||||||||| 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 November 21, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 7:13 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Deputy Dang sashays in at 8:14 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Deputy Dang departs at 8:15 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| Outside, the 8:35 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| 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 (Jimmy Buffett) 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)' ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:43 PM and Mudhead steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. DJTweeny: Hey Mudhead Mudhead: Hiya Tweeny DJTweeny: Glad to see you rcomputer is still working Mudhead: ok, Ive adjusted my shoes and replaced my rubber nose, ok I think we're all Bozos over here DJTweeny: :) ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (8:48 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. DJTweeny: Hey llan llanwydd: Hey Tween! llanwydd: Hey Muddy! DJTweeny: Mudhead's back :) Mudhead: and front too Mudhead: Hiya Llan Mudhead: I just took a cute pic, the lil girl cat Reyna is capmped out in front of the monitor reading the screen ||||||||| Cease enters at 8:51 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex. llanwydd: what paradise does this song refer to? Cease: Hi folks llanwydd: Hey Cat! Cease: Welcome back, muddy Mudhead: Shes either reading the screen, watching the text move, or hoping to catch the mouse cursor DJTweeny: Yo Cease Mudhead: Hi Cease DJTweeny: The one with cheeseburger trees, llan llanwydd: lol llanwydd: catherwood pick a few from the trees for us please ||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside llanwydd and mumbles "Something I can help with?" llanwydd: reminds me of the cigarette trees and the soda water fountain Mudhead: Catherwood fetch my cat some catnip ||||||||| Catherwood gets cat some catnip. Cease: Apparently, Buffet is a Firesign fan. llanwydd: did not know that Cease: He allowed them to use his streaming radio station in the Bay area of broadcast their tour date their live. Cease: To broadcast. Cease: Doc was visiting at the time and we recorded it on my computer. Not sure I still have it though. ||||||||| 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 sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:59 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom... DJTweeny: Radio Margaritaville - http://www.margaritaville.com/ Beet: Evening to all fellow Fireheads! Cease: HI Beet llanwydd: how can a woman be blamed for losing his salt shaker? Beet: Howdy Dr Cease ||||||||| 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: Hey Beet ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 21, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" llanwydd: I would lay the blame on him Cease: Proc did a radio interview with a Hartford station this week. Still haven't heard it. ||||||||| 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 Not Ed disembarks at 9:00 PM. DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed Beet: Greetings Dr Tween Not Ed: Pork? Mudhead: The salt shaker hid his cocaine; thats how. DJTweeny: heheh llanwydd: LOL Beet: Hi Not Cease: Hi not Cease: Lots of new stuff for you tonight. llanwydd: Hey Not Ed!
Not Ed is dressed like a turnip for no good reason. Not Ed: Hey llan Cease: A successor to Dear Friends assembled by Doc ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:01 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule. Not Ed: Hey Beet & C & Mud DJTweeny: wb Deputy ||||||||| 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." Not Ed: Waz real Tweeny llanwydd: then we have a turnip and a beet tonight Cease: HI Dang Beet: Looking forward to new creation, Dr Cease llanwydd: Hey Dang! Not Ed: Hi DDang Beet: Hi Dang Deputy Dang: Howdy, Pardners? Which way to the Fun Way? Not Ed: Doc! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Doc Technical’s “DEAR FRIENDS TOO (Part 1)” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ' Beet: Cool! llanwydd: where has doc been lately? DJTweeny: I emailed him and told hime we'd be playing the album tonight and next week Cease: Him and Lily have their pool league on Thursday nights DJTweeny: Doc is a very busy man Not Ed: Up on yonder peak llanwydd: glad they are doing well llanwydd: good to hear tijuana brass
Not Ed is prone to blurt out irrelevancies from time to time Not Ed: yeah cool ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Muckluck', just granted probation at 9:05 PM", then leaves hurriedly. llanwydd: herb alpert used to go in and out of my ear back in the 60s and 70s but I have been catching him in youtube lately Cease: HI Muck DJTweeny: Hi Muckluck Beet: Hey Muck llanwydd: I think he is great Muckluck: Greetings Not Ed: Saw the T Bras with the Baja Marimba Band llanwydd: Hey Muckluck! Not Ed: Hey Muck Mudhead: Rain? In LA? llanwydd: cool NE Cease: I think I heard him interviewed on Maron some years back Rufus_T_Firetween: * Read about DEAR FRIENDS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln Mudhead: That hadda be last century Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ Cease:https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_682_-_herb_alpert_mark_jay_duplass Cease: 3 years ago. There have been more than a thousand Maron podcasts. It's impossible to remember them all Mudhead: But yet theyre all about his insecuritys Cease: true, mud. or his saintly sobriety. Cease: saw him live in vancouver in sept. great show. Beet: A whole collection of insecurities. Mudhead: Sounds like my last job Insecurites & Alone llanwydd: this is hilarious llanwydd: what the hell is a salt pancake? Not Ed: it is, like Not Ed: can I just say hi to the NSA guys listening in? llanwydd: I know it is laid upon the body politic of our great nation but I dont know what the hell it is Not Ed: Ow! Beet: We have been remiss not saying hello to the NSA guys. Thanks for the reminder. Not Ed: Np Mudhead: Theyre tapping the lines again Not Ed: lol llanwydd: I wouldnt eat a salt pancake but I might lay it upon the body politic of our great nation Not Ed: They sure are Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a Johnny Cup ||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a johnny cup. ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Mudhead: And the score at the coliseum : Cats Ate...Christians Eaten llanwydd: bebop is the night voice Cease: Pepper Pancake sounds like a Vaudeville performer Not Ed: bebop is my hero Mudhead: She was a stripper in Nashville llanwydd: like the Creole Fashion Plate? Beet: I used to watch a wrestler named Pepper Gomez Cease: Proc has a great story about partying with wrestlers when Proc/Berg were on the road. llanwydd: I would love to read that, cat Cease: Pick up his book or its audio version Beet: A would guess they would be pretty good partyers. Cease:https://www.amazon.com/Wheres-My-Fortune-Cookie-Psurrealistic/dp/B07R4PYRJ3 ||||||||| "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!" llanwydd: return of the morgans llanwydd: I AM asleep Cease: capt. morgan's dead Cease: a line from Immortality in the doll drop scene DJTweeny: yep llanwydd: no no no no he's ouside llanwydd: looking in Beet: Good stuff ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “HEARING WAYS OF SEEING – PART 3” 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/' llanwydd: great! llanwydd: very synesthesistic Beet: Hydraulic fluid Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “HEARING WAYS OF SEEING – PART 3” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#hearing Beet: Let's buy a thing. Beet: I actually saw the Sistine Chapel a few weeks ago. Blew me away. Cease: It does that, Beet Mudhead: I saw it pre-cleaning Beet: Took him 4 years to paint that ceiling. DJTweeny: Wow Beet Cease: Saw the Python sketch about Michelangelo painting that, last week Beet: Was it a youtube? Mudhead: To see the recent pictures from Venice it breaks my heart Cease: no, i had netfllix for a couple monthes. binged in python documentaries Cease: speaking of maron here he is. Cease: in conversation with brent butt. Cease:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Aj7W3g1qo DJTweeny: Cease: Saw the Python sketch about Michelangelo painting that, last week << They did that in the concert movie 'Live At Hollybowl', hilarious... DJTweeny: "One Christ??" llanwydd: I have the Hollywood Bowl film on VHS Cease: i just discovered that my local library will let me make dvds of vhs tapes on its machines. Cease: will start next mont. llanwydd: this voice has something in common with some welsh voices I have heard llanwydd: I mean the one before this fst sketch llanwydd: firesign used to make me yearn to visit california llanwydd: I have never been there Beet: Me too. Cease: its still there, llan. you can still visit llanwydd: cool, cat llanwydd: actually it was first heard about Disneyland that I longed to visit CA Cease: my wife and i drove down the coast from vancouver 4 years ago. llanwydd: I get so hungry... Cease: i was there not long after it opened, in jan. 56 DJTweeny: Cease: its still there, llan. you can still visit. "But go soon, they're cleaning it..." DJTweeny: Pacific Coast Highway, Cease? llanwydd: excellent, tween Cease: just briefly when we went to carmel and environs. llanwydd: the closest I have ever gotten to disneyland is epcot center next to disneyworld llanwydd: and a hammi llanwydd: catherwood, gimme that guitar! Little song.... ||||||||| Catherwood steps over to llanwydd and queries "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?" llanwydd: that last line was from one of the fst paperbacks wasnt there? ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. llanwydd: classic vertues, classic gestures llanwydd: pardon my sperring llanwydd: wembwant? sounds welsh llanwydd: fabuwous pwice Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “HEARING WAYS OF SEEING – PART 3” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#hearing Mudhead: im losing it, must lay down. G'nite dear friends Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Cease: sleep well, mud Rufus_T_Firetween: Nite Mudhead Rufus_T_Firetween: Rest well... llanwydd: happy dreams Muddy Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/ ||||||||| At 10:02 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Mudhead!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... Beet: G'Nite, Mud DJTweeny: Fun collage, Cease :) Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Cease:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-obituary Beet: Good one, Cat ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llan is back in through the front door at 10:05 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Doc Technical’s “DEAR FRIENDS TOO (Part 1)” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ' Cease: the material so profound it's impossible not to make a good collage out of it. DJTweeny: Thank you Doc for putting this stuff together Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DEAR FRIENDS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln Beet: Good collection Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ llan is back: cat, if you dont mind I will ask for your opinion of the US 2020 election. Trump, Biden or Bernie? ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'RedPillTweeny', just granted probation at 10:08 PM", then leaves hurriedly. DJTweeny: Hey RedPill Beet: Hi, Pill Cease: no idea, llan Cease: Maybe President Pence. ||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Muckluck - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... DJTweeny: President Pence would be interesting DJTweeny: but they really have nothing 'impeachable' against Trump, so that's not likely DJTweeny: I like Tulsi's stance on foreign policy Beet: She's the real thing DJTweeny: Would be the first Samoan-American President, and a Hindu to boot DJTweeny: as well as a martial arts instructor Cease: they loved inventing stuff DJTweeny: and a veteran of the Middle East wars DJTweeny: no 'chicken hawk' like Bush/Cheney Cease: i used this in a collage i did recently. ||||||||| 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: Yeah Cease, so much extemperaneous material DJTweeny: a '4-part invention' :)
Not Ed is pondering all this.... DJTweeny: They most definitely wanted us to 'ponder' ;) DJTweeny: Doc did good
Not Ed gives Tweeny a thumbs up. Not Ed: Yes! Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a hot buttered groat cluster ||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a hot buttered groat cluster. Beet: Great ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: from the DOMM Extras collection, “PLEDGE DRIVE SEGMENT” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ' Cease: I'm planning to use this in a collage I'm planning called Firesignathon DJTweeny: kewl DJTweeny: Sounds like Earl is having some fun DJTweeny: KPFK must have been quite the experiment in radio Cease: still goin Beet: Do you want that woman to go or eat here? Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFK DJTweeny: hahaha Proctor ||||||||| 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: Proc is fantastic Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Beet: A very nice evening. Good to see Mud again. Thanks to all. Really enjoyed the collage, Dr Cease. Eternal gratitude to our mentor Dr Tween. Until next time, G'nite all. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: Gnite Beet Cease: Firesign's 53rd birthday was a few days ago. ||||||||| Around 10:57 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Not Ed: Oops away ||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from measles ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| llan is back - 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: ||||||||| llanwydd - 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: ||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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 the fiddlers ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llan is back
llanwydd
Muckluck
Mudhead
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
