Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/22/2019

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||||||||| 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 August 22, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nuke in through the front door at 6:22 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Nuke: I'll be back in just a little while after I take care of these burns.
||||||||| It's 6:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nuke - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Rufus_T_Firetween', just granted probation at 8:09 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| 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 escorts DJTweeny into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:10 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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: Let the play begin!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (James McMurtry)
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 intones: "8:45 PM and late as usual, it's Johan Amadeus Myjetski , just back from Elmertown."
DJTweeny: allo Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Just let me alone so i can enjoy the war...
DJTweeny: He's good songwriter
DJTweeny: These cuts are from his album 'Childish Things'
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:50 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: Hey
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Am I enjoying the war yet?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:53 PM and late as usual, it's aleknight, just back from Billville."
aleknight: Evening all.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : ‘Lo cease! Hiya DJT!
DJTweeny: Hi aleknight
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi ale!
Cease: jammy, ale
||||||||| 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 Beet gets out at 8:56 PM.
Beet: Hello fellow 99%ers
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Cease: Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yo beet!
Beet: Howdy Drs Tween & Cease
Beet: Hey JAM
Beet: Let 'm eat shit. At least cake would be better.
||||||||| 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, August 22, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Hello from the satellite!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“A LIFE IN THE DAY OF KWKWT”
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/'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Woke up, fell outta bed, dragged a comb across my head...
||||||||| "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: you can see the evolution of these bits from Life to KW to Dwarf.
||||||||| 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 buzzquip falls out at 9:09 PM.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Invented the wheel? Now we can build cars! We’ve been waiting hundreds of years for this!
Cease: lol
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: hi buzz
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi buzz!
||||||||| 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 Nino, The Great mind-bogler plummets into the garden at 9:10 PM.
aleknight: 'lo buzz.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nino, The Great mind-boggler into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:11 PM, then departs.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi Nino!
Cease: nino
buzzquip: qiup you schmoes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi buzzquip
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Nino
buzzquip: quip
Nino, The Great mind-boggler: "Hello, fellow kids"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ah, those fannish slies! Yes...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Fannish spies!
Beet: Hello Nino
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
Beet: They didn't have sound effects yet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I was on a kids’ cartoon show like this when i was young-ish, except they showed popeyes & 3 stooges
||||||||| At 9:20 PM, buzzquip scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:21 PM and late as usual, it's Caterino, just back from Lexington Park."
Cease: another cat
Beet: Hi Caterino
Caterino: Hi gang
Caterino: Iui I been to cat sup
Caterino: Wth
Caterino: I need to cat sup
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiyas, Caterino!
DJTweeny: Hey Caterino, long time no see
Caterino: I come at the tail eng again
Caterino: End
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nino, The Great mind-boggler - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Caterino: Hey tween cease
Beet: Nino's dead
Cease: no, another 90 minutes
DJTweeny: yep
Caterino: Again?
Caterino: Nine is always boggling
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: great book
Caterino: Saw weirdly cool again made me laugh than cry than proud
Cease: good combination
Caterino: Yes great book indeed
Caterino: Been checking the links
Caterino: Hope phil and Dave are well
Cease: they seem to be.
Cease: dave just debuted a new book of poetry in bellingham last week
Cease: phil was just in a play in dublin
Caterino: Friend of mine passed. Kip addotta
Cease: oh yes i heard that. he was really funny
Caterino: The era is slipping away fas
Caterino: T
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sad, because the sensibilities of that era are needed now more than ever.
Cease: indeed
Caterino: Now the new comedy is just rehash
Cease: each age should have its own
Caterino: I was a clock teaser at roosteramaaaa
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Well, we can’t offend the easily offended. Or can we?
Beet: I always liked the "spartacus" soundtrack
Caterino: I enraged the bulavas
aleknight: No, I'm Spartacus, and so is my wife.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Golden Hind a great show! Wait for it each week!
Cease: vague memories of that from childhood
Caterino: No you are spartacus
Caterino: The firesign is right. The older I get I find everything I know is .......
Beet: Ozzie Knows Father with an overdone laugh track. Brings back memories.
Caterino: People tell you stuff as ll you life that are not reality
Caterino: I knew ozzie nose
Caterino: Sgt billfold was another good show
Cease: vague memories of that
Beet: It's cool to hear the origins of these bits.
Caterino: The origins were the world's first writers
Cease: just became possbile in june. some guy posted a very clean version of their last krla show in jan, 68
aleknight: Go ahead, squeeze the wheez. Many people want to.
Caterino: I am so glad we keep the firesign alive for we are of firesign theatre fame
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Ah, the origin of The Crumbhungers
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Crumhungers have the aliens, though
Caterino: Bunny is my favorite. That old crow
DJTweeny: I still remember the transition from B&W to color TV
DJTweeny: What a time, the 60s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yeah, she whips ‘em off all afternoon
DJTweeny: When Star Trek was new
Caterino: The FBI in color
Beet: It's humbling to think of the major technolical breakthroughs we have witnessed.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : We got a color tv in 66, just in time for the original Star Trek!
Caterino: Although they do steal dr memory in one later episode
Cease: as i recall, it was 64. got this big unit with stereo, turntable, good speakers.
Cease: colour was a trip.
Caterino: Colour ha ha. Love it
Cease: canadian spelling.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Caterino: My first color tv was in my 69 mark avenger.
Beet: The first show wgen we turned on our color TV for the first time was "Sing Along With Mitch".
DJTweeny: Cease is a Canuk now eh, so he's required to use British spelling ;)
Caterino: His friends
Caterino: Theatre... theater
Cease: its standard Canadian spelling.
Caterino: Sing along with mitch wow I remember
DJTweeny: Cool collage Cat, thanks :)
Caterino: Yes very cool
Cease: anyone can do this now, with all the sources open
Beet: This is really amazing
Caterino: Buy you did it
Caterino: But
Cease: its what i do
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I spelled it that way on a spelling test in elementary school, ‘cos I’d seen it spelt that way in the encyclopedia brittanica. I had to argue with the teacher about it, and lost the argument.
Caterino: Teachers HA
Beet: The unfairness of an ignorant education.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Caterino: I was educated in nwk nj. Therefore I was educated by the firesign theatee
Beet: Fabulous!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Kudos, cat! Big time!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
now playing: FIRESIGN THEATRE'S LAST SHOW FOR KRLA LOS ANGELES (Part 2)
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out KRLA at >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRLA'
Cease: it was a great pleasure, bringing back my memories of hearing and recording the Life in the Day onits broadcast, jan 68
Caterino: Folks my phone is at 5%
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Caterino: Keep me flyin
DJTweeny: Good to see ya here, Caterino
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Firesign found its way into head in late 68 or early 69, courtesy of an older brother’s college friends. They bent my wittle bwain!
Caterino: Next week same firetime
Cease: be well, caterino
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite caterino
Beet: Yeah. Com back soon.
Beet: Anyone know this singer?
Cease: james cotton
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounded like Bobby Blue Bland, but I couldn’t swear to it.
Beet: Lotta soul
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ah, James Cotton, yes
Beet: This is good.
Cease: bergman announced it a few minutes ago
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It is!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s live concert album from 1999
RADIO NOW LIVE! (Disc 2)
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ever read a book called “the End of Time” by physicist Julian Barbour?
DJTweeny: I hjave not
DJTweeny: *have
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Has the math to prove time doesn’t actually exist, but is an quirk of perception
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: should i read it?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : If you want your mind blown a little bit, but it’s a big concept he introduces
Cease: that's worth knowing
Cease: i love that kind of stuff
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Then yes, you might want to consider reading it
Cease: will do
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I am so glad fireheads do not dress up to attaend FST concerts, the wat Rock Horror fans do.
Cease: there;s a scene in my first play where hawker was yelling "use universes for sale"
Cease: used
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Used universes is a cool concept!
Cease: he finally sells a hot one.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hahaha!
Beet: We have about used this one up.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It certainly feels that way, cease...
Cease: it was a comedy
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
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Trump & his followers have jumped into the big hole, & me & Cox are waiting for the aliens, or someone like him
Beet: Maybe the aliens will beam Trump up.
Cease: http://www.seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln << a fantastic 2 disc live concert album, well worth the having
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : This is one of the best incarnations of nicky nick nick...
DJTweeny: oh yeah
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Will Melanie Haber’s party meet in the Waiting. Thank you!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Waiting Room
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Waiting room
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : There’an echo in here
||||||||| 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'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The new world odor, I didn’t get that before
DJTweeny: Yeah, that's pretty good
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: fish's show with ossman and proctor next week?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite all! Thanks so much cT, djt, et al!
Beet: This was especially good tonight. Caterino seems a cool guy. Thanks to everyone. Especially good collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for steering the ship, Dr. Tween.
DJTweeny: We can do that Cease
Cease: hope everyone enjoyed the show
||||||||| 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: well appreciated, beet
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: off we go
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.
||||||||| It's 11:10 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...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Caterino - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Nino, The Great mind-bogler - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Cease - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| aleknight - 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."

The Evening's Participants:
aleknight
Beet
buzzquip
Caterino
Cease
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Nino, The Great mind-boggler
Nuke
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRLA
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases