||||||||| 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 May 17, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 7:30 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 five minutes!" ||||||||| Catherwood escorts DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (7:31 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a SPECIAL ELECTION NIGHT CHAT ** *** With Special Guest PHIL PROCTOR *** starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' DJTweeny: oops............. no ||||||||| "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!" ||||||||| 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' DJTweeny: although I do need to find a way to get Skype working so I can do interviews again ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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)' ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music (Firesign Theatre Music) 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)' ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Cat', just granted probation at 8:46 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Cat: Come on, Chatters. Show yourselves Cat: Fumiyo likes singing along with this one. Cat: Austin, master of many genres ||||||||| "8:50 PM? 8:50 PM!!" says Catherwood, "EWeston should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as EWeston enters and sits in front of the fireplace. Cat: EWeston, master of acting. EWeston: Hey cat, Tweeny. Reporting goats upon the Battlements, or sheep on the ramparts. EWeston: But can Rock and roll save me? Cat: Are the sheep asleep? EWeston: Thay don't usually talk when they sleep do they? Cat: These guys have been writing funny songs since the 50s EWeston: Phil is alway's ready to sing. ||||||||| 8:55 PM: Merlyn jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Cat: Very true. EWeston: Mashta Merlyn Cat: I read a bio of Dean Martin. It siad his family was tired of him singing all the time when he was a kid. Cat: Maybe Proctor's too? Cat: HI Merl. You're mentioned at the end of my new collage DJTweeny: Hi Cat, EW, Merlyn Merlyn: hey cat Cat: And your Mossy piece ends chat tonight Merlyn: I'll listen for it EWeston: I'd thought there were a lot of musical people in Phil's family Cat: I'dhave to consult his bio Cat: But you would imagine so. Cat: I end my Firesign memories at the 99 show, suggesting that tale is better told by others of us who were there. EWeston: Dean was a very private man. Jerry thought he had great taste in sweaters Cat: My daughter use to sing along with this as a child. ||||||||| 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 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)' ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 17, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" EWeston: Has the North East coast drained yet? Cat: I wonder if they had to pay Gene Autry to use this tune? EWeston: Raising oceans are caused by rocks falling in the water per a GOP representative ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “HISTORY AND FIRESIGNS” 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/' ||||||||| 9:03 PM: NotEd jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" Cat: Not DJTweeny: Hi ≠ Ed EWeston: Not Ed ahoy! ||||||||| 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!" Merlyn: !Ed Cat: This is Proc singing Bergman at Yale, late 50s ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Elayne into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:13 PM, then departs. Elayne: Evenin' all! EWeston: Mz. E DJTweeny: Hi Elayne ||||||||| NotJoe steals in around 9:14 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident." DJTweeny: Hi NotJoe EWeston: Not Joe. Will Not Fred be joining us NotJoe: Hi y'all Cat: Hi El. Cat: This is Bergman's single from 1956 DJTweeny: kewl Elayne: Ah, I see I'm just in time for the casual racism. DJTweeny: lol Elayne ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Not Ed in through the front door at 9:17 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Elayne: I love the idea of an oral auto-biography. I might try to do that after I retire, if Dr. Memory ever returns. ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Not Ed: Pork? DJTweeny: Nots everywhere! ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Elayne: I can't do most things very well, but one thing I can do well is talk. :) EWeston: Trendy with a good head of hair Cat: Indeed, El. ||||||||| Outside, the 9:22 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Elmer Ho coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. EWeston: Elmer har Not Ed: Hi Elmer Not Ed: Waz real Elmer Ho: howdy every body people DJTweeny: Hi Elmer Merlyn: Howdy, howdy, howdy (Far Side reference) Elmer Ho: ah Japan EWeston: All my body is saying hello Elmer Ho: tmi, EW Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The Philip K Dick Van Dyke Show is here >> http://zxquniverse.com/the-philip-k-dick-van-dyke-show/ Not Ed: this is great Cat Cat: Elmer Elayne: Was that Bit? Elmer Ho: Cat Elmer Ho: this is nice Cat: Made this is 82 Elmer Ho: Sir Apollo C. Vermouth Cat: Maybe'll I'll fix it up and send it to EWeston: Goon show line yaz ||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!" Cat: ween Cat: Yes, 3 year old Bit. "Shito) ||||||||| 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!" Elmer Ho: wow, this brings up a neat idea Elmer Ho: teaching someone english solely by listening to FST DJTweeny: That would make for some interesting conversation Cat: I think lightning at the time was disturbing the reception, hence the bad sound. Elayne: Oh dear, I heard my name. Don't say it twice more. Cat: There's the great Elayne voice Elayne: I sound the same now as I did 30 years ago. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “History And Firesigns” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#CAT_TALES Elayne: Steveis still a big X-Files fan. Cat: Neither Fumiyo nor I could get into the new seasons. Cat: Only so much fun can be got from seeing Vancouver streets in the back ground Cat: I think Firesign could have done a radio thing in Japan the way Pythons did in Germany Cat: Actually this would make a pretty good anime. EWeston: Yup cat EWeston: Expecting to step on a speedy motorcycle myself tomorrow ||||||||| 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: Do you remember these conversations with the Ossmans, El? Elayne: Awww... NotEd: Poor kid. Elayne: Cat, you are brazenly courting danger. I have no Dr. Memory. I have HYPOphagia, or whatever. I don't remember the name. Not Ed: ? Elmer Ho: loved Proctor's collages in the DOMM book Not Ed: I'm Spartacus. Elayne: I have little snapshots about 2-3 seconds long about various things that have happened in my life, and can call up no more. At least not yet. EWeston: I'm partacus Cat: Did not know that, El. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The Philip K Dick Van Dyke Show is here >> http://zxquniverse.com/the-philip-k-dick-van-dyke-show/ ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:41 PM and late as usual, it's The Duke Of Highway J, just back from Milwaukee."
Not Ed shrugs at Tweeny
DJTweeny is just an old cus Elayne: It's OK Cat, I don't need to remember my own life in order to do my job, have friends, etc. DJTweeny: Hi Duke Elayne: I just can't answer folks when they ask me if I remember specific stuf. EWeston: Call Hi for short? ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Cat: I will avoid doing so. Elayne: That's why I'm glad I have friends, to remember this stuff for me. Elayne: Not really offended, Cat. "Courting danger" was just me kidding. It only bothers me sometimes. Cat: You gonna play this next week, Tween? Cat: The Big Internet Broadcast of 1996 DJTweeny: Absolutely - The Great Internet Broadcast Of 1996 - will take up the whole show, folks EWeston: Exterior memory holders. Not uncommon. Cat: Alan Gross filmed this. I only knew the audio but proc played cheetah. Elayne: Exactly so, EWeston. Cat: we were talking about that here the last time airship al was on chat. EWeston: Ook! EWeston: Melinda is special Not Ed: Heavy stuff Cat Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html Elayne: **applause** Very nice NotEd: Yay EWeston: Three cheers, and a tiger Merlyn: If it was an autobiography like another, it would be that other guy's autobiography... Not Ed: Who am us anyway? Not Ed: Thanks Tweeny Elayne: So confusing. That's why I use my real name. :) Not Ed: lol E I hear you Elmer Ho: i am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: “BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY” from Firesign's PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN album 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-ln' Merlyn: Elmer Ho, are you really in Hawaii? Cat: I'm using my actual name tonight. EWeston: Tricky pratfalls in the examinantion of the self Elayne: I'd best go. I'm three beers in (company party earlier today) and a fair amount of goodly stretching. Elmer Ho: no, I'm in Iowa, which is as far from Hawaii as you can get - in many ways Elayne: Need shower and beddy-byes. Bye! Not Ed: No hard feelings NotEd picking nicks can be knicky nick nick ||||||||| "9:53 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elayne, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the garden. Elmer Ho: nite Elayne - always nice to hear from you Cat: Glad you could join us, El. Merlyn: Ha, Nino is wrong! Not Ed: Take care Elayne EWeston: See yez Elayne DJTweeny: Sounds like Nino's crystall ball is a bit fogged EWeston: The dark energy shorted out on all those pretty sprinkles EWeston: Life styles of feathered boas soon to be a best seller The Duke Of Highway J:http://zxquniverse.com/the-philip-k-dick-van-dyke-show/ was REALLY well done!!! Cat: Indeed, Duke Cat: I learned of Peter and that show from Elayne's zine. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. EWeston: It's Sidley! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln EWeston: A good skoff is hard to find The Duke Of Highway J: Tell me more tales and lies about the Zine (as if thats what its really called) of Elane's (as if thats her real name) Cat:http://firesignal.chromiumswitch.org/FAlaFal_24.pdf ||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!" Cat: this is the issue where people review that 94 seatlte show, on the pier. Cat: i'm sure some of our seattle chatters were at that show ||||||||| Catherwood leads FloydIAm into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:04 PM, then departs. EWeston: I was there. A good time. DJTweeny: Hi Floyd NotEd: There are so many pieces in this that were or would be used in other skits. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new video of David Ossman and Phil Proctor at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS >> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw EWeston: A Floyd for all seasons Cat: Floyd ||||||||| FloydIAm is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 10:05 PM. Merlyn: Captain Equinox works a 12-hour day! Cat: Maynard G Crebbs: Work? EWeston: A full life, maybe even swell EWeston: Rub away quick before he... EWeston: run DJTweeny: This skit is extremely punny Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also a couple of other unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/ EWeston: No mercy to page 23 Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Merlyn The Web Magician sez... If people want their pictures to be added to the Rogue's Gallery, just post a link to a pic in the chat EWeston: Warbling artfully into orbit Merlyn: Hey Merlyn: Pictures from this are here: http://www.westley.org/pm.html Merlyn: It was a preview! Merlyn: , music by DocTech! DJTweeny: kewl :) Merlyn: This is also the first public performance of material from GIve Me Immortality Or Give Me Death Cat: This is hilarious, Merl ||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| The Duke Of Highway J - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... DJTweeny: That cool, Merlyn, didn't know that DJTweeny: *That's DJTweeny: Santa Corpse lol Merlyn: thanks, cat Cat: I'll ask Chris and Fred and Bunny. DJTweeny: lol @ 'fired me to hind him' Cat:Tween recorded his adventures at the 64 NY World's Fair with me, Doc Tech and Alan Gross last year. We could do sometihng like that with the 99 Seattle shows as we recall them. EWeston: Ipso frisco EWeston: Some good laughs Merl DJTweeny: Want me to post the link for A Fair For Al, Cat? Cat: Hey EW, you were at one of the 99 shows, right? EWeston: Think so, Paramount? Cat:Tweeny, when did we do those shows? Last fall? Cat: Good idea, Tween DJTweeny: A Fair For Al, And No Fair To Anybody - http://kurtericson.com/cat/#WORLDS_FAIR_COLLAGES DJTweeny: Last October, Cat Cat: After the DC show? Cat: Can you get Skype happening again, Tween? DJTweeny: I've got it as being played in early October DJTweeny: so we must have recorded it in September EWeston: Pior I think. They'd reformed again after a bit off. DJTweeny: Yeah, I'll make a not to get Skype working DJTweeny: *note EWeston: Things were still sensitive between Austin and Bergman Cat: Did Doc Tech record us together, Tween? Via his Skype? Merlyn: Unfortunately, Dave Romm (who is playing 3M) died a few months ago... DJTweeny: Al did a conference call, and I recorded it, as I recall DJTweeny: So many good people leaving us EWeston: The kipper was to keep his strength up ||||||||| "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!" Cat: That's always the case, Tween Cat: Yes Merl, he was in Red Shift. Merlyn: Yep -- let the chairman through EWeston: There's always room for jello Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN CHAT SHOW ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/firesign/ Rufus_T_Firetween: Merlyn's play is in the Firesign Podcasts - ** FIRESIGN THEATRE and OZ PODCASTS are available for the price of your firstborn chinchilla (free) from the iTunes Store, and online: FST podcasts at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html - and RADIO FREE OZ podcasts at >> http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/?p=archive EWeston: The narrative takes a right to the kidneys ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: “PETE MOSS, SPACED DETECTIVE” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u CHECK OUT PETE MOSS >> http://www.westley.org/pm.html' DJTweeny: oops, didn't change the banner :( Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read About PETE MOSS, SPACED DETECTIVE at >> http://www.westley.org/pm.html DJTweeny: Merlyn's birthday is tomorrow, everybody wish him a happy additional solar circuit! Cat: Happy Circuits! ||||||||| 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 the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign' EWeston: Yes, a very happy birthday and a good year to Merlyn EWeston: Later in Bomb dot Bust ||||||||| 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: This was a really fun play, Merlyn :) Merlyn: thanks all EWeston: Great, nite all Merlyn: LXI tomorrow DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... DJTweeny: 61? Merlyn: Yes, 61 ||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!" Cat: Next week. ||||||||| Cat is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 10:59 PM. Merlyn: goodnite all Merlyn: thanks once again tweeny ||||||||| Merlyn leaves to catch the 10:59 PM train to Minnesota. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Elmer Ho leaves at 11:08 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..." ||||||||| 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 dengue fever ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| NotJoe - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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 jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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: ||||||||| NotEd - 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:
Cat
DJTweeny
Elayne
Elmer Ho
EWeston
Merlyn
Not Ed
NotEd
NotJoe
Rufus_T_Firetween
The Duke Of Highway J
