Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/17/2019

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 January 17, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (7:48 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| "7:48 PM? 7:48 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits in the comfy chair.
||||||||| 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)'
DJTweeny: Good eeeevening...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Joni Mitchell)
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)'
||||||||| ghost steals in around 8:46 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
ghost: yo all
DJTweeny: Hi ghost
DJTweeny: Nino says you're in Massachusetts
ghost: hello DJTweeny, how's it goind
ghost: yup am in MA
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Deputy Dang inside, makes a note of the time (8:50 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| llanwydd steps in at 8:52 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: howdy folks
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners!
llanwydd: great to hear joni
DJTweeny: She's wonderful
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:55 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
Cease: Greetings
Cease: Not getting any sound.
DJTweeny: I am
DJTweeny: I'm listening to the stream right now
Cease: Aha
Cease: Just had to turn up the volume
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and Fergus sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Does help ;)
DJTweeny: Hi Fergus
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:59 PM, dragging Merlyn by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
Merlyn: heya
Cease: Merl
Fergus: Hi DJ :)
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Beet enters at 9:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cease: Good warm up for tonight's collage which is called Sex and Death
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 17, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Evening everyone from the snow-covered hills of West Virginny.
Cease: Part 2 of the Terry Southern project
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Tween
Cease: Follow in your books and repeat after me as we learn our next 3 words in Spanish...
Cease: Fly, guitar....border
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's
“DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DWARF at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-rv'
Beet: My favorite of the album covers.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:04 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Catheterwould coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood says "9:05 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs ghost by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: I think Proctor was in charge of album covers
Beet: Hello Catheterwould
DJTweeny: allo Catheterwould
Beet: Remember Iron Lungs?
Catheterwould: Hi, Beet - keepin' it sweet?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
Cease: I do, Beet
Catheterwould: Hi DJT - I'm gnu at this, so pardon my slowness!
Cease: Welcome Catheterwould
Catheterwould: and NOW, I gotta feed my cat to keep him off my keyboars
DJTweeny: Glad to have you here, Catheterwould :) If you want help with chat operations, just click on the question mark in the lower right hand corner
DJTweeny: lol
Catheterwould: Hey, Cease - where's Desist?
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Cease is an abbreviation of C.Simril
DJTweeny: *rimshot*
Catheterwould: What does the Nino link do - boggle my mind?
llanwydd: anybody get the co-pilot reference?
Catheterwould: tobight I will think to you about holes!
Merlyn: Nino guesses where people are
Merlyn: Hmm, map doesn't appear, though...
Catheterwould: doggone TYPOS! it's that pesky cat - brb
Merlyn: there it is, just took a while
Merlyn: Cat, are you in Hawaii?
Beet: Jesus said to one of his misbehaving disciples, "Get Thee behind me Satan."
llanwydd: right
llanwydd: no actually he said ti to the devil when the devil tempted him
llanwydd: it
Cease: I'm in North Van, as always
Beet: I sit corrected.
Catheterwould: This place looks so 1995 it's amazing...
llanwydd: so apparently his copilot is the devil which is a reference to a bestselling book of that time titled God is My Copilot
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
llanwydd: I got it right away
Merlyn: ah well, geobytes is wrong or something
Catheterwould: God was my copilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him
DJTweeny: lol
llanwydd: I wouldnt know a geobyte from a neophite
Cease: 1995 was the year this chat began
Beet: I just looked this up: He did say the same thing to Peter - Matthew 16:23
llanwydd: I joined about 2002
llanwydd: aha. then I sit corrected as well
Merlyn: IRC chats go back that far, this chat started in 2002
Cease: as it were, merl
Merlyn: And the IRC log link doesn't work now
llanwydd: good sport award. lol
Cease: better than the ralph spoilsport award
Beet: It is still a thrill to here how exquisitely structured the different directions they would take.
Beet: hear
Cease: indeed, beet
Catheterwould: Here, here!
Catheterwould: G'wan - there AIN'T no there, there....
Cease: this album evolved from their mushroom play The TV set, which had various names and iterations
Catheterwould: mushroom play? I'm kinda confused...
Cease: the lads wrote and performed a series of plays at the Magic Mushroom in 1967, hence, the "mushroom plays"
Catheterwould: and this thing flashes at me so much it's gonna give me a seizure how do I fix that?
Cease: before their albums
Catheterwould: was the Magic Mushroom in L.A.? I lived there for a while in 1972-73
Cease: yes
Beet: Mine is flashing too. Never happened before.
Cease: Firesign were an LA phenomenon
DJTweeny: Catheterwould: and this thing flashes at me so much it's gonna give me a seizure how do I fix that? << from the popup menu at the bottom right, select Configure at the bottom. You can set the screen refresh rate there
DJTweeny: What is flashing?
llanwydd: are you new here, Catheterwould or have we seen you here under another name?
Catheterwould: I somehow managed to buy Electrician VERY early on, while living in Milwaukee, WI as a teenager
llanwydd: cool
Beet: The whole screen. Like a camera lightbulb going off.
Cease: it came out in early 68
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Catheterwould: nope - I'm a total newbie!
llanwydd: greagt to have you
llanwydd: great
Merlyn: sounds like you are displaying too many lines at a time
llanwydd: I am an oldbie
DJTweeny: Beet: The whole screen. Like a camera lightbulb going off. << not happening here. I'm using an older version of Firefox
Beet: I'm going to sign off and come back on a different browser.
Merlyn: Beet, the default screen refresh is 10 seconds, is it happening every 10?
Beet: I'm Back.
Catheterwould: I'M SO CONFUSED - MAYBE i'D BETTER PUT MY THUMB ON MY PLACE IN THE SCRIPT - IF i HAD ONE!
Catheterwould: A SCRIPT - NOT A THUMB - i GOT two OF THOSE
Beet: I had changed the refresh rate to 20. Anyway, it seems to have stopped now.
Catheterwould: OOPS! fat fingers hit CAPS LOCK - sorry...
||||||||| "9:29 PM? 9:29 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Dwarf nebula should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Dwarf nebula enters and sits on the couch.
Cease: Yet another dwarf
Merlyn: It was your thumb
Catheterwould: don't crush him!
Beet: Hi Dwarf nebula.
DJTweeny: Hi Dwarf
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
Catheterwould: How do I tell Nino where I am? Anytown ain't *MY* kinda town!
Catheterwould: those settings are way too confusing for an old frat like me...
Catheterwould: okay, folks - I just can't cope - maybe next week...
||||||||| At 9:37 PM, Catheterwould vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: ehhh
Merlyn: Hey, he knew enough to exit
Cease: come again
Beet: See ya Catheterwould
||||||||| dwarf nebula steals in around 9:41 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Outside, the 9:42 PM crosstown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Not Ed: Waz real?
dwarf nebula: and Leppis is eating Loopis
Beet: Hi Not
Not Ed: Best, Beet
Cease: Not
Not Ed: Hey all!
Not Ed: $5
Not Ed: Hey Cease
DJTweeny: allo Not Ed
Not Ed: Tweeny, good to see you-er, read you
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
DJTweeny: :)
Not Ed: She wants the bag
llanwydd: Cool!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Beet: Beautiful
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“SEX AND DEATH”
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/'
Not Ed: Excellent Cat
Beet: This'll be good
Cease: I try and make them all good.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “SEX AND DEATH” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#southern_fried
Cease: This is Fran Lebowitz
Cease: this is terry's son
Rufus_T_Firetween: I thought I'd changed the meta data on this, but I guess it didn't take :/
||||||||| 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."
Cease: what happened here?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sorry folks, I changed the meta data and it restarted the bit
Cease: my collage has dissappeared
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm going to stop it and start over
Rufus_T_Firetween: Now it's playing the wrong thing, damn, just a second
Not Ed: Mmk NP
Cease: there was Fran, for a second.
Not Ed: N
Not Ed: Heh
||||||||| 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: OK, should be good now
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: good
Rufus_T_Firetween: Because of the metadata problem, it picked up the original DOMM bit
Not Ed: Like this C - fan of TS
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll fix it in the archive
Cease: last month i had an idea for this trilogy.
Cease: something got me into terry, dont remember exactly what. maybe a facebook post?
Beet: we're repeating sections
Merlyn: Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
llanwydd: I have to say I liked fail-safe better than dr strangelove
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, starting it over t make sure we didn't miss anything
Rufus_T_Firetween: I thought Stangelove was hilarious
llanwydd: when kubrick found out about fail-safe he hurried to finish strangelove
Not Ed: Different vibes like em both
llanwydd: that bothers me a little
Not Ed: one serious one satire
llanwydd: true
Not Ed: Fonda is in FS?
llanwydd: yeah
Not Ed: good stuff
Rufus_T_Firetween: Fonda plays The President
Deputy Dang: Does anyone here listen to this on their Android device? How can I stream it?
DJTweeny: Can you plug the link into your player?
Not Ed: Whoops. Away!
Deputy Dang: Not sure what player to try.
DJTweeny: Afraid I don't know Android very well
Cease: this is me reading from krassner's autobiography
Beet: Only one more year and NO MORE UNDERWEAR! 2020
DJTweeny: I can hardly wait
Beet: Great one.
Cease: Terry blends very well with Firesign
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, 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...
Cease: By Not
Beet: I just found out that Terry Southern was born in Alvarado, Texas. Another Cosmic Firesign connection.
Cease: Indeed
Beet: G'Nite Not
DJTweeny: Wonder if there's a Pico, TX
Beet: There's an El Pico. Close but no cigar.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcasts
“A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE INQUISITION”
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'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Got sort of distracted ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “SEX AND DEATH” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#southern_fried
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: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Deputy Dang: It turns out that VLC is available on Android, so I'm listening again!
Cease: Good for you, Dang
Beet: I love the whistleing emotional music.
DJTweeny: yay...
DJTweeny: I'll have to install that. I use VLC on my Macs
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
||||||||| "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: ** Check out the video of David Ossman and Phil Proctor at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS >> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?
||||||||| 10:47 PM: The Dude jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Cease: Dude
Beet: Hello Dude.
DJTweeny: Hi Dude
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Remember folks, the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:40pm Eastern
Beet: Bronx Cheer Rudolph
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: Final part of the Terry Southern project next week.
Merlyn: bye tween, cat, everyone
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 11:01 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: kewl
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: off we go
||||||||| 11:02 PM -- Cease left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Beet: This was much fun. Thanks to everyone including FST itself of course. Really enjoyed the Collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for everything as usual, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| The Dude - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| dwarf nebula - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - 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:
||||||||| Dwarf nebula - 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:
||||||||| 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 measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Fergus - 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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
Catheterwould
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
dwarf nebula
Fergus
ghost
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#southern_fried
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
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases