||||||||| 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 January 10, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 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 disembarks at 8:02 PM. ||||||||| 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' ||||||||| At 8:13 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Rufus_T_Firetween!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| DJTweeny tiptoes in around 8:13 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." : test ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:14 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Elmertown." ||||||||| 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 (Magic 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)' DJTweeny: Good eeeevening ||||||||| monkers sneaks in around 8:46 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident." Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi monkers
Rufus_T_Firetween is Dillo
DJTweeny is also Dillo monkers: hi ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:50 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... llanwydd: howdy DJTweeny: Hey llan llanwydd: hi dillo, I'm brillo DJTweeny: Got the stream, monkers? DJTweeny: My IRC nicks are always some play on 'armadillo' llanwydd: I see llanwydd: welcome to the chat, monkers. have you been here before? ||||||||| Outside, the 8:56 PM downtown bus from Hawaii pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. llanwydd: Hey Cat DJTweeny: Hi Cease Cease: HI chatters llanwydd: no we are not in hawaii tonight llanwydd: did you intend that pun, cat? Cease: Downtown Hawaii? DJTweeny: Hawaii seems a rather roudabout way for Cat's connection to get here ||||||||| "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!" llanwydd: nut cat said HI instead of hi DJTweeny: but that's where Nino has him Cease: Canada is bilingual. I'm not. llanwydd: I mean but, not nut DJTweeny: Non? llanwydd: if that was not intended it was incredible synchronicity ||||||||| 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)' Cease: Love that piano at the end of the song ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 10, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, it's pretty cool Rufus_T_Firetween: Would love to know how they processed that Cease: I'd go with synchronicity. ||||||||| Merlyn enters at 9:02 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex. DJTweeny: Hi 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: hey llanwydd: hi merlyn Cease: Hi Merl Merlyn: got the logs set up for 2019 and changed the roadkill link on the login page to go directly to your Firesign audio page, tween DJTweeny: kewl Merlyn ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Bottles into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:04 PM, then departs. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Now playing: Firesign Theatre's “HOW CAN YOU BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE WHEN YOU'RE NOT ANYWHERE AT ALL” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out TWO PLACES at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-rv' DJTweeny: Hi Bottles Bottles: Hiya boys ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:05 PM, dragging Beet by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?" Cease: Hi Bottles Beet: Evening All. DJTweeny: Hi Beet Cease: Beet Beet: Howdy Dr Tween, Dr Cease llanwydd: I finally watched Weirdly Cool on youtube a few days ago. I had never seen it before llanwydd: very cool Beet: Hi Llan llanwydd: hi beet Cease: It's great. Rufus_T_Firetween: Weirdly cool is great :) I love the intervews with people like Carlin and Robin Williams ||||||||| 9:07 PM: Elayne 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!" Elayne: Evenin' all! Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne Cease: Hi El Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “HOW CAN YOU BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE WHEN YOU'RE NOT ANYWHERE AT ALL” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=hcyb-ln Elayne: I still have those Marx/Lennon Abkhazian stamps for sale if anyone wants 'em. Beet: Hi Elayne. Cease: Did I get mine from you, El? Fine looking stamps. Elayne: Probably Cat, I ordered a bundle way back when. Cease: From the Falafal days Elayne: Just so. Beet: Last week I saw the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown episode about the lower East Side. Amazing. Cease: That it was, Beet Beet: A whole culture unto itself. Beet: A just got "a pack of cards" referring to Alice in Wonderland cards - Eat Me. Cease: Speaking of the land of the pharoahs, I ended my free month of netflix by bingeing on The Pyramid Code Cease: Hope to go there one day. Beet: Always very high on my bucket list. Cease: Eric Idle raved about it on his interview with Marc Maron, insisted that Marc go there. Beet: Is Graham Hancock connected to that program, Cease? Cease: Yeah, he showed up. Beet: One of my heroes. Cease: I'm dubious about said "code" and a vastly older civilization in Egypt but I'd like to experience the architecture. Beet: So much to experience there. Cease: Don't know if they still allow people inside the pyramids Cease: One of the acts of my play Neal Amid takes place in Egypt. Beet: The political situation is so unstable. Cease:http://seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm Beet: This recording was made when America was still great. Cease: I saw the interview with Sisi on 60 min. last week. Indeed, a scary place, particularly if you're Egyptian. Rufus_T_Firetween: Make America Firesign Again Cease: Will be staying in a pyramid in Vegas next month. Not quite the same thing. Rufus_T_Firetween: Not quite Beet: Look for the King's Chamber. llanwydd: the president of the united states IS named Schickelgruber Cease: I heard Elayne's friend's podcast about the Firesigns today. llanwydd: excellent play, cat. I have listened to it many times Beet: Heil Drumph! Cease: Had a great line about "the outcome of the 2nd world war is again in doubt" llanwydd: lol, beet Cease: thanks llan. Cease:https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-organist/be-in-two-places-at-once-the-firesign-theatre Beet: I'm always amazed by how chrystal clean their studio work is. Rufus_T_Firetween: Quite true Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html ||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Elayne - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: One would have thought Elayne would be immune to the plague by now. Beet: Very refreshing to see the download store. Cease:Tween, that podcast would be great on chat. Beet: G'Night Miss Elayne. Rufus_T_Firetween: which one, Cease? Cease: see the link above. we were talking about it with Elayne last week. Cease: KCRW's The Organist. Elayne's friend Cease: supposed to visit chat. Cease: did you get the questionaire from him this week? it was addressed to both of us. Cease: he's writing a book about Firesign and wants input. Rufus_T_Firetween: Ah OK Cease, I'll download it after the show Rufus_T_Firetween: No, I didn't get anything from him Cease: ok i'll forward it to you. Rufus_T_Firetween: Just an email saying that he wanted to stop into the chat sometime but had kids to take care of Cease: jsut sent it. Rufus_T_Firetween: Got it, thanks ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Beet: Record? What's a record? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Beet: RFD be praised. Rufus_T_Firetween: "A record, how quaint." ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “The Magic 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 Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/' ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “The Magic 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 Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/' Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE MAGIC FIRESIGNS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#southern_fried Beet: Watch Dr S at least once a year. 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 Beet: Have to go watch that again. ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 10:17 PM, dragging BRI by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?" Beet: Hey BRI Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi BRI, welcome to The Firesign Chat :) Cease: BRI Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE MAGIC FIRESIGNS” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#southern_fried Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com Beet: Beatles always satisfying. Rufus_T_Firetween: Mashed it? Rufus_T_Firetween: What's this from, Cease? I don't recognize it ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Cease: one of the hour hour shows Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, I don't play those because of the length llanwydd: we could hear a half hour hour Rufus_T_Firetween: True, but would be hard to know where to split it ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat broadcasts “LET'S EAT PRE-SERIES 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: Interesting material, Cat. I hadn't rememcered it myself. Cease: i thought Firesign and Terry would go well together. Beet: remembered ||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| BRI - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Beet: Poor BRI Rufus_T_Firetween: We hardly knew ye... ||||||||| 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!" ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:41 PM and late as usual, it's Larry, just back from Elmertown." Cease:https://www.allmusic.com/album/give-me-your-hump-the-unspeakable-terry-southern-mw0000014757 Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Larry, welcome to The Firesign Chat :) ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Beet: Hi Lar. ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Cease: Terry's voice comes this album. Cease: Larry Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ Beet: Water pigs? ||||||||| 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: thanks tween ||||||||| 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 koolzip plummets into the garden at 10:54 PM. ||||||||| Merlyn leaves to catch the 10:54 PM train to Minnesota.
Rufus_T_Firetween now gets the 'southern fried' reference Beet: Has Merl been lurking? ||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Larry - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi koolzip Rufus_T_Firetween: show's about over :/ Rufus_T_Firetween: Starts at 9pm Eastern every Thursday ||||||||| 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!" Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Cease: Great stuff. Cease: Capter 2 of the Terry Southern project next week Beet: This was a nice one. Not a lot of participants as is the norm here of late. Thanks to all who came tonight. Very enjoyable collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding the ship Dr Tween. G'Nite. Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease koolzip: OHH, you people are soo supersttious...! Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope to see you next time, koolzip :) DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: Bye ||||||||| "10:59 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then hurries out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds. koolzip: Ra-de-O! ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| koolzip - dead from jaundice ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| monkers - dead from measles ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mutters something about 12:54 AM, then departs. ||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Bottles - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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."
