||||||||| 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 15, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 15, 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 ushers Tweeny into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: Phil Austin’s ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE and from THE FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD “The American Pageant (1981)” https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood and from THE BOX OF DANGER “Snakehead Symphony (Live)” and “The Case Of The Missing General” 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 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Deputy Dang enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex. Tweeny: Howdy Deputy ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's JZip, just back from Elmertown."
JZip me waves Deputy Dang: Howdy, JZip! Tweeny: Hi JZip JZip: Hi, folks! Tweeny: Your request is coming up :) ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!" Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Tweeny: Yo Cease JZip: I noticed! Cease: Hi all JZip: /me waves JZip: me waves Tweeny: In this chat the : character has the same effect as /me
Tweeny waves back
Deputy Dang presses his colon. JZip: Oh, wait--I get it now.
JZip waves Tweeny: heheh Cease: the band is ready. red back and the blue balls
JZip knew a Blue Boy ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule. Beet: Hello, Friends. Beet: Hey, Cease, Deputy, Zip. JZip: Hey, Beet. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you." Cease: Beet Tweeny: Hey Beet Beet: Hi, Tweeny. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends." Cease: Austin is the most sex-obsesses of all the Firesigns, in his stuff Cease: He always referred to Oona as The Blond Bombshell ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Runny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom. Cease: Heart felt, Connecticut Cease: HI Runny Cease: Hope you;re not in a cheese shop Beet: Hello, Runny. Tweeny: Hi Runny
Tweeny loves Python's The Cheese Shop and Book Shop skits Cease: Got any mead? Tweeny: "I think it's a bit runnier than you'd like it, sir." ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Mutt into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Mutt: Hi dee ho everyone Cease: Hi Mutt Mutt: Mr. c JZip: Howdy! Tweeny: Hi Mutt Cease: Happy Vyshanka Day, everybody. Mutt: Hiya Tween, JZ JZip: ? JZip: Vyshanka Day? Mutt: De-Puty D and Senor Lonsesome - greetings! Beet: Hey, Mutt. Cease:https://visitukraine.today/blog/6174/vyshyvanka-day-is-a-celebration-of-ukrainian-identity-and-beauty-feel-part-of-the-tradition-with-visit-ukraine#visit-ukraine-with-love-for-our-roots-looking-to-the-future Cease: Kind of the Ukrainian Cultural Celebration day. My new play is about Ukraine. Cease: Indian death match interview Mutt: “Confess or we’ll put out your eyes …” Cease: Who was that cajun musician this music is based on? Cease: the Band had music like that too. Cease: you still here, Tween? Tweeny: je suis ici, monsieur Beet: Buckwheat Zydeco? Cease: who was that fiddler? Tweeny: Could be someone like Doug Kershaw, Beau Soliel, any number of bands Cease: forget his name Cease: yes! Cease: You a Firesign fan, Runny? Tweeny: The fiddle would suggest Doug Kershaw, The Ragin' Cajun Tweeny: I worked with him a couple of times back in the 80s Cease: Loved fiddle marriage with rock. The woman who played fiddle on Dylna's Desirfe album, papa john creech, others Mutt: Sounds right to me, Tweeny Cease: is he still alive? Mutt: Yep Tweeny: yep Tweeny: Doug Kershaw - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Kershaw Mutt: Camper van Beethoven used violin lots JZip: Discogs says it's Bobby Bruce, who I know nothing about. Cease: Don't you think the Band were very Cajun influenced? Cease: Runny? Have you run away? Tweeny: Little Feat sure was ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N." Tweeny: They have a bunch of cajun style tunes Cease: Yeah, I can see that Tween. I think Dr. John had a vast influence. My friend played harmonica in his band Beet: Check out Buckwheat Zydeco. Very much Cajun enfluenced. Cease: Gary Swartz Cease: Essesentially so, Beet. Zydeco is of that. Beet: Heard them in Austin once. Cease: Dr John's song Mama Rioux has been going through my head a lot these days Cease: Y'all know the song Mudflap Girl by Timbuk 3? It is featured prominantly in my new collage' Tweeny: I don't know that one Cease: Procto'rs Rocky gave him a much larger acting range than Austin's Nick, eh? Cease: Youtube will inform you quickly enough, eh? Cease: I loved their Welcome to Timbuk 3 album but their next one only had thst one good song. Cease: YOu still here, Runny? ||||||||| 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 snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Funfun Town." llanwydd: good evening dear friends Deputy Dang: Howdly, llanwydd! Deputy Dang: I'm turning grey. Beet: Hi, llan. Beet: It's that time again. Must go. Enjoyed hanging woth you guys. Have a nice weekend. See you next week. G'Nite. llanwydd: nite beet Tweeny: rest well, Beet Tweeny: see ya on the flip side Cease: by beet Cease: hey llan Cease: you know llan, I have no idea when doc techk wll produce my play, starring you, et al. Cease: i'm heavily intto writring new play,and now into planning upcoming trip to turkey and egypt. Deputy Dang: Are you practicing your Turkish language skills? llanwydd: you havent heard from doc in a long time, have you cat? Cease: since oct or maybe sept.he just went silent, and doesnt asnwer phone calls Cease: thwt's Way Fucked UP. llanwydd: can we find another producer? Cease: but I'm too old to dwell on shit. must create new stuff, now knowing i can never relly on Doc's prfdouctio again Cease: yeah that's the idea, llan Cease: when i get to customs in Istsnbul, will the person say, May I see your pasport pleasse? llanwydd: lol Cease: i look forward to living in the Firesign world even more intenselly than i have before, and that's saying a lot Cease: towel, bath, border llanwydd: firesign world reminds me of westworld, futureworld...etc Deputy Dang: Looks like you have it down pat. Tweeny: Hey llan Cease: indeed, llan Cease: i'm not down with pat.she prefers to be on top Deputy Dang: I haven't seen Not Ed for the past few weeks. Tweeny: Cease: but I'm too old to dwell on shit. must create new stuff, now knowing i can never relly on Doc's prfdouctio again << I'll do what I can to help you assemble/process your projects Cease: thank you, tween. llanwydd: yeah does doc have a bee in his bonnet or something? Cease: i know llan can do great german accents. llanwydd: I can do most accents Cease: i reached out to Elayne, who founded this chat and is as friend ofr Doc. She told me he is just getting to commitements he made last oct. llanwydd: cool Cease: my play was suposed to have been done by him in nov. maybe irt's moved up on his plate, but he obvously madde too many commiitments Cease: he agreed to the nov deadlinbe when i presenteed it to him a year ago. it came and went without Smetana. Cease: i am planining to be in Istambul in Oct and hope to hav the play online by then so i can pass it aroudn there llanwydd: columbia records would produce Smetana Cease: lol llanwydd: dont discount the possibility Cease: ie always thought highlhy of my work. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?" llanwydd: very cool Cease: in 3rd gradr, we we assigigned to write plays. i'm stil doing it. 1959. same year we studied egypty. i'm finallyh going to go there this oct. Cease: see you when you get back from russia, like 20,000 Ukrainian children Tweeny: Hope you have a great time in the Middle East, Cat :) Cease: that's the idea, tween. i never travel to have a bad time, eh? llanwydd: I keep telling myself I cant afford to visit the pyramids but maybe I am in de Nile Cease: as an old man, i figure i might as well do as much as possible while i still have the heslth llanwydd: your health is what matters ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory." Cease: i broke my arm last Dec so my oppportunites limit themselves Cease: my parents were still traevelingi in theri 80s and my 85 year old sister/cousin srtill travels all the time. if we can benefit from it, we should do it, eh? llanwydd: for sure Cease: is anyone else still here? llanwydd: nobody has gone grey yet llanwydd: least of all SPAMMWWYCHHH Cease: Over the weeks, we've had people show up here who did'nt actually seem to be here.Runny, for example. Cease: Bots? llanwydd: yeah, true. and somebody else last week ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names." Cease: exactly Cease: bot infection? llanwydd: somebody named lynn lurked around last week llanwydd: never posted Tweeny: Need to scoot to get some things done before work tomorrow. Everybody have a great week :) ||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset... llanwydd: nite tweeny Cease: by tween.will hopefuly have a new collage next week Cease: the firesign love to brag about how precient they were, but their predicttion of reagan's demise was 180% from what happened. llanwydd: what did they predict? Cease: the guys LOVED to sing Cease: that reagan wouldn't be president. Cease: i cut most of the swears out of that llanwydd: I have never heard this before llanwydd: I saw them do this at town hall in nyc llanwydd: hangin on the grocery wall llanwydd: lol Deputy Dang: three zeroes in a row, not four llanwydd: three of us have just gone grey Cease: how's it going, dang? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Swell pizza!" Deputy Dang: I don't know why, but I'm very drowsy. Cease: what time zone are you in? llanwydd: well its going on nine Deputy Dang: Florida, just a little south of llanwydd Cease: i'm often oftren to bed by 9 Cease: only 6 here now, so i'm in the suburbs of awakewness. llanwydd: no, llannwydd is in FL Cease: bye all llanwydd: do you get to look at the northern lights in vancouver, cat? Cease: no Deputy Dang: Well, Dear Friends, I'll see ya next week! Thanks for the show! G'nite all! Cease: very very rarely ||||||||| Deputy Dang is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM. llanwydd: goodnight everybody. thanks tweeny and cat. see you all next week. Cease: more of nothern thing. we're avout the same as seattle. ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| llanwydd leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Billville. ||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Mutt - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| JZip - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Runny - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'dr laugh', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| dr laugh - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits on the couch. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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."
