||||||||| 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 Wednesday's chat log for December 09, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 5:43 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| 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' ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 6:52 PM and DJTweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| 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 – Steely Dan 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)' ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and Clyve Beatle waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and Cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Beatle Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Cease ||||||||| 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)' Cease: Hi all ||||||||| Beet steals in around 8:59 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident." Beet: Evening. Is anyone out there? I thought I would break the ice and be first tonight. Rufus_T_Firetween: yo Beet Beet: Oh, hi, Dr Cease Clyve Beatle: Hello Dear Friends! Beet: Hey, Dr Tween ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:00 PM and Elayne bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Cease: Hi Beet Elayne: Evenin' all. Can't stay long Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne Elayne: Waiting for DocTech ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! Cease: Hi El Elayne: He and Lili have been through the COVID wringer Beet: Hi, Elayne. Cease: I spoke with him yesterday Beet: Hello Beatle Elayne: Glad to hearit, Cat. Clyve Beatle: I am happy to be here in this atmosphere of righteous indignation! Elayne: Welcome, Clyve! Clyve Beatle: ... it's weird ||||||||| 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!" Rufus_T_Firetween: First time here, Clyve? Beet: It's the Tween! Cease: Ossman told me that my plays and collages are going into the library of Congress and doc wants to remaster the plays Beet: Oh boy Rufus_T_Firetween: very cool, Cease Clyve Beatle: mmm... under this name, yes! pardon me while I leave and come back with slightly different chat settings... (MORE SUGAR!) Beet: I always look forward to these. ||||||||| 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 Clyve Beatle Jr. disembarks at 9:03 PM. Clyve Beatle Jr.: OK I'm on the kid's account now. Rufus_T_Firetween: Oops, this was upposed to go at the top lol Beet: Hi Jumior Rufus_T_Firetween: sorry Cat Rufus_T_Firetween: It's been a long day ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Beet: junior Rufus_T_Firetween: wb Clyve ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, NOW for Cat's collage... ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “KAPUT-ALISM PT-2: POLANYI PT-1” 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/' ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski steps in at 9:10 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Clyve Beatle Jr.: Hey, Happy Hanukkah everyone! Elayne: Hey Johan Elayne: Thanks CB, the same to you! johan amadeus myjetski: Hello ELAYNE! Cease: These collages arfe based on a TV series called Capitalism Beet: Howdy JAM johan amadeus myjetski: Yo beet! ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Cease:https://capitalism.vhx.tv/ Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Johan Clyve Beatle Jr.: I can play "air" inflatable saxophone johan amadeus myjetski: well on my yammakah, it's hannukah johan amadeus myjetski: Hiyas, Rufus! Clyve Beatle Jr.: Have a ladle full of dreidel!!! Cease: and speaking of dreidels... Clyve Beatle Jr.: Johan, MUCH RESPECT for Sym. in C- ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Clyve Beatle Jr.: BOOM! Cease:https://scontent.fyvr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24058765_10159501833375251_8360201938344550131_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=aCCoqGEpShsAX9VXqii&_nc_oc=AQlRMs0dr4MXEZOm9qFgpwmDdVWQd4XgLSD6PiySch1vLNr8zSnE8vp2W2DPrFPqFhw&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr1-1.fna&oh=3c43917f3d1ac5f91e474c463957c31f&oe=5FF49DF2 Clyve Beatle Jr.: (bonks chest with fist) ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'doccovidzoid', just granted probation at 9:13 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Elayne: Tom! So glad you're here!!! johan amadeus myjetski: Thank you, Clyde Beet: hi doc Cease: someone posted this on facebvook recently. one of the funniest things i've ever seen Cease: hi doc Elayne: In every sense of the word. doccovidzoid: Won't be here long, my temp is spiking (it's been doing this periodically since I got home...) Elayne: Oh dear... :( Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Doc, hear you've been 'under the weather' Elayne: Is there any way you can work without commuting? doccovidzoid: (...since I got out of the hospital. normally i sit at around 87.5 to 88.0, it's at 100.3 now ||||||||| llanwydd enters at 9:15 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn. johan amadeus myjetski: LOL, Cease! This is hilarious! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KAPUT-ALISM PART 2” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi llan llanwydd: good evening johan amadeus myjetski: Hi loan! Elayne: Evenin' Llan. doccovidzoid: just took a tylenol, and will be heading back into the bedroom for some rest shortly. Cease: llan Elayne: Tom, did they recommend any other meds? Beet: Hey, Llan doccovidzoid: working from home not an option for an off the books food delivery gig ||||||||| 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." Rufus_T_Firetween: hope it passes soon Doc Clyve Beatle Jr.: retsin is vegetable oil. Elayne: And please please please take care of yourself!!! johan amadeus myjetski: Sorry you're under the weather, Doc! get well soon! llanwydd: a tylenol pm, doc? Clyve Beatle Jr.: Retsina is wine infused with pine resin! Elayne: I hope your COVID after-effects don't drag out!!! llanwydd: somebody gave me one of those before I went onstage once doccovidzoid: they have me on eliquis (to keep blood clots from forming in my lungs, also an alternate to the prilosec i had been taking for acid reflux johan amadeus myjetski: Pine resin is good stuff! Cease: get well soon, doc llanwydd: didnt see PM Clyve Beatle Jr.: Robert hunter says he wrote three great songs in one night under the mild influence of the rather unpalatable retsina... llanwydd: yeah, get well, doc doccovidzoid: that, and my usual hydrochlorothyazide (a.k.a. "the water pill", for blood pressure) Clyve Beatle Jr.: George Brett did well with it, but it's not delicious... Cease: i find it unpalatable too Elayne: Wish I could come up and take care of you and Lili. :( Clyve Beatle Jr.: Oh Doc, heal thyself!!! stay hydrated! llanwydd: have never attempted to palate retsina ||||||||| 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!" Elayne: Now get out of here and go to bed xoxoxo doccovidzoid: in case anyome missed this ... http://doctechnical.com/my-covid-experience.html doccovidzoid: i'm drinking apple juice right now - bought a quart jug early in the day, i've about plowed through it Elayne: Hydration is good Clyve Beatle Jr.: I have not tried retsina. Just found out about it when I read Hunter's admission... https://www.dead.net/features/greatest-stories-ever-told/greatest-stories-ever-told-lay-me-down ||||||||| 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!" doccovidzoid: lili's doing very well (as opposed to the constant phlegm machine) and says to say 'hi' to everyone. Elayne: Hi right back at her!!! llanwydd: hi lili Cease: hi lili Clyve Beatle Jr.: ahem, greetings, lili! johan amadeus myjetski: back in a bit impotent phone call... doccovidzoid: i'll pass along everyone's good fishes ||||||||| 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." Clyve Beatle Jr.: A boston scrod-piece? Elayne: Doc. Go To Bed doccovidzoid: better than boston market Beet: Hello Lili doccovidzoid: yeah, heading there now. hang in there everyone, and stay sage - er, safe. nytol etc ||||||||| "9:23 PM? I'm late!" exclaims doccovidzoid, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden. Elayne: Love you both so much!! Beet: Have a good evening, doc. Clyve Beatle Jr.: Oh Tom, Tom, these balls will be your fortune! Be well!!! Elayne: Well, I was just here for Doc, so I'm leaving as well Next week all. ||||||||| "9:24 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elayne, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the garden. Beet: Nite, Elayne. Cease: by el, doc Cease: bergman used to teach economics at YAle Beet: Anybody else freaking out about the coming economic collapse? Cease: was also in the socialist league there Clyve Beatle Jr.: I was gobsmacked to find out about the Golden Dragon shooting. Cease: read proctor;s book Clyve Beatle Jr.: COMING??? USA has flailed badly, it's true... :-( Beet: Unbelievable that they were caught in that frightening event. ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Cease: proc has had an unblievable life Clyve Beatle Jr.: a stark what? Here's a good Stark cartoon... madison wisconsin independent artist Steve Chappell https://starkplugbook.com Cease: looks like one of the Freak brothers llanwydd: which one? Beet: If it happens that mankind evolves into a more enlightened civilization, they will likely look at our time as the real Dark Ages. Clyve Beatle Jr.: he does have a bit of the Phineas Phreak schnoz... go ahead... squeeze the wheeze! Clyve Beatle Jr.: it only hurts internally! llanwydd: have you been here before, clyve? llanwydd: you dont look familiar llanwydd: not parks, trailer parks llanwydd: industrial parks llanwydd: etc ||||||||| 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 General Dysfunction falls out at 9:37 PM. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi General Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KAPUT-ALISM PART 2” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES llanwydd: ten hut Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Cease: Gen Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber ||||||||| Outside, the 9:38 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving panda coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/ Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi panda ||||||||| 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!" llanwydd: welcome panda General Dysfunction: let's travel into the future...what will we see... Clyve Beatle Jr.: llanwydd: evasive yes answer Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KAPUT-ALISM PART 2” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES llanwydd: lol Cease: panda Clyve Beatle Jr.: Clyve is brand new, that I know of... Beet: Welcome dysfunction. Beet: Hi panda ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: from the DOMM Xtras collection “LET'S EAT PRE-SERIES SHOW” 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?' llanwydd: Cool! Beet: Enjoyed that, Cease. Cease: part 2 bext week llanwydd: that was great cat llanwydd: multiple identity training! General Dysfunction: they're swell people Clyve Beatle Jr.: I just love that little pause on "helping Porcelain... make the bed" - makes it even that much funnier Clyve Beatle Jr.: Chicanx? llanwydd: swahili lessons! lol Clyve Beatle Jr.: Oh yeah, Phil Ossman of the Fireside... Bigtime. General Dysfunction: the bulgarian orchestra! ||||||||| 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!" Clyve Beatle Jr.: oop I am delayed!? Clyve Beatle Jr.: OK, Now I'm Bulgarian... it certainly is very Venetian. General Dysfunction: I believe in Katherine.....he touched me, and I fell down.... Clyve Beatle Jr.: ok I remember that now. ||||||||| 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." Cease: why have i never heard this? llanwydd: that reminds me, I had a substitute teacher for shop class in middle schoo and he had been a missionary in africa and instead of lead a shop class, he gave us a beginners swahili lesson. it was crazy Clyve Beatle Jr.: You were born in America? You were raised in hysteria? General Dysfunction: thank goodness, that Exorcism book comes just in time! llanwydd: niddle shcoll, not shoo llanwydd: whatever Clyve Beatle Jr.: Barbara Anderson, bar bar barbara Anderson? Clyve Beatle Jr.: I just found out the other day that Henry Gross who had that sad song Shannon about the dog, was in Sha Na Na!? llanwydd: I can believe that Clyve Beatle Jr.: Carl Wilson's dog Shannon was the subject!!! General Dysfunction: how far can you throw them? Clyve Beatle Jr.: hey not to drift too far from the shore... y'all know this one? "firesign Receptacle" when Over The Edge Radio did a 5 hour show to celebrate firesign's Immortality? Clyve Beatle Jr.:https://archive.org/details/OTE_19981000_Firesign_Receptacle Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln llanwydd: my computer froze so I had to shut it down for a moment Clyve Beatle Jr.: I see ya llanwydd! welcome "back" Rufus_T_Firetween: Clyve, we do this every week so please make yourself a regular :) Clyve Beatle Jr.: "a swell fella" llanwydd: dont remember that clyve. thanks for the link General Dysfunction: radio prison, connected to the library past-due-books prison Clyve Beatle Jr.: I'll try to come hang out but the thing is that the Fireverse has so many handles... is it a bad thing to log in as people with funny names? I don't wanna lock out Bernard Flapdoodle if he tires to come back!?!? llanwydd: or englebert humperdinck for that matter Beet: Are you a Funny Namer? Cease: not feeling well today so i will retire. last part of the collage next week llanwydd: thank for everything, cat Clyve Beatle Jr.: CEASE- feel better! chat soon under a different name on my part... ||||||||| Cease is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 9:57 PM. Beet: Leaving, Cat? Goodnight if so. Clyve Beatle Jr.: hump or dink.. heh heh huh huh huh... Beet: '71 was a good year. Clyve Beatle Jr.: nifty natty neighborhood... haha. Pomona. HAHAHAHAH! pomona... General Dysfunction: goodnight Cease, yes feel better... Clyve Beatle Jr.: silly walker, funny namer, oh yeah. it comes right back to whatever I say. I spend hours doing that. Hours doing that. Clyve Beatle Jr.: remember "how can you be in the electrician when you aren't a dwarf at all?" ||||||||| 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: ** 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 General Dysfunction: ah..bozos on the bus, all of us, yes Clyve Beatle Jr.: in a spanish suitcase and other old material. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Beet: Let's Eat! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends broadcast collection “NATURAL DISASTER TELETHON” 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?' General Dysfunction: me crying in a mexican cafe Clyve Beatle Jr.: this is super. thanks, very happy to be here. Oh rosemary clooney was unaccountably cool according to nephew george... can't find link at this time... (dead air) Clyve Beatle Jr.: DEAR FRIENDS!!!!! General Dysfunction: it's all under cultivation...you're so bilingual Clyve Beatle Jr.: I feel dim, intangible, formidable and unmoving. General Dysfunction: they were the singers of light Clyve Beatle Jr.: La Brea man... Plow Man... Civilized man... i know those guys llanwydd: I hope cat is not very ill Clyve Beatle Jr.: Civ built the Pee-RAM-ids! llanwydd: he left really quick Clyve Beatle Jr.: I hope cause & tom both are good.... hate to hear about anyone feeling cruddy these days Beet: I hope he recovers quickly. Beet: He has been very generous sharing his vast Firesign library ith us. Great guy. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln General Dysfunction: good thoughts to cat Beet: Absolutely. ||||||||| 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!" 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: ** 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 Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also several unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/ - and Dear Friends of Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/FiresignDearFriends/ 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 General Dysfunction: and THAT for the Coral Sea! llanwydd: got to go take my medicine. watch my stash while I'm gone, would ya? Beet: We'll protect your stuff. General Dysfunction: I hardly trust people who haven't been involved in drugs Beet: How do people live in such places? General Dysfunction: can't go wrong with the kinks Beet: good stuff General Dysfunction: i miss my little briefcase Beet: Somebody stole mine. Beet: How am I going to carry my files now? Beet: Just sayin'. Beet: OK, all of the above is just me lying again, Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Beet: I do that on occasion. General Dysfunction: isn't that just like you..in the nicest way Beet: thank you ||||||||| 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' Rufus_T_Firetween: "I dropped some by a couple of days ago and I still haven't come down." lol Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Beet: Unusual night tonight. We miss you, Cat, Thanks for your collage. Thanks to everyone. Special appreciation to Dr Tween of course. G'Nite all. General Dysfunction: thanks everyone for a pleasurable thursday evening DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:59 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the Aviary. ||||||||| Deputy Dang rushes off, saying "11:03 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" Clyve Beatle Jr.: later, DEAR friends!!!! ||||||||| At 11:03 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Clyve Beatle Jr.!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| RedPillTweeny tiptoes in around 10:49 AM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| residualecho enters at 10:07 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn. residualecho: --ere did everybody go? ||||||||| "Hey Rufus_T_Firetween!" ... Rufus_T_Firetween turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 5:42 PM, I don't have to go yet!"... : test ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 5:43 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." Rufus_T_Firetween: test DJTweeny: test ||||||||| 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' ||||||||| 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 General Y2K falls out at 7:08 PM. Rufus_T_Firetween: hello General General Y2K: Hello. Rufus_T_Firetween: the chat's a bit pooched, but it works General Y2K: I didn't trust the chip in my ass to remind me to be here on time. Rufus_T_Firetween: it didn't clear the activity from last week Rufus_T_Firetween: I've emailed Merlyn Rufus_T_Firetween: streams will be up in about 45 minutes General Y2K: Thanks Rufus. General Y2K: I think I'll go check on the Mr. Coffee for something to drink. Rufus_T_Firetween: hope it's tasty ||||||||| 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 Police Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Cease', just granted probation at 8:51 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Cease Cease: Am I here yet? ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:51 PM and late as usual, it's TomD, just back from Elmertown." Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi TomD Cease: I ilke the Police Cease: Did last week's chat ever get posted, Tween? Cease: I can only access the one from 2 weeks ago Rufus_T_Firetween: I've emailed Merlin ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Rufus_T_Firetween: it didn't refresh after the show Cease: Macron is only 42 years old. Cease: Bit would be 42 now. Cease: I left and never read what happened thereafter Rufus_T_Firetween: Which is why there are so many chatters listed who aren't actually here Rufus_T_Firetween: sorry for your loss, Cat :( Rufus_T_Firetween: It's happened before, it's a glitch in the script, or something that needs to be updated because of something the server people have changed Cease: It's a continuous thing, Tween. But at least Bit lives on in my works Rufus_T_Firetween: no big, Merlyn will fix it General Dysfunction: troubled days Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed Cease Cease: Her voice will be in the Library of Congress for a long time, thanks to Ossman Cease: Love this song. Rufus_T_Firetween: that's very cool Rufus_T_Firetween: good Police music :) Cease: Hi Gen General Dysfunction: joy in that music Cease: or Genrals Cease: Ture, Dys General Dysfunction: Heavy on the dys ||||||||| 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)' General Dysfunction: dancing in my chair Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl :) Beet: Hi Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet Beet: Hello Dr Tween Cease: I have the whole Xmas eve show ready for you , tween. ||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote." Beet: Hi, Dr Cease Cease: It will start out with a re-enactment of the Firesign Magic Mushroom show from 1967] Rufus_T_Firetween: this is Microorganism State Park from Doc's 'Dear Friends Too' Cease: Hey Beet Cease: We're giong with Immortality for New Year's Eve, Tween? Cease: As always? Rufus_T_Firetween: but of course... Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a NYE anthem Rufus_T_Firetween: for 20 years Beet: What was that recipe again? General Dysfunction: a bird without a tree Cease: I'm going through the radio shows I did in 2013 and one is called Dope Humor of the 70s. I think we should play that after Imortality as a kind of ad for their new album Rufus_T_Firetween: I daresay you wouldn't want to repeat it lol Rufus_T_Firetween: sounds good Cease Beet: I need to find a frog and an anthill. Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's got a great Xmas show planned for next week General Dysfunction: hold onto my leg Jimmy. Jimmy! ||||||||| Outside, the 9:06 PM downtown bus from New York pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Rufus_T_Firetween: Yo E Cease: There is a two-parter about animals in the show archives. i think we can use them with the 2-part rat series i'm working on now. Elayne: Evenin' all! Cease: Hi El Elayne: Glad to hear Jazz is doing so well, Cat. General Dysfunction: Hi Elayne Beet: Indians use cow dung for many purposes Rufus_T_Firetween: I assume you're using Xmas In Ratland (DOMM) Cease? Beet: Hi Elayne. Cease: of course Rufus_T_Firetween: to grow mushrooms, Beet? Cease: thank you, el Cease: at is age, well is relative General Dysfunction: mmm....mushrooms.. Beet: They use it as flooring in an open tent. They use the patties for fire fuel Cease: hjis brother Blues stopped eating 2 years ago and we thought we would lose him then,but he rebounded andlived until august, 2019. Cease: Maybe Jazz will be like that. Beet: Many of their medicines have it mixed in too Cease:https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/ Elayne: I seem to remember Blues and Jazz when they were kittens. ||||||||| JohanAmadeusMyjetski sneaks in around 9:11 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident." Beet: My mother was a bozoette Beet: Hey JAM Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Johan ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! *** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out NEXT WORLD at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv' JohanAmadeusMyjetski: that explains a lot, beet... llanwydd: guten abend Cease: Jammie Beet: Thank you. ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Cease: Hewy llan JohanAmadeusMyjetski: hi cease, beet llan et al! Beet: Hi Llan Cease: Vancouver has had a German Xmas market downtown for a few years llanwydd: what music did I miss tonight before the show, tween? residualecho: Bill Stout did so many amazing bootleg album covers, but this one was one of his best llanwydd: thatscool, c Cease: I have loved going there for hot wine, cidre and great grilled cheese and mushroom sandwiches Cease: this year, too dangerous Cease: we;re told not to go outside unless absolutely necessary llanwydd: love this album, tween Cease: i hate going outside anyway JohanAmadeusMyjetski: the year of living dangerously, cease, for sure! Rufus_T_Firetween: llanwydd: what music did I miss tonight before the show, tween? << some music by The Police Cease: from The Police to Police Street Cease: Good work, Tween llanwydd: this was one I always had to look at the album cover art while I listened to it ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Beet: The mark of a good DJ. llanwydd: the police was a pretty good band Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: from The Police to Police Street << that was the idea ;) General Dysfunction: a possible 666 here llanwydd: yeah that is clever, tween. lol Cease: radio is just stringing interesting audio things together. ||||||||| 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 JohanAmadeusMyjetski falls out at 9:17 PM. llanwydd: this was one of the fst albums I took up to the high school to lend to one of my former english teachers who loved fst Cease: My cousin started a radio station in my home town, Yorkton the year before I was born llanwydd: I had first heard fst in his class room llanwydd: Yorkton is way out on the prairie, isnt it? residualecho: When Electrician was hot wax, my seventh grade "social studies" teacher, in his buzz cut, white turtleneck and medallion, made us listen to the entire album. I'm grateful. Beet: What we share with the four guys is that we all grew up in a time when there were whole dramas on the radio that we would listen to. Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkton Cease: Yorkton is far from everything, Hence, my adventures in hitch hiking Cease: Beet, you think we are unique in this? llanwydd: fascinating, r.e. I had a really cool seventh grade social studies teacher as well Cease: I think the new podcast wave is doing what lnog form radio did in the 30sa llanwydd: thanks for the link, cat Beet: Certainly the young people now don't have that experience. Cease: very rich soil in the yorkton area. llanwydd: rich in what? General Dysfunction: I discovered and listened on vinyl in 1973. It helped getting through high school. I have no idea how they get through it now. General Y2K: Can't believe I had to leave for awile. llanwydd: lol Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem Beet: Are there dramas on podcasts? llanwydd: thanks residualecho: I'm teaching a multimedia class, which is mostly intro to adobe suites, but the assignment of making a podcast is an excuse to do a bit of history of old time radio Cease: So you're much younger than us, Gen. Cease: tons and tons and tons, beet. Beet: I had no idea. Cease: My wife listens to Japanese crime drama podcasts all day every dya General Dysfunction: so young I'm ancient Beet: Interesting. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi echo llanwydd: I have studied old time radio and am happy to say that I can remember cbs radio mystery theatre Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln Cease: people liketo plug into stories. llanwydd: I heard the first second and third broadcasts Cease: you've done a fine job on my plays, llan. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 24/7 FIRESIGN THEATRE RADIO STATION!! ** https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/index.php ||||||||| 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." Beet: The Shadow, Johnny Dollar Cease: hopefully you'll do more in my next stuff llanwydd: thanks, cat. I really enoyed it. ||||||||| 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!" Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign General Dysfunction: Love radio mystery theatre, ashamed or not that I still listen to those stories as I drift off to sleep.... Rufus_T_Firetween: /me just got Google Fiber installed to replace his lousy ATT U-Verse service residualecho: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break trivia: ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" residualecho: In the diner scene, the waitress (Jody Gilbert) exclaims: "Baloney Mahoney Malarkey, you...Kabloona!", to which WC Fields responds "I haven't been called that for two days." "Kabloona" is the Inuit (Eskimo) word for "white man." ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! llanwydd: sounds like fun, cat. what are you doing next? Cease: those of us who grew up pre-tvf have an advantage in firesign land Rufus_T_Firetween: almost 1G down and around .75G up, and 1T of cloud storage to boot Cease: working on a play that takes place duirng the egyptian revolution. llanwydd: which one? Rufus_T_Firetween: no more 'my internet isn't working' Cease: 2011 llanwydd: you mean mubarak and all that drama? llanwydd: mubarak vs barak Cease: the arab spring. having recruited richard fish for my previous work, he wants to work with me on this and i hear his voice as trhe perfect voice of the egyptian revoluition news Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease :) Cease: if you're a creative person, you're always creating. ||||||||| 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!" residualecho: It's great to be alive post nineteen niner five. Let's all live long enough for that really big shot! Beet: Arab Spring relied heavily on social media to happen successfully. Cease: he ken Cease: hey residualecho: Especially if administered by our topless nurse Judy Cease: how's it going? residualecho: Hiya Cease! llanwydd: the egyptian revolution seems like a very fertile topic for creative drama Cease: great to see you here again. residualecho: I'm almost done turning in my grades, a boomer's judgment on all his zoomers residualecho: We're close personal friends of a Mubarak nephew who is all American. General Y2K: Hey residualecho, Is that a Morescience High? General Y2K: at Cease: works for me, llan residualecho: We have no classes in our community college Beet: Didn't see you enter echo. Good evening. residualecho: Hiya Mr. Beet! Cease: as i said, i want Fish to be the main voice but I need many more. I can hear Tween's voice as the annoyinmg wairter in the first act. Llan, Ecnho and Beet, I know yhour voices as well. residualecho: We're all remote here for the extent of the current emergency Cease: As a crestor of radio plays, i write with voices i can alredy hear Rufus_T_Firetween: Would love to participate, Cease Cease: creator llanwydd: I really enjoyed doing the russian character and doing that accent Beet: me too. residualecho: Seriously Cease, I should contact my friend Mo, as somebody who knows a bit of Egyptsheen Cease: i hacve so lines for you already written tween Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease: no shit, echo JohanAmadeusMyjetski : i like 'crestor of plays', cease General Y2K: Are you serious Cease? I know you haven't heard my voice yet but I'd like to audition. Cease: a little egypt-sheen Cease: Genn, I do plays. With the guys and without. http://seemreal.com/ llanwydd: Cat, I remember you once said you were writing something about groucho marx I though it might have been a play. did you ever finish that? residualecho: Playing beats working for a living General Y2K: Thanks for link Cease. I'll give it a listen. Cease: Yes, llan. I think you were in it.called CAST llanwydd: just wondered if you had released it in some form and I had missed it. llanwydd: I missed the part about groucho Cease: i had read a new yorker review of a groucho bio and i thought it said groucho was in a benefit for sf earthquake deswtroyed city in sf itself. residualecho: Here on the left coast it's time to consume some animated media in surround with the family Cease: turns out i discover thsat indeed he did a benefit, but innyc Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#PLAYS Cease: are you leaving us alreaday, echo? you just got here. residualecho: Hello, I must be going... llanwydd: I have spent more than a little time in nyc Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com ||||||||| "9:38 PM? I'm late!" exclaims General Dysfunction, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the bushes. Beet: g'nite echo llanwydd: I lived near it for most of my life JohanAmadeusMyjetski : nite, echo! Cease: by gen residualecho: I'm on brief break between semesters, so I'll be able to say hello more often General Y2K: Gnight Echo residualecho: so long until next time, again! Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Around 9:39 PM, residualecho walks off into the sunset... Cease: i hope some of y'all show up for x,as eve show next week. JohanAmadeusMyjetski : same fire time same fire station... Cease: you can hear something have never heard before General Y2K: I'm planning on it. JohanAmadeusMyjetski : I should be here Cease Cease: i wil take you back to baby firesign, 1967 ||||||||| "9:41 PM? 9:41 PM!!" says Catherwood, "not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as not Ed enters and sits on the couch. Cease: hey not. Beet: hey, ed not Ed: I'm not Ed Cease: read below. come here next week and revisit firesign 1967 General Y2K: Hi notEd Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi NotEd Cease: I've been involved with the guys since almost as long as they've been the guys General Y2K: Well that should be interesting. I didn't find them until the 70s General Y2K: Only ever got to see Bergman in person. Cease: What was he doing? Cease: He did a LOT of solo stuff General Y2K: I think it was a one off show with Michelle Shocked called the Shocked and Odd tour. Rufus_T_Firetween: My first FST listening was in 1971 in high school General Y2K: I mentioned it a few weeks ago. General Y2K: They did it up like a USO show. General Y2K: We must be around the same age there Rufus. Rufus_T_Firetween: 66 here General Y2K: You got 3 years on me. General Y2K: I'm not really sure how I came to find out about them. General Y2K: We had some interesting characters in our circle of crazys. Rufus_T_Firetween: brb ||||||||| 9:51 PM -- Rufus_T_Firetween left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). General Y2K: One guy would get films from the library and would dub them ala FST and MST3K before that was a thing. ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (9:51 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Cease: Wow, Gen General Y2K: Did his own film called Barry Lyndon, Barry Lyndon after Mary HArtman, Mary Hartman hit the airwaves. Cease: I thinhk that's they wanted everybody to do. Cease: Mix received with created media. Cease: Great idea,Gen. Is it online? Cease: I remember Mary Shearer Beet: A guy in Colorado introduced me to FST in 1970 Rufus_T_Firetween: as opposed to Harry? Cease: good for you, beet General Y2K: No. I'm not sure I could find it but now that it came up I'll do some digging. I still have contact with one of the crew. Beet: A true revelation. Cease: i barely know where colorado is, but i was in la listening and then working on the radio in the late 60s Rufus_T_Firetween: "I'm just a little fishy..." Cease: whatr firesign was doing was what i wanted to do. now i'm doing it. 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: Good album Cease: in the next few minutes here: ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “KAPUT-ALISM PT-3: POLANYI PT-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/' Cease:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kaput Cease: Your great grandchildren will be able to hear this. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KAPUT-ALISM PART 3” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES General Y2K: Good thing he never picked the red or the blue ones. Rufus_T_Firetween: very cool that the National Archives will be including your collages with the FST material :) Cease: It is indeed, Tween. General Y2K: That is cool indeed. Cease: I was a teacher for a long time. I still am, in a differnt way. Cease: I like learning new things, and passing them on to others. Cease: Firesign is way or archiving and playing with information. Beet: debter's prison Rufus_T_Firetween: The only Japanese I know is from the James Clavell novel Shogun Cease: I spent most of the 70s and 80s in Japan. Rufus_T_Firetween: wakaramasen Nihon Cease: Very differnt now, or so I hear. Rufus_T_Firetween: must have been quite an experience Cease: It was. Cease: I think it;a good idea for one to live in a totally diferent place when one is young General Y2K: My brother lives there now. Married and had kids. Teaches English Cease: The best way to learn that the world has diffrerent ways of doing things Beet: Would love to visit Japan. General Y2K: Same here. Still haven't ever gotten off this continent. General Y2K: Almost got to go Japan once but the trip fell through at the last minute. Beet: There is a show on PBS where this guy rides his bicycle all over Japan. Beautiful and fascinating. Cease: There;s much to see in the world General Y2K: Tennesse Ernie Ford Ranchero Rufus_T_Firetween: I've traveled across Canada and been to the Mexican Yucatan, but that's it General Y2K: I'lll have to look for the PBS show. Cease: Would love to see those Mexicsan pyramids Beet: Me too General Y2K: I used to go to Mexico a lot but haven't in a long time. Cease: My desire to see the Egyptin pyramids has decrewased since seeing a tv show about industrial cat slaughter Beet: Great tune Cease: i was on a radio cruis from san diego to puerto vilarta? General Y2K: Cat Slaughter? Cease: rachel maddow, others Cease: 2018 Cease: 2008 Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: Would love to see those Mexicsan pyramids << We visited the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan. Was amazing Beet: I think the cat worship/slaughter was in the later dynasties. Rufus_T_Firetween: They had an astronomical observatory that produced a calendar that was so accurate that they only needed a 'leap year' every 5000 years General Y2K: I was going to say I thought they were reviered. Cease:https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2008/03/ Rufus_T_Firetween: of course, the Catholics burned all their books Cease: true Rufus_T_Firetween: we can only guess at their culture Cease: if i live until april, i will have lived longer than 3 of my 4 grand parents Cease: so i have to think what can i do, see, experinence while still alive Beet: I wouldn't be surprised that a lot of folks will live into their 90's these days. Cease: My parents did but their brains shut off in their 80s Cease: here's a clip from Scrooge Cease: Best Chrsitmas tihng ever made General Y2K: I'm guessing they never got caught up listening to FST. Beet: Very true. I liked the Disney one with Jim Carrey. Cease: My parents were exposed to Firesign as I listned to them in their house, Did not appeal to them. General Y2K: Well Robert Earl Keen's Christmas with the family is a pretty goood Christmas thing. General Y2K:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiQ89XpyNbtAhXdFzQIHTwTDZQQwqsBMAV6BAgUEAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dp053GxJX5y8&usg=AOvVaw0DB78j3OMxzip6QKb0yZq- Cease: this corner of the infinite void Cease: interesting idea General Y2K: I know how you feel Cease. I couldn't get any of my family old or young hooked. General Y2K: I've always liked Bill Murrays Scrooged. Beet: Occasionally I am shocked when one of my peers suddenly quotes some Firesign. Some around here know of them. General Y2K: I hardly ever find someone these days that has even heard of them. General Y2K: I get interesting reactions to my ramblings though. Cease: You have to be old to know Firesgin, to some exgtent. General Y2K: Spam, Spam, Spam..... Beet: A rich storehouse waiting to be mined by some new explorers. Cease: I have been mining Firesign for a long time Cease: It is a rich mine Beet: There's gold in them thar hills. Cease: What about the 7 cities of gold? Beet: Tucson, Las Vegas. General Y2K: Wait, there's gold here in Tucson? General Y2K: I could use some right now. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/ Beet: This is incredible. Rufus_T_Firetween: Well done, Cease ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Beet: Fantastic. Cease: my latest collage ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “RAINY DAY FIRESIGN” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/' Rufus_T_Firetween: an oldie but goodie from Cease :) ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" Cease: The aim is always ot make fantastic collages, Beet Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “RAINY DAY FIRESIGN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES Beet: Success General Y2K: I'm waiting to see what commercial that song will be used in. General Y2K: I wonder if Dylan has to pay royalties every time he plays his own songs now? Rufus_T_Firetween: General Y2K: I'm waiting to see what commercial that song will be used in. << legal weed brand? Rufus_T_Firetween: good point, General :/ General Y2K: LOL Rufus! I'll let you know if one of the local outlets here uses it. General Y2K: WE finally legalized it here in AZ. Cease: Legal here in Canada Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope TX get's it act together General Y2K: Hey Cease, I hear there is a massive hoard of MAGAs headed toward your border , right now! Beet: Legal in Maryland and D.C. Not far away. Cease: not worried General Y2K: I should've said a line of MAGAs. Cease: canada is tough. General Y2K: leaving rancho malario ||||||||| "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: if you can survive our winters, we can deal with your whiners' Rufus_T_Firetween: They put up a statue to Willie Nelson, but weed is illegal. Somewhat strange... Beet: 100% of the people in my room have tried marijuana. Rufus_T_Firetween: a tad duplicitous Beet: I love this bit. General Y2K: Coo-Roo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo-Coo! Cease: ok, i made a one hour radio show for firesign radio in 2013 Cease: one is called 'ope humour" and it should go with imortality Cease: dope humour General Y2K: Toally loved Red Green and now Letterkenny Cease: proctor always very wise DJTweeny: hope you liked my choice Cease :) Cease: yep DJTweeny: good 'filler' Cease: i dont know how many of these collages i've done and try to know Cease: it is important for me to make new stuff Cease: try not to know. DJTweeny: I think of FST as The Court Jesters Of The United States Cease: they guys sure wish they'd made as much money as cheech and chong Cease: anyone else here? ||||||||| Outside, the 10:52 PM uptown bus from Wyoming pulls away, leaving Ma_Jenkins coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Ma Ma_Jenkins: hi. Cease: HI Ma Rufus_T_Firetween: Show's about over :/ Cease: Get back, Ma Beet: Difference between just being high and inspired higher thought. Ma_Jenkins: Good evening. I've been missing the chat, due to everything else in my life refusing to cooperate with me being online at this hour! Cease: ive been inspired and high for half a century, beet Beet: Hello/goodbye ma. Cease: welcome for a few minutes, ma General Y2K: Hi Ma. Ma_Jenkins: Awwww, thank you, guys! DJTweeny: Hope you can join us earlier next week :) Cease: we love chatters DJTweeny: Cease is putting together a great Xmas show ||||||||| 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' Cease: chatrf while you're here now, ma Ma_Jenkins: 2020, the year so bizarre listening to Firesign injects a little normalcy into life! Cease: indeed, ma Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Ma_Jenkins: byeee! ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Cease: firesign want us to expand our brains to deal with weirdness DJTweeny: indeed Ma Beet: Immensely enjoyable evening. Great collection of amazing Firesign courtesy Dr Cease and thank you. Thanks to everyone here tonight. And of course thanks to our guide Dr Tween. G'Nite all. General Y2K: Thanks all. Definitely enjoyed the time spent here. Cease: we expect you to, General Y2K: What is playing right now? General Y2K: I've never stuck around to the end. DJTweeny: For What This Country Needs Cease: is it the end? i thought it was the beginning DJTweeny: 'Give Up This Day' DJTweeny: *From Cease: how's it going, ma? DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: my 2 hour xmas show next week ||||||||| Cease rushes off, saying "10:59 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" ||||||||| At 11:24 AM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's11:17 PM, 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
Clyve Beatle Jr.
Clyve Beatle
DJTweeny
doccovidzoid
Elayne
General Dysfunction
General Y2K
johan amadeus myjetski
JohanAmadeusMyjetski
JohanAmadeusMyjetski
llanwydd
Ma_Jenkins
not Ed
residualecho
Rufus_T_Firetween
