||||||||| 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 September 02, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 3:14 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn. ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| 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 jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Outside, the 5:43 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving RedPillTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 6:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween waltzes in at 7:30 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 7:56 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... Deputy Dang: Firesign Radio is on hiatus. ||||||||| 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: I might be late--TMI, I'm hosting an alcoholic. He's sleeping (an incredible amount) on my cough. Deputy Dang: I've been told several things I should do to change the shituation. ||||||||| 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: I welcome your private messages on this issue. Please only reply if you have experience with alcoholism, one way or another. I have the rest covered. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Deputy Dang: He's a great dude, and there are many folks who want him to... recover? Deputy Dang: I'm actually privileged to have been asked to give him a place to crash for a while. Deputy Dang: He's been no trouble to me, but it's been a week, and some have said he should be doing something more than sleep. Deputy Dang: Anyway... sorry for the TMI. If you have advice, cool. If not, peace. (And peace to you if you have advice, also.) Rufus_T_Firetween: BANNER: ** 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) ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:28 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?" DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' DJTweeny: Deputy Dang: I'm actually privileged to have been asked to give him a place to crash for a while. << Jerome Powell? DJTweeny: music up in 3 minutes ||||||||| Outside, the 8:37 PM bus from Seattle pulls away, leaving Zen Cosmos coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Zen Cosmos: as a retired transportation planner and traffic engineer would neve be coaught riding/driving anything as pollutiong as diesel... Zen Cosmos: Seattle metro buses atre hybrid electric DJTweeny: Hey Cosmos ||||||||| New notice: '* WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music – SANTANA - CARAVANSERAI 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)' Zen Cosmos: Hey DJTweeny: The new diesels are far less polluting Zen Cosmos: NO that is bullshit, go electric or don't go... DJTweeny: Zen Cosmos: Seattle metro buses atre hybrid electric << they're going that way in Austin as well, even all-electric ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Zen Cosmos: Link light rail come to Northgate Mall on 10-2- a game changer for commuters... Zen Cosmos: Oye como va... ||||||||| Outside, the 8:50 PM downtown bus from British Columbia pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. DJTweeny: allo Cease Cease: Hi early chatters DJTweeny: Lots of Ossman tonight folks ||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:51 PM, then departs. Cease: It's all Ossman All the Time ||||||||| 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!" llanwydd: you guys are early Cease: It's time for Confidence in the Ossman DJTweeny: yo llan Cease: oo, santana. Cease: ol fave. this cat can play guitar DJTweeny: 'tis Zen Cosmos: Latest Planet Proctor is advertizing some new voice over/radio play stuff for both Phil and david... Cease: havent heard this in a long time. thanks for playing it, tween DJTweeny: yw DJTweeny: didn't know what music Ossman likes, so I just picked some good rock ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:57 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom... Beet: Hello Dear Friends. Top of the Thursday evening to you. DJTweeny: yo Beet Beet: Hi Dr Tween ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" llanwydd: hey beet Beet: Howdy Llan Beet: Used to listen to this album a lot. Cease: beet Beet: Greetings Dr Cease ||||||||| New notice: '* WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' llanwydd: carlos has had a great career Beet: Did see him live once in Houston DJTweeny: nice Cease: send me a liink, tween. i have to add this to my Listen list. ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 02, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" DJTweeny: sure Cat Cease: he's still active ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: David Ossman's “HOW TIME FLYS” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out HOW TIME FLYS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-rv' Beet: Always reassuring to hear Dr Tween's voice come on. Cease: never seen him, alas/ llanwydd: fantastic! Zen Cosmos: so cognirive dissociative- streaming you and PBS News Hour... Deputy Dang: Sorry I'm late. Why did the long hair cross the road? Because that's where his earbuds were plugged in. Cease: hi dang Zen Cosmos: nice line up to night Beet: Howdy Dang Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about David Ossman's HOW TIME FLYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln Cease: i have never walked the streets listening to anything, and only used phone when i needed it in paris 4 years ago. ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'InTheWood', just granted probation at 9:03 PM", then leaves hurriedly. DJTweeny: Harry Schearer and Wolfman Jack also on this one Cease: spent several hours prowling downtown vancouver taking pix today. Cease: hi woody DJTweeny: Hi Woody llanwydd: hey woody Cease: great weather. Beet: Hi ITW DJTweeny: The Years In Your Ears is Schearer llanwydd: whats going on in vancouver, cat? Cease: covid is soaring, alas Cease: masks ubiquitous. llanwydd: this is a brilliant album ||||||||| 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!" Deputy Dang: Howdy Cease, Tweeny, Beet, Llanwydd, etc. I don't recognize Zen Cosmos, but it sounds perfectly pelagic, so welcome! ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! InTheWood: Hi, all! NYC is drying out, finally... ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'residualecho', just granted probation at 9:04 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Cease: i was largely unmasked as i walked around taking pix, but every space i entered was mask only Cease: tis, llan DJTweeny: great to hear Wood Deputy Dang: I had a late lunch, walked, and forgot my mask. Just getting back. I know the mask is supposed to protect others, but nonetheless, I hope I don't catch anything. DJTweeny: seen pics of water flowing down subway steps DJTweeny: Hi echo Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about David Ossman's HOW TIME FLYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln residualecho: I saw an idiot at Costco today with a T-shirt that said, "anti Fauci-ism" Cease: Hi Ken Rufus_T_Firetween: hahaha echo residualecho: Hey fellow fireheads ||||||||| Catherwood leads Cyberlarson in through the front door at 9:07 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. residualecho: Hey it's Harry Shearer llanwydd: howdy larson residualecho: Who is singing with him? Cease: Van just had a big anti-mask, anti-vax rally yesterday. didn't know there were that many stupid people in vancouver Cease: his wife at the time DJTweeny: Hi Larson residualecho: Makes sense Cease: hi cyber DJTweeny: See the link I posted, echo DJTweeny: it lists the cast Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about David Ossman's HOW TIME FLYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln Zen Cosmos: female voice just now sounds like the little frieda voice on ZBS.org Cyberlarson: Hi all residualecho: Nice soundtrack for this evening's tasks. Wait to see if the new firefly rocket will try again for its first Vandenberg launch within the next 4 hours. residualecho: The other task is set up a second login for the new Hololens 2 that just arrived today Rufus_T_Firetween: rufus t firefly? Cyberlarson: I bought groat clusters residualecho: RTF is used to orbit by now Cease: i had a relative who worked at Vandenburg in the 60s. Had the best stereo system I've ever heard. InTheWood: I got a drawerful of packets of groat sauce. Cease: Also had a chimp, which was Not a Good Idea Cease: you have a parakeet, cyber? Beet: Hi Larson and Residual residualecho: our lease allows neither dogs nor cats, so we got creative. We have a coupla fish, and a snake residualecho: Heya Beet Cease: oh no, that was another relative with the chimp. the Vandenberger only had a great stereo. Unfortunatley, he used it mostly to listen to sound effects Cease: i would never live in a place that didn't allow pets. residualecho: We had just said goodbye to our last kitty Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl residualecho: And we'd have never found a better place than this Cease: when we got our new cat, we had to promise we'd take care of him all his life. DJTweeny: Glad they let you have the cat :) Cease: Bob is 6, so we'll have to live into our 80s residualecho: That's a good plan DJTweeny: hope you live into your 100s like my Mom, Cat :) Cease: didnt work out so well for bergman and austin Cease: me too, tween. Cease: i can keep cranking out collages for decades. DJTweeny: or Hendrix or Joplin DJTweeny: stuff happens DJTweeny: hope so, Cat :) residualecho: We just saw our aunt Lydia's tombstone, apart from the stats (she lived to 102) it said, "Been there, done that, no regrets" DJTweeny: haha, great Cease: when i was out taking pix today, in many of the streets i've taken pix in before, i found new beauty, and figure, i can not run out of new beauty to discover as long as i live. DJTweeny: excellent attitude, Cat residualecho: From P$B's legalization comedy, PB lights something up, says, if he smokes one of these government approved reefers ever day for a 100 years (long toke) he'll live to be an old, old man. ||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!" residualecho: P&B DJTweeny: echo, is that A Child's Garden Of Grass? DJTweeny: the only 'legalization comedy' I know of Cease: i can think of several tales of bergman' Cease: lust for grass. DJTweeny: would love to hear those Cease: and he was one of the most intelligent people of our era residualecho: TV or not TV. Saw him do it live, I think it's on one of the two albums, more likely the recording of a live performance with the "cigar" box cover Cease: from elayne's mag or somewhere, the firesigns were playiing the shakespeare fesatival in ashwillle (?) oregon residualecho: "Just what this country Needs?" Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Cease: bergman said, where can you score grass in this bumfuck town? Cease: my wife and i were lost there in our 2015 west coast tour, trying to find the freeway DJTweeny: I don't remember that from What This Country Needs Cease: i would assume, even in those days, very good dope could have been scored in ashland llanwydd: I have WtCN. what part are you talking about? Cease: proc tellls many such tales. one about zachariah. as soon as they got to mexico, bergy asked where he could score some dope residualecho: May have only been something he did live Zen Cosmos: Huston's book on entheogens a good resource to prep your rabbit hole dive into psychedelics... Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases Cease: just started a new play called Rabbit Hole Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman residualecho: He mimed lighting up an imaginary doobie, inhaling it so deeply that he burned all the way through it to burning his fingers Cease: but should finiish old one first Cease: dope humour of the 60s, et al DJTweeny: let me guess, the Jefferson Airplane will be played? Deputy Dang: they must have had better dope. weed certainly doesn't explain it. llanwydd: who said who you callin a dummy? llanwydd: what character was that? DJTweeny: Short Stop llanwydd: thanx tween DJTweeny: if I am not mistaken llanwydd: I thought it might betweeny coming back to life ||||||||| 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!" ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:26 PM and late as usual, it's Not Ed, just back from Washington." Not Ed: Pork? llanwydd: I picture him reinflating lightly as he says i llanwydd: but I have a wild imagination Rufus_T_Firetween: nope, not Tweeny llanwydd: Hi Not! DJTweeny: that's after Tweeny is deflated, I do believe Not Ed: Hey llan! Not Ed: Hey Tweeny DJTweeny: evenin' NotEd Cease: Hey Not ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Cease: HOw are things in Seattle? Not Ed: Who's here? Beet away> Zen C, resid, Ddang, Cease! Zen Cosmos: Clear and light rain by saturday... ||||||||| "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!" llanwydd: Not is in Seattle? you have probably met him in victoria Not Ed: pretty mellow, much cooler, stry straw dry - how bout you guys? Not Ed: still straw dry DJTweeny: Nino has NotEd in Seattle llanwydd: very hot down here in FL residualecho: Hey, I live next door to Pismo Beach Cease: great weather in van today. spent several hours out taking pix downtown Not Ed: ouch llan Cease: J Pismo Clam? ||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Cyberlarson - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Not Ed: Cool resid Not Ed: great C ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! llanwydd: well I wouldnt ay och but I will be happy when the summer is over Zen Cosmos: I am Lake City nabe of Seattle... Not Ed: Hey Rufus Cease: Maybe my favourite thing to do. Not Ed: Gosh I like this album DJTweeny: llanwydd: very hot down here in FL << 100+ with the humidity in Austin DJTweeny: One of my favorites as well llanwydd: rearely reaches 100 in florida llanwydd: just hovers below it Not Ed: humidity not fun - I was surprise how humid even Dallas can get DJTweeny: Austin can be 100+ w/o humidity, but this year we're getting Houston humidity ||||||||| 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!" llanwydd: it actually gets cold in florida sometimes Not Ed: I miss Austin - visited a few times in the 90's Not Ed: really llan llanwydd: I know how crazy he weather can be in texas llanwydd: the Not Ed: completely ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" Not Ed: robots win! DJTweeny: llanwydd: I know how crazy he weather can be in texas << not as crazy as February, when the arctic cold nearly shut down the power grid, and I was w/o water for a week (others had no power for much longer) llanwydd: I was in san antonio in the winter of 81 / 82 it went from the teenw to the 80s in a few minutes one day llanwydd: teens Not Ed: grr that suckt Tweeny - I feel/felt for you - other pals in TX too residualecho: I love this album Cease: Kon Tiki Mr M Not Ed: wow DJTweeny: Oh yeah, stuff can come out of the Panhandle and the temp can drop 30 degrees in a couple of hours Not Ed: yeah resid Cease: I don't get that, but I'm happy I can sail into the reference at some distant point in my life llanwydd: I could smell the famous yellow rose all around Not Ed: blue bonnets : ) DJTweeny: Not Ed: grr that suckt Tweeny - I feel/felt for you - other pals in TX too << I was melting snow to flush the toilet. That shite don't happen in Austin ;) Not Ed: oh man that's rough Tween DJTweeny: We don't do snow llanwydd: it snowed in san antonio when I was there Not Ed: was watching the American Experience doc about Lyndon a few nights ago - tragic presidency - amazing Texan lol Beet: I used to enjoy the meadows of bluebonnets. llanwydd: I liked johnson Not Ed: neat Beet Not Ed: I did too llanwydd: first president I can remember residualecho: Wolfman Jack Not Ed: but he got sucked into Vietnam as so many did Not Ed: became obsessed - fatally
DJTweeny watched the JFK funeral live on B&W TV residualecho: It's a shame they couldn't airlift many women and children out of Texas before turning it over to the Talibangelists ||||||||| 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!" llanwydd: I thought he was the ugliest man on television next to chet huntley but I came to like him over the years Not Ed: amazing me too Tween but I was John John's age Not Ed: lol llan DJTweeny: and Johnson didn't want JFK's fate, so he went with the Vietnam in return for funding his Great Society programs residualecho: There's a terrific documentary about Viet Nam, interviewing Robert Strang McNamara Cease: too much too soon Not Ed: zactly Tweeny residualecho: He starts sounding like Darth Vader explaining why he had to murder the youngling Jedis DJTweeny: lots of great voice actors on this album Not Ed: would like to see that resid residualecho: XERB BABY Not Ed: yeah it's great Tweeny DJTweeny: sure wish Shearer would get together with the remaining FST members and make something Not Ed: that would be sweet Cease: echo, we're around the same age. we both must have heard wolfman when he was broadcasting from mexico residualecho: Oh sure did residualecho: Fog of War - Errol Morris Cease:tween, they are equally busy dudes and friends. Cease: want to see that, echo residualecho: DJT, I was just thinking the same thing, maybe get Michael McKean Beet: I heard him from Mexico near Del Rio. Cease: people dont do things just cuz fans want them to llanwydd: cool! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “OSSMAN COLLAGE GRADUATION” 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.net/cat/' Not Ed: McKean was a riot on Better Call Saul Not Ed: in Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage OSSMAN COLLAGE GRADUATION at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS residualecho: It's idle dream casting Cease: fine actor residualecho: He was wonderful on Good Omens Not Ed:https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/wprorg/styles/resp_orig_custom_user_normal_1x/s3/images/bios/david_ossman.jpg Not Ed: didn't know he's in it Not Ed: noted residualecho: That's a wonderful portrait of DO Cease: i got ossman into apes Cease: i was an ape spokesman at the time residualecho: MIchael McKean portrays Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell Not Ed: just found it resid Not Ed: Have never heard this interview - tanx Tween Not Ed: Ha great, noted resid residualecho: We're about 10 minutes away from a second try at the launch; they did not succeed at engine ignition at 5:59 residualecho:https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/02/firefly-set-for-inaugural-test-launch-from-vandenberg/
Not Ed begins to hum the Hawaiian Hallucination Song.... residualecho: It's been a long time since a launch. We can see it from our south facing balconey Not Ed: thanks for the heads up resid DJTweeny: Not Ed: Have never heard this interview - tanx Tween << This is Cat's work :) Cease: i have a vast collection of firesign interviews, yet a small fraction of them all DJTweeny: I'm just the DJ residualecho: Cat's keeping the meta alive and well Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage OSSMAN COLLAGE GRADUATION at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS InTheWood: This is an interesting media conbination. Cease: ossman told me i was the only person who could do this, who had as deep a knowledgre snd vast a collection to produce these things Cease: that's sad Cease: there should be lots and lots of folks who use firesign like a painter uses paints ||||||||| 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." DJTweeny: nice accolades DJTweeny: and you probably are InTheWood: And the launch, and this fine text conversation. Beet: Hey, Cat, where/how do you keep all of your Firesign related material stored? residualecho: I've got a few flights of stairs to climb to watch the launch residualecho: AFK BRB Not Ed:https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/02/firefly-set-for-inaugural-test-launch-from-vandenberg/ Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl Cease: inj a couple of computers, CDsm cassettesm etc 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: Dang and Zen still here? Cease: this is from when fred weibel was on a west virginia radio station and interviewd all the fireguys ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Not Ed: wow pretty impressive launch --then kabooey!! Not Ed: kaboom! Not Ed: kablooey! lol Not Ed: thx guys Deputy Dang: I have to turn my computer off, but I'll be listening. Thank you all for joining--I'm sorry I wasn't more active--there's local drama. Cheers, and I hope to see you all next week. DJTweeny: Well, it's not David's birthday, but since we did a Proctor & Bergman Festival a couple of weeks ago, this seemed only fair ;) Thanks to Cat for both :) ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Not Not Ed inside, makes a note of the time (10:03 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. DJTweeny: later Deputy InTheWood: That was pretty amazing, for a first rocket attempt. Cease: that was an amaziing happening for ossman. Not Ed: it really was ITW Cease: if something like that happened to you what would you think? Not Not Ed: I'm not Not Ed, I was Not Ed but Not Ed stole my name residualecho: It had just gone supersonic and then we saw the flash. llanwydd: ;,kjuhygtfrdeswaqafghm Beet: Nice to see you, Deputy residualecho: How profoundly anomalous Not Ed: Sorry I'm the original formula NNE Beet: I just watched the launch. Pretty impressive. Not Ed: truly Bett Not Not Ed: I was Not Ed at lesat 14 years ago, don't visit often anymore Not Ed: oh I C DJTweeny: Good to see you here Not Ed: I've been here a while hmm Not Not Ed: Thanks Not Ed: Who Am Us, Anyway? DJTweeny: Nino says you're in Las Vegas Not Not Ed: Not Ed, that's for sure DJTweeny: Not Ed in Seattle Not Not Ed: I am, and who is Nino? residualecho: I don't think I can recall having heard this Tirebiter bit with Bergman Cease: i had a dream ossman and i were in vegas last night residualecho: Savate? The mind bender? DJTweeny: Click on the link at the right hand bottom of the page (Nino) ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Not Not Joe', just granted probation at 10:09 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Not Not Joe: Porque? Beet: Hello Joe Cease: not not. who's there? Not Not Ed: Ah ha Not Not Joe: you got me, C DJTweeny: haha NotEd Not Not Joe: gotta roll with the changes Not Not Ed: LOL Not Not Joe: right? Not Not Ed: Nice to meet you , Not Koe Not Not Ed: errr, Joe Not Not Joe: Likewise I'm sure Not Not Ed: I'm taking off my shoes
Not Not Joe Catherwood give everyone a fresh hot buttered groat cluster ||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a fresh hot buttered groat cluster. Not Not Joe: shoes no shoes Cease: when ossman dies, he would love to be obit'd as David Ossman, poet. also Firesigner et al Cease: for the dead/ the not dead Not Not Joe: the other side - is he a poet first, or a comic writer/perf? Not Not Ed: He writes beautifully and is truly a poet ||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Not Not Joe: ossman & austin wrote some of their best stuff away from firesign (imho) Not Not Joe: agree NNE Cease: i agree Not Not Ed: Hear, hear! Not Not Joe: Where? Where? InTheWood: There, there! Not Not Joe: lol Cease: a pound of hash. Cease: that's a lot Not Not Joe: haha Not Not Joe: enuf for every 1 llanwydd: israel had a crisis about goys in the military llanwydd: if I remember right llanwydd: maybe I heard it wrong Not Not Joe: really lol DJTweeny: goys lol DJTweeny: Oy Vey, goys in the military! InTheWood: I think there was also something about Gays in the Millinery. llanwydd: lol] Beet: Catherwood ,split up the pound of hash, please. ||||||||| Catherwood splits up the pound of hash. Not Not Joe: say thank you Cease: a small fraction of a gram led me to a wonderful day Beet: Thank you llanwydd: you dont need much, cat Not Not Joe: I rem this awful hash in mpls in the 80's - like clay or pla-doh Not Not Joe: blech Beet: Got wasted on some great hash in Morocco. Not Not Joe: this is fun C Cease: 'problem is it takes a wihile to come on, but when it does, all the of beauty of the world reaches out to me Not Not Joe: so jealous Beet! Beet: 1972 Not Not Joe: sounds nice C Not Not Joe: beautiful ||||||||| 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!" Cease: it was a beautiful day. looking at the pix i took, the beauty goes on Not Not Joe: neat DJTweeny: great to hear, Cat ||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Not Not Ed - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: beet, the idea isn't to get wasted. the idea is to use the herb to take one to a better place, open up eyes you were previously unaware of. Beet: I wish there were a way to share pictures here. Would be fun. Cease: not is now not? Cease: i took 117 pix today and some of them were really good. dont know how to share them Not Not Joe: radio drama is second best storytelling medium (reading is 1st) Beet: Naturally, Cease. LSD did that for me too. Not Not Joe: ossman just said it! Not Not Joe: LSD is so cool haven't done it in a while Not Not Joe: both LSD and audio drama are better than movies (wink) Zen Cosmos: just listening... residualecho: These interviews make me so happy Not Not Joe: Hey Zen Cease: hi zen ||||||||| 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 Not Joe: this is great Cease: gthe firesigns havew great fun inventing meaning for Dwarf title Cease: if you listen to this chat, you will here things you probably never heard Not Not Joe: so good DJTweeny: great collage, Cease DJTweeny: The FIresigns have said they want Cat's collages alongside their works in the Library Of Congress DJTweeny: *Firesigns Beet: Aren't they already? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage OSSMAN COLLAGE GRADUATION at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS DJTweeny: I don't think Cat's collages have been included yet Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s FST FREE TIME WITH THE CAT MAN broadcasts at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/ Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/ Cease: i talked to ossman a few weeks ago. he says there willl be a vast dump of my collages into the library, but we know not when ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! Not Not Joe: Sweet! Cease: so i try and make the best collages i can Beet: Cool ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Not Not Joe: time capsules Cease: i have devoted much of my life to immersing myself in Firesignland, and using it as a springboard for other cresartiviyt Cease: thuis is me Cease: talking to Dave in 1995 on a local radio show Not Not Joe: Indeed it is Not Not Joe: sublime DJTweeny: Cease: i talked to ossman a few weeks ago. he says there willl be a vast dump of my collages into the library << um, you might want to rephrase that Cease: lol Not Not Joe: lol Cease: those were his words, tween Not Not Joe: haha Not Not Joe: it's a mound Cease: i wanted to stock up on toilet paper DJTweeny: 'It's our Sun Temple' residualecho: shortages DJTweeny: my favorite FST bit is the first from their first album DJTweeny: Temporarily Humbolt County DJTweeny: Ossman heavily involved, I'm guessing ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." ||||||||| 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' DJTweeny: as he and Austin visited the indian reservations DJTweeny: excellent collage, Cease Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... InTheWood: Thanks, Tween! Not Not Joe: Cease, loved it. Tanx! - Tanx Tweeny, Merl, Rufus and Leroy Tirebiter! --Hey you all--stay groovy and have a grrrrrreat holiday weekend!! ||||||||| 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!" Beet: Very interesting evening this. Always enjoy hanging with Fireheads. Excellent collage as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for leading, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... residualecho: Hearing the dawn chorus always reminds me of winding down from a night full of psychic white knuckling on neurotransmitter analogs Cease: echo, we should talk Cease: i dont know what thart means but it sounds like un fun residualecho: we shall InTheWood: Another great night. G'night, all! residualecho: wonderful collage residualecho: g'night! ||||||||| At 10:59 PM, InTheWood vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| At 10:59 PM, residualecho dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." ||||||||| Cease is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 11:00 PM. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Not Not Joe - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood leads Limb Ashhauler inside, makes a note of the time (11:36 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Limb Ashhauler: I hope something happens before all this dry ice melts... ||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from jaundice ||||||||| 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 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Limb Ashhauler - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Around 2:23 AM, llanwydd walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| 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
Cyberlarson
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
InTheWood
Limb Ashhauler
llanwydd
Not Ed
Not Not Ed
Not Not Joe
residualecho
Rufus_T_Firetween
Zen Cosmos
