Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/28/2019

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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 November 28, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Rufus_T_Firetween', just granted probation at 8:27 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'
||||||||| DJTweeny steals in around 8:28 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 8:42 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
llanwydd: Happy Thanksgiving!
DJTweeny: hello llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: music in a minute
||||||||| New notice: '** PASS THE INDIAN PLEASE!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder)
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)'
||||||||| Babinga steps in at 8:44 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: hey babs
DJTweeny: Hi Babinga
Babinga: Howdy Dooty!
Babinga: I can't belive it I saw the notification in my feed in time...normaly it doesn't show until friday
llanwydd: reminds me of an old song. Bobinga banga bonga, I'm so happy in the conga...something like that
Rufus_T_Firetween: Gald you could make it :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: *Glad, even
Babinga: it's been awhile
Rufus_T_Firetween: I don't recall your nick, so it muct have been quite a while indeed
Babinga: lol I'm from St. louis
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is an album done by the percussionist for The Grateful Dead
Babinga: that stupid nino thing always says kansas city or some other shit
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nino's prediction not very precise, eh?
Babinga: nope
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's in Vancouver, and Nino has been putting him in Hawaii
Babinga: just realized I'm early
llanwydd: LOL
Babinga: been a long day
Rufus_T_Firetween: only about 10 minutes
llanwydd: is bob weir on this?
||||||||| 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!"
Babinga: cool
||||||||| 8:49 PM: Trubba jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: We always play a little warm-up music
llanwydd: hey trub
DJTweeny: Hi Trubba
Babinga: I remember
Trubba:
Trubba: Secret message, apparently.
Rufus_T_Firetween: apparently
Rufus_T_Firetween: written with invisible ink
Babinga: shit I think my name used to be Stlouielou
Trubba: It was my grand entrance, too. Let's try it another way...
Trubba: *Thud*
llanwydd: is bob weir on this or some imposter
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh
Babinga: or similar
Trubba: Ahh... that's better.
Rufus_T_Firetween: No, that's Bob Weir
llanwydd: imposirot...whatever
llanwydd: thought so
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lots of people on this album - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_(album)#Personnel
||||||||| Outside, the 8:53 PM crosstown bus from Illinois pulls away, leaving Stlouielou coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Babinga: shit I think my name used to be Stlouielou << Ah, that name I remember
Stlouielou: ok better
Stlouielou: all set
||||||||| New notice: '** PASS THE INDIAN PLEASE!! **
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)'
||||||||| 8:59 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 28, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
Stlouielou: howdy
Cease: Hi all
||||||||| New notice: '** PASS THE INDIAN PLEASE!!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“NOTHING... BUT... INDIANS”
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/'
Cease: This is from an interview with Carlin for some archives
Cease: This is Shadow
Cease: Amazing writing by Austin
Cease: I had thought the tune was written for Duckman in the late 90s.
||||||||| 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 Mudhead disembarks at 9:05 PM.
Cease: Acutally its from the 40s.
Cease: Hi Mud
DJTweeny: Yo Muddy
Mudhead: Hi all, sorry Im late
Mudhead: Turbulent turkey waves etc
DJTweeny: lol
Stlouielou: ok gang I'm out...see you again soon
||||||||| 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wovoka
Cease: See you again, louie
Cease: This was the RAdio Free Oz Thanksgiving show, 1967
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Not Ed into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:21 PM, then departs.
Cease: Hi Not
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
Not Ed: Hey C
Not Ed: Evenin Tweeny
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Not Ed: Cheers llan & Mud
Not Ed: good theme Cat
llanwydd: Hey Not Ed
Mudhead: hai
llanwydd: hngjmke,dlsfvgbhng
Cease: speaking welsh again, llan?
llanwydd: just testing the keyboard
llanwydd: everybody get enough turkey?
llanwydd: this music is from spartacus
Cease: i had a salmon cake and some broccoli in oyster sauce
llanwydd: not this, what we just heard
llanwydd: sounds great, cat
||||||||| 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: this is a 52 year old tape
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Mudhead: no, i only had chicken, pre-roasted rotissere chicken
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
Mudhead: but i had some mashed taters so thats ok
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: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ague
llanwydd: gota gave masked potatoes on thanksgiving
llanwydd: I meant mashed
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Canadian Thanksgiving is the 2nd Monday in October
llanwydd: do the cadadians eat turkey on 10.2?
llanwydd: I meant canadians
||||||||| EddyBeach bounds in at 9:29 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: yes, but we don't. not fond of it.
llanwydd: Hey Eddy
DJTweeny: Hi Eddy
Cease: Our daughter used to demand turkey so she could take turkey sandwiches to school the next day like all the other kids
Cease: Hi Eddy
DJTweeny: Turkey sandwiches are yummy
Cease: In Quebec they eat Kurds, uh, curds
EddyBeach: Small screen
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Poutine is central to Quebec cuisine
llanwydd: I know what poutine is but Ive never had it
Mudhead: i like turkey as a protein source, i can have 8 ounces of it daily versus 4 ounces of beef, pork or chicken
llanwydd: I believe he is the president of russia or something like that
EddyBeach: Bush thought he was the Prime Minister Poutine
llanwydd: lol
EddyBeach: Best Poutine I'd Quebec curds gravy fries
llanwydd: I lived about a hundred miles from quebec for many years and never had poutine
EddyBeach: Can buy it at Costco
llanwydd: no, that was 100 miles from montreal
Cease: i think it's only become popular outside of quebec in the past decade or so
Not Ed: was it the abbott?
Not Ed: just pork
llanwydd: nor would I
Not Ed: excellent version'
Not Ed: (thanksgiving piece)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cease: North Vancouver's own
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone holiday edibles
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone holiday edibles.
Not Ed tries to smoke an edible.
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: not optimal
Not Ed: Cat your knowledge of the Firesign "ouvre" is remarkable
Cease: This is Ossman's An Autobozographical Evening, from around 30 years ago.
Not Ed: neat
Cease: It's made up a large portion of my life and consciousness
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EddyBeach - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: By Eddy
Not Ed: a worthy meditation
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Very cool, Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: Cool!
||||||||| New notice: '** PASS THE INDIAN PLEASE!!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“A SHADOW MOVES”
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/'
DJTweeny: Happy Birthday Peter Bergman (tomorrow)
Cease: Indeed
Not Ed: Yay Peter B!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
||||||||| New notice: '** PASS THE INDIAN PLEASE!!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“SOYAL PLUS”
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/'
Cease: this is another repurposed old collage
DJTweeny: Good to know about FST's early interest in Native American culture
Cease: they were Way into "Indians"
DJTweeny: Geronimo's Caddliac is a great tune
Cease: tiz
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
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
DJTweeny: 'Protectors Of The Water And Earth' is such a great concept
DJTweeny: So different from being Masters of the land
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:56 PM and late as usual, it's Goldengun, just back from Hamden."
DJTweeny: A really great Thanksgiving tibute, tat, Thanks :-)
Mudhead: gnite all
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: Part 4 of my Hearing Ways of Seeing next week
DJTweeny: Sorry Goldengun, the show's just ending :/
Goldengun: Ah well, catch you on the flipside! :D
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, Mudhead runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
DJTweeny: Please join us next week at 9pm Eastern
llanwydd: thanks tween and cat.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
llanwydd: see you all next week
||||||||| Cease is kicked out just as the clock strikes 10:59 PM.
||||||||| "11:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Goldengun - 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..
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:55 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 the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Stlouielou - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Trubba - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Babinga - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
Babinga
Cease
DJTweeny
EddyBeach
Goldengun
llanwydd
Mudhead
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Stlouielou
Trubba

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
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
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_(album)#Personnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wovoka
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ague