Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/09/2020

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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 April 09, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 6:51 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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 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)'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Dr. John)
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)'
||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:45 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 8:52 PM: llanwydd 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!"
llanwydd: hey tweeny
DJTweeny: Hi llan
DJTweeny: Hope you're staying virus-free
llanwydd: as far as I know
llanwydd: I play it safe
DJTweeny: Yeah, that's the insidious thing about it, you can be infected for a couple of weeks and not show symptoms :/
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:57 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
llanwydd: hi cat
Cease: Hi all
llanwydd: so its just us
DJTweeny: all 3 of us lol
llanwydd: well its early
DJTweeny: They'll come straggling in ;)
Cease: thusfar
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 09, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: we've had quite a few new people recently.
DJTweeny: Always good to see new folks here
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: That's a good line up
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat broadcast collection, “PASTOR FIRESIGN'S PIRATE RADIO MINISTRY OF THE AIR”
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'
DJTweeny: Happy Birthday Paul Krassner, wherever you are
DJTweeny: People 'like' my shows ads on FB, but apparently don't like it enought o show up in chat
DJTweeny: *to
Cease: I've noticed that, Tween
llanwydd: you got a fb page for the roadkill show?
DJTweeny: No, I need to make one
DJTweeny: just the archive site: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Cease: Maybe we should listen to a different DOMM show every week.
DJTweeny: As many as there are, we could do that
Cease: Post Pete, his RFO podcast did that.
DJTweeny: at least intersperse them with the albums
Cease: Yes
Cease: The Ossman Project should be ready for next Thursday. It's about an hour long.
DJTweeny: kewl
llanwydd: I hope we get a bigger turnout for it than this
Cease: Indeed, llan.
Cease: That was Anna Lee
||||||||| "9:27 PM? 9:27 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Elayne should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Elayne enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Elayne: Evenin' all! Is it Thursday?
Elayne: Every day's much the same inside this box.
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
Cease: Hi El
Elayne: How IS everyone? I'm concerned.
Elayne: I know Phil P went to the eye doc again today for another treatment.
Elayne: And David's back in Whidbey, selling the heck out of Papoon.
Cease: Aside from the endless sore back, I'm ok.
Elayne: I'd take a sore back over all these alternatives going around, Cat.
Cease: Indeed
Elayne: Allergies are giving me a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist, but otherwise I'm OK.
Cease: Fumiyo listens to Japanese news on her phone non-stop
Cease: Pretty depressing.
Elayne: How is our Firesign family then? I'm assuming no gnus is good gnus?
Elayne: Yes, Japan had a recurrence, didn't they?
Cease: They're on Facebook all the time.
llanwydd: what is phils problem, elayne?
Elayne: As long as folks are on FB we can keep track of them. Zuckerberg may be a Zuckerberg but at least FB lets us stay in touch.
Elayne: lan, he's got macular degeneration.
llanwydd: my grandmother had that
Cease: My mother as well
Elayne: Half the folks on my mom's side of the family have that. Mom takes like 3 different eye drops
Elayne: I suspect it's probably in my future. :(
DJTweeny: I know blind/visually impared people who use screen readers and do the net just fine
Cease: We had a blind chatter at one time, Dave. He'll be in the Ossman project, talking about how Firesign helped him listen to more conversations at once
DJTweeny: nice
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: 18 adults, 6 kids
llanwydd: no jokes about mexico
DJTweeny: Rev. Barnstormer's "No Jokes About America" is great
llanwydd: yes it is
Cease: Do you think this working from home thing is going to continue once the virus has passed?
DJTweeny: As long as it will take for the virus to pass, I'm guessing that remote work will have become part fo the culture
Elayne: I think it'll be some time before it's passed.
DJTweeny: It's not going to be just a couple of months
Elayne: I was already set up to work from home, but as an admin assistant, as and when this is all over, they'll want me back in the office.
Elayne: Exactly so, Kurt.
Cease: Our government is talking about it going on for the rest of the year
DJTweeny: It could be that long before they get a vaccine distributed
Elayne: The first thing they actually need is a widely-distributed antibody test. That tells you who's had the virus asymptomatically and is cleared to go out again.
DJTweeny: Yes
Elayne: NYS is working on scaling that up, according to the guv.
DJTweeny: I read that the test kits the UK got from the PRC didn't work
Elayne: The federal government is doing everything it can to impede the process, as usual.
Cease: It does feel like a world turned upside down
DJTweeny: It's a once in a lifetime event
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: let's hope so, Tween
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| Catherwood enters with T.Brillig close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:45 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
Elayne: Evening TB
DJTweeny: Hi T
T.Brillig: Sorry Cathewood...
Cease: Hi T
T.Brillig: Evening all, hoppe all are well
DJTweeny: Catherwood, please take T.Brillig's hat and goat
||||||||| Catherwood takes tbrillig's hat and goat.
T.Brillig: damned tyops... can;t seem to get them out of the keys
T.Brillig: Has anybody seen my goat?
DJTweeny: sneaky little critters, those typos
||||||||| "9:47 PM? 9:47 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits on the divan.
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
Not Ed: Porque?
Elayne: Evenin' NotEd!
T.Brillig: Careful NotEd, they just pulled the plastic off that...
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
Not Ed: Hi hi hi E
Cease: Hey Not
Not Ed: Cheers TB
Not Ed: ha
Elayne: Have DocTech and Lili shown up these past few weeks?
Elayne: I'm concerrned as Lili probably didn't start that census job...
Cease: no
DJTweeny: nope
Not Ed: Cease, llan good 2 c u
Elayne: Dang. I'll drop them a text. That's the #1 best way to communicate with DocTech.
Cease: Theoretically Doc is busy mixing The Ossman Project
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: that blackberry brandy sounds good.
DJTweeny: It does
Cease: oh, this is the first version of this. i use 2 others all the time in my collages
T.Brillig: The Ossman Project.. dman... sounds like a Top Secret underground 50's SF movie...
Cease: Paul Mavrides thought it was Ludlum novel.
T.Brillig: Good also
T.Brillig: something where, if you know the name... we have to take you
Cease: IActually it's a bunch of Firefans/chatters reading Ossman's note from Immortality, and telling tales of their involvements with Firesigns
Cease: Will premiere here next Thursday
T.Brillig: broading and deepening teh Firesign Matrix... always a good thing
Cease: Plus a bunch of kids. Hopefully future Firesign fans.
Not Ed: I miss Wendy Carlos making music - where is she now?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
DJTweeny: He is now Walter
Not Ed: Cool to hear some in that track
DJTweeny: and still making music, as far as I know
DJTweeny: OOps, I got it backwards didn't I?
Not Ed: Unfortunately I don't think so - silence forever, and her entire catalog has been out of print for years
Not Ed: yes
Not Ed: Walter became Wendy
DJTweeny: Wendy Carlos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos
Not Ed: Yep
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: pretty much nothing at all in any way from her since about 2005
||||||||| 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."
Not Ed: cryptic message about some unspecified rights issues on her webpage has been there just about as long
Not Ed: troubling
Cease: this is quite a good CBC show every sunday morning
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops, forgot to change the topic
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“CORONA BOB”
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/'
Rufus_T_Firetween: sorry Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “CORONA BOB” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'Mike_B', just granted probation at 10:08 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi Mike_B
Mike_B: Hi
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: Welcome to our little soirée
Mike_B: Although I've been coming to firesigntheatrelegacy.com for years I only recently discovered this chat by way of twitter
Cease: Hi Mike
llanwydd: hey mike
DJTweeny: You saw my advertisements on Firesign News on Twitter?
Mike_B: Hi. I don't have much to say, I guess. Been a TFT nerd/groupie/fan for almost 50 years. High school 1971
llanwydd: cool!
DJTweeny: I first heard them about that time as well
llanwydd: high school 1975
Mike_B: Yeah, I'm old alright :)
Mike_B: Oh cool. Can I ask where?
DJTweeny: most of us are :)
Cease: Well, you can hear new stuff here.
Cease: This is my latest collage.
llanwydd: hackettstown NJ
DJTweeny: I was at a Quaker high school in PA
Mike_B: On Radio? or did someone you know have an album?
llanwydd: cool! quakers are cool
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “CORONA BOB” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Cease: I first heard them on radio when I was in high school in LA, 1967.
Cease: This was before the albums
Mike_B: Whoa. first person I've ever talked to who went to a Quaker high school...
llanwydd: in school, mike. believe it or not a high school english teacher played Nick Danger for the class
llanwydd: DYLAN! fantastic
Mike_B: Oh my. A radio Free Oz broadcast?
DJTweeny: One of my housemates at the school was the son of a music reviwer for the NYT, so he had lots of early release albums, including Firesign
DJTweeny: *reviewer
Cease: Iistened to Oz reliously in those days.
DJTweeny: He turned me on to them
llanwydd: was your quaker school called Dear Friends
Cease: lol
Mike_B: *rimshot* good one
DJTweeny: Yeah, Cease actually heard them live on the radio
DJTweeny: hahaha, good one llan :)
Cease: the mushroom plays
DJTweeny: and some of Cease's recodings have been use by Firesign for comercial releases
DJTweeny: *recordings
Mike_B: wow. I heard Electician on KAAY, Little Rock, Ark. An AM station that did "underground" every Saturday night from midnight to 4am , I think
DJTweeny: *commercial
Cease: was that early 70s, Mike?
Mike_B: Yeah. 1970 or 71
Cease: I wrote a play with the Firesigns in 98 and mention little rock in it. I was contacted by a DJ in that city who wanted to play it.
Cease: Probably not the same station
Mike_B: And this person whose car I was in had a copy of HCYBITPAO...
Mike_B: Oh really?
Mike_B: Yeah, that station had a sort of "history" I guess of avant garde-ness
Mike_B: I think it's all-Christian, all the time now. I turned it in a few years ago
DJTweeny: Good stuff, Cat
llanwydd: cool!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: EAT OR BE EATEN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out EOBE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-rv'
Mike_B: Well I'll try to be here at the beginning next week... see y'all
Cease: a bit of levity was needed at this point.
DJTweeny: Please do
llanwydd: nite mike
Cease: by mike come again
Mike_B: adios
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:24 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Mike_B by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
T.Brillig: damnation I have to take my leave...
T.Brillig: ...ummm... where's my leave...?
Cease: come back next week, T
T.Brillig: t'willl ,, always a good time...
T.Brillig: (ummm... do I cue the organist or does the sound effects man do that?)
Cease: probably organ leroy
llanwydd: Hi TB
||||||||| 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!"
T.Brillig: a well, My leave is in teh fire and my goat precedes me out the door
T.Brillig: (thump)
||||||||| At 10:29 PM, T.Brillig vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
llanwydd: bye TB
llanwydd: wonder who that was
Cease: bye t
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “EAT OR BE EATEN” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln
||||||||| It's 10:40 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...
||||||||| 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...
Cease: Next week, folks
llanwydd: nytol
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 10:57 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, Cease rushes 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 11:25 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 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
DJTweeny
Elayne
llanwydd
Mike_B
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
T.Brillig

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eobe-rv
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos