Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/24/2024

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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 October 24, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From Dear Friends Too “Laff A While”
plus Firesign’s FIGHTING CLOWNS
and from LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM
“Séance”, “Twenty Years Behind The Whale” and “Freek For A Week”
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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:45 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...
||||||||| 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 year and a half!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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 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, October 24, 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?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:30 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...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Billville."
Deputy Dang: Catherwood leave me a loan!
||||||||| Catherwood leaves Deputy Dang a loan.
||||||||| 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 Cease gets out at 8:00 PM.
Cease: Hey
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Elmertown."
llanwydd: good evening folks
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
||||||||| Beet enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Beet: Howdy, Pardners!
llanwydd: hey beet
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hi, Deputy, llan, Cease.
Beet: Is Tween in absentia again?
llanwydd: he is hiding behind the firewall
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix."
Beet: clever fellow.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Mutt should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Mutt enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Mutt: No way to delay that trouble coming every day
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
llanwydd: hey mutt
llanwydd: blow ya hahmonica son
Mutt: Hiya DD, Lan!
Mutt: Waaaaaaahhhh!
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Mutt: Freek for a Week meets Freak Out!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with JZip close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
JZip: Sorry about the trees, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to JZip and yells "oh, fuck off JZip!"
llanwydd: hey zip
Deputy Dang: Howdy, JZip!
Mutt: Evening, Zip!
JZip waves to the nice people
JZip: Everybody's here tonight.
Mutt: Are you including the elevator boy?
Deputy Dang: Tweeny's not here (yet?).
JZip: Is he with you?
Cease: No Tween, but Hi folks
Mutt: Hi Cease, Lonesome!
Cease: They loved to sing
Cease: Bergman was writing lyrics for plays Proc was starring in, that's how they met, at Yale
JZip: Russki Pow!
Mutt: They sang a lot on the Fighting Clowns tour. Austin also played gee-tar
Cease: he loved to do that
||||||||| 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!"
Mutt: Dr. Tween!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
Cease: The Tween-man cometh
llanwydd: hey tween
Beet: Hey, JZip, Mutt.
Cease: One of the guys said, Austin wanted to be a rock star.
Beet: Hi, Tweeny.
Mutt: PA was a pretty good guitarist. Played electric with a reallly
Mutt: nice tone
JZip: Blondes are dumb, but bombs are smart.
Tweeny: Evenin' fellow bozos
Cease: isnt this the Marx brothers song?
Tweeny: Mutt: PA was a pretty good guitarist << Jeff Baxter of The Doobie Brothers also plays guitar on this album :)
Cease: Skunk is state of the art for rock guitar.
Mutt: Indeed
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Ha ha ha - that's very logical."
llanwydd: didnt recognize any marxist music in this album
JZip: I just learned something from Wikipedia that I did not know: Phil Hartman designed the album cover for Fighting Clowns.
Tweeny: Liner notes >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=fc-ln
Cease: the one time i saw them live, the guy who died of the dan tried to play the skunk riff on My old school and could not do it.
llanwydd: I guess he was multi talented
Tweeny: Hartman was a very talented guy
Cease: indeed
Mutt: Hartman was an in-demand artist at one time
JZip: Long hair, short hair--hair is dead.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?"
llanwydd: when I saw them at town hall, they all stood at the edge of the stage at the end of the show to talk to the audience and people were yelling fst quotes at them
Cease: my dad was bald when i was small, so i expected baldness.
Cease: the musicianship on this is very high.
llanwydd: one guy said "What is reality!" and austing said "anybody know the answer to that question, by the way?"
Cease: never suspecting that not long after this recoding, he'd be president
llanwydd: I have seen your picture, cat. you looked like you had a full head of hair
Cease: i used to
llanwydd: I am balding like my father
Cease: male pattern baldness
llanwydd: as they call it
llanwydd: yeah this is a very musical album
llanwydd: almost seems to be the primary focus
llanwydd: well, secondary next to humor
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "He can shout, don't hear you."
Cease: they had just done brecht and wanted to do something like that, a very political muscial
Cease: anyone else ordered the new firesign book?
Cease: the author came on chat, at least once. elayne invited him.
llanwydd: new book? cool!
Beet: What's the title of the new book?
JZip: The one from UCal Press? That looked interesting.
llanwydd: billville was on boom dot bust wasnt it? I havent listened to that one much
Cease: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/firesign/paper
Cease: it does indeed
llanwydd: well I probably have but not in many years
llanwydd: thanks for the link, cat
JZip: I really liked this record. Still do.
Cease: his blog is also worth reading: https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/
llanwydd: I had already seen them do some of this material in nyc before the album came out
llanwydd: then they put even more of it on their next album which was from the same tour
Tweeny: nice
Tweeny: llanwydd: billville was on boom dot bust wasnt it? I havent listened to that one much << It was the theme of the album :) Proc said that it was about Bloomigton, IN. It's my fave of the Millennium Trilogy. You really should take a listen...
Cease: lawyer's hospital?
llanwydd: I am sure it would all come back to me
llanwydd: yeah, lawyers hospital was recorded live in denver colorado
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is W.A.L.T.E.R ... this is W.A.L.T.E.R. ..."
llanwydd: I rememered most of the material from it when I bought the album
Beet: Far Out
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
Cease: on my collage about last year;s trip to denver, i framed my trip around lawyer's live in denver
llanwydd: remembered
llanwydd: that line about Greely silver fish was changed to Bronx silver fish when they did in in nyc
llanwydd: it
Cease: where is greely?
Beet: Colorado
llanwydd: my mind was unbelieveably sharp that night. I could recall most of the lines later
llanwydd: for years
JZip: I think it's a burb of Denver.
llanwydd: yes it is
Cease: firesign tends to sharpen the mind
llanwydd: sure does
Cease: is Boulder a suburb of Denver?
llanwydd: yes it is
llanwydd: no it is not now that I think of it
JZip: I wouldn't say so, It's over an hour away.
Cease: like SF and Oakland and Berkely?
JZip: By rail, at least.
llanwydd: boulder and denver are not very close to each other
Cease: clolse but they have their own identities. like nyc burroughs
Cease: i flew into denver and out from it when i flew to santa fe recentlyu. looked like a lot of land aroudn the city
llanwydd: I would probably have a heart attack at that altitude
Cease: at night it was weird. it loked like populous cities high up on mts, scary close to the plane
Cease: it makes no sense on earth, butg on the silverberg novel i was reading, it made sense
llanwydd: wow! I dontremember this song from the album
JZip: This was on a single.
Cease: 30 mile high mountain
llanwydd: it must not have been on the first release
JZip: One side was Carter, one was Reagan. I believe it was a picture disk.
llanwydd: aha
Cease: i knew not of this, or else forgot.
JZip: I might still have that, actually. Most of my Firesign stayed with me, I think,.
Cease: i'm glad i was ablt to contribute to this
Cease: arewe listening to bridey murphy next week, tween?
llanwydd: here comes the bridey
Tweeny: We surely can, Cease
Tweeny: Bridey and some Papoon, perhaps?
Deputy Dang: One organism, one vote!
Tweeny: since the general erection is coming up
Cease: indeedy
Cease: will have my santa fe collage ready in 2 weeks.
Cease: no poliitics in it. much music, though.
||||||||| 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: thanks, cathy
Cease: marshall mclulhan's book, and album.
Cease: produced by firesign freind john simon.
Cease: the medium is the massage
llanwydd: dont know much about mcluhan but I saw him in Annie Hall very recently
Deputy Dang: I haven't heard this performance before.
llanwydd: somebody once called marshall mcluhan a commuications expert who couldnt communicate
llanwydd: dont remember who said it
Cease: communuicated well enought to me. and firesign.
Tweeny: Marshall McLuhan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
Cease: they alude to him on their first album, the ehola mcluhan
Tweeny: Bombing them with copies of The Naked Lunch
llanwydd: ah yes
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay
Cease: this goes Very well with Fighting Clowns.
llanwydd: dramamine! LOL
Beet: Enola Gay is a beautiful aircraft. It is at the Air And Space Museum near Dulles Airport
Beet: This was fun. Gotta go. Nice to see everyone. Until next week, G'Nite.
Cease: stay well, beet
llanwydd: nite beet
Cease: i heard that tom waits song, shiver me timbers or whatever it's called, sung by james tayhlor on one of my lyft rides. seemed to be the tune of the trip.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
Deputy Dang: anybody got any lynch?
llanwydd: I had a having a two martini lynch
llanwydd: that could have been a good joke
llanwydd: tom waits always sounded like somebody had stuffed a grenade down his throat and pulled the pin
Cease: shiver me timbers is as good as songs get
llanwydd: I will have to check it out if its that good
Cease: the theme song of a profoundly enjoyable trip
||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| JZip - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: what were you tripping on?
llanwydd: no, I get it
Cease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REsLTA0UEyc
llanwydd: music can the be the best part of a road journey
llanwydd: thanks for the link
Cease: very good gummies.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: verfy enhancing experiencing art.
llanwydd: driving through the fall foliage listening to beehovens sixth
llanwydd: beethoven
llanwydd: or 20 Years of Jethro Tull
llanwydd: both go well with autumn
llanwydd: they are laughing at their own jokes here! they never do that
Cease: yes they do
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Close the door, and the light stays on!"
Cease: this is the direct rip off of brecht i referrred to earlier. they had just done some brecht before they did this
Cease: this is the most famous brecht song, thanks to jim morrison
llanwydd: cool
llanwydd: well I need to check out early tonight
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's a seeker born every minute!"
llanwydd: great to see you all again. nite everybody.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Cease: by llan
Deputy Dang: Gnite llanwydd!
Cease: i'd like an orange. or the sun. one of my fave firesign lines
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!"
Deputy Dang: So close, but I have to bail early also. I've been up for 20 hours.
Deputy Dang: Thanks Tweeny! Good night Cease and Beet! I'll be back next week!
Cease: sleep well, dang
Tweeny: later Deputy, be well :)
Cease: bridey and pappoon next week, tween?
Tweeny: Sounds like a plan
Cease: we'll talk later
Tweeny: Thanks for listening, folks!
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: it's been the center of my life since 1995
||||||||| Cease leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Mutt: Indeed
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Mutt - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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
JZip
llanwydd
Mutt
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/Enola_Gay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=fc-ln
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/firesign/paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REsLTA0UEyc