Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/22/2018

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 November 22, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 11:59 AM, dragging troy by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
troy: Let me go! I'm supposed to be getting milk.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes some tones on a small xylophone and says "It is noon in New York this day of November 22, 2018 "- then a trapdoor opens up and swallows him.
||||||||| It's 12:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| troy - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers RedPillTweeny in through the front door at 1:04 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| It's 1:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus_T_Firetween close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 7:08 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule.
||||||||| "Hey Rufus_T_Firetween!" ... Rufus_T_Firetween turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 7:08 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Outside, the 7:09 PM uptown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| 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 (Grateful Dead's “Terrapin Station”)
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 enters with Cease close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:48 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
Cease: Happy Turkey Day, Tween
Cease: At least in your country.
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
DJTweeny: How's the weather up there?
Cease: Hope people show up. Great Radio is rare and wondrous.
Cease: The rains have begun.
Cease: At least, it isn't snow. We usually don't get much of that.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Notnerb', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:53 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Cease: Hi Not
DJTweeny: Hi Notnerb
DJTweeny: I read they'r getting 'siberian' cold in the Northeast
Notnerb: Greetings
Cease: I guess that proves there's no global warming
DJTweeny: heh
DJTweeny: Well, there's 'climate change', thats for darned sure
Notnerb: As long as the barley still grows...
DJTweeny: Will be over 24C and sunny here tomorrow :)
DJTweeny: and the hops?
Notnerb: As you have done to the yeast of us...
DJTweeny: haha
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 22, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“NOTHING BUT INDIANS”
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/'
DJTweeny: People said last week they wanted a show tonight, so where are they?
DJTweeny: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “NOTHING BUT INDIANS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Notnerb: Blame it on the tryptophan
Cease: I lived a few miles from that club but never went there.
DJTweeny: I still encourage you to write some memoirs about you FST experiences
DJTweeny: *your
Cease: I got this tape from Packer. I guess Taylor found another copy, but its on the RFO Podcast Archive site.
Cease: hopefullly, they continue, tween. phil and dave live on.
DJTweeny: It would be cool of someone could take the time to index the podcast archives so you could find things easily
Cease: it would indeed, tween.
||||||||| Catherwood leads clem in through the front door at 9:10 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| llanwydd steals in around 9:11 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: i think doc made it, and he's always overwhelmed with work, and now new job.
DJTweeny: Hi clem
Cease: Hi Uh
llanwydd: Happy Thanksgiving!
DJTweeny: Hi llan, Happy Turkey Day !
Cease: Feed well, Llan.
||||||||| Footski enters at 9:12 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
clem: hello all
DJTweeny: Hi Footski
DJTweeny: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “NOTHING BUT INDIANS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cease: Welcome
llanwydd: thanks, cat. Im having pizza and sangria
Cease: My wife made a wonderful grautin last night and I'm continue to feast on it today.
llanwydd: cool
Cease: scallops, prawns, mushrooms, orange pepper and onion backed into a thick sauce.
Cease: something we used to eat frequently when we lived in japan.
Cease: are you an old firesign fan, footski?
llanwydd: is it japanese?
Cease: french as the word implies, but like many foods, given a japanese twist.
||||||||| "9:21 PM? 9:21 PM!!" says Catherwood, "TheRealDrPederman should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as TheRealDrPederman enters and sits on the divan.
TheRealDrPederman: It may be an oversimplification, but happy Thanksgiving everybody
Cease: Wuz Real?
DJTweeny: Hello DrP
DJTweeny: same to you DrP
TheRealDrPederman: Howdy all
DJTweeny: ** Listen/Download Cat’s new collage “NOTHING BUT INDIANS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Notnerb: Thanks DrP
DJTweeny: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
TheRealDrPederman: Hey Cease, it's the last reel!
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Footski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: The word "ague" has vanished from our language.
TheRealDrPederman: I recently saw the video of David and Phil at the LoC. Tried to get tix to go but couldn't :(. Looks like an excellent time was had by all
Cease: So it does, Real.
Cease: We can all enjoy the vid.
TheRealDrPederman: Ague ... Makes me shiver to think of it
TheRealDrPederman: Yes, the video is nice to have. Glad someone in authority decided to put it up for all to enjoy.
Cease: Your tax dollars at work?
TheRealDrPederman: Could be, Cease. At home, or in the office, depending on where one sleeps!
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: this is from the first Firesign Thanksgiving show, 1967. and then this is their NPR gig from 2002
Cease: Redoing the original Pass from the 67 show
TheRealDrPederman: This is one of my all time favorite bits! The version on Just Folks gets regular play at my house.
TheRealDrPederman: Anybody wanna do the Duck?!!
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
DJTweeny: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Cease: I live in his territory. His grandson went to high school with my daughter.
Cease: Chief Dan George collages are on the archive site.
||||||||| Notnerb departs at 9:44 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Cease: by not
TheRealDrPederman: Vaya con Dios, Not
llanwydd: whats the Duck, Dock?
DJTweeny: ** 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
llanwydd: hi Not
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Merlyn close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:49 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
TheRealDrPederman: At a point on the Just Folks version of Pass the Indian (just as everyone is turning into different ethinicities) you can hear Peter call that out.
Merlyn: Pass that Indian
llanwydd: aha
llanwydd: hey Moyl
DJTweeny: Happy Turkey Day Merlyn
Cease: Pete was wrong about this.
Merlyn: I learned the difference between white meat and dark meat, and why ducks have dark "white meat"
Cease: Hey Merl
Merlyn: Chickens and turkeys don't fly, so their meat has less iron, so it's white meat. Ducks fly, so their meat all has a lot of iron.
TheRealDrPederman: Howdy Merlyn. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!
Merlyn: Chickens and turkeys are on the "don't fly" list
Cease: Good to know, Merl
DJTweeny: "I swear I thought turkeys could fly." ~ WKRP
Merlyn: They're hitting cars like sacks of wet cement!
TheRealDrPederman: The great Bill Dial wrote Turkeys Away. Classic.
Cease: This is from a video of Ossman reading his poetry in I think, Michigan back in the 80s
DJTweeny: ** Check out the 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
llanwydd: some turkeys can fly
DJTweeny: Oh?
llanwydd: lol
DJTweeny: You mean like, in Air Force One?
llanwydd: exactly what I was thinking, tween. LOL
Cease: lol
llanwydd: the spruce goose was another flying turkey
llanwydd: a lot of turkeys flew off their plate today
DJTweeny: That was fun, Cat :)
DJTweeny: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Cease: actually, more somber than fun, but packed a lot of firesign into that turkey
llanwydd: Cool, Cat!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: 1973 Proctor & Bergman Interview
”GREAT RADIO TO WATCH”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out the video at >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTq1o3hr3aM'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Cease: Listen to them create spontaneous fantasy/realities
DJTweeny: ** A Brief Hysterectomy of Firesign by Proctor & Bergman (1973) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTq1o3hr3aM
DJTweeny: Judging by What This Country Needs, P&B could easily have toured as a stand-up comedy act
Cease: They would have killed Carson. He would have had them on every week.
DJTweeny: Stupid of SNL not to feature FST occasionally
Cease: they toured for years, and did lots of stuff together on radio,et al
Cease: i think lorne is afraid of them.
Cease: maron is, for sure.
DJTweeny: Didn't know they toured that much
Cease: listen to the podcasts, tween.
Cease: my next collage is about the hotels they stayed in.
Cease: they talk about that a lot.
DJTweeny: kewl
Cease: i really hope whoever owns this can put out a clean version of it.
Cease: have you ever heard minds working quicker and better than this?
Cease: anyone else still here?
DJTweeny: hahaha
DJTweeny: Yeah, will have to remember this next year ;)
Cease: maybe, put on an old show.
Cease: you should replay this some other time in the future, in rotatrion like their albums.
Cease: i've never heard them sharper or funnier
DJTweeny: Sure, I've got a couple of thanksgiving shows I could use for replays
DJTweeny: I think that's a good idea
DJTweeny: Maybe with a P&B album
Cease: i want to this to be better known.
Cease: we should ask Phil and Taylor what the status is with this.
Cease: In one of the interviews I heard, one of the boys says, no one has done more radio interviews than us.
Cease: bergman's big trip with crosby's cookie is a big part of firesign lore, and importance to their work
Cease: almost entirely of people
Cease: this sounds like the exchanges of Pink Hotel
DJTweeny: Hope they get Pink Hotel up at the new store
DJTweeny: It's underrated, imho
Cease: they are never not brilliant
DJTweeny: The "Over The Edge" soap opera parody is one of my all-time favorite bits
||||||||| 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'
DJTweeny: OK Cat, let's hope folks show up for Pete's birthday :)
DJTweeny: I shall advertise the show as such
Cease: let's hope. how can we promote?
Merlyn: Happy thanks to you too, Tween
Cease: let's try and do something with kboo
Cease: hi merl
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, Merlyn vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: I put announcements out on FST Twitter, my own FB page, the official FST page, and Chromium Switch and Firesign Theatre fan pages
DJTweeny: Don't know where else I could advertise
Cease: pete had a lot of friends. i wonder if his daughter lili would ever show up here?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: We'll work on it Cat :)
Cease: we'll talk later tween.
||||||||| Cease is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 11:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Outside, the 11:02 PM bus from Texas pulls away, leaving MaxNuclear coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
MaxNuclear: Oh poop.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| MaxNuclear - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| TheRealDrPederman - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| clem - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Notnerb enters at 4:03 AM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Notnerb hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Notnerb?! It's 4:06 AM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| 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:
Cease
clem
DJTweeny
llanwydd
MaxNuclear
Merlyn
Notnerb
TheRealDrPederman
troy

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTq1o3hr3aM