||||||||| 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 August 30, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Outside, the 7:52 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| At 7:52 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 7:52 PM and DJTweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski steps in at 7:53 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Outside, the 8:05 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. DJTweeny: Hey Johan, you're early :) ||||||||| It's 8:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from measles ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| 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 (Bird Songs) 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)' ||||||||| Outside, the 8:43 PM downtown bus from Savannah pulls away, leaving Johan Amadeus Myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. DJTweeny: wb Johan Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’m ready to play Reat the Beaper! DJTweeny: yay! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I survived avoiding the blig black blole! DJTweeny: whew... Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Greets, DJT! You okay tonight? DJTweeny: Doing OK thanks, still steeeeenking hot down here. How about yourself? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I have located a place in the western NC mountains this week for myself & will be relocating there within the next 2-3 weeks DJTweeny: nice :) Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Q0 -15 degrees cooler than Savannah... Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Highs up there were in the high 70s - low 80s!! DJTweeny: I'll take it! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Jethro tulll DJTweeny: yes indeedie Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love this! DJTweeny: One of my favorites also Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Been trying to realize this move to nc for the last 5 months, now FINALLY, making it real... Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Saw them do this live once. DJTweeny: Hope it's an easy move, and a very enjoyable habitat :) ||||||||| 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 Cease disembarks at 8:57 PM. DJTweeny: Cat's new collage is called "Wild Duck" ;) DJTweeny: Hey Cease Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A few trade offs, but got about 85% of what I wanted. Wanted 3,000ft elevation, i’ll Be at 2,820. I’m Close to a ridge top, not on it. Cease: HI all Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Greets cat! DJTweeny: Should help with cell reception ||||||||| 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, August 30, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" DJTweeny: Man, what happened to everybody? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Watched a Weird Al video this week I hadn’t seen, spoofing BobDylan’s Subterreanean Homesick Blues Cease: Great news from Ossman on facebook this week. Sounds like the KRLA Radio Free Oz stuff will finally see the light of day. Cease: DO said 50 hours, which would only be about half of the 67 shows but that's a lot more than NONE ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:01 PM and late as usual, it's Fresnoid, just back from Hellmouth." Johan Amadeus Myjetski : More FST! huzzah! Cease: Probably enough material to have me happily turning them into collages for the rest of my life. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Frez! DJTweeny: Hi Fresnoid Cease: Even if I live as long as Ossman. Cease: Hi Fres. DJTweeny: Great news about the OZ bits Fresnoid: Hello all! Cease: And then today he said there's be a ton of new books or whatever coming soon. DJTweeny: kewl Cease: This was a benefit they did for the children's theatre. DJTweeny: I've got Skype working if they want to come on and chat :) ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Now playing: Firesign Theatre's “QUESTIONS & ANSWERS AT WHIDBEY ISLAND IN 2010” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out FIRESIGN THEATRE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/' Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Being for the benefit of little tykes... ||||||||| "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!" ||||||||| 9:05 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Cease: one of three shows they did in Whidbey over a weekend. DJTweeny: Hi ≠ Ed Not Ed: Waz real Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oh, no, it’s Not! Hiya, Not! Cease: HI Not. Were you at this Firesign event?
Not Ed is eating pork. Not Ed: Hey JAM & Tweeny DJTweeny: Does it taste like pork? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/ Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Has he seen the little piggies... Not Ed: delicious fresh 'n' cloudy piglet Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol! Cease: new proctor episodes appear every friday. Not Ed: that's excellent C ||||||||| Outside, the 9:09 PM uptown bus from New York pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Elayne: Evenin' all! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A lot to try to keep up with Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Elayne! Not Ed: Hi Elayne Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne Cease: Hi El! Elayne: Shan't be here too long, my kitty's very needy and I'm extremely sleepy. Been shooting reds and yellows all day. Not Ed: Saw Whidbey & Kirkland shows this is fun to hear Tween ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Cease: Have you heard this, El? It's been available on Youtube for several years. Not Ed: Taylor fan here! Not Ed: lol E ||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 9:11 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." Beet: Evenin' folks! Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Beet Cease: Beet! Beet: Hey Dr Tween Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yo Beet! Not Ed: Hey Beet Rufus_T_Firetween: You can thank Cat, Not Ed, he provided it Beet: Hi Dr Cease Beet: Hi Not Elayne: Have I heard what, Cat? The radio station? No, I don't really have occasion to listen to the radio. Cease:Tween is playing a Firesign Questions and Answers from 2010 now. Cease: It's been online for awhile. Not Ed: didn't know tapes were stolen, yikes Elayne: The player isn't working for me Beet: Hi Miss E Elayne: okay, now it's working Not Ed: Whidbey Oz was a treasure Cease: I remember hanging out with Pete and others when Pete was plotting this. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounds like they got a peerage... Cease: it was indeed Johan Amadeus Myjetski : My lord... Cease: There's me. Cease: I used this bit on my collage about Proctor in Russia recently. ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Not Ed: I love radio people Beet: Hi JAM! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiyas, beet! Cease: Most of my tapes from the 60s have rotted away. VHS tapes too. Cease: Planned obsolescence? Not Ed: great details, I love this Not Ed: Hey Rufus Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Even my early master tapes from the 80s have deteriorated into a pile of mush shaped like a reel of tape, until you touch it... Beet: This, like, the most recent update that I have heard. Not Ed: it's too long Not Ed: lol Not Ed: (...two places at once...) Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Spreg engrish, troops! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : People who die often aren’t with us...... Cease: they'e koans. Rufus_T_Firetween: "People who die often aren’t with us......" ~ Abraham Lincoln Not Ed: I freed the what?! Beet: The titles make you think (or meditate) just like anything else they did. Not Ed: i like that C! Not Ed: yes, Beet Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yeah, opens your mind to an almost infinity of possibilities... Not Ed: paradoxical statements to meditate on sorta Beet: One of the great contributions they made to the evolution of anyone that listened to them. Not Ed: yeah you guys nailed it Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Cat’s right - they’re koans Cease: well put, beet Not Ed: for sure, B Beet: lol Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounds like it would raise the level of your home... Beet: Hey, Cease, did you say that this is on Youtube? Under what title? Beet: Fell right over Not Ed: link if you can Cease:Tween has the link Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol Not Ed: I wish Trump would fall over, he's already no fun Cease: This is Gretchen, a great friend of the Firesigns, and the origin of the title for Proc's autobiography Not Ed: "hip drug references" Rufus_T_Firetween: It was in your description, Cat? Not Ed: Gretchen has been a positive force on Facebook Beet: This is fabulous Cease: i think so, not sure. know i sent it to you recently. Not Ed: Gad her posts are funny Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Embarrass him? I HAD that Astro album! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** YouTube link for Q&A 2010 at Whidbey Island - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y7FjypYcnI Not Ed: Indeedy Beet Beet: Thanks, Dr. Cease:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y7FjypYcnI Not Ed: Tak Rufus Beet: Dr.'s Cease: there is video of this. Not Ed: Tak Cease ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" ||||||||| Merlyn waltzes in at 9:43 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Beet: Hey, Merl Merlyn: heyyy Not Ed: Delay here Not Ed: Hi Merl Cease: Hi Merl. you were there for this, as i recall. Cease: with gretchen and joe auger. Beet: Of course, the Black Hole in the middle of the record is how you get to the Other Side! Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Merlyn Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Out of body - back in five Not Ed: k Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet: Of course, the Black Hole in the middle of the record is how you get to the Other Side! << Ossman pointed that out in an interview when we ere talking about HTF :) Beet: This could be called, The Spirit of Firesign. Merlyn: I think so, cat, not that I can remember everything. Merlyn: hey live earl jive, still on facebook Cease: almost as often as proctor Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Out of body - back in five Beet: enjoy your trip Merlyn:tweeny, you played that, where the guys reworked the goodbyes Merlyn: right? Beet: Anyone know where the Easter Egg is? DJTweeny: Not sure to what you're referring, Merlyn ||||||||| 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!" Merlyn: Taylor (who is the guy who said that) just went on vacation for a bit, but he would know Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Radio Free Dishnuts – http://dishnuts.net Beet: This was one of the best things ever. Thanks to Cease & Tween Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease's idea :) Fresnoid: 5.1 versions??? That I never knew! Merlyn:tween, the guys mentioned a rehearsal that they kept when they figured out the end of Immortality (the "say goodbye to hotel keys etc) -- I think you played that here, I know I've heard it Not Ed: So fun - thanks! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “WILD DUCK” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out Cat's New Collage at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS' Cease: My voice is deteriorating. DJTweeny: Not sure where that might have come from, Merlyn DJTweeny: You sound fine, Cat Merlyn: ok tween ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Bunnyboy', just granted probation at 9:56 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Bunnyboy: Yodel! Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Bunny Cease: Hey Bunny. Just in time for my new collage! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “WILD DUCK” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS Cease: There's Bennys in it. Beet: Hey, Merl, if you remember to ask about the Easter Egg when Taylor gets back, could you? I had the (4-channel) 8-Track when it came out - fabulous. Bunnyboy: Alas, on the Pad. No audio! Bunnyboy: "Now cut that out!" Beet: Hi Bunny Bunnyboy: Oh. He cut it out. Cease: My favourite Byrds song. Cease: Right after they tlak about recording next to the Byrds at Columbia. Rufus_T_Firetween: Try entering the URL manually into your player, Bunny ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Bunnyboy: Hey! I tabbed out to it. Sweet! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Remember a film with Jan Michael Vincent called Tribes? Cease: not sure that i do, jammy Bunnyboy: "Here come the Byrds..." Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Byrd’s wer sing8ng about a strange gathering of tribes. Film was about a hippie drafted into the marines. Taught his fellow boot campers meditation tech inquest Beet: Have we gone for regime change in Nigeria yet. If not they must be on the list. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Techniques Bunnyboy: I'm at their liddle 6/8 number. Bunnyboy: Now back to TRENTHUIT... Cease:http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-byrds-tribal-gathering.357395/ Beet: Proc's whole life was on the Funway. Not Ed: Bunny Not Ed: (been hovering, listening) Bunnyboy: FORTUNE COOKIE... Johan Amadeus Myjetski : He’s right - there wasn’t Beet: Very creepy Cease: hoovering? Bunnyboy: That sucks Beet: I love that song Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “WILD DUCK” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing – from the Box Of Danger collection “FRAME ME PRETTY” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook' Beet: Wow! Great. ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Not Ed: Cool Cat Not Ed: hoovering, right lol Not Ed: you all stay groovy - don't let those republitards get you down - keep it Firesigned, sealed and delivered - Gotta head off but not literally - Best! Not Ed: Tak Tween & Merl & Rufus & Cat Cease: By Not. Beet: See ya, Not. Bunnyboy: Night Not! Bunnyboy: Got the Tween feed now. Treat! ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Rufus_T_Firetween: What was the problem, Bunny? Bunnyboy: Imagined. Bunnyboy: All good! Rufus_T_Firetween: You can listen to the Cat Collage you missed here >>http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS Rufus_T_Firetween: "Wild Duck" Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Can we get back to the tomato? Bunnyboy: Actually listened to it. Rah! Cease: David Ossman mentioned the upcoming release of the 67 rfo shows. this would be wondrous. i'd been doing collages forever Cease: be Rufus_T_Firetween: I guess they gave up on the idea of the Download Store Bunnyboy: Dash it, gotta run. Cheers, all! Cease: Merl would know. ||||||||| Bunnyboy dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Bunnyboy?! It's 10:31 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" Cease: Ossman did mention something being downloadable. Cease: By bun Beet: Nite Bunny Fresnoid: This organ music is pure genius as well.... Rufus_T_Firetween: Their paodies of OTR were spot-on, both in content and production Cease: i think bergman seemed to be enjoying that violence too much. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : C’mon, let’s put rootentant Brad Shaw through too many changes, he whispered... Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOX OF DANGER: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv ||||||||| 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' Cease: an early iteration of 3 faces of al. DJTweeny: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Fresnoid: Thank you for another wonderful evening! Merlyn: thenk yew agin tween Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love, love, love to all! Thanks Cat, & DJT! C u next time! Beet: This was a special night. Thanks to everyone. A million thanks to Dr Cease for the wonderful interview and the fabulous collage. Thanks to D. J. Supreme Tween. G'Nite all. Rufus_T_Firetween: yw Merl Cease: i think the firesigns started as an educartional project, to make us all smarter. Cease: to break free of those who seek to have power over us. Cease: my collages are just footnotes to that project. DJTweeny: Certainly one of the goals of the Counter-Culture ||||||||| Fresnoid departs at 10:55 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" Cease: indeed, tween. Cease: both proctor and bergman could just break into song in the middle of a conversation. Cease: their lives were like musicals. Cease: ok, off we go. ||||||||| Cease leaves at 10:57 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..." DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Merlyn - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| BBrebozo tiptoes in around 11:43 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| BBrebozo - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Elayne - 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 dengue fever ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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
Bunnyboy
Cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
Fresnoid
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
