Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/13/2020

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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 February 13, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 5:18 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 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
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 7:35 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Johan Amadeus Myjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:50 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
DJTweeny: Yo Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Guess you heard Van Morrison got his knighthood - he's Sir Van now.
DJTweeny: Yeah, good for him
DJTweeny: Joining musicians such as The Beatles
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:53 PM and Cat bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yeah
DJTweeny: John Cleese had a funny bit about how Monty Poython never got knighted
DJTweeny: Hey Cat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Cat!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:54 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Leesburg."
Cat: Hi chatters
Beet: Hello Fellas. How's it going'?
Cat: Hey Beet
DJTweeny: He said it was probably because of their 'Upperclass Twit' skit
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Cat
Beet: Evenin' Dr Tween
Cat: Thanks for the sistine chapel riff, beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Beet!
Beet: I enjoyed making that, Cat.
Cat: i'm in search of contributors for my Ossman script thing
Beet: Howdy JAM
Cat: You wanna do a paragraph of the Ossman script, Beet?
Beet: Absolutely!
Cat: I had a friend named Frank over this morning reading the Ossman paragraph that begins, " to be frank"
DJTweeny: heh
Cat: I promised Ossman I'd have it done by April. This is only Feb.
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Lyle Lovett)
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)'
DJTweeny: Sorry Lyle
Cat: Did you enjoy that article about Texas I sent you, Tween?
DJTweeny: I've got a pretty good knowledge of early Texas, but yeah that was pretty accurate
Beet: Big Lyle Lovett fan.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: have i gone deaf?
Cat: One of my friends, who plays Mr Bronfman in my play Neal Amid, lived in Houston for a while. Said nothing but good things about his Texas experieince.
DJTweeny: The fact that the Anglos brought in slaves was a real point of contention since Mexico disallowed slavery
Beet: My favorite is, "Oh that's Right Your Not From Taxes".
Beet: Texas
||||||||| "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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: have i gone deaf?
DJTweeny: but it ended up being allowed in the Province of Tejas
Cat: I'm from Saskatchewan. But I've lived lots ofplaces
Cat: Vancouver is best, for me.
DJTweeny: Great Lyle Lovett tune, Beet
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Beet: I have always wanted to visit Vancouver
Cat: Ossman has the best radio voice
Cat: I love it here, Beet
Beet: This is a good one.
DJTweeny: The article got that one thing wrong. The Spanish/Mexicans didn't called it Texas, they called it Tejas, a native American word for friendship
Cat: This is the real Neal
DJTweeny: the real McCoy
Beet: Mexican-tinged coutry music is called Texano.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Cat's Play “NEAL AMID” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm
Cat: The fact thatr Neal hooked up with Bergman's girlfriend is why Bergman went to LA,mand created the Firesgin Theatre
Beet: I think I spelled that wrong - Tejano
DJTweeny: Tejano
DJTweeny: yeah
||||||||| frank tiptoes in around 9:04 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Nice neighbors
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: HI Frank
Beet: Hey, Frank
Cat: If it's the same
Beet: Larry Fine
Cat: Frank, we were UBC students when I found this Kerouac album at the UBC record library
Cat: Changed my life
Cat: I heard this and I thought, I have to write like that.
Cat: Beauty is something you seek, and when you catch it, another beauty awaits in the near distance.
Beet: To know that there is something to catch is the important thing.
Cat: there has to be something to catch
Beet: I have often said that live would be worthless without art and artists.
Cat: this is such wonderful use of language
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: life
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: back in a bit
Cat: i love being alive
Beet: Me too
Cat: its so much better than its alternative
Cat: bergman and austin are dead now. and how many new albums have they released?
Beet: Probably playing endless Nick Danger and Sgt. Bradshaw.
DJTweeny -)
Cat: are you listening to the audio, frank?
DJTweeny: allo frank, missed you coming in
Cat: this is the album I got from the UBC library in 73
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Cat's Play “NEAL AMID” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm
Cat: i first heard this in 73, and thought, ok, like hearing Firesign, this was a direction to go
Cat: i want to use words this well
Beet: Is this online somewhere? The recording is really clean.
Cat: this is from a CD
Beet: nice
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: much cleaner than the UNC library copy
Cat: but that was turned me on .
Cat: this is kerouac reading a tale from
Cat: Visons of Cody, a book so unreadable you can give it to a corpse
Cat: But hearing Jack give voice to this, I am enthralleed
Cat: UBC
Cat: Thiis is Gary Snyder. You are into him, eh, Frank?
Cat: this is the first firesign show, freak for a week
Cat: smoy barbarian
Cat: smoky
DJTweeny: Ossman's poetry
DJTweeny: No wonder they were so good with a Shakespeare parody
Cat: ossman brings a poetic mode to firesing
Cat: but all the lads are poetic
Cat: you can listen to firesign all your lilve and always find new wonders
DJTweeny: absolutely
DJTweeny: Incredibly complex and multi-layered
Cat: endless
Cat: we are forever blessed because of them
Beet: amen
Cat: are you folks enjoying this?
DJTweeny is
Cat: i put this together for phil ausrtin some years ago
Cat: for Oona
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s play
“NEAL TALES”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com'
Beet: Yeah, this is one of your best creations, Cat.
DJTweeny: omg, can't believe I didn't change the topic before lol
DJTweeny: arrrrrrg
Cat: friend-frank, the current chatter
DJTweeny: Cat, I was thinking maybe you would like me to post all three of these in the Plays section of you archive?
DJTweeny: *your
Cat: i want it on my tombstone. cat simril ishikawa. born. died. wrote Neal Amid
Cat: frank?
DJTweeny: so people can listen to all three as we are tonight?
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: there are literally tens of people who've heard my plays
DJTweeny: haha
Cat: i wirte and create cuz i enjoy it. others< who knows?
Cat: ok, i had to seriously re-write this. this began as a lettre to current chatter Frank, who'd sent me the Illuminatus Trilogy when I lived in Sapporo in 76
DJTweeny: Gaiijin is Japanese for 'foreigner', isn't it?
Cat: yes
Cat: You speak Japanese, Beet?
DJTweeny: 'barbarian', even
Cat: bar bar barf
Cat: this is the first time this has appeared in the public ear
DJTweeny: eh?
Beet: No Japanes. I wish I did.
Cat: IN the orignal, i use the word "fuck" a lot and have very graphic sexual content I thought would be inappropriate in this public space
Cat: I think about my grandkids as audience and their generation as my audience.
DJTweeny: nice
Cat: Dour Glass
DJTweeny: Living in Japan must have been quite an experience
DJTweeny: How long did you live there?
Cat: 71-88, on and off
DJTweeny: Wow, quite a while
DJTweeny: What got you there?
Beet: Tokyo?
Cat: it was very good for me because it introduced me to a diffent reality.
DJTweeny: I'm sure their culture would be 'culture-shock' to an American
Cat: in the late 60s, a man who brought japanese people to america stayed with my parents and offereed me a job teachinhg english. eventgually i took the job
Cat: i thihk it was good for my brain to live somewhere so challenging
DJTweeny: So you grew up knowing the Japanese language
DJTweeny: It was spoken in your house?
DJTweeny: in L.A.?
Cat: No
Cat: Yards of yen, I love that
DJTweeny: So how did he know that you would be able to teach English to Japanese?
Cat: he needed teachers. i needed a job after universtiy.
DJTweeny: and you didn't speak Japanese?
Cat: my parents did have japanese borders so yes, it was around
Cat: i cna understand but my speech isn't so good.
Cat: japan, more than the states or perhapys england, has regioinal dialescts
Cat: so i can be understood in tokoy better than i can be in hammatsu, nagoryo or sapporo.
Cat: Wow I sound young
Cat: This is from a Vancouver radio show, 1996
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cat: this also might have started as a letter to Frank
Beet: Lots of Stooges mentions
Cat: i love this
Cat: that was neal tale 2
Cat: dont you need station id, tween?
Cat: is anyhone here?
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Merlyn', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:06 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Cat: hi merl
||||||||| "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!"
Merlyn: hey cat
Beet: There's some great videos on Youtube that show some astounding train layouts.
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Beet: Hi Merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
DJTweeny: Yes Cat, but I wasn't going to break up your bit. The Programming Director will be tolerant if it's late
Cat: ok
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
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||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: collage is esentialy brokin up at any point
Cat: as commecials in firesign radio shows
Cat: this is one of my favret austin things
Cat: austin was illluminated by his love for Oona
Beet: Can you beat a kiss out of the blue?
DJTweeny: The FFC gives you 5 minutes either way, but I don't think anyone will notice since this isn't live on the station, just the replay
||||||||| "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!"
Cat: hows it going merl?
Cat: are you involved in the ossman project?
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: you mean not insane 2020? Just to put the ad up on the front page, not sure if there's much more to do
Cat: no.the intros for the final 3 albums
Merlyn: no
Cat: his book of scripts. he sent me the intros to turn into audoi things.
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: is that the script you sent me a while back? I still have that
Cat: probly
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: did i send you lines thatr havve been chosen?
Merlyn: I'm not sure, let me check
Beet: Very intertaining/educational play, Cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s play
“NEAL AMID”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
DJTweeny: Late For Supper again ;)
Cat: Ive been writing since 1958. that's a long time
DJTweeny: wow Cat
||||||||| "10:20 PM? 10:20 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Cat: hi not
Beet: Hello, Not.
Not Ed: Porque?
Not Ed: Cheers Cat n Beet
Not Ed: Hey Tween
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cat: i love neal amid
Not Ed: awesome
DJTweeny: allo Not Ed
Not Ed: thumbs up
Cat: it brings forth beauty. you can listen to it at any time from the website and be enlightened
Cat: the canada pure drug company, my cousin worked thre
Merlyn: cat, probably anything from Immortality, since the Pete Moss performance with Ossman and Proctor had commercials from it and was the first public performance of any of that new album
Merlyn: I could add some comments about that bit of trivia
DJTweeny: the canada pure drug company << sounds like the name of a 60's canadian psychedelic rock band
Cat: thatg would be wonderful, merl
Cat: doi have your email address?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Cat's Play “NEAL AMID” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm
Cat: i'll send you today's recording and the length i'm looking for
Merlyn: OK brian at westley dot org
Merlyn: says the album was done on April 1, 1998, and the Minion performance was April 10
Merlyn: last 3 paragraphs before it hits Boom Dot Bust
Cat: you're looking at the script? Ossman's notes on Imoortality?
Merlyn: the we're doomed into doc you sent me
Cat: Do you have a story to tell about it? Something you'd want your grandkids to hear?
Cat: That's what I think about when compiliing this project
Merlyn: I'd tell about the minicon performance with the Immortality ads
Merlyn: done 9 days after the album was finished but not yet released
Cat: yes. your prfovide knowledge only you would know
Merlyn: ok, I'll try to record something this weekend
Cat: great
Cat: lets get storiies out while that is stilll possible
Merlyn: ok
Cat: that was my daughter's voice
Cat: 2-tan Ka Moon?
Beet: I was talking to someone about Edgar Cayce earlier. Cool dude.
Cat: interesting
Beet: And though she feels as if she's in a play, she is anyway
||||||||| 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: Wonderful work, Cat
||||||||| 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."
Cat: I do my best, Tween
DJTweeny: as did the Firesigns
DJTweeny: quite an honor to have them in your plays
Cat: yes
Cat: and they inspired us to do good stuff too.
DJTweeny: don't anyone who got that outside A Child's Garden Of Grass
||||||||| 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."
Cat: that's what bergman always said. dont tell me my stuff is good, go out and do your own even better
DJTweeny: and CGOG pales ;)
Not Ed: Love Child's Garden
DJTweeny: Yeah, but compared to this...
Not Ed: Dig it
Cat: just taking a break
Not Ed: Hey thanks Tweeny & Thanks Cat
||||||||| 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 6-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Merlyn: Thanks Cat and Tween
Beet: Very interesting evening. Nice to see everyone. Cool creations, Dr Cat. Eternal thanks to mentor Dr Tween. See you next week. G'Nite.
Not Ed: Good to see you all!
Cat: i do my best'
Not Ed: YOU SURE DO
Not Ed: Laters alligators!
||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 10:56 PM.
Cat: It's fun
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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from
||||||||| 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
Cat
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm
http://www.seemreal.com