Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/26/2020

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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for November 26, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "7:31 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Funfun Town."
||||||||| Catherwood ushers RedPillTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (7:39 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi RedPill
||||||||| It's 7:55 PM, 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** PASS THE INDIAN PLEASE... **
A Replay of a show from November 28th, 2019
(DJ Tweeny's internet service is beyond horrible, and is being migrated to a better provider)
in honor of the THANKSGIVING
Cat Collages "Nothing But Indians", "A Shadow Moves" and "Soyal Plus"
(No Audio Until The Top Of The Hour)
Listen at 128k >> http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u - Listen at 16k >> http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out The Firesign Theatre at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/'
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (8:10 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:45 PM and llanwydd waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: A replay tonight, so no audio before the top of the hour
llanwydd: hi tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: about to put up the streams
Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, streams up but no audio yet
Rufus_T_Firetween: not until the top of the hout
Rufus_T_Firetween: *hour
Rufus_T_Firetween: So how are things in The Great State Of Florida?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Almost 80 here today, but rain for the next couple of days and much cooler over the weekend
llanwydd: we had a beautiful day here on the east coast
llanwydd: how is the weather in austin?
Rufus_T_Firetween: see above ^^
llanwydd: cool
llanwydd: did you have anything unusual for dinner or the usual turkey, stuffing, cranberry, etc?
Rufus_T_Firetween: nope
Rufus_T_Firetween: just another day in the kitchen
||||||||| Cease bounds in at 8:56 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cooked some S&B chicken breasts
Rufus_T_Firetween: ot much of a holiday without being with friends and family
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: Hi all
Rufus_T_Firetween: *not
llanwydd: I know how that is, tween
DJTweeny: oops lol
llanwydd: howdy Cat!
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 26, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: I wonder how many folks will show up tonight
DJTweeny: here we go
DJTweeny: few, I suspect
llanwydd: we usually have a good turnout on thanksgiving, dont we?
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'layne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:01 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| layne is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 9:01 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:01 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
llanwydd: I remember phil austin showing up once or twice on t day
Cease: Hi El
Elayne: Happy Thanksgiving, all!
llanwydd: hi Elayne
Cease: I think you're right, llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne
Cease: Happy Thursday, El
Elayne: So remember I mentioned my friend Jill who first got me into Firesign? She hosted a Thanksgiving Zoom call earlier today where other attendes happened to be Firesign fans.
DJTweeny: Yeah was fun when Austin showed up unannounced
Cease: Our Thanksgiving is the 2nd Monday in October
Elayne: So I mentioned this chat to them, and a few might come in to say hi tonight.
DJTweeny: Phil and David don't want to do that
DJTweeny: they want an 'event'
DJTweeny: kewl, E
Cease: They're all over the blogosphere these days, promoting Dope Humour
Elayne: I also promised my godson I'd introduce him proper-like to the Firesigns' work.
Elayne: He's in his mid-20s now, it's about time.
Cease: Good idea, El
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:04 PM and Jill bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Elayne: I mean, after all, if I'm responsible for his spiritual growth...
Cease: Hi Jill
Elayne: Evenin' Jill!
Jill: Greetings!
Elayne: Thanks again for hosting that great Zoom call! you have very cool friends.
Elayne: Guys, Jill is the reason I'm into Firesign. All her fault! :)
Cease: This song was written for a 1947 Fred Astaire flick.
DJTweeny: Hi Jill
||||||||| 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: Good work, Jill
Elayne: Way back in '77 or something like it...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Elayne: The first album I heard was, I believe, How Can You Be.
Elayne: Trying to figure out the best album with which to introduce my godson to the 4or5.
Elayne: Probably Bozos.
Cease: This is from Thanksgiving, 1967
Elayne: Neat, Cat! Appreciate this evening's audio, very a propos to the day.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'RedPillTweeny', just granted probation at 9:09 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: wb RedPill
Elayne: Hang on, why are there three iterations of Tweeny? Am I missing something?
Jill: I first heard the Nick Danger stuff on an old time radio show on a college station in New York in maybe 1969~ish?
Rufus_T_Firetween: RedPill is not me
Elayne: I know he's bendable and integrated, is he also a clone?
Elayne: Clone ME, Dr. Memory!!
Elayne: Ah, thanks Kurt. Hi RedPill!
Elayne: Jill, do you remember the college station?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Elayne: Trying to figure out the best album with which to introduce my godson to the 4or5. << Probably not A Child's Garden Of Grass :P
Elayne: WFMU?
Elayne: No, Kurt, probably not. :) Although... is pot legal in Texas? He's in Austin now.
Cease: Ossman was asked that in a podcast the other day and he said Electrician.
Jill: Maybe WFMU or WKCR
Cease: I would guess Dear Friends.
Cease: Greatest variety
Elayne: Well, it makes asense as Electrician was their first record. I don't necessarily want to bombard Jonny with variety right away.
Jill: Electrician is my least favorite
Cease: Yeah they are rightfully proud of Electrician.
Cease: Do you have a fave, Jill?
Elayne: I remember listening to How Can You Be at your house, Jill, just as the reefer hit me and had an effect for the first time.
Elayne: And I thought "Wow, there's people out there who think like I do!" and the rest is history.
Cease: You've done a lot to contribute to Firesign history, El
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Elayne: Eh, I ran a newsletter for a decade or so. :)
Elayne: By tne way, Jill was an early INSIDE JOKE contributor.
Cease: Dwarf is their most popular. That might be a good intro
Elayne: And you shold all check out her blog: http://bbrebooted.blogspot.com/
Elayne: Cat, I would probably feel most comfortable explaining Dwarf to Jonny.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Deputy Dang inside, makes a note of the time (9:17 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Elayne: Jill writes about 4or5 times better than I do. :)
Cease: I've found it the best one when I turned people on to Firesign for the first time.
Cease: Hi Dang
Elayne: Evenin' Dang!
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Elayne: Cat, is Vancouver in lockdown at the moment? They don't cover Canada that much in US news, it's not like you're right next door or anything.
Cease: That's hard to do, El
Cease: it's getting there, El. Masks are now mandatory, as of yesterday, everywhere
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
llanwydd: I used to loan out 2 Places to my friends
Elayne: See, what's playing now? That's why I tend to lean towards Electrician as a good intro for Jonny.
Rufus_T_Firetween: First time here, Jill? We do this every Thursday
||||||||| 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: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cease: The Firesigns were WAY into "indians" in those days.
Cease: Every Thursday since 1995
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: Oh heck, I'm not even here every Thursday. :) But I do try to make it every Thanksgiving, and the week after 'cause there's around my (and Ossman's) birthday.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Deputy Dang in through the front door at 9:21 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: We have one of those license plates on our car.
Deputy Dang: silly software lol
Deputy Dang: Howdy pardners!
Cease: Yes, Ossman birthday collage will be next week
Elayne: I was in a traffic jam once and the guy behind me actually got out of his car and told me he loved my Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame.:)
Elayne: WE'RE EVERYWHERE...
Cease: He's probably not alone in that, El
llanwydd: welcome, dang!
Deputy Dang: Thanx llanwydd!
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Guess he's not one of the Pills brothers
Elayne: This was a very powerful piece. I love the repetition.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Elayne: I was in a traffic jam once and the guy behind me actually got out of his car and told me he loved my Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame.:) << cool :)
Cease: Austin at his best.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Temporarily Humbolt County pretty much says it all
Elayne: I'd love to send this collage to my godson. He'd definitely be into it.
Cease: PLease do, El.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Rufus_T_Firetween: They're all there...
Cease: Is this collage in the archive, Tween?
Elayne: Thanks Kurt! I'll point Jonny to that.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Any collage we've played on the show is in the archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: just have to do a search for the name
Elayne: Is it taken apart, stacked up, and labeled?
Elayne: Gah, there are so many on that page! Still searching
Elayne: I don't see a search bar.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nothing But Indians is in there
Rufus_T_Firetween: A Shadow Moves is FST
Rufus_T_Firetween: I can't find Soyal Plus
Elayne: Ah, I think I found it. https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/nothing_but_indians.mp3
Rufus_T_Firetween: Send me that if you want it included Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: (Soyal)
Elayne: What are we listening to now? Shadow?
Rufus_T_Firetween: dunno
Elayne: LOL!
Rufus_T_Firetween: let me see if I have the set list
Cease: This was the radio free oz episode from the magic mushroom in 67
Elayne: That's OK, I'm tuckered out and am going to cut out in a few.
Cease: i cut together a bunch of "indian" stuff
Cease: as you can see from above, these are 3 separate collages
Elayne: Even though Robin is far more a Goon Show person than a Firesign person, he still uses phrases like "buckly muskets."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, this has to be Cat's 'Nothing But Indians'
Cease: glad he picked that up
Rufus_T_Firetween: Which is available from his archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's an hour long
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Jill - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Elayne: Well, goodness knows what the attention span of kids today is, but I think this is the one I send to Jonny.
Elayne: Dang, Jill left. Dang, so did Dang.
Cease: Hope she visits again
Cease: Dang is a regular
Elayne: I do too! 40+ years later she remains an inspiration to me.
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
Cease: I ive in his territory.
Cease: live
Cease: his grandson was in the same grade in high school with my daughter
Elayne: Wow, very cool.
Elayne: I'm out for the evening, folks. Next week, when I'll be a year older!!
||||||||| Elayne says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Elayne exits at 9:44 PM.
Cease: Happy Birthday, El.
Rufus_T_Firetween: An early Happy Birthday Elayne
Cease: And happy birthday to you, Pete
Rufus_T_Firetween: she's no fun, she fell right over...
Rufus_T_Firetween: /me has driven through the Hopi and Navajo reservations. Pretty extreme poverty :/
Cease: Bad Covid I hear
Rufus_T_Firetween: wouldn't be surprising
Cease: this show was only one for another 5 weeks after this
Cease: on
Cease: ended in the beginning of jan, 68
Rufus_T_Firetween: Mushroom Plays?
Cease: yes
Cease: they were just talking about radio free oz going to be on the air for years to come.
Cease: it was only a few weeks.
Rufus_T_Firetween: didn't know it was such a short run
Cease: the krla oz was from april 67 to beginning of jan, 68. the mushroom stuff was only in the fall
Cease: i remember them well
Cease: hope they are finally released.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have their new album, so we need to work it into the upcoming shows
Cease: yes
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: will listen to it and take notes soon.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Soyal Plus is one of yours, right?
Cease: yes
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's not in the archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: so make a note if you want it up there
Cease: i think this piece is called soyal plus.
Cease: DO's story about the soyel ceremony plus these poems
Cease: Ossman Collage Graduation is 1:22:14 for next week.
Cease: Maybe I should mix that with some of the Bergman bio stuff as they share a birthday
Rufus_T_Firetween: Can you put in a break around O:55?
Cease: sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: could be a couple of minutes either way for continuity
Rufus_T_Firetween: just to sneak in the station ID
Cease: right
Rufus_T_Firetween: a few minutes even
Rufus_T_Firetween: so you can find a good split point
Cease: I'll redo both the Graduation and Bergman bio for next week.
Rufus_T_Firetween: k
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hopefully by then I'll have Google Gigabit installed
||||||||| "10:29 PM? 10:29 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Merlyn should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Merlyn enters and sits at the bar.
Cease: doesn't seem to be any problem with the broadcast tonight
Cease: Hi Merl
Merlyn: Just in time to be fashionably late
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: doesn't seem to be any problem with the broadcast tonight << Thankfully, but ATT has been incredibly unreliable and incompetent recently
Rufus_T_Firetween: I won't get into all the sordid details
Cease: YOu were there when this was recorded, Merl.
Cease: This is a Fools in Space show
Merlyn: Yeah, the ending music from the show
Rufus_T_Firetween: So Merlyn, how are things in The Great State Of Minnesota?
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: Things are fine, kinda cold
Rufus_T_Firetween: We're supposed to get a cold snap this weekend
Rufus_T_Firetween: into the 50s (which is cold for Austin)
Merlyn: oh snap
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Have almost 1000 miles on my little Wolf 50cc scooter
Rufus_T_Firetween: starting to sound like it's broken in
Cease: I'd forgotten this collage. This is quite good.
Rufus_T_Firetween: have done 50mph a few times, which is fast for a little scooter like that
Rufus_T_Firetween: for getting around town
Cease: good for you, Tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: *good for
Rufus_T_Firetween: hard to beat 90mpg and lots of storage, make a good grocery getter, and fun to boot
Rufus_T_Firetween: *makes
Rufus_T_Firetween: haven't had a car for 10 years
Rufus_T_Firetween: only got a bicycle in 2017
Rufus_T_Firetween: was hoofing it with a field pack or taking the bus before that
Rufus_T_Firetween: used to have a Toronto-made Pontiac 6000STE highway cruiser
Rufus_T_Firetween: one of the cars I miss
||||||||| 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
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign'
Merlyn: thanks(giving) tween
Cease: great collage, Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: gobble gobble Merl :)
Cease: will get to work on new ossman/bergman birthday show for next week
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, Merlyn scurries 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.
Cease: off we go
||||||||| Catherwood says "11:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Cease by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| 11:22 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "4:27 AM and late as usual, it's Clem, just back from Billville."
Clem: Just letting the air out of my shoes
||||||||| 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
Clem
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
Jill
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://bbrebooted.blogspot.com/
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/nothing_but_indians.mp3