A Firesign Chat
05/07/2020




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 May 07, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 4:16 PM, dragging RedPillTweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| It's 4:40 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...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (5:27 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| 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 trudges in at 7:35 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (The Beatles)
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)
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||||||||| Outside, the 8:52 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving niston coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
niston: volkswagen?
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:53 PM and David Asheville steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi David, niston
||||||||| 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 half hour!"
Cease: HI folks.
DJTweeny: Evenin' Cease
Cease: Beatles, eh?
DJTweeny: yes indeed
Cease: I just ordered the CD of Abbey Road this morning. Will make collage out of it next month or by July hopefully
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet in through the front door at 8:56 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Hope all are well and happy. Howdy.
Cease: Hey Beet
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DJTweeny: Hi Beet
DJTweeny: kewl Cease
Beet: Hi Dr Cease and Dr Tween
Beet: It's nice to hear these tunes always.
Cease: Good news about The Ossman Project. Doc is working on new iteration
Cease: MOstly doing video these days but will try and have a collage a month or so.
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| "8:59 PM? 8:59 PM!!" says Catherwood, "''Bob'' should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as ''Bob'' enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Cease: I'
Beet: Sit you down father
Cease: l'll see what inspires me.
Cease: Got any pumice burgers, Bob?
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
Beet: Hi Bob
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 07, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
''Bob'': Hello, dear friends! Just popping in to lurk while I create a final exam for my students tomorrow… :)
||||||||| 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."
''Bob'': All I've got here is kielbasa.
DJTweeny: about their knowledge of The Firesign Theatre?
Cease: Don't get a job. Hang out at Bob's!
''Bob'': I don't want them to fail, Tweeny.
DJTweeny: haha
Beet: They don't know Fireaign inside and out? Where is this modern education coming to?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: “JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out JUST FOLKS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-rv
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Beet: Firesign
''Bob'': They barely even know Monty Python. I show my Principles of Econ students the cheese shop sketch every semester to demonstrate the benefit of increased product variety through trade. ;)
''Bob'': Haven't found a way to work in Firesign yet.
Cease: Are you new to Firesign chat, David?
Beet: 6 Boxcars
DJTweeny: good one Bob (Python)
Cease: Good idea, Bob
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Visit the FIRESIGN THEATRE Web Site at >> www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
Cease: I mix Firesign and Python liberally in my collages
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
DJTweeny: well, you _are_ a liberal ;)
Cease: Are you all surviving in Covid land?
DJTweeny: so far
Cease: HOw are things in Austin, Tween?
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:06 PM and Not Ed waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: I live next to Canada's epicentre here in North Van, but the curve seems to have flattened.
Cease: HI Not
DJTweeny: They're starting to open some businesses, but only at 25% capacity
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
Cease: Still here, Mr Ashville?
Beet: The brother of a friend of mine was on O'Bummer's Econimic Council.
DJTweeny: hard to keep a restaurant running at 25% capacity :/
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
DJTweeny: libraries and public pools still closed
Beet: Hi Not
Cease: I really miss the library
Not Ed: Best Beet
Not Ed: hanging in there just plain folks?
Cease: Here's a good economics lesson for you, Bob
''Bob'': Indeed.
''Bob'': The business of politics is big business.
Not Ed: squirrel is quite delicate
Beet: Probably tastes like chicken.
Cease: We feed squirrels on our deck. Keeps them away from the bird feeder
Not Ed: doesn't everything?
''Bob'': Tastes more like rabbit, actually.
Not Ed: yeah
Beet: Why not just actually eat chicken.
DJTweeny: which 'tastes like chicken'?
Not Ed: chicken fried squirrel
DJTweeny: haha
Cease: Did a couple of collages about that a few monthes ago. That Firesign Flavour, in the archive.
Cease: About the taste of chicken.
DJTweeny: now there's a Southern dish ;)
Not Ed: our uncles made sure we ate.....just about everything in the woods and water
''Bob'': Yeah, that's when I ate it: squirrel & rabbit shot by an uncle.
Beet: Haven't we heard there is such a thing as a "road kill" restaurant?
Not Ed: uncle shot is the best kind
Cease: i was raised a vegetarian.
''Bob'': Also had Canada goose shot by my ex-wife's uncle once. Not bad.
Not Ed: mmmm uncle-shot goose
''Bob'': It's the best kind.
Not Ed: at lest you don't have to shoot plants
Not Ed: you have to shuck em
''Bob'': My plants have been shooting a lot of zombies lately, tho. Getting back to the classics during this lockdown. :)
Cease: my parents abruptly became carnivores after the Cuban missile crisis.
Not Ed: ha! Bob
DJTweeny: heh
Not Ed: C LOL
Beet: http://web.blomand.net/~dennmac/reich-wing/roadkill_cafe_menu.html
Not Ed: ty Beet
Cease: Nukes - Even more frightening than the train to hell in episode one of my audiobiography and being a few hours from death in episode 2 was something that happened to me and every other life form on the planet in October, 1962. The Fighting Firesign Clowns have a song about it. Robert Klein recalls the 50s drop drills so we don't have to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tdT59cbwCs. An actual Civil Defence announcement. The Firesign's satelite show Fools in Space. The film The Man Who Saved the World, which everyone should watch and memorize. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=the+man+who+saved+ther4+world%2C+youtube#id=2&vid=16401bf736ec79fdb4bbc7b1815a1733&action=click Vasily Arkapov is the only reason life still exists on this p
DJTweeny: ''Bob'': My plants have been shooting a lot of zombies lately, tho << Day Of The Triffids?
Cease: This is my story about that, in the archives
Not Ed: Wow!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Not Ed: I haven't listened to this one in a long time. Fun to hear Tweeny
DJTweeny: Cat's suggestion :)
Not Ed: Tx Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Not Ed: Ruf Ruf
Cease: I remember buying this album at Tower records in Hollywood.
Beet: It's amazing how huge Tower Records was in its day.
Not Ed: Truly
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:24 PM and late as usual, it's residualecho, just back from California."
DJTweeny: Hi RE
Not Ed: resid!
Beet: hey echo echo echo etc.
Not Ed: echo
residualecho: wait, I'm still in California! nia nia nia...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS: A FIRESIGN CHAT” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone confidence in the system
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone confidence in the system.
Beet: without a doubt
residualecho: re re re re
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: this guys are krayzee
Not Ed: recho
residualecho: How many multiple identities are there here tonight?
Cease: Hey Echo.
residualecho: meow
residualecho: So sad that the old school disappeared.
''Bob'': I only have one identity. All those other personalities are imposters.
Not Ed: I'm never going back
Beet: Commie Martyrs got it.
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
residualecho: If we get you to say your name backwards, Bob, will you return to another dimension?
Not Ed: Bring on the new normal - I wasn't crazy about the old normal
Cease: Got Amazon Prime when I ordered AB. Watched Upload. I reccomend
residualecho: I'm going in there, and taking them all with me!!!
residualecho: We're just a few eps into Upload.
Not Ed: they have all the PBS doc shows - frontline, american experience, American masters....
Cease: pbs won't let me watch their archived shows cuz I'm in Canada
''Bob'': I watched, like, 5 minutes of the first episode, then I decided to re-watch The Wire instead. Do not regret.
Not Ed: oh drat!
residualecho: Tim Leary was ready to upload, until he found that the folks there to sever his head and put it in ice were a load of humorlessness
Beet: I'm going to hop into my Crown Vic and escape this police state.
Not Ed: never thought of that
Cease: yet their seattle station, which is our default pbs station, gets much of its funding from subscribers in BC
residualecho: Police State! Where green rookies become hardened men in blue!
Cease: yes, paul krassner has a routine about that, echo.
Not Ed: it's a mean ol' world
Not Ed: (always has been)
Cease: also watching mrs maisel. wonder what Paul thought of the Lenny Bruce character
residualecho: PK. a lot of formative narrative when I was but a mere sprout
Not Ed: but it's the only one we've got.....for now
residualecho: I only got a couple of seasons with Lenny. Strikes me as a really solid impression, and well written
Cease: i met him at the same time i met proctor, xmas 95. ending up doing much work with both lads
residualecho: PK. Dropping with Groucho
residualecho: Wow
Not Ed: keen
Cease: his autobiography is a masterpiece. everyone should read it.
residualecho: !!!
Not Ed: thumbs up
Cease: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00918JU6C?tag=duc12-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1
residualecho: Is Krassner's bio online?
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: i was at my favourite restauarnt in vancouver on it's last night. everyone was crying.
residualecho: answered my question before I could ask it
Not Ed: might be on Google
Cease: Paujl had just sent me his updated Confessions so I was falling out of my chair reading it.
Not Ed: Google books
Not Ed: Also Project Gutenberg
residualecho: Pass the Indian!
Cease: i read out a few passages out loud to the staff. they began laughing too.
Not Ed: catherwood get everyone a native American shaman's stick
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a native american shaman's stick.
residualecho: Holy... dropping with Groucho in preparation for Skidoo
Cease: like Firesign, Krassner's work is therapeutic
Cease: terrible flick. great story.
residualecho: Must depart for non thyberspaithe experiences in real life, and return RSN
Not Ed: u b good resid
Cease: thanks for dropping by, echo
DJTweeny: Good to see you RE
residualecho: busy back sun
Not Ed: this is my favorite version
Beet: see ya res
Not Ed: can one undersimplify? oh I think Trump could
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“BACK FROM THE SHADOWS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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Not Ed: great record Tweeny!
Beet: Gets better with each listening.
Not Ed: (Just Folks)
DJTweeny: It is Not Ed, and Cat's sugestion
Cease: Firesign is like that, Beet
DJTweeny: *suggestion
Not Ed: Yeah it really does
Not Ed: Cat knows what's best!
Cease: There is so much to suggest
Not Ed: Beeeee Ohhhhhhh
Cease: I've spent a large part of my life warming my self by the Firesign
''Bob'': Aren't your cues dry yet?
Cease: my p's are still wet
Beet: Are those my cues?
Not Ed: nice plug hahaha
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOX OF DANGER: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
Not Ed: I have mine right over there by the NatLamp box
Not Ed: (NatLamp radio)
Cease: Thanks to Tweeny's Tuesday show, I solved a mytery
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Medium Richard inside, makes a note of the time (9:53 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Not Ed: MR
Cease: I thought "the Jackson 5 story, starring The Ossmond Brothers" was Firesign but couldn't find it. Turns out, it was Cheech and Chong.
Cease: Hi MR
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Every time Bradshaw yells "Shaddup" I have to laugh.
Not Ed: Me too Beet haha
Medium Richard: Corn starch...
DJTweeny: Yeah C&C
Beet: Hi Richard.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Medium Richard: Ahoy all
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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
DJTweeny: Allo Richard
Beet: They are probably dwarf maples
DJTweeny: ** RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Cease: Hadn't heard that since the 70s.
Medium Richard: dwarf pliers...?
Not Ed: kicked in the head by a beaver dang
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a mask
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a mask.
''Bob'': I believe the correct term now is little-tree maples.
Cease: lol bob
Medium Richard: aha
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Anyone ever smoke a Fantastic?
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
Beet: fun
Not Ed: Arrrrr F Deeee
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“WADE (Part 2)”
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/
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DJTweeny: :)
DJTweeny: Good bunch of folks
residualecho: Billy was a mountain
DJTweeny: many of them ham radio people
Cease: you're back, echo
Cease: echos tend to do that
residualecho: Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder
Not Ed: resid!
Cease: one of the 3 albums i was on, echo
residualecho: Takes a while
Cease: meaning, clapping in the audience
residualecho: I got to hear my hilarious cackling circa 2006, at Marin, some Danger
||||||||| 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: I enjoyed clapping for Firesign very much
Cease: billy the mt, dylan in seattle, cannonball adderly at the troubador, Black Messiah
residualecho: OMFG, clapping and laughing to let them know how much their voices spark inside our head
Not Ed: yeah!
||||||||| 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."
residualecho: APparently, our head is collective
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: this is from Box of Time
Cease: http://seemreal.com/boxoftime/index.html
Cease: I had just moved to Vancouver when I first heard this song.
Cease: 72
''Bob'': Let's not go to British Columbia. 'Tis a silly place.
Cease: I've lived a few places but BC is best for me.
DJTweeny: Would be my choice for living in Canada
''Bob'': Seriously, I would consider BC. But even with a PhD and a job offer in hand, I'm not sure I'm young enough to have a good shot at getting in.
Cease: I look out my windows and see either the Pacific ocean or the Mts behind our house. it's ridiculously beautiful All The Time
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: temperate weather
''Bob'': I'm so old, even the US Army won't take me. Now *that* is old. ;)
DJTweeny: nice, Cease
Cease: al the cards are being reshuffled now, bob, thanks to covid
residualecho: gonna watch some more Upload
residualecho: cheers, all!
''Bob'': Well, I'm off to Kansas soon, which seems like a good place to be when the zombie apocalypse hits.
DJTweeny: later RE
||||||||| residualecho hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's residualecho?! It's 10:16 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Cease: decent, helpful governments all the way up, from civic to provincial to federal
Cease: gthis guy is now a prof at UBC here in Vancouver, where I taught in the 70s
Cease: great educational institutions, from kindergarten through universities
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “WADE (Part 2)” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
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/
Beet: A sage once said, "If you understand HOW, you will understand WHY".
Not Ed: Diggin it C
Cease: good
||||||||| 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...
Cease: my point being, vancouver is a great place to live. maybe where you are now is just as good
''Bob'': Where I am right now is OK; Kansas should be better. I'd pack up and move to New Zealand if I could figure out how to get an academic job there, though.
Cease: i hear only good things about new z.
Cease: bergman told his daughter to bury him in either nz or syria.
''Bob'': Even if NZ was just OK, at least I'd get to enjoy hearing people speak with a kiwi accent. :) I listen to radio from NZ a lot just for the sheer entertainment value from that.
Beet: This is so classic. Brilliant.
Not Ed: which carlin album is this?
Cease: lord of the rings flicks made it look ridiculously beautiful
Cease: but so is british columbia. and i'm already here.
Not Ed: yeah great routine
Cease: i got it from youtube.
Beet: lol
Not Ed: heh
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: safe at home
Cease: how relevant is that?
Not Ed: oh ok tx Cat
Not Ed: pretty darn relevant
''Bob'': The really weird thing is, Auckland is the biggest city, but there are tons of farming-related ads on the local radio. Would not have expected that.
''Bob'': Oooh! Synchronicity
Not Ed: Synchronoscopy
''Bob'': Canadians and their skidoos...
Not Ed: in MN it was Polaris vs Skidoo
''Bob'': I had a Canadian pen-pal as a young sprout, and when he told me about his skidoo, I had no idea what he was talking about.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Not Ed: they're super fun
Not Ed: especially out on a (frozen) lake
Cease: "23 Skidoo, Mr. Bombardier" a line from my play Neal Amid, starring Phil Austin
''Bob'': I'll bet. Could have used one in Connecticut. At least we had a pond to skate on, even if we didn't have enough kids for hockey.
Cease: You're right, Not
''Bob'': It's amazing how relevant this bit still is.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Neal Amid - http://www.seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm
Beet: Love this girl
''Bob'': Love this song. It's a staple of my swing dance DJing.
Cease: I just discovered her in the course of making this collage last week. I'm amazed at her voice
Beet: Check out her Over The Rainbow if you haven't already.
||||||||| 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."
Cease: will devote time to listening to her
Cease: this is an amazing version of this song
DJTweeny: Nice work, Cat
Cease: i try, tween
Beet: Her story is a sad one. Died way too young.
Cease: saw it on wikipedia, beet
Cease: in a sense, we all die too young.
Beet: Well said
Cease: our best ideas may be on the tips of our tongues when we expire
DJTweeny: Or as Billy Joel would say, 'Only The Good Die Young'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“YOUNG GUY MOTOR DETECTIVE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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Not Ed: Great show guys
Cease: if you are doing a show about firesign theatre, it better be great, not.
Not Ed: Like radio, without eyes
Not Ed: dang right C
Not Ed: accept no substitutes
Cease: i dont know how many of these collages i've made, but i can listen to collages i did a decade ago and still enjoy them. that's enough for me.
Not Ed: hindquarters
Not Ed: I understand very much C and could listen to them too I'm sure
Cease: before i got into making these, i was often despondent. needed something to do that needed doing.
DJTweeny: Living in Japan must have been quite an experience, 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
'
Cease: austin asked me to crearte shows for firesign radio in 2013, right after bergman;s rfo podcast died.
Cease: it was, tween. it made me aware of living differently is an option.
DJTweeny: nice
Not Ed: cool
Not Ed: great Tweeny & Cat
Cease: as i said in the Ossman Project, Firesign want us to imagine a better world and then bring it into existence.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
''Bob'': Thanks, Tweeny! Nice chatting with y'all again after so long. :)
Beet: I love this chat. Had a great time tonight. Thanks to everyone. Fantastic collage, Dr Cease. Thanks as always, Dr Tween. See you all next week. G'Nite.
Cease: Sleep well
Not Ed: Stay safe and trails of happiness!
Not Ed: May the Smurph be with youz.
DJTweeny: lol Ed
||||||||| 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."
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 11:25 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...
||||||||| 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:
''Bob''
Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
Medium Richard
niston
Not Ed
residualecho
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-rv
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/boxoftime/index.html
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://web.blomand.net/~dennmac/reich-wing/roadkill_cafe_menu.html
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.seemreal.com/nealamid/index.htm
http://www.seemreal.com
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=the+man+who+saved+ther4+world%2C+youtube#id=2&vid=16401bf736ec79fdb4bbc7b1815a1733&action=click
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00918JU6C?tag=duc12-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tdT59cbwCs



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