Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/29/2024

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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 29, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Phil Austin’s 1974 Solo Album ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE
plus Cat Collages based on Phil Proctor’s podcasts “Cummings, Mother” and “Power To The, Er, People”
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'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Phil Austin’s 1974 Solo Album ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE
plus Cat Collages based on Phil Proctor’s podcasts “Cummings, Mother” and “Power To The Pupil, Er, People”
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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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, August 29, 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?"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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: good evening, friends.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Deputy Dang tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Oops, once again jumped the gun.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'."
Beet: Hi, Cease, Deputy.
Cease: Hi all
Tweeny: Howdy Beet, Cease, Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! Howdy, Cease! Howdy, (Tweeny)!
Tweeny: oops, last week's show
Tweeny: I'll text the Program Director
Cease: Is this last week's show?
Beet: Hi, Tween (i f you're there).
Cease: it is indeed
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Mutt jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Beet: Hey, Mutt.
Mutt: Was gettin’ a little stuffy on that closet, Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside Mutt and mumbles "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
Cease: I don't mind hearing my Spain trip again.
Cease: Hi Mutt
Tweeny: Hi Mutt
Mutt: Hiya Beet
Mutt: Hey Tween, cease and deputy
Tweeny: I'm contacting the Program Director about the fact that he's playing last week's show
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Mutt: Forward, into the past …
Cease: I put all these Proctor collages together over the past 2 weeks (a lot of work) along with the various bio collages and send them to Taylor a couple of days ago.
Cease: Hopefully they'll be then on their way to the Library of Congress
Mutt: Wow
Cease: I hope some of you watched the Melinda memorial last week.
Cease: We should listen to the audio here soonest.
Tweeny: Got a link Cease?
Cease: Very moving.
Cease: for what, tween?
Deputy Dang: I watched it a couple of weeks ago.
Tweeny: The Melinda Memorial
Cease: Melinda? yes: https://vimeo.com/998815356
Mutt: Feel so bad for Phil, but he’s a tough one to keep down
Cease: Procp posted it to Facebook shortly after it happened, Aug 11
Cease: very true, Mutt.
Tweeny: OK, here's the new show :)
Cease: Also Phil has A LOT OF FRIENDS
Cease: aha!
Cease: It's almost September.
Mutt: Yes he do, and I’m one of ‘em!
Cease: Phil has that wonderful riff in an earlier collage about how strsange it was to be in September and NOT in school, after he graduate from Yale. Sept had meant school to him all his life, at that point
Cease: Good for you, Mutt
Tweeny: OK, now that I know everything is working properly I'm off to the kitchen...
Cease: YOu better come, into the kitchen, cuz it's goin to be rain outside
Beet: Could you make me a sandwich?
Mutt: Hot dog, groatcakes!
Beet: Catherwood, make me a sandwich.
||||||||| Catherwood brings Beet a sandwich.
Cease: I'm off on another trip in Oct. Hope my wife will make me a tuna sandwich for the plane ride as she did for my trip to Spain in May
Cease: By the time I get to Santa Fe, everything will be closed.
Mutt: Tuna Over Spain - A Memoir
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!"
Cease: all the restaurants seem to close at 9
Cease: synchronicity: he said "new mexico"
Beet: I usually get a footlong from Subway for a flight.
Cease: Not fond of Subways. Loved Quisnos but it seems to have vanished, at least in Van
Cease: Really good bread
Mutt: More often then not I brown bag when traveling.
Cease: Yeah. My wife makes REALLY good tuna sandwiches.
Cease: Secret ingredients are grated carrots and green peppers
Beet: Many locals here like sanswiches from a chain called Sheetz,
Mutt: I figure I know what I have so I won’t be stressed or disappointed
Cease: true,Mutt
Mutt: Sheetz has some great stuff
Cease: we don't have in Van.
Mutt: I think they are an east coast US thing
Beet: They're starting to branch out.
Mutt: They “border” between Sheetz, WaWa and Royal Farms is pretty close to where Iam
Cease: Hating capitol of the world!
Mutt: They are all starting to poach each other’s turf
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: Hi llan
||||||||| Koyemsi steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Hi, llan
Mutt: Hey Llan
||||||||| Koyemsi dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Koyemsi?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Koyemsi into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: howdy folks
Cease: Koy
Beet: Hello, Koyemsi
Mutt: Howdy Koyemsi
Cease: Sounds like a Hopi name
Mutt: Llan, you missed the time travel partof the show
llanwydd: I traveled across time to get here
Mutt: We went all the way back to last week’s show, and I wasn’t even there to begin with
Cease: It was in Newsweek
Mutt: Newssoeak
Mutt: Newsspeak
Koyemsi: Hi gang, sorry, couldn't figure out how ,piojuo send a message on my phone, had to gconnect via laptop
llanwydd: sounds like an algonquin name
Koyemsi: ]/
Koyemsi: Also my toddler is mashing my keyboard
Mutt: Hopi
Koyemsi: And yes, Koyemsi is a Hopi name -- it means Mudhead!
Cease: Lucky guess
Beet: lol
Mutt: That’s toofunny
llanwydd: I meant newsspeak. I believe they are related to the chesapeak
Cease: toofunny sounds like a Welsh name
Koyemsi: Toofunny Opera
Mutt: Not enough consonanats
llanwydd: lol
Mutt: Brecht would not be amused, but Iam
Koyemsi: I haven't been here in a while, but I came tonight because I wanted to share my latest project with you, since it's heavily Firesign inspired
llanwydd: koyemsi are related to the koyanisqaatsi
Mutt: I love that movie
Koyemsi: I'm a puppeteer, and "Don't Crush That Dwarf" inspired me to create a puppet act based around the idea of changing channels
Mutt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
Koyemsi: Except in my case, it's all actual audio that I recorded while channel surfing, rearranged into what I hope is a funny order
Cease: good for you!
Koyemsi: (Although you may recognize the sound of the chromium switch at the beginning and the end)
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
Koyemsi: Anyway it took me way too long to make, but it's done now, and I thought some of you might enjoy it. Here's the link:
Koyemsi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSKETJxWFM
Mutt: Right on!
llanwydd: I did a monologue like that in front of a school audience that brought down the house
llanwydd: thanks, koyemsi
Mutt: Thanksfor sharing this
llanwydd: I will check thatout immediately
Koyemsi: Oh cool! Any footage of that?
Koyemsi: "Don't forget to like and subscribe," as the kids say
Cease: Will do
Koyemsi: Thanks guys :))
Cease: Elvis Austin
llanwydd: I just checked it out. very much like what I did in middle and high school except I didnt use props
llanwydd: your use of a puppet is very effective
llanwydd: mine doesnt translate to today because it was based on tv commercials of the time
Koyemsi: Thanks llan! What decade did you do your routine?
llanwydd: way back in the seventies
llanwydd: as far as I know it was never recorded
Cease: doug kershaw imitation?
Koyemsi: I'm afraid I must go as I must feed dinner to my kid. Have a wonderful evening, back on the freeway!
Cease: come again, koy
Koyemsi: Stay calm, be brave, wait for the (fire)signs
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Koyemsi by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
llanwydd: thatks forthelink koyemsi. good night
Beet: G'Nite, Koy
Cease: great recording
llanwydd: ghujhgfghiuyfdgxcvbnmb
Deputy Dang: easy for YOU to say!
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Smutt should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Smutt enters and sits on the divan.
Smutt: Now we have some Welsh!
Cease: Grape Juice?
llanwydd: lol
Deputy Dang: affair for all, and no fair for any body!
Smutt: Apparently I am in one place twice, but I can only control smutt
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Mutt - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Smutt: Ah, this hasn’t happened to me since M!
Cease: Lol
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Not Ed by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Not Ed: What the heck is going on?
Smutt: Mr. Ed!
Cease: Hi not
Not Ed: Sup Tweeny, Beet, Cease, DDang, Mutt, llanwydd
Beet: Hey, Not
Not Ed: Hey Smutt
Not Ed: Hey Beet and C
Smutt: Not: Smutt=Mutt . Lomg story
Not Ed: Great characters
Not Ed: Smut? I'm for it!
Cease: Some utt
Not Ed: Smut - Tom Lehrer http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
Smutt: Every vote counts, son
Smutt: Sometimes they clunts twice!
Not Ed: Count & Pointercount!
Smutt: Counts
llanwydd: I remember that song from dr demento
Not Ed: Yeah
llanwydd: another early seventies memory
Smutt: Yeah, that show was a big part of my teens
Not Ed: Lehrer is awesome - you know he released ALL of his music into the public domain
llanwydd: I used to roll on the floor while I listened to dr demento
Smutt: “It had that effect :)
Smutt: Leheris a mrnsch
Beet: Gotta go. Nice to see everyone. Thanks for a fun evening. See you next week. G'Nite all.
Smutt: Mensch
llanwydd: Nite Beet
Not Ed: Indeed
Not Ed: Take care Beet!
Smutt: Be well, Beet!
Cease: By Beet
Not Ed: Have a groovy holiday!
Smutt: Bob Cummings was one weird dude
llanwydd: I didnt know that
Not Ed: Was he?
Not Ed: Duckman!
Cease: If he meets Proctor's desciption, he was weird without a beard
Not Ed: hehe
Smutt: Lol
Not Ed: Shameless self promo here - When you have a mo' czech out my new album of music-like music from our old and very strange games - Warning/Guarantee: this material is genre-free and not normal - It's on Bandcamp and streaming so you don't have to buy it if you don't want to https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/album/the-weird-musical-world-of-digital-eel
Not Ed: Track notes and other coolness on individual track pages.
Not Ed: this is really nice Cat
Cease: Yeah, one of my more coherent collages.
Not Ed: haha well i like it good music choices too
Cease: if i were to pick one of these 15 proc collages to share with others, it would probably be this one
Not Ed: thumbs up
llanwydd: better than marceau?
llanwydd: I have to go out for a few minutes. I will try to be back soon
Cease: ok
llanwydd: if I dont make it I will see you on my birthday. I have exactly oneweek left to be sixty-two.
llanwydd: see you then if not tonight
Tweeny: You're a youngin' llan, Cat and I have broached 70 :)
Tweeny: and the Firesigns are in their 80s :)
llanwydd: great collage, cat
Tweeny: gives one hope...
llanwydd: many thanks cat and tweeny
Cease: ok
Cease: we do our best
Not Ed: yeah i like that 1
Not Ed: bye llanny
Cease: off you fly
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nancy Kat inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Smutt: Night Llan
Smutt: Hi Nancy
Nancy Kat: Hiya Smutt!
Nancy Kat: Sorry i'm late folks...too much adulting today and dealing with idiots fried my brain...I thought it was wednesday for a while there!
Smutt: I’m the head idiot in my country
Not Ed: Hey Nancy K
Not Ed: When you're falling, dive
Nancy Kat: Hi Not Ed!
Nancy Kat: if you're Voltan....
Cease: Hi Nancy
Nancy Kat: Heylas Cease!
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: How's it going?
Nancy Kat: Am taking aplications for Ninjas...you?
Cease: Just bought ticket for Santa Fe. Ever been there?
Nancy Kat: No.My Mom lived in Pheonix for a while and hence has a soft spot in her heart for all things Southwestern (She's already a big western fan) Always wanted to see that area of the country. Especially the "new age" places.
Cease: It's the original Meow Wolf. I've been kind of obsessed with Meow Wolfian exhibitions
Cease: An even better one in Madrid called Velasquez Tech
Cease: MW started by 300 artists in Santa Fe
Nancy Kat: Never heard of that, but looked it up and I love the vivid colors.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone a cold frosty mug of BWB
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a cold frosty mug of bwb.
Cease: Good for the eyes
Nancy Kat: *eyes the BWB cautiously*
Not Ed: It's in the water
Tweeny: Hey Nancy Kat, great to see you here :)
Nancy Kat: Smells a bit like...asparagus...
Nancy Kat: Hihi Tweeny!
Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone a plate of meatless hot creatures
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a plate of meatless hot creatures.
Not Ed: hey Tweener
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Tweeny: Hey Not Ed
Tweeny: Been fun folks, see you next week
Deputy Dang: are these road-ready flat snacks?
Not Ed: Best
Cease: Hope y'all had fun
Deputy Dang: I probably won't be here next week. :-(
Not Ed: darn well better be
Deputy Dang: Tonight was great! Thank you!
Tweeny: mmmmm Little Feat
Not Ed: feat feat feat
Not Ed: sorry DDang
Cease: ne of the better ones, dd
Not Ed: I miss a lot of times
Cease: good music mix
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Smutt - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed: Such a Bill P fan
Cease: aftrer all that music in Reller Maidens
Nancy Kat: Fangz guys.
Not Ed: Bill Payne
Cease: good to see you here again, Nancy
Not Ed: Indeedy!
Not Ed: Here's one for you Cat - J. Campbell's "Transformations of Myth Through Time" lectures https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v7ZDxE26jeEwucpglNRLZ6SjngfhWag&feature=shared
Not Ed: Playlist
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then hurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
Not Ed: (audio only)
Cease: Looks wonderful, Not
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
: Thanks Cease, Tween, DD, Not, Beet, Nancy and all
Not Ed: Hope you n-joy!
||||||||| Mutt sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Mutt: G’nite everybody. Be well.
||||||||| Mutt is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
Cease: You too, Mutt
Not Ed: Okay I must away - take good care everyone - have a safe and groovy holiday weekend! - thanks Cat & Merl & Tweeny!
Nancy Kat: Meow!
Not Ed: Arf!
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: Offr Off, damned spopt
||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| Cease rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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
Koyemsi
llanwydd
Mutt
Nancy Kat
Not Ed
Smutt
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/album/the-weird-musical-world-of-digital-eel
https://vimeo.com/998815356
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSKETJxWFM
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v7ZDxE26jeEwucpglNRLZ6SjngfhWag&feature=shared