Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/15/2020

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 October 15, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sashays in at 5:26 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| 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 stomps in at 6:41 PM, dragging DJTweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
||||||||| 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 (The Moody Blues)
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)'
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:45 PM and late as usual, it's Kudzu Vine, just back from Quebec."
DJTweeny: Hi Kudzu
DJTweeny: "The Kudzu vines done took over the town!"
||||||||| "8:52 PM? 8:52 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits on the divan.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: Tween, Vine
Cease: I was planning to use this song in my Tim Leary collage but never got around to it
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:57 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Virginia."
Beet: Dear Friends
Cease: Beet
Beet: Hello Dr Cease
||||||||| "8:57 PM? 8:57 PM!!" says Catherwood, "regnad kcin should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as regnad kcin enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Cease: Regnad
Beet: Howdy Regnad
regnad kcin: yeH
Cease: This song was written when Dr Tim was still alive,right?
Beet: Love the Moodies
Cease: Krassner has a stand up routine about Tim's actual death
Rufus_T_Firetween: I believe so, Cat
Beet: He was still kickin'
||||||||| 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)'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet
Cease: Tim was going to have his head frozen until the last minute, when he figured the freezers had no sense of humour
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 15, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Hey Dr Tween.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: “SHOES FOR INDUSTRY”
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-rv'
DJTweeny: Their first skit from their first album, and it's my all-time favorite
Cease: Great stuff
DJTweeny: Was up near 100 a couple of days ago, but only in the 70s tomorrow
||||||||| "9:08 PM? 9:08 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Merlyn should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Merlyn enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
DJTweeny: Hopefully the last of that 100 degree stuff
DJTweeny: Hi regnad, Merlyn
Merlyn: The 70s? I thought this was late 60s
DJTweeny: heheh
Cease: Merl
Beet: Hi Mr Merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
Cease: I don't know if I've ever heard this compilation, or if so, very long ago
Cease: We were planing to listen to Campaign Chronicles tonight, but when Tween listened to it, it was far from broadcast quality.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I use stuff from it all the time, but don't know if I've ever tried to play it in its entirety
Cease: I remember giving a copy to you, Merl. Did you notice that?
Cease: Very distorted
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've asked Taylor for a good copy of Chronicles, so maybe next week
Merlyn: Didn't notice that, cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “SHOES FOR INDUSTRY” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln
Cease: I guess this was made to be radio friendly
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a great introduction to FST
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'accessible'
Cease: Tis
Rufus_T_Firetween: As they say on the web site, something you could give to a friend to introduce them to Firesign
||||||||| 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."
regnad kcin: daolnwod ot oidua teg t'naC
Rufus_T_Firetween: regnad, try psting the link directly into your player
Rufus_T_Firetween: *pasting
Merlyn: Anyone if Ossman really speaks Spanish?
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: Put a "know" in there
Rufus_T_Firetween: No se
Beet: He did such a great job translating the Deputy Dan Coloring Book.
Rufus_T_Firetween: If the translation is any indication, no he does not speal Spanish lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: *speak
Cease: I know I don't speak Spanish.
Beet: More Armenians in California than any other place outside of Armenia
Cease: You mean "dont follow the balls when they make the streets" isn't real Spanish?
Beet: Ver accurate translation.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Rufus_T_Firetween: I do not speak Spanish, but enough to know that it's a wonderfully horrible and humours translation ;)
Cease: they are humourists, not linguists, except proctor who is both
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Deputy Dan es tu amigo." = Deputy Dan is your friend. FST translation = Deputy Dan has no friends :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: *humorous
Beet: Very funny bit.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: One of my favorites
Beet: I have never had to answer the door with a cop behind it. White privilege I guess.
Cease: there is a page from the actual Dep Dan colouring book in the book that accompanies DOMM
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yep, I saw hat Cease, it's not made up
Beet: Makes you wonder how they came across these artifacts.
Beet: lol
Cease: p.81, Deputy Dan teaches you traffic safety
Cease: They were always on the lookout for stuff they could use on their radio shows.
Cease: Proc still does for this Planet Proctor e-zine.
Cease: his
Rufus_T_Firetween: Planet Proctor is very cool. You do want to be on the mailing list for his newsletter
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Cease: A lot of people send Proc material for PP. That was probably also the case for their Dear Friends shows, etc
Beet: Catherwood find your script
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to Beet and mumbles "Did you need me?"
||||||||| llanwydd steps in at 9:49 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: good evening dear friends
Beet: Howdy Llan.
Cease: Llan
DJTweeny: Hi llan
Cease: did you get your audio working, regnad?
llanwydd: h everybody
llanwydd: I mean hi
llanwydd: I bought shoes for industryo on cassette wehn it came out
DJTweeny: kewl
DJTweeny: must have been at least 2 cassettes, since it's 2 1/2 hours of material
llanwydd: yes it was
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Merlyn: clearing out a bit early tonight, have to get to the store b4 it closes
llanwydd: thank you catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're very welcome!"
Merlyn: Bye catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "Until we meet again!"
Cease: by merl
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "10:01 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
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
||||||||| 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: Excellent
Beet: See ya Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “SHOES FOR INDUSTRY” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln
DJTweeny: It's a great compilation
DJTweeny: I bought the CDs
DJTweeny: Have given it to a friend as an intro to FST
Beet: Very good and representative collection.
Cease: When I was living in Japan in the early 80s, a friend had this album and made a copy for me of their single, which I didn'
DJTweeny: Yeah, a little bit of everthing they'd done in their first 9 albums
Cease: didnt have at the time.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
DJTweeny: Great Ossman bit :)
Cease: but have never listened to the whole collection
DJTweeny: 'Don G. Ovanni' lol
Cease: hilarious
Cease: ossie channeling his inner mel blanc
Cease: this is the single
Cease: still have the cassette
DJTweeny: great collection
DJTweeny: but I get that Ossman wants more than 6 people in the chat if he shows up ;)
DJTweeny: We need an 'event' that can be advertised, and hopefull we can do that for the 29th
Cease: that would be nice.
DJTweeny: I did point out that it was cool that Austin would just randomly show up when he felt like it
DJTweeny: *hopefully
Cease: Not Insane 2020
DJTweeny: yeah
Beet: Maybe when some of the new material is released.
Cease: Dope Humour of the 70s upcoming release.
DJTweeny: MANIAC
DJTweeny: They'd like to talk about that, of course
DJTweeny: Make America Not Insane Again Campaign
DJTweeny: Proc say he'll do it if we get George Tirebiter involved :)
Cease: We can play Papoon next week. Also I have various bits of Tirebiter running for Vice president I can assemble
DJTweeny: Having both on at once just before the campaign would be wonderful
Cease: it would
DJTweeny: I was going to play Papoon (or whatever parts of it fit after thev've done their thing) on the 29th, actually
Cease: oh ok
DJTweeny: If I can get a good copy of CC from Taylor, then some of the Chronicles next week makes sense to me in anticipation of the 29th
DJTweeny: *they've
Cease: that would be ideal
Cease: i dont think proc and ossie have ever been on chat together
DJTweeny: We'll see what Phil and Davis want to do
Cease: exactly
DJTweeny: This is NOT a good translation of Spanish lol
DJTweeny: *David
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Merlyn close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:34 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
DJTweeny: wb Merlyn
Cease: did you go to the store?
Merlyn: Back from the Shadows of the store
DJTweeny: hope you got some real good goodies
Cease: tween was just talking of oct 29th show with theoretically proc and oss.
Cease: they want themes and an audience
DJTweeny: It's not a sure thing yet
DJTweeny: yeah
Cease: right
Beet: Hey M
Cease: but we have to advertise more than 24 hours in advance
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Rotonoto', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:36 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Beet: Hi Roto
Rotonoto: not Nancy- it's NotoRoto
DJTweeny: I'll ad start advertising next week if they agree to so it. I've asked them to test Skype, and Proc said he'd get back to me
Rotonoto: hi all
DJTweeny: Hello Roto
DJTweeny: *to it
Rotonoto: my fave DJ...
Rotonoto: better late than never, eh?
Rotonoto: sorry late...
Cease: Hi Roto
DJTweeny: I'll make it a big and well-advertised event on Facebook, if they agree
Cease: REad the log about upcoming show
Rotonoto: hi cat
Cease: it would be extraordinary to have both ossman and proctor live on chat on skype
Beet: Historic event no less.
Cease: indeed, beet
Cease: we'll have to alert everyone we know who appreciates firesign
Cease: whatever old chatters we can dig up.
Cease: merl, is there a limit to the number of chatters that can appear here?
Beet: Do we have a way to suggest it in their dreams?
Cease: speakinbg of dreams, are you watching Cosmos?
Cease: this week's was about the brain, and of course dreams
Cease: great series.
Beet: Do you resommend?
Cease: i can use the egyptian dream thing in my play
Beet: recommend
Cease: it's outstanding.
Merlyn: Cat, there's no limit
Merlyn: but it might bog down
Cease: good to hear, merl.
Rotonoto: I wouldn't mind getting on a couple email dist. lists for FST related...
Cease: i think the most folks we've ever had here when first bergman, and then austin died.
Cease: we had memorial chats with maybe 50s folks?
Merlyn: Probably
Cease: people came in and out, as i recall.
Rotonoto: I got to chat however breifly with Austin, he came in here one night...
Rotonoto: thanked him (sorta) for Roller Maidens
Merlyn: The second night of the Bergman online wake, when Austin showed up: https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20120310.html
Merlyn: List at the bottom
Merlyn: The first night was too sudden to get many people
Rotonoto: wow thanks merl, real interesting archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “SHOES FOR INDUSTRY” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln
Cease: I hope we can get all the folks who were part of my recent Ossman Project.
Cease: lots of firesign friends who rarely show up here.
DJTweeny: another one of my favorite skits
Rotonoto: that's a helluva list of attendeed merl
Rotonoto: attendees
Beet: Any way to find contact info for these folks?
Cease: remember that soldier who showed up here for a while?
||||||||| 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'
Merlyn: Not really Beet
Merlyn: 99 people Roto
Rufus_T_Firetween: a young guy, yah
Cease: wow.
Rufus_T_Firetween: He was just going into te service
Merlyn: And the blind kid
Cease: i'm in touch with him. he was on the Ossman Project. Dave's not here, but he can be on the 29th
Cease: he has a podcast and the audio version of his book to promote.
Rotonoto: 99- wowza!
Merlyn: All the past chats are archived here, and there are links to all the special ones (FT guys showing up, etc): https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/indexx.html
Rotonoto: earned respect is an awesome thing
Cease: the guy who does those wonderful intgerview with proc and taylor in LA, comedy on vinyl dude
Merlyn: Only a couple or so nights have been lost over ~18 years
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: out of25 nights its been on.
Beet: This was fun. Hope more folks get in here at some point. Carry on creating, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding Dr Tween. Nice to see everyone. G'nite all.
Cease: 25 years. since 95 as i recall, but that was irc or something, eh?
Rufus_T_Firetween: the original chat was IRC, yeah
Merlyn: The Austin 2nd night wake with Proctor had 51 people
Rufus_T_Firetween: then Merlyn made this for us :)
Cease: thats what i was thinking of merl
Merlyn: Yes, IRC chats, there's a link to them on the login page for this chat
Merlyn: Except the link is broken
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: i thought the original version was from elayne, or at least she got it happening.
Merlyn: whoever sets it up
Merlyn: Also, for a long time this chat was automatically reposted on google groups
Cease: chat goes back to when she was doing Falafal. there was a guy named Niles Ritter involved with early firesign on the web action
Cease: oh yes.
Merlyn: The 2nd Bergman wake with Austin appearing needed 27 parts to post
Cease: Was Bergman's daughter on that?
Cease: Lily?
Merlyn: OK, here's a link to the IRC chats: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre/search?q=%23fIRCign
Merlyn: I'll fix the link on the login page
Merlyn: I don't remember her showing up
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: Wow, 4/10/98. My daughter was alive then.
Cease: Maybe it was a different Lily.
Rotonoto: question for the group...
Cease: yes
Rotonoto: recently we heard old recording where Tirebiter (I think) reads some Dr. Seuss...
Rotonoto: mentions a 'phenarmadoo'
Rotonoto: don't know how to spell
Rotonoto: cant find anything online consequently
Cease: yes, thats from their radio show Hour Hour I think. actually that story was written by a schoolkid,
Cease: she invented the word.
Rotonoto: no wonder
Rotonoto: is it to be found anywhere online as text?
Cease: not likely
Rotonoto: well from now on the phenarmadoo eats at the same time as us!
Cease: all of those shows are on the Dukie of Madness Morots compilation
Rotonoto: was a charming little story
Cease: ah, the intoxicants are finally kicking in.
Cease: after chat was over
Rotonoto: hey, my car has a morot too
Rotonoto: heh!
Cease: lol
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: Link should be fixed, it's just still using the old cached version for a while
Merlyn: bye
||||||||| "11:14 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Merlyn, who then hurries out through the french doors and down through the garden.
Rotonoto: ok guys, I'm off- will try to find my way back here much more often...
Cease: good to hear, roto
Cease: til next week.
Rotonoto: adieu dear friends...
||||||||| Rotonoto hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Rotonoto?! It's 11:15 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| regnad kcin - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Kudzu Vine - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Climate Control tiptoes in around 1:33 AM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Climate Control - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Merlyn
regnad kcin
Rotonoto
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20120310.html
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/indexx.html
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-rv
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.planetproctor.com
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre/search?q=%23fIRCign