A Firesign Chat
06/14/2018




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 June 14, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (4:22 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Oh, how can have two computers in chat, when your browser's in-compat-ibllllle......
||||||||| 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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||||||||| 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 plummets into the garden at 4:43 PM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: test
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Rufus_T_Firetween exits at 4:47 PM.
DJTweeny: later gators...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:25 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...
||||||||| "5:41 PM? 5:41 PM!!" says Catherwood, "DJTweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as DJTweeny enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
DJTweeny: this is a test. this is only a test...
DJTweeny: Eureka!! The chat works again :-)
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween waltzes in at 5:45 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween departs at 5:45 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| 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 the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:31 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| 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 (ZZ Top)
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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DJTweeny: Bienvenue
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'StlouieLou', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:42 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
StlouieLou: Hey now!
||||||||| 8:44 PM: Kelraith 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!"
Kelraith: Ello
Kelraith: Pretend I am not a work. :(
StlouieLou: work?...I've heard of that
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Kelraith, Louie
Rufus_T_Firetween: mum's the word, Kelraith
StlouieLou: Ola Ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks to Merlyn for fixing the chat
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Cease', just granted probation at 8:47 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Cease
Cease: Hi chatters
Rufus_T_Firetween: We're back in business. Merlyn fixed some code
||||||||| 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!"
StlouieLou: every girl crazy about a short dicked man....
Cease: Merlyn really is a magician
Cease: Are you playing Tristero tonight, Tween?
Rufus_T_Firetween: yep, DD #1 on the menu and then Tristero
Rufus_T_Firetween: as wel planned :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: *we
Cease: I wonder how many chatters know Crying of Lot 49
Cease: A very Firesonian novel
||||||||| 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: not moi
||||||||| 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."
Cease: One of my favourite books. I've read it probably 60 times
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow...
Rufus_T_Firetween: I think I done that for the James Clavell book Shogun
Rufus_T_Firetween: wore out the hardcover binding lol
Cease: I read that while living in Japan.
Rufus_T_Firetween: more a Libertarian hese days, so not so much liking 'samurai'
Rufus_T_Firetween: *these
Rufus_T_Firetween: but Clavell has written some great historical novels, including 'Texas'
Cease: Samurai were oppressive.
Rufus_T_Firetween: slightly lol
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:55 PM and late as usual, it's Merlyn, just back from Minnesota."
Rufus_T_Firetween: talk about a caste system
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Merlyn
Merlyn: hey
Rufus_T_Firetween: chat working great in OS X 10.6.8
Cease: Hi Mwel. Thanks for fixing chat.
Cease: Merl
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:56 PM and late as usual, it's Johan Amadeus Myjetski , just back from Billville."
Cease: Jammy
||||||||| "8:57 PM? 8:57 PM!!" says Catherwood, "''Bob'' should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as ''Bob'' enters and sits at the bar.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi cease, DJT!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Johan
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Bob
Cease: This sounds like the guy who did Addicted to Love
Cease: Bob
Rufus_T_Firetween: ZZ Top
''Bob'': Greetinz from the president of the united states!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi bob, merl!
Rufus_T_Firetween: You're thinking of Robert Palmer
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi StLL, & Kel!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: Yes. Doenst this remind you of that song?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Addicted to Love (song) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicted_to_Love_(song)
Cease: I haven'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 14, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: I havent heard much ZZThis is very good.
''Bob'': Wait. THe Duran Duran guy played guitar on that song?!
''Bob'': HONK HONK!
''Bob'': OK, I've got a tea, a bag of pistachios, and two hours to listen to FT!
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:02 PM, dragging DrWho42 by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi DrWho
Merlyn: 2British4Me
Cease: 2 weeks ago, Tweenplayed the Knitting Factory show which was an outgrowth of this show, as you'll hear.
DrWho42: hi rufus
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from Peter Bergman’s Radio Free Oz show podcasts - “THE DIGITAL DINER (Show 1)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check Out RADIO FREE OZ At >> http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/?p=archive
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||||||||| "9:04 PM? 9:04 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits on the divan.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiya, DocWho!
Not Ed: Pork?
Cease: Bergman and Proctor got to know Ted Bonnet when he was producing John Hockenberry's show Heat in 1990 where Proc/Berg did several things, including Power.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hello ≠Ed
Cease: I met Ted at Bergman's memorial in Kirkland. He was astonished that I'd heard this show. Got it from Michael Packer who was doing a lot of stuff with the guys in those days.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Here are some links to DD videos from here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/firesign-theater/firesign-video-links/10153050798601275
Cease: It was broadcast I thik on the USC radio station, where I had been a DJ in 68
Cease: HI Not
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
DrWho42: i don't have a television?
Not Ed: Hey Rufus & the big C
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
Cease: This is Bergman at this best.
Not Ed: Evenin JAM, "B", DW42, and Merl
Cease: Such infectious enthusiasm
Not Ed: There's Rufus at his organ again
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah Cease :)
''Bob'': Gemütlich? Précis? SPREAK ENGRISH, TROOP!
Cease: The productive marriage of Ted Bonnet and Pete Bergman gave us wonders.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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
Rufus_T_Firetween: there's some rare material in the podcasts
Cease: Like
Rufus_T_Firetween: and the iTunes Store (free) presents them nicely
Cease: Like Bourdain, Bergman encouraged us to be multicultural.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: Like << peruse
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Is he saying he’s thinking his thoughts in my head?
DrWho42: And from Ursa Minor In what looked like an all-night diner Came lonely luminous creatures Whose only human feature Was singing the blues
Rufus_T_Firetween: I only knew Bourdain from a chef scene in the movie The Big Short
Rufus_T_Firetween: sad that he found suicide the only way out :(
DrWho42: i used to watch parts unknown on the travel channel
Not Ed: ooh sorry
||||||||| 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 remember listening to Bergman in 67 as he told tales of hanging out in Turkey, Amseterdam and other places. It inspires me to this day,.
DrWho42: or CNN rather
Kelraith: More sugar!
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: I would be very surpirsed if Bourdain hadn't heard Firesign.
Rufus_T_Firetween: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrv9odqUvlw
Cease: yes, this is my old radio station.
Cease: 50 years ago!
Rufus_T_Firetween: hard to imagine, Cease
DrWho42: bourdain wrote this about kissinger: https://www.facebook.com/jacobinmag/photos/a.820712797955423.1073741826.143021112391265/2193314407361915/?type=3&permPage=1 sad bourdain is gone
Not Ed: nice C
Cease: I found Bourdain very inspiring.
Cease: Chat founder Elayne turned me on to him.
DrWho42: v nice
''Bob'': Nice. I've never even been to Cambodia, but I still want to punch Kissinger in the face.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Turns everything amber? Maybe ‘cos it’s in the water....
DrWho42: 🎺
DrWho42: praise "bob"
Cease: If you havent read or seen Swimming to Cambodia by Spaulding Gray, please do so.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: Is Bob having a little argument with his co-pilot?
Cease: I think Bourdain did to "food" TV what Firesign did to audio productions
DrWho42: lol a friend's steam username is "BuckarooBonsai"
Rufus_T_Firetween: fun movie
Rufus_T_Firetween: ''Bob'': Nice. I've never even been to Cambodia, but I still want to punch Kissinger in the face << come on, he won a Nobel Peace Prize ;)
Cease: Thuis was when Bergman and Proctor were extending Power
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Right cease! Watching “Swimming” is mandatory!
''Bob'': Exactly, Rufus. Exactly.
Cease: Roseanne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : And I think what Dr. K won is actually a NoBill Piece Prize...
Rufus_T_Firetween: hahaha
Not Ed: Oops must dash! Keep 'em flying!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:26 PM and late as usual, it's The Tin Man, just back from Clinton."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Tin Man
Cease: Hi Tinny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I liked Sherry Lewis... Lambchop... “This is the song that never ends...oh it goes on and on my friends....”
The Tin Man: Hi Yo Dorothy!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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
Rufus_T_Firetween: ohan Amadeus Myjetski : I liked Sherry Lewis... Lambchop << I remember watching that as a tike
DrWho42: cool, new media
DrWho42: i was thinking about that for graduate school
Cease: My friend Paul.
DrWho42: there's the dark enlightenment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Rufus_T_Firetween: My Friend Flicka.
Cease: this is from the early days of the internet, 94-95
DrWho42: i feel like technology's becoming more mobile? with augmented realities, etc.
DrWho42: oh right
||||||||| 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."
DrWho42: that makes sense
DrWho42: cory doctorow wrote the book "eastern standard tribe" where time-zones became tribalism
Cease: this is very prescient.
The Tin Man: Never released that My Dog, Toto sequel, did they Rufe?
The Tin Man: A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles."
DrWho42 P
The Tin Man: Thus spake TJ, ever the optimist.
Cease: I met Paul not long after this show, late 95
DrWho42: proto-cryptocurrencies
Cease: His autobiography is unbelievbly funny.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sometimes you feel like a nut..
DrWho42: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Raving-Unconfined-Misadventures-Counterculture/dp/1593765037
||||||||| llanwydd sashays in at 9:37 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: howdy
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Llan!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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
Cease: Hi Llan
Cease: he went from dylan worship to dylan parody
Rufus_T_Firetween: the Dylan parody on EOBE is f'in hilarios
Rufus_T_Firetween: *hilarious
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha @ don't grow up to be Hillary Rodham
DrWho42: there's the music blog called "the active listener"
Rufus_T_Firetween: It Takes A Village To Raise A Village Idiot
The Tin Man: How many villages are short an idiot?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Pizza to go no anchovies
Rufus_T_Firetween: a bumper sticker in Texas - "GW Bush - Somewhere A Village Is Missing An Idiot"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Your village called - they want their idiot back...
DrWho42: nebulous did a bit like that
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Some like Pulp Culture, it seems
The Tin Man: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
DrWho42: living niven?
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Tin Man: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. << absolutely
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Real m-80s were the equivalent of a third of a stick of dynamite!
The Tin Man: and no need for those pesky blasting caps!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : So right Tin Man!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ELP's version of the Peter Gunn Theme is amazing
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A lit m-80 beneath an upside down metal garbage can would launch the can about 12 feet in the air!
Rufus_T_Firetween: to bad the Digital Diner shows didn't take off
Rufus_T_Firetween: great stuff
DrWho42: bloodfeast is about to start on adult swim
Cease: Indeed Tween
Cease: But Proc Berg, etc were always turning out product
Cease: I grew up in Van Nuys
Rufus_T_Firetween: What This Country Needs is wonderful
Rufus_T_Firetween: P&B as stand-up
Cease: Has everyone tuned in to the Proctor Podcast?
Rufus_T_Firetween: got a link?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: that's for his newsletter ^^
Rufus_T_Firetween: didn't know he had a podcast
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Bi-ghostal! Ha!
Cease: brand new
Kelraith: Its so true.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Gotta run take care of some real virtual reality! See ya next fire week!
Rufus_T_Firetween: bye JAM, be well
Cease: https://www.acast.com/wordballooncomicbookspodcast/comedian-phil-proctor-his-new-podcast-show-biz-sto
Cease: By Jam.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Woodbie Island lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: I said Wembley Island when I interviewed him lol
Cease: Been there many times to visit David and the guys.
Rufus_T_Firetween: that was of course on purpose ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks for suggesting the DD shows, Cease :)
Cease: You can hear Proctor and Bergman creatring stuff like this on thier road shows
||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Show #2 next week folks
Cease: these shows led up to the Big Internete Btoadcast of 96
The Tin Man: ttfn
Cease: If any of you stick around, it's parrt one of my 4-part collage series about food
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Tin Man
Cease: By Tin
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
''Bob'': Still here and listening, Cease. Got some work to do on my other monitor, though... The kids may have the summer off, but a professor's work is never done. ;)
Cease: Bob, I was a teacher for many years.
''Bob'': Hmm.. coincidentally (?), a user named "Doctor Memory" just faved one of my Twitter comments...
Cease: Bad way to die, llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (10:28 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Rufus_T_Firetween: wb llan
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
llanwydd: marching to syllabub
''Bob'': lol
Cease: I spent a big portion of my life in LA
Cease: long ago
Cease: thanks to that, I heard Firesign forming
llanwydd: what subject did you teach, cat?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Engrish!
Cease: English as a second language
llanwydd: aha
llanwydd: aha
llanwydd: theres an echo in here
llanwydd: my mother was an engrish teacher
Cease: one of my favourite pieces of music.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “We Await Silent Tristero's Empire” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“WE AWAIT SILENT TRISTERO’S EMPIRE”
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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Rufus_T_Firetween: Who's Next is my 2nd favorite Who album to Quadrophenia
Cease: you have to love something to teach it. i love english, but other languages as just as beautiful to suddenly encounter
Cease: who were/are really good.
Rufus_T_Firetween: the synth they used on Who's Next and Quadrophenia >> https://s17-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRNxtrPzUWA1thsGqVfPjtwv8qKnidDE6yHxPNg0dunYB0cqlUx5w&sp=3c81ab6533f5c9f8314cf3522eac9aa7&anticache=618760
Cease: i had been working on this series for a month when bourdain killed himself. so i consider this a kind of tribute to him.
Cease: unintentinal.
llanwydd: python
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow :/
Cease: this was on cbc in april and i immediatley wantd to make a collage out of it.,
Rufus_T_Firetween: Will have to check this out, Cease
Cease: then our cbc am Ideas programme and a 2-parter on food waste.
Rufus_T_Firetween: /me is a big fan of 'sustainable living'
Cease: i think about food a lot. might as well collage audio stuff along the lines of my thoughts
llanwydd: pigs for industry
Rufus_T_Firetween: pigs for the dead
llanwydd: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: great subject, Cease
llanwydd: yes indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: Pork!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ol
Rufus_T_Firetween: *lol
Cease: pork is so good in japan, it's on a higher level of pleasure.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Pork, The Other Yellow Meat
llanwydd: I have seen Pork Udon in the supermarket
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Can't remmber the last time I had pork or beef
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's fish and chicken for me these days
llanwydd: are you vegetarian, tween?
''Bob'': mmmm pigmeat...
Rufus_T_Firetween: not as far as the fish and chicken are concerned, one might think
Rufus_T_Firetween: not 'Vegan', no
llanwydd: I dont eat pork often but I made pork vindaloo tonight
Cease: My previous collage Nukes is about an event that cuased my family to start eating meat. the Cuban Missile Crisis.
llanwydd: as I understand, that is the original vindaloo
Rufus_T_Firetween: but I do use animal products more as a small part of the dish, like Asians
llanwydd: I was born during the cuban missile crisis
Cease: as i said in my collage, i expeced death in a few seconds.
Rufus_T_Firetween: so it was your fault was it, llan?
Cease: being born is better
Rufus_T_Firetween: I lived in a suburb of D.C.
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
llanwydd: yeah, my fault, like all world history after sep 5 1961
Rufus_T_Firetween: I guess they figured we were going to be dust anyway
Rufus_T_Firetween: no hiding under the desks or anything
Rufus_T_Firetween: hiding under the desks near D.C. would have been 'kindling' ;)
llanwydd: MD or VA, tween?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Southern MD
llanwydd: aha
Rufus_T_Firetween: 1/2 way between D.C. and Annapolis, called Bowie
Rufus_T_Firetween: a commuter suburb of D.C.
llanwydd: I know annapolis but not bowie
Rufus_T_Firetween: my Dad taught at GWU
Rufus_T_Firetween: and Annapolis
llanwydd: thanks tween and cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Ericson
||||||||| "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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening all!
||||||||| 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
'
Merlyn: at least the chat is chatting for all again
||||||||| "Hey Merlyn!" ... Merlyn turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:58 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Kelraith: Where can you buy digital diner?
Cease: Hope you enjoyed part one. great to hear bourdain's voice again.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, so sad that he took that way out...
Rufus_T_Firetween: great topic :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: off we go
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease 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!"...
||||||||| "Hey llanwydd!" ... llanwydd turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:04 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| 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 Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| The Tin Man - dead from measles
||||||||| 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 the yaws
||||||||| 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 Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
''Bob'': Where'd everybody go?
''Bob'': Cox?
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| StlouieLou - 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:
||||||||| DrWho42 - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Kelraith - 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:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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''
Cease
DJTweeny
DrWho42
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Kelraith
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
StlouieLou
The Tin Man
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/?p=archive
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
www.planetproctor.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicted_to_Love_(song
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Ericson
https://s17-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRNxtrPzUWA1thsGqVfPjtwv8qKnidDE6yHxPNg0dunYB0cqlUx5w&sp=3c81ab6533f5c9f8314cf3522eac9aa7&anticache=618760
https://www.acast.com/wordballooncomicbookspodcast/comedian-phil-proctor-his-new-podcast-show-biz-sto
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Raving-Unconfined-Misadventures-Counterculture/dp/1593765037
https://www.facebook.com/jacobinmag/photos/a.820712797955423.1073741826.143021112391265/2193314407361915/?type=3&permPage=1
https://www.facebook.com/notes/firesign-theater/firesign-video-links/10153050798601275
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