||||||||| 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 December 16, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 3:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 3:00 PM, dragging DJTweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?" ||||||||| 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 – ABBA-VOYAGE 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)' ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 3:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Hey, Dr Tween and everybody, I am barely half here and/or awake tonight. A will have to excuse myself and bow out tonight. I will catch up in the archives and daily log. Ya’ll have fun and I’ll see you next week. ‘Nite. ||||||||| llanwydd steals in around 3:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." DJTweeny: Yo Beet llanwydd: howdy folks DJTweeny: Hey llan DJTweeny: This is the new ABBA album DJTweeny: pretty good pop llanwydd: funny how all the old groups keep coming back DJTweeny: may be their swan songs, as we are all getting older ;) llanwydd: most of them anyway llanwydd: nite beet llanwydd: I mean most of them keep coming back DJTweeny: great that they hang in there, in the face of what is called 'popular music' these days llanwydd: the beatles surely would have if they had had a little more time ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom. llanwydd: Hi Cease DJTweeny: allo Cease llanwydd: is that agnetha? Cease: Hi gang DJTweeny: The Beatles were too busy with lawsuits :( Cease: this sounds a bit like yoko ono llanwydd: lol DJTweeny: The new ABBA album, Cease Cease: i have to subscribe to disney for a month and watch that beatles thing. llanwydd: is this a christmas album? Cease: is the new Freak Brothers tv show on disney? llanwydd: freak brothers on disney sounds kind of surreal llanwydd: I can picture mickey with the three guys DJTweeny: ABBA Voyage - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/abba-voyage/ ||||||||| 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!" Cease: i got an amazon subscription when i ordered something from them in november. DJTweeny: not a 'christmas album' Cease: only things i liked weere some bbc science shows and the cannabis doc The God Plant llanwydd: has the iconic abba sound Cease: it renewed before i could discontinue but i discovered a great newish flick called Hot Money DJTweeny: It does llan Cease:https://www.hotmoneyfilm.com/ llanwydd: got to check out the god plant Cease: didnt like them then, or now ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." llanwydd: who, cat? ||||||||| 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: how's covid affecting y'all? Canada is shutting down international travel again Cease: a baa humbug! llanwydd: I have had three shots already DJTweeny: always admired their production, but never bought their albums DJTweeny: much like Queen llanwydd: lol DJTweeny: llanwydd: I have had three shots already << Jack Daniels? Cease:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls5js06XVvc ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 16, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" ||||||||| It's 9:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... llanwydd: I dont know tween. maybe thats what it was Cease: did covid get beet? DJTweeny: This is from Doc's Dear Friends Too llanwydd: beet was here but he got too tired DJTweeny: 'Watching TV' Cease: aha! llanwydd: eggs! LOL DJTweeny: "They're in everybody's eggs..." llanwydd: lol llanwydd:tween, if I had had all the fst you have been playing back in the 70s I would have never left home DJTweeny: haha, well you can thank Cat :) llanwydd: lof course DJTweeny: I'm just the DJ DJTweeny: this one just happened to fit the time llanwydd: thanks a million car llanwydd: cat ||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: from Peter Bergman’s RADIO FREE OZ show podcasts - “Cranking Up The Yuan While Breaking A Good Man's Will” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check Out RADIO FREE OZ At >> http://radiofreeoz.com/' llanwydd: cool! Cease: much of my life has been devoted to the firesign theatre. DJTweeny: As Cat wanted to point out, we're playing the 21st century OZ episodes in chronicle order DJTweeny: *chronological llanwydd: I heard the 8 Shoes play this at town hall in nyc Cease: or chronic order Cease: you told that story inthe ossman piece, llan. great story DJTweeny: nice, llan Cease: canada is straight and hip at the same time. i like that llanwydd: I really enjoyed that cat Cease: hope there will be more in the future. i hated having to drag stories out of many people, but you i can always rely on. llanwydd: canada has put out a lot of great stuff. Cease:tween was going to do a similar thing about boom dot bust but that seems to have been delayed, or cancelled. DJTweeny: love BDB, my fav of the 2000 Trilogy DJTweeny: would be happy to play any of those characters DJTweeny: Will we have more OZ next week Cat? llanwydd: my favorite of the trilogy is immortality Cease: both of you lads are in my new play. it's in doc technical's hands now. DJTweeny: cool Cease: i want to replay my charlie firesign collage and the little firesign xmas stuff there is. if the mushroomn thing arrives, we'll isten to Tile It Like It Is, which was their xmas play from 67 llanwydd: catherwood, get everybody a whiz ||||||||| Catherwood gets everybody a whiz. Cease: i wonder if rfo did a xmas show? i'll have to look into it. DJTweeny: Didn't know that Austin appeared on these 21st century OZ shows DJTweeny: kewl Cease: yes, briefly as i recall, tween DJTweeny: just did DJTweeny: well, at least there are 3 of us here tonight Cease lol DJTweeny: better than our last Sunday show ;) DJTweeny: WTF do we have to do to get people in here?? Cease: maybe someone else will show up? Cease: like the firesign, we just do the work. people check it out or don't. Cease: electrician only sold 11,000 copies, and bergman was very big in LA at the time llanwydd: just left an invite at imdb2.freeforums.net llanwydd: who knows llanwydd: ;I am an unnatural disaster llanwydd: rfcghbnjkjhgfdhfjghds llanwydd: if I may Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah Cease, they were always under-appreciated Rufus_T_Firetween: but I get so many 'Likes' for my Facebook posts and announcements Rufus_T_Firetween: I just find it incredible that more people don't actually show up ||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store." ||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: from Peter Bergman’s RADIO FREE OZ show podcasts “Cranking Up The Yuan While Breaking A Good Man's Will” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check Out RADIO FREE OZ At >> http://radiofreeoz.com/' Cease: yeah, bummer. Rufus_T_Firetween: no doubt Cease: this show wasn't very successful either. i was with bergman and ossman when they were planning this show. they asked how many listeners i thought they'd get and i told them think small numbers. Cease: i think there was some considerable interest in the beginning, but by year 2 bergman was begging for money more than generating anything to send money for Rufus_T_Firetween: Maybe I'll message the people who give them 'Likes' and ask why they don't join us ;) Cease: good idea, tween. Cease: this is a beautiful segment. 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 ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “WAITING FOR RICHARD BRAUTIGAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM” 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: Seems like I had a copy of Trout Fishing Rufus_T_Firetween: thought it was Doonesbury Rufus_T_Firetween: hmmm, long time ago Rufus_T_Firetween: I think the Doonesbury was Trout Fishing In The Reflecting Pool ||||||||| Lulu enters at 3:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Waiting For Richard Brautigan Or Someone Like Him” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES DJTweeny: Hi Lulu Lulu: Hiyaz DJTweeny: We start at 9pm Eastern Cease: it's sold 2 million copies. DJTweeny: at least you caught the 2nd half of the show :) Cease: hi lulu Lulu: I finally remembered in time for the 2nd half. Cease: i'm usisng this bit in my new video Cease: callled The Firesign Falcon. Cease: 7 red snoopy pins called I Love Falcon and then an image of Charlie Brown in Bosch's heaven DJTweeny: We're glad you made it, Lulu :) Cease: how's it going, Lulu? ||||||||| 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!" Lulu: In the beginning there was naught but dead air. And God turned on the light. Then low, but behold, there cometh one morning, a morning, and thence there was no - mourning. And that begat a new daytime, along with morning dry time, afternoon drive time, evening prime time, and late night crime time, in the darkness of looting. Thus waseth the word of our Gall. For we knowest not the Temptations, but deliver us unto the weevils, for mine is the powder, the glory whole what it is. And wheel us not into the vale of peers, for we wilt not; but blossom freely into the holy vessel. That iseth not the whore of Woebegotten, verily into the holy hostess of Canine. Lulu: Part of my recent radio theater play.. Cease: Wonderful, Lulu ||||||||| Lulu rushes off, saying "3:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" : Thanks. : Thanks. : In the beginning there was naught but dead air. And God turned on the light. Then low, but behold, there cometh one morning, a morning, and thence there was no - mourning. And that begat a new daytime, along with morning dry time, afternoon drive time, evening prime time, and late night crime time, in the darkness of looting. Thus waseth the word of our Gall. For we knowest not the Temptations, but deliver us unto the weevils, for mine is the powder, the glory whole what it is. And wheel us not into the vale of peers, for we wilt not; but blossom freely into the holy vessel. That iseth not the whore of Woebegotten, verily into the holy hostess of Canine. llanwydd: that was cool : Somehow I got ejected. Rufus_T_Firetween: click on the Exit button and rejoin ||||||||| Lulu bounds in at 3:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. llanwydd: welcome. Lulu Rufus_T_Firetween: welcome back llanwydd: , Lulu: I keep getting ejected Cease: one of my favourite uses of vibes Rufus_T_Firetween: typing a colon : in this chat is the same as typing /me in an IRC chat
Rufus_T_Firetween welcomes Lulu back Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Waiting For Richard Brautigan Or Someone Like Him” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES Lulu: Thought maybe it was because I posted something sacreligious. Rufus_T_Firetween: The Rev. Bill Barstormer might get angry Cease: Pastor Flash welcomes you back 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: New play coming on line sometime in 2022. llanwydd: sport trendelberg absolves you Cease: the firesigns performed this the last time i saw them live, in 2010 Rufus_T_Firetween: nice llanwydd: I only saw them once, in 1931 llanwydd: I meant to say 1981 Rufus_T_Firetween: wow, you're really old llanwydd: lol Cease: how's it going, Lulu? Rufus_T_Firetween: Tell your friends Lulu, we do this every Thursday evening Rufus_T_Firetween: trying to get people in here for the great material we play Cease: Adam Curtis made a wonderful TV series using the title of this poem as its title and theme. Rufus_T_Firetween: a lot of it is quite rare Cease: hot wiring death is sometihng emmet grogan would do Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.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: i'll be doing stuff based on the new mushroom release starting soon. Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease: you write radio plays, Lulu? Lulu: I'm doing well, Cease. How be you? Lulu: Yeah I do. You can hear my latest under my nom de plume. http://kkrn.org/broadcasts/4039 Lulu: Its comedy more or less, with that profane bit I pasted. Cease: couldn't be better. Cease: as long as i'm creating, i'm doing well. Lulu: Yay. Cease: just bookmarked it, Lulu Lulu: Working on a new one, about the 2nd coming of Jesse Christ. Cease: this is from a film from the early days of video, early 70s, from proctor and bergman's visit to a radio station in ann arbor. Lulu: Awesome. Cease: i look forward to hearing it, Lulu Cease: come and visit us on chat here when it's done. Lulu: Okay, thanx. Cease: "Jesse Christ" sounds like a Breaking Bad character Cease: Rose Meow smile. I love that Lulu: It's better than "Jesse Pink". ||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! ** Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :) Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign' Cease: Indeed, Lulu Rufus_T_Firetween: Dylan may have written Watchtower, but Jimi brought it to life Rufus_T_Firetween: one of my favorites Rufus_T_Firetween: amazing that they did it with 4-tk recorders, like Sgt. Pepper Lulu: Listening thru one stereo channel - makes it kinda weird. Cease: I was in Shimonseki, Japan in late 74, waiting for a ferry to Pusan Korea. This came on the sound system. It was the high lite of the trip. Rufus_T_Firetween: nice Cease: did he record this at his electric lady land studio? Lulu: I think so. Rufus_T_Firetween: dunno Cat Cease: the interweb can tell us Cease: watched over- watch tower Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Lulu: Aww, it's finished? Pooh. Rufus_T_Firetween: See you next week at 9pm Eastern Lulu Cease: we're here every thursday, lulu. since 1995, Lulu: 🙃 Cease:Tween has the archive of my collages. Tell her the url, tween. Rufus_T_Firetween: Proc says this actually happened when he was touring the USSR with the Yale Men's Choir Cease: you stilll here, llan? Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/ Cease: he talks about that extensively in his autobiography Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Waiting For Richard Brautigan Or Someone Like Him” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES Cease: quite an intense affair for the young (18) Phil DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: off we fllit ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Cease leaves at 3:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..." ||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Lulu - dead from The Plague ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 3:00 PM and RedPillTweeny sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... : 🙃 ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's RedPillTweeny, just back from Funfun Town." ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween
