Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/21/2016

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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 21, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:19 PM and DJTweeny steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:21 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Don Henley)
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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||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'rebozoette', just granted probation at 8:55 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| "8:55 PM? 8:55 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits in the comfy chair.
rebozoette: DJTweeny hey there just wanted to be first lol
||||||||| ''Bob'' tiptoes in around 8:56 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
rebozoette: Hey cease
rebozoette: BOB
||||||||| EWeston enters at 8:56 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
rebozoette: thanks tween ie for the op to laugh
Cease: HI susie
rebozoette: hi ew
Cease: EW
EWeston: Grate evening to youse mugs
Cease: laughter is good
rebozoette lol susie
DJTweeny: Hey rebozoette, Cease, Bob
Cease: it's a mug's game
DJTweeny: Hi EW
Cease: remember the song Duke of Earl?
DJTweeny: of course
EWeston: Wolf Blitzer today reminissed about his favorite Prince song, Purple Haze.
Cease: there is a firesign riff on it, i think in the shakespeare parody
||||||||| 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!"
''Bob'': Hi all.
Cease: hi bob
Cease: i barely know prince's music at all
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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''Bob'': In the middle of a Prince and Negativland marathon here...
EWeston: I don't know a prince of Ah A. I know a Duke of Earl.
Cease: that's it, ew
||||||||| Deputy Dang enters at 9:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 9:00 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: Might have been Url
Deputy Dang: Whew! Just made it in time.
shoes for the dead: Howdy
Cease: shoes
DJTweeny: Hi Deputy
EWeston: Dangy
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
shoes for the dead: hey Dang
''Bob'': I remember a Duke of URL from Usenet.... a long, long time ago....
EWeston: Shoes good to see you
''Bob'': Now I forget who that was IRL though!
Cease: how's it going, shoes?
rebozoette: did he turn back into a frog like on grimm
Cease: lol rebo
shoes for the dead: more energy this week, stopped posing weight
shoes for the dead: losing
''Bob'': HONK HONK!
||||||||| 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!"
EWeston: Universal confusion system, or UCS is my fav
rebozoette: heeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllll ooo
Cease: 420 plus one
EWeston: Inhale
''Bob'': Cat has been mighty busy lately...
Cease: true
Deputy Dang: Awreet!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “JACKIE ROBINSON STEALS THE FIRESIGN THEATRE”
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/'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:04 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
Beet: Hi, guys.
Cease: my team's not doing so well yet, but i do love baseball since childhood
Cease: hi beet
EWeston: Beester
shoes for the dead: hey Beet
''Bob'': Buddy Johnson...
Cease: just in time for some jackie
Beet: Yo Cease, EW, shoes.
shoes for the dead: bet out that rhythm on a drum!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
EWeston: Someone threw a knuckleball at the pushover
Beet: Great hero Jackie Robinson.
Cease: me too, beet
''Bob'': Nope. Count Basie version. Nice.
Cease: that's my friend satch, who used to play for the angels and red sox
Cease: from the cd Baseball's Greatest Hits
Beet: Weird with a beard
EWeston: That was me back then
Cease: sounds like me
Beet: All of us?
rebozoette: nino does not want me in NC LOL
''Bob'': Me, too.
Cease: tha'ts my favourite firesign bit
''Bob'': Now just weird, sans beard.
EWeston: Truthfully I was Navy Aircrew, I had a beard, and I was weird
Cease: this piece from john hockenberry'g great npr show Heat, 1990
DJTweeny: Nino has lost me entirely
Cease: that's from my play Red Shift
Beet: Still have my facial hair.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "9:10 PM and late as usual, it's Johan Amadeus Myjetski, just back from Memphis."
Cease: thjis is from lawyer's hospital
Cease: hi jam
shoes for the dead: my beard is burnt halfway off from the radiation
EWeston: The beard was weird too
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Lil', just granted probation at 9:10 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: hey, JAM>
Beet: Hi Lil
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
shoes for the dead: hei Lil!
DJTweeny: Hi Lil
shoes for the dead: and JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hallo Beet
EWeston: The beard left after a while and the head hair picked up the slack
Cease: Lil
EWeston: Mz Lil an Jam
Lil: Hi gang how are y'all, good?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: The sign read "egress to Funway." Is the the Funway?
Cease: yep
shoes for the dead: a preview
DJTweeny: Great here Lil, thanks. And you?
rebozoette: hi lil
Lil: Sounds like a baseball game lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi shoes, E!
Lil: Hody Rebo
Lil: Jam
Lil: Tweeny
EWeston: Keeping dry Tweeny?
Lil: Johnboy
Beet: Everyone is food.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi lil!
Lil: Meant Howdy LOL
rebozoette: thanks cat
shoes for the dead: good one Cat!!!
''Bob'': A Cat-apillar?
Beet: Nice job, Dr. Cat.
Cease: my shortest in some time.
EWeston: Pure protein
shoes for the dead: appealer
DJTweeny: yum yum
Cease: i just finished lucy in the sky with firesign but i'm now thinking of collaging the whole sgt. pepper
''Bob'': Not my absolute favorite FT album, but probably the wildest album cover...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's “IN THE NEXT WORLD, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out NEXT WORLD at >>https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv'
EWeston: Brine your catipellor. It helps
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Interesting thought, C!
DJTweeny: cool, Cease
Cease: after i finished the first bit one, billville the mt last may or so, i began work on sgt pepper. then i heard of phil austin's death and shifed over to doing an audiobiography of him.
Deputy Dang: This is one of my favorite albums.
Cease: bergman relaly wanted to have the Beatles of Comedy and he succeeded.
EWeston: Art by Will Stout I think
Cease: HI Dep
shoes for the dead: i thought ya just charrea em
Cease: both beatles and firesigns greatly influenced by the goon show.
EWeston: Then it'll get all stiff
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: i'm gonna have to include some good show stuff in my sgt. pep pills lonely hearts club collage
Cease: goon show
shoes for the dead: detter for dipping
rebozoette: oh cat that sounds grand
EWeston: Neddy For evah
shoes for the dead: man my fingers are culsley tonite
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Take a walk down by the old school...
Lil: How were the Beatles influened by the Goons?
''Bob'': The music is so perfect for this side.
Cease: george martin
''Bob'': Sounds like it must have been an actual TV cop show theme, but if so I've never placed it...
EWeston: You trust your fingers with their own personality?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: By way of the Bonzos, if no other way
Cease: they grew up listening to the goons and always cultivated a surreal, subversive sense of humour i think to some extent was absorbed from goon shows
shoes for the dead: they are all individuals with thier own traits
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Elayne close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:19 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Lil: aha, thanks
Cease: there's a movie about young john lennon where his step dad dies while they're listening to a goon show
shoes for the dead: hey El
Cease: Hi El
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Elayne
Lil: wow nice
EWeston: And tartens too I suppose
Elayne: I thought I'd be blue today, but I've come over all purple.
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
Beet: Hi E
rebozoette: Hi E
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “IN THE NEXT WORLD, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
Elayne: A visit from DocTech on Saturday will lift my spirits. Can I pass along any messages?
''Bob'': Also lost Richard Lyons of Negativland. A bad day for music.
EWeston: I've gone octorine
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Beneath a raspberry Barrett, E?
shoes for the dead: gotta watch a couple of them they want to get me into trouble alot
Cease: always a hi from me to doc, meeting lili too?
Elayne: No Cat, Lili's out of town apparently.
Cease: you missed my jackie robinson/firesign mix tonight, el. you might have enjoyed it
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
EWeston: At least one must be an index finger
Cease: visitng her daughter in canada? off on business?
Elayne: Just the three of us, visiting dino bones at the American Museum of Natural History.
Elayne: I can't remember where he said she was, Cat. I'll find out again on Saturday.
Cease: all the best to them.
shoes for the dead: it does keep track of things
Elayne: I'm getting a belated 4/20 pressie as well, thank goodness.
Cease: i'm going back to the Sgt Pep Pills project from last year, El. You're the Beatles expert. Any Firesign bits come to mind when you think Sgt. Pepper thoughts?
Elayne: The pressie was actually purchased on 4/20, near as I cantell.
Elayne: Hang on, let me get Robin in here.
Cease: good to hear, el
EWeston: Sureal leadership qualities there. Rare in a finger.
Cease: how well does he know firesign?
DJTweeny: Cease, did I hear correctly that the CN Lege is debating legalizing weed across the country?
Elayne: You can do a riff on Fixing a Hole, Cat. The hole in the center of the earth.
DJTweeny: not bad, E
Cease: yes tween. govt committed to submitting legalization legislation next spring so it's still a year off
DJTweeny: k
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: 4,000 holes in Blackburn lanc.
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: Well, at least they're considering it
Cease: yes, and nino's hole riffs
Cease: that album willl be well-mined
shoes for the dead: that's gonna be a long one Cat
rebozoette: jails will be less clogged
Cease: another good reference, jam
Elayne: That's what you do with holes! Mine them well!
Beet: Trim the fat, please.
EWeston: Today we count holes in the cloud
Elayne: Mind that hole or you'll fall in.
Cease: my lucy piece is now 7 minutes.
Elayne: You can name characters Vera, Chuck and Dave after the grandkids' names in When I'm 64.
DJTweeny: rebozoette: jails will be less clogged << less people's lives ruined over nothing
Lil: I miss Bergman. How come we didn't have a Bergman memorial like we did for Phil?
Cease: ok before i finish the whole album, i'l send tweeny what i've done so far next week.
Elayne: And I'd love you to work in the line "sitting on the sofa with a sister or two."
Elayne: I'm pretty sure there was a Bergman memorial when he passed, Lil.
Cease: after doing lucy, i want to go back to songs one and two, so hopefully will have the first 3 pepper tunes this time next thurs
DJTweeny: Lil: I miss Bergman. How come we didn't have a Bergman memorial like we did for Phil? << if you mean a memorial show, like I did for Phil, it was before I took over the show I do believe
Cease: good question, lil
Elayne: Well, I should go. It's time for tea and Meet The Wife.
DJTweeny: If people want it, I can do that
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Cease: can you thikn of firesigns on a sofa scene, el?
DJTweeny: be well, E
shoes for the dead: take care, El!
Beet: Nite, E.
EWeston: Lost in a dream
Elayne: I'll say hi to DocTech from everyone when I see him on Saturday. Happy post-4/20, all!
||||||||| Elayne says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Elayne exits at 9:29 PM.
Cease: thanks for help, el
Lil: That would be great Tweeny.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Had a smoke & went into a dream
EWeston: Que 18 pianos
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Meeting a man from the motor trade, Ralph spoiled sport
DJTweeny: Cat, maybe you and I can get together and put together some Bergman material
||||||||| 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!"
Lil: Would love that you two
Cease: good idea, tween.
Cease: i have a lot and taylor and timm have a lot more.
DJTweeny: We can get them involved as well
Beet: The circus in Electrician and Benefit of Mr. Kite on Pepper.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
DJTweeny: good idea, Beet
Lil -D
DJTweeny: Circus Circuit! from HTF
Cease: good one, tween
Cease: pete's Digital Diners are good
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
Lil: He does a lot of characters in Eat or Be Eaten
Cease: i dont have access to bergman's voluminous podcasts but others do.
Lil: And then his last message from his website...
DJTweeny: yes indeed, Lil
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: We should be able to come up with something for within you without you
Cease: ive used that at least 2 of my collages, lil
Lil: great!
Lil: ah well
Cease: yes, that will be an interesting tune to firesignize
rebozoette: play it twice splice once
Cease: billy jack is as obscure as george metetsky
Lil: His Bradshaw
EWeston: He don't go splat no how
Cease: indeed, lil. he revelled in that
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Lil: yep
Lil: Maybe I read the news today oh boy
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 9:42 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
llanwydd: evening folks
Cease: hi llan
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
EWeston: It's a good man who can insert extra vowls into the word find
shoes for the dead: realtired again, gonna listen out
Cease: so what would the firenews bet?
Beet: hi llan
Cease: there's so much
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “IN THE NEXT WORLD, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
rebozoette: sounds like odd couple music backround
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
EWeston: Glide on Shoes
Lil: Llan
DJTweeny: be well, shoes...
llanwydd: I love Next World
rebozoette: rake care shoes
Beet: Later, shoes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Shiny souls, shoes!
rebozoette: or take
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: it brings back such fond memories
Lil: sees ya shoes
Cease: keep well, shoes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I agree, Llan. Next World is esoteric even by FST standards
EWeston: There goes the traditional high speed dumpster on fire
EWeston: Lotta people screaming no in the background on this album
Cease: it does revel in that, jam
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I do love it though, nearly as much as Nick Danger or Bozos
EWeston: Inflationary times
Cease: bozos in my fave
Cease: i see you are a sailor sums up the whole 4 album set
||||||||| 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!"
Lil: damn my scroll is going in reverse again
EWeston: That's suitibly mind boggling
Beet: Amazing sale prices
llanwydd: this brings back memories of the 70s
EWeston: A wonderful bunch of bargins, from the other side
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I c u r a sailor by itself is nearly psychoactive, just listening to it
Cease: a good decade for me
llanwydd: sitting by my bedroom window listening to fst while watching the snow outside
llanwydd: the visuals are still vivid in my mind
DJTweeny: snow??
DJTweeny: ah, _memories_
||||||||| 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!"
Lil: lol
llanwydd: I don't see snow anymore. I live in FL now
DJTweeny: a friend in Colorado got snow not too long ago
Beet: wet dreamy experiences
DJTweeny: up in the mountains
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: and up next on gthe program Dear Friends "Hour Of Ecstacy" lol
DJTweeny: nice seque ;)
EWeston: The tailfins are nice
Cease: i had a lot of trouble cutting out the Oh Stop when I used this in my piece
DJTweeny: like the end of Boom Dot Bust
rebozoette: bob white
DJTweeny: (fishing)
Beet: interesting album
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Enough for for one life
Cease: indeed, beet
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends Broadcast Series “HOUR OF ECSTACY”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS may be purchased at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
rebozoette: why do mics what to feed you?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
EWeston: When I see your hands, I'll give scene one
EWeston: You
EWeston: rites for the next mating season
DJTweeny: eyelash enmeshing, now there's something I haven't tried...
Beet: marijuana prohobition almost over
Cease: big demo/party here yesterday. 25,000 stoned people in one place
Beet: prohibition.
Cease: others in different places.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yeah, beet, but you'll have to show your genitals & birth certificate to use public restrooms
EWeston: With proinhibition yet to come
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Lol E!
Beet: a lot of people do that voluntarily
rebozoette: butterfly kissin
EWeston: England has issued a travel warning to folks going to the good old USA
Cease: i love the fact that vancouver is long (since i've been here, 72) been pushing the boundaries for cannabis
Cease: Vansterdam
||||||||| 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."
rebozoette: NC we crazy and we like it that way
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Beet: We are a shame and laughing stock to the rest of the civilized world.
rebozoette: nino knows
EWeston: Bring your own bathroom when visiting
rebozoette: its in the water here
Beet: a foldup portapotty
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Cross your legs & hold on tight
EWeston: Actually we are liked. We just have these idiots we threaten to put in charge
rebozoette: thats not mountian dew
EWeston: Not with that alcoholic content
Cease: birds dew it, bees do it
rebozoette: lol
Cease: even billy the mountain and ethel do it
rebozoette: we son't need no dramas here
rebozoette: don't
EWeston: Please don't do that with your teeth
EWeston: There was a Major Horibegie
Cease: i was at the dentist this afternoon and my hands still smell like dentistry
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: i had lunch with edgar and proctor when in la last feb.
Cease: pix on facebook somewhere
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bidaly the mountainin
rebozoette: minty fresh cat?
Cease: ever since i met phil, he's been obsessed with taking pix
Cease: lousy iced tea, could have used mint.
Beet: Must be fun hanging out with the guys.
llanwydd: hada yada yada
Cease: good nicoise salad though
Cease: it is indeed
llanwydd: hada yada ya hada yadaya dada
EWeston: They left out the minty fresh cat
Cease: they have tables outside their shows where they meet fans. did none of you meet them in those shows?
llanwydd: I met them at one show. not at a table
rebozoette: not on my coast
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: signing autographs and such. this is where i first met proc
Beet: Wrong coast, Cease
EWeston: I saw them, and a long ride home at some of the shows
Cease: the invention of the internet put me in touch with elayne and the firesign usenet group in 93
Cease: i then subscribed to her zine, which gave way to this chat in 95
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
llanwydd: I joined FS chat in '02
Cease: i got proc's address and when we met at the signing tables after a 94 seattle show, he asked melinda to take a picture of us, and then sent it to me.
DJTweeny: I think maybe sometime in '03 for me
Beet: Guess which army won out
Cease: when i was in la in xmas 95, they invited me over. once there, they suggested i create radio plays ala firesign theatre so i did. still doing stuff like that.
DJTweeny: I just happened to be perusing the FST site and noticed that they had a chat
Cease: they really are dear friends.
DJTweeny: yeah, very cool that they encouraged your writing, Cease
EWeston: And we're all part of an interesting conversation
DJTweeny: and even participated in your play recordings :)
Cease: yes austin loved that what he came to chat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: austin really enjoyed his visits here
llanwydd: I have never been to CA but I almost went back in the late 70s just to see fst
Cease: they have always encouraged their fanship
llanwydd: turned out I was able to see them in NY
llanwydd: in 1981
Beet: I think the revolution is taking a different form these days.
DJTweeny: saw them live in the early 70's in D.C.
Cease: their fanship is not big enough to have made them rich, and is just supporting them now.
DJTweeny: It's being televised, Beet?
EWeston: Possibly going from an age of information too an age of meaning
Beet: not much
Cease: when elayne and her then husband came to vist in 95, we drove down to visit david ossman.
DJTweeny: very mean, even
Cease: he was wondering how to get more money out of firesign theatre then, as now.
DJTweeny: Wish I could figure out a way to reach out to more Fireheads and let them know about the chat/show
EWeston: There's always that choice. Vera popular in some populations
llanwydd: bust or charities?
DJTweeny: I just use Twitter and FB at the moment
Beet: billboards
Cease: yes, they've wanted to expand their audience forever.
llanwydd: not true
EWeston: Semaphore
Cease: bergman was blessed with a large audience from his 66 radio show.
Cease: he assumed he was entitled to one everafter
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Wish they'd lasted longer on NPR and XM
llanwydd: pete was the one with the vision
rebozoette: well there ya go no money in NPR
Cease: initially, yes, llan
EWeston: Phil was there to giggle and sing
llanwydd: the others were surprised at their success
Cease: when i first met ossman after pete's death, he told me pete was the trailblazer, dieing first just as he started firesign first
||||||||| "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!"
Beet: Needed a PR guy or Press Agent
llanwydd: I remember fst on npr
Cease: many times, llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** All Things Firesign (Firesign On NPR) - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-rv
EWeston: One porno channel has cut off NC
llanwydd: thanks, tween
Beet: Porn is the savior of young male psyches evrywhere.
||||||||| At 10:28 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, llanwydd!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
EWeston: Pig out
Beet: The Russian ideal.
EWeston: An feet
Cease: this sounds like the end of roller maidens
rebozoette: hey they didn't even know me lol
EWeston: quazi organsmic
rebozoette: yes yes
Beet: Hello NSA guy.
DJTweeny: lol rebo
rebozoette: catherwood please hand out cigerettes
||||||||| Catherwood gives out cigerettes.
EWeston: We need more kinds of orgasmic
EWeston: But a cigarette will do
Cease: food works. firesign too.
Beet: Catherwood hand out funny cigarettes.
||||||||| Catherwood brings out funny cigarettes.
DJTweeny is ecstatic
rebozoette: weeeeeeeeeeee
EWeston: Wait, this cigarette may be doped!
Beet: hopefully
Deputy Dang: Must sleep. G'night early, folks.
EWeston: Indican I...thin...k.
EWeston: By depty
Beet: G'Nite Dang.
||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 10:36 PM train to Hellmouth.
rebozoette: nite dep
Cease: by dep
rebozoette: jumpin gehoso fats
Beet: I've got gas.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite DepDang
EWeston: But you share
rebozoette: don't drink the wine
Beet: Smoke your nuts.
EWeston: Everybody mombo
rebozoette: sway what
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I feel sorry for all those who have to live in tease
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Teapees
Beet: What is a tease?
EWeston: We do have training wheels for the adventurous
rebozoette: floyd got ya
EWeston: Not to mention the dwellors in the pup tense
Cease: this is amazing
Cease: i have to spend more time listening to this collection
Beet: Never own a tense pup.
rebozoette: tease the tent toll it teepees
EWeston: Brine him?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: over 3 DAYS of Firesign listening material :)
Beet: I understand now, rebo.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Tease the brines out
EWeston: Its good stuff
Cease: most of it long in my possesion, some since first broadcast in 70, but it remains a revelation
EWeston: You have to seive out the sea monkeys
DJTweeny: and remastered, of course
Cease: studio city, like city of indrusty, dont seem like real names for cities.
Cease: both suburbs of la
DJTweeny: and includes a great book
Beet: Cut and Shoot, Texas.
rebozoette: echo
EWeston: Dr. Docter Face
Cease: major major
EWeston: Roger Roger
||||||||| 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'
Cease: john john
EWeston: Mary Mary
Cease: dustin hoffman and mrs woody allen
rebozoette: more pork
Cease: bergman's girlfriend brett was loilned by john simon
Cease: i usedd him talking about that in a recent collage
rebozoette: over under and under dunn
Beet: Dr. Memory! That's it. Finally.
DJTweeny: he was convicted of Brideloining?
||||||||| llanwydd sneaks in around 10:52 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
EWeston: Trafficing accross state lines with a loin of fat
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: yep, then proc loined her later.
DJTweeny: wb llan
Beet: Every groom takes advantage of Brideloining.
Cease: he seemed quite proud of that on his recent interview. i used that in my tom waits collage
EWeston: I know loining in the stooge sense
Beet: Always love the chats each week. Thanks everyone. Thanks, Tween. G'Nite.
EWeston: by laughing mass's
''Bob'': Thanks Tweeny!
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite all! Thanks for the laughs!
''Bob'': (And cat. :) )
||||||||| "Hey llanwydd!" ... llanwydd turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:55 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cease: thanks againk tween
rebozoette: Beet Cease DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski llanwydd thanks every body and cat grand and Tweenie yuppers
DJTweeny: yw Cease :)
rebozoette: car good on ya
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:56 PM and Nabby bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
rebozoette: cat even
Nabby: Hi
Nabby: Sorry I'm late to the show
rebozoette: lol nabby
DJTweeny: a little late, Nabby lol
Nabby: Good to see you, just wanted to say hi and wish you all well
DJTweeny: see you next week, Nabby :)
rebozoette: better nate than leaver
Nabby: Take care Tween
Nabby: you betcha reboz
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:57 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Rufus_T_Firetween by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: hi nab. you come in at the end.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "Hey DJTweeny!" ... DJTweeny turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:57 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cease: same to you , nab
Nabby: lol
Nabby: Cat!
Nabby: you be groovy
Nabby: take care!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: i keep making collages. enjoy them while i'm doing them
||||||||| Around 11:00 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "11:22 PM? 11:22 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Shadow Lane should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Shadow Lane enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| 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 Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lil - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Shadow Lane - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:40 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 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from measles
||||||||| 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 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| 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:
''Bob''
Beet
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Lil
llanwydd
Nabby
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead

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https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
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www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw