Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/23/2023

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 February 23, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Rufus T Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| 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 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Zen Cosmos into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus T Firetween, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweeny: Hey Zen, show starts at the top of the next hour
Zen Cosmos: I know
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Bottles by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Tweeny: Hi Bottles
||||||||| 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)'
Bottles: Hi Tweeny and Zen. How goez it?
Bottles: Cooking dinner, so I'll be up and down.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJ Tweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – STYX-LIVE
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)'
DJ Tweeny: Doing well thanks Bottles, good cooking to you...
Zen Cosmos: needed the music, why logged in early ratgher wait for the archive in a few days...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Cease: Hi all
Zen Cosmos: too stressed by OL theft of ID and banking info...getting new card soon...
Bottles: Hi Cease!
Cease: Hi liquid container. Bummer, Zen.
Bottles: That really sux., Zen.
Bottles: Did you lose money too?
||||||||| Catherwood escorts randeye inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Bottles: Hello Randeye
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
DJ Tweeny: Hi Cease, randeye
Cease: Hi Randeye
DJ Tweeny: Zen Cosmos: too stressed by OL theft of ID and banking info...getting new card soon... << Ehhh, sorry to hear :( That's a real PITA to get straightened out.
DJ Tweeny: Lost my wallet once and it took forever to get everything restored again :/
Cease: i don't think i've ever heard styx
Bottles: Any idea how the ID theft occurred?
Tweeny: Styx - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_(band)
Tweeny: They were very popular in the 70s/80s
Bottles: A virus from an evil website?
Tweeny: There are lots of scams out there thrying to get you to give up personal financial information
DJ Tweeny: *trying
||||||||| Beet tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hey.
DJ Tweeny: Yo Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Bottles: Hey Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
Beet: Howdy, Bottles
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
Beet: Nice tune!
||||||||| 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: Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!"
Beet: Hey, Dr Cease.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: This is really good.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Doc Technical's
DEAR FRIENDS TOO
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DEAR FRIENDS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv'
Cease: Hopefully all the shows are really good. I mean, they're about the firesign theatre, and that's as good as it gets
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Merlyn close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
Cease: Hey Merl
Beet: Hey, Merlyn
DJ Tweeny: Hey Merlyn
Bottles: Hi Merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
Bottles: Did Styx do Come Sail Away?
Beet: For 3 cents I'd throw the I Ching. Pretty funny.
Cease: chump chings
DJ Tweeny: Yes Bottles
Bottles: Is this still Styx playing?
Cease: ah, great song. didnt remember the group
Bottles: Doesn't sound like Firesign
Tweeny: FST is playing
Beet: I'm hearing Firesign.
Bottles: Or am I on the wrong station?
Tweeny: I'm listening to it on my 128k link
Tweeny: must be the wrong link
Cease: you are, bottles
DJ Tweeny: Cease did you find that bit with the German scientist?
Cease: no and taylor didnt recall it
Cease: its not in confessions but i recall hearing it fairly recently
DJ Tweeny: hmmm
Bottles: Got it now.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!"
DJ Tweeny: kewl, Bottles
Cease: funny story about the woman who played ethel
Cease: what was her name?
Cease: i used a bit of it in one of my early collages.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| randeye - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Merlyn: what happened?
Cease: by rand
DJ Tweeny: nothing, as far as I know
Cease: what was her name?
DJ Tweeny: It's been smooth sailing with the stream
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Peter Bergman and Ted Bonnitt's
THE DIGITAL DINER
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Firesign's new web site at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/'
Cease: we should listen to the big internet broadcast of 1996 soon. it uses a LOT of stuff from digital diners
Cease: did you tell folks about next week's show, tween?
Rufus T Firetween: Next week we'll be going live on the station that has been providing our server :)
Rufus T Firetween: Should add to our listener base
Rufus T Firetween: Maybe get some of the folks in the RFD chat over here, but I'll be monitoring both chats
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
Rufus T Firetween: www.dishnuts.net << the station
Cease: i've used this in MANY collages.
Cease: large marine mammals to annoy
Bottles: Pirates, eh? I read a great series awhile back, about Bloody Jack.
Bottles: Or whalers or whatever..
Rufus T Firetween: Starting next week I'm going to have a 320k stream as well as 128k and 16k. The fidelity will be vastly improved.
Beet: That'll be interesting
Cease: wonderful, tween
Cease: that'll be useful when we hear my play, probably march, maybe april.
Rufus T Firetween: kewl
Cease: i've only heard act one and doc's sound bed is astonishing. requires high end broadcast to appreciate
Bottles: Cool~
Rufus T Firetween: good deal
Rufus T Firetween: FST should be heard in steereo hi-fi
Cease: indeed
Bottles: My sound systems are mono, which makes it weird for 60s hard-panned recordings.
Cease: i'm going to have to hear the play on CD to appreciate it appropriately
Cease: indeed, bottles
Bottles: I got rid of my ratty speakers, and just hooked up my PA for a hi-fi.
Bottles: I just crank it to less than 2, and the fidelity is perfect.
Cease: good to hear, bottles
Beet: Love a good rock violin
Cease: indeed, beet. it is a wonderful rock instrument
Rufus T Firetween: Yeah, I really love Jerry Goodman's work with Jan Hammer
Rufus T Firetween: both played for Mahavishnu, if I am not mistaken
Cease: i saw ponty with mclaughlin in i think 73 or 74. astonishing
Rufus T Firetween: I'd imagine
Beet: I'm going to have to go back to Mahavishnu. Haven't listened for a while.
Beet: I have become a Nervous Brothers fan.
Rufus T Firetween: Very cool that Bergman and Bonnitt were trying to make a 'saturday night live for radio'
Rufus T Firetween: Too bad it didn't work out
Cease: they always aspired upwards
Merlyn: ya
Cease: there was an big element of variety in their work almost from the beginning, eh merl?
Cease: the 67 mushroom show was a mixture of music, poetry, comedy, conversations just like this.
Merlyn: yep
Bottles: I watched a 1948 TV variety show - called the Gay 90s Revue.Very odd. The host was literally an old pro singer from the 1890s. With vaudeville acts too.
Cease: more sugar distributed my plays, back when they were only on CD
Bottles: It's online somewhere. VERY old syle television
Cease: vaudeville lives on
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Kinda strange.
Cease: my daughter and other people.
Beet: Where and when was the show produced, Bottles?
Bottles: I'd guess NYC, as that'
Bottles: ...as that's where TV originated, in the US
Bottles: In 1948
Beet: Oh, you said that.
Bottles: The acts sat at little cafe tables while the others performed.
Beet: Gonna have to find that one.
Cease: i think there is a monty python prequel called the 1048 show, or something like it
Bottles: The host introduced their "jazz" singer, who sang an old Sophie Tucker song from the
Bottles: ...1910s
||||||||| llanwydd steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
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
llanwydd: howdy folks
DJ Tweeny: Hey llan, a bit tardy...
Bottles: It was part of a 1948 TV compilation
Beet: Hey, Llan.
Bottles: Hello llanwydd
Cease: hi llan
llanwydd: cease, it is called At Last the 1948 Show
Cease: wow, i really should have edited that better
llanwydd: was
llanwydd: hows everybody?
Cease: these are digitalizations of cassettes firesign archivist micahel packer sent me soon after they were broadcast
Bottles: "Commercials all day and all night" sounds like KPFA. almost non-stop pledge drives it seems.
Cease: we're great, now that you're here, lllan
llanwydd: lol
Bottles: It's snowing all over Calif - except here.
Cease: yeah bottles. proctor's new radio show seems to be sponsored by pledge drives
Beet: Have we heard of Michael Packer before?
Cease: he was before taylor jessen
Beet: OK
Bottles: Is Proctor on KPFK?
Cease: he did a number of wonderful things with austin and ossman.
Cease: austin
Cease: danger down under is his production. as is the autobozographical evening we heard here recently
Cease: yes bottles. every tuesday, 1-2. it's called the sexy boomer show.
Bottles: What is it that Danger is down under?
Cease: him and ted bonnitt.
Bottles: That's Pacifica, Cease.
Cease: i made a 3-part collage of his recent interview with jaraon lanier.
Cease: as i well know, botttttttles
Bottles: Where I work is all volunteer, all the time.
Cease: australia
Cease: in the bergman era, people got paid. bergman said, no pay, no show
Cease: austin and ossman too.
Beet: As unbelievable as it may sound, we actually had Pacifica in Houston. I listened to Firesign on it.
Bottles: Pacifica ought to just grit their teeth and take underwriters. Their mortgage and payroll is way more that only listener-supported can handle.
Cease: wow beet.
Cease: who would they be, bottles?
Bottles: Yeah KPFT, isn't it?
Cease: i thought dallas had a pacifica station but it got bombed.
Rufus T Firetween: bombed?
Beet: Yep
Bottles: They? meaning the network, or the underwriters? Pacifica I mean.
Bottles: Our KPFA show got booted for criticizing the Pacifica management.
Tweeny: There's apparently a Pacifica station in Houston
Tweeny: KPFT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFT
Merlyn: ya
Cease: management?
Tweeny: KPFT was bombed (for the first time) 45 years ago this week - https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/KPFT-was-bombed-for-the-first-time-45-years-ago-6256126.php
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Bottles: I could go on and on about KPFA and Pacifica.
Tweeny: So not Dallas, Houston
Tweeny: and it's still there
Bottles: I didn't know KPFT was bombed! That's harsh.
Cease: i just used this in a collage
Cease: my memory of that is pre-internet. it can be easily checked now
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging johan amadeus myjetski by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
Cease: hey jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: hey cease!
Tweeny: allo johan
Bottles: Hi Johan
johan amadeus myjetski: yo, tween!
johan amadeus myjetski: & hullo bottles!
Merlyn: hey g
Beet: Hi, j.a.m.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi beet!
llanwydd: pardon me for eating in front of you all be with you momentarily
johan amadeus myjetski: hiya Merlyn!
Merlyn: i nee
Cease: i find this woman very very annoying
Bottles: No problem if you brought enough for everyone llanwydd
Rufus T Firetween: She's supposed to be ;)
Bottles: Youmust be talking about me, Cease, as I'm the only one here.
Cease: i know but that doesn't make it any more tolerable
Cease: no, this women on digitial diner
Rufus T Firetween: haha
Cease: edy mclurg?
Bottles: Oh, you mean the woman on the radio. Oops.
johan amadeus myjetski: is that woman trying to smother her daughter
Cease: you're incapable of annoying me, bottles
Cease: proctor wrote this
Cease: there was a movie made of this
Bottles: This isn't the one about the human sacrifice, is it?
Bottles: Nope, guess not.
Cease: what are you talking about, bottles?
Cease: big black garter belt takes me back to the story about ethel
Bottles: It was the one about the girl who won the competition to be sacrificed, Cease. It was a FT film
Cease: yes, eat or be eaten
Cease: what was ethel's name?
Bottles: THis is great.
Cease: you're a musician, bottles, so of course you'd like it
johan amadeus myjetski: well, if i'm in orbit by now, i guess i never will be, mr. time....
Cease: lol, jammy
Beet: The whole show has been fantastic.
llanwydd: youre a musician bottles? cool! what do you play?
johan amadeus myjetski: music. of course
llanwydd: lol
Bottles: Guitar, bass, banjo, fiddle and harmonicky.
llanwydd: fantastic
Beet: That's very cool, Bottles.
Bottles: I'm mostly retired now due to arthritis llanwyd
Cease: no surprise that there are a lot of musicians on this chat, and in firesign fandom in general
Bottles: Firesign's music is always first class
Cease: there work is such that musical proclivity helps appreciate it. the ear is primed for serious work
johan amadeus myjetski: FST *always* had top-notch fantastic music on their projects
Cease: columbia consaidered them a rock group and they didn't disagree
Cease: austin a great musician
llanwydd: that reminds me, cat. who did the music on neal amid? I thought that music was really cool
Cease: drfeamt of being a rock star, and brought that dream to fst
Rufus T Firetween: A rock group that used words
llanwydd: good to use words in a song
Cease: peter stenshoel, who also produced NA
llanwydd: got to look up that nae
Cease: a radio guy and firesign friend from minneapolis. he's on Immortality
llanwydd: name
johan amadeus myjetski: i alwats thought a good pairing for a concert would be FST & Frank Zappa. Comedy w/ great music bookending great music w/ comedy
llanwydd: the music on immortality was really cool too. I can see (hear) the similarity
Bottles: That would be grat Johan. Like 200 Motels, with Flo and Eddie.
Cease: https://littlecityinspirit.com/about/
llanwydd: I agree, Jam
johan amadeus myjetski: "Centerville - a good place to eaise your kids up..."
johan amadeus myjetski: raise
llanwydd: thanis for the link
Cease: jammy. my first collage for this itereation was zappa's Billy the Mt with Firesign.
Cease: tons of swear words in it, could never be replayed here
llanwydd: hada yada yada
Beet: Such good music.
llanwydd: hada yada ya hady yadiya dada
johan amadeus myjetski: i remember! fabulous! BtM was one of my faves. i had that lp album, with the pencil on the cover like it was a bootleg
Bottles: Just Another Band From LA, or something, Johan?
Rufus T Firetween: Yeah, now that we're going live on the radio we have to be extra special carefull with the swear words (although the Program Director has been pretty tolerant, depnding on the context
llanwydd: the double knits they are the pits
johan amadeus myjetski: Live at the filmore
Bottles: Oh, yeah
Merlyn: ya
Cease: i was in the audience. when you hear clapping, i'm one of the thousands clapping
llanwydd: first use of the expression The Pits before it took off in new jersey around 1977
Cease: ucla.
Cease: one of 3 albums i can think of that you can hear me clapping on.
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, dude, you been everywhere!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
johan amadeus myjetski: be like you when i grow up!
Cease: a few places
llanwydd: all of them recorded in california, I assume?
Cease: my daughter wanted to be like me too, but she didn't live very long. maybe i can inspire my grandkids
llanwydd: I have attended five rock concerts and one firesign performance in my whole life
Rufus T Firetween: good that you got Firesign in there among them
Cease: cannonball adderly's black messiah, recorded at the troubador in 1971. small venue. dylan in seattle, vast venue. also just another band from la
Beet: I would trade several concerts for one live Firesign.
johan amadeus myjetski: i never had the opportunity to attebnd an FST concert :-(
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Doc Technical's
DEAR FRIENDS TOO
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DEAR FRIENDS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv'
Cease: jammy, you can hear them recorded. trust me (and i've seen them a dozen times or so) they're better on recordings
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!"
Cease: maybe merl would disagree, but that's my opinion.
Cease: merl recorded the XM shows and others
llanwydd: four of the five rock concerts were Yes and one was Rush
johan amadeus myjetski: i can tell you, live recordings have given me something, hard to describe, but that no other has
Cease: i saw a LOT of cconcerts, but long ago. now i rarely leave the house
llanwydd: there must have been a lot to see in california, cat
johan amadeus myjetski: not live recording, i typed FST recordings
Cease: when you live there, you don't see it. it's just normal reality
Cease: oh yes, i'm on the donovan album at the hollywood bowl, clapping. probably more
Rufus T Firetween: Radio Now Live! is fantastic. Undoubtely their best quality live recording
johan amadeus myjetski: i lived in memphis over 40 years & proud that i NEVER visited Graceland
Cease: well, there's not a lot of competition, tween. most of their recorded live stuff sucks
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "No, no my boy, you're confused. The horizon's moving up!"
llanwydd: there must be some recordings of me capping at madison square garden
llanwydd: but I am sure you can hardly hear me
Cease: indeed, llan
llanwydd: clapping
llanwydd: I have heard of capping at concerts too
Cease: hye llan, doc just sent me a, i assume, finished version of act one with you as alain ducasse. it's fantastic
||||||||| 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'
llanwydd: grateful dead concerts
Beet: I was in Memphis when Elvis still lived there.
llanwydd: thrilled to hear it, cat
Cease: was that relevant to you then, beet?
Beet: Absolutely. I made the drive out there just to see the house.
Cease: i think you wil be when you hear it, llan. doc is doing a fantastic job. problem is, i need finished play done before i go to vegas in a few weeks.
Bottles: Yup llanwydd, I'm heard on Dead shows. Pretty drowned out by the Wall of Sound in 74
johan amadeus myjetski: me too beet, i saw EP several times being driven around town. & Issac Hayes drivng hi eldorado with the huge headlights, & al green in hi old Rolls
Cease: exactly, bottles
Beet: Some nice sightings, Jammy
Rufus T Firetween: Saw a GD concert in D.C. where they were using The Wall Of Sound. Pretty amazing setup. No stage monitors.
Bottles: We were sitting on the ground, blitzed out of our trees, staring at each other.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QudANSHwM0U
johan amadeus myjetski: THANKS everybody!!
Beet: This was thoroughly entertaining. Thanks to all. Looking forward to future creations, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Cease: we do our best, eh?
Bottles: Oh, darn, it's about that time, isn't it? Thanks Kurt and egeryone!
llanwydd: yeah, thanks Cat and Tween. Great show!
Cease: new collage is about mushrooms
DJ Tweeny: Until last time, again...
Bottles: Nice.
llanwydd: nite folks
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
johan amadeus myjetski: countdown... blastoff!
Cease: boom dot bust next week
Cease: off we flee
Merlyn: ok
||||||||| Cease 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..."
DJ Tweeny: Shoes For Industry!
Bottles: Just now eating an electric pancake. Blasting off soon.
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Bottles left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| DJ Tweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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
Bottles
Cease
DJ Tweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus T Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_(band
https://firesigntheatre.com/
https://littlecityinspirit.com/about/
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/KPFT-was-bombed-for-the-first-time-45-years-ago-6256126.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QudANSHwM0U