Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/22/2024

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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 August 22, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Cat Collages based on Phil Proctor’s Podcasts
plus from Cat’s Spain collage series “Spain 3”
and from Box Of Danger “School For Actors (Live)”
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'
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||||||||| It's 5:30 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 stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
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||||||||| It's 8:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 22, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Deputy Dang into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| It's 9:15 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...
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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 morlog disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Tweeny: Evenin' morlog
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Deputy Dang sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
morlog: hey there
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy Tweeny! Howdy morlog!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is W.A.L.T.E.R ... this is W.A.L.T.E.R. ..."
||||||||| Kiyyik steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Nancy Kat steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Nancy Kat: * eats grapes from greece*
Tweeny: Hi Kiyyik
Tweeny: Hey Nancy Kat! Been a while, great to see you here :)
Kiyyik: Evenin'.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's one crawling up my leg!"
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cease: Hi all
Tweeny: Allo Cease
Nancy Kat: Hiya Tweeny!
Nancy Kat: Hihi Cease and Dang!
Cease: Haven't seen you in a while, Nancy.
Cease: Never seen you at all, Kiyyik
Tweeny: nope, Kiyyik is a newcomer
Tweeny: and welcome to the Firesign Chat :)
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits at the bar.
Beet: Hello.
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Nancy Kat: Cease-kicked the comp so it will play the audio. Speaking of Espana-i've started duolingo for Spanish, Irish and Japanese.
Nancy Kat: BEET! Heylas! and Hi to those who I've never met.
Beet: Hey, Tweeny.
Tweeny: That sounds like quite a combination
Deputy Dang: Howdy Nancy! Howdy Kiyyik! Howdy Cease! Howdy Beet!
Cease: I did Duolingo for a few monthes before I went to Spain. Didn't help
Beet: Hi Nancy Kat
Cease: Beet
Beet: Hello, Cease.
Cease: I just finished The Demon-Haunted World by CArl Sagan. I wonder what Carl woulot think of Proc's tales
Tweeny: A lot of the people where I work are bi-lingual English/Spanish, switching between them seamlessly, and I am quite envious
Beet: Yo, Deputy, Kiyyik, morlog.
Nancy Kat: I do better with Spanish since I took French for so long. But the grammar is still a bit hard.
Cease: Dang. Morlog
Nancy Kat: it's the speed of talking that trips me up.
Cease: Most of the time, I'd begin speaking in Spanish and the other person would switch to English immediately. Most of the time.
Deputy Dang: Is this from Eat or Be Eaten, Director's Cut?
Cease: no, this is Pink Hotel burns down, released on cassette originally
Nancy Kat: I hear that most countries are glad if you try speaking the language. And then there's France...
Cease: A compilation cassette they sold in the days of cassettes
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What about my pickle?"
Tweeny: There are lots of similarities between French and Spanish in sentince structure and some words
Cease: Yeah, I had more problems communicating in France then in Spain and I had years of French in school, although that was Long Ago.
Nancy Kat: *Hands Catherwood a HUGE Kosher Dill*
||||||||| Catherwood walks up to Nancy Kat and inquires "Did you want me?"
Tweeny: Nancy Kat, Cease just took a trip to Spain and he says they appreciated that he tried to speak their language
Cease: I also ate better in France, which is odd because I went to Spain for the food.
Cease: People were in general REALLY NICE in Spain. Not so in France.
Nancy Kat: Cease-was the French "Canadian" French or Parisian French? I had both kinds of teachers in High School. My favorite was from Montreal-Her name was madame Brisebois...a tall, beefy woman who smoked cigars.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Cease: I had French teachers who weren't from Quebec in school.
llanwydd: howdy folks
Cease: Tihs is Wally Cox.
Cease: HI iLLan
Nancy Kat: France is a bucket list item for me for the food and the Louvre.
Tweeny: Hey llan
Cease: You can read my blog about the France trip somewhere.
Nancy Kat: HI Llan!
Beet: hi, llan
Cease: Both Food and Louvre for sure, but my fave museum in Paris is a converted train station
Cease: Musee D'Orsay.
Tweeny: Cease: I had French teachers who weren't from Quebec in school. << I'm sure Parisian French is different from Quebec Frence, and probably unrecognizable compared to Louisiana Cajun
llanwydd: I lost my internet just as I came into the chat room last week
llanwydd: chez metro
Cease: The restaurant in the Eiffel Tower is worth going to Paris for.
Cease: bummer, llan
Beet: I would love to see the renovated Notre Dame in December.
Cease: yeah. my hotel was close to Notre Dame. There was a shooting there that shut down that part of the city when I was there. Suddenly the streets were all full of cops with machine guns.
Cease: Notre Dame is well worth seeing, but true for a lot of things in France.
Nancy Kat: Beet-Seeing Notre Dame during the Olympics made me cry. i'm a big Art/ Architecture fan.
Cease: What brings you here, Kiyyik
Beet: I can totally relate to that.
Cease: Me Too, Nancy.
Beet: One side benefit to the tragedy of the fire is everything is restored and cleaned now.
llanwydd: what would quasimodo have said?
Cease: Hope you get to see it. It;s wonderful.
Beet: "Ring My Bell"
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Whatever, it would have been in French so I couldn't understand him
llanwydd: well he might have said something in latin
Cease: of which I would understood even less.
Nancy Kat: I Spell MY name danger
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Deputy Dang: Howdy llanwydd!
llanwydd: hey dang
Cease: https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2017/06/ My blog about Frenchy trip.
Cease: Today I listened to the Ossman Birthday collage, which is kind of his autobiography
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
Cease: I'm ceating a parcel to send to Taylor for the LIbrary of Congress
Cease: this is a story about my bad expereince in a vegas hotel
Cease: this is from the news about the mass killer in a vegas hotel.
Cease: my favourite byrds song, about the Monterey Pop festival, which Proc covered for the East Village Other
llanwydd: what is this music, cat?
llanwydd: oh, byrds. cool
Cease: really love this tune
llanwydd: yeah this is really cool
llanwydd: I should have known from the vocals
Cease: i was in high school during that festival and some of my classmates attended that.
Cease: Electrician was written not lnog after Monterrey Pop
Cease: Mid 67
llanwydd: I saw the movie
Nancy Kat: "We too want piece, ...of nigeria"
Cease: Great flick. Was Otis Redding singing Try a LIttle Tendersness in it, I forget.
llanwydd: I dontremember
llanwydd: I do remember brian jones popping up out of the blue
llanwydd: funny to seem him just hanging out without the stones
Cease: 67 was when FM really hooked up with the rock revoluiton,
Cease: great year. my trip accross Canada, beginning in Montreal for Expo 67 was one of the highlights of my young life
Cease: my favourite elton john tune
Nancy Kat: Mine are "Funeral for a friend" and "Candle in the wind"
llanwydd: mine is Come Down in Time
Deputy Dang: I don't remember seeing those on American Bandstand!
llanwydd: but benny is Far Out as they used to say
Nancy Kat: "Ahhh, those halcyon days" LOL...College for me.
||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: he wrote a lot of good tunes
Nancy Kat: ".....Their teeth grow through their brains!"
Beet: Really a revolutionary breakthrough of an album.
Cease: how oftren do you hear the word "nose-gay"
llanwydd: LOL
Beet: It's H.A.L.
Cease: everyone here remember this flick?
llanwydd: I have seen it many times
llanwydd: whaI wouldnt give to see it in its original form
llanwydd: what
Cease: did you notice the Duck and Cover song is the same as the Rice A Roni jingle.
Cease: i have my grand daughters sing both tunes in one of my plays
Nancy Kat: I remember listening to Dwarf for the first time about at 13-15 and getting the references because I was raised by my Grandmother and Mom, I read a lot and already had a love of film Noir. I love the old cartoons that lampoon the old movie stars...
Cease: lucky you
llanwydd: funny. brandon couldnt have looked anything like he did in shane when he knew proctor
Cease: Watching Rev. Al Sharpton at the DNC. his head seems too large for this body.
llanwydd: hasnt it always been
Nancy Kat: Literally and figureatively
Beet: And his harcut doubled it
Beet: haircut
llanwydd: thatswhat I meant
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
llanwydd: he got stabbed once and he hardly felt it because of his body fat
llanwydd: didnt do much damage
Nancy Kat: "Donde estas la case de pepe?"
Cease: when i shared a joint with the Firesigns pre-show, bergman wasa little guy, austin was big guy. in 2010, the last time i met them, austin had shrunk and bergman had expanded enormously.
Cease: the joint was new year's eve, 1969
llanwydd: austin was really tall when I met him
Cease: not only much shorted but he was built like a football player in 69. more like a dead guy in 2010.
Cease: bergman looked like the pillsbury dough boy
||||||||| 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..
llanwydd: that was in spore taste
Cease: lol
Nancy Kat: llan, c'mon he's a Fun guy...
llanwydd: lol
Nancy Kat: I get 1 pun per day and Azreal just gave me the worst look...lol
llanwydd: ceam of leek sounds delicious
Beet: cheese au gratin? lotta cheese.
llanwydd: cream
llanwydd: lamb posicle must be a kabob
llanwydd: popsicle
Cease: https://pinchosbergara.es/hot-pinchos.html
llanwydd: looks delicious, cat
Deputy Dang: fancy food!
Cease: it was my first pintxos bar and unfortunately the only really good one.
Beet: indeed. makes me hungry just looking.
Cease: i thought it had the best food in the world. i was wrong. Much better in Paris
Beet: Welp, it's that time again. Gotta go. It's been great being here tonight. Nice to see everyone. Have a nice weekend. G'Nite all.
Cease: by beet
llanwydd: nite beet
Deputy Dang: G
Deputy Dang: G'Nite Beet!
Tweeny: headed for bed. folks
Cease: you too, tween?
Tweeny: all be well and we'll see you next time around...
llanwydd: actually I have got to be gittin too.
||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown.
Cease: is my spain trip scaring everyone away?
llanwydd: hard to explain. I plan to stay longer next week
llanwydd: no, ca. the collage is excellent. I will check out the rest on your website.
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| "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!"...
Deputy Dang: I'm still listening. :-)
Deputy Dang: nite llanwydd!
Cease: you too, Nancy?
Nancy Kat: Am still here.
Cease: good for you two.
Nancy Kat: Now i'm hungry for Cafe Ba Ba Reeba's Lobster Bisque
Cease: where is that?
Nancy Kat: In Chicago on Halste st.d
Nancy Kat: https://www.cafebabareeba.com/
Cease: Wow. I was in Chicago for 4 nights during the Democratic Convention of 2008. Great food, art, archicture. Great vibes.
Deputy Dang: Was the bus uncomfortable or was it the road that caused the pain?
Cease: https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2008/09/ SCroll down to the Chicago stuff
Cease: I think it was just the bus, not the road.
Cease: being in a car is also really hard on my back, after half an hour or so.
Cease: just go some salve from my doctor which seems to help more than anything.
Cease: got
Cease: perscription drug much more effective than over the counter shit
Deputy Dang: I've been exercising my core muscles to help with back pain. It's no miracle.
Cease: going to do a blog post about the breugal/dream riff.
Cease: I've been doing back exercises since 1985.
Cease: Chicago was a terrible place to live, eh?
Deputy Dang: Or the wollop was terrible.
Nancy Kat: Low quality wollops back in the day I guess? Or is it Whollop?
Nancy Kat: And how DO you make your voice DO that!?
Cease: Richard Fish told me that Bergman taught him a trick for how to get yhour voice to do things
||||||||| llanwydd sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: didnt think I would make it bacck here sassoon
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Cease: welcome back, llan.
Cease: there are tricks to radio voice, eh?
llanwydd: you do the mackenzie exercise, cat?
llanwydd: I used to do that when I had a slipped disc
llanwydd: I think every broadcaster has his own tricks. I had mine
Cease: my doc gave me a sheet of excerises which do help. that was 1985. my newer doctor told me to do more core strenghtening exercises so i do a variety of them
Cease: i got a dvd from the library called Say Goodbye to Backpain and I do those daily.
Cease: with the exception of the 3 bus trips, i had no back pain in spain. an never on the long plane trips.
Cease: on the other hand, when i was in vegas, i had horrendous back pain.
Cease: i was at the Sphere which I should really have enjoyed except I had to keep my fist shoved into my back to mitigate the pain all movei.
Cease: on his final radio show of the season a few monthes ago, proctor said you have to do exercise to stay alive when you get old.
Cease: he just turned 84
llanwydd: God bless him
Cease: proc and ossie seem ageless
llanwydd: speaking of back pain, my apartment manager wants to me to a different unit so she can renovate this one
llanwydd: the problem is moving my furniture. there is no way I could do it by myself
Cease: so you have to move? bummer
llanwydd: only across the lawn
llanwydd: the apartment is just like the one I am in now except it has been renovated
llanwydd: but there are so many problems with moving
Cease: including back pain, no doubt
llanwydd: thats what I meant
Deputy Dang: what about the elevator boy?
llanwydd: LOL
llanwydd: why not. he is in my family
Cease: Pink is going to appear. Bergman once claimed she was his girlfriend.
llanwydd: she doesnt look old enough
Cease: goodnight, sleeping tweeny.
Cease: bergman came on to the whole female population
Deputy Dang: Definitely enjoyable. Thanks for Spain 3, Cat! Gnight all!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus."
llanwydd: nite dang
Nancy Kat: Fangz efurryone! much klown love!
Cease: by 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..."
llanwydd: yeah, thanks again, cat. Nite everybody
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs llanwydd by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: sounds irish. great to see you here agian, nancy
Cease: i do my best to make my experiences enjoyable as audio, eh
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Cease 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:
||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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 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
Kiyyik
llanwydd
morlog
Nancy Kat
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://pinchosbergara.es/hot-pinchos.html
https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2008/09/
https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/2017/06/
https://www.cafebabareeba.com/