||||||||| 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 October 10, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD “Overture, Joey comes home, I Love Lucy, Pay the Lord, Dinah’s Club, Special Care” plus from DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour “This Is One Avant-Garde Script You Won't Get Out Of” 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 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 the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 6:00 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 trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny 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 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 7:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!" ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 10, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| 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 Tweeny plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| morlog sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident." morlog: corn ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, morlog!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "morlog should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as morlog enters and sits at the bar. Tweeny: Hi morlog Tweeny: catherwood, get morlog a blue moss ||||||||| Catherwood gets morlog a blue moss. morlog: hey there Tweeny: I don't know what tools you need, but I've got a set of socket wrenches and some computer tools you can borrow ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Cease close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule. morlog: was giving a try at making rice crackers earlier Tweeny: allo Cease morlog: end3ed up making something that more resemles cornbread Cease: Hi all morlog: did somebody say corn Tweeny: ricebread? Tweeny: corn morlog: kind of Cease: The restaurant I was at last Thursday wouldn't give me its WiFi password so I couldn't chat. Cease: Hope everyone had fun ||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Beet: Howdy Tweeny: yo Beet ||||||||| Deputy Dang sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." Deputy Dang: Wait a minute... is this thing on? Tweeny: howdy Deputy Beet: Hi, Tweeny, Deputy, Cease, morlog. Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners! Tweeny: the correct show is playing on RFD Cease: Hi folks Cease: Have we listened to the last 2 collages based on Phil's Autobiography? Cease: Didn't hear or chat last week, from Santa Fe Beet: We definitely had some of it. Cease: last week? Beet: Yep Cease: The last one was called Another World. Did you hear that? Beet: Don't recall the title. Deputy Dang: Why does God need a starship? Cease: It began with a little clip from a bio of Frank Lloyd Wright Tweeny: Fighting Clowns of Hollywood - https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD “Overture, Joey comes home, I Love Lucy, Pay the Lord, Dinah’s Club, Special Care” https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood plus from DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour “This Is One Avant-Garde Script You Won't Get Out Of” https://firesigntheatre.com/store/duke-of-madness-motors-the-complete-dear-friends-radio-era-1970-1972-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc 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 ' morlog: thats actually a real thing morlog: fighting clowns of holywood Tweeny: I was interested to read that Frank Llyod Wright was involved in the design of the flying saucer in The Day The Earth Stood Still Cease: didn't know that Tweeny: morlog: fighting clowns of holywood << is that a band or something? morlog: a gang Tweeny: *Lloyd Tweeny: hah morlog: hholywood is a strange place Tweeny: Phil Proctor lives in Beverly Hills Beet: The Day The Earth Stood Still is one of my favorite movies. Tweeny: A classic of the era, for sure Cease: Barely remember it Tweeny: The Day the Earth Stood Still - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/ Tweeny: "An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets." Tweeny: It was quite something for the time, when humanity nuking itself into oblivion was a real possibility Tweeny: not that that isn't happening today :/ Cease: This was my recording. It was the last of the Hour Hours Tweeny: glad you recorded it :) Cease: Many people should have Tweeny: I'm still amazed the radio station didn't have it in their archives Tweeny: esp being a 'public radio' station ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!" Cease: that station is long gone. no this was on a commercial station, kppc Tweeny: ah, so Hour Hour was not on KPFK? Tweeny: didn't realize that Cease: no Cease: Dragnet Cease: their radio shows were drenched in LA Tweeny: it was a moment in history Tweeny: L.A. and S.F. are in really bad shape these days :( Cease: so i hear Cease: Both Santa Fe and Denver seemed to be doing great Cease: How about Austin? Tweeny: Austin's doing OK, but the big tech boom changed everything Tweeny: Musk and others have moved their company headquarters here, and housing has become very expensive Cease: All Iknew of New Mexico is from Breaking Bad, which portrays ABQ as a very scary place Beet: No longer the best kept secret. Joe Rogan helped. Tweeny: the musicians who make it The Live Music Capital Of The World can't afford to live here Tweeny: the musicians who make it The Live Music Capital Of The World can't afford to live here Tweeny: deja vu... ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| morlog - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Cease: by morlog Cease: Still here, Beet and Dang? Cease: i'm surprised they could say " for christ's sake" Beet: Well, time to go. It was fun being with you tonight. Thanks to Tweeny and Cease. See everyone next week. G'Nite. Cease: by beet Tweeny: au revoir Beet Deputy Dang: I'm listening still. Cease: good to hear, dang. did you tell me you once lived in santa fe? Tweeny: be right back... ||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM. Cease: ossman lived there in the 80s, so I identify it with him, his poems about his life there ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits on the couch. Deputy Dang: I have lived in California, Ohio, New York and Florida. Tweeny: a good sampling of American States Cease: NOt NM? I had a wonderful 2 days there. Wasn't fond of the heat, but everything else was great Tweeny: rather different cultures Deputy Dang: I'm not sure if I've ever even driven through NM. Tweeny: good to hear Cease, glad it went well :) Cease: it calls itself the city different. Tweeny: I've travelled on I-40 a few times so I've been through it Cease: from wed morning, when i went to the state capitol, to thursday evening, when i went to great restuarant, i had a wonderful time. Tweeny: kewl ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600" Cease: posted a lot of pix on facebook. should have collage and blog in a week or 2 Tweeny: any requests for next week's show, Deputy? Tweeny: something you'd like to hear that maybe you haven't heard in a while? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right." Deputy Dang: Everything I think of feels like we've heard it recently. Everything You Know Is Wrong, Not Insane, Two Places at Once? Cease: It's all great. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today, and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth." Tweeny: We last heard EYKIW in February Deputy Dang: I only know the "main" albums well enough to give recommendations. Their live material (other than Giant Rat and Shakespeare) I don't know enough to recommend. Like the Magic Mushroom stuff. Tweeny: Same for Not Insane Deputy Dang: In my defense, February is over 6 months ago. ;-) Tweeny: and Two Places in January Tweeny: so any would be fine Tweeny: EYKIW is my personal all-time favorite Deputy Dang: I agree! :-D Tweeny: We could fit two of them into a show Cease: Shall welisten to it next week? I want to play New Mexican Overdive cuz it blends into my colage. Tweeny: We could do Two Places and EYKIW together Cease: That would be fun Tweeny: OK, then we'll do that Cease: I thought this was the reason the show ended. They guys told me it was just a format change, but this is the sort of rap that could gt you fired from commercal radio in 1970, and probably now too. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan." Deputy Dang: who is playing this music? Cease: earl jive Deputy Dang: I mean, was it them or session musicians? Deputy Dang: ok ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!" Deputy Dang: Goodnight all! Thank you Tweeny and Cat! Cease: no,jive just played music on the show. i dont know if they had much input Cease: by Deputy Dang: I'm in the mood for a melody! Tweeny: Been fun folks :) ||||||||| Deputy Dang is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM. Tweeny: Good Robert Plant :) ||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease 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!"... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice." ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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
morlog
Tweeny
