A Firesign Chat
01/21/2016




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David Ossman audio interview is here

||||||||| 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 January 21, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| nobodyreally sneaks in around 12:16 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| nobodyreally is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 12:20 PM.
||||||||| 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 DJTweeny gets out at 3:34 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening
*** With Special Guest DAVID OSSMAN ***
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - visit Firesign’s web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com **
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||||||||| At 3:35 PM, DJTweeny runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'RuggedZero', just granted probation at 3:53 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny in through the front door at 6:24 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus_T_Firetween close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 6:40 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:03 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving rick dray coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Warm-up music in about 1/2 hour folks. I'll put up the stream URLs just before
||||||||| 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 stumbles in at 8:27 PM, dragging COtech by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| DJTweeny bounds in at 8:28 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:28 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
*** With Special Guest DAVID OSSMAN ***
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - you can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) 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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||||||||| Woody 1 steps in at 8:30 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Woody 1: Hey, all. Is this where David Ossman is showing up to discuss his book?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!
*** Special Guest Tonight DAVID OSSMAN - Have Your Chat Questions Ready! ***
Currently playing - warm up music (Tito Puente & Buddy Morrow) - 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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||||||||| balcony steals in around 8:36 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hi balcony, COtech, Woody 1
||||||||| rebozoette steals in around 8:37 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Yes, Woody
rebozoette: thos is gonna be greand
DJTweeny: He will about his new book, and a couple of others in the works
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
DJTweeny: *talk about
||||||||| "8:38 PM? 8:38 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Stevo should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Stevo enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Woody 1: Hi, DJ. I didn't want to go into this blind. Long time no pseudo-speak.
DJTweeny: Hi Stevo
rebozoette: lurkin be back in a few Hi tween
DJTweeny: Yeah, been a while Woody
Woody 1: Much going on at home called life. Ahh. Some relief tonight.
DJTweeny: Life Happens
Woody 1: The facebook link that I was taken to was strange. Glad I'm back in the same old room.
DJTweeny: Yeah, the 't' key on my computer is intermittent, so the link was spelled 'firesignheatre'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Timm McCoy close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:47 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the Aviary.
Timm McCoy: Hello group!
DJTweeny: I went back and corrected it, but was unable to edit the one on the official page, so Merlyn put the correct one in the commens
DJTweeny: Really sorry about that :/
Timm McCoy: Thanks Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "Just doing my job!"
||||||||| 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!"
Woody 1: Hello. Nice to meet you, Timm. I've been on this siter a while, however, intermittent.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:48 PM and Cat waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Timm McCoy: Im dear friends with Phil Proctor, though i'd slip through the back door if you know what I mean. Catherwood, a dirty martini please, 3 olives. Thank you!
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Timm McCoy
DJTweeny: Hi Timm, Cat
Cat : Is DO going to be on chat too?
Timm McCoy: Hi Tweeny!
DJTweeny: I'll ask him to, Cat
Timm McCoy: Dirty Martini, please?
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:50 PM, dragging Johan Amadeus Myjetskih by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
Timm McCoy: I can!
DJTweeny: catherwood, please pour me a cuba libre
||||||||| Catherwood brings DJTweeny a cuba libre.
Woody 1: Over a year actually. I stayed off for a while when a member made fun of my real name as I announced I wrote a futuristic novella. Don't remember who it was but that's okay.
Cat : there should be quite a crowd here tonight
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:51 PM, dragging EWeston by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Greeting, djt!
Cat : you did a good job publicizing tonight, tween
Timm McCoy: Catherwood, a dirty martini please.
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside Timm McCoy and says "Did you want me?"
||||||||| ''Bob'' waltzes in at 8:51 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:51 PM, then departs.
Beet: Howdy everyone!
EWeston: I see some new folks JAM cat Rebozoette and our leader DJT
DJTweeny: Hi Bob, Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Greets, Beets!
Beet: Yo Dr. Tween
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: Hi EW
Beet: Hi JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Hiyas, E!
Timm McCoy: Where's that dirty martini, Catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside Timm McCoy and says "My ears are burning..."
Beet: Tito!
Beet: Wonderful Latinesque lounge music
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Johnny Piano in through the front door at 8:54 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Though it would be cool :)
DJTweeny: Hi JP
DJTweeny: *Thought
Johnny Piano: Greetings programs!
Beet: Johnny even showed with his piano
Johnny Piano: My cues are on fire.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:55 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving pinholeF200 coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Timm McCoy: Yo Holly Grams!
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetskih Johnny Piano Timm McCoy Woody 1 hello all and thanks twenmie great the contenttial
EWeston: Open for maintenneince alinement
Beet: Hey pin
DJTweeny: Hi pin
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: wel, pull them up out of the cellophane...
||||||||| borknoodle steals in around 8:56 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
rebozoette: everybody cha cha cha cha
DJTweeny: Hi bork
Johnny Piano: Oh, I used to play the cellophane.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Not much of a cough there, pin!
EWeston: Pin, Beet, and however comes in next
pinholeF200: Howdy Tween, Beet, bork and all Fireheads
Beet: here's a quarter
Timm McCoy: Yo Pin!
EWeston: Compensated euphonium is my fav
rebozoette: I had a right
pinholeF200: that's not much, I ask no quarter
rebozoette: now wheres my left
Johnny Piano: Whatcha compensatin' fer, Timm?
borknoodle: Howdy
pinholeF200: Howdy Timm, glad to see bork made it tonite to hear David
Timm McCoy: Wifes at work. Lonely.
Cat : This is synchronistic time for DO to show up, just as they've sort of discovered Planet X
EWeston: An impacted drool valve
Beet: What kind of noodle is a borknoodle?
Timm McCoy: Isnt that the music for Don Rickles?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Actually, technically, it's Planet IX
Cat : Are you gonna play How Time Flys tonight, tween?
borknoodle: Just like pork but with a b
Johnny Piano: Brian Wilson latin music? (Sleigh bells and castanets)
Woody 1: Aww. I know that feeling. Wife took a 3rd shift position to help make ends meet. Miserable 3 months.
Beet: I see
EWeston: 10 earth mass's and endless beaches
Cat : Our Vancouver news is calling it planet X, maybe in honour of Ossman
borknoodle: And it tastes like chicken
Beet: doesn't everything
Timm McCoy: It's 8:00 Fireheads!
EWeston: If chicken were made of sponges
pinholeF200: from the losers at Roosterama
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cat : PLanet X tastes like chicken? How do we know?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! - currently playing:
LIVE INTERVIEW WITH DAVID OSSMAN
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
Check out DAVID OSSMAN's New Book ”Marshmallows & Despair” at >> http://davidossman.com
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Beet: make it with moon cheese
Johnny Piano: What doesn't taste like chicken?
EWeston: We're watching it's table manners
Timm McCoy: Eggs!
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing ' shoes for the dead', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:01 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Johnny Piano: Primordial chicken
pinholeF200: you mean chicken before they changed the water
EWeston: Hi Shoes
shoes for the dead: Howdy
Beet: Hi shoes
||||||||| 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!"
pinholeF200: hey shoes
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Hi Shoes! Got yer souls?
Cat : shoes
Beet: reports of blizzards here
Johnny Piano: Naw, Cat got his tongue.
Cat : got any industry?
||||||||| David steals in around 9:02 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
EWeston: Gots chicken lips
Johnny Piano: Bawk!
||||||||| 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!"
Cat : Hello David
Woody 1: That analogy is so ironic about chicken, Chicken has no distinct taste unless seasoned, so I guess it does make sense. I like frog legs more thasn chicken.
''Bob'': HONK HONK!
pinholeF200: bork, how's the weather in Atl?
Beet: Hello down there.
EWeston: Mr. D
EWeston: Hello whoevers breathing on my neck
shoes for the dead: hey dave
Johnny Piano: Man in hats
Timm McCoy: Wut up, D?
rebozoette: eyeballs
Cat : Not to mention the first FM broadcast in NYC
pinholeF200: Wow, Dave IS here!
Beet: Welcome Brother Dave
Cat : Great news, Dave
Beet: Congratulations on your recovery.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** DAVID OSSMAN’S page at the Firesign Theatre home site - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Johnny Piano: Had no idea DO was dealing with heart issues. Good to know you're doing well, sir.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Marshmallows & Despair” - www.davidossman.com
EWeston: One of Saberhagen's stories was to be titled The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
DJTweeny: He had a heart atack a while back
||||||||| Catherwood enters with AirshipAl close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:07 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule.
Beet: Dave writes good stuff.
rebozoette: can't wait
Cat : Hi Al
Beet: Hi Al
Cat : He does indeed, Beet
EWeston: Lo Al
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Congrats, David! We're glad you made it(really!)!
pinholeF200: greetin's AA
AirshipAl: Howdydoo
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Hey A!
shoes for the dead: hey Al
rebozoette: lol
AirshipAl: Getting the mucklucks ready for a snow storm. The box of cornstarch is at the ready.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: The cornstarch starts here about 6 am tomorrow
Cat : Canada too!
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Along w/ 40mph breezes
EWeston: Running, or walking cornstarch?
shoes for the dead: sideways snow
Cat : Wonderful, DO
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: wet, clumping cornstarch is being threatened
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Marshmallows & Despair” - www.davidossman.com
Beet: That is very a very cool story.
Johnny Piano: A slight fear for snow here in Hampton Roads…supposed to switch to rain and then back to snow between Fri & Sat. Probably all be gone by Sunday.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:13 PM and pissifesta bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
shoes for the dead: hey Pissi
AirshipAl: A grape? Now we can have raisins!!!
pissifesta: hey
Beet: hey pf
EWeston: Put down that grape and stand up straight
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Nabby close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: we've been waiting for this for hundreds of years
pissifesta: we've been waiting hundresd of years for this!
EWeston: Nabster
Beet: Hey Nabby
Cat : Nabby
Nabby: Jello amigos and amigoettes
shoes for the dead: hey Nab
rebozoette: hi nabby
pissifesta: hello nabby
pinholeF200: hey Nab, pf
||||||||| 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!"
Woody 1: I have to admit. I'm a bit itchy guys talking to David. Such a huge fan. On the slide, what happened to David during the Eat or Be Eaten, Case of the Missing Yolk Years?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: evening, Nabs!
Johnny Piano: NPR in DC, Woody
Nabby: Greets Beet
Woody 1: So--he was performming with them but not on studio recordings?
Beet: I was in D.C. when he was appearing on NPR at the time. Very different treatment from Firesign.
Nabby: shoes, pin, pissi, Joh!, Cat, shoes, AAl, rebozoette & Tweeny, howdy!
Johnny Piano: No, he moved to DC to work for NPR.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: mark time always had a special place in my heart
Nabby: thumbs up for the Mark Time Awards
Cat : never more topical, johan
Cat : My Mark Time award is on the wall above this computer
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Mark Time Awards -http://www.marktimeawards.org/
Woody 1: OK. Thanks for info. Didn't know.
Nabby: ty Rufus
Johnny Piano: No prob, Woody 1
Nabby: neo-Hopi? count me in!
||||||||| roon564 enters at 9:19 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cat : A Shadow moves upon the land
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tabacco inside, makes a note of the time (9:19 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: lol
shoes for the dead: hey roon and Tab
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Marshmallows & Despair” - www.davidossman.com
EWeston: Post Hopi tacos
Beet: Hi Tab
pissifesta: Now you know... the rest of the story.
Cat : The Road to Hopiland
EWeston: And I can't stop laughing
pinholeF200: hello Tab
Beet: This is one busy guy
||||||||| Outside, the 9:21 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bunnyboy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Nabby: The Undecided Molecule (Corwin) is fun
Cat : Bun
Beet: Hi Bunny
Johnny Piano: Bun!
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: hi BB!
shoes for the dead: hey Bun
Bunnyboy : Lo dere
EWeston: In loco bunnie
Nabby: Hi Bunny
pissifesta: namedropper!
DJTweeny: lol
EWeston: Snot here!
pinholeF200: happy thursday, BB
Johnny Piano: Rarified air
Cat : worth howling about
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: And in the Yippie movement, too!
Woody 1: I just got Weirdly Cool on disc. I had the original PBS recording on tape. DVD has very nice extras.
Nabby: native American soul
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Otherworld Media - http://otherworldmedia.com/
shoes for the dead: does it have the Jack Poet ads?
Cat : it certainly would, dave
EWeston: agreed
Nabby: that's cool, David
Cat : he does indeed
Woody 1: Seeing them do their live "How can you be in two places..." is amazing. Yes. The Jack Poets are on therre.
Beet: I can't wait for that one.
Nabby: Can't wait for the disc set
roon564: Looking forward to the 2-DVD set
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: what a treat that'd be!
EWeston: I'd like to be there for that
''Bob'': Exc ellent! B/c I don't even have a VHS player to watch my copy!
Johnny Piano: Stoked for the DVDs!
EWeston: Gut!
Nabby: That would be GREAT Mr O
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Any chance of getting it art houses?
Bunnyboy : Anybody got a clue about multitasking the chat and audio, on the iPhone 6+?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: around the country
Woody 1: Get one, Bob. They still sell the combos. I can't let go of everything I have on VHS.
AirshipAl: My video archives are fimally going to see the light of day. I sent dozens of tapes to Taylor a few years ago. I hope they get the rights to the David Susskind Show for the DVD.
Beet: I have a huge VHS collection myself.
Cat : i have the suskind show from elayne who probably got it from you, al
Johnny Piano: Yes, the new memoir/scripts sounds great!
AirshipAl: I was the source!
Nabby: three cheers for AAl
Bunnyboy : I'll play the listening game, for a bit.
rebozoette: what make him laugh?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: hip hip hooray!
EWeston: Take a bow Al, but don't shoot it
pissifesta: Let him hear it for him!
Cat : ive been following you since april, 67,
Woody 1: I just watched something that I don't think they'll ever put on disc. Pig Sty, first broadcast on UPN and cancelled after two seasons. Had a marathon the other day.
AirshipAl: Bill Boggs would probably give permission to use his Midday interview with all 4 Firesigners.
Johnny Piano: I too have an open reel of Dear Friends (the album)
roon564: Bryan Cranston
Johnny Piano: Found that DF open reel back in my old home town in Illinois.
Beet: Trumbo is great
||||||||| 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!"
Cat : indeed
pinholeF200: still have DF on vinyl, aaaaaand a working turntable
roon564: David Cross could play Bergman
Cat : indeed, room
AirshipAl: I watch Neil DeGrasse Tyson's "StarTalk" show. Dave---you'd make an exceellent guest. I'd love to hear him ask you about How Time Flys.
Beet: Get ready for an avalanche
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:35 PM and jahgust steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cat : good idea, al
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Great suggestion Airship Al!
shoes for the dead: hey Jah
Beet: hi jah
Cat : mark time has never been more timely, with the discovery of planet X today
Nabby: hi jah
Beet: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Hi jah!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Firesign Books At Bear Manor Media - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/firesign-theatre
Woody 1: I'm a vinyl guru. Nothing like analog sound. FYI: I still have a lazer disc player with several collectibles including The Wall.
pinholeF200: Not Insane!
EWeston: Who orderred the Palin Word Salad?
Nabby: HTF is wonderful
Beet: I have my copy
jahgust: Hey guys! Workin tonight but had to tune in for the Ossman!
shoes for the dead: witless witch of the north
EWeston: Worverine for hire
Johnny Piano: Curious if either Bozos or EYKIW will ever see light in a digital format in their quad mixes?
Nabby: yes they should revert (grrr)
Cat : I have a wonderful interview with DO and Tiny on Hour 25 about How Time Flys. That should appear somewhere, eh?
pinholeF200: fer sure, Cat
EWeston: Rabid Wolverine ofr hire
Johnny Piano: Phooey on Sony...
Tabacco: Were you aware of what the other fellows were working on while you were working on How Time Flys?
Beet: They were amazing mixes
rebozoette: ugh
pinholeF200: have EYKIQ on vinyl in quad but no way to recover the quad effects
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Merlyn close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:40 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the sitting room.
Johnny Piano: Hi Merlyn
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Don G Ovanni inside, makes a note of the time (9:41 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
pinholeF200: EYKIW--forgive my typo
DJTweeny: Hi Don
Nabby: that must have been weirdly odd
shoes for the dead: hey Merlyn
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Hi Merlyn
Beet: Hey Merl
pissifesta: likewise Bozos of200
EWeston: Merlyn an Mista G
Nabby: Hey Merl
Beet: Yo Don
Don G Ovanni: Hello
pinholeF200: hey to Merl & Don
shoes for the dead: hey Dong
Nabby: Hi Don
Merlyn: hey
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Greets, Don!
Merlyn: My brain was not the boss
Nabby: Wow, 6th album YES
Don G Ovanni: Just looking to raise the level of my home.
Nabby: lol Don
Cat : not enough drugs, merl
shoes for the dead: raze
EWeston: I use hydralic Jacks
jahgust: I always listen to the three albums ogether as a hug epic triple FST album!
Beet: A masterpiece
Don G Ovanni: I have never listened to How Time Flys
Nabby: A drugsterpiece
Don G Ovanni: Nor Roller Maidens
DJTweeny: oh my....
Nabby: Treat yourself Don
Johnny Piano: Don, you're missing out!
Beet: Get it quick, Don
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: In the next world, I was on my own anyway
Don G Ovanni: OK! Sheesh...didn't know Ossman was listening.
EWeston: Drugster ruck drivin mang
Woody 1: Okay. When is our David showing up? I can wait forever like anyone but life is short and my wife is getting shorter.
Cat : and reading, don
Merlyn: 1971 Hugo awards:
Merlyn: Winner: A Clockwork Orange (1971) [Hawk Films/Polaris/Warner Brothers] Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick; Directed by Stanley Kubrick; based on the novel by Anthony Burgess
Merlyn: 2 The Andromeda Strain (1971) [Universal] Written by Nelson Gidding; Directed by Robert Wise; based on the novel by Michael Crichton
Merlyn: 3 THX 1138 (1971) [Warner Brothers/Zoetrope] Screenplay by George Lucas and Walter Murch; Story by George Lucas; Directed by George Lucas
Merlyn: 4 Name of the Game: Los Angeles: A.D. 2017 [Universall/NBC] Teleplay by Philip Wylie; Directed by Steven Spielberg
Merlyn: 5 I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus (recording) (1971) [Sony] Written and produced by The Firesign Theater
Cat : can be done
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** How Time Flys - https://laugh.com/product/david-ossman-how-time-flys-cd-audio-only/
Don G Ovanni: Totally deserving!
Merlyn: (actually 1972 awards for 1971 works)
jahgust: Usually Roller maidens first, TV or TV next and ending with How Time Flys!
pinholeF200: THX1138 In order to enhance enjoyment and increase efficiency, consumption is being standardized. We are sorry.
Don G Ovanni: Have a long story about trying to track down a copy of Big Book of Plays.
AirshipAl: If ya ca't wait, I found this on YouTube: http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-AIRSHIP-BLIMP-LARGE-TYCOS-ALTIMETER-6-dial-ACCURATE-DIRGIBLE-/191745677436?hash=item2ca4eed87c:g:ngcAAOSwcBhWVNP8=
pissifesta: i wanna hear the interlaced version
Tabacco: Did you and Mr. Austin combine ideas in order to come up with "In The Next World You're On Your Own" or was it written face to face?
Nabby: amazing sound in THX1138
Woody 1: When is David showing up? 2nd time asked, friends.
pinholeF200: saw THX for the first time, recently, on Turner Classic Movies
Cat : He's been here since 6, woody
EWeston: He's been on for most of this hour Woody
Cat : pay attention
balcony: Woody, listen to the audio.
Johnny Piano: Woody, he's on the audio stream.
Don G Ovanni: Spreak English!
roon564: He's speaking right now!
pinholeF200: that's fart, Don
rebozoette: I try to be good
Woody 1: Who? Ahh!
EWeston: Too cold to change my blind
Don G Ovanni: I think there's a dino on the cover of that album.
Nabby: You can't say fart on the internet
Cat : the music of the spheres
Johnny Piano: Type your questions or comments, Woody - he can see them.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: We have this corn...
pissifesta: There is
pinholeF200: how do you play a sphere, Cat?
AirshipAl: Dave---Have you been to the Hopi ruins Chaco Canyon?
Beet: Hopi live in a different sphere.
Don G Ovanni: Temporarily Humboldt County
Cat : one of ossman's tales, pin
shoes for the dead: you can type it tho, Nab
EWeston: No holds bared
||||||||| pissifesta says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, pissifesta exits at 9:50 PM.
: Is there a 3-Fingered Mickey in Heater?
||||||||| "9:50 PM? 9:50 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Sirreal13 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Sirreal13 enters and sits at the bar.
Woody 1: which link, guys?
DJTweeny: for what, woody?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Hi Sirreal
EWeston: Try the top one in red
Don G Ovanni: Love how the Indians in "Humboldt" sound like FM announcers.
EWeston: He's having trouble getting the audio
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
Woody 1: to ask him questions
Nabby: Good to see you on Facebook David, great posts there
: Catherwood lies
||||||||| Catherwood ignores
roon564: Woody, just type your question right here.
Beet: Please keep us posted
Johnny Piano: Just type here in the chat, Woody
||||||||| pissifesta tiptoes in around 9:52 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: either, depending on your bandwidth Woody
Sirreal13: Howdy, strangers! Where's my umbrella festooned Irish Coffee?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
AirshipAl: Dave---Is an east coast visit in the near future?
EWeston: I think you just sat on it
Woody 1: Thanks. Hi, David. I've listened to your stuff since I was 12 years old and was mesmerized at Bozos. The pleasure is all mine. Is your book, Marshmallows & Despair a compendium of the group and your philosophy of the troupe's brilliance? I have all of your releases
roon564: Was fortunate to have seen the FS show at the Beacon Theatre in the fall of 1993 (or 1994)
Nabby: Fighting Clowns is really special --and great cover art
Tabacco: Did you guys ever consider doing something with Monty Python or creating something that could be more easily understood by the British. All my connections with folks from England and Australia have never heard of the FST. When I play your work on the radio via the internet they always find it funny so the work is more universal than I would think.
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: The late Phil Hartman did the cover of Fighting Clowns, Nabby
Merlyn: as Phil Hartmann
Cat : Did you ever listen to the Ossman Collage Graduation piece? It's 82 minutes long so too long for a CD. Taylor was going to try and fix the sound on the interview we did with you from the Vancouver SF radio show, though he's dubious it can be done so I might have to cut that.
||||||||| 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!"
pissifesta: the Beatles covered it via tachyons in "I Remember You"
Nabby: Ahh yes ty
roon564: Phil Hartman was multi-talented
Nabby: May he RIP
roon564: indeed; such a sad loss
Nabby: truly
balcony: Phil ended HCYBITPAO with a paraphrase of Molly Bloom's monologue from Ulysses. How did you get permission? Or did you just not ask?
Merlyn: yep
DJTweeny: are you asking David, Cat?
roon564: Don't know if anyone has asked this, but have you ever considered doing an album with Proctor?
Sirreal13: I didn't know Phil Hartman did the cover art until I heard Phil Proctor on Comedy on Vinyl
Cat : yes, tween
Don G Ovanni: Maybe been discussed before, but -- any chance you and Proctor might perform live again?
AirshipAl: Proctor & Bergman did meet Monty Python folks here in NYC during the Matching Tie and Handkerchief tour.
Johnny Piano: I mentioned Firesign in letters to Palin & Cleese - neither had heard of you, but Palin sounded intrigued in his reply.
Nabby: something in common (FST & Python) - the Goons
Woody 1: The lead clown looked like Phil on the cover of Fighting Clowns. Amazing artist.
pissifesta: Gilliam remakes Martian space Party
Merlyn: I know Proctor has met Terry Gilliam
Beet: Great idea!
roon564: Great to hear that you and Phil might do an album, David!!!
jahgust: is the full audio performance of Ronald Reagans Murder Mystery available anywhere? There was an excerpt on a Fools In Space epsiode . Would love to get the full audio of that!
AirshipAl: Reminder. Austin and Ossman performed with Harry Shearer and the late Richard Paul on the Peter Marshall Show. That exists on video.
Nabby: interesting David
Woody 1: Proctor did the countdown on Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Movie, and was a hilarious party clown on Rug Rats.
pinholeF200: Yes a really new album would be extraordinary
Nabby: wow, Sellers
Cat : was that the nick danger piece they mention on the recent steve gilmor interview, al?
Merlyn: Here is Peter Bergman talking about meeting Spike Milligan on the Firesign's XM Radio show March 30, 2002
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
roon564: Hartman did the cover for Poco's album, Legend: http://tinyurl.com/hartmanpoco
Merlyn: http://www.archive.org/download/Firesign_Theatre_Podcasting_001/spike.rm
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
DJTweeny: didn't know that roon, cool
Johnny Piano: Phil Hartman also did the cover art for America's "History"
Merlyn: You can tell it's an old recording because it's RealAudio
rebozoette: they are grand tributes
Don G Ovanni: Thank you for Catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood rushes over to Don G Ovanni and mumbles "Stop typing gibberish, Don G Ovanni!"
Cat : i mentioned that because you mentioned having it on your website
Tabacco: Are there any new comedy groups that you've heard that seem to be carrying on the spirit of the FST?
rebozoette: thank you david take great care we need ya
Beet: This has been wonderful, Dave. Thanks a million.
roon564: David, I've always wondered about the many Canadian references on The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
roon564: Can you talk about that?
AirshipAl: By the way, links toi Firesign videos are on the Firesign and Chromium Switch Facebook pages.
Johnny Piano: David, thanks for ALL.
Don G Ovanni: Long in the leaf, and short in the can!
roon564: Brilliant! Thank you so much, David.
shoes for the dead: Thanks lots, David, come back soon!
Cat : thankfully, true, Dave
Woody 1: I have to plead ignorance. Where do I see David's responses?
Tabacco: Thanks for all your great work David. You've influenced my life in a positive way.
Don G Ovanni: Is that Alcana?
roon564: Il et neccessary que ju remain ici here! :-)
Nabby: Best to you and yours in 2016, David! Peace & love!
Cat : thank you, dave
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: thx, David!
roon564: Thank you, David!!
Merlyn: Thanks a bunch Dave
Beet: Beautiful
rebozoette: do visit us love ya
pissifesta: Thanks from the bottom of my heart
EWeston: Bless you David
||||||||| "Hey Bunnyboy !" ... Bunnyboy turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:04 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
AirshipAl: We love you 2!!!
rebozoette: ty tweenie
balcony: Thanks for a lifetime of entertainment.
Cat : it was indeed
jahgust: Dave! Always lovely to hear your voice sir!
pinholeF200: Thank you for a great time, David and Tween
Nabby: Thanks Tween
Johnny Piano: He's unleashed the radio id
Don G Ovanni: Cool! I finally get to hear How Time Flys!
Woody 1: Thanks, David. My philosophy comedic friend.
''Bob'': Time has flown, and so must I fly, but thanks as always Tweeny!
Beet: I feel so lucky to be able to be here for these events.
||||||||| New notice: ' WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “RODRIGUEZ-OSSMAN”
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 Myjetskih: nite bob!
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bunnyboy in through the front door at 10:06 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
roon564: To the interiewer: thank you so much for a great job.
Bunnyboy : All right, on muh good ol' PC, now.
roon564: Have to go, thank you everyone. Good night.
Johnny Piano: One of the sonic motifs that cracks me up about How Time Flys is the music that is played by the spaceship's system: all Mellotron/Chamberlin.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Nite 564
EWeston: Niters roon
Bunnyboy : Listened to most of the feed. Thanks DO, and Tween!
Beet: Nice job with the interview, Tween.
||||||||| roon564 is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 10:07 PM.
Beet: See ya, Roon.
DJTweeny: Thanks, Beet :)
||||||||| "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!"
rebozoette: lol
Bunnyboy : Actually showed up just long enough to say "See Yez!"
DJTweeny: The interview will be up on the archive site sometime tomorrow evening
EWeston: You can't see me. I got my eyes closed.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Bunnyboy : Have we really been chatting for 20 years?
jahgust: Niht Bun! I am not long to follow.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: sounds like Cruizing with Ruben & the Jets
Cat : `since 95, bun
||||||||| "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!"
jahgust: Wow that's longer than anyone has ever chatted before!
Beet: See ya, bun
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** DAVID OSSMAN’S page at the Firesign Theatre home site - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Marshmallows & Despair” - www.davidossman.com
shoes for the dead: hi NSA guy
Bunnyboy : Wow!
EWeston: Boy are my teeth tired
Bunnyboy : Nitey!
||||||||| At 10:11 PM, Bunnyboy vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Cat : i was here on day 1
DJTweeny: He's been lisening to them since before the beginning!
AirshipAl: Follow the link to Firesign videos---https://www.facebook.com/notes/its-just-this-little-chromium-switch-here/firesign-video-links/10153025603252075
EWeston: Before there was sound
pinholeF200: before the beginning--that would be day oh
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Joe Magil into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, grumbles something about 10:12 PM, then departs.
Johnny Piano: Just ordered David's book.
DJTweeny: Hi Joe, you missed David :/
shoes for the dead: hey Joe
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Day -a-a- Oh, pin
DJTweeny: There will be an archive though
Nabby: trippy Cat
Cat : amazing story about this guy.
Nabby: good stuff Cat
EWeston: Will there be snacks?
Cat : check out the recent flick Searching for Sugarman.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! - currently playing – David Ossman's “HOW TIME FLYS”
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
YOU CAN PURCHASE THIS ALBUM AT >> https://laugh.com/product/david-ossman-how-time-flys-cd-audio-only/
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Johnny Piano: Groat cakes
Cat : Rodriguez released a couple of albums in late 60s and then dissapeared for 30 years,
Nabby: circus
shoes for the dead: circus
Cat : show
EWeston: Who takes them from the Groat?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
shoes for the dead: echo in here
pinholeF200: grubs again....grumble grumble
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: This is such a great piece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also a couple of other unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
Cat : a cliup from their Hour HOur show, 1970. i taped it off the radio then and always wondered what happend to rodriguez
DJTweeny: Surprised Elayne didn't join us. Hope she's OK
Cat : indeed, tween
AirshipAl: I agree, Tween.
EWeston: Extreme weather where she's at
DJTweeny: If you want to ge show notices, and notices of new archives, please follow one of the above ^^
DJTweeny: ** ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
AirshipAl: Testes 1,2
DJTweeny: *get show notices
rebozoette: soda cracker green life
Nabby: aww "grass"
rebozoette: and on sunday Mr will play requests also
DJTweeny: Yes I do, Firesign, comedy bit, music, whatever you like
DJTweeny: ** 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
DJTweeny: Thanks for the plug, rebozoette ;)
EWeston: What ever happened to Emil Gazachorn?
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'kjlkj', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:19 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
shoes for the dead: mouse toungued enema
pinholeF200: Tween, I have a special musical request for next week-Beatles When I'm 64 (cause I will be then)
AirshipAl: My How Time Flys! Gotta keep moseying along. Night all. It's been real. Surreal.
Johnny Piano: Catherwood, please bring me my hat and goat. I must leave.
||||||||| Catherwood gives Johnny Piano my hat and goat i must leave.
pinholeF200: Nite Al
Johnny Piano: Ciao gang!
Cat : it's a good year, pin
Nabby: Take care AAl
Cat : by al. keep em flying
Beet: Nite, Al
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Happy docking, Airship!
||||||||| Johnny Piano says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Johnny Piano exits at 10:20 PM.
Cat : by johnny
shoes for the dead: see ya Al
AirshipAl: 64 was a piece of cake. The clock moves one year ahead for me on Saturday. Is there a song for that?
EWeston: Later tomaters
rebozoette: my pleasure tween its great
DJTweeny: :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Nite E!
rebozoette: by al what goes up
AirshipAl: Thanks Tween
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
Beet: Next week, EW
Nabby: take care EW
rebozoette: bye ew
shoes for the dead: see ya EW
pinholeF200: so long EW
||||||||| "Hey AirshipAl!" ... AirshipAl turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:23 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: til last time again
Beet: Better enjoy your rivers whilr they still exist.
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: I just noticed I misspelled my last name...
Nabby: circuit
shoes for the dead: they actually tore down the dam and sorta fixed the Clark fork here
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Catherwood, bring us all a far far bitter thin
||||||||| Catherwood brings us all a far far bitter thin.
Nabby: I don't care either
Joe Magil: Must go now. Bye!
Nabby: Later Joe
rebozoette: bye joe
Cat : joe
pinholeF200: au revoir Joe
rebozoette: nice room I think I'll redecorate
Beet: Nite, Joe
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Bye, Joe!
rebozoette: that soup needs more cat
Nabby: lol
jahgust: Sorry for popping in and out like this. Night awl. Busy behind the scenes.
||||||||| jahgust departs at 10:28 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Cat : by joe
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “HOW TIME FLYS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln
rebozoette: big top themed life
shoes for the dead: Frank you!
Beet: He's no fun
rebozoette: tweenie is not
DJTweeny: not no fun?
Nabby: Mark Time's Science Fiction Audio Hall of Fame http://www.marktimeawards.org/ho_fame/sf_hall_of_fame.html
DJTweeny: lol
Cat : Fun Fan Town,
shoes for the dead: double extended zepp
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
rebozoette: a wet rag tween is the best
Cat : that should be prophetic, carbon recycling
DJTweeny: lol
Nabby: Why is 2000 X so hard to find?
pinholeF200: very slightly radioactive--americium and cesium 137
shoes for the dead: i give up, why?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: because I wasn't looking for it, Nabby?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The Firesale Store - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
rebozoette: tune in turn off
Nabby: lol
Nabby: smarty pantses
||||||||| It's :40 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...
: happy pants dance
: FST Books at Bearmanor Media - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/firesign-theatre
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sneaks in around 10:40 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'Nabby', just granted probation at 10:40 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Around 10:40 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween walks off into the sunset...
ozoette disembarks at 10:40 PM.
||||||||| 10:40 PM: DJTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:40 PM and rebozoette steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: oops...
: http://www.popsci.com/search-for-real-planet-x
rebozoette: weeeee
||||||||| Merlyn enters at 10:40 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
: again
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 10:41 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 10:41 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Nabby: wha' happen'? hehee
Merlyn: http://www.popsci.com/search-for-real-planet-x
rebozoette: muck luck me will ya
Merlyn: I blame a space-time warp!
shoes for the dead: ....grandfather
Nabby: was that time warp 2?
: what is realty?
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'pinholeF200', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:41 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
DJTweeny: Obviously an effect of being so close to a black hole, Merlyn
rebozoette: i felt that
: land that can be sold
||||||||| Cat tiptoes in around 10:42 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Outside, the 10:42 PM downtown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
rebozoette: catherwood cat needs a hug
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past rebozoette
Cat : hi el
shoes for the dead: hey Elayne
: hello?
Nabby: ello elayne
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetskih bounds in at 10:43 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
rebozoette: hi e
Elayne: Sorry I missed David, guys. Not doing well. Dad-in-law just passed away, and my foot is giving me major trouble to the point where I can't put weight on it without being in excruciating pain.
DJTweeny: We were wondering what happened to you, E
: yo E
Nabby: catherwood slap me silly
||||||||| Catherwood slaps Nabby silly.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet inside, makes a note of the time (10:43 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Ah, so sorry, Elayne :-(
Cat : terrible, el
Elayne: I've been trying to sleep off the pain, both physical and mental, and just woke up.
shoes for the dead: nuts, Elayne
Nabby: Aww elayne
Elayne: I have to go take my evening pills and get summat to eat.
DJTweeny: What's with the foot, E?
rebozoette: sorry for your loss e hope your foot gets better soon
shoes for the dead: circuits
Merlyn: You can listen to the archive W
Merlyn: E
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Damn you Catherwood. Next time you throw me out unceremoniously...
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 10:44 PM"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Otherworld Media - http://otherworldmedia.com/
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Catherwood, give me some ceremony
||||||||| Catherwood gives Johan Amadeus Myjetskih some ceremony.
Elayne: Mayhap I'll be in a better frame of mine next week. Love you all.
Beet: It was a very nice talk.
||||||||| At 10:44 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Elayne!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Cat : all the best, el
rebozoette: best to you e
Beet: See ya,
DJTweeny: Poor Elayne :(
Nabby: thanks for czeching in E
Nabby: yeah that's awful
pinholeF200: Good to "see" you Elayne, till next week.....
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Take it easy, Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Is this an analogy of their situation with Sony?
Nabby: I really like this record - radio drama just like it wasn't
Nabby: Sony sucks
Cat : indeed, nab
Cat : sounds like it, johan
Nabby: bungle jug ride?
DJTweeny: Yeah, I really hope they can get their rights back from Sony
rebozoette: I do that everyday
||||||||| 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
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Beet: It sounds like noone is actively persuing getting the rights.
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Nabby: is it fun?
rebozoette: jugs on parade
Beet: Loved Wolfman
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: Also sounds like none at Sony is too aware they even HAVE these particular right, ya know?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: rights, that is
Beet: That;s what it sounds like JAM
Cat : it sounds like david is doing quite a lot. they can't do everything, beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: entire state building, lol
pinholeF200: Sony owns lots of stuff, like the rights to the Minolta MD system, my poor orphaned cameras
Beet: Anybody good friends with a lawyer?
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: a sympathic individual inside at Sony would help no doubt!
rebozoette: how did they not just laugh and laugh
Nabby: black hole -----> white hole
Cat : thanks for all of this, tween
Nabby: great show tweeny!
Merlyn: Sell your friends about the chat
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih: THANKS dot! Evening all Fireheads! Nite
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: thanks for setting up the Ossman interview tween
Beet: This was a fabulous evening not to be missed. Thanks everyone. Thanks, Tween. G'Nite.
||||||||| 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!"
pinholeF200: Wonderful interview and chat, finally got my Atl friend bork to join in, Nytol
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "10:55 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
rebozoette: shoes for the dead Beet Cat DJTweeny Johan Amadeus Myjetskih Nabby pinholeF200 rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween Merlyn cat, David wow and tweenie you the best
Cat : off we flee
DJTweeny: My pleasure, Merlyn :)
||||||||| "10:55 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cat , who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
||||||||| pinholeF200 rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's pinholeF200?! It's 10:55 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Nabby: g'night firepeople!
Nabby: away!
rebozoette: see ya sunday tweenie aka Mr
DJTweeny: see ya, lily :)
rebozoette: Hugs to all the grand folks here snow magedon ready
DJTweeny: stay warm...
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
rebozoette: lily will be there
rebozoette: the saddest no sound
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: How about you message me some suggestions for the Sunday show lily?
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 11:02 PM, DJTweeny runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| "Hey Rufus_T_Firetween!" ... Rufus_T_Firetween turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:03 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| 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:
''Bob''

AirshipAl
balcony
Beet
borknoodle
Bunnyboy
Cat
DJTweeny
Don G Ovanni
Elayne
EWeston
jahgust
Joe Magil
Johan Amadeus Myjetskih
Johnny Piano
Merlyn
Nabby
pinholeF200
pissifesta
rebozoette
roon564
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
Sirreal13
Tabacco
Timm McCoy
Woody 1
URL References:
http://davidossman.com
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://otherworldmedia.com/
http://seemreal.com/
http://tinyurl.com/hartmanpoco
http://www.archive.org/download/Firesign_Theatre_Podcasting_001/spike.rm
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/firesign-theatre
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-AIRSHIP-BLIMP-LARGE-TYCOS-ALTIMETER-6-dial-ACCURATE-DIRGIBLE-/191745677436?hash=item2ca4eed87c:g:ngcAAOSwcBhWVNP8=
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.marktimeawards.org/
http://www.marktimeawards.org/ho_fame/sf_hall_of_fame.html
http://www.popsci.com/search-for-real-planet-x
https://laugh.com/product/david-ossman-how-time-flys-cd-audio-only/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/notes/its-just-this-little-chromium-switch-here/firesign-video-links/10153025603252075
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw



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