||||||||| 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 July 15, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steps in at 3:36 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 5:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween bounds in at 7:49 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 7:56 PM and DJTweeny sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| 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 – YES – THE LADDER 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)' ||||||||| Outside, the 8:50 PM crosstown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| llanwydd sashays in at 8:50 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. llanwydd: hi tween. hi dang Deputy Dang: welcome, llanwydd--I just got here myself! DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy, llan Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny llanwydd: I like this album Rufus_T_Firetween: Igor Khoroshev on keyboards Deputy Dang: You have to. I think there's a law. llanwydd: lol Rufus_T_Firetween: The song Homeworld was used as the theme of a video game by the same name ||||||||| 8:52 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" llanwydd: Hi Cease Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease Cease: Hi all Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! llanwydd: I knew about that tween Rufus_T_Firetween: Temperatures back to normal in BC, Cat? llanwydd: damn hot here in fl Rufus_T_Firetween: mostly just unusually humid here with chances of rain every day llanwydd: lightning strikes Rufus_T_Firetween: more like Houston weather Cease: it is now, yes Rufus_T_Firetween: good to hear, cease llanwydd: this song is o the live album, House of Yes ||||||||| "8:57 PM? 8:57 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits on the divan. Beet: Hi, everyone. Thursday comes alive again. llanwydd: on llanwydd: Hi Beet Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah it is Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet Beet: Howdy Mr Llan. Dr Tween Rufus_T_Firetween: I think the did the album at the House Of Blues around the time The Ladder was released Deputy Dang: Heya Beet Beet: Hey Deputy. How ya be? Rufus_T_Firetween: Pretty sure it's also Khorochev on keys during that performance ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' Cease: Beet llanwydd: yeah it was at the House of Blues Beet: Hi Dr Cease llanwydd: and it was khoroshev on keyboards llanwydd: there were three albums he made with yes. those two and open yhour eyes ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 15, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" llanwydd: your Cease: i thought he was premiere of the soviet union during the cuban missile crisis Beet: I really don't know that album. I'll have to chaeck it out. Beet: check Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Cease Cease: almost finished with my democracy collage. will have it ready in plenty of time for next week's chat. Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease: i was going to use some stuff from the rfo podcast but when i went there today, computer couldn't find it. Rufus_T_Firetween: I hate it when that happens Cease: i emailed doc is ask if the site had been taken down. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Doc Technical’s “DEAR FRIENDS TOO” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln' Cease: yes, every firesign fan should have duke of madness. Beet: The accomanying book is very cool also. Beet: accompanying Cease: tis Cease: Bill McIntyre is no llonger with us and I keep hustling Jive to wtie his autobiography before he too dies. Beet: One uses three cents to throw the I Ching Cease: he keeps posting amazing stories of his long career in radio on facebook Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln llanwydd: thats what you call putting your three cents in Deputy Dang: I never knew that about marshmallows. Deputy Dang: Deputy Dang is your friend. Rufus_T_Firetween: haha Beet: Naked Lunch llanwydd: LOL llanwydd: this is hilarious Cease: this is in Dolpe Humour of the 70s llanwydd: coo llanwydd: l ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Cease: We should play that after this. Rufus_T_Firetween: DH and your collage next week it is then Cease: My collage will be around 50 min, I think. Not quite finished. There's a Bergman story about Turkey I'm thinking of using. llanwydd: homourous dopes of the 70s Deputy Dang: aren't we all Cease: when i get ideas for the collages from various sources, first i write down all the firesign bits that immediately leap out me as relavent Cease: then when i'm actuallhy in production mode, i get new ideas. Beet: Sound is out Cease: but i was counting on using some rfo stuff and it has vanished mysteriously Deputy Dang: I've lost the stream. Should I head for the shore? llanwydd: I was about to ask aboutyhe sound Beet: Back Rufus_T_Firetween: It's back now llanwydd: got mine back too Cease: speaking of being shot, on facebook today i read a piece by a friend of neal cassady. DJTweeny: In the words of Maxwell Smart, "Sorry about that..." llanwydd: lol Cease: he saw his body and it had 4 bullet holes in it. Beet: I have a collection of RFO shows from when they were broadcast. Rufus_T_Firetween: whoa :( Cease: the whole premise of Neal Amid kind of goes away. llanwydd: did not know that either cat Cease: really, beet? Cease: this is brand new info about Neal. Beet: yup llanwydd: but is it conclusive? Beet: I missed several. Cease: only the one source. must look into this. Cease: i dont mind being wrong, as my work is a fantasy. indeed, they all are llanwydd: of course ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Cease: neal's wife (the one she shared with kerouac) and son liked Neal Amid so that's good enough for me. Cease: also, other folks who heard NA and knew Neal said it captured him quitre well, thanks to Phil Austin's fine acting Cease: He shared, but whatever Rufus_T_Firetween: great that they approved, Cease :) llanwydd: I was about to say that cat. your writing and phils acting presented a great picture of Cassady Cease: there was a DJ in Santa Cruz who loved and played a lot of my stuff and Neal's son lives in San Jose which is close by, so he heard it on the radio llanwydd: really cool Cease: that's just a coincidence, but it's how i was able to get in touch with the familiy. Deputy Dang: Coincidences are a lot more common than most people think. ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Cease: Doc Tech actually met Neal's son at some event in I think, NYC. Cease: true, dep Beet: sound out Beet: back Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, Google had an outage here Rufus_T_Firetween: seems to be back now Rufus_T_Firetween: really unusual for Google Fiber Deputy Dang: It's not all acting... Deputy Dang: I was up too early, and am falling asleep. I'm gonna log off and listen in bed. The chat doesn't work well on my phone though. Cease: small crowd tonight Deputy Dang: Goodnight all! Until next week, stay safe, and help someone else get safer. Cease: i used my phone to chat a few weeks ago, to only liimited success DJTweeny: Rest well Deputy Cease: sleep well, dep Beet: G'Nite Dep Deputy Dang: Thank you. I wonder how many thousands are listening to the stream but are too shy to get on the chat? Deputy Dang: The answer is... one more. Deputy Dang: goodnight ||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:40 PM, I don't have to go yet!"... Rufus_T_Firetween: '42' Cease: i just noticed that line about burnt cork on his fingers, "tar face" Cease: always something new to learn from firesign DJTweeny: Absolutely... 50 years later and still subtleties to catch Cease: the firesign mine seems to be an inexhaustible supply of gold nuggets Cease: a freind of mine saw then at the stanford show they're talking about Cease: the idea of a computer on acid was central to their Firesign World show 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: Well done collection Cease: you recorded the entirety of the rfo podcasts, beet? ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases ||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote." Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl Beet: Only the ones that I was listening to. Cease: there are a lot of them.any idea how many you have? Beet: I have to find them. Don't know where I stored them Beet: I'll let you know when I locate them. Cease: doc was in charge of the site so he must have them. Rufus_T_Firetween: I can't find the RFO site with a search :/ Beet: I do look forward to these Thursdays. Thanks again to all participants. Looking forward to the next collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for the guidance, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. Cease: yes, it's gone. Cease: by beet Cease: maybe we should listen to my collage in the first how next week, tween. Beet: I was premature sorry. I'm here until the finish. ||||||||| 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!" Rufus_T_Firetween: There's a link to PlayerFM >> https://player.fm/series/radio-free-oz-2504328 Cease: you're still here, beet? that's good. Rufus_T_Firetween: just you and me Cat lol Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, they can always listen to the acrhive ;) Beet: This show is good until the last drop. I like drinking in the whole vessel. Rufus_T_Firetween: you bet Cease: wonderful find, tween. Cease: we do our best, beet Rufus_T_Firetween: hope it helps Cease: Firesign deserves no less. Cease: I should make copies of them all. it'll take me monthes and monthes to do that Beet: See, what I do is I type my closing early and then pop it in at the end. Sometimes I mistakenly put it in too early. Giving away one of my little secrets. Cease: i like drinking too, beet. Beet: Savoring the brew. Cease: i drink almost exclusively a kind of sangria. Beet: One of my most treasured discoveries I made in Spain. Wonderful beverage. Cease: yes, my wife and i were in spain in 2002 and fell in love with the beverage Cease: if possible, i' Cease: i'd liike to return, specificlaly to eat pinxos in san sebastian. Cease: see the gehry bldg in Bilbao ||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!" Cease: Bolurdain's tv show turned me on to San sebastian Cease: bourdain Beet: Also, Sherry doesn't quite taste right unless your drinking it in Spain. Cease: apparently there's a new flick about him Cease: i never liked Port until I had it in Portugal Cease: the Belgians keep their best beers for themselves, and so does every other european country Beet: The stuff they send to the U. S. is a poorer quality. Cease: we stayed at a wondrous hotel in lisbon that used to be the home of some famous portugese writer of long ago. Cease: every mornig there was a fresh carafe of port in our room. it was amazing Beet: wow. nice. Cease: we had some pinxos at a basque bar in barcelona and they were spectactular Cease: so it wasnt bourdain who turned me on to basque tapas, just the idea that i have to go to san sebastian to really feast on them Beet: I wasn't hip to tapas in '72. I missed all of that. Cease:http://www.seemreal.com/cgi-bin/ti/viewer.cgi?slideshow=2002spain&page=007 Cease: i took their menu home with me and laminated it. it's on the wall of our guest bedroom Beet: Those pictures make me hungry. ||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:30 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom. Cease: we were VERY DISSAPPOINTED in most of the food we ate in italy and france so spain was a revelation Cease: hello again, llan llanwydd: I remember you saying you didnt like the pizza in naples, cat Cease: and we are not really foodies, or at least not then. Cease: it was ok. none of the pizza i had in italy (a lot) impressed me. the pasta sucked. Cease: most of the vegies were hideous. llanwydd: thats right I remember now you said you werent impressed Beet: I always think very fondly of Spain. God, I loved that place and everything about it. Cease: only when we stayed in a hotel in florence that had been in the owner's family for 700 years, they gave us their recoomendations on what restaurants to go to and there we ate Really well. Cease: my wife plays spanish guitar so really wanted to go to spain. ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" llanwydd: there is one thing I dont like about spain. bullfighting llanwydd: I am very opposed to that sort of thing Cease: yeah, me too, llan Cease: i was dubious about going there because of that. llanwydd: I did not know that about fumiyo, cat. so do I Beet: I actually went to one with my Spanish girlfriend. A very unique experience. I didn't mind it so much. llanwydd: I would love to explore the iberian peninsula, though Beet: And the people are great. Cease: this is a wonderfrul library on the top floor of our hotel in lisbon. one of the most enchanting builldings i've ever been in. Cease:http://www.seemreal.com/cgi-bin/ti/viewer.cgi?slideshow=2002portugal&page=002 llanwydd: someday I might take a cruise ship to lisbon, tell everybody I am Ponce de Leon and take over the place llanwydd: just joking of course Cease: good idea, llan Beet: Let's all go. Cease: you can still see the cracks in the buildings from the earthquake of 250 years ago llanwydd: yeah! llanwydd: not yeah about the earthquake llanwydd: I wonder if lisbon lies on a fault Cease: walkikng around the neighbourhood of my hotel, i felt like Vloltaire composing Candide because of that earthquake llanwydd: or a fault lies in it Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes does cruise ships, I'll bet there could be some sort of comedy ship tour that Phil & David could join llanwydd: never read candide Rufus_T_Firetween: Europe has such a long and amazing history compared to we folk in 'The New World' llanwydd: great idea, tween! Cease: one of my favourite novels llanwydd: call it next world cruises Beet: I have not travelled enough in this lifetime. Cease: has anybody? llanwydd: I can at least say I have been overseas. I spent the summer of 1984 in england Beet: Good question. ||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote." Cease: i spent many years in japan, but that was work, not the pleasure of travel Cease: no interest in seeing other parts of asia, but really want to see more of europe Beet: You never had a desire to see China? Some incredibly beautiful country there. Rufus_T_Firetween: We traveled across Canada when I was a kid, and we had a time share in Cancun, but I've never been outside North America Cease: i'm sure there's great beauty everywhere Rufus_T_Firetween: I have no interest in visiting the PRC. Taiwan, maybe ;) Cease: Bourdain's show kinda made me want to travel, but not his choice in food Rufus_T_Firetween: I think there's a new movie about Bourdain Beet: You should write a book on food and traveling, Cease. Cease: i'm writing a play about a week of amazing food in vegas 10 years ago. Rufus_T_Firetween: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner%3A_A_Film_About_Anthony_Bourdain Cease:Tween and Llan and in it. Beet: That should be very interesting. llanwydd: still in the writing stage, cat? Cease: yes llan llanwydd: let it grow Cease: but have some great recordings, including you as the great french chef. Cease:tween will be the waiter you interact with Beet: Both doing French accents? Cease: now that covid is diminishing, i was able to get the voice i want to play my daughter a couple of weeks ago Rufus_T_Firetween: sounds like fun, Cat Cease: no, tween is a yankee. llan is Alain Ducasse. llanwydd: funny about alain ducasse. apparently he is about the most famous foodie in the world and I had never heard of him until you told me about your play Rufus_T_Firetween: What Yankee accent, Cease? Cease: the conversation you and my daughter have about his curry lobster comes from the fact it's his most famous dish. Cease: no tween, not new england yankee. i just mean american, as opposed to Ducasse who is Very French llanwydd: really cool Beet: Try a a South Boston accent. Super wicked. Cease: the actual guy Tween will be playing had no accent that I could discern. just the average amercian accent you hear on tv llanwydd: I played a frenchman with a strong accent in my stage debut Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, will have to work on that one llanwydd: dr caius in the merry wives of windsor Rufus_T_Firetween: Don't want to sound 'Texan' or 'Southern' Cease: i play myself. i'm trying to recruit some french speakikng friends for other restaurnat roles, but no luck yet ||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! ** Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :) Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign' llanwydd: I played a texan in the taming of the shrew if you can believe that Beet: You don't have much of a Texas accent if I may say, Dr Tween. llanwydd: a slight updating of the play Cease: one of things i'm kinda dependent on as a writer of radio plays if the voice i can hear in my head as a write Rufus_T_Firetween: If you could think of a 'Yankee' actor that would suffice, let me know Cease: i want tween because of his work in CAST. Cease: your normal voice as we hear here every week, tween Rufus_T_Firetween: but in CAST, I did a 'southern' accent and a 'jewish' accent ;) Rufus_T_Firetween: OK Cat Cease: ik needed llan's french accent because Ducasse barely speaks english. llanwydd: there must be many jewish accents Cease: we'll speak of this soon, tween. Beet: One of their great pieces. Beet: Thanks everyone. Have a pleasant evening. G'Nite all. llanwydd: we ll speak of that anon.....and on and on annn Rufus_T_Firetween: my 'normal voice' has a hint of a Texas drawl Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Cease: more important is your reaction to the folks you are talkkng to, not the accent per se Rufus_T_Firetween: ok llanwydd: feel free to write more lines for me as you expand your scenario DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: you mean as another character, llan? can you do a spanish accent? there's a spanish chef in act 4 ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: we'll talk next week. ||||||||| Cease is kicked out just as the clock strikes 11:00 PM. llanwydd: I did a spanish accent to bring down the house as the prince of aragon in the merchant of venice i llanwydd: well I hope he saw that llanwydd: thanks tween and cat and everybody else ||||||||| At 11:03 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, llanwydd!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| 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 intense demonic possession ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."
The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween
