A Firesign Chat
03/23/2023




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 March 23, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Rufus T Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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, March 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 leads Tweeny into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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 five minutes!"
||||||||| 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
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com
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||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – STEELY DAN – THE ROYAL SCAM
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood ushers Zen Cosmos in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Zen
Zen Cosmos: March's Planet Proctor dropped yesterday, has some cool stories along the monthly quotes
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving johan amadeus myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: steely daniel!
johan amadeus myjetski: hey DJT, Zwn C
Zen Cosmos: I have the complete Steely Dan album collection
johan amadeus myjetski: great musicianship in that band!
Zen Cosmos: http://www.planetproctor.com/index1.html
DJTweeny: nice, Zen :)
DJTweeny: no doubt, johan
DJTweeny: Planet Proctor is fun
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Cease: Hi all!
johan amadeus myjetski: if i became an expert on Planet Proctor, would that make me a proctorologist?
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Cease!
Cease: when i clicked on the music (love that song), not only do i get no music, my screen is flahsing, like it's been attacked.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Deputy Dang: Steely Dang!
DJTweeny: Hey Cease, Howdy Deputy
johan amadeus myjetski: greetings, DD!
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'cat 2', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus T Firetween: Two kitties
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
Rufus T Firetween: yipes Cat
Rufus T Firetween: working fine here
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
llanwydd: howdy folks
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Cease: i think i'll turn off this computer and restart it
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
johan amadeus myjetski: sounds particularly fine in 320k
cat 2: itr does indeed.
Rufus T Firetween: Yeah, glad I could make the upgrade
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Merlyn, just back from Elmertown."
cat 2: hey merl
DJTweeny: Yo Merlyn
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
llanwydd: hi merl
Merlyn: hey cat
cat 2: just back from vegas
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's like sitting in a big hand."
Merlyn: hey everd
llanwydd: how was the food, cat?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Billville."
Beet: Howdy!
llanwydd: Hi Beet
DJTweeny: Did you bring a doggie bag for us Cat?
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
cat 2: it tranged from terrible to wondrous, as usual
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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Beet: Hey, Llan, Hi, Dr Tween, Dr Cease
llanwydd: I ate at a chinese buffet this afternoon. it ranged from fair to good.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: I dont do that often
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Cat 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!"
johan amadeus myjetski: good chinese meal is a wonderful thing, llan!
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s RADIO NOW LIVE!
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RADIO NOW at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
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llanwydd: sure
Beet: I love a good Chinese buffet.
Cat: Merl and I were at the Seattle version of that tour.
Deputy Dang: I used to know an AF dude who went by the name Fungi, a derivative of his last name.
Cat: I know nothing of buffets. I only eat in major league restaurants.
llanwydd: I thought you would at least check out the casino buffets cat
Cat: never llan.
llanwydd: I hear they are the best
Cat: i only fill up and top of the line food in vegas. some of the best chefs in the world have restaurants there (however that is decided)
DJTweeny: $$$
Cat: it'll take me a week or two to write up my trip on the blog.
llanwydd: glad you had a good time, cat
Beet: Hard to find good sit down restaurants in this part of the country. Some in D. C. of course.
Cat: unlike real life, where i rarely talk to anyone, in vegas I relently hustled my play.
DJTweeny: kewl
llanwydd: Cool!
Cat: I took 50 business cards with me and when i got home, I only had 5 left.
Deputy Dang: I must have missed something--when I was in LV, the buffets were a little pricey. Not as much as the famous-chef places, but still... not cheap.
Cat: i always have a good time. there were some bummers, but overall i'm very happy with the trip. my first time out side of vancouver in 4 years, since last vegas trip
llanwydd: ever been to a ducasse restaurant, cat?
Cat: you'll hear about the sort of restauants i go to when you hear my play.
llanwydd: great
Cat: 3 of them, llan. 2 in vegas, one in paris (in the eiffel tower)
llanwydd: what a trip
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Not Ed: Porque?
DJTweeny: Hey Not
Cat: you played ducasse in Vegas/Egypt, llan. he once personally served me his famous lobster curry,
Beet: Howdy, Not.
Cat: hi not
johan amadeus myjetski: why, porque?
Rufus T Firetween: mmmmmm lobster curry
llanwydd: thats cool
johan amadeus myjetski: hiya Not!
Not Ed: Why not?
Not Ed: Hey JAM
llanwydd: never had lbster curry
llanwydd: cannot even imagine it in my minds mouth
Cat: it made ducasse famous, as you say in my play.
llanwydd: check out the audience here!
Not Ed: Hiho llan & Ruf & Beet & Cat & you too DDang - tx Tweeny
Deputy Dang: Howdy ho!
llanwydd: audience participation at its best
Cat: indeed
llanwydd: really enjoyed doing that, cat. dying to hear it
Not Ed: great
johan amadeus myjetski: sounds like they were having a lot of fun along with the audience.
llanwydd: there was some of that when I saw them in nyc
Not Ed: applause lol
Merlyn: ya
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
llanwydd: not as good as that though
Cat: so, what do you want to do, tween? shall be put off my play until 2 weeks from today?
Not Ed: merl!
Beet: lol
Merlyn: NotEd!
Not Ed: thumbs up
Rufus T Firetween: Whatever works for you Cat
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies InTheWood into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
InTheWood: Hi, all!
DJTweeny: Hi Woodie
llanwydd: I used to hear... My tires squeeled as I hit several people.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
llanwydd: firesign mondegreen
Deputy Dang: No brew haha here tonight--strictly vino.
Beet: Hey, Wood.
Cat: i was thinking, maybe we play Neal Amid next week and then the collage I made about Austin writing a flick for the Dead. they were pals of Cassidy.
Deputy Dang: This reminds me of Steve Martin.
Rufus T Firetween: catherwood, please get everyone a glass of firesign mondegreen
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a glass of firesign mondegreen.
InTheWood: Live, this is a whole different show.
llanwydd: thanks cathy
InTheWood: I know a Lady Mondegreen. Lovely girl.
Cat: Also, part of NA is in Egypt, like my new play, so next week could be warm up for the following week's play premiere
llanwydd: true woody
llanwydd: whole different show
Cat: hi woody
Not Ed: hey ITW
Zen Cosmos: in 96 their Bagley Wright Theatrwe aka Seattle Rep was a very different experience live.
Not Ed: Hi Z
Merlyn: ya
Zen Cosmos: I was indulged by all 4 guys to sign my cassette/CD covers- they were aamzed i brought them to be signed.
InTheWood: Nice to be back! Sorry, I was just having a short swim from my car. Is this from the EYKIW Declassified DVD release?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
llanwydd: trying to get mhy goat, catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood gets mhy goat.
Merlyn: hey Zen
llanwydd: LOL
Cat: hi zen
Zen Cosmos: Should any of you wisdh to- I am Daqvid terry Dorais on Face Book, but may migrate to M johan amadeus myjetski: gotta go eat- i'll be bach for Cat's kungffu fun guy!
llanwydd: I got two fst autographs in 1981. the two phils. I couldnt get to the others
Zen Cosmos: damn typios David Terry Dorais
InTheWood: I wish they could have come out East more often.
Zen Cosmos: may migrate to mastodon...
Not Ed: aren't they extinct?
Not Ed: har har
llanwydd: they still keep finding wooly mammoths in the ice above the arctic circle
Not Ed: that's amazing
llanwydd: this is true. mommoth steaks have been served in restaurants in alaska
llanwydd: mammoth
Not Ed: there was an ep. of Northern Exposure about that - pretty funny
Cat: i went to a kind of art installation called Omega Art in Vegas. in its firesign-like store, one of the products with canned mamoth. i'll past pix from there in the future. an extraordinary expereince.
InTheWood: Monmouth Steaks. Great martinis there.
Cat: you mean frozen napoleion, not?
Not Ed: lol right ITW
llanwydd: LOL woody
Cat: one of my favouirte tv episodes
Not Ed: cool Cat me too
Cat: i have to buy some cords to connect the vcr with the new tv to watch that
Cat: when he finds Elijah at the table!
Cat: that's great television
Not Ed: haga I have a couple of episodes too - is it not on anywhere shame if not
llanwydd: I gave up on prime time tv when I was only a teenager
llanwydd: the only thing I follow these days is Jeopardy
Not Ed: haha
llanwydd: not to say I didnt watch tv. I loved monty python
Not Ed: I love jeopardy
llanwydd: are we allowed to say monty python here?
Rufus T Firetween: lol
Cat: python was the pinnacle of TV
Rufus T Firetween: Imagine if Firesingn and Python had done some work together
Not Ed: agree cat - funny llan lol
llanwydd: maybe, cat
InTheWood: And cheers to PBS, for making sure the US got iPython, Doctor Who, etc...
Rufus T Firetween: indeed, Wood
Not Ed: I've said UK had Python we had Firesign a few times
Rufus T Firetween: lots of good BBC comedy
Not Ed: indeed Ruf
llanwydd: and fawlty towers. probably the best sitcom ever made
Not Ed: Black Adder!
Not Ed: Fawlty Towers of course
Not Ed: yeah llan
InTheWood: The off-network British Invasion.
Not Ed: yepsk
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Swell pizza!"
Merlyn: i lovr je
Not Ed: nice piece of work this nice to hear it at live speed
llanwydd: the word swell is sometimes considered faint praise but it depends on the context
InTheWood: And the delivery.
Not Ed: good point
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!"
llanwydd: especially the delivery
Not Ed: haha Procmer
Rufus T Firetween: Not Ed: nice piece of work this nice to hear it at live speed << Fantastic live recording, but I don't think the new web site has made it available :/
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Not Ed: ohh
Not Ed: it's just great
Rufus T Firetween: most of the old catalog is unavailable since Laugh.com stopped offering them
Not Ed: aww yeah
Not Ed: Have they thought about putting anything in the public domain?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
Not Ed: would be cool
Cat: while they can still make money from their work, they should
Not Ed: oh I def agree
Rufus T Firetween: I suppose they could use Archive.org, but I'll bet they'd rather make a few $$
Not Ed: yeah
Cat: i think in the future, all their work will be in the library of congress and available from there
Not Ed: oh that's cool sure I forgot about that
Cat: my collages too, i hope
Not Ed: hope so too!
Cat: anyway, if one finds oneself in vegas, there are few things one can do there that compares with Omega Mart. like Firesign Theatre come to life, in some snese
Not Ed: this is priceless
Cat: box of bones indeed
Cat: as i was telling my wife yesterday, when i first heard firesign (before the albums) i knew they were superior to me and so my goal was become a good enough writer that they'd want to work with me.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a steaming plate of meatless hot creatures
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a steaming plate of meatless hot creatures.
Cat: i succeeded in reaching that goal with Neal Amid and my plays of that era
Not Ed: Love that stuff dl'd a bunch
Cat: yes, omega mart is like austin's lunch menus come to life
Not Ed: haha cool
Cat: as i said, as a teen ager, i strove to be invovled with the firesign theatre. if i were a young man/artist now, my goalt would be to hang out and create with Meow Wolf.
llanwydd: I had a similar goal, cat. glad to hear you realized yours
Cat: https://meowwolf.com/visit/las-vegas?utm_term=meow%20wolf%20omega%20mart&utm_campaign=Brand+-+MW+Las+Vegas&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=adwords&hsa_acc=6033244515&hsa_tgt=aud-680130216646:kwd-1302364067919&hsa_cam=14965932673&hsa_mt=e&hsa_ad=650395651663&hsa_src=g&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&hsa_kw=meow%20wolf%20omega%20mart&hsa_grp=133802287132&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4L2Olrnz_QIVQx-tBh1Xbg23EAAYASAAEgLurfD_BwE
llanwydd: I simply wanted my work to be read by the firsign theatre. i tis possible that they saw some of it when I had Bobs Brazerko Lounge on Yahoo
Not Ed: awesome Cat
InTheWood: Wow
Not Ed: cool llan love that
Cat: Omega Mart introduced me to the idea of immersive visual and Tactile art/story
Cat: i could go there.
Not Ed: from MN originally it took me a while to get to see them but I eventually moved to Seattle and lo and behold they were performing gosh what a treat
Cat: as an artist, you never stop arting, ever searching for new realms
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!"
Merlyn: ya
Not Ed: ya
Beet: Omega Mart looks amazing, Cat.
Not Ed: truly
Cat: remember, i helped create Adbusters which inspired Firesign
Cat: thier Joe Camerl bit from Immortality comes from an Adbusters ad parody called Joe Chemo.
InTheWood: Radio swordfight.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ersatz Brothers Coffee, the REAL one!"
Beet: Adbusters had those corporate American flags.
Cat: i when i was visitiong Phil and Melinda in Dec, 1995, Proc showed me the adbusters ad and I told him i was responsible for its existence
Cat: tes beet
Cat: that's when Melinda told me i should be writing radio plays.
Cat: Ok, Mel. I'll give it a shot
Not Ed: nice
Not Ed: that's great
llanwydd: cool
Not Ed: and they ought to know
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?"
Not Ed: I just heard the both of them in "blood" - a 2000x episode
llanwydd: catherwood is getting into a non-sequitur trip
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to llanwydd and inquires "Did you need me?"
Not Ed: PP and Melinda
Not Ed: i'll find it hang on
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Bottles should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Bottles enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
llanwydd: Hi Bottles
Bottles: Hola yall
Beet: There's Bottles. Howdy.
Cat: Hey Bottles
Bottles: How goes yaz?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "He can shout, don't hear you."
DJTweeny: Hey Bottles
Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about RADIO NOW LIVE! at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Merlyn: hey bottles
Not Ed: link to listen to "blood" with Phil & Mel - from a collection of 2000x episodes there (internet archive) https://archive.org/details/2000x-tales-of-the-next-millenia/Blood.wma
Bottles: Why don't these guys speak English?
Not Ed: hi bot!
Not Ed: ha
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: It's 2 O'Clock somewhere.
Not Ed: Phil P is all over the 2000x shows I think Ive heard DO as well - Ossman must have been involved
InTheWood: Brilliant.
Not Ed: 2000x stories were adapted and directed by Yuri Rasovsky (er maybe most)
Not Ed: yeah GREAT
Not Ed: ohh "goodbyes" great that dates this
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?"
Not Ed: bbye zoot
Not Ed: AI furniture
Deputy Dang: Say hello to my little friend?
InTheWood: I still use my dad's old typewriter...
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: neat ITW
Deputy Dang: We own the idea of... pork!
Not Ed: I want to stand up and applaud too
Not Ed: that's fer sure
InTheWood: Right on, Ed...
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: Right arm!
llanwydd: that was exceelent!
Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “FIRESIGN FUNGI” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Merlyn: ya
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
”FIRESIGN FUNGI (Part 2)”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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Not Ed: kickin back
Cat: imagine that. sometihng that reverses alzhiemers.
Deputy Dang: Mushrooms prefer cooler temperatures than Florida.
Rufus T Firetween: pretty amazing
Deputy Dang: In general...
Not Ed: wow!
Not Ed: didn't know of this
Beet: Catherwood send me some 'shrooms
||||||||| Catherwood sends Beet some 'shrooms.
Deputy Dang: Grow your own. It's not hard.
Beet: thanks
Deputy Dang: Animals are more-closely related to mushrooms (fungi) than they are to plants.
Deputy Dang: Having said that, plants are more closely related to mushrooms (fungi) than they are to animals.
llanwydd: never thought of that, dang
Not Ed: they grow in the kirkland/Redmond/Woodinville valley here on the east side in seattle
Not Ed: you can collect hatfulls of them
Deputy Dang: Eyeball hats?
Not Ed: potent ones too
Cat: lol
llanwydd: lol
Cat: 3rd eye hats
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
InTheWood: Does anyone else remember the 'Mr. Bass and the Mushroom Planet" kids' book series?
Not Ed: I mean psych. shrooms
Cat: no
Not Ed: I don't eat em anymore
Not Ed: for no particular reason
Deputy Dang: I have evidence (i.e., a friend) who is evidence that psilocybin shrooms don't always help with alcoholism.
llanwydd: you get to the point where you have been there and done that
Not Ed: no ITW
Not Ed: ah I see DDang
Beet: love john fogerty's guitar licks
Not Ed: zactly llan
llanwydd: that said, I havent tripped since 1989 and I would like to do it again someday
Cat: me too, dang
Beet: I want to try ayahuasca
Merlyn: ya
Deputy Dang: @llanwydd yes. I had difficultly getting some friends to believe me when I said they're not addictive. At least for me, they're exhausting. It's not that I dislike the experience, but it's not something I want to do every day (or week, or even month).
Zen Cosmos: try iboga/ibogaine to end any addictions...you need supervision by a qualified doctor/shaman
Not Ed: I'd do pyote if it came around I liked that best
Deputy Dang: I had an opportunity to try ayahuasca, but I did some reading up on it, and declined, because I have high blood pressure.
Not Ed: peyote
Deputy Dang: I've been microdosing iocaine powder...
Not Ed: bitter as hell wow
Cat: i had a very bad experience with mushrooms last week. some friends had give me some muchroom candy. i did the first when watching this show, Fantastic Fungae, on netflick in jan or dec. save the other for completieon of the play. so when it was complete i at the mushroom candy and felt ill for the nesxt 2 days, no psyhcedelism for me
Bottles: I haven't even seen any psychedelics in over 40 years.
Beet: same here
Cat: by choice, bottles?
Not Ed: sorry bout that cat
Not Ed: lol Bot
llanwydd: it kind of went away with the grateful dead
Cat: i saw blade runner in toky on acid. that was a trip
Bottles: Not particularly Cat. I just don't have friends with connections.
Cat: big suburb of tokyo that has a lot of huge video signs just like in blade runner.
llanwydd: interesting you can find anything like that in japan cat
Beet: harajuku?
llanwydd: their drug laws are pretty rough
Cat: friends always have friends who have friends and eventually, you get whatever you want
Deputy Dang: I've had a couple of bad experiences, but they weren't "bad trips". It's more like eating old mushrooms that have themselves become a food source for other fungi, leading to... intestinal discomfort. Sorry, TMI.
Not Ed: i bet
llanwydd: tough...whatever
Deputy Dang: He's talked about the USA, yes?
Deputy Dang: talking
johan amadeus myjetski: "Cox....Cox, tis place is full of crows..."
Deputy Dang: +1 jam
Cat: this is like my play.
Cat: very similar experience, only with food, not psychedelics
InTheWood: I've reached elevated planes of existence from a great steak.
Deputy Dang: Hawkmoth!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends."
Deputy Dang: Deputy Dang isn't far behind!
Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “FIRESIGN FUNGI” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
Cat: me too, woody
Beet: Really noticing the difference in the sound quality this week, Rufus.
Cat: there are many different stairways to heaven
Rufus T Firetween: Glad I could bump it up to 320k (which is the best MP3 can do, near lossless)
Beet: Really good
Deputy Dang: I'm good to go. My therapist doesn't like when I say that.
Deputy Dang: What's that, Rufus? Speak into my good ear.
Beet: If you're good to go you don't need the therapist.
Rufus T Firetween: lol DD
Deputy Dang: Maybe that's why they don't like me saying it. lol
Not Ed: 320 night
johan amadeus myjetski: me too Deputy. death is just shedding a layer. *you* keep going
Deputy Dang: um... citation (w/evidence) needed
Beet: don't mind dying, just don't like pain and discomfort.
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s FST FREE TIME WITH THE CAT MAN broadcasts at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FREE_TIME
Cat: heard great interview with laurie anderson on marc maron's podcast the other day. she talks about how her dead husband lou read is stil part of her daily life
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's a seeker born every minute!"
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Not Ed: blog blog blog
Rufus T Firetween: and for Bottles...
Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
Cat: my daughter lives on in my plays, stories about her introduce her to the minds of others
Not Ed: neato Bot
johan amadeus myjetski: a variety of out of body experiences showed me
Cat: that's what i was doing in Vegas. hopefully more people will know of her existence as they gorge on cocktail recipes and great meals well savoured
Deputy Dang: anecdotes aren't evidence
Rufus T Firetween: Ralph Spoilsports' Out Of Body Sale?
Deputy Dang: I'm not dismissing your experiences, just saying there're no reason they apply to anyone other than yourself
johan amadeus myjetski: no, but it was proven to me
Deputy Dang: yay
Beet: but you don't have to be there when it happens
Cat: i think my vegas food experiences were unique. i've never heard of anyone else having such experiences, though i think it has to be common. how are senses react to anytihng is always idiosynchratic
Not Ed: maybe I should head over to kirkland after all
Deputy Dang: +1 Beet
Bottles: Here's a live one for yaz: https://archive.org/details/between-heaven-and-hell-lili-dubois
Merlyn: ya
Cat: new play, bottles or the one i heard last year?
Bottles: It's being staged next month. Same one, Cat, without the Marathon Race bit.
Deputy Dang: I'd rather have a Bottle in front of me than to have a frontal lobotomy!
Not Ed: one of our games won a magic mushroom page award https://rich.itch.io/brainpipe-a-plunge-to-unhumanity (won some other awards 2)
Not Ed: It's pretty trippy
Not Ed: it's free
Bottles: Cool, Not Ed! Does it take more than one person to play?
Not Ed: free is good
Not Ed: (released in 2009)
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again."
||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
Not Ed: have you seen the bbc fungi documentary cat?
Not Ed: like "the fourth kingdom" or something like that
Cat: not yet, not
Not Ed: it's probably on youtube
Bottles: Oh crud, I tried to download it, and my virus alert came up.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
Not Ed: fourth kingdom or fifth kingdom etc
Not Ed: it's fine - totally safe site
Not Ed: but glad your virus thingy is trying
Cat: i had a lot of mushroom foods in vegas. i want to learn more and sample more
Beet: The whole mushroom universe can make one very hopeful.
johan amadeus myjetski: \i eat mushrooms every day
Not Ed: great sound in brainpipe (one of my contributions)
Not Ed: aww but mom!
llanwydd: lost my audio
Not Ed: still have it here
llanwydd: got it back
Not Ed: oh okay groovy!
Not Ed: nature is happening i like that
johan amadeus myjetski: feeling rather groovy meself...
Not Ed: evolution
Beet: Everyone should feel groovy.
Not Ed: (glad I grew up in the country - though I became a city boy heh)
Cat: i was just thinking of that song when i was coming back to vancouverf this aft. feeling groovy
Zen Cosmos: after all this a snark comment- The mycellium network of Star Trek Discovery was hokey at best and NOT even fake scientific...
||||||||| 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
'
Not Ed: great ditty catchy!
Not Ed: welly welly well
Not Ed: time to go
Beet: Really cool evening. Thanks everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
llanwydd: great collage, cat
Bottles: I downloaded the exe file, it said it's complete, clicked on the folder but nothing happened.
Not Ed: will you all please take good care
Not Ed: I know you will
Cat: my idea is neal amid and austin show next week, my new play in 2 weeks
johan amadeus myjetski: love love love to all!!!
Not Ed: see u next time and then some!
Merlyn: hey sall
Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Bottles: Thanks Kurt, Cat and Merlyn!
Not Ed: thanks to the team!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Merlyn vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
llanwydd: thanks tween and cat. nite everybody!
InTheWood: Thanks, for another great show!
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Bottles by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cat: off we drift
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| cat 2 dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's cat 2?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Cat hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
InTheWood: Night, all!
||||||||| InTheWood 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 the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs DJTweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| It's 3:15 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
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Cease - dead from jaundice
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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
cat 2
Cat
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
InTheWood
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus T Firetween
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FREE_TIME
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.planetproctor.com/index1.html
http://www.seemreal.com
https://archive.org/details/2000x-tales-of-the-next-millenia/Blood.wma
https://archive.org/details/between-heaven-and-hell-lili-dubois
https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater
https://meowwolf.com/visit/las-vegas?utm_term=meow%20wolf%20omega%20mart&utm_campaign=Brand+-+MW+Las+Vegas&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=adwords&hsa_acc=6033244515&hsa_tgt=aud-680130216646:kwd-1302364067919&hsa_cam=14965932673&hsa_mt=e&hsa_ad=650395651663&hsa_src=g&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&hsa_kw=meow%20wolf%20omega%20mart&hsa_grp=133802287132&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4L2Olrnz_QIVQx-tBh1Xbg23EAAYASAAEgLurfD_BwE
https://rich.itch.io/brainpipe-a-plunge-to-unhumanity
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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