||||||||| 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 January 30, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom. ||||||||| 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 DEAR FRIENDS plus cuts from Doc Technical's DEAR FRIENDS TOO 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. ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 30, 2025 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Tweeny: Howdy Deputy Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! ||||||||| 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.. ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Tweeny: allo Cease Cease: I thought you wouldn't be here, Tween Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Tweeny: Cease, did you get my email with the program director's phone number? ||||||||| Beet enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex. Beet: Evening, Folks. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And while we're on the subject..." Tweeny: Hey Beet Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! Tweeny: The new schedule starts next week, Cease Cease: aha Cease: hi beet, dang Beet: Hi, Tween, Deputy, Cease Tweeny: 1pm-9:30pm on Thursdays Cease: yes, i wont lose his number ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "The future ain't here yet, man!" Cease: wow Tweeny: the 'closer shift' for the dairy dept at the store ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Tweeny: Hey llan Cease: llay llanwydd: cathherwood, get everybody an almond bear whiz Beet: Yo, Llan. Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd! Cease: just discovered a new cidre todya. Ward's Winter Spice. Fantastic llanwydd: is it hard? Deputy Dang: that's a rather personal question! Beet: lol llanwydd: lol Tweeny: catherwood, give everyone some hard cidre ||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone some hard cidre. Cease:https://www.wardshardcider.com/ Cease: Making cidre since 1922, Cease: It Europe it could be since 922 but not necessarily better cidre. Cease: Basque cidre sucks ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?" llanwydd: must be REALLY hard by now Cease: lol llanwydd: just looked at wards. it hardly llks medieval llanwydd: looks Beet: It's even hard thinking about it. llanwydd: but perhaps it is medeivally hard Cease: no, Basque, etc cidre has been made since the middle ages, at least. Cease: anything business 100 yearfs old is a novelty in canada ||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Not Ed', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... Cease: hi not Not Ed: llan, Beet, Cease, DDang, Tweeny, jello! Beet: Howdy, Not. Not Ed: Hey! Not Ed: Fun album ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!" Cease: Hi Not Not Ed: Hi C! Not Ed: if everyone played the harmonica there would be peace in the world Not Ed: and/or the ukulele Beet: Their lips couldn't tell lies while they're playing. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed! Not Ed: I mean you can't be angry while playing a uke Not Ed: Hey DD ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!" Not Ed: lol I haven't listened to this stuff in a while Not Ed: this particular record Cease: my life is so consdumed with firesign, nothing is new, but that's a good thing Not Ed: folding space with firesign Tweeny:https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln Not Ed: nice, tanx Tween Tweeny:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Friends_(album) Not Ed: Mr Morte Tweeny:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuCyrNxXLcA&ab_channel=01pynchon Tweeny: 40 Unclaimed Melodies is one of my favorite bits Not Ed: mine too Tweeny: one of Ossman's best Not Ed: lol yup Tweeny: 'Hello, I', Don G. Ovanni..." lol Not Ed: lol Tweeny: *I'm Not Ed: Bidet! I love Bidet! Beet: Classic Not Ed: haha Not Ed: a cultural landslide Tweeny: Don Giovanni - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Giovanni Not Ed: and then chinchillas!! Cease: proctor loves this one Deputy Dang: I didn't get "The Fountain" part of the Bidet joke for a long time--years, I think. Cease: my uncle raised chinchillas in the 50s Not Ed:Tween is on it 4 us Not Ed: lol Not Ed: no chinchillas were harmed Cease: he disocvered that toy and cfeated the bit from it. Not Ed: ahhh Not Ed: funny Tweeny: didn't know it was inspired by the squeaky toy, cool ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" Not Ed: Does this bus go to Duluth? No it goes beep beep like any other bus. (Minnesota joke.) Tweeny: haha Cease: took me a while Not Ed: ( needed to hear this today. Tanx Tween Tweeny: yw :) Tweeny: Cat's suggestion Tweeny: I assume we're going to be playing the albums in chronoligical order unless someone has a request Cease: we're playing the albums in orfder for awhile, tween? Not Ed: Tx C! Cease: exactfly. i will have my collagve finished my next week when we'll hear Not Insane, at watever else Tweeny: sounds good Cease: i made a collage on ossman Tweeny: Cease, have you heard from Doc about getting access to the AWS archive? I haven't heard back from him Cease: requjest of the solo albums so we'll play tha tin feb. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today, and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth." Deputy Dang: I request the albums be played in chronological order unless someone has a request. Tweeny: I can't post anything new in your archive until we get that resolved ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "The future ain't here yet, man!" Cease: not a word, tween. Tweeny: Well, give him a call if you can ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!" Cease: i tried but he doesnt pick up. for months Cease: no idea what's happening there ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix." Not Ed: Awesome Not Ed: We're out of those, sorry Cease: my fave firesign bit. i played it on the naional rasdio station in japan. ||||||||| It's 12:45 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... Cease: by llan Tweeny: Just to let you guys know, they've got me working Thursday evenings starting next week, so I won't be able to join you :/ Not Ed: Aww Not Ed: later llannnnnnn Tweeny: Not Ed: Awesome << David Ossman was the one who chose all these bits from the Dear Friends radio series Not Ed: oh well.... Cease: do you know for how long, tween? Not Ed:Tweeny, aha! Thanks 4 info Not Ed: He chose well Tweeny: They'll change the schedule when they change it, Cease. No idea... Beet: We'll remember you fondly, Tweeny. Tweeny: but i'll still have time to make the shows for you folks :) Beet: Excellent. Deputy Dang: 👍 Cease: you make this possible Not Ed: doh! what he said! Not Ed: it can't happen here Not Ed: whew that's good T Not Ed: (was referring to the fascism comment) Beet: It's nice to have a government filled with pure hearted citizens. Not Ed: isn't it though Not Ed: ahem Cease: just got into substack a couple of months ago. good stuiff Deputy Dang: I keep hearing about substack but haven't looked into it. Beet: Alot of good folks on it. Not Ed: cool C are you going to make a page Not Ed: I'm with Borowitz there and Mehdi Not Ed: Zeteo Cease: was a big fan of ricki lee jones 40 years ago. saw she had this substack of new tour and stuff so i got the substack app Cease: i told ricki how much i loved her old tunes. she never wrote back, but suddenly i had a page. will use it to promote new play, whenever it happens Not Ed: I like her music ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?" Not Ed: cool C Cease: We Belong Together one of the best songs i've ever heard Not Ed: I'm on bluesky @indivisualist.bsky.social Cease: should i join that? why? Cease: was never on twitter. Not Ed: I was but I left Cease: spend too much time reading substack alreadu. Not Ed: Too much politics creeps in, can't turn it off Cease: should be writing or researching, not reading on a phone. Not Ed: yeah I'm working on an album instead Cease: i like heather, but now have her on email. Not Ed: social media is a total time sucker Not Ed: can't have that anymore Cease: heard a greart talk wih her and rebecca solnit ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: i do get some helpful things, if you curate it. Cease: i am looking for info about certain things for my new play. Not Ed: catherwood give everyone an official paper bag chock full of hot buttered groat clusters ||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone an official paper bag chock full of hot buttered groat clusters. Deputy Dang: I left Facebook and have been mostly off of social media since then. Full disclosure--I had to create a new Facebook account for an online class I took where the instructor gave input/feedback via FB. I dropped my Twitter account also, which was good. It had become annoying and stressful. Not Ed: Kick back Deputy Dang: I did join the Little Chromium Switch FB group a few weeks ago. But I think I've only been on FB once since joining. Not Ed: Yeah I sure hear you DD - I still have FB pages for our hobby games but I'm going to shut them off soon ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's all this brou-ha-ha?" Not Ed: Great music Deputy Dang: This Mark Time reminds me--I watched that J Men Forever movie in segments on YouTube. I'm not sure if I liked it, but it was interesting. Cease: how stoned were you at the time? Deputy Dang: 0% Sadly, I've become immune to weed in the last 5 years or so. It just makes me feel thick-headed, but not in an entertaining/enjoyable way. Tweeny: J-Men is definitely a 'stoner movie' ;) Cease: there are strains that would not do that to you. sounds like you had too much indica Not Ed: we put Prince A in our space games (cameo!) and the Firesign boys as random captain names Cease: good for them, Not Cease: i had a can of thj lemonade last week. amazing! Not Ed: Austin was going to do some random spaceship announcements for Weird Worlds but it didn't happen Deputy Dang: Okay. I'll see if I can get some sativa. Not Ed: Yay Beet: Well, gotta go. Truly enjoyed this. Y'all have a nice weekend. See you next Thursday. G'Nite. Not Ed: Take good care Beet Not Ed: Yeah I should head out too Deputy Dang: G'nite, Beet! Not Ed: Great to see you all! Not Ed: Thanks Tweeny & TY for continuing without you heehee Not Ed: Later all! Deputy Dang: G'nite, Not Ed! Cease: by not ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" Cease: by beet Tweeny: Trump's administration will overhaul the FBI/CIA/NSA Tweeny: I look forward to it Cease: hoover named the firesign enemy number one, probably because of that. Tweeny: Tulsi Gabbard will be Director of National Intelligence Cease: i think there will be a much longre enem list now Tweeny: Yes, no more Hoovers Tweeny: nope, the whole point is to de-politicize those agencies Tweeny: no Nixon 'enemy lists' Cease: we'll see Tweeny: yes Cease I agree, the proof is in the pudding Tweeny: we'll see how it pans out Cease: solunds like a line from dickens Cease: tiny tim Tweeny: Doc also made some great picks from the Dear Friends radio series :) Cease: he did Cease: tar face pork ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Deputy Dang: Thanks Cease--I just did some reading and I think the problem was indica vs sativa. I'll get some sativa and watch the movie again. Cease: i had a broken arm, still not entirely healed. i went to my local dispensarfy asking for whaft woult do me the most good and have been very successful Tweeny: glad the arm is healing, Cease :) Cease: i try and do tai chi every day. can only lift arm half way Cease: better than nothing Tweeny: good exercise, from what I've heard ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I only lie, or I tell the truth. Heh - just lyin'." Tweeny: of course, Trump will make Canada the 51st State Cease: the doc asked if i want physio and i said i'd try and rehab on my onw. Tweeny: kewl Cease: when i told him i'd been doing tai chi for 12 years, he let me go Cease: it does help. i also do other exercises, to the extent I can Tweeny: Tai Chi is actually a martial art, right? Cease: proctor once said you have to exercixe, to keep from falling apart Deputy Dang: slow motion martial art maybe Cease: lou reed was into it on that level, but it's just good for my arthritis Tweeny: Tai chi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi Cease: being aware of one's body and using it in a slow, controlled way has to be bood Tweeny: " As an exercise, tai chi is performed as gentle, low-impact movement in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing motions while focusing on deep, slow breaths. Often referred to as "meditation in motion," tai chi aims to concentrate and balance the body's qi (vital energy), providing benefits to mental and physical health." Cease: in 2012, my doc said i'd need new knees in 7 years. i started doing tai chi then and still have the same knees Cease: that's not a coincidence Cease: this is so funny Cease: new stuff next week Deputy Dang: That was a lot of fun! Thanks Tweeny! Deputy Dang: I'll see y'all next week! Cheers! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This hasn't happened to me since 'M'!" Cease: we will descent into tweenlessness ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cease, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles. Deputy Dang: It should be interesting... ||||||||| Deputy Dang rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Tweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?" ||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd 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. ||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the yaws ||||||||| 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
Not Ed
Tweeny
