why wait? cease: no, i'm writing it now. i mean completing it and finding publisher. EnergizerTweeny: a waity decision Principalpoop: i know I am a procrastinator ahh ok cease: writing is WAY easier than getting published Principalpoop: get on your horse if you want too tween, giddyup hehe EnergizerTweeny: Well, the market for books has changed so dramatically Principalpoop: writing is torture, I am never pleased with what I write cease: i actually have several projecfts, but i figure i have to finish this one before i go on to other things Principalpoop: cook books always sell cease: i enjoy writing, and enjoy reading what i wrote. maybe all the intoxicants though EnergizerTweeny: Unless you're turning it into a coffee table book, something that can't be put on a Kindle (hint, hint), then I don;t know how you make money any more cease: yeah i have some great recipes. fumiyo's spinahce salmon thing is amazing EnergizerTweeny: but then again I feel the same way about the music business these days Principalpoop: it has to be a new york times thing before you make any money, if that is why you are doing it, that is trouble cease: i doubt the ny times will ever hear about anything i ever do Principalpoop: you never know Principalpoop: i would not count on it, but you never know ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Herr Head', just granted probation at 9:42 PM", then leaves hurriedly. cease: if "any money" means a comped meal or two down the road, i'd be happy with that. but most places i eat at, i usually find something negative to say Principalpoop: i don't think the guys set out to be enshrined in the library of congress cease: REALLY good point, poop Principalpoop: guten abend herr head cease: but they were of that caliber in 1967 cease: any relation to Harold Hedd? Principalpoop: that is all the german I know, except gesundheit Principalpoop: danke something shone, scone, schone ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:45 PM and BightreThighreHighre bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Principalpoop: hey big BightreThighreHighre: Hi ya, friends.... cease: hi big. how's the rig? BightreThighreHighre: been a while since I done hung out with ya'll under the dwarf maples.... cease: don't pass that maple, hand me the dwarf Merlyn: hey bigre, pp, head BightreThighreHighre: Cease- SHINEY SIDE UP, GOOD BUDDY!! ;) Principalpoop: Hi M cease: you new here, herr head, or just new name? BightreThighreHighre: Have you all seen this yet? cracks me up!! Principalpoop: bienvenu herr head, hejsa ciao BightreThighreHighre:http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/01/funniest-car-commercial-ive-ever-seen.html cease: sounds like experanto BightreThighreHighre: Aloha, Groovy Poop!! BightreThighreHighre: Hola, master Merlyn! cease: that is unbelievably funny Principalpoop: goodness, makes me want to go buy a fucking car hehe cease: even if my dad wasn't his competitor Merlyn: ralph spoilsport was based on ralph williams cease: ralph was big then BightreThighreHighre: Just now fire-ing up my brand new Propellerhead-Reason DAW music studio.... cease: proc has a riff somewhere about learning to do ralph cuz he didn't have a driver's license and only sat around la and watched tv when he wasn't working BightreThighreHighre: Reaon 6 .... EnergizerTweeny: Sounds very cool, Bright :) BightreThighreHighre: (Reason) DAMN TYPOS EnergizerTweeny: or should I say, BTH cease: too bad proc never got into chat. the tales he could tell us! BightreThighreHighre:www.propellerhead.se Principalpoop: you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today EnergizerTweeny: Doc Tech uses Reason, to very good avantage BightreThighreHighre: free, full up, demo at the site.... Merlyn: I only use treason EnergizerTweeny: I prefer the real thing (old analogs), but digital has become very good indeed ||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Herr Head - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... cease: nice to hear bergman mentioning doctech on radio free oz Principalpoop: aufidderseine head EnergizerTweeny: BTH is hereby charged with Reason! cease: not so nice having doc do even more work for the lads with all he has to take care of in real life cease: i wonder who head was? EnergizerTweeny: Hey Merlyn, would it be a big deal to get Nino working again? EnergizerTweeny: Not that it's all that accurate, but hey Merlyn: let me check EnergizerTweeny: Who _was_ that masked header? BightreThighreHighre: NASTY dust storm tomorrow in Arizona, but I'm gonna try to make it to see Maria Malduar in Cottonwood, AZ tomorrow night.... cease: merl, did you know austin and taylor were here in recent chat? i thought they were looking for you Principalpoop: i rode my bicycle past your window last night Merlyn: didn't hear that cat, but they both have my email addy Principalpoop: cool, but be careful big BightreThighreHighre:http://www.oldtowncenter.org/events.html ||||||||| Outside, the 9:58 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Elayne: Evenin' all! Sorry I'm late, I actually had an event to attend this evening. cease: hi el Merlyn: cat, you mean back on aug 25? that's the most recent Austin that I see, at least that he signed as a Firesign cease: are they giving you a gala for all your long service, el? BightreThighreHighre: ByenVenooty, Elayne!! Elayne: Uh, no Cat. :) ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. cease: it was last week or the week before Principalpoop: Hi E Elayne: I went to see my friend Trina Robbins present the should-be-more-famous Lily Renee, a comic book pioneer who escaped from the Nazis in the kinder-whoseewhatsis to England. cease: but he didnt sign in in red Elayne: Fascinating octegenarian. Really classy-looking lady. Elayne:http://www.trinarobbins.com/Trina_Robbins/Lily_Ren%C3%A9e.html Principalpoop: octgenarian? she only eats octopus? Merlyn: OK, last week cat cease: i imagine dex will be a fascinating octegenarian in a few years and he's not even a lady Elayne: "In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily’s life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her and her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily’s journey. She must escape many more times — from servitude, hardship and danger. Will she find a way to have her own sort of revenge on the Nazis? Follow the story of a brave girl who becomes an artist of heroes and a true pioneer in comic books." cease: sounds inspiring Principalpoop: goodness Elayne: As much as I love Trina, listening to Lily Renee was far more interesting. Elayne: Oh, she's very inspiring. In addition to drawing comics, she modeled and did lots of other stuff. Merlyn: ok cat, but I didn't seem him mention me, or taylor. Maybe the week before too? Elayne: Her face was plaster-cast or something for use in Fifth Ave department store mannequins, and people in those days kept coming up to her saying, "Don't I know you?" Elayne: She's still pretty swellegant looking. cease: merl, it wasn't that he mentioned you, it was just a sense i had that he expected to see you here. Merlyn: oh ok Elayne: There are lots of old photos of her on Google Images: https://www.google.com/search?q=lily+renee&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=P&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=HkizTuikJOLX0QGxuaTWBA&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=985&bih=625&sei=%20KUizTrLHJqnw0gHH0YSuDw Merlyn: and I see taylor used a gag name Elayne: And a few more recent ones. :) cease: that's extraordinary, el EnergizerTweeny: The swelling's gone down, hasn't it E? Elayne: It was a nice evening, but way too short. Trina and Lily were late, didn't get there till 7:309, and I was out of there by 8:30. Long ride home. Elayne: Indubitably,Gtween. EnergizerTweeny: /mw loves the Pink Hotel bits
EnergizerTweeny me loves the Pink Hotel bits like Over The Edge Principalpoop: she is still striking
EnergizerTweeny has to remember that Merl doesn't use normal IRC commands cease: doc said bergman was going to start charging for rfo, but no mention of that on the latst podcast. do you konw about that, merl? EnergizerTweeny: and as has been mentioned, what a cool thing it would be to turn the Pink Hotel video skit into a game cease: sounds like you had a great time, el EnergizerTweeny: easy for us to say of course, since it's their money ;) Merlyn: I don't know anything about that, cat, sorry cease: as austin said last week tween, the ABSENCE of money cease: its not that people talk to me, it's more that occasionally i'm in the room with people talking Elayne: I had an okay time, Cat. I'm glad I went, but it wasn't like party central or anything. cease: you get out and do things. 99% of success is just showing up, someone once said Principalpoop: one of my old girlfriends used to say that, thanks for the stab hehe Principalpoop: move move along, speak of something else Principalpoop: the silence is awkward here cease: hey el, you suggested i turn blog into book. austin agrees cease: also two of bit's friends (one who's moving to nyc next year) want me to write book to publicize bit, which only makes sense cease: want to have it finished and on e-shelves next year, inshallah Elayne: Ah, great minds think alike. :) Elayne: I do like the idea of a Bit of a Book. cease: indeed Elayne: Must go, a bit too dizzy from all that travel. I'm just not as young as I used to be! Principalpoop: i glanced at cell phones today to buy one for the first time, I waited too long, too complex now ||||||||| "10:17 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elayne, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds. Principalpoop: night E cease: well at the end of her life, she was going to a lot of restaurants cuz she had boyfriends rich enough to take her to them cease: by e cease: really poop? i was also looking at cheap cellphones at local mall today Principalpoop: this was on the web, all the different smart phones and such Principalpoop: i got lost fast cease: French Doors? is that like Morrison with a baguette? ||||||||| 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 llanwydd disembarks at 10:19 PM. llanwydd: good evening Principalpoop: good eveeening cease: hi llan cease: you eat your chicken, eat your pork and beans llanwydd: what's the topic? ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Dexter Fong close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 10:20 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary. cease: i eat more coq au vin any man ever seen Principalpoop: fong is here llanwydd: Hey Dex Dexter Fong: Hi guys Principalpoop: what happened to the catskills? llanwydd: they were killed Dexter Fong: Poop: What do you mean? Principalpoop: a bunch of anderondykes anyway Principalpoop: i thought you said you would be away mister fongster Dexter Fong: Poop: Were going to be away past weekend but cancelled cause of the weather Principalpoop: ahh ok Dexter Fong: Rescheduled for later this month Principalpoop: i hope some of the leaves hold out for you... Dexter Fong: Late tonight due to attending a friends new restaurant break in opening cease: hi dex Dexter Fong: Hi cat cease: i had a beet dish on halloween at a local place that was light years ahead of the beet dish i had at per se with you Principalpoop: adjusting the times for the new pizza ovens? llanwydd: a restaurant got broken into? Dexter Fong: Poop: Pierogi ovens EnergizerTweeny: Well, I guess we're going to have to move a carrier or two into the Medditerranian. The Greeks may want independence Principalpoop: I did not know Ralph Pierogi made pizza ovens too Dexter Fong: llan: Break in meaning serving dinner no charge while the staff learns the ropes cease: i have pyrogies in my genes. makes it hard to walk Dexter Fong: Poop: Original Ray Pierogi llanwydd: I see. thanks dex Principalpoop: so how was it? think it will fly? EnergizerTweeny: Peorgie's Pocket Oven? cease: too much starch. i must be in nick danger Dexter Fong: Yeah, very classy looking place Dexter Fong: Guys, myrna has a parking space for me, will be back soonest EnergizerTweeny: What sort of fool do you take me for? cease: yu check out my new blog post, dex? Principalpoop: i will tell your wife about myrna cease: missed him Principalpoop: first class, get on your horse if you want, giddy-up cease: i think his wife would like to know, poop llanwydd: well, I have to be going. I'll see you all next week. Principalpoop: toe tapping to GFR into the sun cease: ok llan Principalpoop: thanks for checking in, good luck llan ||||||||| At 10:29 PM, llanwydd scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." cease: nickel flavoured ice cream, very popular in the robot disctrict Principalpoop: android please EnergizerTweeny: There is a distinct difference between a bozo and a tweeny cease: one gets blown up, the other just blows up EnergizerTweeny: although both are inflatable EnergizerTweeny: that too Principalpoop: give it a squeeze cease: inflatable shoes vs inflatable being EnergizerTweeny: well, blow me down, matey, if it's not Captain Tweeny cease: better than capt. crunch EnergizerTweeny: har har, I'll bet you've got a big box to put it in, har har Principalpoop: what do you do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning EnergizerTweeny: Yes, what a great idea - giving little kids sugar for breakfast. Let the teachers deal with 'em ;)
EnergizerTweeny only invites drunken mermaids home cease: bet tween gets a lot of tail EnergizerTweeny: then they can slap him in the face with their tales, har har Principalpoop: tumbling dice Principalpoop: tuna tuna tuna cease: andrew clay or cassius? cease: sounds like a riff from Red Shift EnergizerTweeny: sorrie, charlie EnergizerTweeny: 40 Too Long is a great Dice bit cease: i know him from marc maron interview on wtf. don't know his material cease: good interview with chris rock today Principalpoop: kiki dee has the music in her cease: captain equinox too Dexter Fong: Back Principalpoop: go cooch Principalpoop: wb myrna's man Dexter Fong: Thanks poop Merlyn: Tween, you near Austin, TX? EnergizerTweeny: "Dice Buys A Suit" EnergizerTweeny: last 16 years, Merl EnergizerTweeny: Austin City Dexter Fong: Limits Merlyn: I don't know why Nino still works for me, but I might change the code to use geobytes (again) Principalpoop: i am using firefox and norton Principalpoop: could it hide me? somehow Dexter Fong: I'm using norton and kramden cease: are you on wikileaks, poop? Merlyn: Hey, can some of you click this link and tell me if the info looks right: Merlyn:http://gd.geobytes.com/Gd?after=-1&variables=GeobytesCountry,GeobytesRegion,GeobytesCity,GeobytesLatitude,GeobytesLongitude Principalpoop: i don't think so, but I don't know how I could be EnergizerTweeny: ACL on PBS is what got me here, absolutely Dex cease: had flu shot yesterday. after shot, the doc said you;'re good for another year. Principalpoop: bingo M cease: so i said i wish there was a shot to prevent any bad things happening to me for a year cease: she smiled pleasently EnergizerTweeny: USTXAUSI Dexter Fong: Seems okay to me Merlyn EnergizerTweeny: Near St. Edward's University, if that's useful Merlyn: Hmm, it should be working then, I thought Dexter Fong: St. Mickey preserve me Principalpoop: mine even said roanoke rather than troutville cease: the trout have their own ville? Dexter Fong: Merlyn, Nino is still showing only your location, everyone else is "unknown" Principalpoop: yes, right next to dale EnergizerTweeny: "And what did you do during the flu epidemic??" "I cought the flue..." Principalpoop: the native troutville folks have a real slow southern accent ||||||||| Catherwood ushers H Stones in through the front door at 10:51 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. cease: and boy was my chimney happy H Stones: Greetings Principalpoop: your highness cease: hey stones Dexter Fong: Stones, welcome cease: i watched great show on bbc recently called The Trap EnergizerTweeny: Stones old man, how are you? Principalpoop: there are jews in the world, there are buddhists... cease: 3 part thing about game theory and the cold war and roboticization of civillization H Stones: i am sat here chuckling about the sorry state of Greece as their leader decides to wreck any hope of financial improvement inthe Euro Zone BightreThighreHighre: oops....kickin' it w the neighbors.... EnergizerTweeny: So Stones, do you think that some English economists are being proven right about not joining the Euro (the Greek debacle)? cease: did you see it stones? somone posted it on facebook H Stones: yes Principalpoop: our goldman sachs said they were a good risk and lent them the money, we must have trust H Stones: it wa always a bad idea cease: not something i'd ever see on american tv, maybe canadian EnergizerTweeny: Goldman Sachs & Vanzetti Principalpoop: the currency exchange market is a scam, use one currency around the world... H Stones: we had a referendum about joining the common market in the early seventies and i of course voted no. a trading partnership was a good idea but federalisation of europe was always the route to disaster EnergizerTweeny: yep Principalpoop: or let everyone make their currency, pesos, pounds, stones, tweens, merlyns, cats cease: as richard nixon once said, sach it to me EnergizerTweeny: The Federal Reserve can print money out of thin air Principalpoop: resistance is futile EnergizerTweeny: One Dollar to Rule Them All cease: i am not a number, i'm a free currency EnergizerTweeny: hehe H Stones: at least a federised USA has some merit because you more or less all speak the same language, in Europe its just barmy Principalpoop: it is one world, whether you like it or not, how many worlds do you see? EnergizerTweeny: Well, Nixon took us off the gold standard in '71. That was the end of the beginning cease: i landed in tokyo the day that happened tween. it was not a good day to change money EnergizerTweeny: We can make war all over the world. All we have to do is say we've added to the money supply EnergizerTweeny: I'll bet, cease H Stones: i see many worlds, one or two of them have intelligent life, the rest do not Merlyn:If someone wants to test something, log out, refresh the login screen, and log in again Principalpoop: i will test, brb ||||||||| 10:57 PM -- Principalpoop left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). EnergizerTweeny: Let's hope there's intelligent life in space, Stones (because there's bugger-all here on Earth) ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Principalpoop', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:57 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... EnergizerTweeny: OK Merl H Stones: i see from one of our tabloid papers, the Daily Hyena i think it was, that we are now ready to join forces (sic) with the USA and wade neck deep into Iran ||||||||| EnergizerTweeny leaves to catch the 10:57 PM train to Hellmouth. ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies EnergizerTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (10:57 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Principalpoop: back, nino still only shows your location M cease: how's honey, stones? Merlyn: still doesn't know you guys EnergizerTweeny: Well to be fair, it was the Brits who divided up the Middle East after WWI H Stones: honey is waiting for her tech guy to recover from the flu and fix her computer so she can be here EnergizerTweeny: hmmmm cease: you oknow why austin couldnt be in red last week, merl? cease: aha Merlyn: that doesn't make much sense, since the link I had you test work; it's using the same link in the login EnergizerTweeny: darn, Merl :/ H Stones: tell phil not to worry, over here we are all in the red, irrespective of the colour of the ink Merlyn: Let me see if I can do it a different way ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Principalpoop: the only thing funny i see in there is var sGeobytesIsLocationMatch=false H Stones: Catherwood, can you spare me a dime ? ||||||||| Catherwood spares H Stones a dime. cease: was the occupy thing big over there, stones? cease: i think van is getting tired of our little camp Principalpoop: why is it calling it false? cease: could cost our left mayor the election to a right winger who wants to bulldoze them out of there H Stones: the camp is set to stay outside St Pauls till the New Year cease: thats in london, right? H Stones: yes cease: its pretty widespread here, but i think the onset of cold weather will change that H Stones: tis a complex group of environmentalists, anti nukes, and real left wingers cease: same with the van occupiers. i went down the first day, full of different concerns but all generall left H Stones: in fact its anyone who can see that their governments and political parties have all been hijacked by corporates cease: bc always had a big left wing, will probly win next provincial election Principalpoop: i think a better solution is to get organized and get people elected into office, demonstrating is handwaving... cease: poop there are many things to be done. this thing certainly has the inequality issue forced into discussion. H Stones: you need lots of money to get elected and if you join a party, you are hijacked by party concerns which only leads us back to the same melee cease: that's a victory in itself Dexter Fong: I refuse to join any party that would accept me cease: did ya''ll here bergman/ossman debating whether this was enough of a teach in? Principalpoop: i did not say they were wrong or bad or useless, I said a better solution... imho H Stones: the party sytem is corrupt in so so many ways, mostly financial, we need more genuine independents who can represent minorites as well as the mainstream H Stones: very wise, fong H Stones: i know your platform, six inches off the ground so no one falls off cease: canada has had socialist governments since before i was born. cease: the left remains strong here, though the right is curtainly ascendent nationlly H Stones: socialism is a nice word b ut seldom a reality Dexter Fong: A socialist government = One in which everyone twitters H Stones: twittering, blogging etc etc only gives people the impression that they have some power cease: at some point there will be a redistribution of wealth cease: although by that time, there may not be much left Dexter Fong: Don't follow bloggers, watch the parking hoggers H Stones: there will only be a redistribution of wealth when the world wakes up to the fact there is no wealth cease: sort of my point, stones Dexter Fong: Pig nuts, Styones Principalpoop: The girl at the water cooler is looking for a new fool cease: though i grew up in a much more optimisitic socialist saskachewan and still see its visions Merlyn: anyone else using safari on a mac? Principalpoop: george wallace won a good portion of the national vote, but we have a negro president, things are better cease: sounds like john wayne hitting on an old actress and a rhino Dexter Fong: and meanwhile, the Republican Pres candidates are in shambles H Stones: hlump a rhino for peace eh ? EnergizerTweeny: Not recently, Merl Principalpoop: macaroni and cheese sounds good cease: yes poop, i agree with mlk's long arc theory. i have to. EnergizerTweeny: How about FF or Chrome or SeaMonkey in Linux? cease: but the arc may not be in time to save human civilization as we know it Merlyn: well, you can try once more to see if nino is fixed, but I don't know why it doesn't work H Stones: but we dont know it ! Principalpoop: we want a new system and civilization anyway cease: you like mac and cheese, popo? Principalpoop: have not had it in a while, used to eat a lot, should try again Principalpoop: brb ||||||||| Principalpoop says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Principalpoop exits at 11:12 PM. Dexter Fong: Popo leaves to make mac 'n cheese EnergizerTweeny: iCab in OS 9 here, Merlyn ||||||||| Outside, the 11:13 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Principalpoop coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. EnergizerTweeny: Refresh no joy Dexter Fong: wb popo EnergizerTweeny: wb Poop Principalpoop: back, thanks cease: like instant noodles of yore. the price povery imposes upon your palate. H Stones: wb Principalpoop: still just M, i need to buy a mac M? Merlyn: I'll work on it more next week
EnergizerTweeny is an OS 9 guy in an OS X world Merlyn: that's probably not it, PP
EnergizerTweeny only a pawn in the game of life Merlyn: anyway, see you next week Dexter Fong: Night Merlyn cease: by merl Principalpoop: i think the thingamagig is frazzled and looped in the subroutine EnergizerTweeny: Thanks Merl Principalpoop: night M H Stones: nighty night Merl ||||||||| Catherwood says "11:16 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Merlyn by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door Principalpoop: Perry went ape, did you see that video? Principalpoop: was that normal for him tween? cease: looked odd Principalpoop: yes odd, hehe H Stones: speaking as a foreigner, who is Perry ? Principalpoop: presidential GOP candidate, gov of texas where tween lives Principalpoop: governor Dexter Fong: Governor of Texas Republican wacko running for Pres H Stones: i was hoping that Tween was the Gov of TX Dexter Fong: Stones, you may not want that ..no offense Tweeny =)) H Stones: it aint what you want, its what you need cease: jim hightower would make a great governor of texas cease: he was agriculture commissioner H Stones: i think a governor of texas would be a good idea, has anyone tried it ? cease: ann richards H Stones: who she ? cease: tween should be speaking, not me cease: she was gov before bush Dexter Fong: Former Democrat Governor of Texas cease: quite good, as i recall. check her out cease: hightower is from her era Principalpoop: margaret thatcher on the left with a super sense of humor cease: her and molly ivins H Stones: Thatcher had no sense of humour or anything elsle cease: and hightower. that's3/4 the comedy depth of the firesign theatre Principalpoop: woman pm in one of the oldest parliments on the planet, that is something... Dexter Fong: afkfr brb cease: yes that bbc show had lots about the thaterite evil Principalpoop: i give her that, nothing else hehe H Stones: both of them well past their sell by dates cease: i'm amazed your country allows such shows cease: wont happen in the us probably ever H Stones: never say never cease: there may be a left wing revolution in the us before its ruling class trashes the planet permanently. i may grow wings. H Stones: as long as we elect representatives of the corporates and power brokers we will remain on the downhill road to ruin Principalpoop: bernie sanders made into the senate, just need more of him cease: indeed poop Dexter Fong: brak Principalpoop: they killed bobby, that delayed things cease: one delay after another, until Tom H Stones: all the people or leaders who preach peace and love, seem to end violently Principalpoop: i am hopeful, be hopeful guys cease: me too, poop, oddly
Dexter Fong dons his hopeful guize cease: i wont live long enough to see the collapse. Principalpoop: those occupy folks have the right idea, just need to get the right actions cease: such as, poop? i thikn they are debating that constantly H Stones: i see the american cops have as usual, waded in with cs gas etc Principalpoop: exactly, where to start? that is why folks should think globally and act locally as stones does Dexter Fong: I happen to prefer a pump action, clip fed, gas operated semi automatic Principalpoop: they have been surprising calm, in the old days, it would have been like chicago H Stones: it is Chicago Principalpoop: yes, they will crush dissent where they can H Stones: they will even crush assent cease: you mean the dem convention in 68? Principalpoop: if heavy handed, it works against them, in general Principalpoop: yes, H Stones: the news tonight is that Ireland has closed its embassy at the Vatican, bust that Principalpoop: that will teach the Catholics hehe cease: will ireland go down if greece goes down in euroland, stones? H Stones: allmost certainly, followed by Italy, Portugal et al Principalpoop: is there anyway africa can skip the years of wars that europe had to endure to learn tolerance? cease: yes italy could sink the euro cease: yes poop. give everyone a cell phone Dexter Fong: Poop: They've had their own wars for years H Stones: a lot of world war 2 happened on African countries cease: afrcia is vastly rich. it's just utterly exploited. Principalpoop: an ipad maybe, a cell phone is not enough hehe Principalpoop: let them start watching videos and tv shows instead of fighting hehe cease: the wealth of every redistributed would make everyone in africa as rich as kuwaits cease: aids would dissapear Dexter Fong: why? cease: well, what are there now, 6 million dead in the congo fighting over the mineral that makes cell phones?
EnergizerTweeny me declares the new African country Freedonia! cease: why would aids dissapear? because rich africa wold have the health system of canada or europe H Stones: it will all end with a huge bombardment of text messages Principalpoop: the protestants and catholics tortured and killed each other for centuries and finally wised up EnergizerTweeny: Our country's symbol will be a chinchilla with large breasts cease: and the lack of tolerance for rape, etc EnergizerTweeny: Yes, Africa is being see by all as a 'resource' H Stones: but soon it will be a province of China EnergizerTweeny: It's as sick as it was during European colonialism Dexter Fong: Africa is resource full Principalpoop: we have an african military command now stones, not so fast lol cease: china is no more or less greedy than its predecssors EnergizerTweeny: The People's Sociables Respublics of China would also like peace. Of Nigeria cease: we all want it all Dexter Fong: When do we want it!!!!!!???? EnergizerTweeny: Then! H Stones: Africa has very greedy and powerful leaders who cream off anything useful and treat their own people like Niggers Dexter Fong: Now and then is good enough Principalpoop: as one of the meek, can I have some, if no ok cease: that album came out during the biafran war cease: i remember attednig a debate in the house of commons about that in 69 cease: canada had tons of surplus wheat and they were starving H Stones: the Brits supplied arms to both sides in the Biafran war cease: but trudean couldnt feed them, because it would seem to suppor sepparatists Principalpoop: you mean a country with 1% rich and 99 everybody else, where have I seen that before? Dexter Fong: You boys fight it out among yourselves cease: trudean only supported separate tits H Stones: Britain invented colonial exploitation and after world war 2 america industrialised the scale EnergizerTweeny: "You specifically asked for a 'nig-gur'?" To tell the family secret..." Principalpoop: we did it by finance and companies, only military when necessary Principalpoop: dogs wants out Dexter Fong: Who let the dogs out? EnergizerTweeny: Yes, I recall those British colonies in Rome H Stones: the BBC world service is now in Tent City EnergizerTweeny: The Pope made Swiss Guard cheese out of them cease: must be getting cold in uk, stones EnergizerTweeny: Yes Stones. Good to see 'Hoovervilles' popping up all over the world :) H Stones: we just had a full summer when the the temperature never got above the 70s EnergizerTweeny: and ours were always over 100 EnergizerTweeny: That's what happens when the Gulf Stream doesn't go North cease: we had little in the way of summer here EnergizerTweeny: Europe could end up looking like Siberia cease: i expect winter soon H Stones: we are already in financial siberia EnergizerTweeny: and Central Texas is turning into a desert. They say the historic drought may not abate until next Spring EnergizerTweeny: Well Stones, at least you're not Euro H Stones: the Australian drought is already more than ten years old Dexter Fong: Tweeny, be the first on your block to own a camel EnergizerTweeny: The Bank Of England (like the Federal Reserve) has at least a little control cease: are services shrinking where you are, stones? H Stones: rapidly H Stones: 20-25% this year alone EnergizerTweeny: Yes, at 100 degrees Mexican loose-woven cotton looks pretty good ;) cease: big service fee increases here cease: replacing my med card will cost me a lot H Stones: that too EnergizerTweeny: Heard an NPR bit about Spanish doctor complaining that their health care system is falling apart EnergizerTweeny: *doctors cease: spain is another big debt problem EnergizerTweeny: Trillion dollar bail outs for the righ, austerity for everyone else H Stones: many of our doctors just give us whatever the drug companies are flogging EnergizerTweeny: and Italy EnergizerTweeny: *rich cease: my flu shot shot was free yest. they dont even ask for my card anymore cease: i just look old EnergizerTweeny: another problem, doctors recommending whatever Big Pharm is pushing H Stones: the G20 meeting has just issued a joint statement "None of us know what to do!" cease: i take buses when i go downtown and its mostly oldies and kids EnergizerTweeny: lol EnergizerTweeny: They've sapped the 'Middle Class' all over the world. Who are our next suckers? EnergizerTweeny: Austin buses have lots of folks, some in very good clothing H Stones: any one will do EnergizerTweeny: Well, the best we can do Stones is not let it be you and me EnergizerTweeny: Buy nothing you don;t need until you're paid a decent wage EnergizerTweeny: Maybe that will send a message H Stones: that remends me, whats the date of Buy nothing day, this year cease: i havent been employed in quite awhile EnergizerTweeny: You are familiar with the Reverend Billyof NY? cease: check the adbusters website H Stones:http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/ cease: hes very good H Stones: Participate by not participating! Dexter Fong: Include me out EnergizerTweeny:www.revbilly.com cease: my old mag doth protest too much EnergizerTweeny: The Church Of Stop Shopping H Stones: i am out too cease: keep on rolling, stones H Stones: Hey Lordy, I have Saved !! EnergizerTweeny: We were so brainwashed as chilren to believe that our sense of self-worth meant having 'stuff' cease: you've saved the lord? cease: must not be much of a lord cease: good poinrt, tween. cease: when my parents gave me christmas presents, they' always have price tags on them cease: had to appreciare how much they spent for them ||||||||| 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.. EnergizerTweeny: lol cease! EnergizerTweeny: Cool instruction by your parents :-) cease: not so funny at the time EnergizerTweeny: Maybe a deeper meaning ;) cease: ended up making me not matrialistic enough for my own good H Stones: Ok, how about Sell Everything Day? EnergizerTweeny: "This is what 'money' buys", perhaps? cease: as soon as we get rid of some furniture, people give us more so we have to get rid of that too. cease: its like living in a warehouse EnergizerTweeny: "Life is like a room with furniture..." H Stones: warehouses are very trendy living spaces nowadays Principalpoop: back cease: reminds me of a martin mull song Principalpoop: he who dies with the most stuff wins, everyone knows that EnergizerTweeny: "You have to know what to sell, what to keep, and what to throw away" EnergizerTweeny: Martin Mull's "White Man's Blues" is rofl funny EnergizerTweeny: "Woke up this monin', both cars were gone..." Principalpoop: baby you can drive my car cease: sounds ilke italy on the brink on tv news EnergizerTweeny: Ah, no thranks EnergizerTweeny: Yeah, Euro is looking ugly EnergizerTweeny: and Italy is no Greece H Stones: you know things are bad when burglars break in and leave you things EnergizerTweeny: as Gecko says in the movie Wall Street II, "Bulls make money, Bears make money, PIIGS get slaughtered" EnergizerTweeny: to freakin' true EnergizerTweeny: *too Principalpoop: i see that they can make meat from poop now Principalpoop: end of starvation, maybe hehe EnergizerTweeny: Bugers made from the finest whole earth ingredients H Stones: Principle Poop says Eat Poop for Peace EnergizerTweeny: *Burgers Principalpoop: ok, make meat from boogers next lol cease: burgerman EnergizerTweeny: That's a difficult idea to suggest EnergizerTweeny: er, ingest Principalpoop: sorta like moleskin cookies hehe H Stones: hmmm tasty EnergizerTweeny: lol cease: sounds like chalire chaplin eating his shoe Principalpoop: soyent brown is slightly less offensive than soyent green hehe EnergizerTweeny: Well, obviously we should move to a groatcluster-based currency EnergizerTweeny: Then it's Let's Eat!! cease: is bbc still doing as in depth things as The Trap on a regular basis, stones? H Stones: yes, if you keep your eyes peeled Principalpoop: oh yes, when does boyent hall start again? Principalpoop: bogville manor cease: i wonder when permaculture will become part of life, instead of safeways Principalpoop: bordello estate? EnergizerTweeny: Great talking with you folks, as always. I suspect we have very different solutions in mind, but we are all of good heart... H Stones: good question, Cease EnergizerTweeny: Until last time, again Dexter Fong: Night Tweeny ||||||||| EnergizerTweeny leaves at 12:14 AM, 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..." Principalpoop: night tween H Stones: see ya tweenster cease: in my distant childhood everyone had gardens, not stores cease: by tween Dexter Fong: I am fading here. See you all next week Principalpoop: downton abbey I was thinking of cease: bye dex Principalpoop: night fong ||||||||| Dexter Fong rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Dexter Fong?! It's 12:15 AM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" cease: you get so old, no one knows what yu're talking about Principalpoop: it is late, hold that bus H Stones: i must be off to NM now, see you all again soon, stay well Principalpoop: have a super week all cease: off we flee Principalpoop: love to honey and canada and england cease: bye, fleas ||||||||| Principalpoop dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Principalpoop?! It's 12:16 AM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" cease: and to you too poop H Stones: ok Poopster ||||||||| cease leaves at 12:16 AM, 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..." H Stones: and then there were none ||||||||| H Stones rushes off, saying "12:17 AM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| BightreThighreHighre - dead from the yaws ||||||||| 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:
BightreThighreHighre
cease
Dexter Fong
Elayne
EnergizerTweeny
H Stones
llanwydd
Merlyn
Principalpoop
