||||||||| 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 11, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 4:45 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 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 visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music – Elvis Costello 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)' ||||||||| DJTweeny steps in at 8:41 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Commando Cody bounds in at 8:43 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers morlog into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:44 PM, then departs. DJTweeny: Hey Cody morlog: corn Commando Cody: Hey Tweeny, good choice for the warm up. DJTweeny: Hi morlog morlog: hi DJTweeny: Thanks :) ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 8:46 PM", then leaves hurriedly. llanwydd: hey tween Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey llan ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." llanwydd: I will never forget the first time I saw elvis costello on saturday night live Commando Cody: Howdy llan, morlog llanwydd: he stopped the band ust as they were starting a song and then they played something else Commando Cody: What was your reaction llan? llanwydd: I was shocked llanwydd: he did it very dramatically Commando Cody: I can remember watching the B-52s thinking it was a SNL spoof. llanwydd: I saw the B52s on snl as well llanwydd: I was not very impressed llanwydd: I hated the new wave llanwydd: in retrospect I dont hate it so much llanwydd: but it threatened to replace the art rock that I was into back then Commando Cody: Same here. Rufus_T_Firetween: I thought they were great at parodying 60s bands, but I also saw it as a tribute from a new generation Commando Cody: I've come to appreciate more of it. Rufus_T_Firetween: loved the bee hive hairdos on the ladies llanwydd: I thought the beehives were silly ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:51 PM and Cease waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. llanwydd: Hey Cat Rufus_T_Firetween: It was meant to be, of course ;) Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Cease Commando Cody: Its supposed to be a sign of old age if you don't continue to expand into new music. Rufus_T_Firetween: heh Commando Cody: Hello Cat. llanwydd: Im still catching up on old art rock Cease: Hi all Commando Cody: art rock? not prog rock? llanwydd: some would use those two phrases interchangeably Cease: I remember being really impressed by this Elvis when he first showed up Commando Cody: OK, i thought that miht be the case. Cease: kihd of intelligent punk llanwydd: when I talk about art rock I mean bands that did sound paintings, programatic music llanwydd: Yes was always my favorite llanwydd: eary Genesis was all about sound painting as well llanwydd: early not eary Commando Cody: OK. Who have you been listening to lately llan? Cease: speakikng of art, i'm going to see this in a couple of days: https://thepolygon.ca/ Rufus_T_Firetween: I loved Fragile, but Close To The Edge really opened my eyes (and ears) to the possibilities Commando Cody: Genesis obvioulsy. LOL! llanwydd: in my car a little while ago it was Still LIfe by Van der Graaf Generator llanwydd: very much an art rock band DJTweeny: kewl Commando Cody: I remember the band. Not so much the music. Cease: elvis had a tv show for a while, interviewing other musicians. anyone remember it? Commando Cody: Have to give it a listen. DJTweeny: I do not ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet 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. Beet: Hello Dear Friends! DJTweeny: Yo Beet ||||||||| Deputy Dang enters at 8:57 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex. llanwydd: Hey Beet Commando Cody: Beet! Where's Artie? llanwydd: Hey Dang Beet: Howdy Dr Tween Deputy Dang: Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Okay... take one! DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy llanwydd: artie choked ||||||||| 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." ||||||||| 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)' Beet: Hi Commando. Artie's just a joke. Commando Cody: Noooo!. Hi Dang Beet: Hi Llan Commando Cody: Gotta love it. Always get the follow up from the true believers. Beet: Theme to the History Detectives on PBS DJTweeny: Thought Watching The Detectives was appropriate for the Phil Austin we've got in store tonight ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 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: ||||||||| morlog - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... llanwydd: poor morlog Cease: i guess proc is on the "radio" tonight in a new show DJTweeny: cool llanwydd: I hear the attorney general is suing your city, tween Cease: him and melinda in a radio play about gracie and george llanwydd: seems silly Cease: they remain Very active. DJTweeny: morlog's connection isn't the greatest, he might be back Cease: hope he or she returns DJTweeny: Yeah llan, they're going to court over COVID restrictions after the governor lifted them Cease: where does the term "ultra attractive" come from? DJTweeny: he llanwydd: very tall jewish gentleman is ironic as well Cease: i learned from fran lebowitz that the term "super star" was originally an andy warhol joke llanwydd: as if to say you can always tell a jew when you seen one Commando Cody: Did you finish the show Cease? I loved it. Cease: i never thought of that, llan Cease: yes, part 2 of A Franticle for Lebowitz in next week's chat Cease: along with Next World llanwydd: lookng forward to that, cat Commando Cody: Great, can't wait to hear Part 2. Cease: i used both the new series, their previous collaboration Public Speaking and some fran interviews from letterman. Cease: i think i discovered her on letterman long ago, but was not very familiar with her. must get her book from the library ||||||||| 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/' Beet: These are lots of fun. Cease: "these?" Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 6TH ALBUM” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS Beet: The 6th Album collections Commando Cody: I've read various articles written by her over the years. llanwydd: on the radio once she was introduced by someone who said fran could hardly contain herself llanwydd: which was deliberately ironic Commando Cody: LOL! llanwydd: I didn hear it. somebody told me about it Cease: as i said last week, it's like shuffling cards. anyone could take up dave's suggestion an come with interesting mixes of the same material Cease: this is from one of the flicks bergman made. anyone seen it? Cease: nasi gorlng, bergman in gorilla suit Commando Cody: Can't say I've seen the film. Cease: most likely on line llanwydd: nasi goring is an indonesian food Cease: called Love is Hard to Get llanwydd: I have never had it Cease: yes llan. Cease: too spicy for my taste buds Cease:tween played Hot Rod Lincoln on his Tuesday show last week and it Really reminded me of this song Deputy Dang: which show is that? Cease: tell him, tween Rufus_T_Firetween: My Tuesday show archive is at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow if you'd like a taste of what we do there Rufus_T_Firetween: I open with a little FST and then take music requests Rufus_T_Firetween: Radio Free Roadkill :) Deputy Dang: Okay. I wondered because there are a number of shows linked(hosted?) at MadMusicArchive. Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm not part of that, as far as I know ||||||||| 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!" Rufus_T_Firetween: It's on the Radio Free Dishnuts network, which is the people who provide the streaming server for this show Cease: this is from the flick, not the album Rufus_T_Firetween:www.dishnuts.net Cease: tv or not tv ||||||||| Not Ed tiptoes in around 9:16 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." Not Ed: Pork? Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Not Ed Cease: Hi Not llanwydd: Hi NE Not Ed: Hey Rufus Hey C Not Ed: Hey llan waz real ||||||||| 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!" Not Ed: Jello CC & DD Commando Cody: Howdy Ed. Cease: some of the funniest dope humour they ever did Cease: and that's sayiing a lot Not Ed: Ya hey CC Beet: Howdy Not Commando Cody: Hey Cease, what's the earliest channel changing bit they did? I'm amussing it would be a radio version. Cease: itg was called A Life in the Day, from their live Mushroom shows at the end of 1967 Deputy Dang: Officstress? Cease: i have a mix of the 2 versions they did of that plus 2 places and Dwarf on Tween's archive site somewhere ||||||||| Catherwood leads Merlyn into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:22 PM, then departs. Commando Cody: I've been amazed at how many times it seems to be a part of their material. DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn Commando Cody: OK, I'll look for it. llanwydd: Hi Merlyn Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 6TH ALBUM” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS Commando Cody: Hey ho Merlyn. Merlyn: heya Cease: Hey Merl Beet: Hi Dr Merlyn Deputy Dang: Howdy, Merlyn! Song lime, toe knee! Commando Cody: That's a good one Dang. I'm going to steal that one. Not Ed: Hey Merl Not Ed: Beet, yo Not Ed:Tweeny! Commando Cody: It reminds me of the Mike Nesmith bit in Elephant Parts where he asks the bartender for a Marningreeta! Not Ed: haha Cease: i must rewatch that. is it on youtube? Commando Cody: I think it might be. Not Ed: Nice editz C Deputy Dang: Marningreeta? You're welcome to it, CC. It doesn't get as many smiles in real life as it does in writing. Cease: thre were a lot of those scewball movies Cease: it';s my job, not Commando Cody:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU_ycxo-Q7PspWqZCya2VD0mQbXMuO-sA Commando Cody: It appears to be the separate sketches. Cease: aha Deputy Dang: Thank you--I'll watch them later, probably tomorrow. Commando Cody: It was for his wife's fire Dang. Deputy Dang: good transition! Cease: i do like this edit Cease: i try and make myself. sometimes i succeed Deputy Dang: nice transition. very good indeed! Commando Cody: That was good too. Not Ed: DDang waz real Not Ed: hash? Cease: doesnt this sound like a generic russian song? Not Ed: pot? Not Ed: what's that? llanwydd: rather like generic russian folk music llanwydd: nothing like prokoffiev of shostokovich Cease: i asked a russian friend and she asked her dad and they didnt know it llanwydd: or not of Cease: but phl knows is russian songs. sand them on street corners in russia with yale russian chorus in 59 DJTweeny: Must have been quite an experience visiting the USSR at that time Cease: HIS Cease: did you read his autobi, tween? Deputy Dang: Just a Tweeny? Cease: great chapter about it. Cease: still remembers fondly a woman he met there Not Ed: loved Procmer's Russian in the elevator in WFTEOSLH Commando Cody: I can see the snowy scenes from Doctor Zhivago. Not Ed: lol Commando Cody: Or Dr. Strangelove maybe. Not Ed: Or Dr Seuss? Ouch Cease: i would love to see st. petersburg, the grandfather's city DJTweeny: Cease: did you read his autobi, tween? << Haven't yet, no but I got the local library system to buy a copy Commando Cody: I hope you get to go someday Cease. DJTweeny: I'll get around to it eventually llanwydd: that acronym took me a moment, not ed Commando Cody: LOL Ed. Cease: never met him (1855-1925) but uncles' tales of their days in st petbersberg in the 19th century fascinate me llanwydd: I have had dreams of travelling through siberia Cease: my play CAST is based on one of those tales. tween and llan have wonderful roles in that play llanwydd: wonder if it means something llanwydd: yeah that was great fun, cat llanwydd: very strange thing about that though, that background noise was none of my doing Cease: my wife';s father was a prisoner of war in siberia in 1946 llanwydd: I dont know how that happened Cease: theres a story in that Not Ed: nudge nudge llan & CC DJTweeny: looking forward to the new play Cat llanwydd: interesting, cat Cease: working slowlly on my egypt play Cease: will have lines for tween and llan this month. ok? DJTweeny: A Japanese prisoner in Siberia? Cease: i need to give myself deadlines. Cease: yes llanwydd: Great, Cat! DJTweeny: I'll be happy to participate :) Cease: soviet army over ran the isalnd he was in so he was off to siberia DJTweeny: wow, I had no idea Not Ed: Cyberia Cease: almost all his fellow prisoners died but he survived by laughing at their guard DJTweeny: heheh Cease: the man had a japanese wife and lived with her family in japan. DJTweeny: Cyberia is the modern version of Radio Prison? Cease: but it was a female family so he learned only female japanese. Not Ed: lol right llanwydd: how cruel this human race is Not Ed: terribly so Not Ed: but I'm not dang it Cease: Fumiyo (my wife:s) father Shichiro found it funniest thing, to hear this dictator tryhing and torture and subjugate while speaking female japanese llanwydd: lol llanwydd: thats tgerrible, cat Cease: the power of a sense of humour, at least. Not Ed: what C? lol Not Ed: indeed llanwydd: the dialogue is getting scrambled here Cease: he was a wonderful man. we had a lot of fun together. Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a hot cheese log ||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a hot cheese log. llanwydd: thanks cathy Commando Cody: Ummmm, cheese. Cease: my wife thinks she inherited much of her wonderfulness from him Rufus_T_Firetween: I had no idea there was 'female Japanese language' Beet: New to me too Not Ed: I didn't know that Ruf llanwydd: well some languages have gender specific words llanwydd: cant imagine what the hell for Rufus_T_Firetween: sure, French Cease: very much so, tween. Rufus_T_Firetween: but it's not a 'female language' Not Ed: I see.... llanwydd: true Cease: well, a different way of saying things. Rufus_T_Firetween: lots to admire about the Japanese, but their cultural attitude towards women is not one of them Not Ed: lean something new every day Cease: i woman would refer to herself as "atashi" but a man would say "watashi" Not Ed: learn llanwydd: I never took note of that, tween Commando Cody: My brother has been living in Japan for many yearsbut we've never talked about that. Cease: i think it's changing now, tween. Rufus_T_Firetween: hopefully Cease: even when my daughter grew up there, you could feel the increasing improvvement Rufus_T_Firetween: good to hear Cease: it was a very sexist and racist country when i first moved there for work in 71. it got much better by the time i finally left in 88 Commando Cody: Reminds me of Doug Kershaw. Commando Cody: Except funnier pf course. ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" Deputy Dang: watakushi wa dango gurifusu desu ||||||||| "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: this guy is in zachardiah, the cajun fiddler Not Ed: I got Barbecue Sauce to fill in some crax Cease: kershaw was great in an otherwise poor flick Cease: i havent' mentioned new cat yet Cease: not sure for how long but we've been asked to take care of a large cat llanwydd: are there any japanese firesign fans, cat? Not Ed: When was Zacharia released I think I was in Jr High Cease: probably the size of both of our last cats. very timid, after abusive situation Commando Cody: Have you put up a pic of the cat on your site Cease? Cease: in the 70s, not so many. but probably more now as the country has opened up Cease: no pic yet, cody. must do so. Not Ed: 1971 I guess Commando Cody: We'll be looking for it. Not Ed: I was in 8th grade Cease: i was teaching english in japan when this came out Commando Cody: My daughter's cat is on her way out unfortunately. Not Ed: I wish I was there with yaz C Deputy Dang: ha! cross and switchblade! Not Ed: Never been to Japan - always wanted to visit Commando Cody: I still need to go there myself. As long as my bro is there might as well visit. Not Ed: Oh cool CC Commando Cody: Need to hit Europe yet as well. Many relatives over there in France. Not Ed: I don't really know anybody there Not Ed: I have a friend in Taiwan but that's another thing Commando Cody: I almost got to go yeaars ago for an F1 test session but it fell through at the last minute. Not Ed: Drat Not Ed: Wolfman J is sooooo cool Commando Cody: I work with a guy from Taiwan now. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Not Ed: Neat Commando Cody: I don't know if he'll ever go back now. Not Ed: Say it Say it Commando Cody: I should ask him. Not Ed: Lookout below! Cease: how do we define weird? ||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!" Not Ed: not normal plus ||||||||| 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." Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 6TH ALBUM” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS Cease: alternate normal 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/
Not Ed nods to C llanwydd: Cool Beet: Nice Deputy Dang: break the station! keep it moving! 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 Not Ed: Don't break this station hand me the pliers Cease: when you consider how good firesign is, how can i not do good things with them? Not Ed: lol right on DD Commando Cody: F·I·R·E·S·I·G·N T·H·E·A·T·R·E ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Not Ed: Opus tonight C ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Not Ed activates the phlanger phasor Cease: If we create, we do so for our own need to do so. Firesign is paint with which I paint my audio paintings Cease: the radio i knew as a very young child is my inspiration here. Be Interesting Not Ed: Hot paints Commando Cody: LOL! Not Ed: That's great C - I go back there sometimes with "otr" Cease: yes thanks for the Tunnel Under the City post Not Ed: X Minus One, Dimension X Cease: did you listen to the collage i made of of the tape from the fututre? Not Ed: Amazing episode Cease: based on another of your posts Rufus_T_Firetween: X Minus One is pretty good Not Ed: no I want to and I shall find it Not Ed: been distracted by projects etc Rufus_T_Firetween: I found it interesting that after The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling went back to radio for a while with The Zero Hour Cease: i have a sort of memory of entering the san fernando valley in late jan, 56, while listeningt to an SF play Cease: can almost remmber it, but that's 65 years ago Not Ed: Ruf yeah I forgot about that Not Ed: YouTube here I come Not Ed: I think the episodes were free when they came out Cease: did any of you see new southpark last night? Not Ed: no I forgot see I'm really out of it Cease: tis scene is kinda south parkian Not Ed: ohh Not Ed: south parkian lol Not Ed: I did get the new McCartney album, which I quite like Not Ed: McCartney III Cease: i'll listen to it, not. i love Ram Not Ed: oh man me too Cease: there may be a collage in it. Beet: McCartney still making good music. Not Ed: MIII is in that realm, not all slick, yet such craftsman ship - I guess he made it at home (COVID) Cease: next week, franticle 2. then a collage about zacharia. then one about wolves turning into dogs. Not Ed: Board the craftsman ship! Cease: i'm now watchin the new adam curtis series and will definitley make something out of that Not Ed: cool C Not Ed: I'll show up more now Cease: hope you do, not Not Ed: Much to your chagrin Not Ed: whatever that means ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Cease:tween has all the collages on his site Not Ed: I'm there then Cease: firesign is a kind of lens through which to see interesting things Not Ed: this is insane it's very fillng : ) Not Ed: good observation ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" Not Ed: er no pun intended but I'll take it Not Ed: but you're right C Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ Cease: they intended that, not Not Ed: in fact my POV changed the minute I heard Electrician Not Ed: like the first hit of acid - Bing! llanwydd: starting to turn gray. cant let that happen Cease: the problem with trying to write an audio play is compared to this, it's impossible to write anything better Not Ed: you said it Cease: very depressing. Cease: BUT Not Ed: lol don't give up C you've done it B 4 llanwydd: you can try to emulate. thats what I did when I wrote my play even though it was not a comedy Cease: just as we grieve the loss of our cat of 17 years, Jazz, suddenly we are asked to rescue a cat Rufus_T_Firetween: Fun stuff Cat :) llanwydd: I just kept writing until the plot was very dense llanwydd: an homage, you might call it Cease: we were told her name was bob. we liked that, as the name of a book we both love is A Streetcat named Bob Not Ed: Weirdly poetic Cease: later we learn her name was actually Bop as in Hayley Bop comet Not Ed: lol wow ||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: INTERVIEW WITH DAVID OSSMAN 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check Out David Ossman’s Member Page At >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman' llanwydd: great collage, cat! Cease: her owner freaked out and she was endangered Not Ed:TweenyTweenyTweeny ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Beet: Nice job, Cat. Not Ed: Yeah most awesome C tanx! Cease: we rescued manhy cats when we lived in japan in the 80s Rufus_T_Firetween: Ed Ed Ed Cease: our daughter rescued an abandoned dog when she was 9 Cease: if it aint awesome, im not doing my job Rufus_T_Firetween: :) Cease: this is the greatest review of a firesign product i've ever encountered Not Ed: lol Not Ed: Ruf Commando Cody: Is that a Govt. DJTeeny? Beet: This is a good summary. Not Ed: Catherwood give Cease some awesome sauce ||||||||| Catherwood hands cease some awesome sauce. Cease: firesign is awesome. it strives to push us to further awe Not Ed: lol yepsk
Not Ed got small about an hour ago Not Ed: yeah this is great Cease: what tween and i are doing here is just radio Cease: what firesign did, on and off, for many years. ther natural medium Cease: radio is what you want to present to the ears of others. Cease: that's what i thought in 1956 and that's what i do now Not Ed: Rotten Tomatoes gives Zachariah four stars https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/z_for_zachariah Not Ed: Oops wrong movie
Not Ed blushes Cease: i didnt hate it as much on youtube this month as i did ina theattre long ago Cease: ossie is the great intellectual of audio creation Rufus_T_Firetween: Cool interview ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** currently playing – PHIL AUSTIN'S “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” 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 Check out OLD DETECTIVE at >> http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Old-Detective-Other-Lies/dp/1572700017' Beet: Neat Not Ed: oh this is choice Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln Not Ed: Tx Ruf Rufus_T_Firetween: yw Not Ed: Download the school lunch menus bit on the track listing tab/page https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-tl Merlyn: I told Austin the first time I talked to him (by phone) is how, near the end of Developmental School Lunch Menus, you end up laughing at straight lines like "milk". Cease: etched in thought Not Ed: lol right no kidding Cease: austin was one of the writers Cease: and, merl? Not Ed: I'll never forget Stunned Ducks in Alcohol Sauce and Meatless Hot Creatures Deputy Dang: I remember trying to dial 9s too quickly Not Ed: lol Cease: lol Not Ed: They did lunch menus live - you guys know Cease: i saw them do lunch menus in a think their last tour, 2010 Not Ed: Procmer read it once --Kirkland? Not Ed: (Usually Austin of course) Cease: i saw them do it twice on whidbey island, wica, the theatre thge ossmans were associated with. Cease: 2010 Not Ed: Those were magical shows Not Ed: I was there, with friends Cease: were you at the kirkland big broghahaha? not? Not Ed: Yes which was very special - I think we very briefly chatted Not Ed: I lived in Kirkland at the time ||||||||| 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!" Not Ed: What luck! Cease: yess, not Cease: you reached out to me Cease: i spent a lot of time with ossmans, pete's daughter, etc Not Ed: well you're a really nice person and your support is very special Not Ed: great Beet: Lucky man. Cease: it was wonderfful and necessary that i go back to the beginning of firesging and can relate to that length of bergnman's life Cease: doesn't listening to firesign make you a nice person? Beet: A little more expanded than those who don't Cease: in the senses that you have to consider other realtites, not jsut the one you've been conditioned to llanwydd: I dont know any mean firesign fans Deputy Dang: This is making me hungry Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Rufus_T_Firetween: Kitten On A Stick? Cease: my new play is about food, dang. you may want to avoid it ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" ||||||||| 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' Deputy Dang: I need to catch your show. Commando Cody: Milk! Rufus_T_Firetween: Please mark your calendar Deputy :) Commando Cody: I have never heard this before. It is definitely a new favorite. Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat and Cody hang there Rufus_T_Firetween: Johan on occasion Cease: Austin was REally proud of this ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Commando Cody: Bring your requests Dang. Merlyn: Complicated cake is a real thing: https://www.engrish.com/2005/12/its-just-so/ Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=totod-ln Beet: Enjoyable as always. Nice to see everyone. Fantastic collections Dr Cease. Thanks for the guiding light, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Deputy Dang: Tuesday... marking it... Merlyn: tanks yet again tween ||||||||| Catherwood says "10:57 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Merlyn by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door Rufus_T_Firetween: I like this version of Give Up This Day best :) Commando Cody: Thanks for your material Cease. Thanks again for hosting Rufus. Deputy Dang: Awesome show; well worth waiting for, so let's wait! Rufus_T_Firetween: 7pm Eastern Deputy Commando Cody: And what was it we're waiting for Dang? Cease: Franticle for Lebowitz next week Commando Cody: Adios gang. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Deputy Dang: We're waiting for Tuesday's show Cease: Hope to see many of you next week Deputy Dang: Thank you, Cat and Tweeny Cease: we do our best, eh? ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| At 11:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| Commando Cody rushes off, saying "11:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" llanwydd: yeah, thanks tweeny and cat llanwydd: see you all next week ||||||||| llanwydd departs at 11:01 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Deputy Dang - 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: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "2:31 AM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Hellmouth." ||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice ||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Merlyn
morlog
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
