||||||||| 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 July 04, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:29 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| 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' ||||||||| "8:32 PM? 8:32 PM!!" says Catherwood, "DJTweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as DJTweeny 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 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 (America 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)' ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:48 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Leesburg." Beet: This was regarded by many people as representing feelings of what it was to be an American. Reported by NPR ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:48 PM and rook_flood bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Beet: Hi Dr Tween Beet: Hello rook Beet: This is a bit of a different version. Sounds like Yes. DJTweeny: Hi rook, Beet DJTweeny: It is a Yes cover :) Beet: Maybe all our people are out watching fireworks? DJTweeny: A single they released back in the Fragile days Beet: Very Interesting DJTweeny: Yeah, I really like the way they rocked it out Beet: This is nice. ||||||||| 8:54 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" DJTweeny: Yo Cease Cease: Hi gang Beet: Is this Neil Young? Beet: Hey Dr Cease Cease: Ah, the great steve miller. Cease: Before he became the mediocre hit maker steve miller Cease: HI Beet Cease: Hi rook Beet: So much great music from this era ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:57 PM and thomas stakely steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Cease: Greetings, thomas Beet: Hello Thomas DJTweeny: Hello Thomas thomas stakely: hello fine peoples Beet: Trump's May Day Celebration on the 4th. Weapons on parade. ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY 4TH OF JULIE!! ** 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, July 04, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Beet: Music to ones' ears Beet: Washington grew tons of hemp ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Deputy Dang in through the front door at 9:04 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Cease: Hi Deputy Beet: Greetings Deputy Deputy Dang: Happy Independence Day! With liberty and justice, for all! Beet: Nice wish thomas stakely: happy 4th to all...im so damn glad i exercised my rights,and found u guys.....OLIVIA!!!!! DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy Beet: Bill Maher used to warrant such praise. Cease: first time here, thomas? thomas stakely: yes sir Deputy Dang: Howdy DJTweeny, et al! Beet: Welcome. DJTweeny: 'Used to' being the operative term, Beet Rufus_T_Firetween: This year, Texas passed a law legalizing hemp. It also has prosecutors dropping hundreds of marijuana cases. - https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/03/texas-marijuana-hemp-testing-prosecution/ Beet: Sad but true Beet: This is great news, Rufus! DJTweeny: It's a good start... ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY 4TH OF JULIE!! ** now playing: Firesign Theatre's “BOOM DOT BUST” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out BOOM DOT BUST at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-rv' Deputy Dang: I think I have an idea of how dogs feel about fireworks... :-( Beet: Let me wish Happy 4th to all of you. Cease: Didn't Henry Ford build a car out of hemp and power it with hemp fuel? DJTweeny: Not much, I'm guessing DJTweeny: Same to you Beet Cease: It could happen again. DJTweeny: That I had not heard, cease Cease: Happy birthday, Yanks. We celebrated our day on Monday. DJTweeny: but hemp could certainly be used to create bio fuel Beet: Very versatile plant. ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Cease: I thinkn Willie Nelson is producing it. thomas stakely: i recall the rush of finding this in a cd store one day,tho i realize thats not flowing with the over all convo Beet: He has the right attitude DJTweeny: Wouldn't surprise me, as he has his own biodiesel company ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:11 PM, dragging A-4 Wrench by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?" Cease: A-4 DJTweeny: Hi Wrench Beet: Hey A-4 Cease: i was visiting friends in berkely in 03 and found the npr album in a music store there. Rufus_T_Firetween: Willie Nelson Biodiesel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Nelson_Biodiesel Cease: all things firesign. Beet: Like prospecting for gold DJTweeny: cool Cease Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ALL THINGS FIRESIGN” (Firesign On NPR) - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-rv Cease: not something i would find in vancouver Rufus_T_Firetween: Willie's Reserve (his own MJ brand) - https://williesreserve.com/ Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope willie can sell it in Texas before too long Cease: is the texas wind blowing that way, tween? DJTweeny: Welcome to all the newcomers! We do this every Thursday, so do join us :) ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Beet: That's a nice picture of Willie. Cease: since 1995 DJTweeny: A lot of people are trying to make it happen, but there's great resistance from the more conservative parts of the state DJTweeny: Illinois just legalized, so that 11 states so far DJTweeny: It's a money-maker for the state, so hopefully people will get wise Beet: Profit changes minds Cease: have you read terry southern's story red dirt marijuana? about growing and smoking in rural texas Beet: Gettin' hugh is one of the best blessings in life. Beet: high Cease: would firesign exist if marijuana had never existed? DJTweeny: hugely high? DJTweeny: Sounds like an interesting read, Cease Cease: would the beatles have evolved after Hard Day's Night? DJTweeny: Good question Beet: It was a time of expanding boundaries and frames of reference. DJTweeny: It was Cease: are you old fans of firesign, wrench and thomas? Beet: Does the idea of ayahuasca appeal to anuone here? ||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| A-4 Wrench - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... DJTweeny: He's no fun, he fell right over... Cease: paul krassner has a bit on one of his albums about doing aya with his daughter in ecuador. DJTweeny: aya? Beet: Any revelations, Cease? Cease: read his autobiography, funniest non ficiont book i've ever read and fills you with the history he's been part of. Cease:http://paulkrassner.com/ Cease: really, buy his autobiography. he could use the money. Cease: i htink you can get his cds as well. Deputy Dang: Billville doesn't sound so bad. Beet: I listen to Coast to Coast on the radio a lot and ayahuasca is mentioned quite frequently. DJTweeny: I have that Disney poster DJTweeny: I'm amazed that Disney didn't sue him ;) Cease: sounds scary to me, beet Beet: Need a good Shaman. Cease: yeah, he talks about that in his book, tween. Cease: he has pushed some major boundaries over the decades Beet: What's a "Johnnie Cup"? ||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!" Cease: bergman did a few shows with him. DJTweeny: must have been fun Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about BOOM DOT BUST at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-ln Cease: Still here, thomas? Cease: rook? Cease: my only pyramid experience Cease: i first thought he said "towny" Beet: lol DJTweeny: Phil's accents are uncanny Beet: One of my favorite new lines. 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 Deputy Dang: I suspect that the pace of this is a little fastt for anyone who's high. Just a hypothesis... DJTweeny: Like most FST albums, you have to listen more than a few times to catch everything that's going on Cease: hard to understand what the kongaroo said. Cease:tweeny, what ive learnd is, there is no everything. DJTweeny: Doubtless true, Cease ;) Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Beet: cool record Deputy Dang: That was great! Rufus_T_Firetween: Indeed it is... My favorite of the 2000 Trilogy ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY 4TH OF JULIE!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “BILL MCKIBBENVILLE” 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/' ||||||||| Catherwood leads dickerndicker inside, makes a note of the time (9:56 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Beet: hi dicker ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:57 PM and late as usual, it's Nancy, just back from Los Angeles." Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi DnD Rufus_T_Firetween: Hello Nancy Beet: Hi Nancy Nancy: Not really Nancy. Cease: Nancy, Dicker Nancy: Hullo. Happy pendants day DJTweeny: Happy 4th Of Julie to you :) ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: Melanie...Haber? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “BILL MCKIBBENVILLE” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES Nancy: Maybe. But the name is McGill. (Wrong record). It’s been a long time DJTweeny: Rocky Raccoon? Cease: Welcome back Nancy: Farber. Is there anything further Farber? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Robert Scheer's podcast Scheer Intelligence >> https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/silicon-valley-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-earths-imminent-demise Cease: I met Bill McKibben in Seatle in I think 1990 DJTweeny: kewl Nancy: Boy I haven’t seen/heard bob Sheer for a long time either. Is he still on the Radio? Cease: He is indeed, Nancy. the wonders of podcasting. on kcrw, from usc Cease: the 2nd issue of adsbusters was anti tv and bill was writing a book about his hatred of tv so it was a marrage made in media heaven DJTweeny: "I've been to New York, that's sombody's hair piece." lol ||||||||| 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!" DJTweeny: Maybe a ref to our current Pres? Cease: he asked me to join him on stage at this literary event, his wingman on the anti tv crusade, and of course, sell lots of his books ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Cease: i told the crowd, tv is like a toaster. when your toast is toasted, you dont keep the toaster on . DJTweeny: heheh Cease: the simpsons was rather new then and at a restaurant after the event, i suggested he get stoned and watch the simpsons Cease: he was shocked. "but, I'm a Methodist" he protested. Cease: that's almost 30 years ago. i wonder if his feeling about cannabis is still the same. DJTweeny: What's being a Methodist have to do with it? lol Beet: I don't think I will have to witness the planet burning up and drowning. Cease: apparently a lot 30 years ago ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Cease: do you have young children that you care about? Beet: No Cease: i dont mean yours Beet: I have affection for my nephews but they are older Cease: our daughter's boy friend later married and now has 4 kids, who consider me their grandfather and my wife is highly involved in being their grand mother ||||||||| 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: twin 11 year olds, who played Proctor and Bergman at the Golden Dragon in my recent play CAST starring among others Tween. DJTweeny: That's very cool, Cease Cease: that it is, tween. DJTweeny: I remember that Beet: The worry would drive anyone nuts. Cease: younger brother Phoenix, 7, and new one, Lincoln. So the world they will live to see will be a much more threatened world then the one we know now. DJTweeny: Cat, it looks like I still don't have a description for the CAST archive. Can you email me something? Cease: you're old enough to remember the cuban missile crisis, beet. we were all on the precipace then. DJTweeny: Likely true, Cease :( ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! Cease: oh tween, i thought i had emailed you a couple of things. cast list and my intro. you didn't get it? will resend. DJTweeny: Ah, I see it now Cease DJTweeny: Got lost in all the emails Beet: That is as worried as I and the whole country has ever experienced, Cat. DJTweeny: Will take care of that Cease: Did a collage about it called Nukes. It's in Tween's archive. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ Beet: Clinton fulfilled Republican insanities. ||||||||| 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!" Beet: Warren is corporate DJTweeny: Most of them are DJTweeny: Our representatives have been bought Beet: Scary DJTweeny: I don't see that we're going to get much of anywhere without campaign finance reform Beet: Has to start there ||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!" Cease: still here, Nancy? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor’s Audio Book of his recent autobiography “Where's My Fortune Cookie?: My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory” is now available! >> https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v Cease: are visitors downtonight cuz it's a holiday in your country? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD: A MEMOIR by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman Cease: i try and string these collages togerther. the Bugged collages about capitalism gone amuck, and this folllwing that line of investigation. DJTweeny: True, and well done Cease: keeping Bergman alive, as it were Cease: next week, a change of pace. Weird Al goes Firesign. DJTweeny: Looking forward to that :) DJTweeny: Lots of Weird Al fans at Radio Free Dishnuts Cease: timm knows him and I think is doing sometihng with him soon. Beet: That should be amazing. Cease: Hope he can get the collage to Al Cease: i used to write parody songs in school. Cease: my high school graduation day, the other kids asked me to write a song of celebratin for us escaping the terrible school Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Robert Scheer's podcast Scheer Intelligence >> https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/silicon-valley-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-earths-imminent-demise Cease: i instantly came up with a parody of "aint gonna work on maggie's farm no more" using the principals name insteat of maggie DJTweeny: Steely Dan's "My Old School" is pretty good at that DJTweeny: haha, great Cease Cease: when i heard the weird al interview on maron, i thought, i was on the trajectory to do that in the 60s, after tom lehrer and allan sherman. Beet: India? Wow. Cease: yeah beet, if mckibben says its on course, that;s important. he is very well connected DJTweeny: We'd have to have a very different economy in order to stop polluting so much DJTweeny: and I don't know how you get there from here DJTweeny: Excellent collage, Cat :) Cease: more a political will then tech problem ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY 4TH OF JULIE!! ** Currently playing: Firesign's “TEMPORARILY HUMBOLT COUNTY” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out ELECTRICIAN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte' Beet: Usual excellence, Cat ||||||||| 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!" Cease: i sent it to bill and robert today. hope they like it. Cease: via facebook. dont even know if they monitor facebook. DJTweeny: The first track from their first album, and it's still soooo classic ||||||||| 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' Beet: Still an amazing commentary. DJTweeny: It sure is Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Deputy Dang: Hail Horus! Cease: Weird Al next week. Beet: This has been a good evening. Nice to see some new participants. Fabulous collage, Dr Cease. Thanks bunches to our revered Dr Tween. G'Nite. DJTweeny: :) ||||||||| Cease leaves to catch the 10:51 PM train to Hawaii. DJTweeny: One of my favorite GD tunes Deputy Dang: I love these pices! Deputy Dang: ppieces DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Deputy Dang runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Deputy Dang?! It's 10:56 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. ||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Nancy - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| thomas stakely - 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: ||||||||| dickerndicker - dead from measles ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| rook_flood - 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 pneumonia ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 2:47 AM and Ulric V. Dorais, III, esq sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Nancy
Rufus_T_Firetween
thomas stakely
