Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/25/2021

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||||||||| 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 25, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "11:36 AM and late as usual, it's Pico, just back from Elmertown."
Pico: The Mushroom Plays are soon to be released! Order yours today!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes some tones on a small xylophone and says "It is noon in New York this day of November 25, 2021 "- then a trapdoor opens up and swallows him.
||||||||| It's 12:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Pico - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 Rufus_T_Firetween gets out at 1:02 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:00 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
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 7:25 PM downtown bus from Maryland pulls away, leaving Pico coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| "Hey Pico!" ... Pico turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 7:26 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 7:48 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sneaks in around 7:49 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month'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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Rick', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:24 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| 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: Hi Rick, music in a few minutes but you can join the stream now
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – MARTIN PAGE-IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT
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)'
||||||||| It's 8:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rick - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 five minutes!"
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
DJTweeny: might be an even thinner crowd tonight
Cease: It could just be you and I.
DJTweeny: I'd expect a few 'drop-ins' ;)
Cease: It's like Sunday on Thursday
DJTweeny: but yeah people are with their families
Cease: True
DJTweeny: That's OK, we keep the FireFlame burning for the chat :)
Cease: I recall previous Thanksgivings being poorly attended
DJTweeny: sure, as Christmas would be
DJTweeny: Still worth the effort
Cease: Great news about the Mushroom release
DJTweeny: for whoever shows up
DJTweeny: Just got a new Zoom camera, would love to have Taylor come on and talk about it
Cease: Let's see if we can get him here.
DJTweeny: The House Of Stone And Light is the Native American name for The Grand Canyon
Cease: I'm really looking forward to making collages out of it.
DJTweeny: kewl
Cease: I didn't know that.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! **
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)'
DJTweeny: great album
Cease: Actually the Craig piece is only the first half.
DJTweeny: worth a buy >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_House_of_Stone_and_Light
Cease: I think Bergman had moved back to LA at this time. That's why there's no Ossman in these shows
Cease: In 2010, they were virtually neighbours in Washington State
||||||||| Tom tiptoes in around 9:04 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: Sounds like Bergman recording himself in his living room.
Cease: Hi Tom
Cease: As conmpared to the professional studio sound of 2010.
Cease: Are you an old Firesign fan, Tom?
DJTweeny: Hi Tom
Tom: Oh yes. I became a devoted when How can you be in two places at once first came out. I believe that was in 1852.
DJTweeny: haha
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: was that after 1836?
Cease: That was the album that really got them an audience.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Tom >> ** If you want to know where your fellow chatters live, ask Nino The Mindboggler by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease is in Vancouver, BC
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm in Austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nino doesn't always have peoples' locations
Rufus_T_Firetween: If Nino is accurate, Tom is near where Musk has his SpaceX spaceport in TX
Cease: Bergman loved Syria. Had a great time there in the 60s
Cease: As he dieing, he asked his daughter to take his body to Syria.
Cease: That's only a few months after this show.
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow
Rufus_T_Firetween: and now it's just another playground for warring nations
Rufus_T_Firetween: sad
Cease: Bergman was Way into Occupy, a movement started by my old mag, Adbusters
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, I'm guessing we should beg off shows on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas ;)
Cease: Good idea, Tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks for you efforts though Cease :)
Cease: I'm busy with my Brautigan collage (Firesigns Really Liked him) now and will do something with the Mushroom shows when they arrive, but want to spend more time doing video now
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have other things I can be doing. How about we shut it down and call it a night?
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll have something better for them next week.
Cease: well, a few folks my show up. I did put thing together.
Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, I'll keep it going then
Cease: We can announce in the future, no shows on holidays.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Good idea
Cease: It's great to hear Pete babbling from 1967. This is the Mushroom show era, which I recall fondly.
Cease: This is the era I got into Firesign.
Rufus_T_Firetween: You heard them live on the radio in L.A. :-)
Rufus_T_Firetween: very cool
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: I did indeed.
Cease: I going through my involvement with the Peanuts empire now, which preceded my involvment with Firesigns
Cease: I can see how I moved from Peanuts to Firesign in the late 60s
Cease: Peanuts was a great intellectual stimulent for me in the late 50s, as the Firesign were at the time of this show.
Cease: This was also my first year of University, a good time for intellectual stimulation, particular in LA in 67
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“AMERICAN THANKSGIVING 2021”
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/'
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll bet being in California in '67 was pretty amazing
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'The Summer Of Love'
Cease: It was, at least for me.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bergman's 'Love-In'
Cease: This was the beginnig of what was then called Underground Radio which I felt would occupy the rest of my life.
Cease: Actually, it has.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Which obviously inspired the TV show Laugh-In (which I loved)
Cease: I never thought of that.
Cease: But there was a lot of that kind of thinking in the air in those days.
Cease: Heard an interview with a guy who wrote a book about the Smothers Brothers TV show the other day
Rufus_T_Firetween: Oh yeah. it had to be a take-off on Bergman's idea
Rufus_T_Firetween: also remember the Smothers Bros
Rufus_T_Firetween: They got kicked off of CBS for being too political
Cease: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=george+schlatter+laugh+in&atb=v174-1&ia=web
Cease: Also heard interview with this guy, who created Laugh In.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: Mark Maron's twice weekly podcast. I learn a lot from it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Wonder if he met the Firesigns
Cease: Only one I listen to consistanly.
Cease: Schlatter? Could be
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah
Cease: They were real hustlers in those days
Cease: and he would have been the guy to hustle
Cease: https://www.georgeschlatter.com/
Cease: We can ask him
DJTweeny: Please do :)
DJTweeny: The more we know about FST history the better
Cease: Proc would know. Maybe Taylor as well. Yes it's a great idea to get Taylor in here soonest to plug Mushrooms.
Cease: This is about as good as Firesign got. Austin's work.
Rufus_T_Firetween: email him and tell him I can do a Zoom
Cease: The Malaria epidemic.
Cease: Taylor? Sure.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ossman has also said he'd do Zoom, but it would be embarassing on a night like this ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: It'd have to be really well promoted
Cease: I'd rather not do that with George. He'd look at the emaiil and say "who the fuck are you? you're not famous enough to talk to me!"
Cease: lol. embarrassing indeed.
Cease: you said you met this guy, tween?
Cease: michael murphy
Cease: i got this song released in japan. it did not go well
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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: '** HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“HAPPY 81ST BIRTHDAY, PETER BERGMAN”
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: now it would be happy 82nd birthday.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, I met MMM's band 3 times when I was a live sound mixer in Indiana
Rufus_T_Firetween: His keyboard player did good justice to 'Wildfire'
Cease: great song
Cease: i love that pete would use the word "assay". it's so far from a radio word.
Cease: i remember when smoking was uquitous. thankflly that's long ago.
Rufus_T_Firetween: This really is looking even worse than our Sunday efforts lol
Cease: tis indeed, tween.
Cease: none of the tiny number of regulars.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well again, stay away from national holidays
Cease: we've learned our lesson, however belatedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Dec 23rd is just before Christmas, so that shouldn't be a problem
Cease: maybe
Rufus_T_Firetween: We should ask folks if they'll be available
Rufus_T_Firetween: We put a lot of effort into this, and it shouldn't be wasted
Cease: indeed
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ptkk8aLLM
Cease: Someone posted this arlo guthrie thing on one of the firesign facebook groups today.
Rufus_T_Firetween: can't do YT while I'm doing a show
Cease: i taped this off the radio in 1968, as i recall. it was before i had any experience with roaches
Rufus_T_Firetween: My real problem is how little interest Phil and Dave take in our efforts :(
Cease: you can listen to it post show. i can definitely use it in a future collage.
Rufus_T_Firetween: If they just happened in on occasion like Austin used to, I'll bet we'd get a few more people involved
Rufus_T_Firetween: That was so cool that Tiny showed up on Sunday
Cease: it was indeed. for us. not for DO I fear.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, we'll keep at it
Rufus_T_Firetween: Whoever shows up shows up
Cease: this is wonderful stuff to listen to. this is what i've spent most of my life doing, listening to firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: but I would like Doc and Fish to have the capabiity to do shows when I'm not available on a Thursday night
Rufus_T_Firetween: and they're not being very cooperative, so I can't guarantee that I'll be here every Thursday
Cease: bergman had an amazing life.
Cease: it strikes me as something beyond my capactiy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: just saying, please get with Fish and Doc and let's get it worked out
Rufus_T_Firetween: Radio Free Dishnuts is happy to provide the streaming server to friends of FST
Cease: i can ask.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Streaming is not difficult, but I'm not a Win guy and can't tell you how to do it
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, please ask
Rufus_T_Firetween: Radio Free Dishnuts respects FST and will provide a free streaming server
Rufus_T_Firetween: Doc and Fish would be welcome
Rufus_T_Firetween: let's get some backup in case Tweeny isn't available :)
Cease: ah, joe walsh
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops, I'm off for the night
Cease: wasnbt expecting that.
Cease: are we off the air?
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gators...
Cease: off we fly, like a turkey through the rye
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, I screwed up and played something from iTunes
Rufus_T_Firetween: au revoir Cat
Cease: yeah, i think this is the end. bye tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll do beter next time
Cease: not a high bar
Cease: lets go listen to that arlo guthrie thing.
||||||||| Around 10:33 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween leaves to catch the 10:33 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "10:42 PM and late as usual, it's Alvarado, just back from Hellmouth."
Alvarado: Late? At least I made it!
||||||||| It's 10:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tom - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Around 11:01 PM, Alvarado walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| 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 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:
Alvarado
Cease
DJTweeny
Pico
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tom

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=george+schlatter+laugh+in&atb=v174-1&ia=web
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_House_of_Stone_and_Light
https://www.georgeschlatter.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ptkk8aLLM