Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/11/2021

Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for November 11, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween steals in around 7:53 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "7:55 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Billville."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(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 QUEST
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)'
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:54 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Daytona Beach."
llanwydd: hi tween
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
llanwydd: Thanks for The Quest! Great album
DJTweeny: Hey llan
DJTweeny: This is the new YES album
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:57 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
llanwydd: Hey Cat
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: Hi all
Cease: Hope folks remember to show up for chat on rememberance day
DJTweeny: The new singer is very good at singing in Jon Anderson's style
DJTweeny: Armistice Day is the correct term, actually
DJTweeny: The end of WWI
llanwydd: better than Benoit David, I think
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Beet plummets into the garden at 8:59 PM.
Beet: Hey, gang.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
DJTweeny: but since that's anti-war, they changed it ;)
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
llanwydd: Hit Beet
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
||||||||| 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, Dr Tween
DJTweeny: no hit beet!
Beet: Hi Llan
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Hey, Dr Cease
Cease: Beet
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:01 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's “EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out EYKIW at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-rv'
Elayne: Evenin' all!
DJTweeny: Hey E
Cease: Hi El!
Beet: Evening, Miss Elayne.
Cease: Happy Rememberance Day,if that's not a contradiction
Elayne: Partial explanation as to why we haven't yet seen Phyllis here. Her mom just passed away, she's sitting shiva.
Cease: All the TV news all day inVancouver is Remembrance Day ceremonies
DJTweeny: Sorry to hear, Elayne :(
Elayne: All the movies on TCM today are war movies, Cat.
Beet: All kinds of freebees for us veterans today.
Cease: Sad to hear, El
Beet: I'm sorry for your loss.
DJTweeny: and yet Armistice Day is a celebration of the END of WWI
Beet: Where am I?
Cease: This is in my opinion, the last of their great albums until the last trilogy.
DJTweeny: You Are Here Player
Elayne: Yoko Ono has been posting "War is Over" stuff all day on FB.
DJTweeny: I love it Cease
DJTweeny: good for her
Cease: There is a Yoko show at the Van art gallery.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
DJTweeny: I happened to be living in AZ around the time this album was released, so it fit the mood of the times perfectly
Elayne: Tween, were you in a nudist trailer park as well?
Cease: I have alot more respect for her aftrer seeing the flick Above Us Only Sky, a "a lot more" is relative
Elayne: I think that's where my ex-husband is now, although he's in Orange County.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Elayne, nope
Cease: This album is from 74, right?
Rufus_T_Firetween: I was staying with the son of the guy who built 'the london bridge' at Lake Havisu
Rufus_T_Firetween: big real estate mogul
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah 74
Cease: I was in Japan getting Firesign played on the radio that year.
Rufus_T_Firetween: good for you
Cease: Picked up a copy of Firesign World, their Berkely show, at a bootleg record store in Tokyo
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice
Beet: It's interesting to think that they were having so much enfluence around the world.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat did you say you had a link to their new Mushroom Show offering?
Cease: i sent you a copy, tween. not exactly broadcast quality.
Elayne: The link David put up on FB just takes you to the Firesign homepage.
Cease: ossman announced it on facebook today but no link yet.
Elayne: Oh good, I thought I was going nuts trying to find it, like it was sonewhere obvious.
Rufus_T_Firetween: You sent it recently Cat? I'm not seeing it
Cease: i heard and recorded the shows when they were first broadcast in 67 but now look forwatd to clean versions of those plays
Elayne: Okay, typing fingers not working. Goodness I miss weed. Doesn't seem fair that it's legal here but I can't get to it. Night all.
Cease: years ago, tween.
||||||||| 9:15 PM -- Elayne left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Cease: night, el
Rufus_T_Firetween: rest well Elayne
Rufus_T_Firetween: ah OK Cease
Beet: See you later, Elayne.
Rufus_T_Firetween: so it's in the collection somewhere
llanwydd: frg5tyhuj8i
llanwydd: just getting the grey out
Beet: I was just about to say that.
llanwydd: gas music
llanwydd: from the gas giant
llanwydd: this whole album reminds me of Coast to Coast AM
Beet: I was just thinking that.
Beet: George Norree forever!
llanwydd: I used to think it was Nori
llanwydd: its actually naury
||||||||| "9:26 PM? 9:26 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Whofonted should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Whofonted enters and sits on the couch.
llanwydd: I started listening to it when mike siegel was the host
Cease: HI Who
DJTweeny: Hi Whofonted
DJTweeny: Welcome to our little soirée
Cease: I heard Proctor on the show promoting his autobi
Beet: It actually says Noory on Google.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
Beet: Hi Who
llanwydd: thanks, tween
||||||||| Whofonted rushes off, saying "9:28 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
llanwydd: guess I was wrong beet
Beet: I always got it wrong myself
Beet: Nobody talks about scrambled aliens these days.
llanwydd: I need to write an autobi someday
llanwydd: so should we all
Cease: good idea, llan
Cease: i did a bunch of autobiographical collages a few years back. they're in the archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: " I was born a poor black child." ~ Steve Martin in The Jerk
Cease: my new play is Very autobiographical.
llanwydd: I saw that movie when it came out, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: " I'm in the phone book!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Have you seen Martin with Eddie Murphy in 'Bowfinger'?
Rufus_T_Firetween: hilarious
llanwydd: that patented glasses handle. LOL
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah Carl Reiner :)
llanwydd: louise promised me a ...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bowfinger - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131325/
Cease: i'lll have to look for that at the library
llanwydd: steves whole act was Jerk
Rufus_T_Firetween: They have a great Scientology parody called Mind Head
llanwydd: I bought his first three albums
Rufus_T_Firetween: Worth a watch, Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have at least two of his vinyl from the 70s
Cease: right now i'm reading an excellent book called Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman
llanwydd: my text size keeps reduces
Cease: Just reading a chapter abuort chickens right now.
Rufus_T_Firetween: :/
llanwydd: I havent read a book in too long
Cease: interesting bit of synchornicity happened to me today. i'm digitizing my peanuts colleciton and was scanning a Falcon ad where Lucy is wearing tartan and talking about how cheap the new Falcon is.
llanwydd: cool, cat
Cease: at the same time, i'm listening to today's Maron podcast and he's talking about the history of people taking offence at comedy.
Cease: one of his examples was Red Skelton in the 40s complaining that he couldn't make jokes about Scottsmen any more because they took offence
llanwydd: goes all the way back to king lear and his fool
Cease: the greek play writes were provoking their audiences 25 hundrfed years ago, long history of offensive comedy
llanwydd: didnt know it went back that far, cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's THE FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD
a radio interview “Firesign on WHFS-FM Bethesda, MD 3/30/1981”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases'
llanwydd: Great Alblum
Beet: Good one.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've always considered FST to be the 'Court Jesters of the USA'
llanwydd: FCoH was 1971?
Cease: probably earlier. the sumerians probably had their comedians.
llanwydd: and the sumerians must have been very very offensive
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood
Rufus_T_Firetween: about a decade off llan
llanwydd: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: around the time Reagan was taking office
llanwydd: I know, tween. I bought FC when it came out and I had already caught the tour
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice
llanwydd: the FC/LH tour
Cease: Ford cars? The synchronicty continues.
Cease: 've spent all day copying Ford ads
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| "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: I meant Fighting Clowns/Lawyers Hospital tour
Cease: I'd forgotten how much work
Cease: Schultz did for Ford. It's amazing he still had time to do his daily strip.
Cease: Those Falcon TV ads got him into the animation business, which later brought forth A Charlie Brown Christmas and all that came after
Cease: From 58 or 59, I was as much into Peanuts as I was into Firesign thereafter.
Beet: I just realized I was in D.C. during this and had no idea they were there. Wow.
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
Cease: Great book.
Cease: I shuold re-read
Cease: Joey's House was supposed tobe an album
Rufus_T_Firetween: I mixed at The Cellar Door in D.C.
Rufus_T_Firetween: It was a pretty small place ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: A bar with maybe 300 people, but they had all sorts of great acts
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
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“FIREHEADS 6 PART 4”
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/'
Cease: A 14-part collage.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: My voice sounds kinda used up.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I got really busy today and didn't get around to posting Cat's new collage, but will have it up by tomorrow evening
Cease: Exhausting
Rufus_T_Firetween: You've been a busy man ;)
Cease: Next collage will be about Richard Brautigan, a very Firesign-like writer but probsably not til December.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Can't Get You Out of my Head: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13973190/
Cease: Yeah, I got the script for play off to Doc last weekend. Spent most of Octoberf working on that.
Cease: Now I spend all day copyiing Peanuts and 19th century Japese comics in prep for sale next week.
Cease: You'll be seeing some of those old comic books in a new Firesign video I should have done by the new year.
Cease: Have an idea for a vid mixing the comics with some music, and the Falcon ads with various Firesign car bits
llanwydd: jack poet?
llanwydd: you know it
Cease: there are MANY Firesign car bits.
Cease: Hi Friends...
llanwydd: Hi Cease
llanwydd: well, of course, cat. ralph spoilsport...
Cease: Spoilsport, Heeblehouser, Duke of Madness Motors and many, many more
llanwydd: right
llanwydd: forgot about duke of madness
Rufus_T_Firetween: There's a car commercial bit on P&B's 'Give Us A Break'
llanwydd: yeah we need to start a membership campaign some place or someplaces
llanwydd: lemon its a lemon
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cease: there is indeed. roller maidens, etc, etc, etc
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've thought it would be cool is there was an actual fan club, where people pay dues and get special mailings or whatever
llanwydd: thats the best track on GUAB
Cease: there have been firesign fan clubs in the past.
llanwydd: how much are you thinking for dues, tween?
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've no idea, depends on what we would be offering
Rufus_T_Firetween: Access to a web site with rare material? Discounts on new releases?
Cease: speaking of zen monasterys, i have to do a collage mixing Firesign with Gary Snyder.
Cease: Bergman got WAY inot Buddhism.
Cease: When he moved to Whidbey after his divorce, he lived in the home of the zen master he was raising money for on that Hour Hour show in 1970
Rufus_T_Firetween: Maybe a Reddit sort of conversation with the Firesigns? I don't know...
Rufus_T_Firetween: There are lots of Fireheads ou there who love all the ads for the chat we post, but nobody shows up. Maybe if it was simply more like a discussion group that people could join at will?
Rufus_T_Firetween: *out there
Cease: It would be hard to have Less chatters, Tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: We just haven't found the right medium for people to get involved.
Beet: frustrating
Cease: We don't have Not Ed here tongiht and he's a regular
Cease: Maybe if Chat could be an App?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes Cease, it's actuall worse that when JL was doing shows from a dial-up connection lol
llanwydd: whose voice is this, c?
Cease: Adam Curtis.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm open for suggestions
Cease: The whole collage serfies is based on his BBC series Cant get yhou out of my head
Cease: He has a bunch of these series. All great
llanwydd: I need to check out his stuff on youtube
Cease: you do indeed, llan
Cease: vrefy muchl like firesign, his theme is power, and how to subvert it.
llanwydd: gold is grass
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: mussl yahctz
Cease: I found it difficult to process what had happened.
Cease: I was in shock when trump was elected.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Can't Get You Out of my Head: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13973190/
Cease: thanks, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: I was in shock when trump was elected. << Imagine the Democrat's surprise ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: I voted for Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party)
Beet: I can't imagine another 4 with Trump.
Cease: I was chatting with one of our former chatters that night and she had to keep reminding me to breathe
Cease: all watched over by machines of loving grace, a brautigan line.
Cease: firesign quoted that line in an Hour Hour episode
Cease: hey tween, was it on trhe sunday show or here, we talked about playing the rfo podcasts? That's A LOT of content
Rufus_T_Firetween: Indeed :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: A whole new treasure trove
Rufus_T_Firetween: and if only 4 of us show up for chat, so be it
Rufus_T_Firetween: there will always be the potential for archives
Cease: more than a hundred hours
Beet: Big fan of RFO.
Cease: i'll keed doing collages, but want to concentrate on vids for the next few monthes so there will be fewer audio things.
Rufus_T_Firetween: no big, there's lots of Firesign material to play
Rufus_T_Firetween: I can always go through the DOMM collection
Cease: hundreds of hours
Cease: domm is main source of my collage material
Cease: Discovered Graeber last year. One of my new heroes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Great series, Cat :)
Cease: Thanks, tween
Cease: hpoe folks enjoy it in the archives
Rufus_T_Firetween: The new one will be up sometime tomorrow
Rufus_T_Firetween: They were doing repairs in my apartment today and I didn't get to loading it
Cease: no hurry
Beet: Well done, my frirnd.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's THE FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD
“D. Family Reunion and Heal-a-Thon, Finale”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases'
Beet: friend
Cease: My job was teaching and i've been an artist for most of my life and these colalges are a combination of the 2.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice work
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood
Rufus_T_Firetween: must have been an amazing concert
||||||||| 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'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: This was fun. Nice to see you guys. Thoroughly enjoyed the last installment, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Cease: bye
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, Cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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
DJTweeny
Elayne
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-rv
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131325/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13973190/