||||||||| 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 31, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "4:03 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Funfun Town." ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:23 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Hellmouth." ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:26 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" ||||||||| 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)' ||||||||| At 8:32 PM, Deputy Dang hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR! ** Currently playing: warm up music – New Year's Music 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 8:42 PM and Commando Cody waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Commando Cody: Howdy pardners. DJTweeny: Hi Cody ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! Commando Cody: Dang it Rufus, I can't believe I didn't check in on Tues. evening. Commando Cody: Howdy DJTweeny. Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey, no problem, I'll be there next week :) Rufus_T_Firetween: The archives are at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow Commando Cody: I was wrapped up in a tractor repair for part of the day and then ended up having a few to many barley pops. Rufus_T_Firetween: lol @ 'barley pops' Rufus_T_Firetween: You have a farm? Commando Cody: I think I figured out the IRC thing. I did go on the one on the Dishnuts site but nothing was going on when I got there. Rufus_T_Firetween: It's usually quiet except in the evens, when we have live DJs Commando Cody: No, a friend has a backhoe/loader that has wiring trouble. Pack rats. Rufus_T_Firetween: *evenings ||||||||| Sophie Kartouffel enters at 8:47 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn. Commando Cody: I'm gong to put it on the calendar to remind me this time. DJTweeny: Hi Sophie DJTweeny: good deal Cody Commando Cody: Hello Sophie. ||||||||| 8:50 PM: Deputy Dang 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!" Rufus_T_Firetween: wb Dang Sophie Kartouffel: Hello dear friends Commando Cody: I was happy to see a comment by Phil P. on It's just this little Chromium Swith here FB page the other day. 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/ ||||||||| Outside, the 8:56 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Johan Amadeus Myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. DJTweeny: Hi Johan Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Evenin' DJT! ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR ** 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 steps in at 8:58 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: hi cease! Cease: HI chatters Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease Cease: and HIGH is the theme for tonight's show. ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 31, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Johan Amadeus Myjetski: that's not new age ascension talk is it cease? ||||||||| 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: Tonight we're promoting Firesign's new album Dope Humor of the 70s ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! *** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out IMMORTALITY at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv' Cease: I'm Old Age ||||||||| 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!" ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:02 PM and Elayne waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Elayne: Happy New Year, all! Cease: Happy New Year's Eve,El Commando Cody: Howdy Cease, Deputy Dang, Elayne, JA Myjetski Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Elayne Elayne: Trying this on my iPad since I can’t be arsed to go to my desktop in the home office Commando Cody: Not there yet. Commando Cody: 2020 has just kept giving right up to the end. Commando Cody: Tony Rice, Dawn wells and Oscar Koveleski just this week alone. Cease: My aunt died of Covid a few days ago. Rufus_T_Firetween: Condolences to your family Cease Elayne: I’m just grateful for those we didn’t lose, including DocTech and Lili. Commando Cody: Oh Damn Cease. Sorry to hear that. Elayne: So sorry, Cat. Cease: Indeed, El. Cease: She was my last aunt, the last person of that generation. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln Cease: At some point, I think we'll all know someone who has died of Covid. Rufus_T_Firetween: and now there are mutations of the virus :/ Cease: Great to hear Doc and Lili are recovering. Rufus_T_Firetween: 2021 is likely not to be a lot of fun Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed Cease Commando Cody: I fully expect that to be true before this is over. AZ has been rocketing to the top of the charts lately. Elayne: Oh no, CC. Sorry to hear that. Cease: Cal is really bad now. Glad I left in 1969. Rufus_T_Firetween: The ICUs are overflowing in L.A. Cease: Our provincial govt has banned liquor sales and service from 8PM tonight to prevent partying. Commando Cody: Yep. I used to work in a hospital. Kinda glad I'm no longer there. Commando Cody: We're under a mandatory curfew ordinace here in Tucson. Starts at 8 every evening. ||||||||| It's 9:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Sophie Kartouffel - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Rufus_T_Firetween: makes it sort of difficult to go club-hopping ;) Cease: By Dang and Sophie Rufus_T_Firetween: well all the clubs in Austin are closed anyway, so it's a moot point Commando Cody: Woot! I survived again. Rufus_T_Firetween: you beat the reaper! Johan Amadeus Myjetski: sometimes that's as good as it gets these days, CC Cease: Thanks for the card and the letter, El. Commando Cody: I really liked this the first time I heard it. I remember having to do an exhaustive amount of medical equipment testing to see if the Y2K rollover was going to screw things up. Cease: When I first heard this album, I thought, Wow, the lads are doing work now just as good as their original albums. Commando Cody: So true Cease. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I remember even educated professionals asking if I really thought everything would be okay after the rollover Cease: Spend the first half of this year immersed in this album. Elayne: Glad you received them, Cat. Cease: Turning David Ossman's notes from the production of this album into an audio piece starring many chatters Cease: It;s in the archives Tweeny maintains, and the Library of Congress now. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ Cease: MY cousin in LA sent us a musical Christmas card which arrived the same day as your card. She was afriad i wouldn't get here til Feb. Commando Cody: Bear Whiz Beer! It's the water. Cease: Quite a card. 3D scene from a Charlie Brown Xmas and when you push a button, the Guaraldi music starts playing. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: that's why it's ye;;ow... Johan Amadeus Myjetski: yellow Rufus_T_Firetween: nice, Cease ||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 9:24 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident." Cease: The technology of cards has really evolved. Beet: Late again. Cease: You know that Peter Bergman once worked for Hallmark Cards? Rufus_T_Firetween: no doubt Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet Rufus_T_Firetween: I did not, Cease Cease: Along with Harvey Pekar and R.Crumb in Cleavland Beet: Hi, Dr Tween Cease: Beet! Beet: Howdy, Dr Cease ||||||||| 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!" Commando Cody: We have a route 666 here in AZ. Rufus_T_Firetween: Ha! Imagine R. Crumb working for Hallmark lol Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yo, beet! Beet: Hey, brother JAM Cease: Not as strange as Bergman working for Hallmark. Commando Cody: The R. Crumb cards would be something to see. Rufus_T_Firetween: well there is that Commando Cody: I had the Kepp on Truckin poster in my room as a youngin. Commando Cody: *Keep Cease: He talks about it in one of his RFO podcasts. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Mr. Natural Beet: Love Crumb Cease: Was listening to Marc Maron's podcast the othr day. He talks about the great influence Crumb had on him. Commando Cody: Yep. I had no idea when I got it who drew it until years later. Beet: Have you sen any of the videos showing his current lifestyle etc.? Cease: Crumb? Commando Cody: The documantary is rather interseting. Cease: Doesn't he live somewhere in rurual France now? Commando Cody: Current lifestyle? No I haven't seen them. Beet: He lives out in the country in the middle of nowhere. Very quiet. Beet: I do think it is France. Commando Cody: I think you're right. Cease: I've been in rural France. It is nowhere. Commando Cody: If I remember correctly he was moving to France in the documentary. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: but inside, i'm tan & handsome Commando Cody: I'd expect that from you JAM. I never could get the hang of a jetski. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: they're just like snowmobiles but without the snow Commando Cody: Yep, this is so hilarious now that the Bill Gates microchip in your ass via the vaccine has taken hold out there. Commando Cody: Snowmobiles I got. Watercraft I could get. Jetslis and surfboards never took. Cease: I had something to do with this bit. Commando Cody: Two or four wheels are good. Three were another nightmare. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I'm with you on the smurfboards, don't get 'em at all Cease: Proc got the idea for the Joe Camel bit from an Adbusters parody ad called Joe Chemo. Commando Cody: Say what Cease? Which part, the chip in your ass? Cease: I'm one of the founders of Adbusters. Commando Cody: Oh, OK. Joe Cease:http://seemreal.com/aq/index.html Commando Cody:http://www.joechemo.org/about.htm Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln Commando Cody: Yep, filling up my bookmarks again tonight. ||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Elayne - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Commando Cody, spotting Bradshaw, runs into The Sitting Room. ||||||||| Commando Cody walks in and says "It's 9:46 PM, has anybody seen Nancy?" Commando Cody: Ha! The virtual office. DJTweeny: pretty precient, eh? Commando Cody: Who'd a thunk it. Oh wait, these guys did. ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! *** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out DOPE HUMOR at https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl' Beet: cool Johan Amadeus Myjetski: yes, 2020 is/// no more! Commando Cody: It's amazing sometimes what comes around again. ||||||||| Outside, the 9:49 PM downtown bus from Phoenix pulls away, leaving Bunnyboy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Cease: Hey Bunny Beet: hello bunny Bunnyboy : Lo dere! Commando Cody: Howdy Bunny. ||||||||| 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!" DJTweeny: Hey Bunny Cease: Dope Humor starts and Bunny shows up. Coincidence? I dont think so Johan Amadeus Myjetski: my dope of choice these days is "play=cee-beau" Johan Amadeus Myjetski: gets me higher than anything Commando Cody: A Marty Allen reference. Beet: I purcased Dope Humor last week, Good stuff. Bunnyboy : (Sings) Cee-Beau, Cee-Beau!... Bunnyboy : “Ah, Canadian!” Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL, Bunny! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES at >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl Johan Amadeus Myjetski: those communists! Commando Cody: 13 Johan Amadeus Myjetski: commonists Commando Cody: Oh no Reefer Madness! Johan Amadeus Myjetski: memory ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" 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: All this time his real name IS Doctor Uh. ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “DOPE HUMOUR” 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/' Bunnyboy : “Step right up! 108 Earthly Desires! Hurry Hurry Hurrry!...” Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “DOPE HUMOUR” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME Cease: That would be Sapporo beer. Red star on the label. ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: When I first went to Japan, I thought it was communist beer. Cease: Chinese or North Korean Rufus_T_Firetween: heh Cease: They were still performing this bit in their final tour. 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 Cease: Austin really like this. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/ Cease: liked Johan Amadeus Myjetski: call before midnight tonight! Cease: this is from a bootleg album called Firesign World. Cease: Berkely concert, early 70s Cease: I bought it in Tokyo. Rufus_T_Firetween: cool, Cease Bunnyboy : Happy New Year, kids! Peace out! Rufus_T_Firetween: and really cool that they released the new album on vinyl Cease: it is Rufus_T_Firetween: be well Bunny Johan Amadeus Myjetski: hooray, BB! Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Catch you in '21! Cease: By Bunny ||||||||| Bunnyboy rushes off, saying "10:11 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" Commando Cody: By Bunny. Happy New Year. Beet: See ya bunny Beet: We're very close to saying bye bye to the very weird 2020. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: yes beet, the weirdly Uncool 2020! Cease: Indeed Commando Cody: Are you having US Plus eggs on the East COast already? Beet: Not sad to see it go. Cease: We've slipped centuries. We're back in 1920. Commando Cody: I'm ready to see it go. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: No, we have 1:40 to go yet Commando Cody: It's only 8:30 here. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: 10:21 here Johan Amadeus Myjetski: in the eastern time zoned Cease: 7:21 here in Vancouver Beet: Where are you, Commando? Commando Cody: Tucson AZ. Commando Cody: I'm originally from back that way. Grew up in PA. Beet: Nino said North Carolina Commando Cody: I got to Vancouver one time years ago Ceasae. Early nineties. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I'm in NC, in the mountanes Rufus_T_Firetween: I attended a Quaker high school in Bucks County, PA Cease: We moved here permanently in 1988 after short periods here in earlier years Beet: We discussed this before, but I lived in Boone for a long time. ||||||||| 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: Best place we could imagine living. Commando Cody: Made it to NC a few times. Our famil y traveled down there to camp on the beach for a week. Cease: YOu know what a Chinese homer is? Cease: Just barely clears the wall. Commando Cody: Bucks county. I was up in the Northeast part. Wilkes-Barre area. Cease: Firesigns do a riff on it in one of their Hour Hour shows Rufus_T_Firetween: I lived with a friend in Scottsdale for a while, and love the Flagstaff/Sedona area Commando Cody: Holden beach. Rufus_T_Firetween: Have you been to the experimental city in the desert near Prescott called Arcosanti? Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Boone's about an hour away, about 35 miles Commando Cody: Yep, Flagstaff is a nice palce to go in the summer. Rufus_T_Firetween:www.arcosanti.org Commando Cody: I've spent way more timne up in Page than I care to recently. Cease: Isn't it a million degrees there in the summer? Commando Cody: I've never stopped to see Arcosanti. Rufus_T_Firetween: Phil said he and Melinda had visited Arcosanti Commando Cody: Indeed Cease. Rufus_T_Firetween: It's worth dropping in some time you're up that way Beet: Blueridge Parkway. Commando Cody: I have no idea how I came to survive it here in the summer. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I was booked to play an electronic music festival in Arcosanti several years ago, but a scheduling conflict prevented it Cease: Japanese summers were bad enough. Van isn't bad at all. ||||||||| Catherwood leads Merlyn inside, makes a note of the time (10:30 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Cease: And not Canadian cold in the winter. Merlyn: hey ||||||||| 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: Hi Merl DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Beet, the cabin I'm in overlooks a part of the BRP Beet: Howdy Mr Merl. Commando Cody: Well if any of you get back here again, let me know. DJTweeny: cool Johan Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi, M! Commando Cody: Howdy Merlyn. DJTweeny: hope you get to play there Cease: I've been going to Vegas this past decade. That's not exactly next door. DJTweeny: Johan, are you a fan of Tangerine Dream? Commando Cody: My trip to Vancouver was a summer time event Cease. It was great. Cease: We have good summers. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I'd like to see the Vancouver area one day. Cease: Well worth seeing. Beet: You have snow now Cease? Cease: From the top level of our house, I can see the Pacific ocean on one side, and snow-capped mountains on the other side. Commando Cody: I was in a support role for the Indycar race there back in 93-94. I atctullay have an acquiantence up there now. Cease: We had a sprinkling last week. doesn't last a day. Beet: Sounds really nice, Cease. Commando Cody: Indeed JAM. You should go. Cease: Winter is mostly rain. Cease: Tis, Beet. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A temperate rainforest, isn't it cease? Cease: yep Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Some of the mountaintops around here (5k - 6k feet) resemble temperate rainforests, but aren't mactually Johan Amadeus Myjetski: actually Commando Cody: I remember the bay. Reminded me of the movie Sometiomes a Great Notion with the logs that had been floated down there.. Commando Cody: I wish I could have spent more time there exploring. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “DOPE HUMOUR” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FREE_TIME Commando Cody: Hasn't the city gotten way bigger now. I rember there was a lot of new building going on at the time. Rufus_T_Firetween: Sounds nice Johan Commando Cody: Influx of a lot of money from Hong Cong as I remember. Johan Amadeus Myjetski: technically they're Carolinian meadows, which you find all the way up the Appalachians into Canada Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Pockets that weren't scraped by the glaciers of the last ice age Cease:https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=pictures+of+vancouver&atb=v174-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fconversionsciences.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F02%2Fvancouver-2.jpg Commando Cody: Thanks Cease. Still looks good with that kind of backdrop. Cease: You've gotta live somewhere. Might as well live someplace beautiful. Beet: Those pictures are amazing. Commando Cody: Tucson has changed so much since I got here. Not nearly as bad as Phoenix yet so there is that. Cease: I had a couple of uncles who wintered in Arizona. Don't recall where but may have been Tucson. This would be 50s-mid 90s Commando Cody: I got here in '79 Cease: I went to the grand canyon with my family in 68. my only experiene of arizona Commando Cody: Thought I would be here about two years or so and then planned on going to the Northwest. Hmm, wonder where the time went. Rufus_T_Firetween: Great bit Cat, thanks Rufus_T_Firetween: The Grand Canyon area is awesome Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A great collage, Cat! Thanks! Rufus_T_Firetween: One of the reasons I love North AZ Beet: My oldest brother is in Scottsdale. Commando Cody: Did you ever make it to the North Rim Rufus? Rufus_T_Firetween: LSD wasn't illegal for a quite a while Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Gotta go a bit early tonight - nite all! '21's going to be difficult but getting better all the time! Rufus_T_Firetween: Very likely, Cody Cease: Have a wonderful new year, jammy Commando Cody: See ya JAM. Beet: See you in 2021 JAM Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Love love love to all! Rufus_T_Firetween: it was the 60s, and we took an airplane tour Commando Cody: See you at the future fair. Beet: already in progress Commando Cody: Oh Ok. Probably out of the Page airport. Rufus_T_Firetween: camped on the park grounds as I recall Commando Cody: Where what's his name did his balloon trick. ||||||||| 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: Steve Martin? Commando Cody: I asked because most people go to the South Rim to see it. The North Rim is only accesible in the summer time but it's worht the trip at that time. not nearly as crowded. Rufus_T_Firetween: They had mule trips into the canyon, but we didn't do that Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Merlyn: thanks again tween Beet: I would like to say a sincere thanks to everyone involved with this chat for making this last year much better than it could have been. I treasure these Thursday evenings. Cease's spectacular collages make an incrdibly huge difference for all of us. Of course nothing would be possible without our host par excellance Dr Tween. Looking forward to a great 2021. Happy New Year everyone. G'Nite. Cease: I did a series of these shows based on the bozo and his rocket ship records of my distant childhood Commando Cody: Thanks again Tween. and you to Cat. that was a good one. Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Beet :) ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Commando Cody: Happy New Year everybody. Cu next week. Cease: Next year will be great! ||||||||| At 11:00 PM, Cease runs 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. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| At 11:00 PM, Merlyn vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| Commando Cody says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Commando Cody exits at 11:00 PM. ||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters with RedPillTweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 12:36 AM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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
Bunnyboy
Cease
Commando Cody
DJTweeny
Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween
Sophie Kartouffel
