Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/25/2019

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 April 25, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 8:36 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Around 8:37 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:37 PM uptown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| "Hey DJTweeny!" ... DJTweeny turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:37 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:38 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
: test
DJTweeny: tetst
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (8:40 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Rufus_T_Firetween: test
||||||||| 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 (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
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)'
||||||||| insomnia enters at 8:51 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
insomnia: hi folks
DJTweeny: Hey insomnia :)
DJTweeny: Welcome (Dillo here)
||||||||| 8:53 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
Cease: sounds like country music
DJTweeny: Folk/Rock, sort of
DJTweeny: Mar Chapin Carpenter
Cease: she;s very good
DJTweeny: *Mary
DJTweeny: Dire Straits has a great cover of this tune
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:55 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
Beet: The DJ-In-Chief is back in Bidness! Music to my ears.
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
DJTweeny: :)
Cease: how much more nashville can she get?
Cease: hi beet!
Beet: Nice to see you, Dr Tween
Beet: Hey, Dr Cease!
DJTweeny: insomnia, in this chat typing a colon : before a message is the same as using /me in IRC
Cease: Hi Insomnia
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:57 PM, dragging wubba by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
DJTweeny welcomes insomnia to our little soirée
Cease: wubba!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
wubba: cool chat
DJTweeny: Hey wubba
||||||||| "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!"
Beet: Hi wubba
wubba: cool chat
DJTweeny: This song reminds me so much of going down to the carb houses on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Beet: Never was a huge MCC fan but this is nice.
DJTweeny: Custom-made by our web guru Merlyn
DJTweeny: Click on the question mark at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen for instructions
Beet: Thanks, Merl
||||||||| 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, April 25, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's
“THE TALE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out GIANT RAT at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gros-rv'
Beet: One of my fave albums and I am looking forward to Cease's creation.
wubba: where's Kiss?
Cease: that was a wonderfully said intrlo, tween
DJTweeny: Mine too, Beet
wubba: insomnia
DJTweeny: from the FST web site description, Cease ;)
DJTweeny: Happy Birthday Barbara Streisand
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nuke into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:04 PM, then departs.
Beet: Ah, Peruvian Coca.
Beet: Hello Nuke
Cease: When the atomic bomb just isn't enough.
DJTweeny: Hi Nuke
Beet: I preger hand-rolled bombs
wubba: is this an ad?
Beet: prefer
Cease: no, an album, wubba
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE TALE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gros-ln
DJTweeny: My music show is on Sunday, wubba
wubba: that's playing 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!"
DJTweeny: This is for fans of The Firesign Theatre comedy troupe
Cease: music plus firesign
wubba: it's unbearable
DJTweeny: Check the link I just posted above, wubba
DJTweeny: lol
wubba: i thought it was an ad
DJTweeny: A radio play :)
wubba: okay
Cease: sherlock holms, with a twist
DJTweeny: I play some Firesign and then take music requests on my Radio Free Roadkill Show
DJTweeny: which by the way Cat will be moving to Tuesday evenings 7-9 Eastern 4-6 Pacific starting May 7th
wubba: cool
wubba: what kind of music?
DJTweeny: Whatever you like, as long as it doesn't have a lot of bad language, wubba
wubba: cool
DJTweeny: Sometimes we get into a groove on a particular theme, but it's generally free-form requests
wubba: how many listeners you got?
Beet: A little bit is OK but not a lot.
DJTweeny: Hard rap, no
wubba: how many listeners you got tweeny?
DJTweeny: I'll advertise the other show in the IRC chats also when it's time to listen in, wubba
DJTweeny: Not a lot, but we're always looking for more
wubba: are you purityofdillo?
DJTweeny: I think moving to Tuesday evenings from Sunday will make it easier for people to participate
||||||||| 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."
Beet: lol
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
DJTweeny: Yes wubba, Dillo here
wubba: amazing
wubba: will you dill the noise
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Watch the Firesign Theatre Youtube Channel at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
DJTweeny: Yo...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also a couple of other unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nuke - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTweeny: OK Cat, I fixed the description in your archive and uploaded the new collage
Cease: Thanks
Cease: I wonder what Conan Doyle would have made of this album
DJTweeny: I daresay he would have laughed and approved :)
Beet: Heard this album a zillion tines and I still find myself very absorbed in every word.
Cease: me too, beet
DJTweeny: It's fantastically well written and executed
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
DJTweeny: "rubber roads that lead nowhere'
DJTweeny: as in 'follow the rubber line"?
insomnia: /me making corn on the cob
Beet: cool
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“VEGAS ATE, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY”
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: I'm getting hungry a;ready
DJTweeny: Sounds yummy, insomnia
DJTweeny: insomnia, in this chat typing a colon : before a message is the same as using /me in IRC
DJTweeny: your corn on the cob is just in time for Cat's new collage about eating in Las Vegas ;)
Cease: indeed
Cease: stick designer!
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Paul inside, makes a note of the time (9:46 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cease: good job
Cease: hi Paul
Beet: hey paul
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Hello Paul
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “VEGAS ATE, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#vegas_ate
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kip+addotta%2C+wet+dream&t=ffnt&atb=v156-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=6l1GvDWtccI
Cease: thats where I got the kip adotta bit from
Cease: this is from am Hour Hour show
Beet: Working girl
DJTweeny: Hey, didn't we just hear this? ;)
Cease: first time i was ever hit on in 8 trips to vegas
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Cease: indeed, tween
Cease: the hooker was the colour of chocolate milk
Beet: No Jungle Fever?
Cease: lol
Cease: my wife of 44 years is of a different colour. never consider that.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: yes, the weather was surprisingly hostile the whole trip
DJTweeny: That's no fun
DJTweeny: Good Steely Dan
Beet: The Dan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “VEGAS ATE, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#vegas_ate
Cease: thanks, tween.
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
DJTweeny: Cool collage series, Cat :)
Cease: Thanks
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Beet: Always makes me want to go to Vegas
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s
“THE DAILY FEED (Part 1)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out the Daily Feed Tapes at >> https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Danger-Daily-Feed-Tapes/dp/1576771474'
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Paul - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn in through the front door at 10:10 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: would never have imgained going there until friends told me about its food
||||||||| 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: hi merfl
Merlyn: hey all -- my connection seems to be kinda slow tonight
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Beet: Evening Mr. Merlyn
DJTweeny: Haute Cuisine is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Vegas, no
DJTweeny: Well Merlyn, as long as he gets you the stuff eventually
DJTweeny: A little drug humor there (very little, apparently)
Cease: i've had meals in vegas that were as revelatory as hearing a firesign album for the first time.
DJTweeny: wow...
Cease: have you played this here bfore, tween?
DJTweeny: I'm not sure, let me check
Cease: Freditor said it sold well
Beet: I don't remember hearing this before. Is this from Box of Danger?
Cease: tht was prescient. spends all his time in moscow
Cease: no, a cd from firezine. a collection of a radio series austin did
Cease: austin is such an awesome writer
DJTweeny: Looks like back in 2015, Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** You can buy a CD of NICK DANGER: THE DAILY FEED TAPES by sending $20 via Paypal to Fred Wiebel at fredwiebel@aol.com
Beet: Cool
Cease: you still here, merl? he knows more than I about that relationship
DJTweeny: August of 2015
DJTweeny: I played it along with your collage A Phil Austin Story
Cease: aha
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: austin got a lot of mileage out of nick
DJTweeny: FST's most famous character, for sure
DJTweeny: He did the Noir Detective thing really well
DJTweeny: Shall we play Part 2 next week?
Cease: yes
Cease: i;m gonna use a piece of it in my upcoming bill burroughs collage
Beet: Sure
Cease: austin is an inspiration to creative people
Cease: i should have run the hiss filtre before I sent this to you.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Firesign Theatre's FIRESALE STORE for books and DVDs >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
DJTweeny: If you could do that and send me new copies for next week, that would be great
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:42 PM and J.A.M. steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: I vote for the Bad Dream
Beet: Hey, JAM!!!
J.A.M.: Hey beet!
DJTweeny: allo Johan
J.A.M.: Evenin’ DJT! Cat!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check Out THE DAILY FEED tapes at >> https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Danger-Daily-Feed-Tapes/dp/1576771474
||||||||| "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!"
Cease: jammy!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Cease: just missed the final part of my vegas collage, but you can hear it at tween;s archive site
Cease: fed up to here with food
J.A.M.: And every seven years, the Jubilee!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “VEGAS ATE, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#vegas_ate
||||||||| 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'
J.A.M.: Will try tocheck out the archive, cease. Time pushed this coming, in rehearsals for the Mountain Skies electronic music festival in a week!
Merlyn: thanks again, tween
||||||||| "10:52 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Merlyn, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
Cease: how;s it goin, jammy?
DJTweeny: very cool, JAM :)
Cease: baked parrots?
Beet: Gid they serve those in Vegas?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: do you play electronic music?
Beet: This was a nice, laid back chat evening. I do wish more folks dropped in, but this is still the best way to spend a Thursday night. Thanks especially to Dr Cease (great collage) and Dr Tween for his most excellent stewardship. G'Nite.
Cease: Thanks Beet. I love making them, trying to push it alnog the path they create
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: off we fly
||||||||| Cease dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 10:59 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
J.A.M.: Will try tocheck out the archive, cease. Time pushed this coming, in rehearsals for the Mountain Skies electronic music festival in a week!
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| J.A.M. - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Hemlock Stones (Genuine!) into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 11:33 PM, then departs.
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Oh, no! I must be running late again! I am on London time after all! Much love to everyone from Bakersfield Street!
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| wubba - 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:
||||||||| Hemlock Stones (Genuine!) - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 1:36 AM, dragging vbmnvmh by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
vbmnvmh: what is this. where am i
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| vbmnvmh - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
Cease
DJTweeny
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!)
insomnia
J.A.M.
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween
vbmnvmh
wubba

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gros-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gros-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#vegas_ate
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://duckduckgo.com/?q=kip+addotta%2C+wet+dream&t=ffnt&atb=v156-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=6l1GvDWtccI
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Danger-Daily-Feed-Tapes/dp/1576771474
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd