Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/15/2024

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 15, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign's JACK POET LOVES YOU
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/jack-poet-loves-you
and a new Cat Collage
“Crea9ivity”
Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign
Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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||||||||| It's 8:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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, February 15, 2024 - 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?"
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits at the bar.
llanwydd: hi tween
Tweeny: Evenin' llan
||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hey, Folks.
llanwydd: hi beet
||||||||| 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..
Beet: Hi, Llan.
Beet: Hey, Tween.
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: These are really interesting from the perspective Firesign history. A different angle.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Beet: Yo, Cease.
Cease: are we streaming from Bandcamp today?
Cease: my wife and i were just watching Nope on this computer. highly reccommended.
Beet: Any good?
Beet: I guess you already answered that.
Cease: how do i llisten?
Cease: aha
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
Cease: this is wonderful
Cease: i heard and recorded this when it was first broadcastg, 1968
Cease: they were the hilight of that kmet sunday morning show
llanwydd: I can never hear the blue danube without thinking of 2001]
Cease: some of the funniest commercials ever
Cease: Oh, it's the real neal young
Cease: i knew ossman did commercials for records, but never heard them.
llanwydd: it is hard to pronounce
llanwydd: you cant dance to that
Cease: this is pre-firesign, i think
llanwydd: aoxomoxoa was 1969
Cease: i read a bio of him. maron said it was a favourite and its ok, but could have lost a hundrfed pages easily.
Cease: 69? wow he was still doing it then
Cease: the bio obsessed with his endless movies which was really boring
Tweeny: I had no idea that FST advertised Hot Rats. How cool is that?
Cease: i knew it but only hearing now for the first time.
Tweeny: Jack Poet Loves You - https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/jack-poet-loves-you
Tweeny: great collection
Cease: this is myu first time hearing austin's ads
Beet: These are very cool.
Cease: his sounds very much like the stan freburg bit.
Cease: this is on the Pink Hotel compilation
Cease: imagine people mentinoing brand names for their recorders
Beet: As I recall, they were a pretty good company.
Cease: remeber when women were called chicks?
Beet: I have used the term myself.
llanwydd: they still are
llanwydd: only young women though
Cease: really? not by my 16 year old grand daughters
Beet: I think it came from W. C Fields, "My Little Chickadee"
llanwydd: I dont know. back in the 20s it was chicken
Cease: i know young women in mexico have been called "chicas" for a long time. i dont think its' coincidencal
Beet: That might be it.
llanwydd: chickens and chicken chasers
Beet: A free napolean? Good deal.
Cease: duck go go hasn't answered my query yet
Beet: Floppys? Long time ago.
Tweeny: I still have an early Sony digital camera I use which uses HD floppies for storage :)
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: "Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." ~ Albert Einstein
Cease: I can make a lot of new collages out of this
Tweeny: Yeah Cat, I'll bet :)
Tweeny: I'll bet most Fireheads don't know that FST made _actual_ commercials.
Tweeny: Maybe they'll release a compilatopn of all the faux commercials they did. That would also be fun.
Cease: you can do that yourself, tween
Tweeny: *compilation
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
Cease: taylor jessen doesn't have to do
llanwydd: I thought of borge when I saw the title
Tweeny: so could you ;)
Cease: ALL the work
Tweeny: I'd be happy to do it if they gave me a cut of proceeds :P
Cease: i have devoted a large chunk of my life listening to and interacting with fireisgn
Beet: Gotta fly. This was fun. See everyone next week. G'Nite all.
Tweeny: Later gator...
llanwydd: nite beet
Cease: by beet. Listen to my my whole collage when its online
Cease: brilleiant source material
llanwydd: I said live it or
Cease: leave with it
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Not Ed close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
Not Ed: Yo cats
Cease: Chico/Chica This Spanish term of endearment translates to “boy” or “girl”. It can be used to jokingly address your friend as “man” or “woman”. So just as you’d say “man, don’t worry about it”, that word “man” could be substituted for “chico” - and you’d say “chico, no te preocupes por eso”. There’s a plural version as well that you’ll hear, which is chicos, and you can use it to address a group of friends
Cease: hi not
Cease: you're here for most of my new collage
Not Ed: Hi C
Cease: i could drink that
Not Ed: haha
Cease: i got so i'd drink anything.
Cease: something i'd never say.
Tweeny: Hey Not Ed
Not Ed: Hi Tweeny
Cease: i'mv very particular in my tastes
Cease: tymonline: As slang for "young woman" it is first recorded 1927 (in "Elmer Gantry"), supposedly from U.S. black slang. In British use in this sense by c. 1940; popularized by Beatniks late 1950s.
Not Ed: interesting
llanwydd: usually sangria on chat nights isnt it?
Not Ed: I certainly hop so I mean hope so
Not Ed: Personally I'm eating beans
Cease: no, just rose and frozen strawberries. somestimes rose cidre, which is cidre mixed with rose.
llanwydd: sounds good
Not Ed: sounds nice
Cease: do you know anything about leg cramps?
llanwydd: got to buy a bottle of rose water one of these days
Cease: i dont mean the internet, i mean experience?
llanwydd: I have had a few leg cramps. thats as much as I know
Cease: i got into it when we visited the south of france in 02. goes perfectlyu with south of france cooking, which is oil based.
llanwydd: they go away
Cease: so does life
Not Ed: Cat did you see Mad God
llanwydd: lol
Cease: north france is buttre, vs oil based so it works better with cidre
Cease: no. flick?
Not Ed: Phil Tippett's decades long personal project - finally finished last year
Not Ed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/
Cease: i was told to eat lots of magnesium pills which i have for month, also do specifc daily exercies, also take quinene pills which supposedlyh fighting it. it's winning
llanwydd: is that your voice there, cat?
llanwydd: not this
Not Ed: oh sorry I thought I heard Tippett talking in your collage
Cease: very little of my voice in this, didnt catch it
Cease: this is just what i consider normal. mix stuff
Not Ed: the movie is a VERY personal vision - it's beautiful but most folks would see it as horrible and disgusting
Not Ed: horror / scifi / surreal
Cease: is it on dvd or still streaming?
llanwydd: quinine is kind of lke aspirin
Not Ed: it was on that horror streaming service last year but I think it's gone let me check
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Cease: ijust watched Nope earlier this evening with my wife. part horror, part sf, all jordan. excelletn
Cease: name again?
Not Ed: use the link to see the trailer
Cease: Mad God?
Not Ed: you can rent it on prime I don't think you can get the DVD but it's worth searching for - very indie
Not Ed: yes
Not Ed: It's brilliant but intense
Not Ed: brilliant visually I mean
Not Ed: czech out the trailer guys
Not Ed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/
Not Ed: (save 4 later)
Cease: ok it's not in my 2 local libraries. but if they get it, i'll watch. really enjoyed Nope.took a while to get into, but worth it.
Not Ed: I saw an interview with Warhol in which the interviewer said "so nothing you make is original" -- Warhol responded "Yes". So she asked "Then why do you do it?" Warhol said "Because it gives me something to do."
Cease: there';s another necent flick about a movie premiere in the 50s in some small town centered on ufos. dont know name but want tosee it next
llanwydd: damn pc froze again
Not Ed: I just red "UFO" by Garrett Graff -- Historical overview of the whole phenomenon -- it's excellent
Not Ed: hey llan!
Not Ed: sorry about puter troubles
Not Ed: I don't know what that is C but I want to
llanwydd: not familiar with graff
Not Ed: His book on Watergate is 1st rate!
llanwydd: trump would have gotten away with watergate
Cease: trump wouuld have gotten away with assasinating Lincoln
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Not Ed: Here's one for you C: "Imagination is really memory in the future tense." (Abby Smith Rumsey)
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: Thanks Cat!
Not Ed: Thanks Tweeny!
Cease: yeah, pkd and mcluhan and others riff on that. ok folks. end of that collage.
Not Ed: Good to see each and every 1 of yaz!
Tweeny: yw Not Ed :)
llanwydd: great collage
Not Ed: Have a weekend! heehee
Tweeny: Everybody gave a great week
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
llanwydd: thanks tween and cat and everybody
Tweeny: yw llan
llanwydd: grateful dead?
Tweeny: Yes, from the Shakedown Street album
llanwydd: I can usually recognize garcias guitar style
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "Hey Tweeny!" ... Tweeny 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!"...
llanwydd: oh, of course. classic dead
Cease: off we flit
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
llanwydd: yean Im outta here . nite everybody
||||||||| llanwydd rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - 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 Globner's disease
||||||||| 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
Cease
llanwydd
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/jack-poet-loves-you
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/