A Firesign Chat
10/29/2015




Archive

||||||||| 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 October 29, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 11:39 AM and Bungler waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's :25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
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||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny in through the front door at 7:34 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign’s web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 7:35 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET **
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Halloween Medley)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood escorts C. Simril inside, makes a note of the time (8:51 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hey Cat
DJTweeny: Looks like it's just you and me tonight lol
C. Simril: i seem to be chasing away chatters with all my collages
C. Simril: i assume you got Who do you Gild?
DJTweeny: Yes, sent you an email confirmation
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: all set to go
DJTweeny: will play it before Bride
||||||||| 8:53 PM: EWeston jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
C. Simril: ah, my favourite zevon tune
DJTweeny: He made some great music
DJTweeny: Hi EW
C. Simril: EW
EWeston: Evenin Tweeny Cat and that bug in my ear
DJTweeny: is it a NSA bug?
||||||||| Outside, the 8:55 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving dude coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi dude
C. Simril: dude
EWeston: A Harold Hiphugger knida bug
C. Simril: not a bugs bunny kinda bug?
EWeston: Thatch Switcher might have been his name
C. Simril: i just thought of that. maybe bugs bunny was named, like bugsy segal, after insanity
||||||||| Catherwood leads Johan Amadeus Myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (8:57 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 8:57 PM: Buford jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTweeny: Hi Johan, Buford
EWeston: Jam man, and there's always room for a Buford
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies lily in through the front door at 8:57 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
C. Simril: kick in the JAMs, bufords too
DJTweeny: Hi lily
EWeston: If you can see the Bonzo's version of this
EWeston: Lilyerer
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Greets Cat, DJT
C. Simril: Ah, Art!
lily Buford C. Simril DJTweeny dude EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski hey there and tween thanks for a laugh or twenty
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi E, Buford
EWeston: Monster assault with intent
lily: lilyliver lol hey ew
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi lily!
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Ralph close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:59 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
Buford: welcome, dear friends
Ralph: Trailing clouds of glory.........
EWeston: It Its Ralph!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Currently playing: FST Haloween warm up
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Languishing in caves of methane ice...
DJTweeny: Hi Ralph
C. Simril: Ralph
||||||||| Mudhead enters at 9:01 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| 9:01 PM: shoes for the dead jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
EWeston: Artfulyt and mysteriously carved, of course
DJTweeny: Hey Muddy
C. Simril: thanks for the new car!
shoes for the dead: Howdy
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
Ralph: celebrities getting tasteless!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Ralph; the clouds look glorious
C. Simril: Shoes
lily: hi shoes
EWeston: Mud and shoes go together
||||||||| 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 pinholeF200 disembarks at 9:01 PM.
shoes for the dead: hey Mud
DJTweeny: Hi pin
C. Simril: just got our first new car since 2004. love that smell
EWeston: Da Pinhole
lily: mm oo rr ee sugar
shoes for the dead: hey Pin
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Mud, shoes!
C. Simril: pin
||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet in through the front door at 9:02 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Evening all.
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
EWeston: Never had a new car. Didn't buy any car till I was 30
pinholeF200: howdy Tween, EW, Cat, shoes and all Fireheads
C. Simril: Beet
Beet: Yo Tween
shoes for the dead: and the beet goes on
C. Simril: Mud
Beet: Hi, Cat
Beet: Hello shoes
C. Simril: wow, they're starting to pour in. just like Vancouver weather.
Ralph: CNoEvil News
EWeston: och Who put that Beet there
Mudhead: Hi everybody, long time
DJTweeny: Yeah, Mud you've been missed
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hey Beet!
Buford: Not responsible!
Ralph: CNNNoEvil
C. Simril: good timing, mud.
pinholeF200: Greetins Mud
Mudhead: Youll just have to aim better
EWeston: Park and lock it
Beet: Hi EW Mud JAM
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oh leave the boy alone and let him enjoy the war
shoes for the dead: mud jam has lumps, mud jelly doesn't
EWeston: Sometimes there's nothing else besides a lump that will do
Buford: It's in the water...that's why it's yellow!
lily: ah ha
shoes for the dead: sit on yer pipe, lily?
EWeston: Lumpy water? that sound nude world to me
C. Simril: i thought it was sulfur
lily: good vs evils lumps
lily: glow teeth
EWeston: I'm bipartisan on lumps
shoes for the dead: in prophets, in
C. Simril: out demons out is what japanese kids shout at Setsubun, a buddhist holiday.
C. Simril: in good luck, in.
EWeston: Tillwe get that restraining order anway
C. Simril: sounds better in japanese.
lily: the first church of the lumpy death
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lumpy gravy...
Beet: Thought for the night . . . We're Doomed.
lily: booo yeah
shoes for the dead: got that on vinyl, JAM
EWeston: That the lump from thy owned eye
C. Simril: i've always thought this dr. john tune was really spooky
pinholeF200: happy Celtic New Year to all
DJTweeny: it is
DJTweeny: Is it indeed, pin?
DJTweeny: Would have thought they'd go with the Solstice
EWeston: Get the pigs out of the trees
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “WHO DO YOU GILD?” **
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
CHECK OUT CAT’S PLAYS AT >> http://seemreal.com/
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I'm more only in it for the money, shoes, but LG was great!
C. Simril: this is from their last radio appearance, the kboo show shortly before pete's death.
C. Simril: it's halloweeny just in that sense.
C. Simril: mainly because, the uh.... dope.
lily: cat this is great
EWeston: Frankenweenie _________'s again!
C. Simril: it's a lot of work, but it's fun.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
lily: thanks cat
C. Simril: another spooky tune
pinholeF200: Samhain in the Celtic tradition is the night when the spirits of the dead can mingle with the living. The origin of Halloween. The Catholic Church set up Nov. 1 as All Saints Day to try to steer the Irish and other Celtic groups away from the pagan observances.
C. Simril: its not over, lily. actually its' 43 minutes long.
DJTweeny: wow, didn't know that pin
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Worked well, huh pin?
C. Simril: one of my favourite tunes, this. some of the finest guitar i've ever heard.
Beet: cool, pin
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
shoes for the dead: Quicksilver's version is the best of them all
Ralph: yay Quicksilver
lily: I know cat just appreciation
pinholeF200: Six months later is May 1, or Beltane. While Samhain is the beginning of winter darkness, Beltane is the beginning of summer light. Bonfires are still lit all over Ireland on May 1. The old tradition also states married women without children could take another mate for the day to try to conceive a child.
Buford: Ride the snake....
Ralph: heard them do Cobra, What About Me and Fresh Air on stage about 2 months ago!
EWeston: The snake is drunk
lily: lumpy love
shoes for the dead: neato, Ralph
C. Simril: yeah i was thinking of using the pink hotel snake jokes in this
EWeston: He finally passed through pruberty then?
shoes for the dead: lumpy snakes
Buford: Sssssss
Ralph: backing up Jefferson Starship with Paul Kantner :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : May 1st is the traditional day we could go barefoot in the South
DJTweeny: very cool, Ralph
shoes for the dead: neato squared, Ralph
C. Simril: Paul Krassner has a story about being mistaken for Paul Kantner in an airport.
pinholeF200: that could be awkward
Ralph: what is he up to these days
Beet: presynced record
C. Simril: krassner's still alive, don't know about kantner.
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I'd like to hear that story sometime, Cat
EWeston: Got the post Airplanr album called Baron von toolbooth and the crome nun. Gracie was in heat
pinholeF200: Kantner is listed as alive on Wikipedia, 74 years old and born on St. Patrick's Day
C. Simril: i'm not sure if its in his autobi, or one of his albums or where.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Swimming in the canal nearvthe nunnistary
C. Simril: we are occasionally in touch.
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Ralph: just saw him on stage -- they played White Rabbit, Guaranteed, Today, Somebody to Love, etc....
DJTweeny: Cat, have you heard the intro to Krassner's Irony Lives done by the voice of Homer Simpson (Fox wouldn't let them use it on the album, but it's avavilabe)? He ends the intro with "Let's hope he opens with Crown Of Creation..."
DJTweeny: didn't know the story of where that came from
EWeston: There's a double occupancy lane in that canal now
C. Simril: yes i have that tween.
DJTweeny: It's pretty funny
C. Simril: like firesigns, paul can't help but be funny.
pinholeF200: Marty Balin also still listed among the living at 73. I loved the time Life Magazine printed some of his lyrics and attributed them to Marty Ballin. Marty probably dug it too.
C. Simril: its the way his brain works.
DJTweeny: Dan Castellaneta was who I was trying to think of
DJTweeny: does Homer
shoes for the dead: Cippolina magic fingers
pinholeF200: Quicksilver...there is no substitute. They deserved to be much more popular.
Buford: Surrealistic Pillow is a trippy album!
C. Simril: in an era of Hendrix and a lot of great guitar playing, this is amazing
shoes for the dead: yuppers, Pin
Mudhead: Sorry I was lost in the music, flashbacks
pinholeF200: I think the trippiest think I heard was Hendrix's Moon Turn the Tides (gently gently away) Best heard laying on the floor with headphones. Like being under water but still able to breathe.
pinholeF200: trippiest thing
C. Simril: the first time i heard the quicksilver tune was december, 1969.
Buford: Kewl
Ralph: LOL
C. Simril: i was visiting a friend at the university at irvine. his roomates were serious druggies and artists.
C. Simril: they put headphones on my head, gave me a drug, and put on Who Do You Love?
pinholeF200: my brother was big into Quicksilver, played them constantly
C. Simril: still one of the greatest experiences of my life.
lily: way cool
Ralph: the Democratic congressman costume comes with a watering can for soaking the rich
Beet: This is fun
Ralph: have another HIT
C. Simril: a couple of days later, i was sharing a joint with the phils before their show at a club in LA
Ralph: of sweet California sunshine
C. Simril: those were good days.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : 73 men sailed up into san francisco bay...
Ralph: (y)
shoes for the dead: destiny, Cat
Buford: Heard live version of "White Rabbit" while trippiing....a must hear!
Ralph: ride captain
EWeston: He's fallen in the watah
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sunshine came sofly through my window today, could've tripped out easy but I've changed my ways
pinholeF200: I actually saw Blues Image opening for Iron Butterfly in 1969, Mississippi River Festival.
lily: give um a roll of lifesavers
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Where was that, Pin?
EWeston: Spearmint of fruit flavored?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Where was that, Pin?
pinholeF200: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville campus. My alma mater.
pinholeF200: The ruins of the festival site are still there and people make pilgrimages. My biggest regret is not seeing Hendrix there in 1969
shoes for the dead: I might have that show, pin lemme check and get back next week
Buford: I was born too late...alas...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I made it to the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, on an island where the Ohio meets the Mississippi
EWeston: Month's have passed...I couldn't stop them!
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
C. Simril: i gather no one got the VD joke. i was proud of that.
pinholeF200: MRF for those who don't know, was a series of summer concerts held for a decade or more--not one big event
Mudhead: Its not a joke if you need to explain it
shoes for the dead: what?
||||||||| Mudhead runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Mudhead?! It's 9:40 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Mudhead in through the front door at 9:40 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Mudhead: whew
Buford: Am Eye See Kay He Why Am Oh You As He
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : There and back again, eh, Mud?
Mudhead: Jumpin Server Error
EWeston: A fifty amp fuse, or a 4oz tin of sardines since you asked
C. Simril: A veritable Baggins.
lily: the lamp had been lite
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The walrus was Buford
EWeston: Yah I got one of those earlier Mudhead
Mudhead: Are you using Chrome?
EWeston: The fired eggs over his eyes fooled me
shoes for the dead: never touch the stuff
pinholeF200: right off a trailer hitch
EWeston: Yep
Buford: over easy rider
C. Simril: speaking of walruses, just read bio of george, then watched scorcese's biopic of him, also a python 2 dvd set which featured george.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A Chrome switch may be called for?
Mudhead: Never happens in Exploder
pinholeF200: single pole double throw or double pole single throw?
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
EWeston: No return of the semi helpfull alert since then
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Cat, I really liked athe M S bio of George
C. Simril: i wonder if george ever met any of the firesigns. he lived in la for awhile.
shoes for the dead: chrome willow switch
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Intermittent dipole, Pin
EWeston: Wolframite switches are heavier
Mudhead: chromed buggy switch
DJTweeny: Didn't know you were going to use this one, Cat ;)
shoes for the dead: the old chrome switcheroo
DJTweeny: one of my all-time favs
C. Simril: its a natural for halloween
Buford: The Doors of perception opened to a lie....
EWeston: A switch you can get your teeth into.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Chrome Yellow
lily: we remain amazemagoodles
EWeston: Alizerin crimson
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Donovan, love him, E!
EWeston: Clover, over sexed plants
C. Simril: some great versions of season of the witch.
C. Simril: hmm, potential firesign collage in that.
DJTweeny: a very fun collage, Cat :)
shoes for the dead: betch 85% of that crowd was tripping
DJTweeny: good bet, shoes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Steve Hillage's version is wonderful
Buford: With Jimmy Page playing lead guitar!
DJTweeny: Love Hillage
Buford: Season of the Witch
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Right, Bruford!
Beet: Donovan did some amazing stuff
Mudhead: Theyre throwin whistles at us!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Saw Donovan in Miami in 1970
lily: wow ty
shoes for the dead: hot damn, Cat that was Good!
Buford: Tried to fart and shit myself...goodnight
EWeston: I've got an erector set
Ralph: awesome.....
C. Simril: Thanks.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yes, kudos, Cat!
lily: spooklet
Beet: Thanks, Cat
pinholeF200: blast from the past, thanks Cat
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "9:55 PM and late as usual, it's Gosweeny, just back from West Virginia."
shoes for the dead: het Gos
C. Simril: Next one is Grateful Firesign. Austin wrote a script for the Dead and him talking about that is mixed in with a bunch of Dead riffs and Firebits.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Catherwood, give Cat some kudos
||||||||| Catherwood brings cat some kudos.
EWeston: Vera old family the Gosweeny's
lily: and again
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! Now playing: Firesign's “THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN” **
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
BRIDE OF FIRESIGN >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
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C. Simril: Thanks, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood answers "Just doing my job!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
DJTweeny: Hi Gosweeny
Rufus_T_Firetween: BTW - Proctor has a new episode of Boomers On A Bench available
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s new video series with Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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Ralph: omg never picked up on that one
Ralph: P orgy
EWeston: Ooopsie
C. Simril: that sounds like blade runner
DJTweeny: yeah it does
C. Simril: intruding audios.
DJTweeny: The Voit-Comp machines
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Forward!
EWeston: The other forward!
shoes for the dead: that was my foot!
lily: des
EWeston: Limp into the future then
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A limp unto my feet
Ralph: Driver Ed
Ralph: hahahahaa
EWeston: Watch out for that frog
Beet: Liking this album.
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Ralph: this is exhausting
shoes for the dead: show them a limp and they'll follow it anywhere
EWeston: Just waiting for him to fall over?
Ralph: Amanda Reckonwith
C. Simril: Nightenjail Jr. High, they do a riff on that school. I think one of Ossman's wives went there.
Ralph: Nightinjail
Ralph: hahaha
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Nancy in through the front door at 10:08 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Nancy
EWeston: Another blind newsboy bites the grill
Beet: Do the keywords still work?
C. Simril: nancy
shoes for the dead: hey Nancy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oh, Nancy!
DJTweeny: I don't see why they wouldn't Beet
Ralph: I haven't heard that name since college
Beet: Hi Nancy
EWeston: Mz Farber
Ralph: Audrey haber?
shoes for the dead: Susan Underhill?
lily: Betty Jo
EWeston: Take some chairs and sitdown
Beet: Hello NSA guy.
EWeston: One of those chairs is bugged
Nancy: My wips are swealed....
shoes for the dead: scarabs
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
C. Simril: your bedbugs have bugs
shoes for the dead: or dung beetles
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
EWeston: They do have their shit together
Ralph: Ivan Impactman??
EWeston: Blutwurse needs a thinking brain dog
pinholeF200: brief bout here with reality, now back to the surreal
Nancy: What goes down must come up.....
Ralph: about your wips, Nancy...
Ralph: a bloatwurst?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It goes in, it must come out...
lily: it knows what it wants
Ralph: Testicles' Deviant to Fudd's Law
EWeston: Teslicle, standing on the shoulders of a porciline astrolabe
Nancy: meddle?
Ralph: Boot up the organist
shoes for the dead: mettle
Ralph: the Bribe of Frankenstein
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Pink Floyd's Meddle?
pinholeF200: medal
C. Simril: Canadian scab. I could never figure out their antipathy towards Canada.
Ralph: they took her ducts????
EWeston: Frankinweenie sauce
Nancy: Pink Floyd you silly boy
C. Simril: Whats a job to a dog?
Ralph: the Rococo is a rocky feller isn't he
EWeston: Somebodies else's retirement
Ralph: Amanda B. Reckondwith?
lily: 6 on the column
Beet: Anybody see the new Wall movie?
Nancy: Yeah...
Nancy: Yeah...it is flat
Ralph: wow, let's take this baby for a spin on the Funway
Beet: Amazing, eh?
Nancy: It is flat
Beet: Oops
shoes for the dead: take the Mobius strip, Ralph
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Two tones through the floorboards
Ralph: 'cause it's myyyyyyy favorite
EWeston: That's my phone
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Nancy: all Waters and little Floyd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I still miss Sid B
C. Simril: I miss Sid Artha.
Ralph: as artificial as life itself!!
shoes for the dead: tastes like pork
Ralph: the slippery slopes of denial
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hessian
EWeston: Avoid all eyes
DJTweeny: soooo many references to previous albums on this one
lily: am I eye
pinholeF200: Track Down All Trucks
Ralph: hahaha
EWeston: Take possession of that loose halyard
Beet: Bonzo Dognight
Nancy: Alan's psychodelic breakfast
Ralph: woohoo!!
Ralph: unnaturally beautiful women
EWeston: Tricky moral problemo
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Where?
shoes for the dead: Tricky Morales
EWeston: Its beside you
C. Simril: i think they knew it would be their final album. so they did sum up a lot
DJTweeny: The Britney 2100
DJTweeny: You're probably right Cat
||||||||| Nancy says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Nancy exits at 10:28 PM.
lily: and they never end
Ralph: one of my better moments..............
C. Simril: as long as i'm alive, they live in my ears
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You're a cab, nancy. Nite
Beet: Narrower than a Supreme Court Decision
pinholeF200: bye Nancy, uh, Melanie, Audrey, Susan
EWeston: An Betty Joe
Beet: See you Ms Farber
lily: hey is not hay
C. Simril: night, nancy
EWeston: Less filling
shoes for the dead: creme filling
C. Simril: not to horses, lily. Nayyyyyyy
EWeston: methodist labs are everywhere
lily: whinney cat
Ralph: oh boy, skin-piercing camouflage
EWeston: Creme of wheat. That's where that comes from then.
lily: snicker
shoes for the dead: retrievers are mostly lutherans
lily: yeah ma I put my oatmeal in my sock
EWeston: Does wonders for my toes skin tone
Ralph: good lu ck with that
pinholeF200: labs are methodists but cats have catechisms
EWeston: Exfoliates and moisturises
Ralph: fruit flies like bananas
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It's not my cup of meat
Ralph: and time flies like an arrow
EWeston: time flies like an arrow
shoes for the dead: time flies like an arrow
lily: rotten cherries
shoes for the dead: echo in here
Ralph: hey, there's an echo in here...
EWeston: Who tied my toe to the arrow?
shoes for the dead: makes yer feet fly, EW
EWeston: One of them anyway
C. Simril: were we short circuted?
Ralph: you twisted quack
lily: not me
Beet: Sound gone, Tween
pinholeF200: circus...circuit
Ralph: tesseract
EWeston: I thought it was an unconsious ballet pose
C. Simril: eggs ackly, pin
shoes for the dead: you are not in control, Mark
||||||||| It's :40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
: the gonzo zone
: we've been transported backwards in time
||||||||| Catherwood leads Ralph into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mumbles something about 10:40 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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 C. Simril gets out at 10:40 PM.
: Who died? Nobody hugh
: we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:40 PM and pinholeF200 steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Ralph: trailing clouds of glory, I'm HIGH
: who dune
||||||||| 10:40 PM: lily jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| Catherwood leads EWeston inside, makes a note of the time (10:40 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
pinholeF200: am I here or not?
: what?
lily: wee I said wee
||||||||| Catherwood leads shoes for the dead in through the front door at 10:41 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
EWeston: Ah the hard questions first
: what?
shoes for the dead: didn't make the sound come back, tho
: sorry about that, folks
C. Simril: sounds erotic and french at the same time
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "10:41 PM and late as usual, it's Mudhead, just back from Billville."
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:42 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
: Got it back
DJTweeny: Sorry about that, folks
lily: on your toes
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 10:42 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
C. Simril: molly in bloom at the end of 2 places
EWeston: Whatta blast, symulated though
DJTweeny: the streamer crashed
Ralph: look at this semiconductor!!
shoes for the dead: my iron lung is working again
C. Simril: this is like the old days
lily: its a mackrel
Beet: Roadshow bit
C. Simril: when this chat started 20 years ago, there were frequent netquakes. we'd be down for awhile, or sometimes longer
EWeston: What kinda job market is there for iron lungs
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
Ralph: making hay out of haywire
Ralph: Plungee Squirtfish??
Beet: I want to bid on the eyeball hat
shoes for the dead: scarce, but the pay is real good, EW
Ralph: gimme some of those Neon Knockers in Slime
EWeston: Well known stuntfish
: test
Ralph: this is worker speaking
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 10:45 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
pinholeF200: but is the speaker working?
EWeston: Spereek engrish
lily: you have lost all control
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, that’s www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 6-8pm EST every Sunday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to my show archives and ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
'
EWeston: That's a relief
Ralph: Demon Expulsion Machine
shoes for the dead: hope it doesn't find me again
lily: a great show on that Roadkill ty
: I'd had enough for one lifetime..... Night all!
Ralph: what's that coming out of her organs
shoes for the dead: Thanks Tween!
Beet: A wild night. Lotsa fun. Nice to see everyone. Thanks, Tween. G'Nite.
EWeston: by: never thought I'd type that
Ralph: whoa baby it's been real... and it's been fun
C. Simril: thanks, tween.
pinholeF200: You mean....Leslie Gurgle?
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Ralph: see you on the funway, which is already in progress....
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
lily: don't think again
C. Simril: i'
EWeston: Happy scaryday everybody see yah x week
C. Simril: i"ll send you the grateful firesign show soon, tween, if i havent done so already
lily: fall back people
DJTweeny: OK Cat
||||||||| Mudhead departs at 10:49 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
DJTweeny: What's called, Cat?
C. Simril: Grateful Firesign
pinholeF200: Thanks Tween, Cat and the whole Bozo ensemble
DJTweeny: No, i don't have it
C. Simril: we're here for your amusement, pin
C. Simril: ok you will by tomorrow, tween.
lily: Beet C. Simril DJTweeny EWeston lily pinholeF200 Ralph Rufus_T_Firetween shoes for the dead wee wee all the way where thanks cat really good and tween wonderful and ty
C. Simril: keep on arting, lily
lily: lurk mode
DJTweeny: Dear Friends next week (by request)
C. Simril: sounds dear
C. Simril: off we flow
||||||||| C. Simril leaves at 10:54 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..."
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 10:57 PM -- DJTweeny left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Rufus_T_Firetween?! It's 10:57 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| At 11:02 PM, pinholeF200 rushes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| It's :10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
: see you on the funway, 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:

Beet
Buford
C. Simril
DJTweeny
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
lily
Mudhead
Nancy
pinholeF200
Ralph
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw



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