Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/04/2024

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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 April 04, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Firesign Theatre’s Live Concert compilation
BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER
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'
||||||||| Tweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 04, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Nancy Kat', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the Aviary.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
llanwydd: good evening
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Deputy Dang: welcome back!
Nancy Kat: They never come up into the hills...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Beet: Evening Friends!
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bosco T. Hern into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits on the couch.
llanwydd: welcome to the chat BTH
Cease: Bosco!
Beet: Hello, Bosco, Cease, Deputy, Llan, Nancy.
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'."
Cease: Proctor and Bergman keep saying "Bosco" in their play Clarke Wintergreen
Bosco T. Hern: Hello Ethyl
Nancy Kat: Hello, dear friends!
llanwydd: I knew the name sounded familiar
Deputy Dang: Hmmm...
Cease: HI Nancy!
Nancy Kat: wasn't Bosco an old chocolate drink?
Cease: Hmm indeed. This is a repeat from January!
llanwydd: yes it was. chocolate syrup actually
Bosco T. Hern: Brass my ass Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood brasses Bosco T. Hern's ass.
llanwydd: lol
Bosco T. Hern: Ooop, Botox
Cease: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/15/apparel/rcxgs/tile._CB483369412_.gif
Cease: I think Tweeny mixed up the shows.
Cease: I spent the week taking the "fucks" out of Before they Changed the Water and it's nowhere to be heard, here
Nancy Kat: My Mom used to sing an old song about it...
Cease: How old is your mom, Nancy?
Bosco T. Hern: You mean Audrey
Cease: This is very hissy.
Cease: I bouight this on cassette from OtherWorld, back in the 90s.
Nancy Kat: Cease, My Mum was born in June of '51.
Bosco T. Hern: I've never heard this one. It's not on vinyl, yes?
llanwydd: then you have to be the youngest of us, nancy
Cease: 2 monthes younger than me (April) so we're the same age. Just wondering when she was familiare wirth Bosco.
Bosco T. Hern: 67? Sophamoric in Morse Science
llanwydd: unless yo meant 1851
Cease: Bosco, this wasn't widely released.
Nancy Kat: Llan- I was born in March on '78
llanwydd: you
llanwydd: then you must certainly be the youngest
Bosco T. Hern: I assumed. I have 10" of FST lps
Cease: My daughter was born in Oct, 78 so you're the same age.
Nancy Kat: Llan- Then i'd be a vampire...and...well, of course, i'm not...(looks side to side)
llanwydd: I graduated high school in 79
Cease: My grandfather was born in 1855. That's a Long Time Ago.
Cease: 68 for me, llan
Cease: Phil as a lady of the canyon. He lived near Joni and Zappa.
Bosco T. Hern: We seem to be a bunch of Old Toads. Time for some time machine tripping.
Beet: I just turned 77, thank you.
Cease: Phil told me Zappa used to stash his groupies at Austin's place, and Joni complained about them swimming nude in Zappa's pool while her mother was visiting from Sask.
Bosco T. Hern: Beet, beat me by 6
Cease: You're 4 years older than me, Beet. Good for you.
Cease: My point here is that Austin, Zappa and Joni all lived almost next to each other.
Beet: Aging is ot for wimps, eh?
Beet: not
Bosco T. Hern: Oh, I love this old time radio banter. Those were the days my friends...
Nancy Kat: Bosco-we thought they'd never end?
Cease: My wrenched leg has almost completely recovered from my Vegas adventure in March so I should be in good shape for May trip to Spain.
Nancy Kat: I always thought i was born in the wrong time and place.
Cease: One problem with age is that one recovers from injuries more slowly.
Bosco T. Hern: Cease, make sure you have your passport
Beet: Glad to hear it, Cat.
Cease: Should have at least part one of my Vegas Adventure Collage ready for next week's chat.
Cease: May I see your passport.....please
Cease: My wife May be coming with me. That'll surely keep me from fatal falls.
Bosco T. Hern: Of course. Disreguard that little spot there...
Bosco T. Hern: He's the Memory Doctor
Cease: The first restaurant I went to in Vegas is devoted to Jean Cocteau. His art is evrywhere and the cocktails are inspired by him. Ossman translated one of his plays into english and corresponded with him, so there's a great Firesign connection
Bosco T. Hern: Because they were not really there, HA, ha,ha, ha
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
llanwydd: I tried as hard as I could to get to vermont next monday so I could see some old friends and catch the solar eclipse but it probably wont happen
llanwydd: the trip I mean, not the eclipse
Cease: lol
Cease: Hey, saw a Fantastic new series premiere on PBS last night called The History of the Future. Check it out.
Deputy Dang: I like the future. I'm in it!
Cease: Rarely have I felt so optimistic about the future!
Bosco T. Hern: No, no. It was Turkish
llanwydd: the future is turkish?
Bosco T. Hern: Of course it is. Follow along.
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Tweeny sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Tweeny: Evenin' comrades
Nancy Kat: Tweeny! Howz u?
Tweeny: Doing well, thanks. And yourself?
llanwydd: hi tweeny
Bosco T. Hern: Hellow, Tweeny Long time
Cease: Hey Tween.
Tweeny: Hey llan
Tweeny: Hi Bosco
Beet: Hi, Tweeny.
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Nancy Kat: Am ok. watching Anime girls get scared...waiting for Wrestling at 7. Have a cat attached to my hip.
Bosco T. Hern: Waiting For the E'trikion was the first FST I heard, past midnight flat on my back in the central campus lawn.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and JZip steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Bosco T. Hern: FST and cricketts can't be beaten
Tweeny: Hi JZip
JZip waves hello at people
Bosco T. Hern: JZip, Is Cool Zip with you?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
Beet: Hello, JZip.
JZip: If only, Bosco!
Bosco T. Hern: Drat
Nancy Kat: Bosco-dwarf was my first...My Mom and I trolled the record stores in search of an album that she didn't remember the name of about "we're all bozos on this bus" of course, this was the early 90's and so didn't have access to discographies. My Mom also may have partaken of various substances in College and might not have the clearest recollection of listening to them..lol
Bosco T. Hern: Ha, she was prolly into the Dead Cat Soap!
Cease: Are you zip like a trip?
Nancy Kat: Bosco- There was a movie she couldn't remember the plot of since she was engaged in..."alternative activities' and missed the whole movie.
Cease: "various substances." I like that.
Bosco T. Hern: [Out of character] I did so much enjoy the whole production aspect of the early 5-6 "stroies" and the use of current and prior hip music beds. Sound effects always affected me.
Cease: you a sound guy, Bosco?
Beet: Ernie Kovacs was incredibly avant guard for '50's TV.
Bosco T. Hern: Ah, distortion upon distortion, and now... see what we have to live with?
Cease: I was on the radio before Radio Free Oz. My first radio appearance was in high school in 1965, Oz started in 66.
llanwydd: right, beet. in the way that the goon show was ahead of its time in the fifties
Cease: he was indeed, Beet
llanwydd: quite avant gard
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Beet: I have had my bum phases.
JZip: I'm so many different zips I hardly know which!
Bosco T. Hern: Cease, I dig sound. Can't play an istrument but have $$$ worth of field recording gear. I got it way after the Dead taping scene.
Cease: I was never a hippie. Had long hair, smoked dope, played music in the radio, but am more of the Beat Generation. Like being literate. Not a hippie thing at all.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Bosco T. Hern: Right On Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood rights on.
Cease: What happened to Water, Tween?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..."
Bosco T. Hern: First word is Well
Bosco T. Hern: Nailed it HA
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!"
Cease: You give the wrong tape to the station?
Cease: It's the Ethyl and Regular show. You have to be old to get that joke.
Beet: Even when I was working in a shirt and tie as a waiter, I considered myself a hippie.
Bosco T. Hern: Now, when ever I See Father Guido on TV, I space out to FST
Tweeny: Cease: What happened to Water, Tween? << Looks like this is a replay of 20240104
Cease: I regret not being a hippy at the time. Girls would ask me, "What's your sign?" and I'd answer, "Antelope
Tweeny: I'll text the Program Director
Cease: Freeway, one half mile" which is not the answer they wanted.
Bosco T. Hern: I'd answer STOP
Bosco T. Hern: Mound
llanwydd: remember grouchos joke? If you run out of gas get ethyl. If ethel runs out get mabel.
Cease: lol. don't know that one, llan
llanwydd: from duck soup
Bosco T. Hern: LOL
Nancy Kat: Cease-Not Neon 'cause you thought you'd blow their minds?
Cease: Hey llan, I'm going to try and meet some Ukrainians to record the Ukrainina words in my play soon, or as soon as it's warm enough to take the bus downtown. then it will be up to Doc to produce
Bosco T. Hern: Sign here
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
Beet: Are there Ukranians in B.C.?
Tweeny: Duck Soup is some wonderful Marx Bros
Bosco T. Hern: This is a great segue
Deputy Dang: Who did the music?
Nancy Kat: 'We're giving him away next weel"...
Cease: Wany yo have all the segments to Doc before I go to Spain, May 9
Nancy Kat: week
Cease: Lots of them now,Beet.
Tweeny: Sorry about playing the wrong show guys. Methinks when the PD was setting up the automation, he put a 1 in there instead of a 4 for the month.
Cease: Anyone done any peyote?
Bosco T. Hern: sadly, nope
Deputy Dang: I have not. I am curious how it compares to mushrooms.
Cease: Hey, Ossman just posted on Facebook, there's a new book about this album just out, from U of Arizone press.
Beet: Wish I had.
Cease: he wants us to buy it. If I have any money left over after Spain, I will.
Cease: thatr is understandable, Tween.
Cease: The thing is, all the shows are great.
Cease: Will have part one of my Cocteau in Vegas collage for you by this weekend.
Cease: Cocteau was like Firesigns in his skill in Many media.
Bosco T. Hern: such sweet harmony
Cease: Artist, playwrite, film maker, provocative intellectual and collaborator of genius
Tweeny: Cease: thatr is understandable, Tween. << He just lost his father recently, and it's thrown his world into some turmoil :/
Cease: Ossman and Proctor are Wonderful artiistic collagists. Austin also did wonderful visual art. Bergman invented an articifial heart.
Tweeny: We can keep the Water show in the can for another occasion.
Cease: ok
Beet: Is the book from U of Arozona Press the one about the Hopis, Cease?
Bosco T. Hern: Such artful use of the PAN
Bosco T. Hern: I have the first yellow dollar I ever earned
Bosco T. Hern: ASPCA would have problems with this bunch of seekers
Bosco T. Hern: G
llanwydd: my computer has frozen twice since the chat started
Bosco T. Hern: U
Bosco T. Hern: R
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ersatz Brothers Coffee, the REAL one!"
Bosco T. Hern: U
Bosco T. Hern: LOVE
Nancy Kat: "i took ALL the uppers!"
Bosco T. Hern: He's not groovy
Bosco T. Hern: (She Identified as a He yesterday)
Tweeny: llanwydd: my computer has frozen twice since the chat started << in this nice warm weather? (almost hit 90 here today)
llanwydd: lol
Nancy Kat: 45 here, it hailed yesterday.
llanwydd: we could use some snow down here in florida
Tweeny: Wow, hope no damage NancyKat
Bosco T. Hern: CLICK
Cease: Nancy, that reminds me of my favourite Steely Dan song, BostonRag. Lonnie swept the play room, and he swallowed up all he found. It was 48 hours til Lonnie came around.
llanwydd: I had my first garden wiped out by hail
Nancy Kat: Tween-being Illinois, it lasted for like 5 minutes. drizzle- gobs of hail- nothing.
JZip: Young man, that's her trip.
llanwydd: mostly corn stalks and sunflowers but I had planted some beans as well
Nancy Kat: "We threw I ching...out the window. We also want peace...of nigeria."
Bosco T. Hern: We've had three Springs and Two Ice Outs since Jan.
Cease: And speaking of songs of intoxication, Daddy Don't LIve in that New York City No More. It's in my play Radio Free Booze, as acted out by Elaye, who founded this chat in 1995.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
JZip: It's a gas to sign this jazzy document.
Cease: This is so far away, listening to this is like watching a documentary of a long forgotten era.
llanwydd: thats from katy lied isnt it. I used to have that one
Cease: This chat is almost 30 years old.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
JZip: Bombardier, it's your karma.
llanwydd: I have been here since 2002
Bosco T. Hern: So damned glad that stereo had been invented in the 60's
Cease: Bombardier is the Quebec company that sold Ski-Dos. I have a joke about them in my play Neal Amid, starring Phil Austin as Neal Cassady. Phil and Melinda are also in it.
Bosco T. Hern: Clap
Cease: Actually it was Melinda who told me to start creating radio plays when I met them in 95.
Cease: Her loss is massive, but her presence was even more so.
Tweeny: ** THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR JUST TOLD ME THAT HE WILL STAR THE WATER SHOW AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR, AND WILL LET THE SHOW RUN AN EXTRA HOUR SO THE WHOLE THING WILL PLAY OUT **
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
Cease: very hissy, this
Cease: wow
||||||||| 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..
Tweeny: * START THE NEW SHOW
Bosco T. Hern: It can be cleaned up a bit
Cease: i dont like onion rings either.
Tweeny: So if you folks want to stick around, the show will run until 10pm Eastern/9pm Central/8pm Mountain/7pm Pacific
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Beet: Did the audio just switch to Bozos?
Cease: for those of you who don't know, I am one of the original recorders of Fiesign radio, 67 -70. Quite a bit of Duike of Madness Motors and Magic Mushroom dvds are from my original recoredings.
Bosco T. Hern: What t0on time in Maui/
Tweeny: That's very cool Cease. So glad you made those recordings
Cease: I can listen to those shows and hear exactly the ambience of the time.
Nancy Kat: Bear whizz bear...
Cease: Well (many expletives deleted)_ I just assumed Many People were recording the shows. I find it odd and even scary that it was Only Me.
Bosco T. Hern: Cool, Cease. You dub the radio off the air or in the studio
Cease: I mean, LA radio had an audiience of maybe 15 million people in those days and Many of them had tape recorders. I was far from unique in that.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
Cease: radio
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room."
Bosco T. Hern: So, copped them off the FM. Very nice.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I see you are a sailor."
Bosco T. Hern: Are any of those tapes on the Audio Archive?
Cease: You know California (whree I live form 56-69) Tokyo (most of the 70s-80s) and Ukraine (my grandparents homeland) each have 40 millino people?
Cease: Ossman has been tryihg to get my collection into the Library of Congress but not sucdessful so far.
Cease: By the way, I'
Cease: I'
Cease: I was why they got into the Librray of Congress in the first place, back in 05.
Cease: My connections
Bosco T. Hern: I see a few of the LPs found their way to the Commuity Audio section... Not nice.
Cease: The probelm with Doing Stuff like that is that us old people tend to die, and then there is no one else to push it along.
Nancy Kat: Long in the leaf and short in the can.
Bosco T. Hern: Kat, took the woids right outa my mouth
Bosco T. Hern: The Archive is forever, or so they say.
Cease: I smoked a joint with Phil, Phil, Phil and Phil before they went onstage the Ashgrove on New Year;s Eve, 1969. I was justr visiting my folks in LA bvurt living in Ottawa and replayihg the Mushroom shows on my radio show in Ottawa at the time.
Cease: So My connection with the lads go Way Back
Beet: Gotte go. Enjoyed the evening. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
Nancy Kat: BB Beet!
Cease: The girl I was with atr the time had some hash and they were much more interestred in her than me.
Cease: By beet
Bosco T. Hern: FST has posted a lot of them as "audio samples only" 30s is not a problem.
Bosco T. Hern: Take care Beet'
Bosco T. Hern: I've gotta split too. Gotta close the door and turn up the heat. See y'all.
Nancy Kat: TTFN Bosco!
Cease: By Bosco
||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, 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...
Cease: by zippie
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's like sitting in a big hand."
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Bosco T. Hern, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
Nancy Kat: Ask the cop in the woodpile
llanwydd: cat, if you are still here I did not mean to ignore your comment to me about the ukrainian voices but my computer froze just as I was answering
llanwydd: I was trying to say, what better than ukrainian actors to do ukrainian voices or something to that effect
Cease: hi cop
Cease: hi llan.
Cease: because ukrainian speak ukrainian. i don't
Cease: It's alway wonderfful to find new peolple here. Also old folks returning, like you , Nacy
Nancy Kat: Ditto, Cease, Always good to meet new peeps and see old fiends.
llanwydd: well, I am having a little trouble with my pc. that seems to happen every few days. so I will sign off for tonight and see you all again next thirsty.
llanwydd: nytol
||||||||| "Hey llanwydd!" ... llanwydd 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!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Deputy Dang: night night llanwydd
||||||||| It's 1:30 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...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Deputy Dang: Gnight Nancy Kat!
Nancy Kat: Fangz Tweeny!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?"
Nancy Kat: Night, dang!
||||||||| Deputy Dang 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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 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
||||||||| 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
Bosco T. Hern
Cease
Deputy Dang
JZip
llanwydd
Nancy Kat
Tweeny

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