Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/27/2025

Archive

||||||||| 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 27, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles 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 JACK POET LOVES YOU “Firesign Theatre Hype Machine Demo”
and part two of Cat’s Collage “The 6th Album”
plus from TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE “Salad Days” and “The Age Of Brass”
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'
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 27, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Deputy Dang!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| 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 Deputy Dang gets out at 8:00 PM.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside Deputy Dang and says "Did you want me?"
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
Cease: Hi all
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Funfun Town."
Beet: Hello!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Beet: Hi, Deputy, Cease.
Deputy Dang: Is it always 8:00 PM?
Beet: It is always 8:00 PM somewhere.
Deputy Dang: Apparently I haven't heard JACK POET LOVES YOU.
Beet: Haven't heard this one before.
Cease: yeah it's really good
Cease: Hey Beet
Cease: I was listening to all theri Valhalla Gasolne ads thoday
Cease: Same kind of humor
Beet: Good to see you, Mr. C.
Cease: will have part one of my new colage next thurs.
Beet: We are still without archiving?
Cease: we made it the old fashioned way
Cease: we are without many things, beet. most iportant to me, my new play.
Beet: OK.
Cease: no idea why.
Deputy Dang: I hope the audio doesn't flake out again.
Cease: doc seems busy with something else.
Cease: yeah dang
Beet: Hope all is well with him.
Cease: i know not.
Cease: i sound realy stoned there.
Beet: Were you really stoned?
Cease: cerrtainly
Cease: as almost every chat since day chat one.
Deputy Dang: I couldn't tell. I still haven't gotten any sativa to try. I might need to pee for employment soon, so best avoid it for now.
Cease: indeed, dang. you can live without it.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
Beet: I have fequently been intrigued by their picking the Nazi Hermen Goering to sing about.
Cease: cuz its the same as an indoneseian dish, nasi goring.
Cease: too spicty for me.
Beet: lol
Beet: Who remembers Louis Prima?
Deputy Dang: It sounds familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.
Beet: Keeley Smith was hot.
Beet: They did a song called, "That Old Black Magic".
Cease: before my time
Cease: bergman's show had a version of that song as sung by sammy davis jr
Beet: It was a huge hit.
Cease: if i know it, it must have been
Cease: in bergman's skit, sammy is a hologram. hence, black magic
Beet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpjxx9BOm-0
Deputy Dang: Thanks for the link!
Cease: thakns. useful history.
Deputy Dang: I like Leon Redbone's version of Shine On Harvest Moon.
Beet: That's a really olt tune.
Beet: old
Cease: i know the allen sherman version, shine on harvey bloom
Cease: ws at a taping of his tv show
Beet: I don't remember that one.
Deputy Dang: I haven't heard him in a long time.
Cease: almosft everyrthing on line now
Cease: i remember going to tapings of lots of tv shows when i lived in la
Beet: Most've been fun.
Beet: Must've
Cease: yerah, sometimes. bt it wasn';t a big thing, it was just something you could do if you lived there.
Cease: like got o a doger or a liaker game, see live music, or jusr hang out in interestring places
Deputy Dang: Just a tweeny?
Cease: tweeny not among us these days, until his schedule changes
Beet: I miss going to live sports events.
Beet: And hearing live music.
Cease: as an old person, i rarely do anything, though several restaurants with friensd recentlhy highly enjoyable.
Cease: i'd love tro see santana live
Cease: he's not so healthy.
Deputy Dang: I certainly don't want to see him die
Beet: I saw him in an open-air concert after his peak, but still a great concert
Cease: i saw the stones in 89? not so good. actualy i've seen lots of shitty shows.
Beet: The one time I saw The Stones ,it was a very good show.
Cease: one of the best was cannonball adderly at the Troubadoor in 71. Recorded as the BlackMessiah album
Beet: Bet that was a good one.
Cease: taj mahjal with firesign theatre on new yearfs eve, 69. ossman has been posting the ads for that show
Cease: i was mesmerized. my cousin (and drivre) was afraid i had gone too far into the music to return from
Cease: canonball, not Taj. John Simon
Cease: piano was the highlight of Taj's set. Firsign not so good.
Cease: i shared a joint with both Phils and my date before the show and they sounded impaired, not inspired.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Deputy Dang: weed can affect your hearing
Cease: it has many effects
Cease: a hole of the black persuaison
Beet: I miss Wolfman.
Beet: Well, it's that time again. Gotta go. This was fun. Have a nice rest of the evening and a great weekend. See you next week. G'Nite.
Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet!
Cease: by beet
Deputy Dang: Very nice, Cat!
Cease: thanks, dang. i hope ossman enjoyed it, he asked me to create it.
Deputy Dang: I love these stories.
Cease: they are wonderful.
Cease: Ausin Really thought of himself as a writer, and rightly so.
Deputy Dang: I don't know if there is a backstory to the conversations, but I imagine the old detective is Nick Danger.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
Cease: Hi llan
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
llanwydd: sorry Im late
Cease: one wold assume so, dang
Deputy Dang: It's 8:00 PM. You're fine.
Cease: anytime is good, llan
Cease: how's it going?
llanwydd: my cdqr is runnin a lot better
llanwydd: cfargoionh ot have o finish dinner before I can type
Deputy Dang: good thinking
Cease: i can tpye, occasionally
llanwydd: catherwood, gett everybody a nikd derll
||||||||| Catherwood snubs llanwydd
llanwydd: i neabt nicks swell
Deputy Dang: I enjoyed myselves!
Cease: me too
Deputy Dang: Thank you for the collage! Thank you Tweeny, wherever you are! G'nite llanwydd, and all the newcomers!
Cease: we do our best every week
llanwydd: any new plans for recording, cat:?
Cease: i'm going to record a voice or two in vegas in a couple of weeks. let's talk aboutr that. not written enough yet
Deputy Dang: "Salad days" is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism, and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.
Cease: thanks, dang
Deputy Dang: G'nite for real this time!
||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth.
Cease: by dang
Cease: talk to yoou next week
||||||||| "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 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:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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
llanwydd

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/watch?v=Qpjxx9BOm-0