||||||||| 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 June 27, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood leads RedPillTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (5:51 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters with RedPillTweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 7:32 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom. ||||||||| It's 7:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:26 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?" ||||||||| DJTweeny leaves at 8:27 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..." ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween bounds in at 8:27 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| 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' ||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 8:31 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger. ||||||||| 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 (Eric Clapton) 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 trudges in at 8:53 PM, dragging Cat by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?" DJTweeny: Hey Cat Cat: HI Tween. Just watch the TZ you sent. Reminded me of one of my favourite flicks, La Jetee Cat: My, this man can play guitar DJTweeny: Can't he though? DJTweeny: Never heard of La Jetee Cat: i'm sure you can watch it oniine. old french flick Cat: best guitar i've ever heard was him on i shot the sherrif, japanese tv, mid 80s Cat: Chjirs Marker, 1962 DJTweeny: An amazing talent, for sure Cat:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! Cat: New bio of Mike Bloomfield. I'd love to read it when it comes to the Van library. Cat: Was planning to drop by your new show and request Mike but got busy with visitors ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:58 PM and late as usual, it's Merlyn, just back from Minnesota." Cat: Is Fish coming tonight? Merlyn: hey ||||||||| 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: Hope to see you there next time :) Cat: Hey Merly ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:58 PM", then leaves hurriedly. DJTweeny: Merlyn Beet: No debate here: Firesign is the greatest! Cat: And Beet too. That's a quorum. DJTweeny: Hi Beet Cat: LOL beet Beet: Hey, Dr Cat DJTweeny: Don't know, Cat ||||||||| 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, June 27, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Cat: La Jetee was/is a vast influence on me. Cat: Check it out. DJTweeny: Will do ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Firesign Theatre's “JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out JUST FOLKS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-rv' Cat: I remember buying this album at Tower Records in LA. Had just come in from Japan. Later that evening, my wife and I saw Annie Hall, with musical extra Joan Armatrading. Cat: My play Neal Amid is greatly influenced by La Jetee DJTweeny: kewl ||||||||| 9:06 PM: ''Bob'' jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Cat: Hi Bob Rufus_T_Firetween: La Jetee - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/ DJTweeny: Looks like they did a remake in 2016 DJTweeny: Hello Bob Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln ''Bob'': Hi, all. I'm on an old, slow computer tonight and naturally it had to upgrade VLC before I could tune in. ;) Beet: Hi Bob
Rufus_T_Firetween is on an old fast computer he just got to replace the music machine :) Cat: I hope we are worth it Cat: A stiff idiot is the worst kind. Rufus_T_Firetween: My new (to me) Mac Pro - https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-twelve-core-2.66-mid-2010-westmere-specs.html Rufus_T_Firetween: You, RFD and lots of other purposes :) ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." ''Bob'': Well, it was a *security* update. Had to be safe in case Worker was waiting to ask it some questions. DJTweeny: Oh yes... Beet: I for one am a sympathetic supporter and wellwisher for Tween's success in his personal tech war. We all benefit. DJTweeny: Thank you :) Cat: We do indeed, Beet Cat: Dope Humour of the 70s clone ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Cat: Where is Fish? DJTweeny: Je ne sais pas DJTweeny: He was invited Cat: This is very much like Not Insane. A pastiche. Beet: I really like the live version of the "symptoms of depression". Cat: They captured their era. DJTweeny: and yet so prescient about the future as well Beet: Their main topic was/is about Power, what it does and how it corrupts. Cat: And they gave us tools to fight it. Cat: Surrealism. Mockery, Investigation. ||||||||| Catherwood leads llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (9:32 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. llanwydd: evening folks Cat: Hi llanny Beet: They wee major contributors to how I have looked at my life and life as a whole. Pretty important. Cat: Speaking of Spiro, did y'all hear Rachel Maddow;s podcast series about him? Beet: Howdy Llan Cat: He was so corrupt, you could imagine Nast doing a cartoon about him. Cat:https://www.msnbc.com/bagman Cat: Al Capone level of corruption. An inspiration to Trump DJTweeny: haha DJTweeny: Hi llan Beet: I think Trump sees himsef and acts like a godfather. Don't say anything negative about him or else. ||||||||| Catherwood leads Johan Amadeus Myjetski in through the front door at 9:39 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Beet: Hi JAM Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi cat, beet, llan, djt! Cat: Jammy DJTweeny: Yo Johan Cat: Austin wrote this in 67. They were briliant from the very beginning llanwydd: catherwood, pass the indian please ||||||||| Catherwood walks over to llanwydd and mumbles "Did you need me?" llanwydd: cool ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection “BACK FROM THE SHADOWS” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook' Beet: Good album llanwydd: Lorre Pierre! llanwydd: great Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Where are my caster flakes? llanwydd: this is the music from Over the Edge Beet: You can't deny Loosener's. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : How apropos! Beet: Can you get under a dwarf maple? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : As anyone searched facebook for melanie haber? Beet: Good idea Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hahahahhohohohehehe Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Q: what’s the opposite of a cue? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A: an antique ''Bob'': A cue? Gesundheit! DJTweeny: lol Beet: The Melanie Haber with the kind of Sci-Fi logo looks pretty interesting. But no one connected to Firesign on Facebook. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, Bob! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I have to check her out! ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Beet: A show of hands of whoever has beat off aneagle. llanwydd: my sound went out at 10 Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You’re not seeing my hands.... ''Bob'': yeah, I lost mine too and had to restart the stream Beet: A reference to the I Ching, eh? Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm listening to the stream, solid here Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Had restart mine at about 10 til 10 Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Beet: Always a crowd pleaser ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “BUGGED 2” 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: This'll be good. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Wasn’t there a computer game called ‘bugdom’? Cat: They always are, Beet Cat: Torrential rain outside Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope you broguht your umbrella Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “BUGGED 2” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES DJTweeny: Catherwood, please give Cat an umbrella ||||||||| Catherwood gets cat an umbrella. Beet: Where are you now, Cat? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Raining since the top of the page, eh? Cat: North Vancouver Cat: I hope I never live anywhere else Beet: Rains a lot. 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 Cat: this woman is amazing Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Agreed, cat. Cat: a great journalist. he ted talk. do you have the link, tween? Cat: her ted talk Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, just a sec Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Carole Cadwalladr and the Turkish sociologist Zeynep Tufeckci from their TED talks >> https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?language=en Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Makes the words ‘foot’ & ‘shoot’ meaningful Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Carole Cadwalladr and the Turkish sociologist Zeynep Tufeckci from their TED talks >> https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads?language=en Cat: canada is really pissed off at zuckerburg because of his refusal to attend subpoena's thing here recently Cat: thanks tween Rufus_T_Firetween: yw Cat: i think if dems win senate and president, facebook is fucked. Cat: they are planning ahead. ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" Beet: Why is that? ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" Cat: e.warren. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : LOLOLOL! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : This is hilarious!! Cat: the collection of data algorithm that this is about will have to change Beet: Warren is a waffle queen. Rufus_T_Firetween: Better than a pancake queen, perhaps? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Or a cheeze-headed quean... Cat: i think there is a mounting anger against this (as carol descibes here) that will result in some kind of negation soon Cat: maybe jsut cuz of my grandkids. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Good! Rufus_T_Firetween: I rarely use FB for anything other than for occasional comminucations and posting show notices or articles I think might be of interest Rufus_T_Firetween: I don't 'scroll the news feed' Beet: I rarely use FB unless a friend or relative contects me directly. Doesn't happen too often. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Mr. Laurie Anderson Rufus_T_Firetween: If it weren't for the fact that it's so popular, even with the Firesigns, I'd probably stay away from it Cat: I find it useful. ''Bob'': I've been on FB strike since December. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It is a hard monkey to get offyour back... Rufus_T_Firetween: Do you think it can be tamed, Cat? Cat: yes Rufus_T_Firetween: I don't need a car which is mostly just a computer on wheels ||||||||| 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!" Cat: That's why Shoshana wrote her book. To awaken a resistance. Cat: As you can hear here, there a lot of others opening doors here. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Cat, you’ve done many hard+hitting collages, but i think this may be the hardest, & definitely one of the top ones! Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, extremely informative Cat: Proctor posts to Facebook several times a day. Why would one choose not to read that> Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Point taken Cat: Thank you, Jam. I try and get better. Cat: Firesign is a kind of gasoline. What can it fuel? A Model T? Z? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : They’re playing my song! Better check my streaming royalties! Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Brain fuel, powering imaginations Johan Amadeus Myjetski : FST is brain fuel Rufus_T_Firetween: My apartment complex just installed new washers/dryers in the laundry facilities. You have to have a smart phone and use an app with bluetooth to use them. Rufus_T_Firetween: Since when do I have to be identified to the internet to do laundry?? Rufus_T_Firetween: I have informed them of my displeasure. Cat: this is from firesing flick, the case of the missing yolks Rufus_T_Firetween: Ah, that's something I've never played Beet: Weird and disturbing Dr Tween Rufus_T_Firetween: Been meaning to downlod it from YT Rufus_T_Firetween: very, Beet Rufus_T_Firetween: *download llanwydd: thygufidosytguh Johan Amadeus Myjetski : If you’re going to be monitored essentially 24/7, there’ll be no privacy, no personal space, no life of your own, no opinions of your own, because you’ll be punished for any thought that doesn’t profit the elite leaders... Cat: this is a le show ffom a few weeks agfo DJTweeny: Alexa ends up being a device by which you can be monitored
DJTweeny wants no 'smart' appliances ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Cat: this woman is amazing. look at her ted talks. Cat: i sent her a link to this collage. doubt she'll reply, but i'm suddenly happy about turkey. Cat: the oppostion to fascism party won in Istambul. ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" DJTweeny: Yeah, that was likely a bit of a surprise Cat: told her about, follow in your book and repeat after me as we learn our next 3 words of Turkish. DJTweeny: heh Beet: I think I am going to have to hear a replay to focus on her again. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “BUGGED 2” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Carole Cadwalladr and the Turkish sociologist Zeynep Tufeckci from their TED talks >> https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?language=en Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Carole Cadwalladr and the Turkish sociologist Zeynep Tufeckci from their TED talks >> https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads?language=en Beet: Good ||||||||| 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 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIG' Rufus_T_Firetween: oops ||||||||| 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 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign' Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... DJTweeny: That was great Cat, thanks :) ''Bob'': Wait. We can't leave with the president still broken! Beet: Very interesting evening folks. Nice to see everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. Thanks as always and Keep on Truckin', Dr Tween. G'Nite. llanwydd: cool show llanwydd: thanks tweeny and cat ''Bob'': Nite Tweeny Cat: i do my best llanwydd: nite folks ||||||||| llanwydd scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's llanwydd?! It's 10:49 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!" Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Love love love to all! Thanks cat, djt, & everybody! Cat: olff we flit ||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 10:51 PM. ||||||||| Cat leaves to catch the 10:52 PM train to Hawaii. DJTweeny: 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. ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 11:04 PM, dragging Kelly by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?" ||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Kelly - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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 Globner's disease ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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... ||||||||| 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:
''Bob''
Beet
Cat
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween
