Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/06/2025

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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 February 06, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| 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 PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN
plus a new Cat Collage about his broken arm
“The Fall”
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 says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 06, 2025 - 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 Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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..
Cease: Hi, void!
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Evening All.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hey, Deputy
Beet: Hi, Cease.
Cease: Hi folks
Deputy Dang: Ringball, anyone?
Cease: Got enough power in my left hand to type, so could finish the collage.Almost back to normal, except lift my left arm
Cease: Is it ringball season again?
Beet: Hope you get back to normal quickly, Cease.
Cease: end of jan, doc said i would heal completely in 2 months. just in time for my vegas trip
Cease: my 11 year old grandson broke both his arms last year, and both healed well enought thsat he's excelling in basketball
Deputy Dang: I've never broken a bone. Is it fun? I don't feel it would be.
Cease: when the doctor said i'd disconnected my humourous bone to my shoulder, i couldn't help but be aware of laughter
Cease: it was more and longer amounts of pain then i've ever experienced.
Beet: I'm sorry that you had to go through that.
Cease: but i can type again, and hard at work on my new play. i have it on another window now.
Cease: old people tend to fall down, eh? i'm having more trouble with my knees, the daily tai chi has done a lot to keep arthritis at bay, but age wins out
Beet: Do you do the tai chi every day?
Cease: i wake up, i make tea, eat fruit, read email. then i do tai chi. then breakfast.
Cease: xrays or whatevre confiremed i had arthritic knees in 2012. didn't i tell you this before?
Cease: doc said i'd need new knees in 7 years.
Cease: saw it was tai chi week on tv and it looked like something i can do.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?"
Cease: same old knees. arm is improving
Cease: the body wants to move
Cease: just saw the elvio bio. really good. he's told to not move around when h'e recording, and he says he can only sing if he's moving
Beet: Which bio was it?
Cease: enough of this tedious folk music
Cease: the 2022 one
Cease: saw an earlier far more surreal one on netlfx or somewhere a few years ago. there have been a few
Cease: you're old enough to rememberf elvis more thsan me, beet
Beet: Colonel Parker not in a positive light.
Cease: it seemed faustian. mepnistopholes
Beet: Elvis actually toured in Texas before he was nationally known.
Cease: that's in the flick, eh?
Beet: I think so.
Cease: with that country singer who was appalled at his sexy music and moves.
Cease: my family moved to LA in 56 so my knowledge of him was later. i was 5 for i saw tv
Cease: a halfling in a holocaust
Cease: what a wonderful line
Beet: It was fascinating watching Elvis grow into a gigantic star.
Cease: indeed. a very well done flick.
Cease: never a fan of his music, and the fact he died woth onlhy $5 milion dollsars speak to what a vicrtim he was.
Beet: I drove past Graceland while he was still living there.
Cease: act one, scene one of my play, stalled in doc tech's alternartive reality, i myddiner with george harr4iaon
Cease: he feared he'd be down to his last $20,000
Cease: instead, he died worth 500 mill.
Beet: Priscilla increased that fortune considerably.
Cease: did you ever see him?
Cease: good for her
Beet: Very sorry that I didn't.
Cease: didnt the grand daughter write an autio of him? or dsaughr? didnt she die recently
Beet: I believe that's correct.
||||||||| llanwydd waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: howdy folks
Cease: do you know the semi-firesign thing, elvis meets vegas? I've used it in several collages,
Cease: hi llan
Beet: Hey, llan.
Cease: hey, did you all know that our dear friend johan died?
Beet: Google says Elvis estate is worth 500 million.
llanwydd: I did not know that. how did you find out.
Cease: Tween posted it in facebook. i only learned about it the other day
Beet: That's very sad. Sorry to hear that.
llanwydd: rip dear friend
Cease: tween said he'd play some of his music on his tuesday show. i only know ihm from here, but he was always a delight
llanwydd: jammy was here for almost every chat without fail
Cease: he was indeed.
Cease: we are diminished. and we weren't very big to begin with
llanwydd: was he the one that lived in north carolina?
Beet: Yes. We talked several times about that. I used to live there.
Cease: i had a dream about a door.
Cease: a person or an animal could walk through, but if you threw an object at it, it wuold bounce back
Cease: my wife wanted to study, but i feared it was a science beyond us.
Cease: i told her this was ossman's door, from is play, the door thatr could never be opened or closed
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: but it must be inspired by a matter important to you
Cease: no shit
llanwydd: I believe our dreams are all inspired by our personal problems and that to examine them can help us to solve our critical issues
Cease: no doubt
Cease: they are certainly re-experiences
llanwydd: it is our way of figuring things out
Cease: i spent a LOT of time looking at very large paintings in the last couple of yhears,
llanwydd: we spend our waking hours doing that in other ways
llanwydd: that must have been fun, cat
Cease: so i often have dreams now of what do with large paintins
Cease: ok, my house has so much art on the walls my frineds complain it's like coming to an art galllery
llanwydd: I cannot remember ever dreaming of looking at a painting
llanwydd: that is nothing to complain about, cat
llanwydd: I am sure vincent prices house must have looked like an art gallery
Cease: now re-reading Turnig the Tables by food critic dude. he says a a food experiene chouls be like an experience of any other high arrt.
Cease: that;s why i travel, and it's true for me
llanwydd: well, there is fine dining and then there is down home cooking
llanwydd: there is haute cuisine and there is soul food
Cease: i had a wonderul kale dish at a greek restaurant last week. i tried to re-creare it late night, and my version was better than the original.
llanwydd: I love when that happens
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Not Ed, just back from Elmertown."
llanwydd: Hi NE
Beet: Well, it's that time again. Must go. Enjoyed the offerings tonight. Hope you all have a great weekend. See you next time. G'Nite.
llanwydd: Nite Beet
Not Ed: Take care Beet
Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet!
llanwydd: the only way I can really enjoy kale is when I put it raw into a blender with some apple juice and avacado and a banana
Not Ed greets all!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd! Howdy, Not Ed!
llanwydd: that is delicious and nutritious
Not Ed: Hey folkses
Cease: Hey Not
Cease: B y Beet. I hope you listtn to my new collage
Not Ed: Hey C
Cease: the dish i had was kale and mushroom and sun dried tomatoes, with a swete sauce ands sliceds almomts
Cease: great to see you, not
llanwydd: sounds delicious
Not Ed: hey thx C and likewise
Not Ed: yes it do
Cease: so i remade it last night without the almonds and instead of sweet saucce, i added some siun dried tomtato oil
Cease: it was astonishing
Not Ed: ahh just in time
Cease: good timing, not
Cease: i am dubious of this collage.
Cease: admitting with getting inebriated with others is not a gtood idesa now
Cease: glad tweeny can't archive this
Deputy Dang: why can't he?
Cease: doc tech has gone awol
Cease: he was supposed ot have my play online in november. no way to contact him maybe putin boughrt him off
Deputy Dang: ah
Cease: thus, no more archives, much fuckedupness out of nowhere.
Cease: is this the musk onslaught, the mongol invasion of our era?
llanwydd: do you still have he recordings for the play,cat?
llanwydd: the
Not Ed: Putin! blech!
Not Ed: cough scuse me
Cease: for now, but i've done more than 300 or these
llanwydd: maybe we could get someone else to edit the recordings
Deputy Dang: I've been watching a YouTube channel named The Military Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow . They have at least daily shows covering the Ukraine/Russian war. It's not my usual fair, and no fair to anyone, but I find the details of the technologies involved very interesting.
Not Ed: Cat this is precious
Cease: oh lolan, yhou mean smetana? yes
Cease: not, are you tslking to my collage here? i figure someone can benefite from my collage here
Cease: if you approve of drugs
Cease: now on the same hash as then. a piece of hash cut into 10 strips. very efficeint
llanwydd: I do not approve of rugs. I just shave my head
Not Ed: I like it, it's good
Cease: this, not?
Cease: this is whatr radio is supposed to be, eh?
llanwydd: I havent seen hash since the twentieth century
llanwydd: well, except bubble hash, now that I think of it
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
Cease: 10 strips for small money. i throw a strip in something i can bake with cheese or sometiing cheesssy. i then eat it and get sotned for upwardds of a day.
llanwydd: that seems like the way to go, cat
llanwydd: never heard of hash strips before
Cease: my doper friends and occationaly i like to smoke, but eatiing is the way to slide
Cease: there is such a variety available now, lland
Deputy Dang: I didn't get any sativa yet. I'm still looking to get a job, and you never know when they might want pee for employement.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!"
llanwydd: well if one strip is good for a whole day...
Cease: i recored this. chris lawson is a greet poet
Cease: at least, llan. $30 can, which is maybe $20 your country.
llanwydd: greed goof
Cease: i save them for these shows, or other importantr occaiosns. $00 your money well keep me stoned for 6 weeks
Not Ed: and now, a pause...
llanwydd: so where can I get that in my country?
Cease: where do you live? i'm in north van
llanwydd: I am in florida
llanwydd: when I first heard dear friends I did not know it as a radio show
Cease: not a dope friendly state? bummer
llanwydd: I did know that for years after I had been listening to the album
Deputy Dang: It's friendly if you want to spend money to get a card. I looked into it and it was too expensive.
Cease: i have only vistied blue states the last few decades. thinking of going to new orleans, but...
llanwydd: I am in a blue state but not that kind
llanwydd: hey, I could write a song
Cease: ok, freineds, this is a diary, but does it have any value outside of thst?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
Cease: the hash strip i'm on now
Cease: maybe 50 mg. thaR'S A lot eh
llanwydd: yes, a roadside diner in the himilayas
Cease: 10 mg drink effected me.
Cease: 2 or 3 10gs gummies. it went downhilll
Cease: presented gummies and they helped
Not Ed: stream of consciousness
Not Ed: good stuff
llanwydd: try a bhang lassi
Cease: opimu did me small good.
Cease: i hate milk, llan
llanwydd: have you ever seen a lassi go this way and that?
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing '''Bob''', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
''Bob'': I made it just in the Nick of time! ;)
Cease: hi bob
Cease: good ref, bob
Deputy Dang: Howdy, "Bob"!
''Bob'': Is this a new collage?
Cease: yes
''Bob'': 👍
Cease: i fell and broke my arm in dec. tis is my collage about it
''Bob'': Ouch!
Deputy Dang: This sounds like a real commercial advertisement!
Cease: how so, dep?
Deputy Dang: The Pizza Hut bit
''Bob'': Gummies & Rosé would be a good band name.
Cease: it was. they were paid for it
Cease: lol, bob
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Not Ed: Agree
Cease: when i travel, i do as many gummies as i can
Cease: santa fe, vegqs and denver were vastly elevated by gummies
Cease: bye
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "The future ain't here yet, man!"
''Bob'': Honk Honk!
Deputy Dang: That was good. Thank you for sharing Cease! It was better than you might think. :-)
llanwydd: great show. thanks tween and cat
Cease: we do what we can, eh?
Cease: this will not be archived
Deputy Dang: We do what we can and then fall over. G'nite all!
llanwydd: sounds like mr knopfler
Cease: you folks were very therapeutic
Not Ed: Hey!
Not Ed: Very nice
||||||||| Deputy Dang departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
llanwydd: nite folks
||||||||| "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!"...
Cease: by
Not Ed: Take care!
||||||||| Cease 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..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 3:00 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...
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| It's 4:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
''Bob''
Beet
Cease
Deputy Dang
llanwydd
Not Ed

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow