Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/30/2023

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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 November 30, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| 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
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 30, 2023 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| Deputy Dang steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Deputy Dang: I like knockers.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet 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: '** 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts DJTweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Evenin' Beet, Deputy
Rufus_T_Firetween: music in a couple of minutes
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – BB KING & ERIC CLAPTON-RIDING WITH THE KING
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)'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Elayne close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
Elayne: Evenin' all! Back from the shadows (of Manhattan) again.
Elayne: Hoping to see Phil on Saturday for my birthday but he may have other plans. Will be weird not to see Melinda...
Elayne: Going to rustle myself up some dinner, may be back in a few
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne!
Deputy Dang: Howdy Tweeny, Elayne, Beetcetera!
Rufus_T_Firetween: I think Bergman would like this album :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Bergman would have been 84 yesterday
Rufus_T_Firetween: so we're playing True Confessions Of The Real World tonight
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Bob's Dad into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hi Cat
||||||||| 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)'
Bob's Dad: HI all. On computer2 now.
Bob's Dad: recording eddie izzard bio on the other one now
Beet: Howdy, Folks.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bob's Dad: by el
Beet: Just missed Elayne!
Bob's Dad: i am listening to eddie on the stereo speakers on computer 1 and firesign on this one.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Swell pizza!"
Bob's Dad: he's doing the flag joke, which will be in my 2nd collage and riffed on in my play CAST
Beet: Hi, Cat, Tweeny, Deputy.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out TRUE CONFESSIONS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv'
Bob's Dad: anyone here?
Bob's Dad: great to see all the bergman tributes yesterday on facebook. lots of stuff from ossman
Rufus_T_Firetween: nobody but us bozos
||||||||| Catherwood leads Uhdan 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.
Beet: I'm gonna lie down and listen for a while. Feeling kind of tired.
Bob's Dad: Hi Uh
Bob's Dad: rest well, Beet
DJTweeny: Hi Uhdan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Rufus_T_Firetween: BTW, many thanks to Doc Technical who just restored the domain firesigntheatrelegacy.com another two years for us :-)
Rufus_T_Firetween: we almost couldn't have this chat tonight :/
Cease: Indeed, Tween
Deputy Dang: It's quiet, yes.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Cease: What brought you here, Uhdan?
llanwydd: good evening
Cease: Hi Llan.
llanwydd: well, folks? catherwood would like someone to vouch for me
||||||||| Catherwood fors llanwydd.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
llanwydd: thanks cathy
llanwydd: just after dang says its quiet, llanwydd shows up
Cease: llan makes wonderful sounds in my plays.
Deputy Dang: lol
llanwydd: I have always found it a thrill, making those sounds
Cease: my collage today is about eddie izzard. just finished recording his biopic on this computer. notg only hilarious, but inspirational.
llanwydd: the reason AI am late, folks, is that I watched Jeopardy as I have for ost of my life
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed."
llanwydd: most
llanwydd: ghost toast hetost...
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Uhdan - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by uh
llanwydd: wasnt there a samurai movie called uhdan?
Cease: sounds familiar
llanwydd: kurosawa did all my my favorite japanese films
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Cease: loved a lot of his work.
Cease: Hi El
llanwydd: my favorite japanese film of all time is Yojimbo by kurosawa
Elayne: Hey Cat!
llanwydd: Yi Elayne!
Cease: Ikiru my fave Kurosawa.
Elayne: Hi Llan!
llanwydd: have not seen ikiru yet
DJTweeny: test
llanwydd: I have seen some reviews
Cease: Justr finished/recording Izzard's Believe DVD and it's kind of like Ikiru in its final message.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Cease: Use your life to make the world better, in anyway you can.
llanwydd: need to see ikiru
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm Eastern every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net where I play Firesign Theatre and take your music requests - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
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
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
Deputy Dang: I couldn't appear on Tuesday because I was working late. :-/
DJTweeny: maybe next time, Deputy :)
llanwydd: ikiru was a long film if I remember right
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing — Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “CALL ME EDDIE”
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'
Cease: Doc Tech sent me a video tape of Dressed to Kill long ago. Stunned.
llanwydd: I know my leonard maltin movie guide like I know the back of my hand
llanwydd: I think I have seen all the sherlock holmes movies with rathbone and bruce
Cease: love those
llanwydd: and I have read everything conan doyle ever had to say about holmes
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
Cease: i used to teach the holmes story, the league of red headed men when i was a teacher
llanwydd: I loved The Red-Headed League
llanwydd: all those shomes stories were page turners
llanwydd: holmes too
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "The future ain't here yet, man!"
llanwydd: whose voice is this, cat?
Cease: eddie izzard
Cease: aren't you familiar with him?
llanwydd: never listened to him
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?"
Elayne: Her. She prefers the female pronoun.
llanwydd: I like his voice though
Cease: as i said in intro, the 2 best stand up shows i've ever seen were by eddie here in vancouver
Cease: tha'ts recent, right, El?
Elayne: If you have a chance, check out the "Cake or Death" routine. Although most of her stuff is wonderful.
Cease: Should I write to him as Suzie?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bob's Dad - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Elayne: She's been "an execurive transvestite" for decades, Cat, but I believe the pronoun decision was in the past couple years.
Cease: Like Firesign, she has a LOT of great bits
llanwydd: but wasnt that a beautiful vice?
llanwydd: I thought so
Elayne: She answers to either Suzie or Eddie, as I understand it. Hang on, I'll look it up.
llanwydd: voice
llanwydd: VOICE not Vice
Elayne: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/suzy-eddie-izzard-sets-record-straight-on-names-and-pronouns-3451032
Cease: ido a riff on chicken in my new play.
Elayne: Sorry, "Susie" with two "s"s, not a "z"
Elayne: Or maybe not, given the header
llanwydd: but this is a wonderful speaking voice I am hearing here
Elayne: SO officially SUZY but "Eddie" in concert appearances
Elayne: As people may now well know, I have added the name ‘Suzy’ to my names. So going forward I am preferring Suzy but I don’t mind Eddie. And I prefer she/her but I don’t mind he/him. So no one can really get it wrong unless they call me Kenneth or Sabrina. I am remaining Eddie Izzard in public. Thank you. Suzy/Eddie.
Cease: I'm hip to that, having changed my name, after my parents changed their names and had passports in orther names.
llanwydd: Python! LOL
Cease: Will call her Suzy when I send her this.
Elayne: I love stuff that takes me like five seconds to look up. :) That's the kind of thing I do at work too.
Cease: its takes place in British Columbia, where I live.
llanwydd: do they have lumberjacks in vancouver, cat?
Cease: poor edit there.
Cease: beautiful bergman poem-type thing.
Cease: in tghe province, it's stil a major industry.
Cease: problem is, insects and fires are devouring our forrest in immense gulps.
llanwydd: interesting
Cease: global warming is not our friend.
llanwydd: no it is not
llanwydd: I bought this album when it came out
llanwydd: but this is a little different
Cease: former firesign archivist Micheal Packer played it for me on the phone and told me it would never be released.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ersatz Brothers Coffee, the REAL one!"
llanwydd: on the phone! interesting
Cease: mid 90s maybe?
Cease: Firesign or Ofherworld later released it as a cassette, which is what I use now.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Cease: How are things in NYC, El?
Cease: My Diviners club card. you have to be old to get the reference
Cease: danny kaye flick the man from the diner's club.
Cease: all firesign guys are so througly drenched in theatre and theatre music
||||||||| Kiyyik tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: this is briliant writing and some of their first.
Cease: Hi Kiyyik
Kiyyik: Evenin'.
Cease: Andrfe Johnson in Hell
Cease: Hell no.
Cease: Welcome
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Cease: Are you new here, or just a new name?
Kiyyik: New.I keep meaning to check this out but never remember to.
Cease: welcome. we'
Cease: hopefully always here.
Cease: you'll always get mucho firesign here.
Cease: since 1995
Kiyyik: Cool beans. Been a a fan since about then :)
Cease: Firesign fan since then?
Cease: they need as many fans as they can get.
Cease: us old fans keep dieing off, and I fear their humour will not find much of an audience in the future
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
Kiyyik: I dunno, I think the good stuff lasts. Heck, I still dig the Marx Bros and other stuff going back even further.
Cease: You're right about that.
Cease: Marx brothers maybe a matter of re-diuscovery though.
DJTweeny: Glad you were able to join us Kiyyik, we do theis every week :)
Cease: Since 1995
DJTweeny: people like Marx Bros and WC Fields last forever
Cease: I fear much Firesign is too tied to their era, but some of it inches speedily towards immortality
Cease: we have no idea what forever looks like, tween.
DJTweeny: and yet they were very prescient
||||||||| 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'
Cease: i have been promoting firesign almost as long as there has been a firesign, but i fear their future is less likely than shakespeares"s
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
Deputy Dang: That was fun! The first part was solemn, I thought. I love the collage, Cat! Thank you all!
Cease: izzard/fireeign natural mix. bye
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Kiyyik: Well, that was pretty good. GOnna have to make myself get here more.
DJTweeny: please do...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, DJTweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
Bob's Dad
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
Kiyyik
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
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
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://www.kurtericson.net/cat
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/suzy-eddie-izzard-sets-record-straight-on-names-and-pronouns-3451032