A Firesign Chat
09/22/2016




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 September 22, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 Rufus_T_Firetween falls out at 5:21 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 7:07 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes 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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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:34 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| 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 (Pink Floyd)
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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||||||||| 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 dude gets out at 8:40 PM.
DJTweeny: Hi dude
||||||||| It's 8:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| dude - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Beet enters at 8:55 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Beet: A suitably Cosmic intro to a properly Cosmic chatroom. Evening Tween and dude.
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
DJTweeny: some 'trippy' music for a replay of Cat's "Hunter And Bear" ;)
Beet: I guess it's just you and me, Dr Tween at least for a moment.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Cat', just granted probation at 8:56 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: 2 or 200, the show must go on...
DJTweeny: Hi Cat
||||||||| Catherwood ushers rebozoette into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:57 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
Beet: Howdy Cat & rebo
Cat: not getting any volume.
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny hi all and thanks tweeny it is to laugh
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:58 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: good evening
DJTweeny: Hi llan
||||||||| "8:58 PM? 8:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Lil should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Lil enters and sits at the bar.
Beet: Hi llan
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
DJTweeny: Hi Lil
rebozoette: hi llan
Beet: Howdy Lil
llanwydd: when I saw pink floyd somehow I thought of Echoes
llanwydd: how did I know
Beet: What'll you have?
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:59 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Lil: Hi all you cool Bozo babies
DJTweeny: Just what it is :)
Beet: Hi Cease
rebozoette: what watt
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 22, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
llanwydd: who am I? lol
Cat: ok, got in other computer
rebozoette: adjust your phoneage
DJTweeny: Cat suffers from MI
Beet: I like topless nurses
DJTweeny: the best sort, for sure
Lil: Ok I'll bite, MI?
||||||||| Merlyn enters at 9:01 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Beet: Hi Merl
rebozoette: it all starts with hot oil
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
llanwydd: evening Merl
Lil: What flavor oil?
Cat: wonder why no sound on this one
Cat: hi all
Beet: Oh boy, the plague
llanwydd: hey cat
Beet: Hi down there
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
rebozoette: prosthetic
Lil: prosthetic flavor oil?
Merlyn: Autumnal equinox
Merlyn: not solstice
DJTweeny: oops
Beet: Very appropriate
rebozoette: oh good I thought the world was turning too fast
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out CAT’S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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Beet: My introduction to HST was "Where The Buffalo Roam".
Cat: lots of good hunter flicks, bios
Cat: this is proctor in a recent interview, comedy on vinyl podcast
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Hunter S. Thompson's son on fearing, loathing and loving the 'gonzo' journalist >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
Rufus_T_Firetween: Buffalo is a weird and fun movie
Beet: That looks like a good one. Thanks Tween.
rebozoette: wow cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bill Murray was great
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King >> http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
Cat: hes doing a book tour
Rufus_T_Firetween: Johnny Depp also good in Fear And Loathing
Rufus_T_Firetween: and Terry Gilliam of Python involved in both
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Elmer Ho in through the front door at 9:11 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cat: proc posts these on facebook.l i just compile and collage em
Beet: 2/3 of the way through the movie someone said it was based in a real person. I about fell out of my chair.
Rufus_T_Firetween: hahaha
Cat: yeah that article made me want to creatge this
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
Elmer Ho: Hello there everyonebody
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cat: this is from a biopic called Buy the ticket, Take the ride
Elmer Ho: Any of you chaps bring the embalming fluid?
Beet: Hi Elmer
||||||||| 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 MrNigger gets out at 9:12 PM.
Elmer Ho: It's been that kind of week...
Cat: i think is from a rolling stone interview
Elmer Ho: Oh crap not that asshole again...
Beet: Uh oh
MrNigger: I think that could be arranged Elmer ;)
rebozoette: theeres cat
MrNigger: I'm not an asshole
Beet: We have proof
||||||||| 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!"
Elmer Ho: anybody got an IP filter handy?
MrNigger: I'm a nice guy :)
||||||||| 9:14 PM: dil jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Beet: We don't have proof
DJTweeny: How about changing your nick to a Firesign character, MrN?
dil: whats going on here
DJTweeny: Hi dil
MrNigger: Cmon Elmer don't be like that. I thought we were bros.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween aka 'The Reaper' has killed off MrNigger at 9:15 PM
: About 69 days by my estimate.
Beet: Thought is not your chief asset
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'cAPer', just granted probation at 9:15 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
dil: catherwood please take my coat
||||||||| Catherwood takes dil's coat.
: About 69 days by my estimate.
dil: thank you
DJTweeny: Hi cAPer
||||||||| "9:15 PM? 9:15 PM!!" says Catherwood, "MrNigger should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as MrNigger enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Elmer Ho: take his hat and goat, catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood takes his hat and goat.
Beet: Get ready Merl
MrNigger: That wasn't very nice
DJTweeny: MrN, please change your nick to a Firesign character, or at least something less offensive
dil: who's goat was taken
DJTweeny: This is my last warning
MrNigger: Thank you catherwood, at leas you are my friend.
||||||||| Catherwood ares MrNigger's friend.
dil: if it was my goat I'm going to need that back
MrNigger: <3
dil: i am also your friend
MrNigger: <3
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Hunter S. Thompson's son on fearing, loathing and loving the 'gonzo' journalist >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
DJTweeny: last chance, MrN
MrNigger (
dil: i thought he already had his last chance
dil: besides what difference does it make wat his name is
Cat: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/owsley-stanley-the-king-of-lsd-20110314
MrNigger: I really like this site
rebozoette: smells just like
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King >> http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off MrNigger at 9:20 PM
Beet: Thanks
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
llanwydd: sdfghjk
Merlyn: I don't think he'll be able to return
rebozoette: thanks tweeny
Rufus_T_Firetween: and Merlyn :)
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Johan Amadeus Myjetski into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:21 PM, then departs.
Beet: Howdy JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: HiYas, beet!
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
rebozoette: msg
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Greets, djt!
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRXSVuPRhU
Beet: Peter was a sojourner. Proc too
Cat: this is from one of bergmans podcasts, towards the end of his life
: Pls u guys I can return. Pls don't be bully 8(
Cat: hi jam
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I remember the Fugs!
||||||||| "9:24 PM? 9:24 PM!!" says Catherwood, "anon should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as anon enters and sits on the couch.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Cat! you're you doing?
Elmer Ho: very interesting juxtapositions here.. nice work Cat
Beet: Hi anon
||||||||| 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: Hi anon
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi anon, & on
Cat: i thought their 2 lives interacted in a postiive way.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: How're you doing, I meant to type
Elmer Ho: anonanonanonanon...
Cat: im here on 2 computers. cant get sound on this one tonight
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Hunter S. Thompson's son on fearing, loathing and loving the 'gonzo' journalist >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
rebozoette: prolapsed pronrouns
||||||||| 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 Ralph gets out at 9:26 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:27 PM, dragging garrybettman by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
DJTweeny: Hi Ralph
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Lol, rebozoette
Beet: Hi Ralph
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
DJTweeny: Hi garry
Ralph: trailing clouds of.......
garrybettman: hello
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Ralph: glory, that is really good shit Ms. Presskey
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: glorious, Ralph! Hi garry!
Beet: Howdy garry
garrybettman: hello all
Cat: at work on new project, based on the same rolling stone artile about owsley, description of bear having a bad trip and insulting kesey, saying he was irresposible about magic. that called for a collage from me
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Cat: y'all can help. i think it's a dear friends episode, they are supposed to guess the author of a quote and all turned out to be ken sesey.
Cat: anyone remember whch show? book doesnt help
Beet: I wish my ma had done that
Cat: thjis is from thier first play, Freak for a Week.
DJTweeny: don't know that one Cat, but I vaguely remember it
Cat: no released yet, tween.
Cat: i think they will eventually,maybe just through their store
Beet: My one really good trip was the best experience of my life.
||||||||| 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: I was responding to your query about the Dear Friends episode
Rufus_T_Firetween: Definitey don't know Freak For A Week
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I agree. My experiences were more real than everyday waking reality.
Cat: this is the rollingstone article again
Ralph: ho ho ho
rebozoette: running wild
||||||||| 9:33 PM: Nabby jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Cat: hi nab
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nabster!
rebozoette sees the light
Cat: i got this from doc technical
Nabby: greetings from the yeast
Cat: this is lampoon radio hour
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Nabby: thumbs up, cat
Nabby: Hey Tweeny
DJTweeny: Lampoon did some great bits
Cat: i worked in thisfor a while
Beet: Hi Nab
Cat: there is so much hunter stuff online
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: This is really funny, Cat!
Cat: this flick is as much a collage as this audio piece is
Nabby: Hey Beet
Nabby: back in a bit....
rebozoette: the long and the long of 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: ** Hunter S. Thompson's son on fearing, loathing and loving the 'gonzo' journalist >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King >> http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| garrybettman - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAZV_EsSSE
Beet: American History as it was.
Cat: i hope i sound as wasted as tale of wasted thomson
llanwydd: what the hell was wrong with my interpretation of that, cat?
llanwydd: I thought the sound was perfect
llanwydd: what went wrong?
Cat: htis is is the kind of skit i was doiong in tokyo in 82
DJTweeny: nice
Cat: this is part of a larger tale of being hassled by the us border with my family that year
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: But it's really good skit....
Cat: i dont know,never heard it llan.
rebozoette: so young cat
llanwydd: sorry it didnt work
Ralph: forgot what a great song that is
Cat: yeah too much of my voice on this
Ralph: I DID NOT KNOW he was still at it in 2011
Cat: i'm reading different articles but you dont get that.
||||||||| "9:45 PM? 9:45 PM!!" says Catherwood, "tirebiter should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as tirebiter enters and sits at the bar.
rebozoette: one leg at a time
Beet: I never knew the source of this song
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: me neither, ralph!
DJTweeny: Hi tirebiter
Ralph: he knew EVERYTHING
Beet: Hi tirebiter
Ralph: <>
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: EVENIN' TIREBITER!
Ralph: <>
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sorry. Caps locked locked w/o official permission
Ralph: reboze......... <3 <3
DJTweeny: I hate it when they do that, Johan
rebozoette: thanks ralph
Beet: Boy have they made some great music!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: My keyboard doesn't have a caps lock indicator light, too, sometimes I never know...
DJTweeny: indeed Beet
llanwydd: this was on their first greatest hits album, I remember
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Right Beet! Harmonically complex, not all that easy to figure out sometimes
Beet: Sittin' here bopping to the tune
Cease: i agree, beet
Beet: lol
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cat: i might make more collages out of dan tunes
DJTweeny: what's on tap for next week, Cat?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I worry about my big bang account...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Beet: Who ix this?
rebozoette: makes the heart go pitter pat
DJTweeny: That was Bill Hicks
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: how about Alice's Brazerko Lounge, a request by Lil
DJTweeny: comedian from Texas
Beet: Thanks
Cat: and his hot licks
DJTweeny: check him out on YouTube
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Not he of the Hot Licks fame
DJTweeny: THat would be Dan ;)
Merlyn: I thought that was Hicks, yeah
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: This was the first Beatles record I bought!
Cat: the first beatls song i like
Cat: 64?
DJTweeny: he has some really good commentary mixed in with the comedy, like Carlin
rebozoette: theres an amusement park in rye ny ticket to rye lol
llanwydd: Its from the BEATLES 65 album
Cat: thanks
Beet: Great song
Beet: Fantastic job on the collage, Cat.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: GREAT, Great work, Cat!!!
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: great one thanks cat
llanwydd: well, you did some fine voice work on that, cat
rebozoette: thanks for the do over
||||||||| 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."
Cat: you approve of the new diretion i'm going?
Cat: becoming more professor cat. not too boring?
Ralph: thumbs up Cat!!
Cat: thanks, llan.
Beet: me like
Ralph: it's all GOOD
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently 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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rebozoette appaludes cat
DJTweeny: love it Cat
rebozoette: the sound of clapping
Ralph: likes her
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Indubitablly, Cat!
Ralph: thanks to all concerned
Ralph: more SUGAR....................
Ralph: those living, and those who live on......
Cat: ok, i have 2 in the can, restaurant for next week, a firesign shine in 2 weeks
Ralph: I'll have a snort
rebozoette: it twirls and spins and opps
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool, Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “NOT INSANE” at >> firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-ln
rebozoette: looking forward to the past cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Cat: mayb the kesey piece will be ready in 3 weeks, dont know
Beet: Interesting layering there
Lil: Woohoo Restaurant!!!!
Ralph: how bout bending a couple in the doo-dah room?
Cat: hope you'll be in time for itr, lil
Ralph: Captain Phlegm
Lil: why do you think I'm always late?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Depends on how bendable the couple is , Ralph....
Cat: noone remembers the kesey answer from Dear Friends? I'll ask Taylor
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Lil: I always open the audio first
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the entire FIRESIGN THEATRE CATALOG at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
Cat: was kidding lil. you're welcome whenever
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: mizzen
Ralph: Rocky Rocomoto
Cat: i'm not sure where the kesey piece is going.
rebozoette: jibber me timber
Ralph: Furthur, no doubt
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Ralph: What? I was arrested??
Ralph: Idenamine phosphate
Beet: Yes you were, Ralph.
Ralph: Surely not for false advertising.........
Elmer Ho: I'll stand on my head til my ears turn red
Ralph: Thanks for the interruption!
Elmer Ho: the actual Cal Worthington commercials were almost as funny as the FST parodies
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Cat: vaguely recall them, ho
||||||||| 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: shanty shanties
Ralph: this never sounded as intelligible as it does now....
Cat: speaking of phil, he's training accross canada now.
Cat: maybe the best time to see canada, before wintre descends
Ralph: put FST on your Chopin Liszt
DJTweeny: looks like some gorgeous scenery, Cat
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| tirebiter - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTweeny: would love to take a train trip across Canada some day
Cat: looks like a deluxe suite, seeing canada in style
DJTweeny: that's the way to do it
Cat: when i saw it in late sept, 99, driving accross sask. the fields alongthe road glowing gold, red barns, intense blue sky with puffy clouds. it was so beautiful i had to stop and just look at it.
Cat: ontario and quebec are great for leaves this time of year.
DJTweeny: nice
Beet: Amazing soliloquey
llanwydd: I miss the leaves
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
rebozoette: l L Ls ya gotta love em
Cat: phil and melinda have chosen well.
Elmer Ho: I remember Canada
Elmer Ho: was in Montreal trying to find my way to the meeting place
Cat: shoveling them off the front steps to avoid law suits is a daily chore. guess it's healthy or something.
llanwydd: I hope to take a train across siberia someday
DJTweeny: there's a band by that name as I recall, llan
Elmer Ho: I mentally practiced what I remembered of my high school french, then real smooth walked up to this guy and asked "Pardonnez-moi, ou se trouve...."
Cat: you think siberia would be intersting?
Elmer Ho: he answered "Sorry, I don't speak French"
Cat: i would like to see st. petersburg, my grandfather's hometown.
DJTweeny: lol
llanwydd: I keep dreaming about it. seriously
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: at my last houde the acorns in fall we called it nut fall
Cat: lol ho
DJTweeny: that would be one long rail ride across 7 times zones
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sounds painful, rebozoette!
DJTweeny: So what's Proc's origin/destination? Montreal to Van?
rebozoette: was like water torture fun for the squirrels
llanwydd: Ive got some stuff to work on. Hopefully see you all next week.
||||||||| 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."
Cat: he was in van briefly.
DJTweeny: be well llan
Cat: ok llan.
rebozoette: duck and cover jam
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 10:18 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Beet: nite llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite plan!
rebozoette: bye llan
DJTweeny: speaking of, I wonder how shoes is doing
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: nite plan!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: nit llan!
||||||||| 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."
Elmer Ho: have a great eve, llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: what's up w/ shoes, djt?
Cat: reek of health, llan
Cat: yes, he is amiss
DJTweeny: Johan Amadeus Myjetski: what's up w/ shoes, djt? << has been recovering from cancer
Cat: 2nd time they said fuck in a record
DJTweeny: has been saying his health was improving
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sorry to hear that. A good friend was just dragnosed w/ prostrate cancer... Good thoughts to shoes!
Cat: hope so
Cat: cancer is no one's friend.
rebozoette: what has yet to be created
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Damn straight, Cat!
Cat: this works better on stage
DJTweeny: Beet, did you see my PM?
Beet: the voices in my head
Cat: i dont think they ever really approached the script as an audio project.
Elmer Ho: gotta cut and run
Cat: unlike for example, dwarf and bozos
Elmer Ho: best to Shoes, hope all goes well
||||||||| Elmer Ho is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 10:27 PM.
Cat: off you go, ho. thanks for dropping by.
Beet: PM?
Beet: see ya elmer
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite, Ho!
Ralph: ye gods this is soooo fucking hilarious
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL!
Cat: its really hard for the firesign not to be hilarious
Ralph: help.... i can't breathe.......
Beet: Get it, DJ?
Ralph: we steppin in a speedy druiser boat?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Ralph: cruiser
Cat: any of you read tom wolfe's electric kool-aid acid test?
DJTweeny: Cat: any of you read tom wolfe's electric kool-aid acid test? << probably back in the ealy 70's
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Many, many years ago, Cat
rebozoette: catherwood please give ralph mouth to mouth
||||||||| Catherwood brings ralph mouth to mouth.
Cat: me too. unfortunatley didnt re-read it before i wrote Neal Amid, abou Neal Cassady.
Cat: freinds of mine who met kesey said he was a regular guy.
Cat: he seemed to be in the middle of a farming chore when i contacted him.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I've lived & worked on a few farms in my time. Not fun, but the last one was a cattle farm. Turned me vegan.
Ralph: Buffoon for President
Cat: im gonna use a few bits from that book in my kesey collage
Beet: Let's draft Papoon!
Cat: my parents grew up on farms, headed for the city as soon as they could
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Ah! That'll be rich resource for a collage, cat!
DJTweeny: I hear it's a hard life
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Work to do all the time, seldom any money, nor time to go anywhere...
Beet: Papoon only a little less daft than Hill and Drumph
Ralph: Mark Time
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Love Mark Time!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign's “THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out PINK HOTEL at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd
'
Ralph: laughing hysterically at the intro DJ
Cat: last week was my nixon bio, am working on a kesey thing. i dont know if i want to keep doing that or where i'm going here.
Cat: but geting tired of tying firesign to just songs
Beet: Love the dramatic music
rebozoette: on to the ledge
Beet: Hello NSA guy.
Lil: Missed hearing this album
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
Lil: It's great
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: Mitch Mitch Mitch Mitcn Mitch
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: we can't talk in here?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln
Beet: This is why soap operas take forever to advance a plot.
DJTweeny: really excellent parody :)
rebozoette: oh thats worse
Nabby: sort of back but have to exit again heh
Beet: hello goodbye
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite Nabby!
Beet: this is funny
Nabby: this is a riot
Nabby: floatin JAM
rebozoette: foe pardes
Ralph: Miss Peaches Creamy from East Orange, NJ???
Nabby: ahh Pink Hotel
Cease: stay as long as you like, nab
rebozoette: pork and nabby
rebozoette: new guernsey ralph
Cat: have you seen any of proctors actual soap opera appeafrances?
Cat: i will be thinking of this when i'm next in paris.
DJTweeny: Are there some on YouTube?
Cease: yes
rebozoette: everybody hum
DJTweeny: Hope they get links to stuff like that on the new FST channel
Cat: beedn by the tower but never visited it. will finally next year, inshallah
Beet: got half way up on my visit
Cat: there is a restaurant, Jules Verne, i really want to go to.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: Paris is the most beautiful city
Cat: shortly before his death, we took my parents to a french restaurant. my dad saw photo of the eiffle tower and was transported to the wonderful time they both had long ago
Merlyn waves bye
Nabby: Thanks Tweeny & Cat & Merl & Rufus to boot!
Cat: it is, beet
Nabby: Great to see you all!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks, Cat, DJT, & EVERYBODY for the yuks! Love to all!
Cat: thanks for the venue, tween.
||||||||| 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
'
Beet: This was great fun. Thanks everyone. Thanks, Cat. Thanks Tween. G'Nite.
Nabby exits, stage left.
DJTweeny: glad to do it, Cat :)
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "10:59 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cat: will keep doing it as long as i stay inspired.
rebozoette: anon Beet cAPer Cat Cease DJTweeny Johan Amadeus Myjetski Lil Nabby Ralph rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween thanks cat wonderful and tweeny u da bomb
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "Hey Cat!" ... Cat turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Ralph: holy smoke DJ, you done outdone yourself all over again
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol, thanks :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again...
Ralph: You may already have won!
||||||||| 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 fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - 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 Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| anon - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| cAPer - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lil - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| dil - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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
Cat
Cease
dil
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
garrybettman
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Lil
llanwydd
Merlyn
MrNigger
Nabby
Ralph
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/owsley-stanley-the-king-of-lsd-20110314
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRXSVuPRhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAZV_EsSSE



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