||||||||| 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 June 20, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Billville." ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN "Over The Edge" plus GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln and Disc One of Firesign’s live performance RADIO NOW LIVE! https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln 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' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| It's 4:00 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, June 20, 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 escorts Tweeny into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes 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 anteroom... Tweeny: Hey Cease Cease:Tweeny Tweeny: Catherwood's watch needs some work ;) ||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 8:00 PM, exactly!" ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Good evening. Tweeny: Yo Beet ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Beet: Hi, Tweeny, Cease. Cease: Good afternoon Beet: It's the three musketeers again. ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes 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 vestibule... Tweeny: Howdy Deputy Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners! Cease: Dang Beet: Howdy Deputy. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. llanwydd: good evening Cease: Llan llanwydd: forgot about the chat last week somehow Tweeny: Hey llan Beet: Hi, llan Cease: Had a new collage last week, Old Cease: Or was that 2 weeks ago? Tweeny: Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat llanwydd: I know, cat. its a sign of age Cease: At work on a new one caled Bottles ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?" llanwydd: Bottles sounds interesting Cease: Inspired by a skit on Harry Shearer's Le Show about Dylan's new whiskey llanwydd: thats hilarious Deputy Dang: Old was last week. It was very good. llanwydd: so long woody, you nazi Cease: I do so many of them, it's hard to remember Cease: Yes, my friend just made a CD of his original Blues tunes. I used cut one, about growing old llanwydd: we had a chatter named woody years ago and I gave him that line as he was leaving the chat and he didnt get it llanwydd: somebody else did though. I dont remember who Cease: we've had a lot of chatters over the decades Tweeny: One of my all-time favorite FST bits :) llanwydd: we have indeed Tweeny: excellent soap opera parody llanwydd: yeah I like that one even better than the one on Next World Cease: I was just mentioning Dexter Fong in my blog about Spanish food: https://seemreal.com/blog/index.php/2024/06/08/eating-spain/ Cease: indeed, Llan. Cease: I was talking about scallops with lime. We had lunch at a great restaurant in NYC Cease: A restaurant in Bilbao promised scallops and lime, but forgot the lime! llanwydd: I can imagine the taste. perfect. Cease: Le Bernardin, the place we lunch at, had scallops in a coconut/lime broth. best scallop dish i've ever eaten llanwydd: forget coqulle st jacques Cease: another dimention, llan. and I love St. Jacques llanwydd: to all the vegans out there, scallops are a vegetable llanwydd: so do I but I like your lime suggestion at least as much Cease: i'm trying to create new dishes based on stuff I had in Spain. Cease: the Bilbao place's menu said, "scallops with lime spheres" Cease: Maybe Lime means something else in Spanish. Cease: although the menu was in English Cease: Spain has really inspired me to create new stuff Cease: i used this in my last collage, Old Cease: combined with my one and only song, Talkin Transplant Blues llanwydd: perhaps Lima translates to lime in spanish llanwydd: or from lime Cease: the scallops may have had lima beans. they definitely did not have lime. Cease: then a few days later, in San Sebastian, I ordered a dish of lemon cauliflower, but it came without lemon. llanwydd: perhaps the cauliflwoer was marinated in lemon juice Cease: and a totally failed dish in Madrid that promised orange. what is this with Spanish chefs and pretend citrus? llanwydd: when I said Lima I meant that maybe Lima, Peru and the word lime have something in common Cease: when you call a dish "lemon cauliflower" one should be able to taste the lemon, eh? llanwydd: or somethiing like that llanwydd: I dont know, cat. I had sesame noodles in an asian fusion restaurant and they tqasted like peanuts Cease: i'm very much into mixing fruit and protein. was very dissppointed, though a had a few good appley things llanwydd: I had known tween to comment negatviely on that combination Tweeny: Did you find any of the basque cuisine to be acceptable? llanwydd: negatively Cease: some, Tween. you can follow my whole trek through the restaurants here: https://seemreal.com/blog/index.php/2024/06/08/eating-spain Tweeny: looking forward to your collage about the experience Cease: when Fumiyo and I were in Spain in November, 2002, the food was spectacularly good, so I had high expectations Cease: still working on a script, Tween. Cease: Want to do some kind of riff on Don Quixote. Cease: Proctor read, or acted DQ with a group of musicians Cease: He invited Bergman to come to that show, but Bergman died instead. Deputy Dang: It's in everybody's decaf... Cease: Proctor sure is busy, for an 84 year old guy llanwydd: he didnt look that old when I saw him llanwydd: nor did william shatner look that old when I saw him in the macys parade llanwydd: where does the time go? Cease: I can use that in my new collage Bottles llanwydd: I started to read DQ when I was a kid Cease: Using a clip from Dylans' Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat for new collage ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!" Cease: "it balances on your head like a matress balances on a bottle of wine" llanwydd: it balances on your head just like Beet: I determined to read it while I was living in Spain. llanwydd: I was just writing that as you posted it Cease: Vino Brothers! llanwydd: add ketchup and blow in the bottle Tweeny: anyone heard from Merlyn? Cease: not a word Tweeny: He was struggling to recover from his stroke llanwydd: I think he stopped by a few weeks ago Tweeny: he may have left us :( Tweeny: Hope he's still on the road to recovery Tweeny: apparently his whole right side was paralized Beet: terrible. ||||||||| 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: certainly one of their mellowest endings Tweeny: apropriate for the times Beet: Interesting album. llanwydd: yeah it kind of fades llanwydd: not your ordinary new years eve Deputy Dang: new years like those come only once every millenia or so llanwydd: and I think the irony is that so many people were expecting a disaster at that time Cease: you know there's no drop off, from Electrician to this. llanwydd: nothing happens
Tweeny hopes the kid still likes FST :) Cease: Willie Mays went from being the best player in baseball to just some old guy playing for the Mets. Firesign Never deteriorated like that. Cease: that kids would be in her 30s now, Tween. Cease: this is 25 years ago. I have a photo from that aboe my computer. I think occaisionhal chatter Bunnyboy took the pic, at a bar after the show with the guys llanwydd: it was the first cd I ever bought llanwydd: I started late llanwydd: I mean Immortality Cease: proc gave me a cassette of the album before it came out so I bought the CD at a local audio store when it came out. Tweeny: Unfortunateltly, firesigntheatre.com doesn't have any of the old albums :( Beet: Gotta go. Enjoyed this as usual. Nice to see you all. Hope Merlyn gets better. See you all next week. G'Nite Cease: by beet Tweeny: They just tell you to find a used copy on Amazon llanwydd: nite beet Tweeny: pretty lame, imho Cease: I'll have Bottles ready for next week but it'll be short. Tweeny: later Beet llanwydd: I wish I had saved all of mine Cease: Shall we listen to Cease: BRide before BDB the following week? Tweeny: Yeah, my CD copy of Pink Hotel is probably pretty rare Cease: I have Firesign albums, CDs, cassettes, open reels and .wavs Deputy Dang: Gnite, Beet! ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving MarkTime coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. llanwydd: hi mark Tweeny: Hello Tweeny: Mark MarkTime: hellllll MarkTime: Hello llanwydd: reel to reel firsign, cat? Cease: Yep Cease: Speaking of pyramids, may finallyh go visit them llanwydd: I would love to see the package they came in Cease: Hi Mark Tweeny: Mark Time is from Oregon, where this concert was recorded :) MarkTime: I am form Sweeeeden MarkTime: and from as well Cease: I recorded the Mushroom plays and other radio stuff that is now on the Mushroom CD and the Duke of Madness CDs llanwydd: lol Tweeny: isn't everybody? Cease: HOw are things in Sweedway? Deputy Dang: Antelope Sweedway 1/2 mile... MarkTime: well we're working on our Authentic Pursuit of Happpinesss... Cease: When we lived in Japan, I did a skit where my daughter played Queen Bitina of Sweedway. She gave me the Nobel Prize for worst radio play. Cease: 1987 Cease: how's the pursuit going? Tweeny: The only thing I see in Texas with the word 'pursuit' on it are police cars ;) Cease: i Cease: i'm sure I told y'all about my police experience in LA in previous chats. Tweeny: Tell us again llanwydd: were you a cop, cat? llanwydd: or a copycat Tweeny: haha Cease: i had friends who became cops. alway had good relations with them in LA, Tokyo and Vancouver Cease: lolllan Cease: anyway, i was living in Hollywood and going to UCLA in early 73. I was 22. I was driving down a major street (Sepulveda, a street yhou know from Nick Danger) and a cop pulled me over. Cease: stuck a gun in myh face and accused me of stealing the car. actually it was from my dad's Ford Dealership. Cease: I explained that to him, and he finally lowered the gun. He said there was a reportr of a 14 year old boy stealing a car and I met the description. llanwydd: LOL Cease: I stoppped shaving after that. llanwydd: lol Cease: wasn't funny at the time. llanwydd: no I would not laugh with a gun in my face Tweeny: So Cat, what was your favorite Ford model back then? Tweeny: Mustang? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?" Tweeny: Did your Dad sell Shelby Mustangs? Deputy Dang:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyz3g3vRb-8 Tweeny: The one that Bill Cosby talked about in his skit "200MPH Car" Tweeny: apparently that wasn't a joke ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?" Tweeny: Cosby had a Shelby Mustang Cease: First cars I drove were Mustangs. Great cars in the 60s MarkTime: Why should a 'free man' be afraid of bis goverbment MarkTime: his Cease: I did indeed. Never got it to 200 but drove it accrsoss the desert in maybe 68. very fast MarkTime: menat Tweeny: yipes Cease: freedom is ever under threat. Tweeny: Cease is from Vancouver, MarkTime Tweeny: A 'Canuk' ;) Cease: I'm from Vancouver but have lived here in North Vancouver since 1988 Cease: NOT from Vancouver. Fromn YOrkton, Saskatchewan, LA, and lived in Japan for a long time Cease: YOrkton is where act one of my play Neal Amid takes place. Neal stars Phil Austin, whose death anniversary was the other day. Tweeny: well, I'm not from Austin, if you look at it that way Tweeny: but we are now :) Cease:https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html Tweeny: choices... Cease: HOw lnog havce you lived in Austin, Tween? Tweeny: since 1995 llanwydd: and I am not from missouri Tweeny: and my heart has been in Texas long before Tweeny: show me, llan llanwydd: lol Cease: Mark, how long have you been in Sweden? MarkTime: In my Heart.... Cease: A transplant? MarkTime: nonesense....Kurt.....GROK? llanwydd: lol MarkTime: No, it's just the way it is.....have met Kevine....the Machine? MarkTime: I'm sorry neck correct tight......Kevin llanwydd: ist nicht gesundheit Tweeny: sounds like MarkTIme has some pretty good bud ;) MarkTime: One thing I like and appauld about State's rights is that one can end the Prohibition....Liberty. Cease: you have states in Sweden? llanwydd: cantons arent they? llanwydd: or wontons or something Deputy Dang: futons ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?" Cease: Thanks, Tween. See you next week llanwydd: lol Tweeny: Thanks for listening everybody :) Deputy Dang: Thanks for the shows! We'll see y'all next week! Same chat time, same chat channel! llanwydd: thanks tween , cat and everybody. see ya next week ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Deputy Dang by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. MarkTime: ahhh the warrior's spirit Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden. ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Tweeny left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). ||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| MarkTime - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Cease - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice ||||||||| 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
llanwydd
MarkTime
Tweeny
