||||||||| 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 May 23, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN plus SHOES FOR INDUSTRY and from THE FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD “The Fighting Clowns Radio Show” https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi Listen to the 320k 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' ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 23, 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?" ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Runny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Runny - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Billville." ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Tirebiter', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Lombardy in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Lombardy: Hello folks ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule... llanwydd: hi llanwydd: hi llanwydd: hmm Lombardy: Sure am! Tweeny: Hillan, Lombardy, Tirebiter Tweeny: *Hi llan Lombardy: Howdy! llanwydd: I imagine cat is having brunch in a tapas bar right now ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "My nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume." Lombardy: Nah he’s in the vestibule llanwydd: looking forward to Next World llanwydd: lol lombardy Lombardy: Same, I haven’t heard this one yet Lombardy: I just started listening last week, listened to electrician through everything you know is wrong Tweeny: everybody tuned in to RFD? Lombardy: Gonna order the Duke of madness motors next paycheck ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills." ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tirebiter - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... llanwydd: I used to listen to it while watching the snow fall outside of my window when I was a teenager ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| 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 Deputy Dang disembarks at 8:00 PM. Beet: Good Thursday Evening, Friends! Tweeny: Oh Oh, The PD just announced that it's a rebroadcast :/ llanwydd: loved to look at the art work as well llanwydd: Hey Beet Tweeny: Hey Beet Beet: Hi, llan. Deputy Dang: Hey Beet Tweeny: We'll find out soon if it's the right show llanwydd: that is probably their best album cover Tweeny: OK, this is the right show :) ||||||||| "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: Hey Cat Cease: Hi all Beet: Howdy Deputy, Lombardy, Tweeny. Lombardy: Howdy! Tweeny: Hey Cease! Tweeny: Great you could make it :) Beet: Welcome home, Cat. Cease: Still on Spanish time but here I am Tweeny: Yeah, it's 1am there right? Cease: I'm gonna use a lot of this in my collage about the trip. llanwydd: did you get chased through the streets of paloma by a bull? Cease: All that Spanish! Beet: How was the tapas. Cease: Never went to Pamplona. Never will Cease: Some of them were great. Others, not so much. Cease: In the sense that I went to Spain to eat what I thought would be the best food in the world, I was dissappointed. But I still had a great time. Beet: Is there a typical time of day that you go to these places? Cease: Generally, the best thing about the trip was the Spanish people I met. llanwydd: my favorite spanish food is paella. I make it with everything you can think of Cease: Actually they open for lunch, close in the afternoon for siestas, and then open again in the evenings. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers JZip in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Cease: I can't eat paella. My body can't deal with rice at all. llanwydd: hey zip Beet: Hi JZip
JZip waves Cease: You're hip. Let's take a trip. Lombardy: Hi zip ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?" JZip: I'm random today, but not cool. ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Just a bummer on the side tabl', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... Cease: Actgually, just got back from a trip. JZip: I gathered that. Cease: I'm getting too old for adventures. llanwydd: and a drummer on the side tabla Deputy Dang: Stick to astral travel ;-) Cease: good idea, dang llanwydd: I was fascinated with astral travel when I was a teenager Cease: I have been wanting to go to Spain for a long time. Now I've been there. Deputy Dang: It's the best way to avoid jetlag, too. llanwydd: lol Cease: Hopefuly will do enough intoxicants today to overcome it. llanwydd: they say spain is pretty, though Ive never been Tweeny: Welcome bummer Tweeny: Hi JZip Cease: it is indeed. The 4 cities I went to were delights for the eyes. Beet: Hi, Bummer. llanwydd: in de summer, fo da plummer Cease: Also went to a Lot of art museums so it was relentless beuaty for 2 weeks. Lombardy: Last month I went to Paris and London Lombardy: t was great I needed a trip llanwydd: oh my. did you see the prado? Cease: Will make a collage about the trip, probably by July. There is so much to cover Cease: First time there, Lombardy? Lombardy: In London yes, I’d been to Paris twice Cease: Yes I spent Tuesday at the Prado. I was there on mhy last trip to Madrid, in 02. llanwydd: I have been to london. very impressive Cease: Took an hour and a quarter to get in, but worth it. Cease: I've only been to Heathrow, but seversal times in Paris. Also lots of great art and food there. Cease: Actually food in France was better than in Spain, but that's because I went to major league restaurants there, not so much in Spain. Lombardy: They were both great. I was able to get some weird comics that ere tough to find in the states. Cease: You a comics fan? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now." Lombardy: Yeah, mostly stuff that isn’t superheroes. Cease: This chat was founded by Elayne who is Way into comics. Her husband draws them. llanwydd: I used to buy the horror comics back in the early seventies Cease: She turned me on to Gaiman among others. Lombardy: I picked up a bunch of moebius, some 2000 AD and Deadline Magazine, a comic by the author of barbarella(sadly couldn’t find a copy of barbarella but I’ll order an English edition online.) llanwydd: I am familiar with the name neil gaiman. not familiar with his work Cease: I was into Peanuts as a kid and then the underground comix. We had a comic genius here in Van, Rand Holmes. Cease: HIs Sandman was turned into a series, for,maybe Netflicks? I prefer the comic to the TV show. Cease: Generally i prefer comics on the page instead of the screen. Lombardy: I’m not familiar with Rand Holmes. I love underground stuf. Mg favorites are Love and Rockets, R. Crumb, Furry Freak Brothers Cease: I think the only reason the Peanuts TV shows worked is because of Vince Guaraldi's music. Lombardy: I’ll look Rand Holmes up soon, thanks Cease: Did you see the Freak Bros tv show? Lombardy: I love peanuts, and a few other daily strips llanwydd: I came across crumb and freak brothers in sixth grade but I wa busy with vault of horror, tales from the crypt and especially mad magazine Cease:https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=rand+holmes+comics ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends." Lombardy: I was disappointed when I saw how the animation ultimately looked, but I’ll give it a watch sometime Cease: I was So looking forward to the Freak Bros TV show, but was vastly dissapointed. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?" Lombardy: I love all the EC stuff. I’m really into Harvey kurzman, mad magazine, trump magazine, etc. I think it’s all under the same umbrella as Firesign Lombardy: Wish anyone my age knew about either loll Lombardy: I exaggerate but still Tweeny: Cease: I think the only reason the Peanuts TV shows worked is because of Vince Guaraldi's music. << You should point folks to your collage about that Cease: I turned Fat Freddy's Cat into a radio show about 40 years ago. It's in the collage archive: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/chariot.mp3 Cease: Right, Tween: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/charlie_firesign_christmas.mp3 Cease: A Peanuts/Firesign mix ||||||||| Blane steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Tweeny: Hi Blane Cease: Hi Blane Lombardy: Hi Blane llanwydd: Hey Blane Beet: Hello, Blaine. Beet: Blane llanwydd: who composed that music? llanwydd: I have always been baffled by fst music Cease: baffled? llanwydd: yeah, who composes it and who plays it? Cease: I know Austin did a lot of it. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!" Tweeny: Here are the liner notes for Next World >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln llanwydd: thanks twee Cease: they're all musical lads. llanwydd:tween llanwydd: interesting Tweeny: No credits to musicians, so maybe they did it all? llanwydd: all the brass and strings and all that? Tweeny: Yeah, I was just thinking that. Don't know... Tweeny: Could be synths llanwydd: I think not Cease: I think Glen Campbell played on the first album. Lots of studio musicians hired for the producitons. Cease: I know Jeff Skunk Baxter played on Fighting Clowns. llanwydd: interesting Cease: Taj Mahal is doing the music for the latest produciton, Tresasure Island. Cease: Hey Tween,did you get the Norman Corwin production I think I sent you? They just turned it into a video but we should play the auido. Cease: An Otherworld Production, starring David, Phil, among others. Cease: Richard Fish is pushing it. He's done A LOT of work with the Firesigns over the years, plus my last 2 plays (counting the new one) Tweeny: Cat is that 'Between Americans'? ||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Blane - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: Don't recall the name but I'm pretty sure I sent it to you before I went to Spain. Cease: I can mix in some Firesign for it, such as the American Pageant Deputy Dang: Is it "Before Spaniards"? llanwydd: just between us america has lots of mousers Cease: Actually, I thought of a lot of Firesign lines during my trip. llanwydd: great ending to the album Cease: I went to a bar which promised award winning tapa, but it turne out just to be baked hard cheese. You know their line about Hard Cheese? Cease: Inded, llan Tweeny: Cease: Don't recall the name but I'm pretty sure I sent it to you before I went to Spain. << I don't recall receiving anything other than your collages recently. Cease: Lots of great endings to their albums. JZip: That's an underrated record. Cease: OK, I'll resend, Tween. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right." Cease: Did anyone see Winning Time, the HBO series about the Magic Johnson Lakers? Lombardy: I really enjoyed that one. Thanks for sharing Lombardy: Nobody tell me who the electrician is btw I’ve only listened to Sumatra once Cease: First time here,Lombardy? Lombardy: Yes. I just recently got into Firesign Lombardy: I’m 30 years old, in Richmond VA Beet: Welcome to Firesign and the chat, Lombardy. Cease: Glad to have young people who can appreciate Firesign Lombardy: Thanks! Cease: Bergman once said they wrote their work for young people. of course that was people who were young in the 60s ||||||||| 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: What a wonderful Kris Kristofferson parody ||||||||| 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 intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Beet: no audio Tweeny: RFD is working fine here Cease: No problems here Deputy Dang: I'm on rfd2 (rhymes with r2d2) and have audio Cease: speaking of quad, i saw the most amazing museum exhibit in Madrid. Called Velasquez Teck, it takes Velasques's Las Maninans and does Amazing techie things with it. Beet: Got it back. Cease: A mirrored room full of images based loosely on the painting was the most amazing thing i've evern seen. Cease: Will post it to my blog when I can get it together. Cease: I hope to have it up by July. Temporary title: Cat Quixote and Sancho Telephone journey to Serendip Cease: Should be more attuned to Pacific Time next week. Cease: My body is still in Spain. Deputy Dang: It will catch up with you one of these revolutions. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?" Cease: This is a very interesting explanation of the album. Deputy Dang: I have zero understanding of the money flow in the audio industry. Deputy Dang: I enjoyed myself! :-D Deputy Dang: But I enjoyed the Firesign even more! Cease: Great show, Tween. I'll try and contribute more next week when I re-enter North American time. Beet: Enjoyed this tonight. See everyone next week. G'Nite all. Deputy Dang: Thank you Kurt! We'll be back next week! Tweeny: Everybody have a great week, and we'll see some of you next Tuesday :) ||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang 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!"... ||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Just a bummer on the side tabl - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Cease - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Lombardy - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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 Globner's disease ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| llanwydd departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| 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."
