A Firesign Chat
07/07/2016




Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for July 07, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| "3:42 PM? 3:42 PM!!" says Catherwood, "toadaway should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as toadaway enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| It's 3:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| toadaway - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:14 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween bounds 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 **
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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||||||||| "8:35 PM? 8:35 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Timeghost should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Timeghost enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Timeghost: Greetings, all.
DJTweeny: Hi Timeghost
Timeghost: I got Pink Hotel copied to CD; took me almost 5 hours, but part of that is my lack of familiarity with the software.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Tangerine Dream)
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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||||||||| It's 8:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:42 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| "8:47 PM? 8:47 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Ralph should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Ralph enters and sits on the couch.
Timeghost: +Hi Ralph
Ralph: I've been to Colorado!! Look at these steaming buds.....
||||||||| 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: Hi Ralph
Ralph: Hi Kurt
Ralph: listenint to Bizarre Love Triangle
Ralph: not unlike what you are playing.....
||||||||| 8:52 PM: cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
cease: good for you, ralph.
Timeghost: Hi cease
DJTweeny: Hi cease
DJTweeny: got some 'spacey' music playing for ya
Ralph: yeah, what is it
cease: time, tween
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet in through the front door at 8:56 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Nice spaced-out music, Dr. Tween. Howdy guys.
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
DJTweeny: Tangerine Dream's "Booster" album, Ralph
cease: yeah my collage tonight is very spacy
cease: hi beet
Beet: Evenin', Mr. Cease.
Ralph: hf, I'll smoke to that
DJTweeny: Tsong is Jyper Sphinx
Ralph: I quit at Phaedra
Beet: These guys have been doing great work for a long time.
DJTweeny: The song is "Hyper Sphinx"
DJTweeny: don't know what happened with the chat entry there lol
Ralph: haha
cease: maron was talking to someone recently about the use of their music in a flick. you know which one? sorceror?
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 07, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
DJTweeny: over 50 sound tracks, cease - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream_filmography
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Elmer Ho into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:01 PM, then departs.
||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 9:01 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
shoes for the dead: Howdy
cease: ho
Elmer Ho: ho ho ho
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer, shoes...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts HonestyKnox into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:02 PM, then departs.
shoes for the dead: hey Knox
Elmer Ho: aha - Austin texas
cease: shoes, knox
Elmer Ho: my nice neice lives there
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “LIGHT TRAIN”
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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DJTweeny: Hi Knox
cease: i was a dj in ottawa when this album came out. played it to death
DJTweeny: I've got Pentangle's "Cruel Sister" album in vinyl
DJTweeny: hahaha @ Carson
Ralph: Carl Sagan
DJTweeny: if that's who it is
cease: carson as sagan.
DJTweeny: not actually Sagan speaking, is it?
DJTweeny: yeah exactly
HonestyKnox: I'm not saavy about posting to Firs
cease: Carson made Sagan famous. Did us all a lot of good.
Ralph: you -- FO
DJTweeny: Your first time here, Knox?
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:08 PM and Bottles sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Ralph: heeeeeere's Johnny
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
cease: Bottles?
Bottles: hi, y'all
Ralph: hi!
shoes for the dead: hey Bottles
Timeghost: Yo bottles
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:10 PM, dragging brilliantatbreakfast by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
DJTweeny: Hi brilliant
cease: breakfast
shoes for the dead: hey Brill
DJTweeny: that you, lily?
cease: i hope you've heard this through good speakers.
cease: her voice is amazing
||||||||| HonestyKnox sneaks away to The Sitting Room...
shoes for the dead: who is this Cease?
DJTweeny: Pentangle
cease: Pentangle, Train Song
Ralph: and his partner, Desist?
shoes for the dead: Ahhh
cease: This is from the movie Insignificance.
Beet: hello brilliant
DJTweeny: good movie, cease?
Ralph: wow to the Pentangle
Ralph: danke fuse me
cease: yep
cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_Light
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Johan Amadeus Myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (9:15 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
cease: jam
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
Beet: Howdy JAM
shoes for the dead: hey JAM
||||||||| HonestyKnox walks in and says "It's 9:15 PM, has anybody seen Nancy?"
cease: marilyn monroe explaining relativity to einstein.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Greetings, cat! DJT, & all!
Beet: hi honesty
cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance_(film)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi beet, hi shoes, how'd yada, honesty
DJTweeny: Insignifigance - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089343/
DJTweeny: "Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future. "
Ralph: somebody had to do it
DJTweeny: looks like fun, Cat, will have to check it out
Ralph: thanks for the link!
Ralph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance_(film)
Elmer Ho: i'll try to see if I can rent it
DJTweeny: ah, and even some Phil Austin :)
Elmer Ho: first I have to find "Bacon Rind on the Whistle Front"
DJTweeny: ah, and some Phil Austin to boot
DJTweeny: perfect intro to EYKIW :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That film scenario sounds familiar. I wonder if I saw it sometime somewhere...
Bottles: has anyone ever seen Zachariah?
Elmer Ho: always liked this - doesn't seem typical of PA somehow
DJTweeny: I have not
Elmer Ho: yeah, I rented Zachariah
Bottles: I passed a midnight show years ago, but never felt obliged to track it down like the lost grail.
Elmer Ho: don't remember too much of it, which probably says something
cease: my favouorite dylan tune. a different take i found online
Bottles: Now with the internet and ebay, I could probably track it down
Elmer Ho: very much of its era - you know, Easy Rider etc.
Beet: This is nice.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Just what I was thinking, beet!
Bottles: One of those "you have to be stoned to watch it (cause they sure were when they made it)"
shoes for the dead: good take of this one fer sure
Beet: There is a not so high def version on DVD
cease: he seems to forget the lyric there
Elmer Ho: "It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry" for those not up on their Bobby Z.
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| brilliantatbreakfast - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: i prefer the original, but this is interesting.
Elmer Ho: a burning question has been burning in my burning brain for the past 30-40 years
cease: firesign used to play a lot of dylan on their 67 shows
Elmer Ho: has anyone heard of a guy named Mac Calhoun?
Beet: Nice one, cease.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: N
Bottles: not I
Elmer Ho: he had a radio show on station WRFK in Richmond, Va in the early 1970s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Not me, Elmer
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign's “EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out EYKIW at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
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Elmer Ho: it was called Night Life - if you like TFT (and you know you do), you'd have loved it
Ralph: wow Tweeny that is strong language
Elmer Ho: would dearly love to find airchecks if anyone every runs across them
DJTweeny: Thanks for that collage, Cat. That was fun :)
cease: just finished new one today.
Ralph: (y) (y) (y)
cease: We're All Bonzos on This Bus
Ralph: Sheriff Lugar Axehandle
Beet: Haul ash
Ralph: Lem Ashhandle?
shoes for the dead: Sterno bum
Ralph: Ashhauler
shoes for the dead: can't wait to see this again
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: any news yet on a release date for the dvd?
Ralph: rebellious libertines...... my favorite knd
DJTweeny: just emailed Taylor this afternoon asking if he was ready for an interview
Beet: Wahibgton had a huge hemp crop.
Beet: Washington
cease: i'm sure he will be when the project is ready to ship
Elmer Ho: the Luger Axhandle spiel is one of the greats
cease: probably proctor and or ossman.
Elmer Ho: ive read that Taylor J tracked down all of the music that they played on the DF shows
Elmer Ho: i've actually discovered some nice music through listening to DF
cease: amazing job, ho
cease: the hour hours were hard to find.
Elmer Ho: truly a labor of love - it couldnt have made him much dough
cease: the lads were certainly eclectic
shoes for the dead: I wonder if you can slow nown the FF parts of this
shoes for the dead: or if it's just effects
||||||||| 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: hold the flattery
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
cease: hold the flaffer?
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
Elmer Ho: grr... some people deserve to burn in hell, but only after getting a barbed wire enema
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-rv
Elmer Ho: "Thieves Steal Modified Mower Designed for Des Moines Man with Polio"
Elmer Ho: i gotta stop reading the news
Ralph: LOFL
Elmer Ho: jeez, there's just so many great little snippets in this album
Ralph: 133 degrees with Fundershowers
Elmer Ho: hotter than hooker in heater, and hotter than heater in hellmouth
Ralph: Cat Man Do
Ralph: Pat Hat
Ralph: Americans of Humorous Descent
Elmer Ho: btw the video is on YouTube again
Beet: Turn what over?
Elmer Ho: it was on a while back, then got pulled, but somebody reposted it
Elmer Ho: at least it was there a couple weeks ago
||||||||| 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 Glen disembarks at 9:47 PM.
DJTweeny: Hi Glen
Glen: I couldn't think of a funny name.
shoes for the dead: hey Glen
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Glen: Hola amigos Latinos.
cease: Mr. Banks
Elmer Ho: Glen is a funny name
Beet: hello glen
Ralph: All must learn to play the piano
Elmer Ho: my uncles name is Glen
||||||||| 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."
Elmer Ho: but he spells it with two Ns
Glen: I play the piano.
shoes for the dead: Nglen?
Ralph: LOFL
Glen: Didn't I play on EOBE?
Elmer Ho: I can play John Cage's 4'33" but not much else
Ralph: Buxx and Bunny Chromehunger
DJTweeny: lol Elmer
DJTweeny: I always get the chord changes wrong, Elmer
Glen: The Elmers are coming unglued.
Ralph: Paul and Patty Mounds
cease: you can do the score for an album of mimes
Glen: Do I even KNOW anybody in here? Everybody has a fake name.
DJTweeny: only the NSA knows for sure, Glen
Ralph: we are all Bozos on this bus
Timeghost: Not me.
Glen: I don't know you, or you're not a Bozo?
Beet: And a big hello to the NSA guy in residence.
Ralph: help me Mr. Wizard
Glen: In residue.
cease: glen, i dont think we've met but you did send me a vhs of proc and bergman on your tv show
cease: first name is
Glen: AHA!
cease: Cat
Glen: Cat, baby!
cease: i was a baby long ago
Elmer Ho: i was an imaginary playmate
Glen: this LP was made into an awesome film.
Glen: where's the dvd
cease: coming soon, glen
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Ralph: called......
Glen: taylor always makes it sound like it's on the way
Glen: All-Day Matinee never showed up
cease: have you heard any of my collages, glen? tonights was called Light Train.
cease: Tweeny and I always post them to Facebook
Glen: I stand accused!
Glen: If I see the link I will do it
Ralph: Everything you know is wrong : the Disinformation guide to secrets and lies / edited by Russ Kick
Elmer Ho: i once used "they think he is insane, but he outranks them" at work
Ralph: published 2002
Elmer Ho: for some reason it didnt go over well
Glen: How many monsters have I seen on TV?
cease: last weeks was Same Firetime, same firestation, about time.
cease: tonight's was about light
cease: also lots of trains
Ralph: I need another drink
cease: i would imagine that was something you would have done, or could do easily
Glen: I recommend the black tar heroin. Booze is for PUSSIES.
Beet: Catherwood bring everyone a drink.
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a drink.
||||||||| 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!"
Glen: Catherwood seems to be fairly obliging this PM
||||||||| Catherwood steps alongside Glen and mumbles "Did you want me?"
Glen: I want you. But we can't talk here.
Ralph: gimme one of those blueies will ya
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Glen: That's a beautiful mobile home, too.
Ralph: They know not their holes from an ass on the ground
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
Glen: I'm ON it!
Glen: I would never make you watch my TV shows!
cease: the one i saw was a delight.
Glen: Wow! THAT was unexpected...
Glen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EAKIxoWLJ8
Ralph: Art Wolflaffer?
Glen: LOOKS LIKE A BIG FRIED EGG!
Glen: Or is it only the b
DJTweeny: "No. It's the end..."
Ralph: Everything You Knew Was Wrong
Glen: Uh-oh
Beet: Great albom
shoes for the dead: tired eyes again, gonna listen out
Beet: album
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Glen: Some of the Dear Friends stuff is in mono on the set when they were actually broadcast in stereo
cease: very true, tween. every firefan has to have it
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends Collection “ALL NITE IMAGES”
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
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Elmer Ho: you MUST own DOMM
Ralph: Eric Burden
Glen: Many of us were strung out on blackberry brandy during these shows
DJTweeny: be well, shoes!
Elmer Ho: let the imagination run wild on "I'll Be Gumping You"
Glen: Some I can remember- but I can't recall if I was in the studio for this particular show
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Glen: you don't hear us on the floor, so maybe not
cease: much health, shoes
Glen: any more rocket fuel for you hardhats?
cease: was it any good, glen?
Glen: was what any good?
cease: my favourite fruit. almost in season
Glen: oh the blacks
Glen: somebody kept bringing it
Glen: maybe it was TFT - or maybe the audience
Glen: im a professional digester
Ralph: mmmmm, hashed lung meat
Glen: and dumplings
Elmer Ho: i visited Vienna once - they really do serve gabelfruhstuck
Ralph: issss therrrrre aaaaa deeelaayyyyy
Elmer Ho: not necessarily with lung meat though
DJTweeny: Live Earl Jive be havin' some fun
Glen: pardon me while I make a strange interlude
Ralph: btw just ordered my very own DOMM book/dvd
Glen: I didn't know until a few years ago that Peter studied under a Zen master
Ralph: tyvm
Glen: DOMM is essential
Glen: I love the atmosphere of these shows
cease: i think that's what brought him to whidbey island. the master had a house there
cease: indeed, glen
Elmer Ho: comparing the Lets Eat and DF broadcasts you really notice what Jive brought to the proceedings
Ralph: LOL
cease: that's where the podcasts started
Glen: ahhhh
DJTweeny: Cat, what's your favorite color?
Ralph: don't guess wrong....
Glen: plaid
DJTweeny: Paisley lol
Glen: I Was Hitler's Dog Doctor is a favorite of mine
cease: varoius shades of blue. i also like various brands of orange and there's a red/purple thing i really like in flowers.
Glen: THIS is a great spot
cease: there are lots of them outside my window
Glen: smashed
Glen: i got rice in my pockets and everything
cease: everyone was smashed?
Glen: creole
Ralph: creole, baby
cease: this is amazingly funny
Elmer Ho: speaking of crole, I gotta run - almost time for Hogans Heroes
Glen: FAMOUS JEW
Ralph: LOFL
||||||||| Elmer Ho rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Elmer Ho?! It's 10:24 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Glen: Aloha HO
Beet: Nite Elmer
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: night Elmer!
Ralph: 3I resemble that remark
cease: by ho
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: lol, ralph!
Ralph: -3
Glen: syndicated
Ralph: Bemidji
Glen: Babaji
Ralph: The Who?
Glen: the HOOOVE
Ralph: i can draw flies...
Beet: both colors. lol
Glen: sorry soiree
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Don’t forget to tell your Firehead friends about our little soireé. Let’s get lots and lots of folks in here!
Ralph: I believe in rotaration in office
Glen: ANT
Beet: I like to get licked evrywhere.
Glen: All Negro Television
cease: WET
Glen: ANTS
Ralph: Little Richard
Ralph: Agnew got a good base
Glen: I have this ad somewhere
Glen: very odd
Glen: it was printed out and passed around
Ralph: LOFL
DJTweeny: hahahahahaha
Glen: crosstalk
DJTweeny: er, that was me...
Beet: What was that?
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
cease: have ou heard ossmans poems in that format?
cease: there are some in packer's An Autobozographical Evening
Glen: found oral art?
DJTweeny: accidentally opened up the FST catalog page, which has an audio collage
||||||||| 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."
cease: i think this is my favourite firesign bit.
DJTweeny: working on getting you collage page working, Cat
cease: i was ecstatic to play it on the national network of japan (NHK)
Glen: Phil is well-versed in Soviet palaver
DJTweeny: *your
cease: ok i'll send you an old pic and a new one.
Glen: get a job
cease: i should give you details of the stuff in the collages. where i got the ideas for them
Ralph: Hello Friends, Ralph Spoilsport here at Duke of Madness Motors.... yes friends, they made me an offer I couldn't refuse, so come on down to the new location here in the city of..........
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Glen: I Am The President's Man
Rufus_T_Firetween: cease: i should give you details of the stuff in the collages. where i got the ideas for them << yes, I'm going to include descriptions
Glen: Girdle in the stretch
Beet: The Constitution is no longer in the running.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ain't it thruth, Beet :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: *truth
Glen: trufe
Ralph: The United Snakes of Armena
Ralph: ia
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
cease: i want to contact everyone i use in these things. maybe they'll enjoy them.
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
Glen: Jack Benny's door
cease: i tried to contact dweezil zappa through his site, but oddly you have to earn points in order to join his chat group. very odd
DJTweeny: great idea. cease
Ralph: Lithbon
DJTweeny: never heard of that, cease
Ralph: LOFL
Glen: ELMER HO
Beet: Elmer Ho!
Glen: The Young Sexos
Glen: GREAT title
Glen: The Doctor Blowjob Show
Glen: Joe Dalesandro was the guy on the front cover of the Stones' Sticky Fingers
cease: i use this in my high heel firesign collage
cease: i lived in tokyo for a long time. i doubt those numbers
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: They do it on porpoise
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the entire FIRESIGN THEATRE CATALOG at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's the three robots in the film Silent Running...
Ralph: LOFL
Glen: cease- is the number higher or lower in your estimation
cease: lower number thanin vancouver, but tokyo has more people than all of canada
Glen: It's not for me. I'm asking for a friend.
Rufus_T_Firetween: that's wild to think, Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: that Tokyo has more people than the 2nd largest country on the planet
cease: i think its much easier to be gay in vancouver in tokyo because hiding is more of the culture there than here.
Ralph: staggering
||||||||| 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: next week, That Firesign Feeling, eh Tween?
cease: yet another intercourse between the beatles and the beatles of comedy
Glen: I always thought of them as alchemists.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: And still not be the Rutles, eh, cease?
Glen: with robes and pointed magic hats
cease: i just finished a collage with the bonzos today
Glen: tell me more about Keynsham...
cease: i go where i am led by what i'm exposed to and my interests
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hah! Looking forward to that!
DJTweeny: remind me, Cat
cease: i'm finally using some python on it, which i promised proc last nov
Glen: python bonzos credibility gap
cease: ive asked tween to play them in the order i compose them, but that isnt necessary.
Glen: the phone scared me
Beet: Ehis has been fun. Thanks everyone. Nice collage Cease. Thanks Tween. G'Nite.
Glen: swell to see you guys, I bet
cease: thanks beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite all! Thanks to cat, kurt & all!
Timeghost: Thanks, Tweeny; night all.
cease: i'll take that bet
Ralph: Terriffic as always DJ
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:57 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Timeghost by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
cease: Bye
||||||||| At 10:59 PM, cease hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Rufus_T_Firetween exits at 11:01 PM.
||||||||| DJTweeny rushes off, saying "11:01 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Glen - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Ralph - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| HonestyKnox - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 12:26 AM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Bottles
cease
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
Glen
HonestyKnox
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Ralph
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
Timeghost
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089343/
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_Light
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance_(film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream_filmography
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EAKIxoWLJ8



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