||||||||| 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 May 01, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. ||||||||| 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 ALTERNATIVE ROSE PARADE 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrTdfuzQPs plus a new Cat Collage “Olfaction” and from the BOX OF DANGER collection “The Case Of The Missing Shoe” https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc 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' ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 01, 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?" ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Billville." ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and JZip sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Deputy Dang: Howdy, JZip!
JZip waves JZip: What's up with you tonight? ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?" Cease: HI all Deputy Dang: It sounds like Tweeny updated the audio but not the banner. Cease: aha Deputy Dang: Or maybe that was just an intro, and we get part 2 of the parade. Deputy Dang: If we're in part 2, we left off at about 58 minutes, not 2 minutes. Cease: we do Deputy Dang: More like 1:03 into it Deputy Dang: Ooh! Jack Hanna! I remember him. Cease: the aninmal guy from Carson Deputy Dang: ya Cease: still here, zip? Cease: guess not Deputy Dang: Maybe his hand fell asleep. Cease: that happens ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Beet: Hey, Folks. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! Beet: Hi, Cease, Deputy, Zip. Deputy Dang: We're at about 1:24 mark at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrTdfuzQPs Cease: Beety, How's it goin, Warren? ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Mutt should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Mutt enters and sits in the comfy chair. Mutt: Always wanted to sit in The Comfy Chair Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt! Mutt: Alright … I confess. Deputy Dang: We're about at the 1:29 mark on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrTdfuzQPs Mutt: Hey DD! Or as Daffy would say, De Puty! Cease: Hi Mutt! Deputy Dang: That's me! Cease: How's Smut? Still illegal? Beet: Hi, Mutt Mutt: Hiya Cease! Smut’s around here someplace Cease: so is dust Mutt: He’s never far … Mutt: Lonseome B! Cease: I just invited some people over, then noticed my room has been invaded by dust. Cease: Just re-read KKD book on which Blade Runner is loosely based. Mutt: My wife says not to look at our kitchen in the early am because that’s when the sunlight really shows up the dust Cease: Most peolpe have left earth, so it's being filled up with dust. Cease: i have to rely on light at certain hour to see it too Mutt: We lives in our own sloughed debris ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600" Cease: cobwebs too ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!" Mutt: Yup Mutt: Ever see Prometheus? When the alien seeds early Earth with his own DNA - we do that constantly Cease: sounds familiar Mutt: Sort of a pre-quel to Alien ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I see you are a sailor." Mutt: The balls are ckearing again! Cease: sounds scary ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600" Mutt: Clearing balls is not for the faint of heart Cease: thee are marbles that appear cloudy Cease: ive seen an increasing improvement in immersive art in the past couple of years Mutt: My son went to an immersive Van Gogh exhibit and said it was mind blowing Cease: i saw that. good stuff. Cease: you aware of yoyoi kusama's infinity rooms? Mutt: He surprised me with his interest, but I was very happy he was exploring art at all Cease: i started taking my daughter to art museums as a toddler. by high school she was really artistic. Mutt: Yes! Infinity in 2-D! Mutt: Like an infinite hall of mirrors. Cease: Saw an inferior varient of it in march, but saw kusama's in vegas 5 years ago, and more recently in Bilbao Cease: the flickering lights in the omnipresnet mirrors. Mutt:https://hirshhorn.si.edu/kusama/infinity-rooms/ Mutt: This is near wher Cease: saw an even better version of that in Madrid at the Velasquez Tech museum, my fave in a city of museums Mutt: This is near me and is amazing Cease: tis indeed, mutt Cease: did you see her biopic? quite an amazing life Mutt: Wow. Hard to believe it could be improved upon Mutt: No. I am only vaguely familiar with her art. I have artists in my family N Cease: my point is there is a lot of this happening now. i've been to 3 Meow Wolfs and they're very much into thatr Mutt: And all the DC art museums are free Cease: i was in several when i was in DC in 05. fine museums all Mutt: Being recently retired I hope to be able to get to see more art exhibits than I have been able to see in ages Beet: Love D.C. Cease: yeah a lot of the big musuems in madrid are free for seniors. Cease: seniors are treated well there. Deputy Dang: I don't think I will ever be able to retire. Mutt: Some of the pre-Columbian exhibits in DC have been incredible Mutt: I didn’t want to, DD. It was forced upon me. Deputy Dang: When I get to that point, it will be homelessness forced upon me. Cease: I stopped having to go to a job in 02. But I'm been busier since, then, only doing only what i waned to do, which is this show and other audio projects Mutt: I sure hope not. That’s un-possible! ||||||||| 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.. Mutt: I haven’t listened to this in a long time Cease: canada and your country are full of homeless, but i didn't see any in spain Mutt: Sadly true. I live between DC and Baltimore. Baltimore’s homeless situation is frightening Cease: i owrked in tokyo for many years and they had homeless people sleeping in the stations even in the 80s. maybe always Cease: a very good movie about tokyo homelless: Tokyo Godfathers. Cease: basede on 2 old hollywood flicks. one of my faves. Cease:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers Beet: Well, this was weird and funny. Gotta go. See everyone next week. G'Nite. Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet! Cease: by beet JZip: Good night. Mutt: Have a good one, Beet! Mutt: Well, time to serve my canine over. Be well everybody. This was fun ||||||||| Mutt leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Billville. Cease: by mutt Deputy Dang: I think I'm having a flashback! Cease: i brought forth the rose parade in the first hour, inspried by my use of that rose parade clip in this after i made this. Deputy Dang: 2021?! This is recent! Cease: what,dang? Cease: this programme was broadcast on cbc a few weeks ago. Deputy Dang: When she mentioned 2021, I realized that's COVID-19 timeframe. Cease: ah ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?" Cease:https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6409068 Cease: says it was first broadcast last year Deputy Dang: This is interesting... I'll have to pay attention if I should love my sense of smell again, if it's not clearly COVID-related. Deputy Dang:lose my sense of smell, not love Cease: right Deputy Dang: Porgie!!! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut." Cease: as mid 70s adults, my wife and i are constantly monitoring each other for signs of dementia Deputy Dang: My girlfriend's mom has some sort of dementia, but denies it and hasn't been diagnosed. At least I don't think she has. Her brother is also having some dementia issues, but I don't know his status. (I live in Florida; they live in Ohio. So I'm not involved in day-to-day stuff.) Cease: both my parents had it and my mother in law too Deputy Dang: My grandmother had it. Most of the women in my family have died of cancer, and most of the men have died of alcohol, diabetes or heart disease. Cease: smelling freshly cut lawns on my walk today was enchanting Cease: one of the best Deputy Dang: I'm going to resume my morning walks, just to pay attention to the smells. Cease: you can always learn things Deputy Dang: It should be good, since it's dark when I walk, other than streetlights. Deputy Dang: It's also quiet, so my eyes and ears will have diminished input. I do know that I will smell the automated lawn sprinkler systems some homeowners have. Cease: you're in DC? Deputy Dang: Me? I'm in Florida, in West Palm Beach--almost smelling distance to Mar-a-Lago. Cease: it was the last chatter who was in dc, right Cease: must not be a very good smell Deputy Dang: We talked about pets a few weeks ago. I'm thinking of finding a pet shelter to see if they need volunteers. Cease: what a great idea Deputy Dang: Having said that, I'm still unemployed, and need to find full-time work. I'll explain that to the shelter, so I don't leave them in a lurch. Cease: good idea Deputy Dang: That was good. I liked the collage--more scientific than usual. Cease: will have new collage next week Cease: aboujt bloopers Cease: non stop laughter, no science at all Deputy Dang: That sounds great! I look forward to it. Have a good night. Oh, heck--have a good week! Cease: we all seek such weeks. Deputy Dang: Is this Kathy Mattea? Cease: don't know Deputy Dang: Okay--ttyl! Cease: nice, whoever it is ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: bye ||||||||| Cease leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Hellmouth. ||||||||| It's 1:30 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... ||||||||| It's 1:45 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... ||||||||| 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
Mutt
