||||||||| 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 April 17, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| 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 BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER: LIVE 1969-1971 https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/before-they-changed-the-water-live-1969-1971 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 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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 fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Billville." ||||||||| 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, April 17, 2025 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" ||||||||| It's 9:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nancy Kat into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Nancy Kat: Merrrp ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Deputy Dang enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Nancy Kat! ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Beet: Hello Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Cease: HI chatters Beet: Hi, Deputy, Cease, Nancy. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan." ||||||||| Catherwood leads Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Tweeny: Evenin' Dear Friends... Cease: Ah, the Tweenster Beet: Hey, Tweeny. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Tweeny: Not working at the store today Cease: Good ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving llanddmyne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Tweeny: Good to see you here Nancy Kat :) llanddmyne: good evening folks Tweeny: Howdy llan Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanddmyne! Beet: Hi, llan. Cease: LLan Nancy Kat: Hihi all, sorry, had to get the sacrifice started. Nancy Kat: Missed ya, Tweeny! Cease: How's it goin, fellow feline Nancy Kat: It got up and went...to the store to retrieve food for the deamons (aka, the kids) Cease: You're lucky you have kids llanddmyne: bovine auditorium sounds interesting llanddmyne: probably a converted dairy barn Nancy Kat: "DEADLY Marijuana..." llanddmyne: that reminds me we had a honey sanchez in the chatroom some years ago llanddmyne: whatever became of her Cease: we've had a lot of folks here. they have largely dissappeared mysteriously llanddmyne: I thought there was one reference in all of firesign to that name but apparently there are at least two Cease: this could be it, but its from DF which is very well known llanddmyne: thats what I meant. I used to think the DF reference was the only one Cease: it would be difficult to find out. llanddmyne: very true Cease: maybe AI could answer that. llanddmyne: or google Nancy Kat: I always liked the darlene yakamoto and Ms. maila envelope ones. Cease: my knowledge of Firesign is immense and Tayor's is a quanta above mine, but still, the amount of Firesign is so immense, Cease: arlene yakamoto has appeared more than once. Cease: the firesign were quite obsessed with japanese names and stuff. llanddmyne: it wasnt until I found this chat that I found out my knowledge of firesign was just the tip of the iceberg llanddmyne: like hideo gump Cease: when elayne and I drove down to meet Ossman, I asked him about that. He said they were afraid Japan was taking over the US. I think none of the lads were ever in Japan, certainly never lived there, as I did for 17 years. llanddmyne: yung gai Cease: I told him America's influence on Japan is vastely greater than Japan's could ever be in your country Tweeny: Didn't know you lived there that long, Cat Cease: 71-88, although some of those years were split between van and japan. Tweeny: a somewhat different culture, eh? Beet: There was a time when the Japanese wee buying a lot of U.S, businesses. Cease: so des, neh. Beet: were Tweeny: and much of the entertainment industry Cease: real estate skyrocked in the 80s and suddenly they were very rich. they did indeed buy studios, etc. Cease: then in the 90s and since then, their economy has stagnated and their population is now shrinking Tweeny: There's a great line from a Danny DeVito movie I like: "Do the Japanese celebrate Christmas?" "No, but they're thinking of buying it." llanddmyne: lol Cease: as my wife would say, japanese celebrate "Christmas Cake." Nancy Kat: "from Kawaii to Kowaii!" Nancy Kat: mmmkeeki llanddmyne: I already knew these lines long, long before this Cease: there is a saying in Japan, a woman (marriageble) is like a Christmas Cake. Best before the 25th. Nancy Kat: NOT edmund EDMUND! Cease: nancy, did you hear my collage about Bergman and Hello Kitty? Tweeny: haha Nancy Kat: Cease-No. Linku? llanddmyne: I ordered a copy of the original Anythynge You Want To script from the Young Tom Edison Club somewhere around 1976 Nancy Kat: Cease-Your W.C. Field Museum forever came up in my memories a few days back. lol. llanddmyne: I still have it Tweeny: Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/hello_kitty.mp3 Cease: I do not even know where my youtube videos are. they cut me off for some reason Cease: llan, there is a book. Cease: i just re-reads my favourite Philip K Dick novel, Ubik the other day. very Firesonian llanddmyne: but I dont think the book has the original script Cease: now re-reading my 2nd fave, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, that Blade Runner is loosely based on. Cease: I once had a script PK wrote for UBIK. I'd love to make a flick of that novel. Cease: Just celebrated my 74th birthday a few days ago. At my age, the options are increasingly limited. Only radio plays for me. Cease: I'm happy enough with that. Nancy Kat: Happy belated Cease! Beet: Yes, Happy Birthday. Cease: Thanks. It was happy. I had lunch with friends downtown and then an evening party with friends and family. Cease: Just got bad news. My EXTREMELY smart/talented "grand daughter" Caira was jsut rejected for her applciation to my alma mater, UBC. Beet: Sounds nice. Cease: I had a great time. But youngest grandson Lincoln suddenly became quite ill. Cease: The problem with having 4 grandkids, there is always some calamity. law of averages ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I had to think for a minute ... what cruel game was he playing?" Tweeny: Cool to be a grandad though, I'll bet Cat :) Cease: Lincoln's older brother Phoenix broke both his arms last year. Healed right up. He's 11. My arm was broken 5 monthbs ago and it's still hard for me to dress. Tweeny: ehhh Cease: True enough, Tween. Nancy Kat: Aww. that sucks, Cease. Hopefully she'll get into her second? My best to Lincoln. Nancy Kat: I had to settle for my third choice. To be fair, i was a c average student...lol. Cease: He has largely recoverd (he's 7) but his dad Dino has just come down with the same bug. Cease: I went to 7 universities and taught at 2 plus a community college, which paid me better than the 2 universities. ||||||||| 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: I was i VEgas recently but that's bubble.Do you find things different where you live now? Deputy Dang: I'm not feeling well. I'm gonna take off early. Thanks for working on this Tweeny! I'll be back next week. Cheers all. Nancy Kat: Feel better DANG! Tweeny: Feel better soon, Deputy Cease: Get healthy, Dang Deputy Dang: I'll try, but only against doctor's orders! G'nite all! ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." Beet: G'nite, Deputy. Cease: guess i didnt' edit this, tween Cease: you aren't supposed to say fuck on the radio in your country. Cease: one of the many things that will be prohibited soon. Beet: They'll deport you. Beet: Well, gotta go. This was fun. Everybody have a great weekend. See you next week. G'Nite. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..." Cease: by beet. aqlways great to have you here Tweeny: Later, veggie man Nancy Kat: BB beet. Cease: do your kids dye easter eggs, nancy? Nancy Kat: We used to...it depends on how expensive they are thisnyear...lol Nancy Kat: Pondering getting a leg of lanb and some mint jelly. Tweeny: mmmmm mint... Cease: yeah bird flu has done a number on your egg prices. i used to do that as a kid. Nancy Kat: I usually just get some Cadburys Creme eggs, a plush and we have ham. Cease: i lived ham and pineapple. got me reasdy for ham and pineapple pizza. Tweeny: egg prices have been coming down a bit finally (I work in the dairy department of a grocery store), but they're still quite high Nancy Kat: My Grandma was Eastern Orthodox catholic, so I have to remind myself I don't have to observe Good Friday anymore. Cease: in Ukraine, decorating eggs is a big thing. Stil have some of my grandmother's eggs. ridiculously beautiful. Tweeny: cool :) Nancy Kat: Weirdly enough, Today is her Birthday. April 17th 1912. My Mom called earlier and we were like "oh, yeah, just thought i'd call...no particular reason." Cease:https://time.com/6166140/pysanka-ukraine-easter-egg-history/ Nancy Kat: My Grandmas parents were Ukrainian. Tweeny: My mom was born in 1917. She made to 104 before she passed Cease: amazing, Tween Cease: My mother's mother spoke only Ukrainian. I only met her a few times and one time, 60 years ago she insisted I have more smetana in my broscht. the onlhy world of ukrainian i know, means sour cream Nancy Kat: I dream to live that long and still be fairly active. Cease: i'm happy to have lived 74 years. every new day is a blessing. Cease: just re-read Naomi Klien's The Shock Doctrine, Hunter Thompson's FEar and Laothiing on the Campaign Trail 1972 and PK Dick' Cease: Ubik All are about the necessity of fighitng evil with al one's power. Very relevant message now in your country. Tweeny: Nancy Kat >> A good book on how to stay active in your later years - Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6463329-live-young-forever Tweeny: Alot of it has to do with staying active and having a nutrious diet Tweeny: which is one of the reasons I like my part-time gig at the grocery store llanddmyne: I would love to try smetana, cat. can I get it in my country? Nancy Kat: Fangz, Tween. llanddmyne: I know how to make borsht. I served it to a polish friend once but I put sour cream in it Nancy Kat:Tween-of course, it's a Jack LaLanne book! llanddmyne: in a few months, cat, I will be a decade younger than you. I have been thinking of a beatles song lately llanddmyne: you are as young as you feel Cease: recipes on line Tweeny: Yes Nancy Kay, he was the guru of fitness and health ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight." llanddmyne: cool Tweeny: *Nancy Kat Cease: i havemy own variation. but it's essentialy beet soup with sour cream. the variants are vast Tweeny: great old Beatles tune, llan :) llanddmyne: yes I remember excercising with jack when I was about three or four Tweeny: kewl Tweeny: He had is own TV show for decades, yeah Cease: i remember jack lalane. Cease: i add ground coriander seeds. of course, fresh dill llanddmyne: never have put dill in borscht. great idea Cease: i usually order the borscht with pork at my local Ukrainian restaurnat. Cease: but in my family, it was vegetarian Cease: ok, llan. borscht as I know it needs dill just as it does sour cream llanddmyne: a ukrainian restaurant in vancouver? really cool. I have never heard of one anywhere before Cease: the molecules of beets seek to seduce the necessary horny molecules of dill llanddmyne: my landlord had my dill cut down many years ago. havent bothered to grow it since. but I let him know I was not happyn Cease:https://www.kozakeatery.ca/ Cease: Several actors of my play are from this place. It's central to my new play, whenever Doc gfets around to producing it. Nancy Kat: Ohhh, stuffed cabbage leaves. My Gran used to make that all the time. Cease: HAve you had stuffed grape leaves? I loved those llanddmyne: I was trained to make stuffed grape leaves. I had on the job training llanddmyne: I was the magager of a lebanese restaurant for one tourist season in rhode island back in the eighties llanddmyne: manager Nancy Kat: Cease-yup, Gran had my mom drive for yonks to a Greek specialty store so she could make them with Lamb. llanddmyne: the chef and owner was lebanese american Cease: One Christmas in my home town, Yorkton, Sask, I had an early Xmas dinner with meat cabbage rolls with my German relaties, then later, meat less, just rice, cabbage rolls with my Ukrainian relatives llanddmyne: never heard of vegan golumpki llanddmyne: which is what the polish call them Cease: My fsather's father was from St Petersburg but pretened to be German so his kids grew up with Cease: German cujlture food, though he was in fact, from St. Pedtersburg Cease: there was a lot of that in Europe in those days llanddmyne: I always thought stuffed cabbage was polish Cease: its shall we say, Eastern European llanddmyne: of course Nancy Kat: My Grandfathers grandpa dropped the Von from his name around WW2... llanddmyne: the stuffed grape leaves that I make are called mishyyi waraq inab by the lebanes and stuffed with ground lamb, rice and an arabic spice combination llanddmyne: lebanese Cease:TWeeny good a great job in one of my plays about my Russian uncles here: Cease:https://s3.amazonaws.com/rfd-firesign/cat/CastComplete.mp3 llanddmyne: I enjoyed working on that, cat, and yes, tween did some wonderful voice work Cease: My parents changed their names, as did their parents. and I. llanddmyne: yes there are not many ukrainian ishikawas Cease: Would you like to be a major player in my new play, Llan. Chanecellor Beethoven llanddmyne: I would live it, cat llanddmyne: love it Cease: Doc has gone to hell so I must find a new producer for the new play Cease: At my age, I can't count on liviing for a long time, which Doc Cease: Doc Cease: fucks my time zone, here. Cease: Have already recorded some struff in Vegas an d here and wil be doing more here as it warems up. can we talk outside here, llanddmyne: poor doc gone to hell. we will have to go to helen hunt for him. she is famous enough llanddmyne: sorry Cease: austin died at 74. berman at 72. my best freind at 73. at this age, death is more common than, well, there is no comparison Cease: my parents lvied into their 90s but the last decade in pain and madness, so , not a goal Cease: my wife is a few months younger than me, but eats camembert every day hoping it will keep dementia away. Cease: i suspect makng collages and just listenign to firesign is a buffer agsinst dementia Cease: what do you think, Nancy? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!" llanddmyne: my buffer is watching jeopardy Cease: anyone still here? llanddmyne: no we all went to sleep, cat Cease: the last episode of this show wasa filmed in my high school llanddmyne: that is really cool Nancy Kat: Cease-MMMcheese. does Brie have the same effect? i'll gladly eat Camenbert to keep the 'ments away. Cease: by all. let's talk outside this about my new play, llan. Nancy Kat: Sorry, talking with a fiedn to decide between getting my nose repierced or a tatt. llanddmyne: yes, cat. send me an email Cease: all the best forever to you , Nancy Nancy Kat: *HUGGS* to all. llanddmyne: nite everbody Nancy Kat: same to you as well, cat. Nancy Kat: NINI. Cease: off we scoot ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, llanddmyne!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... Tweeny: Been fun folks... Everybody be well and have a great week :) ||||||||| 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... ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- Tweeny left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). ||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Cease - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| 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
llanddmyne
Nancy Kat
Tweeny
