||||||||| 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 20, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts RedPillTweeny into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mumbles something about 5:50 AM, then departs. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 6:10 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... ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, grumbles something about 3:25 PM, then departs. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 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 the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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)' ||||||||| DJTweeny steps in at 8:39 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music (David Bowie) 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)' ||||||||| "8:45 PM? 8:45 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits at the bar. llanwydd: hi tween llanwydd: I havent listened to much bowie. what album is this? llanwydd: yeah Ive heard this DJTweeny: hey llan ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" DJTweeny: Ziggy Stardust, except for the last tune which is from Space Oddity DJTweeny: Some of my favorite Bowie ||||||||| 8:54 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Cease: Hi all DJTweeny: Hey Cease Cease: Oh this is great warm up for Red Shift llanwydd: hi cat Cease: Hey llany Cease: Thought of a Firesign tale you'd like to relate yet? llanwydd: I could think of a few Cease: You have the abiliity to send me stuff, right? llanwydd: you still want me to read that copy you gave me, right? Cease: Beet sent me mostly just his love of Firesign, comparing Bozos to the Sistine Chapel. Cease: Not exactly a story but every little bit helps Cease: of course, llan Cease: But I want readings and riffings. Doesnt have to be long. Cease: I tried to extract a tale from my friend Frank and he just mumbled a ferw words. llanwydd: well now that you mention it I could tell quite a story about the time I saw fst live Cease: Eveything helps. Ossman just wants something done with his intros, it's kinda up to me. Cease: That soudns great, llan. Cease: Everyone has a first llanwydd: true Cease: A friend is coming over next week. I turned him and his girl friend on to Dwarf in 72. Hope he remembers ||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 8:59 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident." Beet: Hi all. Good Thursday to you. llanwydd: hi beet ||||||||| 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)' DJTweeny: hmmmm Yo Beet Beet: Actually, Cease, I can do any reading you want me to. Cease: I tried to turn lots of folks on and it didn't take. That's much more common than turning people on and then them becoming life lnog firefans Cease: Hey Beet ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 20, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Beet: Hi, Llan. Beet: Howdy Dr Cease Cease: Yes, Beet. DJTweeny: hmmm, FB isn't letting me post ads to the FST fan pages with this old version of Firefox Beet: Good evening, Dr Tween. Cease: I'm waiting for Sam Longoria to pick his paragraph. He produced the album DJTweeny: will have to figure out something else for next week Cease: Then I'll start divying up lines to those who've volunteered Cease: Bummer, Tween Cease: Gretchen Steiner volunteered, but I have to assign her lines. She's a Major player in Firesignland. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s play “RED SHIFT” 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' Cease: This is the first play Doc Technical produced. Cease: Great production values ||||||||| Not Ed enters at 9:07 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn. Not Ed: Porque? Cease: Hey Ed Beet: Hi Not Not Ed: Evenin C Not Ed: Hey Beet DJTweeny: lol Not Ed, and welcome Not Ed: Cheers Tweeny tanx Not Ed: llan is here Not Ed: ReD SHiFT Cease: That's BrianWestley Cease: Here's Elanye Not Ed: Keen ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Cease: And her husband Cease: Nothing like getting a real Limey to do a Brit accent Cease: A young orson. He's getting married in a few weeks Not Ed: wow llanwydd: cco! llanwydd: I mean cool Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Cat's Play “RED SHIFT” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/redshift/index.htm and http://www.seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg Not Ed: tanx Ruf llanwydd: I liked that juxtaposing of the wotw broadcast with your script Not Ed: nice direction/production llanwydd: I read some lines for a red shift second edition that never matrialized llanwydd: just as well Not Ed: nightmare dominatrix Cease: You were great in CAST, llan Not Ed: bang Cease: I created 6 plays in 6 years, 1996-2003. Only 2 short things in the past 18 years. Not Ed: bong! Not Ed: distractions? Cease: 2002, not 2003 llanwydd: my compuer just froze Cease: i just got into other things. Mostly vid and photography the past couple of decades llanwydd: paron m isperring Cease: Also, making collages has taken up most of my time the past 5 years. Not Ed: yeah I understand Not Ed: I see Not Ed: time well spent C Cease: Austin asked me to create stuff for the Firesign radio station, and the collages are an outgrowth of that. Not Ed: Ahh llanwydd: well, like I say cat its just as well. the play is great as it is DJTweeny: Didn't know that Cat, cool llanwydd: I wish I had known about the mark time award back in 2K. I would have submitted The Abbot llanwydd: I forgot about the fst radio station. was that Radio Now? Cease: I think the award started in 97 or 98 Cease:https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/ Cease: It's the sound of the old radio on thier website llanwydd: yeah Ive checked out the winners list Cease: The Ossman project I'm working on now is a combination of his words, as many people as I can find to read them, plus some of my own writing ||||||||| 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: Catherwood give everyone a script. ||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a script. Not Ed: Thank you Catherwood ||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're very welcome!" Not Ed: always found this serenely enthralling C Cease: Thanks Not Ed: likewise! llanwydd: sorry I took so long to get to it, cat, but I was a little confused about what we were doing ||||||||| 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." llanwydd: for some reason I thought you wanted to record it the way we did CAST llanwydd: my bad. wasnt paying attention ||||||||| pnisnose II enters at 9:34 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex. DJTweeny: Welcome pnisnose Cease: HI nose DJTweeny: The 4th is more than a day! Beet: hi pnis Cease: "as forgotten as the Maya." I was working on my Mayan play at the same time Cease: Awesome acting from Ossman and Proctor there DJTweeny: Fantastic audio theater, Cat DJTweeny: lol @ tibet your life ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Cat's Play “RED SHIFT” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/redshift/index.htm and http://www.seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ ||||||||| 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!" llanwydd: mayan play? was that Box of Time? ||||||||| 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." llanwydd: something triggered my memory Cease: that vagrant hustler was Dino. His daughters are my grand daughters who star as Proctor and Bergman in newest play CAST and will be in my Ossman project. llanwydd: lol Cease: we had a dog named "mami" at that time llanwydd: ohm miami paddon me llanwydd: I guess that was a non-sequitur DJTweeny: heh Cease: Sometihng I actually believe: There is no "all." There is no "emptiness" llanwydd: maybe depends how you look at it llanwydd: or dont look at it ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: “MARK TIME XM RADIO BROADCASTS – THE TIME PIRATES” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Free Downloads!! at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/xmradio/marktime.html' Not Ed: Yay Cat Beet: Very interesting brother Cat. llanwydd: great play, cat DJTweeny: Thought this an appropriate addition, Cat Cease: I'm very proud that I wrote stuff good enough to attract the awesome acting abilities of the Firesigns Cease: excellent as always, Tween ||||||||| 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!" Not Ed: yeah essentially orbital llanwydd: I would be too, cat Not Ed: super nice folks Not Ed: Hey pnis ||||||||| It's 9:55 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... Beet: For some reason whenever they do a Bronx cheer it makes me laugh. DJTweeny: The XM radio series is so excellent Cease: its a major source for my collages, tween ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. DJTweeny: Love being able to watch them work around a table Cease: thanks to merl for that vid DJTweeny: kewl Beet: Quite a revelation when it first aired. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Beet: Great ||||||||| 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!" ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat broadcast collection, “THE HILARIO SPACEPIPE SHOW” 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' ||||||||| Catherwood escorts X the Unknown into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:06 PM, then departs. DJTweeny: Welcome X Cease: Why, it's X! zzzz
X the Unknown bows X the Unknown: At your cervix Beet: hi x 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 X the Unknown: Hi Beet & others X the Unknown: DJT X the Unknown: Whoops Cease: Un ||||||||| Around 10:09 PM, X the Unknown walks off into the sunset... Not Ed: Is that me Not Ed: Yay I'm me again Cease: I'm Kung fuzed Not Ed: Enough of this trickery and deception DJTweeny: haha Ed Not Ed: Seven ate nine! Cease: 9 what? llanwydd: I love that line edit smacks of trickery and deception llanwydd: ed, it. not edit Not Ed: #9 Not Ed: #9 Not Ed: #9 llanwydd: lol llanwydd: that too llanwydd: sedrftgyhujikol Beet: lkjbvfcdethjl.,;;,nsdss llanwydd: some would say Beet: Sorry about the plagiarism, Llan. llanwydd: lol Cease: if you spent the rest of your life listening to firesign theatre stuff all day, which you could do for years, you'd be a better person. it would be a better planet Beet: Thank goodness they were so prolific. DJTweeny: and maybe never figure it all out, Cat ;) Cease: as i said earlier, there is no all. Cease: yes beet. Not Ed: this is great Cease: everyone should own a copy of DOMM, their main radio years, 70-72 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: thisd is from the same series as DF 1 and recently we heard from Doc Tech, DF 2 ||||||||| 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!" DJTweeny: an amazing collection, with lots of extra rare stuff thrown in Beet: Storm is not for sale. Cease: one of the extras is the guys in a kpfk marathon, begging for money for the station. DJTweeny: DF2 will not be available as an album, but they're going to offer some of it at the new FST Download Store Cease: that inspired the collage i'm working on now, Firesignathon 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 DJTweeny: Long live FST Cease: that they will, tween Beet: As necessary as food. ||||||||| 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... ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Beet: Enjoyed hanging with you good folks this evening. Thanks for all input. Great collage Dr Cease. Thanks as ever for the mentoring, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. Cease: Next week, folks 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. ||||||||| Around 11:15 PM, llanwydd walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
X the Unknown
