A Firesign Chat
01/06/2022




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 January 06, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 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
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 3:00 PM: Lulu jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| 3:00 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween: Unfortunately, Cat's computer got hacked and it's in the shop so we won't be playing his new collage tonight :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll have to wait until next week
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lulu - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 3:00 PM: DJTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's johan amadeus myjetski, just back from Funfun Town."
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm down, safe & sound, fromm Funfun Town!
DJTweeny: Hey Johan
DJTweeny: Music in a few minutes
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – JEFFERSON STARSHIP-RED OCTOPUS
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)
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johan amadeus myjetski: so, no Cat coolage tonight, what'll be listening to?
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: We're doing the first four albums quadrilogy, as we usually do at the beginning of the year
Rufus_T_Firetween: and we have replays of collages and Cat's first play
johan amadeus myjetski: cool!
Rufus_T_Firetween: So, Electrician tonight followed by Cat material
johan amadeus myjetski: oh, it's paisley again...
Rufus_T_Firetween: :)
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's Random_KZ, just back from Elmertown."
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, Randy!
||||||||| 3:00 PM: Lulu jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Random, Lulu
Lulu: Hey Rufus
Rufus_T_Firetween: Unfortunately, Cat's computer got hacked and it's in the shop so we won't be playing his new collage tonight :/
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll have to wait until next week
johan amadeus myjetski: hi lulu!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sorry Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat would have emailed you if he could
Lulu: Oh thats ok,
Lulu: But the show is on as usual?
||||||||| 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 gets out at 3:00 PM.
Beet: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, Waiting For The Electrician and some Cat material
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mutters something about 3:00 PM, then departs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Beet
Beet: Evening, Dr Tween
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
johan amadeus myjetski: Yo beet, daddyo!
DJTweeny: I've explained the situation to Lulu
Beet: Howdy, Dr Cease
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease!
Beet: Hey, JAM. Nice to see you.
Cease: Hi y'all
Cease: Thanks, Tween. We'll have a really good show for your plays next week, Lulu
Beet: Allow me to greet Lulu and Random also.
Cease: Random new?
Cease: Just got off the phone with the computer store. It's fixed so I can pick it up tomorrow.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool
Cease: I was a victim of Scamazon.
Beet: Don't know this album. Sounds very cool.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Just to tell the folks for future reference, it was somebody impersonating Amazon right?
johan amadeus myjetski: scam-amazon, Cease?
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! **
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)
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Cease: right
Cease: we were given Amazon prime when we ordered a small appliance last november and it came with the amazon video thing.
johan amadeus myjetski: i am wishing each & every one a not-insane new year. just for a change...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Always check to make sure the link you're clicking on is _actually_ amazon.com, paypal.com, whatever
Lulu: Amazon video thing?
Cease: i found little of interest on it and would have cancelled but it was renewed by them without telling me.
Rufus_T_Firetween: What did they show you that led you to the scam?
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 06, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: so when i got a phone call on monday telling me, supposedly from amazon, that they were charging me more money i said i wanted out.
||||||||| It's 9:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Random_KZ - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Lulu: Oh, the tv network?
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, i dated a woman a couple years ago that lost $10k to an amazon scammer
Cease: yeah
Rufus_T_Firetween: So it was a phone call impersonating Amazon?
Cease: i've only lost a little over a hundred in computer repair.
Cease: yes tween.
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's live album WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out ELECTRICIAN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-rv
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Rufus_T_Firetween: The scammers are also really good at making emails look like the real thing
Cease: speaking of electrician, we should listen to Still Waiting for the Electrician. the ossman documentary on the making of that album.
Cease: thanks for your info about that, tween.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, I was thinking that Cease
Cease: i had amazon prime video once before and it was very easy to cancel.
Lulu: Is the Ossman doc online somewhere?
Cease: will cancel as soon as i get the machine back tomorrow.
Cease: not worth $9.00 a month, even though it's Canadian money.
Cease: No Lulu.
Cease: i did enjoy the Being the Ricardos show though. gives a whole new meaning to Trailing a Red with Red Hair
Rufus_T_Firetween: Maybe down the road we'll play them back to back
Cease: it was for sale by him long ago and i bought a copy.
Lulu: Is this playing one channel?
Rufus_T_Firetween: not here
Cease: it's stereo here.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sterrio Hi-Fi here
Cease: i wonder if the Firesigns knew of Lucy's commie background when they coined that lyric
johan amadeus myjetski: sterrerio here, too
||||||||| "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!"
Lulu: Maybe the router I'm hacked into is only playing one side.
Cease: bummer, Lulu
Lulu: I couldn't hear the sacred mountain line
Rufus_T_Firetween: hmmm, if you have the signal at all it should be stereo
Rufus_T_Firetween: must be your player
Lulu: Well, whatta you expect for free?
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh
Beet: Sound is good here.
Lulu: Naw, I'm listening on my iPad quarter-inch speaker.
||||||||| llanwydd bounds in at 3:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: we seem to have some chaters on tonight
Beet: Hey, Llan is here!
Cease: Welcome, Llan
llanwydd: what music did I miss, tween
Cease: Hope you'll be able to hear your plays in stereo next week, Lulu
DJTweeny: Hey llan
DJTweeny: Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus
Lulu: The prelude was Red Octopus by Jeff Starship.
llanwydd: no kidding! What did you ecord, Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about ELECTRICIAN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-ln
Cease: they change colours at will, so red is a preference, as it was for Lucy
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: record
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cat's made a new collage from her plays
Lulu: Ha! That would be interesting, as they were recorded in mono.
Cease: well, 2 of them thus far.
Cease: yes, but my collage is in stereereo hi fi
llanwydd: this is starting to remind me of he masque of the red death
Lulu: I have a new one that should offend Fundalmentalists.
Cease: we just had our worst snow storm in 16 years here.
Cease: is it finished, Lulu?
llanwydd: wharmuaic did I mis this mornin/ evening, tween?
Lulu: The script is finished, but not the recording.
Cease: The Firesigns LOVED offending fundamentalmidgets
llanwydd: I ons miaa ir, R. i M XOMINF OUR RHO RH Pxidix xoAR
Cease: i finished my new play this fall and sent it off to my producer.
Cease: Tweeny and Llan are in it.
Lulu: How much corn starch accumulated, Cease?
llanwydd: VELIEVE ME, i DID NO MEED TO WRITE THAT
Cease: we had 20 cm last night. lots of shovelling, but it's turned to rain now so hopefully wont last
Lulu: Cool, Cease!
Cease: usually we don't get much snow in Vancouver
llanwydd: HOW IS THE REATE OF HEROIN OVER
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
llanwydd: IN
llanwydd: AS OPPOSED OT AST YEAT YEAR
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 3:00 PM, dragging Ralph E Bouy by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: CAPS llan
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cease: Welcome, Ralph
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: I always enjoy your channeling of various alien entities, Llan.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Ralph
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Ralphie!
llanwydd: THANK HOU TWEEN
Beet: Hey, Ralph.
llanwydd: BEEN CHANNELING DON JUANS MUSE LAELY
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about ELECTRICIAN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: LLAN YOU'RE USING ALL CAPS
llanwydd: no longer
Rufus_T_Firetween: thank you :)
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
Cease: we'll be listening to the mushroom plays on chat this year.
Cease: i'm going to combine their Holy Grail with the Python Grail.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Taylor's sent me a promotional copy :)
johan amadeus myjetski: oh, Cease, i look forward to that!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nice idea Cease
Beet: Good stuf.
Cease: maybe later this month
Lulu: My headphones are playing in stereo. Yay.
Cease: great, Lulu
johan amadeus myjetski: groovy!
Beet: I never understand this , but every week the replay of these albums is is really clear and very high fidelity. I don't know how you do it, Dr Tween, but keep it up.
Rufus_T_Firetween: My streamer archives the show at lossless, and then I make a 320k MP3 copy for the archive, so much higher quality than the live stream
Beet: Amazing.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I can stream at 320k, but not everybody has the bandwidth for that
Rufus_T_Firetween: Theoretically, I could put up a 3rd stream at 320k if people want it
||||||||| "3:00 PM? 3:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Kelraith should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Kelraith enters and sits at the bar.
Kelraith: Elo
DJTweeny: Hi Kelraith
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about ELECTRICIAN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-ln
Beet: I always like the line, "He says, he can shout, don't hear you."
Cease: Greetings, Kelraith
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, that's a classic :)
Beet: Howdy, Kelraith.
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
johan amadeus myjetski: Reet the Beeper!
Beet: Classic
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
OPENING COLLAGE TRILOGY - “Peace Pipe” and “Home”
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/
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||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ralph E Bouy - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Kelraith: sone could pass me a peace pipe
Cease: In 2009, I had a dream where I was at a party with the Firesigns and Proctor's daughter. I've never met her, but in the dream she told me the guys liked me but thought I was too lazy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Opening Collage Trilogy” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#TRILOGIES
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Cease
Beet: That is hilarious.
Cease: When I awoke, I said, "too lazy, eh?" and then created these little plays for a local community radio station's scieince fiction radio show.
Beet: What happened to Llan?
johan amadeus myjetski: Glaubner's
Lulu: Some of my greatest adventures were in dreams, Cease
Beet: It gets a lot of people.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: ah, it's Lucy
Cease: you get play ideas from dreams, Lulu?
Cease: no, these aren't plays but collages. the plays wil be heard next hour.
Cease: the Plays were done for the community station in 1996.
Cease: i get confused. old age
Lulu: Yes! The latest one I mentioned was a dream I had decades ago.
Cease: Eisley is one of my favourite writers
Cease: this is from a Mushroom play, A Shadow Moves Upon a Land
Lulu: The inly Eisleys I know are the Eisley Brothers
Rufus_T_Firetween: yy
Rufus_T_Firetween: :P
Cease: Check him out at your local library, Lulu
Lulu: JimiHendrix once played with the Eisley Bros.
Cease: The Firesigns read one of his stories on their radio show
Lulu: Is he contemporary?
Cease: Who's That Lady is one of my favourite songs.
Lulu: Good song.
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Eiseley
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lulu: JimiHendrix once played with the Eisley Bros. << Wow
Beet: cool
johan amadeus myjetski: hge also played with Little Richard
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 NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
AN INFINITE TRILOGY
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
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Beet: This ought to be interesting.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Not Ed: Pork?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play “An Infinite Trilogy” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
Cease: Hi Not
DJTweeny: Hey Ed
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Not!
Not Ed: Yo cats & firehedz
||||||||| Lulu again steals in around 3:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hey, Not.
Not Ed: C, DJT, JAM, Tweeny & Beet Happy Goo Year
Not Ed: Rufus!
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Lulu!
Not Ed: Lulu?
Lulu again: I got disconnected but am still here
Not Ed: Yay
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play “An Infinite Trilogy” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
Lulu again: I wonder if Dave and Phil P will record together?
DJTweeny: I keep hoping they'll get togther with Harry Schearer and do something
Lulu again: Proctor and Ossman
Not Ed: that would be great
DJTweeny: Schearer is so good with voices, and he appeared on How Time Flys
Not Ed: there's always hope Lulu A.
Lulu again: I wonder who used to write most of their material?
Not Ed: Intentional trees
Lulu again: Probably all together.
DJTweeny: Pretty sure it was a collaboration
Not Ed: They did that for sure
Not Ed: Yepsk T
Not Ed: This is cool Cat
Cease: this play is more of a collage. this bit is the script from a Disneyland ride, not my writing.
Not Ed: Nice
Not Ed: Enter the atom!
Cease: the other plays are all my writing, though Austin did make some contributions to Neal Amid.
Not Ed: Oh yeah I love that
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Not Ed: Finally downloaded it
Beet: I'm getting stoned on the background.
Not Ed: lol B
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Baby snakes
Not Ed: Cat lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: a clip I clipped from Firesign
Lulu again: I listened to this play online last week. Awesome.
Not Ed: Virus theatre LOL
Cease: long before there was such a thing as "viral video"
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lulu - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: you still here, Kelraith?
Not Ed: insane
Not Ed: love it
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s FST FREE TIME WITH THE CAT MAN broadcasts at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Beet: This is a nice little tune.
Cease: Lindsay Buckingham
Rufus_T_Firetween: * Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
Not Ed: Buckingham
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Not Ed: Go Insane great LP
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Not Ed: Haven't listened to it in a LONG time
Not Ed: this is the hippest thing on the net right now Cat
Lulu again: Cool, Bigfoot. Is he going to speak?
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone some Lakota Wiggle Weed
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone some lakota wiggle weed.
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblomov
Lulu again: Jeez, i checked myself out again.
Cease: You may recognize this bit, Lulu
||||||||| "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!"
Not Ed: such is life Lulu
Cease: I mixed it with your Cooking Show play
johan amadeus myjetski: lot of bigfoot sightings around here
Not Ed: great
Not Ed: Wayne Shorter's Footprints
Not Ed: https://youtu.be/LgaIUqH0w6c
Lulu again: Am I here?
Cease: "am ambassador from our future lonliness" is one of my favourite lines
Lulu again: Probably all together.
johan amadeus myjetski: are any of us really here, Lulu?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "3:00 PM and late as usual, it's Lulu3, just back from Elmertown."
Lulu3: Ok, I thought I ejected myself Johan
Beet: here-ness along with now-ness are the only proveable realities.
johan amadeus myjetski: your connection has an ejector seatr? how cool is that ;-)
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Who Am Us Anyway?
Lulu3: Everytime I follow one of these groovy links I get ejected.
Not Ed: Dang!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Dang's not here, man...
Not Ed: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL, Rufus!
Beet: Some nice music in this collage, Cat.
Cease: Heeer's RICKI
Not Ed: Just the tips: see "Don't Look Up" and pay Disney to watch "Get Back"
Not Ed: Excellence
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lulu again - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed: Oh poor Lulu 3
Not Ed: or was it 4?
Lulu3: I'm still 3 Non Ed
johan amadeus myjetski: you're not the first to suggest the disney payment for GB, Not.
Not Ed: lol oh okies
Not Ed: it's well worth it - GB is amazing
Cease: Here's Elayne, the founder of chat.
johan amadeus myjetski: a friend said the same thing to me a coupleof days ago
Not Ed: Cool
Not Ed: (Elayne)
Cease: GB?
johan amadeus myjetski: Get Back
Cease: ah. must see
Not Ed: it's breathtaking
johan amadeus myjetski: a beatles doc
Not Ed: watch chaos become sheer genius in two weeks
Cease: will watch eventually
johan amadeus myjetski: no coke - pepsi
Not Ed: covers the sessions day by day
Not Ed: anyway.... heh
Cease: heard peter jackson interviewed on maron's podcast about GB
Beet: Almost amazing as the content is Peter Jackson's bringing the footage back from the dead and making it look and sound brand new.
Not Ed: hey y'all I have to dash - just wanted to check in and wish everyone a terrific 2022! Hang on to your potatoes!
Cease: same to you, not
Not Ed: G'night!
Beet: Nice to see you, Not. See you next time.
johan amadeus myjetski: night & day difference from the Let It Be doc a few decades ago
Lulu3: Haven't seen it, I dont have Disney.
johan amadeus myjetski: Nite, Not!
Lulu3: Thanks Not Ed.
Cease: i find the streaming services only worth one month a year
johan amadeus myjetski: kal & akal, time & timelessness
Cease: arthus c clarke did a documentary about fractals that inspired this
johan amadeus myjetski: respect, Cease!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play “An Infinite Trilogy” at >> http://www.seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
johan amadeus myjetski: well, i'm headed for the giftshop. catch y'all next week! thanks all!
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Johan
Beet: Later, JAM. G'Nite.
Lulu3: See yaz later Johan.
johan amadeus myjetski: ouch, my ego...
Cease: by jammy
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Beet: Who is this?
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyeR19m8gGk
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nice work, Cat
Cease: Sharon Shannon
Lulu3: That's awesome! I wonder how many actors were in that?
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY NEW YEAR!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
OPENING COLLAGE TRILOGY - “Waiting For The Mortician”
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/
'
Beet: That was a fabulous collage.
Cease: Lots
Cease: that's 26 years old
Lulu3: 24/7 FT.. Great, now I'll never have to face reality!
Beet: Stop running with those scissors.
Cease: I've probably spent more time listening to Firesign than anytihng except sleeping and reading
Cease: must have done me SOME good
Beet: the fifth Firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: There is much to listen to
Cease: Austin liked the Infinite Trilogy so much he insisted on starring in my next 3 plays.
Lulu3: Whoa! How cool.
Cease: He'd probably want to be in my new one if he weren't dead.
Lulu3: Don't let that stop you. Get a Ouija board.
Cease: all the Firsigns except Bergman were in the next 3 plays after Infinite.
Cease: good idea, Lulu
Cease: 3, uh, 2. the lads were quite obsessed with correcting each other's numbers in those days
Cease: you'll hear that a lot when you listen to the Mushroom plays
Rufus_T_Firetween: There's a STNG episode with this bit
Cease: The Alistair Simms Scrooge, the highlight of every Christmas for me.
Rufus_T_Firetween: (Scrooge)
Cease: this is from my play Neal Amid. There's Austin.
||||||||| 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
'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Lulu Time next week
Beet: I really enjoyed this inaugural chat for the New Year. Bodes well for the rest of the year. Nice to see a good showing for participants. Thanks to everyone. Great collage as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for leading again, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: I'll look for you on Faceook, Lulu
||||||||| Catherwood says "3:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Cease by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Lulu3: Whoa! How cool.
Lulu3: Don't let that stop you. Get a Ouija board.
Lulu3: Whoa! How cool.
Lulu3: 24/7 FT.. Great, now I'll never have to face reality!
Lulu3: So are we done for tonight? I had to step out for a minute.
||||||||| 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 common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lulu3 - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Kelraith - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Lulu3 steps in at 3:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Lulu3: So are we done for tonight? I had to step out for a minute.
Lulu3: 24/7 FT.. Great, now I'll never have to face reality!
Lulu3: That's awesome! I wonder how many actors were in that?
Lulu3: See yaz later Johan.
Lulu3: Thanks Not Ed.
Lulu3: Haven't seen it, I dont have Disney.
Lulu3: I'm still 3 Non Ed
Lulu3: Everytime I follow one of these groovy links I get ejected.
Lulu3: Ok, I thought I ejected myself Johan
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lulu3 - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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
johan amadeus myjetski
Kelraith
llanwydd
Lulu again
Lulu3
Lulu
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-rv
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#TRILOGIES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Eiseley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblomov
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyeR19m8gGk
https://youtu.be/LgaIUqH0w6c



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