Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/17/2020

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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 Tuesday's chat log for November 17, 2020 officially open!" ... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||| ||| ||| 9:27 AM: RedPillTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||| ||| ||| It's 9:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||| ||| ||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the common cold
||| ||| ||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress ...
||| ||| ||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing ' Rufus_T_Firetween ', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 2:42 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||| ||| ||| DJTweeny sashays in at 2:43 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||| ||| ||| At 2:43 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||| ||| ||| 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 '
||| ||| ||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 2:44 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||| ||| ||| 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 '
||| ||| ||| 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 – Mike & The Mechanics
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||| ||| ||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing ' B Jesus ', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:46 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||| ||| ||| springhead steals in around 8:49 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi B Jesus, springhead
springhead: hello there
||| ||| ||| Cease steps in at 8:55 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: Hi all
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: looks like some newcomers tonight
Cease: they've been trickling in recently
||| ||| ||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
||| ||| ||| Catherwood accompanies GÃªne Poole into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:57 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hi Poole
Cease: GP
||| ||| ||| 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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||| ||| ||| Outside, the 9:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: Evening all. Winter's set of Thursdays begins.
Cease: Hey Beet
Beet: Howdy Dr Cease
Cease: New collage for ya tonight
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: Fantastic! I look forward.
Beet: Hi Dr Tween
||| ||| ||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Currently playing: Firesign on National Public Radio in 1980
THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES”
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or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Visit The Firesign Theatre Web Site at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/ '
||| ||| ||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Currently playing: Firesign on National Public Radio in 1980
THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES
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
Visit The Firesign Theatre Web Site at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/ '
Beet: I have really been enjoying these cassettes.
Cease: Too bad they're not bette known
||| ||| ||| "9:03 PM? 9:03 PM!!" says Catherwood, " Rotonoto should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rotonoto enters and sits on the divan.
Beet: My sebtiments exactly.
||| ||| ||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Beet: sentiments
Rotonoto: tap, tap, tap- is this think on?
Rotonoto: thing
Beet: Howdy Roto
Cease: HI Roto.
Rotonoto: hi beet, cease
Rotonoto: apparently my microphone is on
Rotonoto: my landlord is wired and he's transmitting...
Cease: Major restrictions in BC this evening.
DJTweeny: Hi Roto
Rotonoto: hey tweeny
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: Major restrictions in BC this evening << They're talking about a lockdown in L.A. too
Rotonoto: hey, I got streaming audio this week
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lots of places, actually
Rufus_T_Firetween: btw, for all of you who have my smpteguy address, it's dead
Cease: Many American cities have more people than BC. Seattle for example
Beet: It's tightening up here too.
Rufus_T_Firetween: use TXR instead
Cease: LA is vast
Cease: Just talked to my cousin in LA a few days ago. She said everyone is wearing masks there. A good sign
||| ||| ||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Beet: I have actually been to Des Moines 2 or 3 times.
Rotonoto: fill...
Rufus_T_Firetween: L.A. = Los Angeles
Rufus_T_Firetween: LA - Louisiana :)
Cease: Cal.
Cease: Population 19 million.
Rufus_T_Firetween: There are more people in Tokyo than in all of Canada (or so I've read)
Rufus_T_Firetween: that may no longer be the case
Cease: And one of them is Phil Proctr
Beet: Tokyo was way ahead of everyone with the mask wearing. They were doing it long before the virus hit.
||| ||| ||| 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: Yes, 39 million in Tokyo where I lived for many years, 34 million here.
||| ||| ||| llanwydd waltzes in at 9:14 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: good evening dear friends
DJTweeny: Yo llan
Beet: Howdy Llan.
Cease: hey llan!
Rotonoto: llo, Llan...
||| ||| ||| "9:15 PM? 9:15 PM!!" says Catherwood, " some random Zip should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as some random Zip enters and sits on the divan.
Beet: Hi Zip.
Cease: Hey Zip
llanwydd: what was the overture tonight, tween ?
some random Zip: Hello Dear Friends!
llanwydd: hi Zip
some random Zip: "surprising Reagan Victory at the polls"... some 1980 stuff?
llanwydd: this is cool. we never had somebody show up named beaner or bozo.
Cease: This is the most "obscene" thing they ever recorded.
Cease: yes, the last show they did for NPR. they were so pissed off at reagan's win that they couldn't stop swearing.
DJTweeny: Hi Zip
some random Zip: I'm a member of the Benevolent Order
||| ||| ||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: It took me a long time to cut all the "fucks" out of it for broadcast here today
llanwydd: lol srZ
DJTweeny: llan - Mike & The Mechanics
llanwydd: I liked those guys
||| ||| ||| 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!"
some random Zip: who the f' cares. sounds smooth
DJTweeny: (Rutherford of Genesis doing pop music)
Cease: two in the last sentence
llanwydd: but I was a big genesis fan
Cease: thanks, zip.
some random Zip: Mike and the Mechanics did not do it for me but it was not terrible
DJTweeny: Big Genesis fan here too
some random Zip: Genesis was one of my very first live shows... the "mama" tour if you wanna call the self titled album that...
llanwydd: my favorite band since 1974 has been Yes. sometimes Genesis comes in second on my list. sometimes jethro tull
DJTweeny: Definitely not Genesis, but some good pop tunes
DJTweeny: I saw Genesis touring the And Then There Were Three tour with Chester Thompson helping out on drums
some random Zip: I like Yes better because they continued to be excellent in their own way and Genesis lost me with and after the "invisible touch" and "we don't dance" things. Su-Su-Sudio was a bad sign.. an omen
llanwydd: lucky dog
DJTweeny: also a big Yes fan here
DJTweeny: liked them since The Yes Album
Rotonoto: 53 terrible films, some of them were great...
||| ||| ||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
llanwydd: I have seen yes live 4 times
||| ||| ||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store ?"
Rotonoto: vote yes on Yes
llanwydd: funny, twiin. it was the yes album that got me hooked
some random Zip: wonder why fans of a comedy group which put out fantastic full albums would appreciate music with long songs from a similar era
DJTweeny: They made a couple of albums after Gabriel that stayed true to the prog rock theme, Trick Of The Tail and Wund & Wuthering
Cease: Firesign made 53 flicks, roto?
||| ||| ||| 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!"
llanwydd: I liked liked Duke as well
DJTweeny: but And Then There Were Three after Hackett left was the transition to pop
some random Zip: I like everything through Abacab still from G and lost track of Yes's new material around Big Generator though I did see Yes several times later than that..
DJTweeny: *Wind
some random Zip: Hackett still tours to the extent that anyone can play at all these days
Beet: I really liked Yes. I would have liked to have seen them live.
llanwydd: I loved attwt as well. this takes me back to the 70s
llanwydd: I saw yes three times at madison square Garden once in the middle of the street in Orlando.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hackett's made some good solo albums
||| ||| ||| 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 !"
llanwydd: I liked Defector
some random Zip: Chester Thompson, the mirror image drummer to the left-handed Phil Collins for live shows, played with F Zappa in the 1974 band I think it was. After Ralph Humphries and before Bozzio
llanwydd: Please Dont Touch is a very good album as well
some random Zip: Who'se is Please Don't Touch? Hackett?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Right I thought I remembered Thompson playing for Zappa
llanwydd: yeah, that is hackett, srZ
||| ||| ||| 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."
some random Zip: yeah that Helsinki purple box disc from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore is Chester. That's the band with George Duke on keys, and Ruth Underwood ... etc
some random Zip: I must be in Sector N, I can't see any Bear Whiz Beer Steins in the shop, only as a section header, it's only coffee cups!?
llanwydd: I knew the fst was on npr in the early 90s but I did not know they were on npr in 1980
llanwydd: I would have listened to that if I had known about it
Cease: maybe earlier
Cease: ossie had an npr show in the early 80s from DC
Rufus_T_Firetween: These bits for NPR were around of the time of the Fighting Clowns album
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Reagan is a great tune
Rufus_T_Firetween: sounds like Mothers Of Invention to me
some random Zip: (Reagan REAGAN REAAAAGGAAN)
llanwydd: I remember from the notes on Shoes For Industry that david had worked ofr npr
some random Zip: I love fighting clowns. The hot tub scenes are great. With that guitar from Skunk Baxter...
llanwydd: for
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, Baxter from The Doobies on the album
llanwydd: I caught the fighting clowns/lawyers hospital tour
Cease: i suspect they did something for npr in the 70s. taylor would know
llanwydd: 1981
some random Zip: JIMMY CARTER, he's our president!
llanwydd: I liked carter
Rufus_T_Firetween: Fighting Clowns liner notes - http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=fc-ln
some random Zip: Baxter was also an ace in Steely Dan and now he advises the Dept of Defense as a missile expert I think it is
Rufus_T_Firetween: That was a 45 that was not originally part of the album Zip
Cease: i heard skunk on a cbc interview show in the 90s. he told a great story about gorbachev
some random Zip: I have the Mobile Fidelity CD of Fighting Clowns so it's got Jimmy Carter as a bonus track... "Amy Carter, First Lady president!"
Cease: he wanted to talk to gorby about missile but gorby only wanted to talk to his solo on My Old School
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, it's on the CD
Rufus_T_Firetween: not the original LP
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Cease
Cease: about his solo
Rufus_T_Firetween: great
some random Zip: so this cast is all shits and does not give a f?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Din't know he was on that song
some random Zip: that's great about Gorby being a Dan Fan.
Cease: yep. i suspect they were fired from npr B4 this episode. it was obvoiusly never aired
Cease: i just cut out the fucks.
Cease: tweeny tells me the f*cc would not approve.
some random Zip: Did you put them all in one place? I'm kidding, I can hear that you left the F part in place, but there's that one edit of Big Lebowski that's only Fucks...
some random Zip: F the CC. they don't rule the internet... but is this broadcast on air some place? I am surpassed cause I have not heard a station ID ?!
some random Zip: I am also surprised.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Cease
Cease: therre's a podcast called Comedy on Vinyl that has had Proctor and Taylor on at least 5 times.
some random Zip: are we on the air? NO NO NO NO "it's over"
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's just a little internet radio station, but we do our best not to get on the wrong side of the FCC
Cease: anyway, to get one of those shows on This show, I had to eliminate the fucks.
some random Zip: hahahaha is this on the DVD in Duke Of Madness Motors?
Cease: podcasts have different rules
Rufus_T_Firetween: you just missed one ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: np
Cease: it's not on anything, zip.
some random Zip: Oh there's a cast some place. I am just on the link here for the 128
Cease: you are listening to one of the only places it exists.
Cease: i figtued that was too far inthe background, tween .
some random Zip: Wow! cool! Is this source from the vaults or a private collection?
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, wasn't obvious :)
Cease: my collecttion of firesign is vast. since 1967
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's not publicly available
Rufus_T_Firetween: maybe from their new Download Store one of these days
some random Zip: I'd probably buy this off band camp!
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
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Beet: Cool
some random Zip: oh station break! LOUD STATIC!
||| ||| ||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“KAPUT-ALISM PT1: ALL HAIL GROUCHO AND JOHN”
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/audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ '
||| ||| ||| A time machine materializes at 9:43 PM and Medium Richard steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Richard
Beet: Hey Medium
Medium Richard: Grape-ism?
Cease: Hi Rich
Medium Richard: Um, hi.
some random Zip: Medium! Welcome! I saw Enormous Richard open for Uncle Tupelo once!
some random Zip: I guess I better go work on my fitness regimen. Gonna be fitness gigantic burger into my face momentarily, so I'll be leaving... I'm leaving... I've left.
||| ||| ||| Around 9:48 PM, some random Zip walks off into the sunset...
Medium Richard: bon voyage
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
Cease: by zip
Cease: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hail-satire-with-vic-shuttee/id1025334628
Cease: ossman and proc have great interview here.
Medium Richard: opium in the morning for kids... hmm...
Rufus_T_Firetween prefers Imus In The Morning
Beet: See ya zip.
Rotonoto: very interesting collage
Cease: i do my best, roto
||| ||| ||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing ' Robut ', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:06 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Cease: robut
Medium Richard: aaaaaand back to the project - check youse guise next time!
Beet: Hi Robut
DJTweeny: Hi Robut
Rufus_T_Firetween: Welcome to our little soirÃ©e
Cease: This is from Bergman's podcast, 2010-2012
Cease: http://www.radiofreeoz.com/index.html
Cease: Firesign fan, Robut?
||| ||| ||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce" , chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Cease: This is Wendell Pierce from The Wired, etc.
Rufus_T_Firetween is glad he discovered Libertarianism
Cease: f everybody else
Rufus_T_Firetween: a fan of Ron Paul
Rufus_T_Firetween: then again, Noam Chomsky is a Libertarian, so lots of flavors
Rufus_T_Firetween: Noam Chomsky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism."
Cease: as an old radio guy, i know you need music to break up people talking
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Cat for all your art
||| ||| ||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat broadcast collection
“THE UNDERWORLD OLYMPICS”
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 ? '
Beet: Very interesting, Cat
Rotonoto: Roto grinning widely
Rotonoto: bravo cat
Cease: i consider it my job to make great collages
Cease: educate myself and listeners.
Cease: Firesign is like finding a ladder in the middle of your bedroom.
Cease: and up you go.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rotonoto: Roto grinning widely << a Cheshire Cat grin, perhaps?
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm betting some Japanese are not particularly amused by FST lol
Cease: i played firesign on the japanese national radio station and was trying to get them on japanese tv
||| ||| ||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rising Sun - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/ << good movie about the Japanese in L.A.
Cease: austin doesn't fly
Rufus_T_Firetween: you did good, Cease
Cease: stilll doing it, the lads live on.
Rufus_T_Firetween: in steerio hi-fi
||| ||| ||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store ?"
Beet: That is a very entertaining Connery movie.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I love it when the Yakuza try to follow them into the ghetto
Rufus_T_Firetween: also some good commentary about 'business is war', showing scenes of the unemployed and the homeless
||| ||| ||| 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 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
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Cease: OK, my collages are not just cut from these shows, they are attempts to continue them
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice
Cease: austin suggested i do this so i think i'm following his idea
Rufus_T_Firetween: glad for Austin's prompting :)
Cease: both phil and oona are very artistic, visually, so i suggested that firesign were a paint for me
Cease: proc and ossie also do great visual work.
Rufus_T_Firetween: you paint with words
Cease: i paint with Their words, and others.
Cease: As they did in these shows
Rotonoto: hey cat- did Dexter Fong pass? used to see him so often in FST chat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: yes. a couple of years back.
Beet: This one flew by. I enjoyed the proceedings very much.Thanks to everyone. Nice to see all of you. Fabulous offerings tonight, Dr Cease. And thanks to our venerable conductor Dr Tween . G'Nite all.
Cease: his wife called me to tell me of this passing and wondered what to do with his firesign stuff.
Cease: his firesign friends were completely different from the rest of his life
Rotonoto: thanks Kurt
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: stayed with him and his wife when i was in nyc in 2010.
Rotonoto: I can imagine, Cat- probably fairly successful financially to live in NYC
Cease: the room i stayed it was later dameged in an explosion in the next door apt.
Rotonoto: yikes!
Cease: destoyed his computer and he died before replacing. he was ossman's age so lived a long fruitful time
Rotonoto: wonderful friendly guy
Cease: both his wife and dex worked for govt. he for the state govt, she for the city.
Cease: had a wonderful time with them. miss them.
Rotonoto: gov't job will set you up fairly well
Cease: yeah they had a nice apt. but they'd lived in it for along time and at their age, it was sometimes hard for them to find stuff
DJTweeny: and thanks to all for keeping the FireFlame alive :)
Rotonoto: the guys gave me somuch laughter
||| ||| ||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Rotonoto: back when
Rotonoto: I really needed it!
Rotonoto: love the crazy 4 or 5
Cease: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/meetings_with_fong.mp3
Cease: this is the audio of some video i took with him and his wife in 2010
Rotonoto: thanks cat, will check that out next...
Cease: roto, we always need it. and it's there for us
Rotonoto: yep
||| ||| ||| 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!"
Rotonoto: grateful...
Cease: jusr passing it along
Cease: hope you stay well, roto
Rotonoto: doing good so far
Rotonoto: I think I will survive Covid just fine, etc.
Cease: you remember doc technical?
Rotonoto: yep
Cease: one of the founders of this chat, with his partner Lili
Cease: Just heard from him today. He and Lily are in the hospital with Covid
Rotonoto: hope they are recovering
Rotonoto: they were stupidly killing a lot of those patients early on
Cease: hope so too
Rotonoto: hospitals were beyond incompetant
Cease: they are my age and even less healthy, which isn't good
Rotonoto: borderline criminal
||| ||| ||| 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: they are in connecticut so the hospitals should be good.
Rotonoto: luckily I am still fairly healthy
Rotonoto: thank goodness for that way better than NYC
Cease: my wife and i live 4 blocks from the hospital so that's good
Cease: but after a long lull, vancouver is now being hit hard.
Rotonoto: are you supplementing Vit. D?
Cease: where are you?
Rotonoto: MD north of DC
Cease: my doc told me to take vitamin day whenever there's no sun. in north van, that's often
Rotonoto: do you recall how many IU of Vit D per day?
Cease: i visited friends in dc and stayed in maryland in 05. seemed idyllic
||| ||| ||| Catherwood says "11:10 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!" , grabs springhead by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Rotonoto: are you taking?
Cease: no its more casual.
Rotonoto: lots of extended suburbs and a little remaining country
Cease: my doc recommenbded covid so i take one of those.
Rotonoto: I must emphasize, dear friend...
Rotonoto: it is very important you be taking Vit. D regularly
Rotonoto: it makes a crucial difference in
Rotonoto: survivability if you contract Covid
Rotonoto: this is an absolute fact, not opinion
Rotonoto: and the data worldwide clearly support it
Rotonoto: please consider trying to remember to take it more regularly cat
Cease: will do
Cease: and zinc too
Rotonoto: good
Cease: i take caltrate.
Rotonoto: not familiar- is that a calcium supplement?
Cease: vitamin d supplement my doc recomended
Rotonoto: good, get that D!
Cease: feeling healthy. do tai chi every morning.
Rotonoto: excellent
Cease: do intellectual stuff all day. go to bed early.
Rotonoto: I taske fairly regular evening walks in my neighborhood
Rotonoto: too much the nite owl tho...
Rotonoto: about a 1 mile circuit at a brask pace
Rotonoto: have gym membership
Rotonoto: but not getting over there
Cease: i would walk almost daily a mile or so to my local stores but today's regulations say dont' leave your house unless you really have to
Rotonoto: enough lately
Rotonoto: not quite as strict here, they are trying real hard not to *mandate*
Rotonoto: but leaning heavily on everyone
Rotonoto: to get with it
Rotonoto: mandatory masks inside buildings etc.
Cease: that's the law as of today
Rotonoto: clearly they are leaning harder on folks in BC
Cease: we went from 5-6 covid cases a day recently to 6-700 a day now.
Rotonoto: cases are BS!
Rotonoto: based on a very unreliable PCR test
Rotonoto: what matters is death rate
Cease: canada was complacent, ha ha we're so much better than the yankees, and now we're paying the price
Rotonoto: not cases rate
Rotonoto: it's fraud basically
Rotonoto: designed to scare everyione
Cease: yeah death and hospitalizations are soaring.
Rotonoto: as if we are not already thoroughly beated down!
Rotonoto: beaten
Cease: compared to what, roto?
Cease: compared to our hospitalized friends doc and lili?
Rotonoto: PCR test was never designed to diagnose any specific virus
Rotonoto: and they abuse and misuse it
Rotonoto: test becomes much less reliable bayonf
Rotonoto: about 17 cycl;es
Rotonoto: CDC adcvvises continue through 40+ cycles
Rotonoto: beaucoup false positives
Rotonoto: designed to scare everyone
Rotonoto: PCR test, as used is total BS
Cease: i still go shopping, and i'm now going to go and enjoy the result of my shoppping, dinner.
Cease: bon appetite, roto
Rotonoto: I missed your comparison point cat-
Rotonoto: with respect to doc and lili
Rotonoto: I don't know what type treatment they are getting
Cease: food calls.i depart
||| ||| ||| "Hey Cease !" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:24 PM, I don't have to go yet!" ...
Rotonoto: byenot the first time I have collided with brick wall
Rotonoto: I am getting used to it
Rotonoto: Your doc is right about the vitamin D, cat. Be well, friend! Nite all...
||| ||| ||| At 11:35 PM, Rotonoto scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for me ee ee... "
||| ||| ||| Catherwood escorts Me into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 1:38 PM, then departs.
||| ||| ||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and HawkMoth disembarks at 7:31 PM.
||| ||| ||| Catherwood ushers RedPillTweeny in through the front door at 2:11 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.

The Evening's Participants:

Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
llanwydd
Rotonoto
Rufus_T_Firetween
springhead
some random Zip

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