Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/03/2019

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 October 03, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (6:52 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 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 stumbles in at 6:52 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
||||||||| DJTweeny sneaks in around 7:13 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 7:13 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Beet steps in at 7:38 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: I'm turning in early tonight and I won't be with you for several weeks. I'm going for a course on Italy. Keep the home fires burning. See everyone when I get back. Ciao.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Beet: Actually I meant "in" Italy. I can't leave without a little bad typing.
DJTweeny: Have fun and safe travels, Beet!
||||||||| It's 7:55 PM, 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...
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Rufus_T_Firetween exits at 8:35 PM.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 8:36 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Yes - Magnification)
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)'
||||||||| 8:48 PM: TimmMcCoy.com jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
TimmMcCoy.com: HOLY SHIT, I've been gone for almost a year here. HELLO EVERYBODY!
DJTweeny: Hi Timm
DJTweeny: Replay tonight
DJTweeny: have a bad back
DJTweeny: How are you doing?
TimmMcCoy.com: Better now. Benn a long hall, but ickin names and takin asses.
DJTweeny: haha, kewl
TimmMcCoy.com: Catherwood, a vodka martini please.
||||||||| Catherwood snubs TimmMcCoy.com
TimmMcCoy.com: Punk ass Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to TimmMcCoy.com and mumbles "Something I can help with?"
TimmMcCoy.com: Martini Punk Ass Catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood snubs TimmMcCoy.com
TimmMcCoy.com: LOL!
DJTweeny: lol
DJTweeny: got the stream OK?
TimmMcCoy.com: Sure!
||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:57 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: What are you up to these days?
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: How's your back, Tween?
DJTweeny: Still impersonating Grouch Marx on occasion
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: I saw your exchange with Fish. Hope he can jump onboard.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 03, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
DJTweeny: I screwed up a disc hauling a Rhodes piano up some stairs by myself in the early 80s, and sometime when I turn the wrong way or lift something the wrong way, I feel a 'pop'
DJTweeny: Usually sets itself right in 2 or 3 days
DJTweeny: Yeah, would be great to have a third even
Cease: Yeah, I have similar back problems.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
A Replay of the Show from January 10, 2019 (DJ Tweeny's back is making him 'Do The Groucho')
Firesign's HOW CAN YOU BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE WHEN YOU'RE NOT ANYWHERE AT ALL
plus a Cat Collage “The Magic Firesigns”
and from the Duke Of Madness Motors Let's Eat collection “Let's Eat pre-series show”
Listen at 128k >> http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u - Listen at 16k >> http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u'
DJTweeny: Doc and Earl both say they're busy
Cease: When my wife was in New Brunswick a couple of weeks ago, I had to carry in a heavy bottle of water. Back sore for several days after that.
Cease: Hope Doc is working again.
DJTweeny: Saw that Lily is set up for a new gig, if she passes evaluation
Cease: How's it goin, Timm?
DJTweeny: FB announcement
Cease: Yeah that's wonderful news.
DJTweeny: Hey, Rufus is in Two Places At Once!
Cease: You still here, Timm?
Cease: Even fewer folks than usual tonight.
DJTweeny: Indeed
DJTweeny: but the show must go on, 2 or 20
Cease: Glad you're capable of even putting an old show up.
Cease: Hope Organist Leroy continues to visit.
Cease: He wanted to hear the Terry Southern collages.
DJTweeny: Beet logged in earlier and said he's on his way to Italy for a few weeks and won't be joining us
Cease: I'm sure he'll have fun there.
Cease: I remember playing this on my first radio gig in Ottawa in 69
Cease: Revolutionary stuff
||||||||| Miguel tiptoes in around 9:32 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: Hi Miguel
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Johan Amadeus Myjetski in through the front door at 9:36 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: Jammy!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : HolaHi, everybody! I have been following the balls when they make the street!
Cease: Don't get bowled over.
Cease: Are you a Firesign fan, Miguel?
DJTweeny: Hi Miguel, Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : 15hours in the saddle yesterday & today, & 9 more tomorrow
Cease: You're a cowboy?
DJTweeny: long trail
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yeah, my war pony is a Prius!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Just walked into my motel room for tonight
Cease: I was a cowboy for a couple of days in the summer of 67.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I actually lived & worked on a working cattle farm for about 8 years
Cease: 2 days was enough for me.
Cease: After Expo 67, I travelled accross Canada and spent a week-end visitng a cousin who's husband was in charge of the Mantiobe provincial cattle heard.
Cease: As I knew how to ride a horse, I had to help him move the cows around.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ours was only 135 head, herefords & black angus.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : We worked ours on foot (just 175 acres)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : All hale John & Groucho!
Cease: And living people too
Cease: What are you doing now, Jam?
Cease: I asked Austin about Free High Schools.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Fetching my gear from a storage unit in Memphis so I can set up a rudimentary recording studio to finish up a new collaboration project
Cease: Stuck inside of Memphis with the Mobile blues again?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Back at my place in the North Carolina mountains
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : That’s is exactly, cat!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Stuck in the Memphis heat, 100+F today, heat index way more. About killed me.
Cease: Never been to that part of the world
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : High humidity, high heat in summer. Where i’m living in NC, it seldom gets over 85*F
Cease: Vancouver is quite temperate. No serious heat all summer.
Cease: Great to hear Paul's voice again.
Cease: He was a creature created by Tolkein.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : How do you think it makes me feel, Dimitri?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sheer genius, Dr. Strangelove
Cease: I remember seeing that movie with my parents in a theatre.
Cease: Coming out of the theatre was very strange.
Cease: This wasn't long after the Cuban missile crisis.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I remember the Cuban missile crisis. The first night my folks let me stay up past 10pm. I used this rare freedom to watch the original Bela Lugosi Dracula.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : That was that Oct 2wnd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oct 22nd
Cease: I did a collage about it called Nukes. It's in the archives, if you haven't heard it.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yes, I caught it. It was a moment when we truly believed the world could well end
Cease: My father certainly thought so.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : My parents also
Cease: And he was in the hospital when his regiment went to Dieppe and got slaughtered.
DJTweeny: Kruscev and JFK kept sane heads when their military wanted WWIII
Cease: Just watched Slaughterhouse 5 again. All that World War 2 experience.
DJTweeny: or yeah, the world would have died
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : That’s it precisely
Cease: Not the world, jsut the living things on it, down to a bacterial level.
DJTweeny: JFK was killed and Kruschev was disgraced and removed from power
DJTweeny: There is a movie of Slaughterhouse 5?
Cease: Yes. It's as good as the book.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : This was the first 45 i ever bought!
DJTweeny: will have to look for that
Cease: Frist Beatles song I liked.
Cease: I got it from the local library. Amazing. Think I'll watch it again.
DJTweeny: Well, it's small crowd tonight, but great material as always
Cease: When I first saw it in a theatre, long ago, Prague stands in for Dresden and it made me want to go to Prague.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yes a very faithful version. Hilarious in parts, profound in others. Glen Gould sountrack!
Cease: Yes, our Glen.
DJTweeny: Hard to believe that Vonnegut was from Indiana
Cease: Just like Phil.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I described Vonnegut as a cross between Mark Twain & Frank Zappa
Cease: I like that.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Slaughterhouse Five is an inexpensive DVD if you look for it. I’ve seen it at walmart for $5
DJTweeny: not bad
DJTweeny: Breakfast Of Champions is great
Cease: Vonnegut has a lot of great stuff.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
DJTweeny: true
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : One of his last, maybe the last was a curious one. Called Harrison Bergeron, is adout mind control via a video game
Cease: Must look for that.
DJTweeny: Cat's Cradle
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : PBS ran a film version years ago, but haven’t ever seen it on Dvd
DJTweeny: yeah, don't know that one
||||||||| 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."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I liked Sirens of Titan
Cease: I liked everything I've read by him.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Same here
Cease: I just mentioned Katherine Kuhlman last week.
Cease: Inspiration for the beginning of Dwarf.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Also in a very real sense, a valuable 20th century American philosopher
Cease: Which sense is this?
||||||||| 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: Mitfch Harding had a different radio name, forget what it was.
Cease: The Voice of KPFK at one time.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Well, Vonnegut is not included is academic philosophy clsses.
Cease: Oh, Vonnegut. I thought you meant Katherine Kuhlman was valuable.
Cease: Only in the sense that she inspired Dwarf.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : In the sense of ‘officially’ recognized as
Cease: Vonnegut is someone I told my daughter to read.
Cease: There is strange UFOish noise in the back ground
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I told my high school english teacher he should read Vonnegut!
Cease: Everybody should read Vonnegut.
DJTweeny: We should have a new show next week, and I'll try to get the guy who brought FST to Bloomington, IN recently set up so he can do shows too
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I remember your mentioning Katherine K. Last week
DJTweeny: excellent Johan :)
Cease: Le Guin was my favourite. PKD and many others but only only one I reccomeded to my daughter was Vonnegut.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounds like quite a muse
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : LeGuin - i loved Lathe of Heaven, but couldn’t connect with her other work.
Cease: Two more episodes of my 50s series. Then, it's Ways of Seeing turned into Firesign attched audio product.
Cease: You didn't get into Earthsea?
Cease: John Berger BBC series from I think 72. Check it out on youtube.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Strangely, no. I think i read a dozen or so pages & put it down. I’ve only done that with a very few books, usually I'll finish it
Cease: NOt the book, the BBC series.
Cease: I haven't read the book but the TV series blew me away.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’ll have to look for that.
Cease: Watch a LOT of BBC art series on our Knowledge Network.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I haven’t watched any tv for the last year & a half
Cease: if you can chat with us, you can watch berger.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sounds like in need to put it on my list!
Cease: new collage next week hopefully. about elvis.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : THANKS! Great collage, Cat! Nite all!
Cease: Night Jammy
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: Hope your back gets better soon, Tween
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| It's 11:25 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 yaws
||||||||| 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 the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Miguel - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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 the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com - 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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
Cease
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
TimmMcCoy.com

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk