Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/24/2020

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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 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for December 24, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 4:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 7:48 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 7:59 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Commando Cody sashays in at 8:34 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| 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)'
DJTweeny: Hey Cody
DJTweeny: music in a few minutes
DJTweeny: Did you lose your Planet Airmen?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – Chicago
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)'
Commando Cody: HEy Tween.
||||||||| Oh come on, call me Eddy. bounds in at 8:42 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Commando Cody: I got that from a recording of Neptune all night.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts DrDream inside, makes a note of the time (8:42 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Commando Cody: I am a big fan though. Saw them along time ago. Saw the Commander here in Tucson many years after that.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have a live recording that's really good
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi DrDream
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Eddy
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'fux0riz0r', just granted probation at 8:46 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi fux0riz0r
fux0riz0r: Hello
fux0riz0r: This polling refresh is kind of annoying. Ya'll want some websockets?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Welcome all to our little soirée
Commando Cody: I'm still trying to figure that one out fux0riz0r
Rufus_T_Firetween: If a guy named Merlyn shows up in the chat, you can suggest it to him
Rufus_T_Firetween: he made it
fux0riz0r: I just did a bunch of websocket stuff for $DAYJOB. Is there code for this anywhere?
Rufus_T_Firetween: no, it's purely custom
Rufus_T_Firetween: You can change the settings by choosing Configure from the pop-up menu
Rufus_T_Firetween: (next to the text box)
fux0riz0r: Cool got it.
||||||||| Commando Cody, spotting Bradshaw, runs into The Sitting Room.
||||||||| 8:55 PM -- Commando Cody enters. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Rufus_T_Firetween: Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_XXV:_The_Christmas_Album
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease inside, makes a note of the time (8:57 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Rufus_T_Firetween: the album this stuff is from ^^
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)'
Commando Cody: Hello Cease.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:59 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule.
Cease: HI new comers.
llanwydd: merry christmas
Cease: Hey llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease is the guy providing the entertainment this evening
Cease: I've recreated part of the 1967 Firesign Christmas Eve show for y'all tonight.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan
Cease: I'm the self-appointed 5th crazy guy.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 24, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| It's 9:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Oh come on, call me Eddy. - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Christy Merrymas to you
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“XMAS 2020”
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: I borrowed a friend's Very Good tape recorder and taped the whole Christmas Eve show in 67
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collages “XMAS 2020 (Parts 1 & 2)” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME
Cease: I'm surpised many more folks weren't taping those great shows at the time.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice Cease
Cease: Tape recorders were fairly common then.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Elmer', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:03 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Rufus_T_Firetween: a Craig tape recorder, perhaps? (they did a commercial)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elmer
llanwydd: hey elmer
Commando Cody: Hi Elmer, umm I mean Nancy.
Cease: No, the top of the line Sony. I bought a much cheaper but still pretty good Sony and recorded all the mushroom shows as well as lots of 68 stuff.
Rufus_T_Firetween: LBJ accent rofl
Cease: Hi Elmer. Escape from Billville?
Cease: their first poiitical target was LBJ
Cease: this is from 53 years ago.
Cease: a different world
Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed, I was in Jr. High School in 1967
Rufus_T_Firetween: very different
Rufus_T_Firetween: When did you move to Canada, Cease?
Cease: 69
Rufus_T_Firetween: so you were eligible for the US War Draft?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Vietnam?
Cease: i left before my 18th birthday.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I was in 1972
Rufus_T_Firetween: smart man
||||||||| 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: But the US considered me a draft dodger anyway.
Rufus_T_Firetween: :/
Cease: i was kicked off a plane from toronto to LA in 1970 because i was persona non grata for draft evasion.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lots of US men of that age went to Canada
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow
Commando Cody: I lucked out. they got rif of it right before it would've been my turn.
Cease: I drove down instead with no problem and never had that problem at an airport thereafter
Commando Cody: *rid
Rufus_T_Firetween: I had a college defermit (sp?)
Rufus_T_Firetween: defferment?
Commando Cody: devarmint?
Elmer: This sure sounds like 1977 to me. The coronation of l'Empereur Bokassa Premier.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Commando Cody: The cat will get it.
Cease: i went to 3 LA universities, then 4 in Canada. Then taught at 2, plus a community college, whichpaid much better than the unversities
Cease: HI Cody.
||||||||| 9:11 PM: Merlyn jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Cease: hey merl.
Cease: do you have this, merl?
Merlyn: nope
Cease: first time?
Merlyn: I think so
Cease: the firesigns 67 xmas show
Commando Cody: Hi Cease. You may know me as General Y2K.
Cease: hi gen. cody
Commando Cody: I couldn't remember who I signed in as last week.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Merlyn
Commando Cody: I've been an infrequent visitor.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:13 PM and Beet bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: hey beet
Beet: Sorry I'm late
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet
Commando Cody: Howdy Beet. Where's Arti?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collages “XMAS 2020 (Parts 1 & 2)” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME
Beet: Hallo Dr tween
Beet: Hi, Commander. Howzit?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
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/
Cease: i'm a productive cat
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Commando Cody: What all did you teach Cease?
llanwydd: I can see for tiles and tiles...groaner
Cease: english as a 2nd language
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Beet: A veritable litter of production.
Commando Cody: For Canadians?
||||||||| 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: well, i dont think my cat would piss on it.
Cease: largely in japan, but also here in Vancouver at our main university and the city college
Cease: we have a lot of non-speakers of english in vancouver.
Commando Cody: Oh cool. My youngest brother ended up doing the same thing in Japan.
Cease: recently?
llanwydd: lol
Commando Cody: He ended up staying over there and got married. Still in the biz.
Elmer: Mingus ah um
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: i was there on and off from 71-88
Cease: long ago now.
Commando Cody: No, it's been a twenty plus years.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: we have a lot of non-speakers of english in vancouver. << Maybe you can teach Manderin to English-speakers?
Cease: have you been there?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ;)
Commando Cody: No, I've not made it over yet.
Cease: Proctor played Benny in my play Neal Amid
llanwydd: oh don
Cease: I met Harry Shearer when I was in LA redcording the Phils for Neal Amid and I told him Proc was going to play Benny.
Commando Cody: I almost got to go over to help with a Formula 1 test at Suzuka but it fell through at the last minute.
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Cease: Shearer said, "I can do a better Benny than Proctor." I told him, no doubt you could, but Id have to PAY you.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sure wish Shearer would get together with the remaining Firesigns on a project
Rufus_T_Firetween: he was so good on How Time Flys
Cease: indeed
Cease: he was interviewed on proctor's new podcast recently.
Cease: i'd really love to hear the show he did with bergman and paul krassner.
Commando Cody: I had no idea Shearer worked with them.
Cease: yep
Commando Cody: I just went off and looked it up.
Cease: a number of times
Rufus_T_Firetween: this one? >> ** THE PROCTOR PODCAST - From the mind, and life, of comedy great Phil Proctor >> http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
Cease: Krassner was a friend.
Commando Cody: I'm starting to feel like a real newbie around you guys.
Rufus_T_Firetween: http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln << you bet, Cody
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Harry Shearer & Penny Nichols"
Commando Cody: Damn my bookmark folder is filling up quickly.
Cease: https://player.fm/series/phil-and-teds-sexy-boomer-show
Rufus_T_Firetween: from the bit "The Years In Your Ears"
Cease: Bergman ended the christmas eve 67 show with this from Lord Buckley
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DrDream - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Commando Cody: I'm starting to feel like a real newbie around you guys. << I've been hosting this show since 2012, and I still feel like a newbie compared to some folks :)
Beet: Every week is a new revelation.
Commando Cody: 2012?!?!? Holy Moly.
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: Firesign has been an immense part of my life.
Rufus_T_Firetween: been a fan since I first was introduced to them around 1972
Beet: This is quite a soliloquey.
Beet: Did I spell that right?
Commando Cody: Same here Rufus. I found them around the same time. I never knew about all the radio stuff.
Commando Cody: Just the vinyl I could buy.
Commando Cody: I gathered that Cease. I'm guessing you might be the elder statesman here.
Cease: possibly
Rufus_T_Firetween: Their new album will be released on vinyl
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ossman even mentioned a 45
Cease: sometimes people show up here from those days, before me.
Beet: Does Merlyn have about the same history?
Cease: i first heard bergman when me moved to KRLA in April, 1967.
Commando Cody: It could've been a homily Beet
Cease: i think so, beet. he's theoreticlaly here.
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Firesign Theatre - Dope Humor of the Seventies (double vinyl) - https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Cease: bergman had been on the radio since summer 66 and a big thing, but i hadnt heard his show.
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll be playing some of it early next year
Cease: orif i had, i had quickly turned it off. not fond of talk radio in general.
Beet: Wow
Commando Cody: Then again it might have been an interior monologue. Where is Catherwood anyway?
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Commando Cody
Cease: astrology even less.
Cease: i thikn this is going to be re-eleased, Phil Austin Old Detective tales
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please give Cody a Wizz
||||||||| Catherwood hands cody a wizz.
Commando Cody: So I came across The Big Broadcast of 1976 a day or so ago.
Beet: Perfect voice for telling stories.
Cease: it is that, beet
Commando Cody: I have no idea how many people were working with them back then.
Cease: alot
Cease: Austin could really write.
||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| fux0riz0r - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: I totally missed Llan
Commando Cody: What? Nobody had COVID?
Merlyn: It's in the list
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Beet: None among us has been afflicted. At least as far as I know.
Merlyn: I think Cody meant deaths from Beat the Reaper
Commando Cody: Good to hear.
Rufus_T_Firetween: fingers crossed
Merlyn: or not...
Beet: Hazardous little contest that is.
Merlyn: If you haven't seen this -- latest political anagrams
Cease: list?
Merlyn: Donald Trump -> Lord Dampnut
Commando Cody: Yes, that is what I was reefering to, but happy to hear nobody has been afflicted.
Merlyn: Mike Pence -> "Pink" Emcee
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Merlyn
Cease: excellent
Merlyn: cat, the list of things you can die of that the reaper uses
Commando Cody: LOL!
Merlyn: "reeferring to", riiiiiight
Rufus_T_Firetween: If you think Biden will be better, you're in for a surprise (Libertarian here)
Cease: someone asked earlier if you went back as far with firesign as i
Merlyn: smoke gets in your eyes
Beet: Plague was the big one. Maybe bigger than a virus.
Cease: is there a place where i can search austin's appearances on chat?
Merlyn: If Biden doesn't try to become a dictator, he's automatically better
Cease: back in 2013 he came on chat asking for ideas for the new firesign radio station.
Merlyn: yes cat, there's a list
Beet: He'll veto a $2000 check.
Merlyn: https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/appearances.php
Commando Cody: I was wondering if any of them ever showed up.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I like that FST is anti-authoritarian (a very libertarian attitude)
Merlyn: Most are Phil Austin, they aren't differentiated
Cease: thanks,merl
Commando Cody: Way cool link Merlyn, thanks.
Cease: this is brand new. ossman's latest stage play.
Beet: That's a cool list. Didn't know it existed.
Merlyn: Special appearances are listed at the top of the chat
Merlyn: of each one, that is
Commando Cody: It is indeed. You saved me a lot of search time half pint.
Cease: ossman posted this on facebook. the whidbey centre for the arts production of A Wodnerful Life,
Merlyn: And names of Phil/Phil/Peter/David are usually in red so you can find them
Merlyn: in the body of the chat
Cease: did you post the url for this, tween?
Cease: https://www.wicaonline.org/events-calendar-view/2019/10/11/its-a-wonderful-life-jbb2e-cag6g-s8wsc
Rufus_T_Firetween: I posted both parts
Rufus_T_Firetween: at your archive
Cease: brand new ossman/walcott production
Rufus_T_Firetween: in the way you wanted
Cease: thakns, tween. thogh it's only good for another week
Cease: a wonderful production.
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: Very nice.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collages “XMAS 2020 (Parts 1 & 2)” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME
Commando Cody: Don't you mean at your cervix Rufus?
Rufus_T_Firetween: These shows are good for 5 weeks at www.kurtericson.com/firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: heheh
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's archive will be available as long as I'm around ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: speaking of which, RIP Bambi for those of you who remember her
Cease: and a lot of them are going into the library of congress, ossman tells me.
Rufus_T_Firetween: she left us on 11/16
Cease: yes, very sad, tween. she was wonderful
Merlyn: Cat, the streaming link may only last a week, but the youtube link should work longer: https://youtu.be/LeC_c-BalAo
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Merlyn: Yeah, I added "RIP" to her name in the Rogue's Gallery...
Cease: wonderful, merl.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Merlyn
Cease: i mean about the longer lived link to this productgion
Cease: merl, you saw several firesign shows at this theatre.
Merlyn: and thanks Tween and Cat
Commando Cody: Can't say that I do. Sorry to hear that though.
Cease: excellent accoustics, eh?
Merlyn: Yeah, the Whidbey shows
Commando Cody: Roque's Gallery?
Merlyn: Fixed the reaper bug just before xmas, because x marks the spot
Merlyn: Past chats have a gallery of regulars at the bottom
Commando Cody: Got it.
Cease: cbc ideas programme had an interview with the drummer on this cut recentlyu.
Cease: said guarldi wanted to create a contribtion to the great american song book.
Cease: he thinks guaraldi with this song.
Beet: Might have to go check out Peanuts again. Been a long time.
Cease: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/jazz-is-just-a-reflection-of-life-the-musical-genius-of-jerry-granelli-1.5847764
Merlyn: see you next week
Cease: i wrote a play about vince guaraldi a coupe of years ago.
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gator
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collages “XMAS 2020 (Parts 1 & 2)” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/CastComplete.mp3
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/
||||||||| Merlyn dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Merlyn?! It's 10:08 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Cease: i'll be doing more peanuts based video in the near future.
Beet: G'Nite Mr Merlyn
Cease: by merl
Cease: small crowd tonight
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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 where I play Firesign Theatre and take your music requests - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, it's Christmas Eve
Rufus_T_Firetween: and it'll probably be the same on NYE
Rufus_T_Firetween: they'll have to listen to the archive
Commando Cody: I need to set a reminder to come check out the Tues. gig Rufus.
Rufus_T_Firetween: please do :)
Commando Cody: Adios Merl.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Beet: I was looking forward to our little get together all day today.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I always start out with some Firesign, and then take requests in chat
Cease: immortality plus a few tracks from the new Dope Humor album and an hour radio show i did from 2013
Cease: also called Dope Humor.
Commando Cody: Sounds good.
Beet: I'm going to have to wind up with the Dope Humor album very soon.
Cease: the most fun i've had for a long time, creating these weekly collages
Commando Cody: So I take it you have been proividing most of this material Cease?
Cease: a lot
Cease: wish other people would
Rufus_T_Firetween: Do you do IRC chat, Commando Cody?
Commando Cody: IRC chat?
Cease: there's vast ammounts of firesign online, plus whatever else you canimagine mixing with it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ok lol
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elmer - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Commando Cody: Well at least I now know what it is. LOL.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Commando Cody, you'll want to use the Mibbit web client here >> http://uddle.com/dishnuts/chat.html
Cease: here's me and austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: just type in a nick and go for it
Cease: 2010
Rufus_T_Firetween: that's what Cat does
Commando Cody: Ok, I certainly have time to learn something new these days.
Rufus_T_Firetween: you don't have to use the nick they give you
Commando Cody: I'll dig into it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope to see you there :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: I just got Google fiber, so my streaming connection is really stable and fast
Beet: Lucky man.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, nearly 1G down and .75G up with a VOIP land line for $80/mo
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin was one of the first cities to get it
Commando Cody: Oh man. I'm doing this on a mobile hotspot. I'm lucky it even works at all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ATT U-Verse was a shiteshow using old copper
Cease: guaraldi sure could play the piano
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: that was the bio of schultz
Rufus_T_Firetween: he could indeed
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10/16/schulz.peanuts/
Cease: that was one of the best pieces of music i've ever heard
Beet: This is my favorite.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm looking into one of these >> https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/prologue/
Rufus_T_Firetween: Will replace the Prophet 5 I lost back in the late 90s
Commando Cody: Definitely a favored artist in my book.
Commando Cody: I should've guessed you were a musciian Rufus.
Commando Cody: I figured that or a techie.
Commando Cody: Or maybe both.
Rufus_T_Firetween: drums and keys since I was a kid
Rufus_T_Firetween: and just enough tech to make it all work
Commando Cody: I played on the linoleum as a kid.
Rufus_T_Firetween: MIDI since 1985
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol CC
Cease: me too, cody
Commando Cody: Actually I can play a the guitar a bit.
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Commando Cody: Until I listen to Kottke or somebody and then I just get depressed and wonder why I bother.
Cease: i took piano lessons for 10 years. i regret not keeping it up.'
Commando Cody: Of course my boy can play just about anything he touches.
Beet: Did a bit of drumming in ancient times.
Commando Cody: Same here Cease. Took lessons for bit as a kid, then dropped it till late high school
Commando Cody: I don't know what got me started agian but when i did I bascially learned to play rythm and got stuck singing because I could remember the words.
Cease: by the time i met my wife in 75, i hadn't played in 6 years, but sat down and played wonderfully for her.
Cease: alss, that was 45 years ago.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice, Cease
Commando Cody: I guess getting sucked into the drama club in high school helped. Learned how to project.
Cease: it was worth all those piano lessons just for that, tween.
Rufus_T_Firetween: :)
Commando Cody: And the rest is history Cease. :)
||||||||| "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: best 45 years of my life
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice work, Cease
Cease: being immersed in firesign all these years also very helpful
Commando Cody: LOL. Good timing on the song.
Cease: trains the brain
Commando Cody: I'm not inferring though.
Rufus_T_Firetween: synchronicity
Rufus_T_Firetween: (great Police album)
Cease: indeed, tween.
Cease: quite fond of the police.
Cease: isnt it strange how they expect charlie to pay for the tree?
Cease: anyone everf noticed that about this show?
Cease: yo dont see the other kids chipping in to pay for the tree
Commando Cody: Never gave it a thought before.
Cease: beet, do remember this one from last year?
||||||||| 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: maybe one needs a certain level of intoxication to bring on that insight
Commando Cody: I mean he always has a nickel for his sessions.
Cease: a nickel is less than the price of a tree by some magnitude, cody
Commando Cody: Given what i see around the local University sometimes, perhaps CB's parents were generous with the allowance money.
Beet: Which one/
Cease: cb's dad, like schultz's was a barber.
Cease: lower middle class.
Beet: Did you play Orson last year?
Cease: this?
Cease: i did a collabe about orson welles long ago
Beet: Yes
Cease: you mean this collage? yes.
Commando Cody: UofA. Or UArizona as they've tried to "brand" it these days.
Cease: thats why i asked if yhou remembered it
Beet: Another great storytelling voice.
Cease: proc has great tales of working with orson.
Rufus_T_Firetween: They must have respected Orson very much, as David named his kid after him
Commando Cody: Haircuts ain't cheap these days.
Cease: yes
Commando Cody: I forgot about CBsa dad being a barber.
Beet: That's an amazing anecdote.
Cease: and his other son named after preston sturgiss
Cease: austin turned me on to him.
Commando Cody: That's an interesting tibit of trivia.
Beet: Wells had the kind of voice that spelled authority. You would easily believe anything he said. Could have been a general or a president or king.
Commando Cody: I just about fell out of my chair a day ago when I found out about Mankiewicz.
Beet: What did you find out?
Cease: this is hilarious
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: firesign had different versino of it on thier fools in space show
DJTweeny: Hope to see you here every week Commando Cody, now that you know about us :)
Cease: really goood jim morrison immitation
Commando Cody: One of his sons is the host of the Turner Classic movies 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'
Commando Cody: That Doors thing was great. As is this bit.
Cease: yes i noticed tha, cody
DJTweeny: Cat makes some great collages :)
Cease: found em both on youtube
Commando Cody: I'm trying to be here regulaar like these days.
Cease: welcome, cody
Commando Cody: I'll hang for a bit longer. Great show Cease.
Beet: I have always loved Stan Freberg.
DJTweeny: very good work, Cat
Beet: This was fun and a fitting commencement to Christmas festivities. Thanks to all prticipants. Loved the collages, Dr Cease. Thanks for leeading us again, Dr Tween. A great Christmas to all. G'Nite.
Cease: ilve the fact that i can create these collages of easily available stuff for futurte fans to discover
Commando Cody: Adios folks. CU next week. I'll keep the moniker consistent from here on.
Commando Cody: See you Tues Rufus.
Cease: always welcome here, cody
Commando Cody: Downloaded mIRC so I'll get it figured out.
DJTweeny: don't have to CC
DJTweeny: just type in a nick on the page
DJTweeny: www.dishnuts.net
DJTweeny: and click on the chat link
Commando Cody: Oh got it. I got off on a tangent looking up IRC stuff whiel we were talking.
DJTweeny: you can use that page to log in to chat
DJTweeny: don't have to download anything
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: bye
||||||||| 11:00 PM -- Cease left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Commando Cody: Later.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Commando Cody: Bye Cease.
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Commando Cody - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Cease
Commando Cody
DJTweeny
Elmer
fux0riz0r
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/appearances.php
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://theproctorpodcast.podbean.com/
http://uddle.com/dishnuts/chat.html
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_XXV:_The_Christmas_Album
https://player.fm/series/phil-and-teds-sexy-boomer-show
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/CastComplete.mp3
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/jazz-is-just-a-reflection-of-life-the-musical-genius-of-jerry-granelli-1.5847764
https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10/16/schulz.peanuts/
https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/prologue/
https://www.wicaonline.org/events-calendar-view/2019/10/11/its-a-wonderful-life-jbb2e-cag6g-s8wsc
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
https://youtu.be/LeC_c-BalAo