Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
06/12/2025

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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 June 12, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tweeny into the room, accepts an I.O.U. 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: Peter Bergman's RADIO FREE OZ from the mid-60s
plus Bergman's experimental show THE DIGITAL DINER from 1994
and from BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER
“FT Live @ USC 2/27/71 [BTCTW pre-release]”
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'
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 12, 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 pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from Funfun Town."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Deputy Dang 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.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Howdy, Folks!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
Cease: HI Chatters
Beet: Hi, Deputy, Cease.
Cease: Since we last chatted, I've been marinating on hotel and restaurant reviews and youtubery relevant to my upcoming trip
Beet: The disembodied Tween
Cease: I barley know who Victoria is but Pete seemed enamoured with her in 78.
Cease: Firesign quoted Burrougfhs on their first album
Cease: Proc and Bergman were on a film based on one of his novels
Cease: Probably my favourite song by one of my fave groups, Timbuk 3
Cease: We listened to thier tune Mud Flap Girl on last week's collage
Beet: Really like that tune.
Cease: They have some gems.
Cease: Speaking if which, I'm planning a trip to GEM in Oct in Cairo. The Great Egyptian Museum
Cease: If I need to speak a little Egyptian, I can always ask WC Fields
Beet: I've seen videos. The place looks amazing.
Cease: it does
||||||||| Mutt enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Mutt: It’s always 8pm …
Mutt: Howdy everyone
Cease: HI Mutt
Beet: Hi, Mutt.
Cease: You came in with the intro music
Mutt: Ha!
Mutt: One of my grandfathers was kind of a self-promoter. When he was young he hired a band to follow him around Atlantic City while playing.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tweeny 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.
Tweeny: Evenin' Dear Friends
Cease: Mr Producer Man
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt! Howdy, Tweeny!
Mutt: Buenos noches, Senor Tween
Mutt: Deputy!
Tweeny: And how is everybody doing this fine evening?
Tweeny: I'm filling out the insurance forms for my recent motor scooter theft/vandalism. They did so much damage this time that the insurance company is going to 'total' it.
Beet: Hey, Tweeny.
Cease: Am working on a new collage based on a recent interview maron did with Peter Wolf, of J Giles.
Mutt: Ouch! Sorry to hear that Tweeny
Cease: is that good or bad, tween?
Tweeny: It's good if they give me enough for a new scooter.
Tweeny: We'll see...
Tweeny: But there's a $500 deductible in any event :/
Cease: bummer
Mutt: The insurance company is not anyone’s friend
Tweeny: yeah, life in the big city, what can you say
Cease: when i was visitng phil and melinda in dec, 65, he showed me the script for this on his computer
Cease: 95
Tweeny: kewl
Cease: large marine mammals to annoy. i love that line
Cease: all 4 of the lads were fantastic writers on thier own.
Mutt: Yes, but that fifth guy was magic
Cease: problem is we know them mostly as a group, not as inidivual writers
Mutt: Very true
Cease: i know austin was frustrated by that.
Mutt: Austin is the one whose solo writings I revisit the most frequently
Mutt: And Roller Maidens - brilliant
Tweeny: Roller Maidens really was quite brilliant
Mutt: “I don’t care if his name is Jesus Retardo!”
Deputy Dang: Side 1 Roller Maidens From Outer Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GoVJXavUs
||||||||| permahammy enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cease: true, but it didnt' make him as famous as he that it would
Cease: thought
Cease: hi perm
permahammy: who changed the hecklers?
Mutt: In hindsight he was only cannibalizing his existing audience
Cease: this sounds like austin.
Mutt: Hiya, Perm! All set?
Cease: well put, mutt. same with ossman's wondrous mark time album
Mutt: Agreed, Cease.
Cease: proc/berg were able to expand by constant touring.
Mutt: Hindsight is golden
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "...And no Buddhist writers either!"
Cease: ossman/austin were not in to that.
Mutt: I think there is much to what you say, there. The constant exposure required.
Cease: this sounds very new orleans
Cease: that was the 70s and a little of the 80s, long before internet
Beet: Hello permahammy
permahammy: can I get a refund on the foot stimulater?
Mutt: Well, lets see. Caint give ya a refund, but can give ya some store credit
Cease: no, but you can on the foot simulator. if it looks like a foot, it's not a yard.
Mutt: How ‘bout some of themIndonesian wolf stools?
Cease: i'm on the road to bali now. indonesia for the indonesians!
Mutt: Bali Hai!
Cease: Mata Hari Krishna
permahammy: what pairs well with day odd firewater? this daily odd inbread?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?"
Mutt: LOL!,
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'C. Simirl ', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Koyemsi bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
C. Simirl : Hi Koy. Saw you on Facebook
C. Simirl : Sounds like a New Orleans horn section
C. Simirl : old firewater? old indians in termporarily humbolt county
Mutt: For the nonce
Tweeny: Hi Koyemsi
||||||||| Koyemsi scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Koyemsi?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Deputy Dang: Howdy, permahammy!
Tweeny: and permahammy :)
||||||||| 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 llanonymous falls out at 8:00 PM.
llanonymous: howdy folks
Tweeny: Hey llan
Mutt: Would everyone who is present please raise their hands? Thank you!
C. Simirl : i see you're playing their usc show tonight, tween?
permahammy: I keep my decoder rings in my collar and bathtub so I'm pretty secure
Mutt: Who is you, llan man?
C. Simirl : This was broadcast on usc's radio station, kusc in 94. i was on that station in 68
C. Simirl : hi llan
Tweeny: Yes Cease, that'll close the show. It fit the time.
Beet: Hey Koyemsi
llanonymous: I think I heard a K station when I ws in TX
permahammy: I thought this was phil and teds sexy boomer show.... kpfk tuesdays at tue
llanonymous: I grew up on W stations
Mutt: KDKA Pittsburgh
llanonymous: no kidding
C. Simirl : that was at the beginning, perma. this is a show bergman created in 94
permahammy: KK6VDR is my extra hammy firesign call
Beet: Hello llan.
llanonymous: I didnt know k stations were this far east
llanonymous: hammy radio?
llanonymous: Hey Beet
C. Simirl : we have C stations up here.
permahammy: radio freee hammies
||||||||| Koyemsi steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
C. Simirl : just had a ham crouisaant
Tweeny: wb Koyemsi
llanonymous: lol
permahammy: strawberry irish moons over my hammy turns 18 tonight?
llanonymous: welcome koyaanisqatsi
Koyemsi: Hey Firebugs
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Keyemsi!
Koyemsi: I joined earlier on my phone but couldn't figure out how to say anything
C. Simirl : i suddenly left cease and am ressurected at c. simril here. cease is a shortening of c.simril
Tweeny: permahammy: radio freee hammies << yep, lots of ham radio people at RFD
C. Simirl : nice fiddle here
permahammy: did herry shearer ever play with fire?
Deputy Dang: When I use my phone to be here, the first thing I say is that I'm on my phone and can't chat well. It's kinda a pita.
Tweeny: ehhh
Koyemsi: I don't know how many of you are in the Chromium Switch group, but I shared something pretty exciting there this week
llanonymous: I had a similar problem a couple of weeks ago when my internet service went out
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix."
C. Simirl : yeah i've had some trouble joining chats from disant airports and restaurants. i suspct it will be worse from turkey and egypt
Deputy Dang: I'm in the group, but am rarely on Facebook.
Tweeny: do tell, Koyemsi
Koyemsi: I got my own copy of the legendary DEPUTY DAN COLORING BOOK
Tweeny: Hah, cool :)
Koyemsi: Had to have eBay alerts turned on for years
llanonymous: I wonder if they eat turkey in Turkey
Tweeny: love that skit
Koyemsi: So I scanned in all the pages, and I made a video syncing Firesign's audio to the illustrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCJqYihucY
permahammy: everyone ordered the cobb salad so there's no food fighting
llanonymous: deputy dan will knock us down
Tweeny: Nice!
C. Simirl : what i find odd, is that their main diet item is meat, yet they're profound kind to animals. cats and dogs and birds rule istanbul
Koyemsi: And I also put all the scans on Internet Archive, both the original versions and black-and-white versions (so you can print them out and colour them yourself): https://archive.org/details/deputydancoloringbook/
permahammy: I miss that Sidekick TSR
Tweeny: Really well done, Koyemsi :)
Tweeny: Cool of you to do that
llanonymous: I'm glad he's not Sherriff Dan
Deputy Dang: Thank you for putting it on the archive!
llanonymous: the things he could get away with
permahammy: Bergman with the legaleasy riding...
llanonymous: interesting, cat. do they eat turkish taffy?
llanonymous: I used to love that stuff
||||||||| 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..
permahammy: have you been injured in a pickleball?
Koyemsi: You're most welcome! I really like finding stuff that almost nobody else has... and then putting it on the internet so that everyone can have it :)
Koyemsi: Anyway my wife and kids just came down for dinner so I gotta go, but I wanted to make sure I shared that with you all. Happy motoring!
llanonymous: I doubt it is midnight in nyc
C. Simirl : not fond of the meat, but hope i'll like the country. bergman loved it. probably his praise of turkey on his 67 show that inspires me to go there now.
C. Simirl : thanks, koy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's like sitting in a big hand."
llanonymous: see you next week Koyemsi
||||||||| Koyemsi rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
permahammy: this is radio with almost no dead air or awkward silences...iisten up!
Beet: See ya Koyemsi.
permahammy: Is that the rental car gal from planes trains and autos?
C. Simirl : it should be easy to find out, perma
Mutt: Who is you, llan man?
Mutt: That was weird. I got kicked out, had to sign back in, and then it reposted and earlier comment I made.
Deputy Dang: llanonymous... you look familiar. have I seen you before?
C. Simirl : Llan plays Albert Einstein in my new play.
Beet: Gonna head out. Nice to see everyone. Have a nice night and a great weekend. See you next week. G'Nite.
Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet!
permahammy: edie mcclurg is 79 and did comedy with the firesign... the internet works again...
Mutt: See ya Beet!
C. Simirl : by beet
permahammy: my radio gf had a KUCI FM show called "Tap Dancing Through The Mind"
C. Simirl : she did indeed, perm
C. Simirl : great title, perm
C. Simirl : she was a big part of the Big Internert Broadcast of 1996
C. Simirl : is a radio girl friend a girl friend is also on the radio, or a fictional girl friend who plays one on the radio
permahammy: radio girl friend...another name for the band...lol
Mutt: Is she in radio prison?
C. Simirl : lol
permahammy: you can't kiss a mouth that doesn't do the dentist...
Mutt: I need to go brush, now …
permahammy: next time I panhandle it's imaginary roses...
Mutt: Here, have some imaginary money!
C. Simirl : the music is beautifully integrated in this show.
permahammy: I need babyfood for my radio girlfriend!
Deputy Dang: Yes, this music is quite wonderful!
permahammy: Le Show had great musical breaks too...
C. Simirl : you think, perm?
C. Simirl : sometimes
permahammy: no more trick questions! One Year!
C. Simirl : Tricky Ricardo
Deputy Dang: lol
Mutt: Juicy! I’m home!
permahammy: Well? Come home!
permahammy: What kind of juice is this? does it grow in a homeland?
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Koyemsi', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Koyemsi!
C. Simirl : Oh Lucy, I brought Fidel Castro home for dinner
permahammy: So...Elvis visited Nixon as my 10 year old natal anniversary demarcation?
C. Simirl : Oh Rickey, now I'll have to carve up the carrot stone even finer.
C. Simirl : those are lines from my play Red Shift, starring many Firesigns
permahammy: BaBa Lou is coming to dinner too!
permahammy: when does Firesign the Broadway Musical mic drop?
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanonymous - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
permahammy: better chat next luck! step right out...
C. Simirl : proc started on broadway long ago, and could come back. i don't think it will happen, but i'm always happy to be surprised by theri endless creativity
permahammy: 9 out of 10 performers agree, stage is best
C. Simirl : the immediate feedback has to be the high
permahammy: instant clapification
permahammy: (the better kind of clap tho...)
Mutt: Adios amigos! Hasta proxima semana!
||||||||| Mutt 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..."
C. Simirl : by mutt
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving llanonymous coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
permahammy: buy muttt...with a woodrow wilson who was on the $100,000 bill
C. Simirl : youback, llan?
C. Simirl : was there such a bill?
llanonymous: didnt know I was gone
C. Simirl : like a turkey through the corn
C. Simirl : i submerged in youtubes about turkey now.
C. Simirl : towel, bath
Deputy Dang: Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
permahammy: some comedy currency is still illegal to own...
llanonymous: I was watching the maltese falcon last night, a film from 1941 and some of the characters were trading $1000 bills
C. Simirl : i thought grant was on the thousand dollar bill
C. Simirl : yeah i saw that flick on tv recently.
permahammy: I'm glad we have grover cleveland the second in charge again
llanonymous: how the hell do you spend a $100,000 bill?
Deputy Dang: I haven't read the article I linked, but I think they were mostly exchanged between banks.
Deputy Dang: Banks and other criminals.
llanonymous: go to mcdonalds and ask can you break a...
C. Simirl : and this was the last of these shows.
permahammy: wait till the mint a few trillion dollar coins and walk them across the street to balance the spreadsheet...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?"
llanonymous: lol
llanonymous: bring a $100,000 to the gas station and watch them close up while they go running to the bank
permahammy: digital is last tuesday...now it's quantum wontons
||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanonymous: how wanton
permahammy: they said KUSC
permahammy: not KPFK
permahammy: KUSC is all classical nowadays
llanonymous: I wouldnt know a Kusc from a Kpfk
llanonymous: I wish we had an all classical station here in FL
permahammy: the alien archeologists witl unscramble it all...
C. Simirl : lol, perm
llanonymous: there used to be Music Through the Night on NPR
C. Simirl : kusc has gone through many incarnations since i was there in 68
permahammy: 24/7 classical music is like hot and cold running radio calmness....
llanonymous: exactly
llanonymous: reminds me of an Italo Calvino short story with sentient atomic beings named qfwfq and pfwfp
llanonymous: I dont remember the title
permahammy: I thought I remembered NPR music through the night but I kept thinking I was dreaming....
llanonymous: lol
llanonymous: chfvgjbhknjlkmlcfvhgjbknjlkmedrfthvgyjbhn
llanonymous: havent done that in too long
permahammy: wine soaked and sugar cured for your comedic pleasure
C. Simirl : sounds familiar, llan. i just started re-reading Invisible Cities recently. great book.
llanonymous: I will look for that one, cat
permahammy: the hole-y land...
C. Simirl : check it out.now i'm mostl reading My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, Turkish nobellist
permahammy: the tue state solution: hole-y and not so hole-y
permahammy: invasion of the sheep-men
llanonymous: just looked up invisible cities on wiki. it has a rene magritte painting on the cover
C. Simirl : My name is red refers to it in the intro
C. Simirl : how fascism may even come to this country. how prophetic.
Deputy Dang: That was a lot of fun, especially the music!
C. Simirl : indeed, dang. we do our best
Deputy Dang: Thanks Cat! Thanks Tweeny! Thanks Roy! Thanks llanwydd! Thanks permahammy!
C. Simirl : more fun next week
llanonymous: well, thanks tweeny and cat for another great chat. and thanks everybody
llanonymous: see you nest thirsty
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
llanonymous: nytol
C. Simirl : off we drift
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs C. Simirl by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanonymous 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 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Koyemsi - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
permahammy: this is kewl!
permahammy: you step away from the laptop...and you miss a lop
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
||||||||| 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 Covid 19
||||||||| 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 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| permahammy - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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
C. Simirl
Cease
Deputy Dang
Koyemsi
llanonymous
Mutt
permahammy
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://archive.org/details/deputydancoloringbook/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GoVJXavUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCJqYihucY