Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/12/2020

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 March 12, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 4:45 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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 trudges in at 6:38 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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 RedPillTweeny falls out at 8:10 PM.
||||||||| It's 8:25 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...
||||||||| 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 (Cat Stevens)
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)'
||||||||| 8:44 PM: Medium Richard jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Medium Richard: Browser problem - switching Doohickey in three, two...
||||||||| Medium Richard leaves at 8:45 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:48 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule.
||||||||| 8:48 PM: Medium Richard jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Cease: Hi folks
Medium Richard: Hi hi
DJTweeny: Hi Cease, Medium
Medium Richard: So the "Brave" browser no workee on audio feed; switched to Firefox - good now.
DJTweeny: kewl
Cease: Playing my nameake tonight I hear
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Merlyn inside, makes a note of the time (8:50 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Merlyn: hey
Cease: Merl
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn. Beat The Reaper up first :)
Merlyn: ok!
||||||||| NancyKat enters at 8:52 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Merlyn: It's a game we can all play now!
Cease: Hi Nancy
NancyKat: I regret i have only one Dongle to give for my thingamabob.
DJTweeny: Hey NancyKat, long time no see...
DJTweeny: lol
NancyKat: Hihi Cease, Tweeny, Merl, Rufus!
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:56 PM, dragging Unka_Led by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
DJTweeny: Hi Unka
Cease: Unka
Unka_Led: Hey!! Long time. Trying to connect
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and Not Ed waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Not Ed: Porque?
DJTweeny: allo Ed
Not Ed: allo Tweeny
||||||||| 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)'
Cease: Not
Not Ed: Cats
Cease: Lots of us here tonight
DJTweeny: a good start, for sure
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 12, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
NancyKat: Ay, chimagre.
Merlyn: need more volume
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Merlyn: now volume is OK
Not Ed: Hey Merl, Medium, NK, Unka & Rufus
Not Ed waves.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet inside, makes a note of the time (9:01 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Not Ed: Sounds good
Beet: Hello, all. Happy Thursday.
Not Ed: Hi ho Beet
Cease: Beet
Beet: Hi Not, Dr Cease
DJTweeny: Beet The Reaper
Cease: World is not a happy place right now
Not Ed: Great audio choice
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 9:01 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Howdy DR. Tween
llanwydd: hi there
Not Ed is mostly happy
DJTweeny: Merlyn's suggestion :)
Beet: Hi Llan
Cease: llan
Not Ed: Hey llan
DJTweeny: yo llan
Cease: with everyone told to self-isolate, chat is a real option
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Johan Amadeus Myjetski into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:02 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: for sure
Not Ed: JAM
Beet: Hi JAM
Not Ed: Did everyone wash their glands?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Not, beet, et al!
Not Ed: Helloooooooo
DJTweeny: Hello Johan
llanwydd: the outbreak is really breaking out in your part of the world, cat
Cease: Jammy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : djt!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from Firesign’s Radio Now Live! concert album
“RADIO NOW LIVE! (PART 2)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RADIONOW LIVE! at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv'
llanwydd: dont know the candian statistics but washington state is the worst in the US from what I understand
Not Ed: Things are pretty normal in most of Seattle here - but out in Kirkland, etc., more serious
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:04 PM and J_Man_Actual sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: there have been a few cases in Vancouver, yes
Cease: Yes, our neighbour to the south is in bad shape
Cease: Hi J Man
Beet: Everybody stay safe!
Not Ed: J_M
llanwydd: good eveining J Man
DJTweeny: Hi JMan
Not Ed: Safe as a baby
Beet: Hi J_ Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Anybody else having to watch themselves closely tokeep from violating self-quarrentine?
DJTweeny: Catherwood, please give everyone a Corona with Lime
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a corona with lime.
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: the band is standing 3' away from each other at rehearsals
J_Man_Actual: Hi Cease, Ed, llan, everyone...
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: thank you Cathy
Cease: good idea, Tween
Medium Richard: Gonna order one with lemon soon, just to see if they do it...
DJTweeny: I bought a motorscooter just in time so I don't have to use public transportation
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’ll have a corona corona!
Cease: lucky you, tween
Not Ed enjoys the golden brew.
Beet: I am going to pick up a guy at Dulles Airport tomorrow. He's coming in from India. I am moderately concerned.
Not Ed: I'm wearing a baggie
J_Man_Actual: I'd be very concerned.
Not Ed turns an unusual shade of blue
Not Ed: D'Anger
||||||||| "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 : I’m a Third Ear, myself...
Not Ed: haha
Not Ed: Punjabi?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A real job, no pun...
Not Ed: haha
Cease: My wife and I went shopping this afternoon and the grocery store was packed. I think we got the last package of toilet paper
Merlyn: Both of those statements are true
Merlyn: They had squeaky pickles
Not Ed: I'll sell you a can of Lysol for $5000
Not Ed: lol Merl
Beet: Does that include shipping?
Not Ed: Easy monthly payments
Not Ed: lol sure
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ya wanna hear a real truth? Two months ago, i bought a half gallon of hand sanitizer...
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: hahaha
Not Ed: Biggish crowd 2-nite
Merlyn: I always thought Bergman did the funniest female voices because they always have that squeak in it
Not Ed: Indeed Merl
Not Ed: the audience likes him too
Cease: Indeed, Merl
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a fez
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a fez.
Merlyn puts on fez
J_Man_Actual:
Not Ed tips the fez to all
J_Man_Actual: [Takes off eyeball hat. Puts on fez.]
Not Ed: aha!
Beet: lol
Merlyn: SHADDAP!
DJTweeny: So glad they did the West Coast tour. A fine end to their concert performances
Not Ed: can never have too many eyeballs as they say on Vega IV
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I’m feeling kinda warned & fezzy now!
Not Ed: haha
Cease: I have a flight to Vegas at the end of the month and it's getting scary
||||||||| 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."
Not Ed: lol C
Not Ed: Santa Bar Bar
Cease: It's not Vegas IV though
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Could be good, Cease, You may have the airplane to yourself!
Not Ed: the Pleasure Planet
Cease: and hard to get into restaurants will be delighted to see me
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Breww haha?
Cease: Just don't want to be quarantied when I return to Canada
Not Ed laughs like that
llanwydd: I wonder if this virus was cooked up in a lab somewhere in the middle east
Not Ed: What knockers!
DJTweeny: Cease: I have a flight to Vegas at the end of the month and it's getting scary << I've been reading that Trump may cancel domestic flights to stave off the virus
Not Ed: spooky virus by spooks
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Maybe just shunned be friends & neighbors..
Not Ed: good sfx lol
Cease: Tried to call the airline to see if I could get my travel points refunded but couldn't get through
Not Ed: ahhh makes sense I guess C
Not Ed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnous
Not Ed: https://youtu.be/10lak4PjZ3Q
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : What knockers?
Not Ed: Sank you doctor.
Beet: Did I miss the knockers?
Not Ed: Your knockers fell off.
Beet: I already have some.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : How the mighty have fallen...
Not Ed: They come in pears
Not Ed: lol JAM
J_Man_Actual: They fall in pears, too.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Some come in ajury of their peers...
Beet: I exercise daily.
Not Ed: haha
Not Ed: Hey!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Oh, this hasn’t happened to me since “M”
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The Jewish writers strike again!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Double Bubble, Toil & Stubble!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE!” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
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: http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Louie’s?
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: I highly reccommend that book
Not Ed: Second that
||||||||| Medium Richard rushes off, saying "9:49 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Not Ed: those guys are krayzee
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Okay seekers gotta go now! See you all next fire week, same fire time, same fire station!
Beet: See ya, JAM.
DJTweeny: later Johan
Cease: By Jammy
J_Man_Actual: Have a great night, everyone.
DJTweeny: see you next time, J Man
Cease: By J Man
llanwydd: nite JAM
llanwydd: cool
Not Ed: great stuff Tweeny!
Not Ed: Later JAM
Cease: Later we should listen to the Seattle show Merl, Doc Tech and I recorded.
Not Ed: Laters J_M
Cease: It's called In the Firezone
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“FIRESIGNATHON”
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: My first collage in a while
Beet: Here we go
DJTweeny: Good topic
Not Ed: Into it
||||||||| 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."
Cease: Actually that small book had a big price.
Not Ed: I see
Cease: This is an Al Gross recording of Gothamathon
Cease: That was from the Bozos episode of Comedy onVinyl you heard here recently
Cease: This is he flick Americathon.
DJTweeny: Trump is going to need an 'americathon'
DJTweeny: The Dow was down 10% today, and that's the largest 1 day drop since the 1987 crash
||||||||| It's 10:25 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...
Cease: That's because of the ban on fllights from Europe
DJTweeny: and the oil price war
DJTweeny: and that people don't believe the government has a handle on the situation
Cease: I read today that more lives will be saved from the sudden absence of pollution in Chinese cities than will die from Covid
DJTweeny: They closed down the huge SXSW festival in Austin
Cease: Everyting is being closed down now
DJTweeny: he economic repurcussions of all this have just started
DJTweeny: *the
llanwydd: there is a blast from the past
Cease: it's another beg for money
Beet: A world united by disease.
Cease: There's Chief Dan George
Cease: "spreading our eagle too thin" sounds like a proctor and bergman line
Beet: Unmistakable Randy Newman
Cease: tis
Beet: Very creative dude
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: it's 7 years old, Bebop. Not exactly new
Cease: Austin recruited me for it when he was stilll alive.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
DJTweeny: nice
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Not Ed: quite
Cease: This is Duckman
DJTweeny: fun stuff, 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."
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from the Shoes For Industry compilation album “THE AMERICAN PAGEANT”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi'
||||||||| 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'
Cease: Won't be any new collages from me for awhile again but I do have a number of the radio shows I made for the Firesign station to play
DJTweeny: OK Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
llanwydd: look forward to hearing them cat
Merlyn: tx tween
llanwydd: thanks tween and cat
Beet: This was fun. Many participants tonight. Thanks to everyone. Enjoyed the collage, Dr. Cease. Thank you for mentoring Dr Tween. G'Nite.
Cease: I'll be back here next week and hope to see y'all here with me.
DJTweeny: Be safe everyone...
Cease: Much safer than meeting in person
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| llanwydd is kicked out just as the clock strikes 10:58 PM.
||||||||| Merlyn leaves to catch the 10:59 PM train to Minnesota.
DJTweeny: Yes, virtual meetings are probably the way of the future
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 12:40 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 12:55 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 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:
||||||||| - 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
Cease
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
J_Man_Actual
llanwydd
Medium Richard
Merlyn
NancyKat
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Unka_Led

URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnous
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://youtu.be/10lak4PjZ3Q