Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/10/2023

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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 August 10, 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, August 10, 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?"
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW FIRESIGN CHAT TIME **
** THE FIRESIGN CHAT HAS MOVED TO 7PM -9PM EASTERN **
The Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starts at 7pm Eastern this evening.
Warm-up music now begins around 6:40pm Eastern.
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| 8:00 PM: DJTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 7pm Eastern this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 6:40pm Eastern
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
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – HAPPY BIRTHDAY IAN ANDERSON
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)'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
Cease: Tweeny: I'm cooking dinner (which will start at 6) for 7 people now so will be in and out of chat.
Cease: Do want to say a few words about Melinda and Krassner and how they intersect in my life
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Rufus_T_Firetween: mange bien
Rufus_T_Firetween: save a doggie bag for me :)
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Merlyn 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.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
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)'
DJTweeny: Evenin' Merlyn
Merlyn: Evening DJ
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: Hi Merl
Merlyn: Also Cease, Rufus
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Elayne should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Elayne enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Cease: Actually it's Krassner Theatre
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Melinda Peterson and Phil Proctor in
HAM UPON REBECCA
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: Hi El
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Elayne: Hey Cat
Elayne: Hey Kurt!
Elayne: Brian's here too, lovely!
Cease: This is a clip from Phil's autobiographical podcast, episdoe 23
Merlyn: Hey E
Elayne doesn't have her audio on
DJTweeny: you're missing out
Elayne: Not going to put it on, either. I can't bring myself to listen to recent ghosts at the moment.
Cease: This was one of 2 Ossman plays he did at the Whidbey Island Centre for the Arts in thesummer o 1997
Cease: Only the 2nd one, Tirebiter's Radio Follies, featured Phil and Melinda
Cease: My wife Fumiyo and I drove down from Vancouver to see the plays.
DJTweeny: nice
DJTweeny: not a great distance from Whidbey, I suppose
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Cease: They were sposored by the bar accross street. Ossman was required to do a radio show after the plays, featuring Phil, Melinda, Fumiyo and I.
DJTweeny: hah, cool
Cease: Elayne and her then husband drove down to visit the Ossmans when they visited in 1995. Still have the video you shot there, El
Merlyn: cool
Elayne: I vaguely remember that
||||||||| Catherwood ushers johan amadeus myjetski 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.
Elayne: Evenin' Johan!
Merlyn: Hi JAM
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo Elayne!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
DJTweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo Elayne!
Elayne: Be right back
||||||||| Elayne says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Elayne exits at 8:00 PM.
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Merlyn!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Elayne, just back from Billville."
Cease: Jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: How's it going, Cease?
Cease: Pretty good, Jammy.
johan amadeus myjetski: good to hear!
Cease: We're having 7 people over for dinner (including us) this evening at 6 so I'm kind of involved with food prep.
Cease: Just cut 100 grapes in half. Big job.
Cease: Fumiyo is making gyoza and I'm making my signature dish, warm grape salad.
Elayne: Sounds delish! Photos?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
Cease: Will post, El. The dish is sauteed, chives, then add sliced shiitake, grapes, feta and finally mint just before serving. Must be eaten warm.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Elayne: Excellent
Cease: I had it at a Japanese restaurant in Vegas about a decade ago and have been making it ever since.
Cease: Thaught it to the foodie grandkids and they made it for their cooking class at school, to rave reviews from fellow high school students.
Cease: tought
||||||||| Beet bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Evening, everyone.
Cease: Beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Bottles close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
Beet: Hi, Dr Cease
Bottles: hiyas
Cease: HI Bottles
DJTweeny: Hey Bottles
Beet: Hi, Elayne, Bottles.
johan amadeus myjetski: the grapes of half, Cease?
Beet: Hey, j.a.m.
Cease: yes
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Bottles!
Merlyn: Hey Beet
Cease: that's thebig job. the other stuff is easy.
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, beet!
Beet: Howdy, Merlyn
Elayne: Beet and Bottles!
Merlyn: and Bottles
Beet: Hello, Tween.
Cease: Fish has been filling my email box with plays of his that Melinda was in, which I'll be making collages from in monthes to come.
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
KRASSNER FIRESIGN
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 COLLAGE ARCHIVE AT >> https://www.kurtericson.net/cat'
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
Cease: I had just bought a DAT machine and used it for the first time to record this at the theatre.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "These insignificant lumps came together..."
Cease: I misprounounced Groucho
johan amadeus myjetski: when mispronounce something like that, it's usually that my dentures slipped
Cease: i suspect Groucho would be amused.
Cease: This is Gerry Fialca, the guy who's going to interview me for his podcast next week.
johan amadeus myjetski: Haha!
Cease: Krassner's neighbour.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, the Firesigns had some difficulty pronouncing your name, didn't they Cat??
Cease: That was intentional, Tween.
Cease: You may recall this from last week's Power.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Of course ;)
||||||||| Elayne rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Cease: By El
Cease: HI Melinda
Cease: Austin at his most poetic.
Beet: El is gone. 'Bye.
Cease: She was here longer than usual.
johan amadeus myjetski: Dobie Gillis was just about the only tv depiction of a beatnik who was *not* a homicidial maniac.
Bottles: Who is doing the howling? Anyone recognize the voice?
Bottles: I remember a horror movie with a psychotic beat-like sculptor
Bottles: Izzat what you were thinking of, johan? Terrible movie.
Cease: my favourite Lenny piece. I've used it in Many collages.
Cease: Beatniks were a regular punching bag in the media, as I recall. Even the name is that.
Cease: Surpised Fialca identified Beatniks as an actual group.
Bottles: Was Lord Buckley a beat-type artist?
Bottles: ...or earlier?
Cease: very much so.
Cease: the beats started during ww2.
johan amadeus myjetski: well, i was thinking of shows like Perry Mason, Dragnet, both which consistently protrayed beats as Manson-styled murders
Cease: indeed, jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: yes, but Lord Buckley wasn't on tv
Cease: actually he was on Ed Sullivan.
johan amadeus myjetski: portrayed
Bottles: What about the Edd Byrnes character?
johan amadeus myjetski: murderers
Cease: someone posted a picture of LB on the sullikvan show on facebook reccently.
Beet: There are clips on YouTube of Lord Buckley
Cease: also on What's My Line, I think.
Bottles: Hunter Thompson was on What's My Line too.
Cease: I'm gonna have to mix LB with Firesign in some collages. They mixed his stories into their radio shows.
Bottles: after he wrote the Hells Angels book
Merlyn: ep 34, what is 1-33?
Merlyn: Simsons
Cease: I used this bit in another collage. Right after Go Down Gussie, I mixed in a little mini-bio of Gus Grissum
Bottles: Gus Grissum??
Bottles: The astronaut?
Cease: one of the first astronauts.
Bottles: Yeah, he got in trouble for letting his space capsule sink.
Beet: Burned up in the capsule.
johan amadeus myjetski: one of the Mercury astronauts. Se 'the Right Stuff'
Merlyn: or ep 3 blackadder, ep 1 or 2 what
Cease: i saw that again not long ago, jammy
Bottles: Right, he was the 2nd astronaut, then years later got killed
Merlyn: on hulu
Cease: this is from Lawyer's Hospital. have you heard that recently, Tween?
Cease: we
Rufus_T_Firetween: Not this year, Cat
Cease: we should
Rufus_T_Firetween: sure, put it on the list
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have a copy with the bad language taken out of the presidents skit
Cease: yes, i recall editing that.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Son, it's in the water - that's why it's yellow."
johan amadeus myjetski: gotta run!
Cease: this is from 1994 when the internet was still quite new.
Cease: by Jammy
Beet: See ya, jam.
Merlyn: oh I see
||||||||| 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..
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH
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 IMMORTALITY at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about IMMORTALITY at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln
Beet: Gotta go. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
||||||||| It's 12:15 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
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by beet
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: Hi Not
Not Ed: Dang!
Not Ed: Hey C-man!
Not Ed: Will work out the 4pm thing sooner or later.
DJTweeny: Hey Not
Not Ed: Hey will you please have a wonderful weekend?
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny!
Not Ed: You too Tweeny. Take good care.
Not Ed: Thanks for having us. (I think I've just been had, but it's ok!)
Cease: we'll do our best, Not
Bottles: Sup Not Ed
Bottles: We visited our new studio today. Just one piece of paper till we can move in.
Cease: Great, Bottles
Bottles: Got 2 and a half plays ready to record
Bottles: Now we just need a manager. Anyone wanna manage an all-volunteer radio station, for no salary?
Cease: One of the Melinda plays Fish just sent me, about zombies, sounds A LOT like a Scratched UP Radio production.
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by Not
Bottles: Really Cease? We sound like zombies?
Bottles: Did Melinda write plays?
Cease: no, the play is about zombies invading a town in idaho and the station's attempt to alert the citizens.
Bottles: Oh wow! I love it!
Cease: i have no idea, melinda. by Melinda plays, i mean plays she acted in that Fish was invovled with.
Bottles: Was it ever recorded
Cease: i
Cease: l send it to you later, bottles. there are actually quite a few of these plays.
Bottles: Cool.
Cease: on fish's radio show
Merlyn: Hi NotEd bye NotEd
Bottles: I gotta listen again to his show again.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Richard Fish's FIREHOUSE THEATER at >> https://spinitron.com/WFHB/show/164847/Firehouse-Theater?page=1
Cease: last week's was an all-melinda show.
Bottles: I'll check it out when we're finished
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the FIRESIGN CHAT SHOW ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/firesign/
Bottles: I heard a writer talking about using AI to write stories. I tried it, and it didn't go well.
Bottles: Downloaded an AI chatbot, and asked for help. It wasn't really feasible.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's
APRIL FOOLS DAY COLLECTION
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/'
Bottles: I had to toss ideas at it, and it would suggest silly suggestions that didn't cut it.. So I don't think writers have to worry much about quality work coming from artificial intelligence.
||||||||| 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'
Bottles: I like that idea, swapping Georgia, Asia for Georgia, USA.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
Bottles: Thanks Kurt, Cat, Mervyn and everyone, It was fun.
Beet: Got back just in time to say goodbye. Goodbye.
Bottles: Hasta marijuana yall.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "Hey Bottles!" ... Bottles turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Merlyn: nite all
Cease: by
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://kurtericson.net/firesign/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.com/
https://spinitron.com/WFHB/show/164847/Firehouse-Theater?page=1
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
https://www.kurtericson.net/cat