Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
06/16/2022

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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 June 16, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 16, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| It's 9:30 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 yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Tweeny steals in around 8:00 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 *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| DJ Tweeny steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 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: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: warm up music – JONI MITCHELL-FOR THE ROSES
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 steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Zen Cosmos', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
DJ Tweeny: Hi Zen
Zen Cosmos: hey...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving johan amadeus myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJ Tweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hi. LOVE Joni!
DJ Tweeny: great album
johan amadeus myjetski: evenin' Zen
Rufus_T_Firetween: some excellent early work of Joni's
Rufus_T_Firetween: when it mostly just her and a piano
Rufus_T_Firetween: doubt there would have been people like Alanis Morrisette without Joni
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
DJ Tweeny: allo Cease ehh
DJ Tweeny: This is the title track For The Roses
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
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)'
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: Howdy Folks!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJ Tweeny: Hey Beet
Beet: Greetings, Dr Tween
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
A LIFE IN THE DAY OF KWKWT
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/'
johan amadeus myjetski: call any vegetable!
Beet: Hi, jam, Dr Cease, Zen.
||||||||| Cease steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A LIFE IN THE DAY OF KWKWT” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Rufus_T_Firetween: Oh..... how how can you have two Ceases at once...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s play CAST at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bottles into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
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/
Bottles: Hey.
DJ Tweeny: Hi Bottles
Cease : I mixed KWKTV with A Life in the Day
Bottles: What cheer mateys
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
Bottles: Whatever that means
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please give everyone some cheer
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone some cheer.
Bottles: There's a town in Iowa named What Cheer.
Bottles: Sounds like a nautical term, but there's no ocean there.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: What Cheer, Iowa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Cheer%2C_Iowa
Cease : Cease seems to be ceasing
Rufus_T_Firetween: Iowa All Over: Determining the story behind tiny What Cheer’s name - https://www.thegazette.com/life/iowa-all-over-determining-the-story-behind-tiny-what-cheers-name/
Bottles: He's de-ceased?
Rufus_T_Firetween: he is an ex-cease
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Not Ed steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJ Tweeny: Hi Not
Cease : Hi Not
Bottles: A coal town it says. My family has a long heritage o f toiling in coal mines.
Tweeny: ** New Firesign Theatre release!! >> Fools in Space - https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fools-in-space
Bottles: Hi Not Ed
Not Ed: Greets Tweeny, Cease
Not Ed: Cheers Beet & Bot
Not Ed: JAM
Not Ed: Rufus
Bottles: Sounds like an old comedy team
Tweeny: Lots of cool new stuff at the newly revamped FiresignTheatre.com web site
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Not!
Cease : I hope y’all like Rebecca Solnit, the subject of this weeks collage
Tweeny: They did a great job making the new web site
Bottles: Rebecca Solnit. ?
Bottles: Is she the writer?
Beet: Hi, Not
Cease : One of my favourite writers
Bottles: I wonder what she has to say about the hearings.
Cease : Her latest book is called Orwell’s Roses
Cease : Prof posted about 1984 today so the collage fits
Not Ed: the hearings are awesome but what of that
Cease : Prob not prof
Bottles: Cease, where did the radio show bit come from?
Bottles: My friend is writing a musical based on 1984
Cease : I m on my phone so can’t listen
Not Ed: Kewl Bottles
Cease : prof
Not Ed: I just listened to an audiobook version read by Simon Vance - I never read it B-4
Rufus_T_Firetween: '1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.'
Not Ed: It's great
Bottles: He's kind of nutty so it should be fun.
Cease : proctor! Fucking phone!
Not Ed: Now I get the comparison to Brazil
Bottles: Proctor won't answer the phone?
Bottles: 1984 became a reality so gradually we didn't even notice.
Bottles: Big brother's name is Alexa.
Not Ed: Happy birthday (1890), Stan Laurel.
Not Ed: this is fun Cat
Bottles: It's very lively!
Not Ed: Yes! Upbeat
Beet: Happy Birthday, Stan.
Cease : Today is the anniversary of the publication of 1984 and the hearings really emphasize its continuing relevance
Bottles: Nineteen eighty forwell.
||||||||| 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."
Cease : My collage is lively? That’s better than deadly
Bottles: Indeed
Not Ed: Fer shure
Rufus_T_Firetween: is that like living dead?
Not Ed: Brrhaps
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Return Of The Living Deadly
Not Ed: I've always wanted to find that lush strings track
Not Ed: anyone know what it is?
Beet: It's the sountrack to the movie "Spartacus
Not Ed: ohhhh really
Beet: yup
Not Ed: thanks will find
Not Ed: kewl
Beet: Very unusual composition by a guy named Alex North
Not Ed: Alex North yes.... I've heard of him
Cease : We should start playing the Fools in Space shows next week
Not Ed: Oh Cool Cat
Beet: Good idea. They are wonderful.
Rufus_T_Firetween: They've released it as a new product from the Bandcamp store
Cease : Now that Firesign is selling them
Not Ed: looking alex north up - he scored some cool flicks
Rufus_T_Firetween: There are others we haven't played as well
Rufus_T_Firetween: new site >> firesigntheatre.com
Beet: He also did Cleopatra with E. Taylor.
Not Ed: TNorth scored he Shoes of the Fisherman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Cleopatra, Spartacus, Viva Zapata!, A Streetcar Named Desire, Dragonslayer, more....
Not Ed: Cripes
Beet: Cool dude.
Not Ed: Yeah!
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Not Ed: Enough
Beet: Air Lemuria
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a tuna boat the size of a joint
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a tuna boat the size of a joint.
Beet: That's not very much tuna.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Bottles: Air Lemutia?
Not Ed: They sell a lot of those pills these days
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A LIFE IN THE DAY OF KWKWT” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Wow North scored 2001 and Kubrick threw it out
Bottles: What's Air Lumeria, Beet?
Not Ed: just reading North's wikipedia page
Bottles: Sounds like a radio network
||||||||| 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 : I’d rather have a big joint
Beet: They just mentioned it. A made up airline. Lemuria was around during Atlantis.
Cease : My host here gave me half a gummy about an hour ago
Bottles: Oh. The Length and supposedly live inside Mt. Shasta.
Cease : I’m waiting for it to kick in
Bottles: That's supposed to sayLemurians
Beet: I have tried those, Cease. Kind of a weird high for me.
Not Ed: ah so that's how you gets your kiks eh
Beet: It was an experiment only.
Bottles: Cbd gummies don't seem to do much
Not Ed: mellow
Not Ed: I prefer a flat out couch lock indica
Beet: They are supposed to help sleep.
Bottles: Good or sleeping.
Cease : I had some strong infused dried fruit in Vegas a few years agog this my first gummy
Not Ed: buds
Not Ed: mini buds
Not Ed: kewl
Not Ed: legal here in Washington
||||||||| doctecazoid sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Bottles: It's almost the state plant in Calif
Not Ed: lol Bottles great : )
doctecazoid: who's next?
Bottles: Cat where is KWKW from?
Not Ed: Texas needs it badly ; )
Beet: It's probably a good thiing I don't live in California.
doctecazoid: Hour Hour, I believe - KWTWT-TV
Not Ed: lol
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: Hour Hour yes
Bottles: There's a flower called the California Poppy. Illegal to pick it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Doc
Not Ed: Hour you tonight?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
doctecazoid: just popped in for a short bit - long day
Bottles: Good one, Not Ed
Not Ed: What's up Doc
Beet: How come Catherwood is getting the time wrong these days?
||||||||| Catherwood says "Nonsense! My watch has never failed me! It's precisely 8:00 PM!"
Not Ed: Catherwood is untethered
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Not Ed
Not Ed: See
doctecazoid: Off topic perhaps but I worked on song production and assembled edited vid for an original song ... https://suspiciousresidue.com
Beet: lol
doctecazoid: assembled & edited
Rufus_T_Firetween: how dare you post your work in here Doc? ;)
Not Ed: Your collage is laughing me up Cat
Cease : Hi doc
doctecazoid: just call me a shameless self promoter
Not Ed: Oh cool DocT
Beet: Nice to see you, doc.
Not Ed: promote! promote!
doctecazoid: nice to be seen - if only via typography
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
Not Ed: nice collage
Cease : Excellent tune doc
Not Ed: time to break the station
Not Ed: Arrrrr F D
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
A PARADE OF ROSES
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: Love Ideas
doctecazoid: tx guise
Rufus_T_Firetween: So Doc Tech did they use your services to create the new firesigntheatre.com web site?
Not Ed: link saved DocT
doctecazoid: seriously, i'm played here & fading fast. was curious if the problem of private message leakage still exists.
doctecazoid: no kurt, kristin campbell built it via squarespace
Not Ed: good to bump into U DocT
Rufus_T_Firetween: That's Proc's daughter?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Anyone else got the private messages that Doc Tech and I just sent each other?
Not Ed: Cat your collages make me slow down n listen, which is good
Not Ed: Nope DocT
Not Ed: makes
Beet: That is a helluva good song and the visuals are fantastic, doc.
Cease : That’s the idea Not
Cease : Or Ideas
doctecazoid: tx beet
Bottles: Gotta eat. Catch y'all later.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease, could you please send me and Doc private messages?
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Bottles
doctecazoid: i made a minor tweak to the main chat page, to prevent caching. stab in the dark as to whether it plugs the p.m. leak issue
doctecazoid: nite b
Not Ed: Later B
Cease : I can’t on this phone Tween , just as I can’t listen
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A PARADE OF ROSES” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
doctecazoid: not ed: nice to bump into anyone these days
doctecazoid: without causing damage
Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, could anyone else please send me and Doc some private messages
Rufus_T_Firetween: we're testing the chat
Not Ed: lol I hear ya, er , read ya
doctecazoid: forgot to switch before my not ed comment :-/
Beet: G'Nite Bottles
doctecazoid: ok it's official, my brain is toast
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: White Brains On Toast?
doctecazoid: i must take my leave, or something like it
doctecazoid: glad this chat thing still functions
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gator, and thanks for all your efforts
doctecazoid: np k
Cease : I’ve been wanting to do a collage based on solnnit for some time
Not Ed: yepsk thanks DocT
doctecazoid: y'all take care of yourself, it's f**king dangerous out there and i don't see it getting any better any time soon
Beet: Thanks for joining us tonight, doc. See ya later.
doctecazoid: nite, and STAY SAFE!
||||||||| doctecazoid leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
Cease : I love try not to be in any coups
Cease : I’ll
Not Ed: Yo cats I have to buzz off
Not Ed: Will you all have a groovy weekend?
Not Ed: I will if you will
Not Ed: Peace!
Cease : Or Pence
Beet: See you later, Not.
Beet: Rufus, got your message about FST Bandcamp.
Beet: BTW, I just purchased the set.
DJ Tweeny: I didn't send you a private message Beet
DJ Tweeny: OK, so the one I posted in chat, cool
Beet: Interesting. I got one.
DJ Tweeny: Will tell Doc
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A PARADE OF ROSES” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
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/
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease : My next collage will be about octopus es
Beet: I just checked and the message about bandcamp actually came from Cease. Just so you know.
DJ Tweeny: OK, I'll let Doc know it wasn't a mistake
Cease : I can’t send private messages from this phone
Beet: Kind of confusing, eh?
Beet: Hey, Cease, how recently was this recorded?
Cease : You The Solnit collage? Just finished it
Beet: So, very current commentary. Very clear analysis.
||||||||| "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!"
Cease : I should post a link to the Ideas program
Beet: Trump said even before the election that if he lost it meant the election was rigged.
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Native Americans had the wisdom to know that they were part of something they didn't understand.
Cease : Hi I m happy to hay the note about Ukraine in this
||||||||| 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'
Beet: And I'm glad that she mentioned the rediculous impulse to rewrite history.
||||||||| 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 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease : Rebecca is great
Beet: God how I miss Peter.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: Thoroughly enjoyed this evening's services. Wonderful offerings from everyone. Fabulous collage up to your usual high standards, Dr Cease. Gratitude to your guiding the ship, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, DJ Tweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown.
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| 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
Bottles
Cease
DJ Tweeny
doctecazoid
johan amadeus myjetski
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#PLAYS
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
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Cheer%2C_Iowa
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fools-in-space
https://suspiciousresidue.com
https://www.thegazette.com/life/iowa-all-over-determining-the-story-behind-tiny-what-cheers-name/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber