A Firesign Chat
03/26/2020




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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 March 26, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| "7:45 PM? 7:45 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
||||||||| 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
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 8:21 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
A Replay of the show from April 23rd, 2015
(DJ Tweeny's mixer is on the fritz)
Firesign Theatre's BOOM DOT BUST
plus Cat's Collage “BILLVILLE THE MOUNTAIN”
Listen at 128k >> http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u - Listen at 16k >> http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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||||||||| Catherwood leads ladylove into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:51 PM, then departs.
ladylove: Hi
DJTweeny: Hi ladylove
ladylove: Hello DjTweeny
DJTweeny: a replay tonight, but a good one
DJTweeny: Frank Zappa for warm-up music
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Cease into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:52 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
Cease: Hi Tweeny, Lady
Cease: I was in love with a girl in high school who really liked this song.
ladylove: oh, good old days
Cease: OK, this is my favourite Zappa tune. I remember the LA riots its ab out
Cease: I was in Harlem when it's riot started in 64
Cease: Vancouver just has riots about hockey games, not racism
DJTweeny: Must have been quite an experience
Cease: I was on a bus when fires started happening.
DJTweeny: You saw it up close & personal. I watched the D.C. riots (after MLK was killed) on TV from the suburbs
Cease: I read Kareem
DJTweeny: Don't know that
||||||||| 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: Kareem Abdul Jabar's autobiography where he talks about being in that riot.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:58 PM bus from Massachusetts pulls away, leaving mudhead coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: Hi mud
DJTweeny: Yo Muddy
Cease: People step outside their balconies to applaud the health care workers in Vancouver at 7 every evening
mudhead: Cough in your sleeve
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 26, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
DJTweeny: How are things in Connecticut?
mudhead: Next to NYC, Im scared to open the window
mudhead: 600+ new cases in Mass
DJTweeny: NYC is hit hard
DJTweeny: Austin's locked down
DJTweeny: You're in Mass or CT?
Cease: Van is pretty bad
mudhead: CT
mudhead: Halfway between Boston and NYC
Cease: I've been to Milford. One of the chat founders, Doc Technical lives there.
Cease: Great French Basque tapas
mudhead: Milford is 55 miles from me, hes more towards NYC than me, Im on the eastern edge of CT next to Rhode Island
Cease: The late chatter Klockworkdog was in RI, along with occasional chatter Joe Auger
mudhead: I was due for elective surgery yesterday, its on hold
Cease: Firesign played there and got ripped off during thier 1970 tour
Cease: is that good or bad, mud
mudhead: Ive waited since last Feb, so I can wait
DJTweeny: Oh yeah mudhead, the hospitals are quickly running out of beds
Cease: Last Feb?
DJTweeny: Don't get injured in a traffic accident
mudhead: The line "Theres hamburger all over the highway in Mystic CT" is one Im responsible for.
||||||||| 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: I was supposed to have surgery this month but they want to keep all the beds open for potential Covid cases
Cease: are you a long time fan of Firesign, ladylove?
mudhead: Yeah, IIIII was supposed to have my Ostomy reversed. I can wait.
Cease: i think this is a good album to start with. more linear than most of their work
mudhead: My best friend Chris's father ran a meatpacking company. Chris was doing maintenance on one of the trucks and left a hinge loose, it flew open on the highway and a large bag of burger fell out of the truck.
Cease: did you tell the firesigns about that, mud?
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 9:13 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
mudhead: I think they read it on the feed
Cease: hi llan
llanwydd: good evening dear friends
DJTweeny: Hi llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOOM DOT BUST” at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-ln
llanwydd: shift yer organs
Cease: you've got Jaundice
llanwydd: billville the mountain reminds me of an album I had back in the 70s
llanwydd: hada yada yada
Cease: the zappa album?
llanwydd: right
Cease: Just Another Band from LA
Cease: I was in the audience of that show, at UCLA
llanwydd: no kidding!
Cease: At the time, I thought it was Firesonian, so 45 years later, I made a collage combining Billy the Mt with Billvillle
llanwydd: cool
Cease: the talking bill boards billy and ethel go by, straight out of 2 Places
Cease: well, frank did live next to phil austin
mudhead: Im sorry folks, I gotta go. I just wanted to wish you all good luck, good health and stay safe.
mudhead: Good night all
||||||||| Catherwood says "9:22 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs mudhead by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: you too, muddy
llanwydd: nite muddy
Cease: some of austin's best jazz
llanwydd: forgot about that Cat. Wanna eat some clams?
llanwydd: back in the days when HJ was all over the country
Cease: its off to las vegas to chck out the lounges, pull a few handles and drink a few beers
llanwydd: lol
Cease: i was actually going to vegas this sunday. had my ticket, hotel and restaurant reservations, and then this thing happened
llanwydd: yeah this is no fun for any of us
llanwydd: if I dont get my stimulus check I will be plenty put out
DJTweeny: Imagine all the people unemployed, and money being lost by shutting down Vegas
llanwydd: for sure
DJTweeny: not to mention the tax revenue the government won't collect to pay for the bailout
Cease: i'm in touch with restaurant people there. they are being devastated
DJTweeny: this is going to be a shiteshow
DJTweeny: I've alread seen musicians staning out in the street with their guitars because there's no place to play in Austin
DJTweeny: this is historic
DJTweeny: *standing
DJTweeny: no doubt, Cease, same here
DJTweeny: they're only allowed take-out or delivery service
DJTweeny: and an article I read today said that restaurants are shutting down because that's not enough to keep them in business
DJTweeny: it's a helluva mess
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies johan amadeus myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (9:30 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cease: hi jammy
llanwydd: Hey JAM
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi cease, lllan
johan amadeus myjetski: DJT!
llanwydd: welcome also to lladyllove from llanwydd
llanwydd: she must be new here
Cease: I'm going to use this piece in an upcoming collage
DJTweeny: Haven't seen that nick before
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: it
Cease: it's just a plague
llanwydd: lol
DJTweeny: Trump want's everybody back to work after Easter. He's dreamin'
llanwydd: I think it was antonin artaud who advocated the plague as a means to health
DJTweeny: NH has locked down everything (Shelter In Place-Stay Home) until the end of May
llanwydd: all you have to do is survive it and you can become very strong
DJTweeny: Well, there is that...
Cease: I was on the way to the local libray to pick up a copy of Camus' The Plague but suddenly all the libraries closed
llanwydd: so are ours
llanwydd: I have never read camus
Cease: worth doing
llanwydd: lost my audio
DJTweeny: RFD feed is good
llanwydd: got an error message. I will try the other link
Cease: HOw are things where you are, Jam?
Cease: The pyramid is vegas is where i stayed last year. Highly reccomended.
Cease: in vegas, last reference
llanwydd: Windows Media player encountered a problem while playing the file is what it says
DJTweeny: Sorry, not a Win person here
DJTweeny: going to have to reboot the program
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:39 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
llanwydd: I am going to shut down my pc and log back on
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: Hi Deputy
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Pardners!
Deputy Dang: Are we on the Funway?
Cease: It says Silent Cities on the tv news
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, dePuty!
Cease: Well, the Reaper is having fun.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Wolfgang!
llanwydd: got my audio back
llanwydd: welcome DD
Deputy Dang: Welcome, audio!
DJTweeny: kewl llan
llanwydd: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: walking the dog - back in 5
Cease: i once had the script for this. only way i could have understood the talking tornado
DJTweeny: What does it say?
Cease: dont recall
Cease: something about winnebagos
DJTweeny: 3 Snooks is cool :)
llanwydd: first time I heard that name I thought who would want to win a bagel
DJTweeny: Proc & Austin were/are great at country accents
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: lol
llanwydd: yeah they are
DJTweeny: I get Proc, because he grew up in Indiana, but I have no idea where Austin got his
Cease: fresno california is The Country
DJTweeny: k
llanwydd: yeah, raisin land
DJTweeny: didn't know that
DJTweeny: We dearly miss you, Austin & Bergman
Cease: as soon as you leave the coast and its vast suburbs, California is basically all farm country and desert
Cease: we do indeed, tween
llanwydd: I have never seen a desert. hopefully someday
Cease: i love the desert
Cease: but not enough to live there.
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: I bet you have to bring your own water
johan amadeus myjetski: I have seen the desert - dried out the gills of a Pisces like me,pribably working for scale...
Cease: when i lived in la, i had a cousin who lived in ridgecrest, the middle of the mojave dsert.used to visit her and her vast family a lot.
johan amadeus myjetski: probably
Cease: it's a REELY PRETTY drive into the desert, but then you need to leave. quickly
llanwydd: what is the local industry out there Cat?
Cease: i reccomend the movie Zabriski Point, which is not far from where i was
Cease: military
llanwydd: aha
DJTweeny: If you ever make it out to Arizona, check this place out >> Arcosanti - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
DJTweeny: I helped build it during a workshop in 1974
DJTweeny: Phil & Melinda have been there
llanwydd: cool
DJTweeny: High desert of AZ
Cease: i love architecture
llanwydd: arcosanti sounds like the name of a champagne
johan amadeus myjetski: i was scheduled to play Arcosanti about 12 years ago, but it fell through
DJTweeny: Paolo Soleri was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright
DJTweeny: sorry to hear, Johan :(
johan amadeus myjetski: It's off grid!
DJTweeny: I hear their concert amphitheater is good
DJTweeny: It's _wayyyyyy_ off the grid
DJTweeny: an experimental city in the middle of nowhere
DJTweeny: a philosophy of having as little impact as possible on nature
||||||||| 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: lol
||||||||| Rev. J.T.Howlfire steps in at 9:57 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: good evening pastor
Cease: Hi Rev
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Thank you ... I hope your spirits are well this evening
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: 'Evnin Cease... is your accomplice here tonight?
johan amadeus myjetski: I love Billy the Mtn!
DJTweeny: hello Rev
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Rev!
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Are we then talkin' some FZ?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “BILLVILLE THE MOUNTAIN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Howdy j.a. love your movement
DJTweeny: very much so, Rev
llanwydd: excellent opening
Cease: this was my first collage of the modern era
Cease: 2015
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: this is from a video you can watch on youtube, of ossman reading his poetry
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: DAMNATION that man manages to give me palpitations every time he does that
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 10:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: Hi Not
Not Ed: Hey!
DJTweeny: allo Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “BILLVILLE THE MOUNTAIN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Not Ed: yo JAM, llan, Ev, Cat and hey Tweeny
Not Ed: Rrrev
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Not Ed: haha
Not Ed: Elvis Parsley
Cease: That was from something Bergman did called The Digital Diner in I think 94
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: maybe 95
Not Ed: Nice
||||||||| Catherwood escorts RedPillTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (10:05 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Not Ed: RPT
DJTweeny: Hi RedPill
Cease: San Fernandino is a combination of San Fernando (where I lived) and San Berdnadion valleys
DJTweeny: long time no talk... lol
Cease: Bernadino
Cease: Now called The Inland Empire
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: This cologe thing is... ... it's... ah... it's
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: it's GETTING to me...!
Cease: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=the+inland+empire&atb=v174-1&ia=places
Cease: You'll notice Yukaipa
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: I noticed that...
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Wasn;t going to SAY anything but... well.,... now that youve mentioned it...
Cease: Zappa is from the desert.
johan amadeus myjetski: canyons of your mind - a Bonzo Dog Band reference?
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: 1/128th mile...
Cease: Lancaster, Palmdale. Seriousa desert
Cease: could be, jammy
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: this... is... Heavenly
||||||||| 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: I used to have george putnam mutual funds
Cease: this is from a collage i made in 1977
llanwydd: a shares
Cease: my father used to advertise on putnams' news show so i cuold do his voice pretty well
Cease: so the term Inland Empire goes back that far
Cease: this is 71 i think
llanwydd: what is an oh my papa in the earths crust?
Cease: i looked that up once. so can you
llanwydd: my guess has always been it means upheaval
Not Ed: thanks for entertaining us C
Cease: bergman said, dont just play our stuff on the raidio, make your own.
Cease: that's kinda true
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: I asked that very question, and it seems nobody unless we do
Cease: more generally, pete and all the firesigns have always told us to be creative, not just surf on the creativity of others
llanwydd: and yet he wanted to start a beatles-style comedy group
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: SOMEBODY had to do it
llanwydd: right
Cease: i have a deep background listening to firesigns almostr since they started and a great library of their work, but really anyone can go online and find enough firesign stuff to mix with other stuff of their choosing
Cease: llan, that was more from the goons. pete wrote with mr goon
Cease: spike miligan
llanwydd: milligan was a genius
DJTweeny: methinks Boom Dot Bust is going to be more and more appropriate in the coming months (if not years)
llanwydd: he knew pete? that is very impressive
Cease: both beatles and firesign have a certain goonish inspiration
DJTweeny: Yeah, they were rather obviously influnced by The Goons :)
Cease: yes they wrote together on a tv show and for a magazine
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Goons... my mouth hurts just naming them
DJTweeny: Pretty sure By The Light Of The Silvery was inspired by their Moriarty bit
Cease: very much so
llanwydd: yes, especially the further adventures of nick danger and I think even more so, by the light of the silvery
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Didin;t Martin produce Goons? or just Sellars' records?
Cease: yes
llanwydd: I type too slow
llanwydd: the goon show was all the way back in the 1950s
Not Ed: I can't type
||||||||| It's 10:25 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...
Not Ed: the Goons were intense
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show
Not Ed: Sellers wow
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Goons, ISIRTA...
llanwydd: there would have been no monty python if the werent for the goon shows influence
Cease: true. maybe monty cobra
Not Ed: I believe that
llanwydd: thanks for the link cat
llanwydd: lost me bleedin audio agayn
Not Ed: BBC 4 radio runs Goon Show episodes from time to time - BBC still has the rights of course - watch the schedule
llanwydd: got to shut down again. be right back
Cease: Former chatter Dexter Fong gave me a CD of their stuff a decade ago.
Not Ed: later llan
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: It is intense. Only so much I can take at a time.
Not Ed: Me too
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Goons were (are?) available on CD... and yes theylre exhausting to listen to
Not Ed: But I love the best of it
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Sub drummer in a band I work with is UK, once we realised each of us knew GOONS, will, like Firesign, launch a routine and nobody else knows what the hell we are doing
Cease: comedy is to be shared
Not Ed: You can find bootleg Goon Show episodes on YouTube and the Internet Archive, but again, BBC owns the rights
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Travoltist... Elronners
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: never noticed that
llanwydd: audio is back
Not Ed: I despise copyright but I generally follow the rules
Not Ed: yay llan
llanwydd: studebaker hawk sounds like a real berzerker
Not Ed: hahaha
||||||||| Cease, spotting Bradshaw, runs into The Sitting Room.
Not Ed: this stuff is great
Not Ed: the collage is good too
Not Ed: wink wink
||||||||| Cease walks in and says "It's 10:34 PM, has anybody seen Nancy?"
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: who assebles this...???!
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: assembles
DJTweeny: The format for my shows back in early 2015 were a bit different from now as I included the warm-up music, so thif show will end about 15min early tonight
Cease: me
DJTweeny: Hope to have a new mixer soon
Not Ed: Cease the Cat Man Do!
Not Ed: cool Tweeny
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Bravo sir... *gloved parlor applause...)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rev. J.T.Howlfire: assembles << ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cease: this was the first one, about 5 years ago. many have come since.
Not Ed: subliminal sfx
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: they really wanted to provide us with important information.
Cease: decades before the internet
DJTweeny: They anticipated Cable TV and local access stations
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
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
DJTweeny: lots of great FST archival videos there ^^
||||||||| 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
'
Not Ed: good stuff Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: first one was good. hopefully every one there after.
llanwydd: thanks merl
Not Ed: Rufus!
Not Ed: Merl!
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: teh radio tapes are a joy... hahlhujah!
Not Ed: Tweeny!
llanwydd: thanks tween. thanks cat
Not Ed: Be safe & groovy. Do that thing you didn't have time for. 10-4!
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: 6 for 2!
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: Stay cool...
Cease: this is the kinda rock n roll that best exemplifies austin.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: sure does
DJTweeny: e apparently loved roackabilly
DJTweeny: goes with his liking NASCAR
Cease: phil chuck berry austin
DJTweeny: *he
Cease: indeed, tween. fresno is country
llanwydd: well, I am getting hungry. going to take a walk to taco bell and bring some tex mex home
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...I got educated :)
DJTweeny: Didn't know about Fresno
Cease: eat well, llan
llanwydd: nite, folks. see you next week
||||||||| llanwydd leaves at 10:46 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..."
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: smarter every time!
Cease: off we flit
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:46 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Deputy Dang: Good night all. Go wash your hands! Cheers
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: it's ok... nobody HAS to go... but y'know... they do
Rev. J.T.Howlfire: nightol
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
||||||||| At 10:47 PM, Rev. J.T.Howlfire runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| 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:
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||||||||| 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:
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||||||||| 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:
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||||||||| 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...
||||||||| "1:45 AM? 1:45 AM!!" says Catherwood, "inhahe should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as inhahe enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:10 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:
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
ladylove
llanwydd
mudhead
Not Ed
Rev. J.T.Howlfire
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
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://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=bdb-ln
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=the+inland+empire&atb=v174-1&ia=places
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases



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Rest In Peace, Dear Friend

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And, "The Home Team"