A Firesign Chat
04/14/2016




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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 14, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 7:51 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "8:16 PM? 8:16 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Rufus_T_Firetween exits at 8:21 PM.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:21 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Billville."
||||||||| 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 (Happy Birthday Richie Blackmore)
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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||||||||| Cat enters at 8:36 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Cat: Did you get the new collage, Tween?
DJTweeny: Hi Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yep, all ready to go :)
DJTweeny: It's actually quite useful to get decriptions I can read to the folks, as you included in your email
Cat: Great
Cat: A facebook friend posted that first piece and I just riffed on that
||||||||| Deputy Dang sashays in at 8:55 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cat: i'm going to go more in that abstract direction in the future, less interested in matching firesign stuff with music
Cat: hi dang
Cat: hows it danging?
Deputy Dang: I wish
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
DJTweeny: Hey, whatever strikes your fancy Cat
Deputy Dang: I have a fancy cat.
DJTweeny: catherwood, please give Deputy Dang a fancy ale for his fancy cat
||||||||| Catherwood hands deputy dang a fancy ale for his fancy cat.
Cat: I was very moved by the Jackie Robinson story on PBS this week, plan to do something with that next
DJTweeny: kewl
Cat: We're all fancy
||||||||| Catherwood enters with EWeston close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:58 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the sitting room.
Deputy Dang: true
Cat: EW
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:59 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Evening guys.
EWeston: Tweeny, Cat an Deputy Dang, good morning, goodafternoon, good eveniing
Cat: Beet
EWeston: An Beet
||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 8:59 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Cat: good with pear, cheese
Beet: Hi Cat, EW
shoes for the dead: Howdy
DJTweeny: Hi Beet, EW, shoes
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'rebozoette', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:59 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Cat: shoes, how's that health thing happening?
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
shoes for the dead: hey rebozo
Beet: Hi shoes. Howzit going?
Cat: hi suzie
rebozoette: Beet Cat Deputy Dang DJTweeny EWeston rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween shoes for the dead hi all and tweenie thanks for a light in the tunnel
Beet: Yo, rebo
shoes for the dead: so far so good, Cat, mostly just run-down
rebozoette: beet shoes
Cat: there's a hunter thompson thing about the light at the end of the tunnel in mh new collage
EWeston: Ms Bozoette na shoes
Beet: I'm wearing my Give me Immortality T-Shirt
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
shoes for the dead: lotsa mucus, so not much quality sleep, gotta gough that stuff up
rebozoette: its only painted on the wall
Cat: rebo doesnt need shoes. she's not industrious, nor dead
rebozoette: hi ew
EWeston: Not an oncoming train then?
rebozoette: yeah cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “THE WAVE”
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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EWeston: You've checked recently?
shoes for the dead: if there is no light at the end of a tunnel, it's a cave
shoes for the dead: or a hole on it's side
EWeston: Just a hole on its side y'know
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: echo in here
rebozoette: echo
EWeston: I knew you were going to say that!
Cat: i wonder what proctor thinks of this? he's a new yorker
shoes for the dead: holes arelike that
rebozoette: hwy I moved to tenn as per nino what
Cat: ew, you didn't even know what YOU wee going to say
Cat: this is me interviewing austin
Beet: It;s him.
EWeston: Dark and dirty, and full of spiders
DJTweeny: There's a Cat in the audience :)
Cat: the whole group LOVED fucking with my name
DJTweeny: lol
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:06 PM, then departs.
rebozoette: new yorkers are like everybody else only new yorkier
llanwydd: evening folks
DJTweeny: Hideo Ishitunia
Cat: and speaking with fucked names, here's LLan
Beet: Howdy Llan.
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
shoes for the dead: hey llan
llanwydd: lol
rebozoette: lol
EWeston: Improvisation.. is ... my, uh...life Yah that's the ticket
llanwydd: can I help it if my ancestors couldn't spell?
DJTweeny: good one, Llan
shoes for the dead: or were drunk at the time
EWeston: Struck a full glottial stop sign
rebozoette: wow
Beet: "I'm trying to think but nothing happens." - Curly
rebozoette: nice
||||||||| pinholeF200 bounds in at 9:11 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cat: pin
Beet: Hi pin
DJTweeny: Hi pin
Cat: this is the last scene from my play Neal Amid
EWeston: Pinny
shoes for the dead: hey Pin
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
pinholeF200: Greetings Cat, Beet, Tween, EW, shoes and all the company
llanwydd: my favoite scene in that play is the meeting with edgar cayce
Cat: neal's wife liked phil austin's depiction of her husband. she said he portrayed him as intelligent man instead of a hick, as he's usually portrayed
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Cool guy
DJTweeny: cool, Cat
Cat: thank you for having a favourite scene, llan
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
EWeston: Double Neils
Beet: I'll have another hit.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Phiche in through the front door at 9:15 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cat: Ph
DJTweeny: Hi Phiche, and welcome
EWeston: Hold your head like, this.
shoes for the dead: hi Phiche
Cat: Ok, this song is quite long.
Beet: Hi Phicher man.
Cat: Shortly after I began living with Fumiyo, we went to the record store and bought this album.
EWeston: Mz Mr, or other Phiche, velcome
shoes for the dead: for how long?
rebozoette: wow
Cat: Along with a Stones album, the Alan Price album with Jarrow song on it, and Expansions by Llonie lIston Smith,
Cat: Used to listen to a lot of music in those days (75)
DJTweeny: Who is this, again?
||||||||| At 9:18 PM, Phiche hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Cat: pharoah sanders, will have to google album name
Cat: out goes phiche
shoes for the dead: he's good
EWeston: Got few from that era, Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun, Springsteen's first
Cat: piano player is lonnie liston smith, a fave of the time. i played the piano in those days
shoes for the dead: got a couple ih his records
DJTweeny: Phiche apparently has no taste for quality escoterism
Cat: we saw pharoah and lonnie and their gang here in van aroudn that era, 75
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
rebozoette enraptured
Beet: A Phiche out of water
shoes for the dead: neat, Cat
Cat: i was WAY into jazz in those days
DJTweeny: a fan of Mahavishnu Orchestra?
Cat: had a show on the natrional network of japan in early 75
Cat: they're great tween
EWeston: On the trail of some Shnook
Deputy Dang: I really like this.
shoes for the dead: making my way thru my Miles records this week
DJTweeny: I like them as well
Deputy Dang: It sounds like something I would have listened to in college.
Cat: more accurately, i appeared on a show, was offered the show but other things hapened, as they usually do
Cat: good for you, shoes
Beet: Waiting for the Miles movie
llanwydd: catherwood, remind me I've got eggs boiling
||||||||| Catherwood reminds llanwydd i've got eggs boiling.
Cat: what a fun thing to do
llanwydd: lol
EWeston: Um pronoun troubles
shoes for the dead: lotsa time here lately..............
Cat: they were using a lot of bells in those days
llanwydd: time is an illusion
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Proctor & Bergman's “GIVE US A BREAK!”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out GIVE US A BREAK at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-rv
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Cat: think of the bells we'll have
EWeston: Filling time, with...
llanwydd: I love this album!
Cat: you have this, llan?
Beet: neat
Cat: thanks, tween
rebozoette: bravo cat
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: I used to have it, cat
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cat: thanks suzie
shoes for the dead: filling time is when I pour the stuff down the feding tube
shoes for the dead: starland vocal band
pinholeF200: anyone heard Matching Mole's Little Red Record?
Cat: you didn't find the segments of differing sound quality?
llanwydd: I hate theese musidc
Cat: the problem when i make these collages, is that i can't control enough for bad sound
EWeston: Bury me in my car
DJTweeny: Not much you can do about the fidelity of old source material
Cat: exactly, tween. sort of.
DJTweeny: Well, you could always spend lots of time with sophisticated filters of course
shoes for the dead: not without spending a lot of time on ot, Cat
Cat: so none of you were bothered by contrasting sound quality of segments?
llanwydd: thee silvery poptop fish
DJTweeny: but that would be more like remastering
EWeston: Duck's Breath did a nice bit on Cousto
shoes for the dead: there's that echo again
DJTweeny: It all fit together well, Cat
Cat: is there a link for that, ew?
||||||||| 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."
Cat: it's supposed to.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “GIVE US A BREAK” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
EWeston: Used a SUV I think, Called The Bob Johnson Plumbing Contractor
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new video series from Phil Proctor and Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
Cat: a lot of people were doing this sort of this on the radio in my days, late 60s and I;'m just going back to that tradition
EWeston: Donno Cat I've got it on an album
pinholeF200: guess that's a no on Little Red Record--really weird stuff--Robert Fripp and Brian Eno were in the credits
EWeston: The Duck's Breath Mystery Theater is their whole name
Cat: i have a lot of firesign on cassette but usually find stuff on youtube good enough
Cat: i loved them, ew
Cat: panama red
EWeston: Randee of the Redwoods and his Guitar Army are a lot of fun
shoes for the dead: duck's breath did Dr. Science
Cat: i have a vid of their pbs show.
Cat: or one of them, anyway
EWeston: Yes I remember him advising the patient that they might be alergic to photons
Cat: amazingly funny
EWeston: I wish I could remember the title of a book one of them wrote.
shoes for the dead: saw him live here a bunch of years ago
shoes for the dead: did a great Elvis imitation too
Cat: i think that was their favourite thing, just making great obervations
Cat: ala boomers on bench
rebozoette: great stuff
EWeston: "I'm talking to you, behind the world's largest desk."
Beet: Ah, the old days - bumming butts.
EWeston: Four ply carpet bombs
Cat: I just became a seniour citizen the other day, and am glad i'm not doing that
rebozoette: Happy Birthday cat
Cat: ossman calls this album vaudevillle
Cat: thakns rebo
Beet: What is the official age for "Senior Citizen" status?
Cat: 65
EWeston: If its 65, been there, done that, got the T shirt
shoes for the dead: that's in Canadian years
Cat: lol
Beet: Just turned 69. Happy Birthday Cat.
EWeston: You didn't have to rearange your healthcare i Canada Cat?
Cat: 69 is a good goal
DJTweeny: sort of yin/yang?
rebozoette: tomorrow is a good goal
Cat: i'l find out about that soon, ew
rebozoette: lol
DJTweeny: haha rebo
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:43 PM, dragging Bunnyboy by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Bunnyboy: Cripes! Cat's old!
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Hu Bunny
Beet: Hi Bunny
Bunnyboy: Ehrm...Happy Birthday, Cat!
shoes for the dead: hey Bun
Cat: speaking of vast sexuality, here's Bunny
rebozoette: i run mask
Cat: yes, i am very happy, bun
Bunnyboy: Cat: re: 69 - You'll throw out your back!
Deputy Dang: Don't shoot Deputy Dang! He's your friend!
EWeston: Had to sign up for medicare, and medicade. One of them turns out I'll owe two dollars a day for.
Cat: so much of their work is collage
Bunnyboy: Okay, okay, line up...
EWeston: Line up wear?
Bunnyboy: Zee underwear!
Bunnyboy: 2 lines, no talking!
Cat: i'm planing to go to france next year
Deputy Dang: Semper ubi sub ubi.
EWeston: Got some uberware
rebozoette: raise the raisin
Beet: I don't have any lines so I can't talk anyway.
Bunnyboy: (as detailed in the book, "S'HULLO: THE 1000 DAYS OF MACGREGOR".
EWeston: Its over my head
shoes for the dead: stand up, then
Bunnyboy: And, if not, it will be. #duck
rebozoette: it couldn't be underdone
EWeston: But rare is the medium
shoes for the dead: but rare is not the norm
Cat: speaking of race, anyone see the jackie robinson bio this week?
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
EWeston: I think Norm is still stuck in the closet
Bunnyboy: Saw the Blu-ray, at the store.
shoes for the dead: did he race a indy?
Beet: Great bio
shoes for the dead: at
llanwydd: phil time
Cat: proc REALLY loves to sing
EWeston: indy is strangely attractive
Cat: true, beet
Cat: my next collage will b based on that
rebozoette: got that Broadway voice
||||||||| Timm McCoy Phd waltzes in at 9:52 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
EWeston: He and Melinda do a great Hollwood couple act
Bunnyboy: Amongst the odds and sods, you can now stream AMERICANTHON from Warner Archive Instant, and TUNNELVISION from the new, pretty keen Night Flight Plus service. The latter also has a dub a YouTube, I think.
Timm McCoy Phd: Cat.
shoes for the dead: hey Timm
Beet: Howdt Timm
Timm McCoy Phd: Room.
Beet: Howdy
EWeston: Mighty Timm
Cat: timmy
Timm McCoy Phd: O Ewe!
Cat: trew, ew
DJTweeny: Hi Timm
Cat: you missed my new collage, timm, but i;'ll send you a copy
Timm McCoy Phd: TWEENY!
rebozoette: well fed
||||||||| 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!"
Timm McCoy Phd: Damn. :( ok. Thanx Cat
EWeston: Bucket o Cluck, to go. Or chase
Cat: tweeny posts these shows on his archives weekly too.
DJTweeny: ** ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Cat: i', gonna post it on facebook tomor. just wairingf for feedbak from chatters
Bunnyboy: Anybody ever find a dub of the late 70s Proctor and Bergman PBS special that included several GIVE ME A BREAK pieces, and some "Count of Monte Cristo" stuff?
Bunnyboy: Here comes the endless groove...
||||||||| New notice: 'Now playing: XM RADIO SERIES'
Cat: i was worried about sound qualtiy. no one seems to have been bothered
EWeston: That's new to me Bunny
llanwydd: I played parts of Give Us a Beak on my high school radio station
Beet: Love these.
Cat: i taped that with a cassette recorder when it was broadcast
Bunnyboy: I remember the "Sermon on the Mount" clip being featured.
llanwydd: they especially liked Lemon Car
shoes for the dead: one of my fave Phil bits
DJTweeny: sorry about the level at the opening
llanwydd: I didn't mean Give us a beak
DJTweeny: these are some seriously loud tracks
rebozoette: well rounded
Cat: very loud
EWeston: Clown's with Knives. Why have I never tried that!
Bunnyboy: "Ondy Warhol"...nice!
DJTweeny: I hope they offer the XM Series in MP3 at the new download store
EWeston: That's some color
Cat: i think that';s the idea, tweeen
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
shoes for the dead: I hope so too, Tween be nice to hear the whole seies
shoes for the dead: series
Timm McCoy Phd: The XM series I have on Real Video
||||||||| pinholeF200 leaves at 10:00 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: It's all in Real Media now, which I generally dislike
Beet: I like when he asks for more color, Phil makes a Bronx Cheer sound to imitate squeezing a tube.
llanwydd: wow, shoes you're having trouble with your r key too
Cat: are you still doing a firesign show, timm?
EWeston: Colors gone gassy!
DJTweeny: It's great to be able to watch the videos of the guys working around the table together
Timm McCoy Phd: I can convert all to mp3 eaisly. Still keeping the videos tho
DJTweeny: maybe they'll put that on the new DVD collection
Timm McCoy Phd: Yes Cat every Friday at 2pn Central. The Firesign Radio Theatre Hour
Cat: there;s a colour there, i dont know what it is
Timm McCoy Phd: www.dementedradio.com
Cat: i'll tune in then.
Cat: you should notify your facebook frineds
EWeston: I'll call it Fred
Timm McCoy Phd: Noon west coast 3pm East
Bunnyboy: Ah! It was 1978 Soundstage episode. "The World of Proctor and Bergman".
shoes for the dead: I can't focus on the screen any more,(oxy10) so I'll listen out
Timm McCoy Phd: Been real busy lately running a whole radio station. 24/7
Bunnyboy: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1978/05/28/page/193/article/wacky-comedy-duo-gets-a-break-on-soundstage
Beet: That hot pee smell
DJTweeny: kewl, Bunny :)
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Cat: sounds intense, timm
DJTweeny: Be well, shoes...
Timm McCoy Phd: always. I need another Vacay to LA again
Beet: Nite shoes. Rest well.
EWeston: Whole body, nose, painting
Cat: all the best forever shoes
rebozoette: haha
rebozoette: nite shoes
EWeston: Yah stick to the pinesole
Cat: the idea of a vacation is predicated on the idea of a job
EWeston: Cornbread are square
rebozoette: every days a holiday with you burt
Timm McCoy Phd: That I have had for 30 years. What I do there is no sleep til Brooklyn
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: i love cornbread. with honey
DJTweeny: "As wrong as a door knob on a donut." lol
llanwydd: doorknob on a donut. LOL
EWeston: Maple surup seems to find its way onto mine
Timm McCoy Phd: Folk Art. I know him. He owes me money!
Beet: Great
EWeston: Track him down the the Art House
rebozoette: art apart
Timm McCoy Phd: He's so CRAZZZZZZYYYYYYY!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's “NOT INSANE!”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out NOT INSANE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni
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EWeston: one o those the's should be a to
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cat: i think they kinda felll into a hole with this album
EWeston: My first
Beet: I heard them premier this album on WBCN in Boston. The guy said, "Something to do with Shakespeare."
Cat: lol beet
llanwydd: ossman haed this album
llanwydd: he said it was incomprehensible
llanwydd: hated
Timm McCoy Phd: Ossman hats a lot of things
||||||||| 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."
EWeston: I used to recite from it, at great length
Timm McCoy Phd: Hideo Wallbanger
Cat: i have more hats than hates
DJTweeny: speaking of audio collages...
llanwydd: if your hats outnumber your hates you have it made
Timm McCoy Phd: I have many hats!
EWeston: If encounterred, some looked to see if I was holding anything sharp
Timm McCoy Phd: Break winds break and blow winds blow!
llanwydd: break wind break is a paraphrase from king lear
EWeston: We'll die at sea, or live on land
Bunnyboy: It's an eyeopener to listen to the Martian Space Party material, sans post-production "sweetening"...on PAPOON FOR PRESIDENT, fer instance.
Timm McCoy Phd: Did King Lear?
Cat: what are you playing on your show, timm? segments of duke?
llanwydd: sometimes
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cat: this sound is exquisite
Timm McCoy Phd: Some of them. Most are recording I made while in CA in the 70's. Bootleg shows.
Bunnyboy: Gots to toddle. Nite, all. Happy happy, Cat!
rebozoette: lash that to me I float
EWeston: Nite's Bun
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Beet: See ya Bun
Cat: by bunny'
||||||||| Bunnyboy leaves at 10:17 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..."
llanwydd: what did he say? flps on its side like what?
EWeston: Crippled minnow
llanwydd: I could never understand that line
llanwydd: crippled nimmow. hmm
llanwydd: wonder who fletcher is
EWeston: Well know behavior in you classic crippled minniw
EWeston: Some well known LA Blue nose?
Cat: loved that Neigh
EWeston: This thing is full throttle manic for most of its time
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Great soliloqey
EWeston: Enticing enough that I did listen to it about four times before I began to understand a little of what I was hearing
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “NOT INSANE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-ln
EWeston: I'm gonna eat right through this microphone
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cat: yeah firesiign wants us to listen many times
llanwydd: not to be torturing me
Cat: and rewards us for doing so
DJTweeny: lots of audio collage on this album
EWeston: Yep Tweeny
rebozoette: splice that echo
DJTweeny: would be confusing for a beginner, but much fun for the serious fan
EWeston: Secure that echo
DJTweeny: catherwood please give everyone some aleing
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone some aleing.
Cat: they loved performing this
EWeston: Major clew,"To be presented by a large cast. In five acts. Three of them unatural. Two of them against the state!
Cat: they all love saying fuck
rebozoette: just a touch more echo
Cat: expanding the possibility of what you can hear on the radio.
EWeston: Mom! The echos touching me!
Cat: i'm seeing a strange orange stain on my carpet
rebozoette: i see echos
EWeston: Used to think that bit was He's my funny Ferro Nova
EWeston: See your optomotrist, or physicist
Cat: we share that mix of senses thing, rebo
Cat: synesthesia
rebozoette: lol ew
Cat: it went away ew
llanwydd: oh, yeah? well I HEAR an orange stain on MY carpet
rebozoette: its the smell cat like mention popcorn and I can smell it its wild
Cat: i suspect reflection from wood on near speaker
EWeston: Back to the shadows?
Cat: i hate popcorn as much as anyone
Cat: i avoid going places where popcorn is being eaten
EWeston: Memories and smells have strong connections. I think it was the first sense
llanwydd: they should have popcorn on the menu at delmonicos
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Timm McCoy Phd - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: by timm
EWeston: The GOP meltdown currently in progress may all be a plot be popcorn companies
EWeston: By not be
Beet: Unrerax
Cat: un relax
rebozoette: hop t o it
EWeston: Can't. My Isles of Langerhands is spasming
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: lol ew soft soap it
EWeston: Its getting a good soaking later
EWeston: Still making mahogany saw dust. The guitar is taking form , slowly
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, 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
'
rebozoette: its not the coughing that bothers me so much as the coffin they carry you off in
Cat: true, rebo
rebozoette: a dadism
EWeston: I'm going for an urn
Cat: ala tom waits: id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy
DJTweeny: lol rebozoette
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
rebozoette: ink in someones tattoo
rebozoette: vote now
EWeston: Yes and in november too!
rebozoette: don't wait for all the good candidates to drop out
rebozoette: lol
Beet: Is Papoon running this year?
Cat: no
rebozoette: its every other 4 years
EWeston: Trying to lampoon the GOP is a hard thing these days.
Beet: Had fun tonight. Thanks everyone. Great collage, Cat and again HBD. Thanks Mr. Tween. G'Nite.
llanwydd: yeah it lampoons itself
Cat: trew ew
EWeston: Thax all G;bye
Deputy Dang: That was great, as usual!
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny EWeston llanwydd bite all and cat wonderful and tweenie always grand
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
Cat: we do our best
rebozoette: bite the nite lol
llanwydd: yeah I guess I'm out too. thanks tween. night everybody
||||||||| At 10:54 PM, Deputy Dang rushes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| llanwydd rushes off, saying "10:54 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| Around 10:54 PM, Cat walks off into the sunset...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 10:55 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:57 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs DJTweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 11:16 PM: Burbon Washing Machine jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 11:27 PM uptown bus from Colorado pulls away, leaving Morse Science coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Morse Science: So I was driving to pick up my kids from school ...
Morse Science: ... when I noticed that the car in front of me had license plate UH CLEM, in a Ralph Spoilsport Motors frame.
Morse Science: I wanted so badly to stop them somehow and chat, but they turned left and I had to turn right.
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Morse Science - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Burbon Washing Machine - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
Beet
Bunnyboy
Cat
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
EWeston
llanwydd
Morse Science
pinholeF200
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
Timm McCoy Phd
URL References:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1978/05/28/page/193/article/wacky-comedy-duo-gets-a-break-on-soundstage
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/
www.davidossman.com
www.dementedradio.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw



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