Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/21/2024

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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 March 21, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and JZip disembarks at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 21, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| It's 9:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| JZip - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Elayne in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's JZip, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Beet sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Beet: Evening Friends!
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
JZip waves
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Hi, Elayne, Deputy, Jzip.
Deputy Dang: Ola Beet!
Beet: Are we without audio tonight?
Deputy Dang: I'm hearing audio.
JZip: I had to reload my browser.
JZip: My audio did freeze, so I reloaded.
Beet: I don't see the URLs at the top.
Deputy Dang: True... the header seems incomplete.
JZip: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
Beet: Thanks, Jzip. I got it now.
Beet: Even Virtual Tweeny has deflated.
Deputy Dang: I seems naked.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Beet: Are we witnessing End Stage Chatroom?
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign Game Themes
Album and Film versions of EAT OR BE EATEN
”Freek For A Week”
”The Pink Hotel Burns Down”
Live At The Ash Grove “Dr. Blowjob”
Various Game Show Bits
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'
Deputy Dang: Whoa! Like weird, with a beard!
Beet: I guess that answers my question.
Tweeny: Sorry folks, I just got home from work and forgot to post tonight's topic before I went :/
Tweeny: Hope everybody is well
Beet: A relief to see you, Tweeny.
Deputy Dang: Well well... what the hell.
Beet: Is Dr. Cease back up and operating yet? Do we know where he is?
Tweeny: This is the audio of the film version of EOBE
Tweeny: Not sure if he's back from Vegas yet
Deputy Dang: I recognized it as EOBE but didn't know from where.
Tweeny: Back to making dinner...
Beet: Very strange two weeks of silence from our mentor.
Beet: Bon apetit, Tweeny.
Beet: Just had a very nice Cheeseburger Royale.
Deputy Dang: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166427/ Eat or Be Eaten
Beet: I thought it was going to be FST EOBE. This one is new to me.
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Cease: hey all
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! We were just wondering if you were back from Vegas!
Cease: i only slightly survived Vegas. how are y'all
Cease: i
Cease: m getting too old and feeble to travel
Beet: Wow! There he is!. Welcome home Cease.
Deputy Dang: It's the time travel that messes with you.
Cease: thanks beet. it has been quite a journey
Cease: i'd rather have adventures in a book or video than in real life
Cease: tween not here?
Beet: Did you enjoy some outstanding eatables? I know you must have.
Cease: last week the first night with no tween and me?
Cease: i saure did, Beet
Beet: Tween is making supper.
Cease: working on blog about it now. will turn it into collage for this chat in april
Beet: That'll be fun.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
JZip: I never thought about anything twice in my life.
Cease: tween seemed unaware of this flick. it's been on youtube forever
Cease: hi JZ
JZip: Hey!
Cease: i'm almost finished turning a sexy boomer show interview with ed begley into a 3 partr colalge
Cease: when i went thru us border patrol, whre was almost no one else in there.
Cease: usulalyh its full of people. other airport parts too. and its spring break so i was expecint maximum business. instead, almost empty.
Cease: it was a very strange trip. i had a noon flight so got to vegas airport at 930. flight didnt leave til 930 PM.
Cease: one adventure after another. but amazing food, mostly
Deputy Dang: That sounds like quite a delay at the airport.
Cease: tis is much better to watch
Cease: Firesigns didn't do much video, but it is worth spending time with
Deputy Dang: I tried playing the video on the CD but didn't have equipment that could read the video.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Cease: 12 hours. Westjet gave me 2 $15 dollar vouchers. One bought a lox and cream cheese bagel, bery filling. Then some good bites from starbucks. I didn't know they sold food.
Cease: 2 micro omlettel bites and a very substantial tortilla willfed with speinache and feta.
Cease: i did have some miraculous food, hopefully things I can make here.
Deputy Dang: the vouchers were at the airport?
Cease: west jet gave them to me when they changed my flight.
Cease: issued to me there, yes. dont know if they could have been used outside but i couldnt' go outside
Deputy Dang: probably not usable outside
Cease: i wil never know
Cease: food was filling and good. also had a couple of excellet Angry Orchard cidres at the bar.
Cease: read a big chunk of Innocents Abroad.
Cease: Probken was having my wife pick me up at the airport after midnight.
Cease: I'd like an orange. Or the Sun.
Cease: One of my favourite Firesign bits.
Cease: this is really hissy
Deputy Dang: I need to watch this.
Cease: eobe? its been on youtube forever
Deputy Dang: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8RnW3nRCF9lYNarjMnxlUmWSa8pXGcb1
Cease: i got it from elayne or packerf in the mid 90s
Deputy Dang: I guess I have homework.
Cease: video tape. remember that?
Deputy Dang: Elayne was here earlier.
Cease: just caught a bit of her appearance
Cease: i heard and recorded most of these plays when they were first broadcast
Cease: i have involved with firesign longer than i've been with anything specific.
Cease: aside from gravity, air, reading, that kind of thing
Deputy Dang: maybe so, but those are general, not specific.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Cease: yes, firesign is my one specific involvement
Cease: it is useful.
Beet: It has been a strange, woderful trip indeed.
Beet: wonderful
Cease: 2 of them are still alive. we are. that's something
Cease: i trust that i can go to vegas and absorb many growth experiences and return and create them creatively, as it were
Cease: without collapse
Beet: Live Long And Prosper.
Cease: Tween is at work today?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you."
Beet: This is one of my faves.
||||||||| 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..
Cease: it is excellent
Cease: how many of the vast number of firesign albums are better than this?
Cease: are there just 4 of us? 3?
Deputy Dang: I don't know about better, but Bozos and DTTDwarf are next to it, at least.
Tweeny: Hey Cat. Got home from work a little while ago and am making supper.
Cease: road and hearse magazine
Cease: hi tween
Cease: great to be back from Vegas
Tweeny: Hope you had a good time
Cease: yes and no. had great food and other great experiences. but twisted my leg and am still in pain a week later.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
Cease: i'm going to spain soon. that's a LOT of experiences minus english kinda scary
Cease: this almost whole album is ads. this may be the peak of thier joke ad creation
Beet: I love Spain. Spent 5 months there in '72.
Cease: that's 52 years ago.
Cease: i spent 3 weeks there in 02. that's long ago too.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
Beet: Yes, I'm old.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
Cease: I should have recovered from my fall 8 days ago,but not yet.Bummer
Beet: Well, gotta run. Enjoyed this. Again welcome home, Cat. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
Cease: By Beet
Deputy Dang: ttyl Beet
Deputy Dang: I love that line. When these get wet, they smell terrible--they'll attract anything!
Deputy Dang: Hawkmoth is what I named my printer.
Cease: good name
Cease: the best dylan parody over
Cease: just saw him being very uncomfortalbe at the we are the world taping recent netflick show
Cease: he was his own parody. like trump
Deputy Dang: lol
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| Not Ed steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: hi not
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed!
Cease: how are things in seattle?
Not Ed: Hey there
Not Ed: Partly cloudy 55 deg
Not Ed: You?
Not Ed: Hey DDang
Not Ed: Hi C
Not Ed: Is it Beet?
Cease: damaged my leg so badly in vegas i barely walk. you?
Not Ed: Tweeny hi ho
Not Ed: shoot sorry to hear that
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!"
Cease: theyh may havce all gone.
Not Ed: doing ok
Not Ed: Ohhh
Cease: yeah, i't s bitch. had great time though. will provide collages about it sometime in ap[ril
Not Ed: oh good
Tweeny: Hey Not Ed, Deputy
Cease: one reason to travel it to return with good tales
Not Ed: Tweeny
Not Ed: Yay
Cease: both tween and i have returned this week.
Cease: i guess last week was the first time we were both gone?
Not Ed: oh was it
Cease: tween would know, eh?
Tweeny: Well yeah, I was always here by necessity before I automated the show
Not Ed: lol
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "johan amadeus myjetski should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as johan amadeus myjetski enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Not Ed: laughing to everything
Tweeny: Hi johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo! don't have long but i'll be here for a few minutes.
Not Ed: Hiho JAM
Not Ed: kewl dood
Not Ed: me too
johan amadeus myjetski: hi not!
Not Ed: had to stop by
Not Ed: hey
Not Ed: brb
Cease: jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: greets cease!
Cease: i'm back from vegas and full of ideas
Not Ed: that's greatt
Not Ed: ttt
Cease: trip nunber 10
Not Ed: wow!
Not Ed: I've been there once --in the 70s!
Cease: he first trip inspired my play Vegas/Eghypt which starred Tweeny, Llan, and many many others
Deputy Dang: I missed The Pink Hotel Burns Down. :-(
Cease: tell you a story about that
Not Ed: Nice
Not Ed: being a gamer and a game maker I love this one
Not Ed: and it's all spot on lol
Not Ed: but those guys worked on games - proctor has done voices for a bunch of games
Not Ed: Phil Austin was the voice of "B-17 Bomber" for Intellivision
Not Ed: etc
Not Ed: Lucasfilm Games/Lucasarts made the best --and funniest-- adventure games
Not Ed: A whole different universe of comedy going on there then (80's-90's)
Not Ed: this is awesome
Cease: We have lived so long we remember different eras
Not Ed: yeah
Cease: that's nefessarily a good thing.
Deputy Dang: Remember doctor?
Not Ed: doctor uhhh umm
Cease: when i was in vegas last week, i could not relate to folks about art exhibtions in the same spaces 5-6 yeqars ago. too distant for them
Not Ed: interesting
Cease: even supposedly older people had not memory of that not distant stuff
johan amadeus myjetski: i they don't just make memories like they used to.
Cease: even worse with food. rewstaurant had not idea what they served before.
Cease: you would think it would be recorded, eh?
Cease: vedgas seems to want to be, wake up every day with no memory
johan amadeus myjetski: records have to be read, we're all much too busy to do that
Cease: yet we have more access to records, to our own pasts, than ever
johan amadeus myjetski: the router-intuitive rates are through the roof...
johan amadeus myjetski: counter-intuitive
Cease: i have no idea what that means
Deputy Dang: the router-intuitive rates are through the basement...
johan amadeus myjetski: anticipatory spelling thingy, or my AI is just stupid
Cease: i dont think ai could do anything for me, as of now
Cease: although avoiding a 12-yhour delay from vegas/Vancouvre last week would love to have been avoided
Not Ed: nice way to finish the chat C
Cease: asit were
johan amadeus myjetski: nite all! live long & prosper!
Cease: one reason to travel is to bring back tales for the general enjoyment
Deputy Dang: nite nite jam!
Cease: we do our best,jammy
Tweeny: Nice collection of game show bits
Cease: it is a big tv genre, eh?
Tweeny: sure
Cease: new show next week about ed begly
Deputy Dang: that was much fun! thank you Tweeny and Cat and Merlyn!
Not Ed: Thanks Cat & Merl & Tweeny
||||||||| Cease departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Deputy Dang: Good night all!
Not Ed: Guys you take care & have a sweet weekend - take care Cat
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Tweeny: yw Deputy, Not Ed :-)
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| JZip - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
johan amadeus myjetski
JZip
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://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166427/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8RnW3nRCF9lYNarjMnxlUmWSa8pXGcb1