Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/01/2018

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||||||||| 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 November 01, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts NancyKat into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 5:51 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 7:03 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Halloween 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'
||||||||| Outside, the 7:05 PM downtown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'BlackNancyKat', just granted probation at 8:32 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi BlackKat :)
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:33 PM, dragging NancyKat by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
DJTweeny: Two of you, even
||||||||| Around 8:35 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with TheMadTweener close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:35 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
BlackNancyKat: Moew!
||||||||| At 8:36 PM, DJTweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood ushers SwampTween inside, makes a note of the time (8:36 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
BlackNancyKat: Locklear or Barbeau?
SwampTween: Both quite handsome ladies
SwampTween: and how go things in Chicagoland?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Halloween 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)'
NancyKat: Rainy...but child got ok haul from treating.
SwampTween: kewl
BlackNancyKat: Whelp, neither phoam nor computer want to play the stream
SwampTween: ehhhhhhh
SwampTween: Have you tried copying the link directly into your player?
BlackNancyKat: yyyyup....
SwampTween: You have a Mac?
BlackNancyKat: Phone comes up with a broken player and the comp still treats the copied source as a download which is not supported by the comp. maybe i should download firesfox...
BlackNancyKat: chromebook
SwampTween: Don't know anything about them :(
SwampTween: You use Android or iPhone?
BlackNancyKat: Doesn't support FF either.
BlackNancyKat: Android
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:55 PM and Cease steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
BlackNancyKat: CEASE!
SwampTween: I use the TuneIn player on my Android
Cease: Hi Black Nancy
SwampTween: Hi Cease
Cease: I want to talk to you about the upcoming Proctor and Bergman festival, Tween
BlackNancyKat: tune in radio?
SwampTween: k
Cease: I've made almost an hour based on TV or Not TV. I could maybe make another, or else you could play sometihng else.
||||||||| 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."
SwampTween: The name of the player is TuneIn
SwampTween: Plays streams for me
Cease: The This is Great Radio to Watch is over 50 min, and could fill the other hour, but I fear Proctor.Bergman overload
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Captain Equinox close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:59 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the vestibule.
Captain Equinox: Hiya, Kiddos!
SwampTween: sure Cat, It's all Firesign :)
SwampTween: Hi Captain
BlackNancyKat: but theres a charge for using it...whelp...
Cease: HI Cap
SwampTween: I didn't pay a dime, NK
SwampTween: and don't
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 01, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| 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)'
Captain Equinox: Howdy, all! Im with you in *spirit* but mostly in Listen Only Mode.
Captain Equinox: Love to you ALL!
SwampTween: Got it for free from the Google Play store
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn in through the front door at 9:01 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
SwampTween: Listening in spirit, Halloween, I get it!
SwampTween: Hi Merlyn
Captain Equinox: Nyuk Nyuk
Merlyn: hey-o
Captain Equinox: Try the veal.
Captain Equinox: And the more you drink, the better we sound!
Captain Equinox: *HONK HONK*
SwampTween: heheh
Cease: Is Merl better than veal?
Cease: They are releasing the scripts for this trilogy soon.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's
“THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BRIDE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-rv'
SwampTween: Great, cease
Cease: Proc and Ossie were on KBOO last week when Proc was doing the War of the Worlds thing and they announced that
Cease: I sent you that show, Tween.
Cease: I thought it might be replayed here, but would need permission from KBOO while it's still up on their archive
Cease: Yu think the 4 or 5 thought they'd get more followers by telling dick jokes?
TheMadTweener: It's a little strange, for sure lol
TheMadTweener: Want me to ask KBOO?
Cease: I have tried, without success. May you be more successfull
TheMadTweener: Maybe, since I'm the DJ
TheMadTweener: Will give it a try
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:08 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Beet: Evening folks.
Cease: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
||||||||| Elmer Ho enters at 9:09 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
Elmer Ho: Who am I? Where do I live?
Beet: Hey Elmer
Cease: Elmo
Elmer Ho: hulloo Beet Cease Tweeny
Cease: I just asked Tween on chat here, but want feedback from other chatters. Would you rather hear 2 hours of Proctor and Bergman or only 1 hour, then other firesign stuff in the 2nd hour.
TheMadTweener: Hi Beet, Elmer
Elmer Ho: whatever happens is fine
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cease: I'm starting a Proctor and Bergman festival on chat next week, combining their albums and other things
TheMadTweener: ** Read about “THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
Elmer Ho: sounds jake, Cease
Beet: Sounds like fun, Cease. Either way is fine.
Cease: Peter's 79th birthday is coming up at the end of the month so I want to have all of November devoted to their stuff.
Cease: Him and Cleese.
TheMadTweener: kewl
Cease: I posted the interview Phil and Dave did with their old producer Steve Gilmor on facebook recently. Very moving interview, not long after Austin's death.
Beet: Looking forward to it.
Cease: OK, then, more work for me but the most pleasurable work possible
Elmer Ho: the effort is much appreciated
Beet: Thanks, Cease.
Elmer Ho: anybody want to play a game?
Beet: What it is?
Elmer Ho: FST has sometimes been referred to as the Beatles of comedy
Cease: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/26/gillmor-gang-special-edition/?fbclid=IwAR1KzClmzpN32B0BAAnNcIoWNxBHAtQ5Ly54mdfXaXd-PwFNVsW2A_LjskI
Elmer Ho: So, if FST were the Beatles, who would be John / Paul / George / Ringo?
Beet: I don't think any of them could be Ringo
Cease: by the library of congress, elmer
Elmer Ho: Congress has a library?
Cease: You still here, Nancy?
Cease: I think they're getting one next
Cease: Tuesday, Elmer
Cease: I'm not a scab.
Cease: what's a job to a dog?
Cease: another classic firesign line
TheMadTweener: A great blend of the old and the new
Beet: Haven't listen to this album enough.
Beet: listened
Beet: Where did Nancy go?
TheMadTweener: When the lights went out?
Cease: Proc raved about Austin's creation of Bebop
Cease: in the above interview
Beet: Gonna watch after chat.
Cease: you will benefit from it.
Cease: Beet, was it you who asked me to explain my history with the guys in a collage?
Beet: Thanks, Cease, for keeping your Third Eye open for all out benefit.
Beet: our
Cease: Peering into Firesign all day every day is about as good a thing as there is to do.
Beet: And you're sitting in the middle of the gold mine.
Cease: I'm surprised there are so few of us here. I would think the Firesign fans must b e legion.
Beet: Same thing happened last week.
Cease: I began taping them from the radio not long after they began.
Cease: I hitnk I've spent more time listening to Firesign than I did teaching, which was my profession for a few decades.
Beet: Right place, right time.
Elmer Ho: Let's face it, once something "clicks" with you in a certain way it's hard to imagine why other people don't see it the same.
Elmer Ho: I've always wondered why Renaldo and the Loaf isn't one of the top musical acts of all time.
Beet: I am familiar with the syndrome.
Elmer Ho: Or Captain Beefheart, for that matter.
Beet: Mutt and Smutt?
Cease: Well observed, Elmer
Cease: Do any of you think that the lads became overly anticlimactic in these last albums?
Elmer Ho: eyeball hat - any other Residents fans here?
Elmer Ho: "Overly anticlimactic" is a very nice turn of phrase.
Elmer Ho: And in reply, I would say: Yes.
Cease: no idea what you refer to.
Elmer Ho: Good.
Beet: I have mentioned here before that my nephew is lead guitar for Residents.
Cease: the firesign have bathed in that canadian sunset for a long time.
Cease: are they on youtube?
Beet: yep
TheMadTweener: This was a fine swan song for their studio efforts
Elmer Ho: Very cool Beet. Nobody in my familyis famous.
SwampTween: Thanks Cat...
TheMadTweener: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Beet: And he is is as cool as you might expect. Genius guitar player too.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“ORDERS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/'
Beet: Oh boy!
Beet: I do enjoy these as I have said before.
Cease: I enjoy making them.
Cease: the thing is, anyone can do this. there is so much online for anyon'es use.
Elmer Ho: I really like listening to them, so I'm glad you like making them.
||||||||| 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 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: In a dream, Proctor's daughter told me I was lazy so I began maknig these collages to prove her wrong, and hopefully bring more people to Firesign
Beet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aOd2jbk774
Cease: Thanks, Beet
Beet: Previuos is The Residents full concert this year, Cease.
Cease: Bergman was way into Zen.
TheMadTweener: I love the Art Of The Insane bits
Beet: My favorite from the XM shows.
Cease: Phil has had an amazing life.
Beet: Unbelievable.
Cease: have to have some music. otherwise, too dry.
TheMadTweener: The local library finally got Proc's book in, on hold for me right now :)
||||||||| 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!"
TheMadTweener: Don't know if I'll have read it in time for Tuesday's show, unfortunately
Cease: please do tween
Elmer Ho: Bolero
Cease: this is from hitchen's flick
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 10:22 PM, dragging llanwydd by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
llanwydd: whaz real?
SwampTween: Goul Eveneing, llan
llanwydd: Swamp? LOL
Cease: llanny
Beet: Hi Llan.
llanwydd: this is cool!
llanwydd: what year was this made,
Cease: I actually ordered on eof these. It was minor league.
llanwydd:
Elmer Ho: look at the time i'm late for my bridge club
||||||||| At 10:25 PM, Elmer Ho vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Cease: look it up[
TheMadTweener: Pizza crust stuffed with truffles?
llanwydd: what happened?
Cease: by elmer
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
TheMadTweener wonders if elmer will ever get that bridge built
llanwydd: stuck in elmertown?
llanwydd: I dont think you could do an all-meat pizza
TheMadTweener: "It's as easy, as a bridge!"
llanwydd: ;you need to have at least a little flour in a pizza
llanwydd: THIS IS HILARIOUS
||||||||| 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!"
SwampTween: Great stuff, Cat :-)
llanwydd: Coronation Ham!!!!!
Beet: I'm afraid I only like basic pizza construction. NEVER pineapple for instance.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat broadcasts
“THE HILARIO SPACEPIPE SHOW”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
Beet: Great one, Cat
llanwydd: ROTF
TheMadTweener: Pineapple on pizza is a silly idea
llanwydd: Fantastic, Cat
Cease: Hope you enjoyed
llanwydd: actually it goes good with pepperoni or ham, tween
Beet: NEVER
llanwydd: ?
Beet: See above.
llanwydd: aha
Cease: I think Austin wanted to thought of as a musician as much as an acotor/commedian
llanwydd: I sat on my pipe
TheMadTweener: He could have had a career as a musician, absolutely
Beet: Who is playing the fiddle?
llanwydd: he was pretty good on Fighting Clowns, Cat
TheMadTweener: Roller Maidens demonstrates that beyond question
TheMadTweener: yeah, Clowns also
Cease: we see that in rollie maidens
llanwydd: he had good musical influences. he hung out with the grateful dead
Cease: probly proc, beet. he plays the violin in i think all their things
Beet: Thanks
llanwydd: austin played violin?
Cease: yes, he wrote the greatful dead flilck, which was never made
Cease: no proctor played violin but i know not of austin
TheMadTweener: Well, it's obviously Austin playing the acoustic guitar
Cease: proc talks about his violin playing in the above interview with gilmor
TheMadTweener: So probably Proc there
Cease: yep
Cease: i wish i had continued with music.
||||||||| 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'
SwampTween: lol @ Blue as a Red can be
SwampTween: Maybe my favorite show from DOMM
Cease: will begin Proctor and Bergman festival next thurs.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
SwampTween: kewl
Cease: the guys always sought to enlighten us
SwampTween: Don't forget the Election Night broadcast with Phil next Tuesday!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:55 PM and ma-doo-da-roll bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
SwampTween: a little late, ma-doo :(
SwampTween: end of the show
ma-doo-da-roll: sorry, was bending a few rolls!
Beet: Come again next week.
Cease: i think ossman understand the power of spoken poetry to a highter level
SwampTween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
ma-doo-da-roll: is it the same oldplace?
Beet: I enjoyed the service tonight. Thanks to all. Very good to have you back, Cat. Thanks to the TheMadTweener for his mentoring and monitoring. G'Nite all.
ma-doo-da-roll: or the old sameplace?
SwampTween: Phil Proctor live this Tuesday for a special Election Night show Tuesday
SwampTween: be here or be there, 9pm Eastern
Cease: I',m starting a new collage serires about Proctor and Bergman next week. Hope you all show up
Cease: By all
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease 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!"...
SwampTween: 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:
||||||||| ma-doo-da-roll - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Merlyn hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Merlyn?! It's 11:12 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BlackNancyKat - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| TheMadTweener - 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:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - 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:
||||||||| SwampTween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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
BlackNancyKat
Captain Equinox
Cease
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
llanwydd
ma-doo-da-roll
Merlyn
NancyKat
SwampTween
TheMadTweener

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-rv
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/26/gillmor-gang-special-edition/?fbclid=IwAR1KzClmzpN32B0BAAnNcIoWNxBHAtQ5Ly54mdfXaXd-PwFNVsW2A_LjskI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aOd2jbk774