||||||||| 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 October 27, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| "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 couch. ||||||||| 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' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 27, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?" ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and johan amadeus myjetski bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. johan amadeus myjetski: i must get a new knob for this time machine thingy! ||||||||| 8:00 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!" ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits in the comfy chair. ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... Deputy Dang: I must be going blind (my mother warned me that would happen), but where is a link for the stream? ||||||||| 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: Howdy Deputy Deputy Dang: Howdy Dude! DJTweeny: music in a couple of minutes Deputy Dang: No worries. I'm early. Trying to get one of my college roommates to join in. Deputy Dang: I had all of the LP releases through Eat or Be Eaten (which wasn't an LP, of course). DJTweeny: Yeah it was Deputy Dang: He was a fan of Mark Time, and like many of us, wished there had been more. DJTweeny: (as well as a CD) ||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM ** Currently playing: warm up music – WITCH MUSIC 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)' Deputy Dang: Well, yeah, it was, but it was the first CD with graphics on it, or something like that. DJTweeny: The CD had some graphics code that could be played on a compatible player DJTweeny: Would be cool if they posted the video to the new web site DJTweeny: but they're still working on finding a source for most of the the albums Deputy Dang: Ooh, that's an idea! I never have seen the graphics. IT wouldn't play on the hardware I had at the time, and now... well, my last two laptops (that's all I have these days) don't have CD players at all! DJTweeny: Mac got rid of optical drives some years back, but you still attach one of course DJTweeny: but the graphics won't work on just any CD player Deputy Dang: Yeah, at one point, I had a USB 3.5" floppy drive. I haven't done that with a CD/DVD yet. ||||||||| 8:00 PM: llanwydd 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!" llanwydd: howdy Deputy Dang: Howdy pardner! DJTweeny: You need CD+G, which they mention is for a Karoke player or something else compatible DJTweeny: Hey llan llanwydd: so witch music are we hearing tonight DJTweeny: I still have a USB floppy I use on occasion DJTweeny: yes indeedie llan ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" DJTweeny: suitable for a Halloween show Deputy Dang: I don't know if I still have the floppy drive. I have a couple of IOmega Bernoulli drives. Not the Zip drives--the originals. DJTweeny: I have a really old Mac portable that used Zip llanwydd: let me guess -- tull-witches promise coming up? DJTweeny: I've got an old Sony digital camera that's still servicable which used floppies for storage DJTweeny: the last song of the set, llan :) llanwydd: witch ones pink? llanwydd: coool, tween. love that song DJTweeny: good Floyd Deputy Dang: My oldest computer is a Kaypro 2. It has two floppy drives with store 390K (not the measly 360k of PCs) each. Deputy Dang: I haven't turned it on in probably over 20 years. Deputy Dang: It probably still works fine, but who knows if the floppy discs have endured. DJTweeny: Still have my Commodore SX-64 portable which I think uses 640k discs DJTweeny: It'll boot because the C-64s booted from ROM, but the discs are all probably useless Deputy Dang: I often wondered what would happen if Commodore had really taken off. AFAIK, they started with the PET, which was weirdly cool. Deputy Dang: At some point, they bought Amiga, which was awesomely cool. DJTweeny: Amiga was way ahead of its time, but badly marketed DJTweeny: Tried to market it as a business machine to compete with the PC but its real strength was multimedia Deputy Dang: yeah, agreed Deputy Dang: I just googled for "weirdly cool". Google found the Firesign Theatre album, but their sidebar showed the wrong Peter Bergman. Deputy Dang:https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=weirdly+cool DJTweeny: ehhh ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... llanwydd: lol DJTweeny: allo Cease llanwydd: hi cease Deputy Dang: And I think the wrong Phil Austin. Deputy Dang: Howdy Cease! llanwydd: ingrid bergman and austin powers? Cease:https://current.org/2022/10/firesign-theaters-phil-proctor-returns-to-radio-on-pacificas-kpfk/ Cease: Looks like Proc is going back on the radio Cease: Hi chatters DJTweeny: Cool! Cease: I thought it was just repeats from the Sexy Boomer show but according to this article, it'll be live. DJTweeny: nice Cease: i did a collage using 3 versions of Seasons of the Witch DJTweeny: #17 tonight ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! Cease: Mars on the news now. Deputy Dang: Which season did you leave out? ||||||||| 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)' Cease: Marsquke. ||||||||| Catherwood enters with johan amadeus myjetski close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room. Cease: My new collage is about Mars. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. DJTweeny: Hey johan ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet 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!" DJTweeny: Yo Beet johan amadeus myjetski: hey - i'm in & out tonight Beet: Good evening all. Cease: Hi Bet,Jam Cease: are you opening a burger joint, jammy? johan amadeus myjetski: hey beet, crease! DJTweeny: following Fudd's Principle, johan? Beet: Evening, Dr Tween, Dr Cease, J.A.M., Deputy, Llan. johan amadeus myjetski: YES! it goes like anything! johan amadeus myjetski: no, no burger joints. my burger joint would be more like a 'no coke - pepsi' kind of place Deputy Dang: A joint the size of a burger? Sign me up! johan amadeus myjetski: like the old glass onion, trying to make a dovetail joint, yeah llanwydd: lol ||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com ** Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out BRIDE at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-rv' Cease: i was looking for that "help, its' the police" line for a recent collage. Deputy Dang: lol nightinjale Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln Rufus_T_Firetween: Isn't that from Just Folks, Cease? Deputy Dang: Mayor or pope? is that what he said? Cease: no,we jsut heard it. when babblizer intrudes on their game. Beet: Eat Or Be Eaten? Cease: quite a few references to Canadians in their works Deputy Dang: Almost def not Eat Or Be Eaten Cease: one of austin' best characters there Cease: Bebop Lobo Deputy Dang: "I'm taking the 'No Exit'" Deputy Dang: It's funny (to me) that so many people in Tennessee don't know that Memphis is an Egyptian city. Deputy Dang: is/is named for Beet: They built a pyramid there. Rufus_T_Firetween: Memphis, Egypt the origin of blues music Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, there's a pyramid at the MS River crossing :) ||||||||| Not Ed enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex. Cease: The Elvis Temple Rufus_T_Firetween: have passed it several times Deputy Dang: I can almost hear Moses singing now... Beet: Hey, Not DJTweeny: hello Not Ed Cease: HI Not Not Ed: Hey C & B & DJT Not Ed: DDang, JAM, llan & Ruf! ||||||||| It's 1:45 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 Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Deputy Dang: Ed! Deputy Dang: Er I mean Not Ed! Not Ed: Whoops Deputy Dang: I get you two confused.. Not Ed: Who am us anyway? ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln Not Ed: good 2 C U Deputy Dang: Is the "Firesign's NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION" link still correct? Rufus_T_Firetween: nope, no more FST Radio :( Rufus_T_Firetween: Bill McIntyre was running it and it's gone now Rufus_T_Firetween: Is that link on my web FST web site, Dang? Deputy Dang: Okay, no worries. Deputy Dang: I'll ask again the next time I'm in Billville. Rufus_T_Firetween: The new www.firesigntheatre.com site doesn't have it Deputy Dang: It's about 7 lines above this one, in the chat. Rufus_T_Firetween: Ah, didn't notice sorry Rufus_T_Firetween: Merlyn was doing those ads. A lot of those links don't work and Doc Tech hasn't had time to fix them :/ Rufus_T_Firetween: It's really nice of Doc just to keep this chat going. I'll email him and ask him to delete all the automated ads. That should be easy. Cease: Doc has been a busy man as long as I've known him. HIs talents are greatly in demand. Cease: We should pair this with Down Under Danger and otheers from the Box, plus the Daily Feeds which are mostly Nick Cease: We could have a whole Detective Month. Beet: A very interesting album. 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 Rufus_T_Firetween: cool idea Cease ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: It does grow on you Not Ed: it does ||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s HALLOWEEN 17 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: awesome cat! Cease: i did 2 halloween collages and used up everything they ever did even vaguely releavent to halloween. Deputy Dang:https://www.amazon.com/pig-wind-chimes/s?k=pig+wind+chimes Cease: a tiny clip from Who Do You Love Cease: just read bio of Nicky Hopkins, who was briefly in Quickilver Cease:https://current.org/2022/10/firesign-theaters-phil-proctor-returns-to-radio-on-pacificas-kpfk/ Cease: just to remind you of proc's new radio show, tuesday afternoons and i assume archived Beet: Wow!, that's very cool must tune in. Rufus_T_Firetween: Good to see a Firesign working with KPFK, the station that originally broadcast them :) Cease: There;s Nicky! Cease: Just read about this recoroding. Saw the Goddard film when it came out. Cease: Now I can hear the history of Nicky's piano in this song. Not Ed: Oh yeah Cease: almost joined the group. Cease: the classical and the boogie woogie wonderuflly blended Cease: i'd forgotten how good this collage was. Cease: what's a quid? Deputy Dang: Cease, that link to kpfk mentioned a production of War of The Worlds. I haven't looked for it online yet, but figured I'd ask if you had any links/references to it. Cease: you have to buy it. Deputy Dang: Ok, I can do that. Cease: from their streaming service. all their newer stuff in there. Deputy Dang: ah Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER– Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water Rufus_T_Firetween: Do check out the new web site. A lot of the old albums aren't available yet, but I'm sure they're working on it. Deputy Dang: I consider myself so lucky (privileged?) to know of Firesign Theatre. They were mostly before my time (I often wonder how my life would be if I were born 10 years earlier). The only friends I have who know of them are ones that I introduced them to. And of course, I'm equally lucky to have discovered this community and weekly gathering. I know I'm not always chatty; but, I really enjoy listening (and am usually listening, even if I'm not in the chat) and chatting. Cease: good for you, dang. Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm not from their generation either, but a friend in high school introduced me in 1972 and I've been a fan every since. Cease: we aim to please, just like Louise Rufus_T_Firetween: Glad we've been able to keep the weekly chat going, even if it's just a few die-hard fans :) Deputy Dang: Er--I didn't say it, but that was intended as a thank you to you all. I really appreciate your presence and work, especially Cease and Tweeny. Beet: I totally concur with this sentiment, Deputy. All of this is a rare privilege. Rufus_T_Firetween: Glad to do it. Cease: you're welcome, dang. Cease: really. you're Welcome here. we do this for the few of you here now, and whoever hears the shows in the future. Beet: Those two are definitely workers among us. Cease: this is worker, speaking, speaking, speaking Beet: And much gratitude from me too, guys. Cease: much appreciatged Beet: I've been to Mark's house in Hannibal, Missouri. Cease: how was it? ||||||||| 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: Very small and simple. Nice, though. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Cease: we seek to travel into the past and make the lives of those we admire better llanwydd: forward into the past Rufus_T_Firetween: great choice for an ending llanwydd: had to go out. sorry I missed the collage Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Beet: Happy Halloween. Enjoyed this session tonight. Thanks to all participants. Great collage as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all. Cease: pappon for president next week llanwydd: nite tween Deputy Dang: This was joyous. Thank you again! DJTweeny: Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign llanwydd: grey papoon for president DJTweeny: It'll be up by sometime tomorrow evening DJTweeny: Yep, we have a US Election show coming up for you Deputy Dang: I'm scared now! DJTweeny: haha DJTweeny: Until last time, again... llanwydd: in hope of a universal escaphovulence Deputy Dang: and on anon anon Cease: Frodo was scared too. But it all worked out, thanks to him. Cease: That can be said of any of us llanwydd: frodo for president llanwydd: or at least resident llanwydd: nite everybody ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the brambles. Deputy Dang: gnight all Cease: off we flit Deputy Dang: I have no brambles. ||||||||| Cease departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a pillow ||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a pillow. ||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Tweeny leaves at 8:00 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..." ||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
