Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
07/11/2024

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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 July 11, 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 Theatre’s THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
plus new Cat Collages based on Paul McCartney’s RAM album
and from the DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS Let’s Eat collection
“Assorted Cold Cuts”
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 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 7:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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, July 11, 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?"
||||||||| Deputy Dang bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| 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 llanwydd plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
llanwydd: hey theah
llanwydd: very interested to hear the macca collage
llanwydd: well! fine time for tweeny do die of demonic possession
||||||||| Cease bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cease: Did you hear part one last week, Llan?
Cease: Has Tween been swallowed by demons?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: HI Dang
Cease: No tolerance for onion rings.
||||||||| Beet sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Hello dere.
Cease: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi, Cease, Deputy, llan.
llanwydd: I missed the last two weeks, cat. long story
Cease: You can listen to the archives.
llanwydd: cool
Cease: Tween was playing Ram on his Tuesday show a few weeks ago, which made me want to make a collage based on that album
Beet: I missed also.
Cease: I don't know where Tweeen is but he normally posts the collages to the archive quickly
Cease: The Bush era.
llanwydd: a lot of critics panned that album but most people liked it. I did
Cease: It's great to see Peorgie and Mudhead again
llanwydd: whaz real
Cease: Fiesign is Sur-real
Cease: Always found Reefer truck hilarious.
Cease: Like theiir Carnation ad, Take Home Carnaiton.
llanwydd: I dont remember that one
Cease: I thikn they used THC in all their carnation ads. We listened to their whole Jack Poet Loves you album recently.
Cease: A whole album of their actual commercials, which sometimes are as bizarre as their albums
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Cease: I want to use one for Jack Poet in next week's collage, the final part of the Ram Collage trilogy
Tweeny: Evenin' compadres
Beet: Hey, Tweeny.
llanwydd: hey tween
Cease: More tombs to raid
Cease: You need a good time more than you need a good town.
Cease: A problem with democracy.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?"
llanwydd: it wasnt until well into this century that I found out how prolific FST was
Cease: an immense amount of work.
llanwydd: I used to think ten or so great albums and some stuff in the mail but there was a lot more
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Bunnyboy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bunnyboy: Lo dere
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Son, it's in the water - that's why it's yellow."
Cease: Hey Bun
llanwydd: hey bb
Bunnyboy shows off his shiny teeth.
Cease: How are things in Seattle?
Bunnyboy: Took a PTO day today.
Beet: Hi, Bunny.
Cease: what's that?
Bunnyboy: Cooling off. 70s and 80s, the way GOD intended!
Bunnyboy: 98 on Tuesday.
llanwydd: oh has it been hot out there?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Bunnyboy: At Boeing Field.
Cease: cooled off a bit here too.
llanwydd: I am as far away from you as is possible in the continental U.S. and about as far south from you and we have not gotten into the upper nineties
Beet: Fried brains at Boeing.
Cease: what's a job to a dog?
llanwydd: is it about as hot in vancouver, cat?
Tweeny: Upper 90s here
Cease: somewhat cooler
Cease: we begin to break down here if it gets into the 80s for a few days.
llanwydd: it has been in the lower eighties here today but we had rain
Cease: 600 people were killed here during the Heat Dome 3 years ago so the govt is ginvg out air conditioners
llanwydd: they say fl might be in for hurricanes this season
llanwydd: good idea, cat
Cease: a lot of people died then in seattle, right, bun?
Bunnyboy: The news don’t tell us nuthin’. We just go to work.
Cease: A Yi Yi Yi
llanwydd: thats a rather dystopian outlook , bb
llanwydd: but some truth to it obviously
Cease: We're Doomed
Cease: That's what Ossman decided to call the thing we made out of his diary
Cease: https://rfd-firesign.s3.amazonaws.com/cat/doomed-1.mp3
Cease: This song is based on Cousins, the Patty Duke Show theme song.
Tweeny: Yes, I remember that show
Tweeny: "Identical cousins"
Bunnyboy: What a wacky pair!
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: yes, we can
Cease: i just heard a thibng on the radio this morning about Rhino Records. I thikn this came out on Rhino
Cease: i heard Monkberry Moon Delight on Roadkill and it inspired me to make this collage
Cease: CBC show called Under the Influnce, with ad guy Terry O'Reilly.
Cease: I did a collage based on Terry's show about the selling of the Moon mission
Cease: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/fire_moon.mp3
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
e little tune.
Cease: By Llan
Bunnyboy: Oops.
Cease: What's up, Bun?
Beet: Well, time to go. I enjoyed this. Nice to hang with you guys. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
Cease: By Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Elayne: Evenin' all! Can't stay, too tired. Just want to make sure Cat's OK what with the earthquake.
Bunnyboy: Hiya, Elayne!
Bunnyboy: A rare day off, so here I am.
Elayne: Great to see you, BB!
Tweeny: Hey Elayne
Tweeny: later Beet
Elayne: Hi Kurt!
Elayne: Aww, just missed Beet...
Cease: Wow, how delightful to see you El
Cease: I'm Ok
Elayne: So relieved! Thanks Cat. Wasn't sure how far away from you the quake was.
Cease: Pretty far.
Cease: Nature did not forget to hate us. We had the heat dome 3 years ago and recurring fires which destroy the eiar
Cease: air
Elayne: Yeah, we've had sucky air quality in NYC too. I actually saw what looked like SMOG a couple days ago riding into Manhattan on the express bus.
Elayne: It's a little better today but we're still in kind of a miserable heat wave.
Elayne: Thank goodness for air conditioning.
Cease: I grew up in LA and then worked in Tokyo for a long time so I know more than I care to about bad air
Elayne: Okay, that's why I logged on tonight. Maybe next week I'll be less exhausted. Been up since 3:30 AM and had to work in Manhattan today.
Elayne: Next week (maybe), all.
||||||||| Elayne says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Elayne exits at 8:00 PM.
Cease: Take Care, El
Bunnyboy: Keep breathing!
Bunnyboy: I’m a wanderer. Nite, cat, Tweeny!
Bunnyboy crawls into the shade…
||||||||| "Hey Bunnyboy!" ... Bunnyboy 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!"...
Cease: By Bunny
Cease: A friend of mine saw them at Stanford long ago, said they were on a riff about Cheese and Chhinese
Cease: This is on the DOMM box, Tween?
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Cease: You're back, Llan?
Tweeny: Yes Cease, as it says at the top of the page :)
llanwydd: I was gone longer that I wanted to be
Tweeny: wb llan
Cease: There afre so few of us
llanwydd: caught on line in a supemarket, I had planned to get back in time to hear the collage
llanwydd: I will hear the rest
Cease: tween will have it posted. having lots of fun matching firesign, etc with Ram
Tweeny: Cat's new collage series is in the archive at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/
Cease: good for my brain
Tweeny: in the Trilogy/Quadrilogy section
Cease: part 3 next week.
Tweeny: Ram Firesign is the title of the series
Cease: then have not idea what to do next. have to collage my Spanish trip
Cease: Austin was a great writer
llanwydd: I am definitely going to listen to the whole RAM opus
Cease: fun to do. i turned Pepper and AB Road into collages, which are in the archives
Cease: also some individual Beatles songs
llanwydd: I think those are the two best beatles albums
Cease: want to do Revolver too.
llanwydd: of course you have to include your spanish memoirs
Cease: am thinking about it now. was thinking of it even in Spain
llanwydd: the closest I ever got to spain was the west country of england
llanwydd: I have got to explore the world someday
Cease: why don't i know this?
Cease: well, do it while you still can. that's what I thought about Spain.
llanwydd: know what?
Cease: this DOMM cut.
Cease: some ofd it I know, but some is new to me, and I've owned DOMM since it came out
Cease: some of it is from my recordings
llanwydd: I remember the name duke of madness from dear friends
Cease: thanks again, Tween.
Cease: hope to see you here next week, llan
llanwydd: here in the city of... something
Cease: by all
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Cease left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Tweeny: Thanks for listening folks, see you Tuesday
llanwydd: yeah, thanks again tween and cat.. have a great two hundred hours
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 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 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
||||||||| 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
Bunnyboy
Cease
Deputy Dang
Elayne
llanwydd
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://rfd-firesign.s3.amazonaws.com/cat/doomed-1.mp3
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/fire_moon.mp3
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/