A Firesign Chat
03/04/2021




Archive

||||||||| 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 March 04, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Rufus_T_Firetween', just granted probation at 2:21 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
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||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
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||||||||| It's 4:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 7:50 PM, then departs.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "7:54 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Billville."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – John Hiatt
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| johan amaderus myjetski waltzes in at 8:46 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Johan
||||||||| At 8:48 PM, johan amaderus myjetski vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'johan amadeus myjetski', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:48 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease inside, makes a note of the time (8:49 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Welcome back Johan
DJTweeny: allo Cease
johan amadeus myjetski: hiya, Cease!
johan amadeus myjetski: evenin' DJT!
Cease: HOw abput Day or Night by Little Feat
Cease: hey jammy
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is all pre-programmed Cease. I take requests on Tuesday :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Good tune suggestion though
Rufus_T_Firetween: big fan of Little Feat here
Cease: i know tween. i just got it from youtube and listening to it now
Cease: thanks for the chick corea
Cease: i spent the afternoon immersed in vinyl mostly
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Cease: sounds so much better than streaming
Cease: i have a very good stero system and lots of old albums. i was after all, a dj, long ago
Cease: the collages i produce for here are just like the radio shows i admired long, long ago
Rufus_T_Firetween: what cart do you use in your turntable?
Cease: cart?
Rufus_T_Firetween: cartridge
Rufus_T_Firetween: the thing with the needle
Cease: hmm, 'd have to check. and that requires more effort than i am currently capable of
Rufus_T_Firetween: np lol, just curious
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WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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||||||||| Outside, the 8:59 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: I've been binging Dr Hook.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Pardners! Welcome back, friend and foe alike!
Cease: hey dang. just listened to cover the rolling stone this aft
Deputy Dang: Is Cat here
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet inside, makes a note of the time (8:59 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Greetings fellow chatters.
Cease: i'm cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: Why, yes he is...
Cease: hey beet. how's it beeting?
Deputy Dang: Excellent, such a forward thinking song.
||||||||| "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!"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 04, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi beet, dePuty Dawg
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease
Deputy Dang: Yes, I know--I;m just not reading left to right, top to bottom.
Beet: Howdy Dr Tween
||||||||| "9:00 PM? 9:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits on the divan.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi llan
Beet: Hi brother JAM
johan amadeus myjetski: evenin' alan!
Cease: cease is an abreviation of c. simril. when i was a teacher i was assigned that monniker. cease is an abrev of that
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: hey llany
Beet: Hi Deputy
Deputy Dang: Dang Dawg.... hmm... never made that obvious conection... I'll have to use it somehow in the world of the future.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Commando Cody close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:01 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
llanwydd: howdy folks
Beet: Hey, Llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy Beet
Deputy Dang: Sorry about my typing--it's in the dark.
Commando Cody: Hi everybody.
Deputy Dang: I do my best work ing ht edark, and the fingering is the best part,.
Cease: hey cody
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Cody
Beet: Yo Commando
llanwydd: was it the students or faculty who called you that, cat?
||||||||| Merlyn steps in at 9:02 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: just curious
Rufus_T_Firetween: yo Merlyn
llanwydd: ey Merl!
Cease: the bureaucracy
Beet: It's Merlyn. Howdy
Cease: hey merl
llanwydd: lol
Cease: students loved to call me CAT. bosses just hated that.
Commando Cody: Hello Merl
Merlyn: howdy howdy howdy (viz the Far Side)
Cease: yet the /a/ in CAT was very useful as a teaching device, as it is not comon in other languages
Deputy Dang: Cat, you have my empathy--just imagine trying to get folks to address you as Dang!
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi & Howdy Merl!
llanwydd: aha
Deputy Dang: (I even have it on credit cards!)
Cease: hey merly, you know anything about the the new mushroom shows going online
llanwydd: very interesting story, cat
Commando Cody: OK, well imagine a former co-worker who officially changed his name to Philip Spacemuseum MacDuff.
Rufus_T_Firetween: hahaha
llanwydd: lol cc
llanwydd: I love give us a break
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“THE 6TH ALBUM”
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/
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Beet: Interesting
Deputy Dang: Mushroom? Did someone say mushroom?
Commando Cody: Interesting indeed.
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi CC
DJTweeny: Give Us A Break is a lot of fun
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Merlyn: Don't know about the magic mushroom shows, have you asked Taylor?
Deputy Dang: I encourage y'all to look into private mycology education.
Deputy Dang: Or contact me locally for educational links (nothing illegal, I assure you).
Commando Cody: Hey there JAMJS! LOL!
Commando Cody: Hey Dang do you actually go out shroom hunting?
DJTweeny: Cat is channel switching :)
johan amadeus myjetski: high sea, see?
Commando Cody: HiC?
||||||||| 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!"
Deputy Dang: @Cody... sadly, I live too far south for that to be productive.
Beet: Entire economy run with cards
Commando Cody: That's too bad Dang.
Cease: dang, not sure what that means. one can be productive anywhere now.
Commando Cody: I could possibly find some up on our mountain but have never had the time to find somebody to learn what to pick.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 6TH ALBUM” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
Cease: as you heard at the beginning of this, ossman asked me to put the 3 albums together. i did that. but it's like shuffling cards, anyone can shuffle them differently
Deputy Dang: Oh, I can be productive--I just can't be productive my going out shroom hunting. I have to be proactive, which involves less hunting.
||||||||| 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 enters at 9:12 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Beet: Hi Elayne.
Deputy Dang: Okay, I can't talk/type shrooms and listen to the program. Sorry--not enough active brain cells.
Deputy Dang: wb Elayne
Elayne: Evenin' all
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: I'm with you, Dang. Operating in radio silence this evening.
Merlyn: Hi E
Commando Cody: BTW, I finally realized I live in one of the seven cities of gold.
Elayne: Phoenix? Las Vegas?
Commando Cody: Tucson
Cease: Hey El
Elayne: Ah, well, there ou are.
Commando Cody: Hi Elayne.
Cease: I'm writing a new play mixing Vegas and Egypt. Wanna be in it?
Commando Cody: No problem Dang.
Elayne: Sure Cat.
Elayne: I guess we can record something on the iPhone
||||||||| Catherwood ushers doctecazoid inside, makes a note of the time (9:14 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
llanwydd: swdefrgthyu
Elayne: DocTech! How are you feeling? How's Lili
doctecazoid: nvboesnhiof
Beet: Hey, Doc
llanwydd: Hi doc
||||||||| "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!"
DJTweeny: Hey Doc
Cease: Llan and Tween are going to be part of thge restauranrt scedne in act one.
DJTweeny: gesundheit Doc
Cease: I can use you in further acts, not yet written
Cease: Hey Doc
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: Sounds about right for me, Cat. Acts not yet written. Like my life.
Commando Cody: Hello Doc
doctecazoid: my iron lung is working again
Cease: I love your voice, El, and it inspires me to create dialogue for you
doctecazoid: there seems to be an issue with the Firesign site - I think the radio is broken
DJTweeny: Good to hear you're doing OK Doc
Elayne: Thanks Cat, that's very sweet.
Cease: not being dead is a good idea, doc
Elayne: DocTech, I'm sure you can figure it out, once you're 100% again.
Elayne: What's your current prognosis? Or careful prosthesis?
Cease: well i only have so many breaths left. might as well use them for the most creative things i can do
Elayne: That's not the way to look at it, Cat. You have SO MANY breaths left! So MANY!!!
Rufus_T_Firetween: great attitude Cease
Cease: my closest friend went to bed 2 years ago and didn't wake up, so i have to imagine that can happen to me
doctecazoid: i'm pretty sure i'm still here
Elayne: Going in one's sleep seems a fairly nice way to go
Commando Cody: I always liked Carl Reiner's line.
Cease: god for you, doc. who would produce my new play if not you?
Elayne: I hope so, DocTech. We need to make plans for NJ and NY legalization.
Beet: I've heard it is the best way to go.
doctecazoid: lili's doing fine as well - napping on the couch right now
Cease: can you go into nyc and record elayne if i write some great dialogue for her?
Elayne: Give her my love, Tom.
Elayne: NO Cat, there's a pandemic and Doc hasn't had his shots yet, and he's still feeling the post-COVID effects. Not a good idea.
||||||||| 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: "I get up and the first thing I do is check the obituraries and if I'm not listed I have breakfast."
Cease: oh no
Elayne: I told you, we can record it on an iPhone.
doctecazoid: ordinarily i bring home a swell pizza for the two of us which we immediately sit down to eat, and when we're done we sink into the couch
Elayne: Sounds like a good way to live for the moment, Doc.
doctecazoid: tonight she said she's cooking... not sure if i should wake her up right now
Cease: i mean in this year. let's find out how this vaccinartion thing goes
Beet: lol Commando
Cease: i'm still thinking in pre-covid realities
llanwydd: wish I could have a swell pizza without swelling
Elayne: Exactly so Cat. We get shot #2 on St. Patrick's Day at Yankee Stadium, then across the street to Mickey D's for a shamrock shake or two.
doctecazoid: my breathing is near normal, vitals all looking normal
Elayne: Oh, that's wonderful news, Doc. But you must still take it easy. These things tend to relapse over and over from what I hear.
doctecazoid: i will be going in for an mri to check my lungs for long term damage
Commando Cody: Is that pizza form Nick's Armenian gardens?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Texas has removed State level COVID restrictions
||||||||| 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."
llanwydd: never had armenian pizza
doctecazoid: occasionally if i take a deep breath i can still feel a bit of residual tightness, otherwise breathing is normal
Elayne: Any plans yet for you and Lili to get the vaccine?
Beet: Best of luck, Doc.
Rufus_T_Firetween: it's up to individual businesses/municipalities/counties to decide what they want to do
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Rufus_T_Firetween: Gold's Gym has announced that they will have 100% capacity and no mask required
doctecazoid: lili got her 1st shot last week, it knocked her for a loop. i have to wait since late feb i got a pneumonia shot and was told to wait 2-4 weeks before signing up for the COVID magic
llanwydd: yeah, get well,doc
Elayne: That's nuts, Kurt. Are you in TX?
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's will be an interesting test
Cease: glad to hear you can breathe, doc
Elayne: Thanks Doc. I assume it was Moderna? We got Pfizer, almost no side effects.
Beet: West Virginia seems to be the capital of flowing vaccines.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin, the capital yeah Elayne
doctecazoid: tx lland. thankfully i'm feeling pretty much back to normal - knock formica
Cease: not breathing is a better firesign line than a reality
Elayne: Oh Kurt, my heart goes out to you with that asshole of a gov
Rufus_T_Firetween: but I've been very careful
doctecazoid: yeah i think lili got moderna
Rufus_T_Firetween: Mississippi has also lifted restrictions
Elayne: Doc, get Pfizer if you possibly can. Maybe even the J&J, that's one shot and can boost the antibodies you already have.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I think they're just trying to get everybody back to work
doctecazoid: i'm thinking of waiting for the j&j stuff - having had COVID i have some antibody protection, and from what i read, the j&j stuff is really effective as far as severe cases go
Elayne: Glad to hear it, Tween.
Elayne: I think that's a good plan, Doc.
Commando Cody: I'm sure our tRump ass kissing Gov. will follow suit here soon.
doctecazoid: where there's smoke - there's work!
Elayne: LOL, Doc! Keeping track of NJ
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Doc
Cease: as our old friend
Cease: Dex would day, where there's smoke, theres happiness
Elayne: For some reason, all shops in NJ are medical pot only at the moment. https://smokeshops.com/cannabis-shops/us/nj/
Commando Cody: good one Doc.
doctecazoid: been enjoying gummies lately, thoughtfully provided to us by lili's sister who lives in oklahoma (a green state, dispensaries side by side with package stores and smoke-easys)
||||||||| 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!"
Commando Cody: We finally went recreational here in AZ surpisingly.
llanwydd: we have mmj in florida but you have to have a VERY debilitating condition
Elayne: I suspct that's what'll happen in NJ, the dispensaries will go from medical-only to medical and recreational.
Commando Cody: Good luck there Elayne.
Elayne: Our beleaguered gov is hoping NY will pass legalization next month.
Cease: i have to drive way into town, like an hour away, to get anythihng.
Elayne: Just our luck it'll make him hornier.
doctecazoid: the thing that's been hardest to deal with is catching up with everything after being out of commission for two months
Commando Cody: That would definitely help you r cause there Elayne.
Elayne: Take your time, Doc. Time is all we have now, it's not like we're up and doing things except for idiots in TX.
||||||||| 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."
Commando Cody: Cease, can you grow your own up there?
doctecazoid: nov-dec 2020 were brutal months, jan 2021 saw improvements but still not 100%, feb more improvements - it was mid feb when i really felt like i could breathe freely again
Elayne: I'm starting to emerge with the season. Next Tuesday a new primary care person, recommendations for specialists in my area (why bother going into Manhattan any more when I no longer work there?), etc.
Elayne: Then I start booking specialist appointments probably during our summer week off, beginning of July.
Cease: it can be done, but too much of a bother for me
Commando Cody: Doc, we're glad you made it out to the other side.
Cease: hey El. I hope we can meet again.
Elayne: But definitely visiting mom sometime before the month is over, even if we have to wear masks because she hasn't been vaccinated yet.
Commando Cody: In high school in NE Pa i had a buddy who grew it it in his bedroom.
doctecazoid: supposedly i can drive to MA, walk into a dispensary there and get whatever they have
Elayne: I do as well, Cat. But it may be awhile before we go on a plane again.
doctecazoid: haven't tried it yet, may give that a shot once enough people have had their shots.
Elayne: I was thinking much the same Doc, once we're traveling again.
Elayne: In November 2019 we visited the Norman Rockwell Museum. It was great, wouldn't mind going back again. There's a dispensary not too far from there.
Cease: the problem with this sudden imposibiltiy of travel, is that i'm getting so old and decrepit that voyages i've long wished to make are dissaring
Elayne: But they do card you.
Commando Cody: He started rolling his own cigs and started blending it. Never got caught.
Elayne: Nice talent there, Cody. I can't grow anything, every plant I've ever had dies.
doctecazoid: speaking of normal rockwell, saw this on twitter today - https://twitter.com/MOWNeverSleeps/status/1367635018634395655
Cease: speaking of rockwell, boy scouts of america paid off its sexuial crime fines by selling all its norman rockwells, today's news
Cease: dissappearing
doctecazoid: the guy is gonna run out of room if these dates keep getting missed
Commando Cody: I can't say I'm a geen thumb Elayne but occasionally I manage it.
Beet: I hava similarly a brown thumb
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 6TH ALBUM” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
Elayne: Wow, well done, Doc They remind me of the end times folks who are always predicting the date the world will end, and revising, and revising...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Commando Cody: True Dat Cease.
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/
doctecazoid: exactly e
Commando Cody: Heard they were going to offload the collection.
johan amadeus myjetski: i also cannot from plants of anything. except trees. i can grow trees just fine.
Elayne: It's 9:30 Doc, time to wake Lili??
doctecazoid: cody: yeah, i read something about that as well
Commando Cody: That happens to me sometimes as well Beet. LOL!
doctecazoid: e: i was just thinking i should step away, let lili know i'm home and make an appropriately chilled beverage
doctecazoid: if you
doctecazoid: if you're not here when i get back - toodles!
Elayne: Same to you! I'm cutting out now as well. Next week all!
||||||||| Around 9:35 PM, Elayne walks off into the sunset...
Commando Cody: It's too bad the Scouts let that get out of hand. Of course it seem to go with religiuosly minded organizations.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: doc tech produced my play Red Shif starring Phil Austin as the dalai lama reincarnated as a martian microbe.
doctecazoid: ttfn ttyl :-D
Cease: elayne and her husband also in that
Commando Cody: By Elayne, Doc.
Beet: See you guys later
llanwydd: nite beet
johan amadeus myjetski: s'long beet!
Beet: I'm not leaving. I was saying 'bye to doc and Elayne.
Cease: by beete
Commando Cody: LOL! I love when that happens.
llanwydd: oh..lol
Cease: oh, well un-by
Beet: Hello again
johan amadeus myjetski: i like the Cease! un-bye!
Cease: i heard this show on acid back in 75
Cease: i had the measles so couldnt go to work
Commando Cody: I bet that has to be an experience. FT on acid.
llanwydd: did you have trouble getting stuff like that in japan, cat
Commando Cody: I can't imagine how Wolfe woud have gotten that in the book.
doctecazoid: back
Cease: this is very psychedelic
Beet: Nice creative assembling of the parts of these albums, Cease. Very cool.
Commando Cody: I missed out. Never got the opportunity to try it.
Cease: yes beet. i'm good at this
doctecazoid: cat is there a folder in your aws where you keep your city photos - the ones with all the reflections?
Cease: when david ossman asks you to do something, you fucking do it.
Beet: lol
Cease: no doc. i have a flickr account, that's it
Cease: that's a good idea, but such a collection would be expensive, eh?
doctecazoid: email me the link to your flickr acct when you get the chance thanks
Commando Cody: LOL! Good thing he doesn't ask me. We wouldn;t have all this wonderful stuff to listen to .
doctecazoid: and no, storing your pix on aws would only add a fraction to the expense
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: will do doc. i want to upload the voices i've recorded of the grandkids on to that site as well as young bit;s vuoice
Cease: want to have llan talking to bit in the piece
doctecazoid: tx cat
Cease: he'll be alain ducasse and bit will be bit.
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Cease: i was working seriously on the dialogue since llan asked about his part but the Jazz died and it difficult to be optimistically creative
Cease: then
Beet: If there is a need you could audition me doing different voices.
Cease: https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/
Cease: Wonderful, Beet
doctecazoid: cody: re ft on acid: i can tell you from personal experience that listening to ft is intense enough, it cuts through the hallucinogens
Cease: what a piece of ass fault
doctecazoid: ft on acid is still ft, if you catch my meaning...
Cease: doc, i think everyone has different experiences.
Cease: i get your drift.
Commando Cody: Got it Doc.
Commando Cody: It's one of the few that I thought I would like.
doctecazoid: cat: you're probably right. definitely a 'your mileage may vary' situation.
Cease: i've hasd nothing but wonderful stoned firesign experiences.
Cease: i think it has helped expand my brain
Commando Cody: I'm pot and alchohol have been my drugs of choice.
Cease: mission accomplished is what they sought, expand our minds
Cease: my too cody
||||||||| "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!"
DJTweeny is all folded up
doctecazoid: in my case it was dctd, which i'd already ingested many times by then
llanwydd: I listened to ft on acid once or twice back in the 70s. didnt give me any revelations.
doctecazoid: cody: yeah that pretty much tracks with where i'm at these days
DJTweeny: The first time I heard Yes's Close To The Edge was with headphones on acid. It was a revelation
llanwydd: I can imagine that, tween
Beet: Sounds like fun.
Commando Cody: I think I had to much biology and physiology education early enough in life to know better that to get into all of the other possibilities of altitiude adjustment.
doctecazoid: tween: i can well imagine - close to the edge is a tour de force
llanwydd: my second favorite album from my very favorite band
llanwydd: I like The Yes Album better
Cease: i think my best experiecne with psycedelics was lislening to quicksilve messenger srevice, swho do you love, headpghones, maybe 69?
doctecazoid: lland: what's number one?
doctecazoid: fragile?
Cease: dont know what drug i was given but it was really good
Commando Cody: I think my favorite experiance still to this day was just after getting high for the first or second time was sitting in a car in the school parking lot at night with snow falling listening to Pink FLoyd..
llanwydd: was it animals cc?
||||||||| 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!"
doctecazoid: whick one is pink, anyway?
Commando Cody: Dark Side of the Moon that time.
Cease: the few times i took acid, i mostly grooved on music
Beet: Nice
Beet: Dark Side was a revelation
Commando Cody: LO
Commando Cody: L Doc.
Cease: went to see charles lloyd at the troubador in spring 73 on acid. that was a trip
llanwydd: not familiar with charles lloyd
doctecazoid: dsotm - another tour de force - above and beyond the music itself, the production work on that album is above stellar
Commando Cody: Charles Lloyd was interesting for sure.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
doctecazoid: anybody here into raymond scott?
Beet: These are great.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ***
Currently playing: Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out TRUE CONFESSIONS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
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Cease: spent som time bathing in Lloyd's Forest Flower this afternoon
Cease: Love jarrett
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
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
Cease: the vinyl audio pleasure is vast
Commando Cody: I don't have much of his recorded material.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
doctecazoid: cody: not much exists, sadly
Cease: saw jarrett a few times.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-ln
Cease: if you don't mind the grossness
Commando Cody: It was amazing how manyu people would just hand me their vinyl collections when CDs became big.
Cease: sat a few inches from him at jazz club one. he was so sweatty, his sweat off hid body into the rum an coke i was drinkig
doctecazoid: keith is amazing - the electric piano solo he does on the miles davis 'live evil' album blows me away every time i hear it
doctecazoid: hot jazz i guess eh?
Cease: live evil pianno thing is one of the best things i've ever heard
Cease: spent all afternon listeing to great piano mostly on vinyl
doctecazoid: how he managed to work magic around that one bum key - amazeballs!
Cease: Wasn't chick corea part of that?
Commando Cody: Hey Rufus, you might have to play some next Tues.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Always taking requests on Tuesdays Cody :)
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
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Commando Cody: Anthrax, Anthracite. Same thing.
Commando Cody: LOL!
Commando Cody: Glad you picked up your promo cue there Rufus.
doctecazoid: i spent the last week and a half getting my pc data backed up & re-org'd - three 1TB drives,
doctecazoid: it was brutal but i had been putting it off, needed to get done.
Commando Cody: 3 TBs odf stuff? My head just exploded.
Cease: Great to hear you are being productive and not ill, Doc
doctecazoid: as i said before - been playing catch up since getting my sea legs back
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat and Cody are regular visitors and requestors on my show :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: a long road back Doc, I'm sure
Commando Cody: I can't manage top organize 500G.
||||||||| 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!"
doctecazoid: tween: gettting there one gigabyte at a atime
Cease: Bergman was wondefully eloquent
Beet: I actually knew someone on that council
doctecazoid: his voice is sorely missed - as is austin's
Cease: true, doc
Beet: Nobody's mind worked quite like Peter's
Cease: he was a peak
johan amadeus myjetski: gotta run folks! nite all!
Cease: proc or maybe ossie said bergman was the smartest person they ever met
Commando Cody: CU later JAM
Cease: by jammy
llanwydd: I had been listening to fst for about twenty years before I learned that peter was the founder
llanwydd: Nite JAM
doctecazoid: nite jam
Beet: See ya, JAM
Cease: come again, jammy
llanwydd: it was his group from the beginning
Cease: well, kindal
Cease: the group was very democratic from the beginning
Deputy Dang: I still get boggle-minded when I listen to the complex interactions,regardless of the satire. The presentation is amazing.
Cease: bery loved taking credit, but always said he was just one of the 4
Deputy Dang: Face based charity?
doctecazoid: my understanding: radio free oz was bergman. the others came along and things coalesced into something new.
Cease: dang. that's the idea. your mind is supposed to blown
Cease: yes docky
Beet: I think his pacing and turn of mind in his comedy definitely inspired the others.
Cease: november 66
llanwydd: thats kind of what I meant beet
Cease: true, beet. but he also stood on the shoulders of, well take your pick
doctecazoid: their coming together the way they did was a textbook case of synchronicity
Cease: kinda, doc, but no. there was a lot of interesting radio happeningin la at that time. i was part of it
doctecazoid: austin and ossman both had radio backgrounds and were doing radio when they connected with bergman
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
doctecazoid: also bergman and proctor were school chums from yale days
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
doctecazoid: the inflection point was the (cat help me out here what was the film festival thing called?)
Beet: I never tire of hearing the creation stories of fst.
Cease: ffrom, yes, but had not met for years
doctecazoid: five years or so right?
doctecazoid: four or five
Cease: nov 66
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Cease: they recreated it on thier last dvd
Cease: taylor will know
doctecazoid: they were yale chums in '62, bergman landed in el lay not long after, proctor came out in i think '66 or '67?
doctecazoid: ah
Cease: bedrgman came there in summer, 66
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Absolutely no problem
Beet: That was meant for CC
Cease: proctosaurus talks LOT of his yale years in his book
doctecazoid: i have to revisit furtune cookie
Cease: i used a bit of it in my new collage about Zachariah
Cease: but then, eveything is potential collage idea
doctecazoid: ok i'm getting signals from lili that i need to come down and set the table
doctecazoid: this has been real
Cease: to a hammer,everything is a nail collage
Beet: Nice to see you, doc.
doctecazoid: y'all take care of ya selves - and STAY SAFE!!!!!
Cease: by docky
llanwydd: nite doc
Rufus_T_Firetween: You and the lady be well Doc
doctecazoid: ttfn tyl and ook ook ka chook - catch ya on the flip side
||||||||| doctecazoid says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, doctecazoid exits at 10:27 PM.
Cease: off you go
llanwydd: defrgthyujik
||||||||| 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: hey llan'doc only comes here once a year or so
Commando Cody: Bye Doc. I hope you copme back soon.
Commando Cody: *come
Cease: doc being here is so weird
llanwydd: I didnt realize that cat
Commando Cody: Why so Cease?
llanwydd: I thought I saw him more often
Cease: it was delightful
Commando Cody: I thought it was because of having been ill?
Cease: cuz he rarely comes here, cody
Cease: yeah, the covid did him some serous harm. he would tell you]
llanwydd: why did you mention that, cat?
Commando Cody: Perhaps he's had a come to Mohammed moment and decided to check in with old frends.
llanwydd: hope I didnt say something wrong
Commando Cody: Or Budda.
Beet: Doc has a nice spirit.
Cease: i was surprised and delighted to see him here today.
llanwydd: does indeed
llanwydd: me too, cat
||||||||| 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!"
Commando Cody: Radio Clown.
Cease: why he vistted us is for him to say,notus to speculate
Merlyn: leaving a bit early, need to go buy some stuff before the place closes
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "10:34 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Commando Cody: True. I don't know him as you all do.
llanwydd: nitemerlyn
Cease: by merl
Commando Cody: Adios Merl.
Beet: Have a nice high Mr. Merl.
llanwydd: yo mama bin laden. LOL
Beet: I heard a piece on NPR that said the Taliban is ready to take over if the U.S. pulls out.
Cease: mm k
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-ln
Cease: bergman is like anohter realm of intelligence
llanwydd: taliban was a character in the tempest wasnt he?
Cease: i hear this and i think, ok, i have to write something as good as this.
llanwydd: if I remember right the lead character was ross perot
Rufus_T_Firetween: Mister Bergman's commentary is missed
Rufus_T_Firetween: RIP RFO
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha llan
Cease: no tween. he lives on in our heads. he gave us the tools to used our brains to filter the reality of now
Beet: Fabulous
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ***
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman’s “GIVE US A BREAK”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BREAK at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-rv
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llanwydd: great album!
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's great fun :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about GIVE US A BREAK at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-ln
Cease: you're still here, llan>
llanwydd: yes cat
Commando Cody: LOL!. OK Rufus I like that you and Dang and Doc all show up as being in Anytown, USA.
Cease: this show, as it were is the perfect listenig expericene
Commando Cody: Isn't it Nucular
Rufus_T_Firetween: Wonderful collection of bits, this
Commando Cody: How timely.
Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'mass vaccinations'
Deputy Dang: Do you remember the sugar shortages in the 70s?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Some wonderful faux commercials on this album
Cease: i nevre thought o f hand guns that way before
Rufus_T_Firetween remembers gas shortages
llanwydd: I dont remember the sugar shortages
||||||||| 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
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Cease: let's follow luke and mathew to the john
llanwydd: while we still had the
llanwydd: lol
Commando Cody: Number 4 in this article. Sugar shortage of 74.
Commando Cody: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/top-10-national-crises-cod-war-ladybird-invasion-chartism-vinyl-sugar-a9443176.html
DJTweeny: That was fun :)
Cease: i am almost folling out the chair listening to this
Beet: I really had fun tonight. We had a good turnout of stellar participants. Fabulous compilation, Dr Cease. Thanks for conducting the orchestra, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
llanwydd: yeah, thanks cat and merl and tween
Commando Cody: Thanks Cat and Rufus. Great show.
Deputy Dang: outstanding all around!
DJTweeny: See you guyz Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net !
Cease: i do my best. and that's pretty good
llanwydd: sure is cat
llanwydd: well,I am out. see you all next week
Commando Cody: Thanks for the private chat shenanigins Merl.
||||||||| At 10:56 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Commando Cody: Bye llan, Beet, Dang, Tweeny and Rufus.
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, Commando Cody runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, Deputy Dang vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
doctecazoid
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=guab-rv
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.seemreal.com
https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/
https://smokeshops.com/cannabis-shops/us/nj/
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://twitter.com/MOWNeverSleeps/status/1367635018634395655
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/top-10-national-crises-cod-war-ladybird-invasion-chartism-vinyl-sugar-a9443176.html
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