Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/13/2025

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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 13, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: A Replay Of Last Week’s Show
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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Hellmouth 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..
||||||||| Deputy Dang sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: hey. i'm not alone!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
Deputy Dang: Hmmm... the header looks the same as last week. Or am I time traveling again?
Cease: our show has been somewhat diminished recently. lots of repeats.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Cease: tweeny is no longer wth us because of his schedule change, and problems with his transportation is making posting new shows impossible.
Deputy Dang: Oh, that's not good. :-(
Cease: at least I can type again, so was able to compose a show about my broken arm.
Cease: revisited tonight
Cease: things are getting so strange in your country, and all around it, that new strangeness here is not surprising
Deputy Dang: yeah, and not strange in a good way. :-/
Cease: lol
Cease: early doors song
Cease: people are strange.
Deputy Dang: when you're a stranger
Cease: many canadians are cancelling their trips to the US. I bought my ticket and hotel in VEgas last year, but doubt I woulsd do so now.
Cease: more of a tom waits image
Deputy Dang: Yeah, with the new border policies, you might not be allowed back unless you sign the petition to become state 51!
Cease: tis odd
Deputy Dang: i need to restart my computer. i'll be back in about 2 minutes or less.
Deputy Dang: I'm back. I think that was less than 1 minute.
Deputy Dang: In fact, Catherwood didn't even notice my absence and reappearance.
||||||||| Catherwood notices Deputy Dang's absence and reappearance.
Deputy Dang: I stand corrected.
Cease: Speedy
Cease: I was actually once kicked off a fight from Toronto to LA because I hadn't signed up for the draft. Thatr was 1970. I was then, as now, a Canadian
Cease: Connected is better than corrected.
Deputy Dang: Good point1
Cease: there are shows where me and tween were the only people here.
Deputy Dang: I look forward to Thursday evenings here. I'll be here unless something comes up, and even then I will try to post a message. But I think the messages age away so nobody will read them.
Cease: i was here for the first chat. i'm always here, unless circumstances prevent. the restaurant in santa fe wouldnt give met their wifi password, for example
Cease: i'll be stuck in seattle airport next month during chat, but perhaps I can chat from there
Deputy Dang: how is your arm doing?
Cease: i can't raise it above my head, but keep doing exercises every day
Cease: will have to deal with baggage on vegas trip, so i'll need 2 functional arms.
Cease: i heard this on bergman/lossman's 1968 show, KMET
||||||||| 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 BuzzyKrumhunger falls out at 8:00 PM.
Cease: the buzzman
Cease: or woman?
Deputy Dang: I had a friend in LA who would send me the Doctor Demento show from KMET. It was the old days--he would set a cassette recorder near his radio and then mail them to me.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
Cease: if you smoked what i had in my pipe,
Cease: true
BuzzyKrumhunger : All Man…like Gregg?
Cease: >
Cease: ?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Buzzy!
Cease: this is funny stuff. more should know this album
BuzzyKrumhunger : Last week’s collage one of your therapies was reading Paperback Writer. The “history” of the Beatles?
Cease: i bought the cassette
Cease: have you read it, buzz
Cease: never laughed more reading a book
BuzzyKrumhunger : I had that book back in the day. Favourite bits were of Ringo “enjoying” hits like No No Song, Photograpgh, Disco Duck, Dancing Queen, etc
Cease: https://www.amazon.ca/Paperback-Writer-Spurious-Chronicle-Disasters/dp/0441651240
||||||||| 8:00 PM: llanwydd jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
llanwydd: good evening folks
Cease: hi llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
BuzzyKrumhunger : Evening!
||||||||| Not Ed sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: HI NOt
Not Ed: No Tweeny tonight--that's right.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed!
Not Ed: Hi C
Not Ed: ddang, llan, Buzzy
llanwydd: bon soir ce coir, non
llanwydd: I mean soir
Cease: I was visiting a friend in Yokohama and he took me to a bookstore there that had books in English. He bought me a copy of pW there. . ILarious book
Cease: Oh, i love french. don't speak it, but love it.
Not Ed: you too llan, best
llanwydd: its an erotic ounding language
llanwydd: sounding
Cease: no tween for a while. he has to work now
Not Ed: ahh yes
Cease: llan, to the english ear, yes
llanwydd: not to the french I guess
Not Ed: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Cease: meaning ear used to hearing mostly enlgish. we in canada have a flexible bi-linguallism
llanwydd: but I am sure they find german and english a turnoff
BuzzyKrumhunger : Back in the day Rolling Stone used to have a decent book review section. Yeah, I read RS for book reviews. First read about Paperback Writer, The Public Burning, Garp, and quite a few books that became favourites
Cease: halfing in a holocaust is a wonderful line
Not Ed: interesting Buzzy
Cease: jusrt watching cabaret ansd reading lots about weimar which is central to my new play
Not Ed: cabaret is wonderful!
llanwydd: even in vancouver, cat. I noticed fluent bilingualism when I was in Montreal but I thought it was mostly english in the west
Cease: lots of germans in new play. in it, hitler is kept in jail, thus no nazi takever, no ww2.
llanwydd: I have neer been in any part of canada west of niagara falls
Not Ed: went to see it in the day with the fam --and I was a kid (liberal family) first time i learned about bisexuality
Cease: i'm gonna need lots of german accented actors and you're at the top of thlist for playubg Einsteien in recent plahy
llanwydd: my goodness. I assume mein kampf is published by paladin press
llanwydd: any hope for the einstein play, cat?
Cease: yeah the scene with the main guy pissing next to a man dressed as a woman is serious cinema
Cease: llan, doc wont talk to me.
Not Ed: they have athreesome - that blew my mind
Cease: trumputin may end the war before we can have had any chance, if he'd produced my play as promised
llanwydd: can you write the script again? I still have all my parts saved
Cease: itr's as if putin is paying doc not to produce my play, which is about putin losing
llanwydd: lol
Cease: i recorded al the parts except those i asked doc and lili to do. don't know what the tuck is happening here
llanwydd: trump doesnt give a damn about us little people
Cease: canada is going to have to stsnd up. not something we're good at, but no choice now
llanwydd: I would be willing to bet there are actors in our chat who would love to have a go at it
Cease: good idea, llan
Not Ed: just will say this for now: he hands the gov. over to the billionaire class and Trump cultists still won't admit that they were chumped
Cease: i dont know what the delay is. he doesn't asnwer his phone or email, thus have no way of knowing what's hapening,
Not Ed: I guess it's the racism that's the actual glue
Not Ed: ok I'm done
Cease: just as trump is stabbing Ukraine and my play could be doing some serious good
Not Ed: indeed
Cease: you think so, Not? Van used to be a much more racist city in the 70s but no longer.
llanwydd: any chance doc is not well?
llanwydd: or lili?
Not Ed: oh god yes
Cease: i asked his partner Lili and she said he was tired, but not otherwise unhealthy.
llanwydd: I see
Cease: she has not answered my last two messages and doc had not responded to me for many montrhs
Not Ed: for example - claiming that that horrid airplane/helicopter collision was caused by DEI is racism plain & simple
Cease: true, not, but the norm now?
Not Ed: Yep
Not Ed: the whole immigration this is racist
Not Ed: thing not "this", sorry
BuzzyKrumhunger : And now from the Kanadian Korner, a friend’s wife asked him what’s the latest on the Liberal leadership race and the chances of Art Carney winning….
Not Ed: I'd go for Art
Not Ed: just a sec I can't get the sound happening I use an old version of Winamp
Cease: Carney could win
Cease: Trunp has deflated Polievre4
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: I met arts son brian a couple of times when I was a dj many years ago. he would come into the studio occasionally to record public service announcements
llanwydd: I tried to tell him ho much I loved Going In Style but he interrupted me.
Cease: art carney's son?
llanwydd: didnt want to hear it. otherwise he was a nice guy
llanwydd: yeah
Cease: i meant the next canadian prime minister
Cease: different carnye
llanwydd: OH nevernind
Cease: carney is shorthand for carnivore
BuzzyKrumhunger : Art would be a good politician, working in sewers and all.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: lol
BuzzyKrumhunger : Just out of interest, who did the dog voices? Dog voices? Uhhh the dog barks and howls.
Cease: i wold guess proctor
Deputy Dang: I would guess proctor also
Cease: they all loved to act
||||||||| "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 ushers Cease in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Oops Not Ed 2 sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: i come, i go
Oops Not Ed 2: Heh
Cease: hows in goin, not ed 2?
BuzzyKrumhunger : Gadzooks! Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Must hurry to get my beloved a box of Captain Beefhearts and chocolate bunnies.
||||||||| 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..."
Cease: wow, something is wrong here
BuzzyKrumhunger : Okay, it’s not just me eh?
llanwydd: captain beefhearts! LOL
Cease: this happened before and is happening in real time now.
Cease: this should not be happening
BuzzyKrumhunger : Sorry Cat, during your intro you mentioned Gaffigan and thought do I really want to hear that again?? The George Springer ad was funnier.
Cease: yeah george really had a good time here
BuzzyKrumhunger : I must search out the viddy of Vladdy. Ugh, that was a bad one.
Cease: really enjoyed Quarity Time by Gaffifgan
llanwydd: what a horror story
BuzzyKrumhunger : Well must check out for the night. So much more snow to shovel tomorrow morning. Have a great week everyone.
llanwydd: night buzzy
Cease: by buzz
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: we dwindle
Oops Not Ed 2: I'm still here
Cease: hi oot
Oops Not Ed 2: hi hi hi Mr Deltoid
Cease: oops, etc
Cease: this is not good, eh?
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits on the couch.
Not Ed: Personality disorder ; )
Cease: are we still talking?
llanwydd: is who still talking?
Not Ed: Who am us anyway?
llanwydd: some are talking some are listening
Not Ed: I have no audio tonight but I heard this all last time - love "The Fall"
llanwydd: so that is where I heard it before
llanwydd: I knew I recognized some of this stuff
Not Ed nods
Not Ed: Hey I stopped smoking pot a few days ago
Not Ed: having some breathing issues - time to stop
llanwydd: everybody poke smot
Not Ed: lol
llanwydd: joo joo joo goob
Not Ed: Catherwood bring everyone some joo joo joo goob
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone some joo joo joo goob.
Cease: there is something wrong here
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: hear about that McCartney show in the Bowery?
Cease: no
Not Ed: anounced hours before it began - tickets were $50
Not Ed: a place that held like 500 folks
Cease: would never pay to see paul
Not Ed: super cool
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is W.A.L.T.E.R ... this is W.A.L.T.E.R. ..."
Not Ed: beats like $1000 per ticket
Not Ed: no? how come?
Cease: no desire
Not Ed: I saw him with Wings in the 80s - not really a Wings fan but it was amazing
Not Ed: he puts on a hell of a show
Cease: i just dont imagine paying to see anyhone live any more
Not Ed: I know his keyboard player's (Wix's) wife Margo fairly well - boith are musicians - such nice folks
||||||||| It's 1:45 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...
Not Ed: uh oh there goes Buzzy
Cease: by buzzy
Not Ed: by bye
Cease: we are few at best
Not Ed: Hey I have a new album out - not game related this time - go see (and listen) when you can https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/album/the-midway-sessions
Not Ed: I think you'll dig it
Not Ed: but later
Not Ed: It's basically me saying "Dammit Jim, I'm a piano player not a game designer!"
Cease: thanks, not' yoyu are very skilled
Not Ed: thanks Cat
Not Ed: streaming & download - bandcamp is so sweet
llanwydd: I first heard bob and ray on wor in nyc
llanwydd: the station is not in nj
||||||||| Cease rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Not Ed: oh I love those guys
llanwydd: I mean it is now in nj
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Not Ed: my dad was a fan and turned me on, etc
Cease: big influence on proctor
llanwydd: I rememger their recurring sketch, may bacckstage noble wife
Not Ed: oh! cool
llanwydd: my spelling is really sful tonight
Not Ed: np at alll
Not Ed: oops, see
Cease: we drift in ansd out of competency, eh?
Not Ed: haha for sure
llanwydd: especially when you are lying on your side while typing
Cease: ido this everyt daym wheter it helps me or not is unknown
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: sounds like a heavenly beverage, caqt
Not Ed: wearing a cast Cat?
Cease: never wore a cast, juxst a sliing.
Not Ed: ahh well that's cool
Cease: almsort healed now. wil have new suff next week, by eh
llanwydd: cool
Not Ed: cool
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Won't spurt like the hosers!"
llanwydd: thanks to tween and cat for another great evening
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: good to see you all
Not Ed: don't forget https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/album/the-midway-sessions
Not Ed: click here now lol
Not Ed: g'night all!
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Oops Not Ed 2 - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
BuzzyKrumhunger
Cease
Deputy Dang
llanwydd
Not Ed
Oops Not Ed 2

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://richcarlson.bandcamp.com/album/the-midway-sessions
https://www.amazon.ca/Paperback-Writer-Spurious-Chronicle-Disasters/dp/0441651240