||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night." ||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for May 02, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Deputy Dang sneaks in around 7:20 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween tiptoes in around 7:36 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 7:38 PM, then departs. DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy DJTweeny: Warm-up music in about an hour Deputy Dang: thx, and hi! Deputy Dang: I just found the Firesign Theatre podcast, from years ago! I'm listening to the whole back-catalogue! Deputy Dang: I'm hearing you, and I recognized your voice! That was cool, just on its own. Rufus_T_Firetween: Nice :) Rufus_T_Firetween: According to my records, I started doing shows back in mid-September 2012 ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music (Santana) Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Cease', just granted probation at 8:57 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Cease: ah, santana Cease: podcast? DJTweeny: allo Cease ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 02, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" DJTweeny: How are things in Van? Cease: The Tween Voice ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:01 PM and Beet bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Beet: Hello all. Happy Thursday evening. DJTweeny: yo Beet Beet: Hi Dr Tween Cease: Beet Cease: Happy indeed ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Now playing: Firesign Theatre's “WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out ELECTRICIAN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-rv' Cease: As in Hairy Cox Beet: Greetings Dr Cease Beet: The belief in the first of many lies Cease: Just watched biopic of Jane Fonda. She wanted to be Tonto when she was a kid DJTweeny: haha Beet: Tonto was cool. Kimosabe Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-ln Cease: I got free HBO for a month so I'm catching up on its documentaries Beet: In my humble opinion, there was no one hotter than Jane in Barbarella. Cease: I couldnt argue with that DJTweeny: Don't think I ever saw that movie, Beet Beet: At first viewing, I stayed for the next showing to watch the opening credits a second time. Cease: Her poster from that was iconic Beet: Worth seeking out, Tween for no other reason than to experience an icon of the 60's. Deputy Dang: I might as well be in the hottub with a towel around my head, but I love this conglomeration of uplifting consciousness. Eh? DJTweeny: Yes, Beet, I remember the controversey over the movie well, I just never saw it Beet: Hey, Deputy. Cease: 2 days ago, I watched the Gary Shandling biopic. I had not known that The Simpsons evolved out shandling's first tv show DJTweeny: What documentaries have you been watching, Cease? DJTweeny: I didn't either, Cease Cease: first gary, then yesterday leaving neverland. Beet: What was your reaction to Neverland? DJTweeny: Is that the one about Michael Jackson? Cease: after that was aired, the simpsons owners deleted the episode with michael jackson in it. Cease: do you hear my collage about recent vegas trip? tuesday was about having wonderful breakfast at a restaurant and then coming out to find a giant statue of mj in the lobby. ||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote." Cease: "I walk by a large statue of Michael Jackson, who must have loomed as large over the young boys he preyed upon," Cease: that was written before watching neverland. i had long suspected him, but had no idea of the vastness of his monstrosity Beet: Kind of mind blowing to hear all that stuff. Cease: all three of the docu's were about very inspiring people. jane, gary and the two men who came forward about their experiences with mj Deputy Dang: Groovy! Cease: this holds up a lot better than most things from that era about "hippies" Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/ DJTweeny: FST were definitely 'equal opportunity satirists' Beet: The excellentness of this never fades. It's an amazing creation, much like the work of any great artist like Van Gogh or Rembrandt or the Beatles. Cease: Pete wanted to create the Beatles of comedy. Cease: lol tween Cease: Proc LOVES speaking russian. Deputy Dang: There there! Deputy Dang: There there! Beet: It may be that the Eastern Europe form of paranoia during this time was even worse than today - unless you are an illegal immigrant, a Muslim or black. Beet: Or unemployed. ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! Beet: Dime novel Cease: Jane said They Shoot Horses was a parable of capitalism. Cease: someone you'll hear in my Burroughs collage says the same thing about Naked Lunch Beet: Interesting. Never thought of that. Cease: thatr was based on a Lenny Bruce routine. Cease: Father flotsam or something. Cease: father, i dont have a gun ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Not Ed close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:38 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule. Beet: What hospital has topless nurses? Not Ed: Pork? Beet: Hi Not Cease: Hi Not Not Ed: Howdy! DJTweeny: allo Not Ed Cease: Lawyer's Hospital Not Ed: Cheers Tweeny! Can't stay long but wanted to czech in with y'all Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-ln Cease: he's got the Prague Not Ed: haha Beet: You Go Slavia if you have to. DJTweeny: Consider yourself czeched in :) Not Ed: tanx! ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Betty Jo B', just granted probation at 9:42 PM", then leaves hurriedly. DJTweeny: Hello Betty Jo Cease: BJB Beet: He says, "Thank God" and the taxi driver says, "NOT yet." Cease: i never noticed that, beet Betty Jo B: Greetings! Beet: Great! ||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!" Not Ed: Hi ho! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “BURROUGHING IN” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/' Not Ed: Cool Cat Beet: Hi Betty Jo Not Ed: this is great Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Burrough's Do Easy discipline is made into a short film by Gus Van Zandt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOUBETTyMI Beet: This ought to be interesting. Cease:https://www.thisamericanlife.org/546/burroughs-101 Cease: i found this on the burroughs flick when i was doing research on terry southern DJTweeny: Making your own calendar is a cool idea Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “BURROWING IN” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat Cease: this is from burrough's book Exterminator. Cease: a friend sent it to me when i was living in sapporo in 76. by far my favourite burroughs DJTweeny: This is interesting, I'll have to watch that YouTube DJTweeny: I like the analogy to Zen ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: How's it going, Betty Jo? DJTweeny: Nice segue into the FST bit :) Beet: This is very compelling. Do nothing and accomplish everything. DJTweeny: yeah Cease: I try and use it as often as possible. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/ Not Ed: zappa Not Ed: What do you use as often as possible? Cease: do easy Cease: picking up a glass, putting it down. Not Ed: oh right Not Ed: from the bit Cease: these are harder to do the more one enters others states of consciousness Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Not Ed: great title!! Beet: Very cool. Not Ed: tanx Cat! Deputy Dang: I'm loving it! Not Ed: RFDeeDooDooDoo Cease: next week, proctor and bergman do some narration for a flick made of/with burrough's Nova Express ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Nick Danger’s “THE DAILY FEED TAPES (Part 2)” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check out the Daily Feed Tapes at >> https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Danger-Daily-Feed-Tapes/dp/1576771474' Not Ed: nice Not Ed: Oops gotta go folks. Have a mell-O eve everyone! Not Ed: Ty Tween, Rufus, Merlyn Not Ed: Away! Beet: See ya next time, Not. ||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Betty Jo B - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Beet: Betty didn't say anything. Cease: by not Cease: betty ||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (10:14 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. llanwydd: howdy folks Cease: Hi Llan Beet: Howdy Llan Deputy Dang: Be welcome, Lian llanwydd: thank you Dang DJTweeny: Hi Llan llanwydd: Hi Tween Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check Out THE DAILY FEED TAPES at >> https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Danger-Daily-Feed-Tapes/dp/1576771474 llanwydd: cat, beet Beet: You doin alright, Llan? llanwydd: what album did you folks hear tonight? Beet: Electrician llanwydd: doin great, beet. how about you? Cease: electrician llanwydd: cool Beet: Everything OK here. llanwydd: may I see your passport please Beet: Slowest Tukish lesson in history. llanwydd: lol Beet: Turkish Beet: When a joke doesn't come out smoothly, it loses its punch, Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases llanwydd: thanks, tween Beet: How does someone who is as dumb as W run an intelligence agancy. llanwydd: I thought it was his father who was cia director DJTweeny: yeah DJTweeny: GHW Bush was CIA from Carter DJTweeny: Until VP Beet: You're right. Sorry. I probably shouldn't run the CIA either. DJTweeny: Head of the CIA, he was with the CIA long before that of course DJTweeny: lol Beet DJTweeny:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush#Director_of_Central_Intelligence_(1976%E2%80%931977) DJTweeny: Looks like it was Ford who made him director, actually Beet: Skull and Bones must be incredibly shady Beet: A Water Restaurant? llanwydd: LOL ||||||||| Around 10:42 PM, Deputy Dang walks off into the sunset... Cease: By Dep Beet: 'Nite Deputy. Cease: Governor Moon Beam they called Jerry DJTweeny: Yeah, I remember that Beet: He dated Linda Ronstadt, though. DJTweeny: Heard that also Beet: Best voice in the world and extremely hot. Cease: Trudeau, the father of our current PM, dated Striesand. DJTweeny: btw folks, my Sunday show on RFD is moving to Tuesday evenings 7 Eastern/6 Central/5 Mountain/4 Pacific Cease: His wife dated Mick Jagger DJTweeny: I do play Firesign pretty regularly Cease: A fine show, Tween Beet: Didn't know that, Cease. ||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! ** Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :) Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign' Beet: About Streisand. DJTweeny: Thanks Cat :) Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Beet: This was fun. Nice to see evryone. GREAT collage, Dr Cease. Thanks to DJ Tween for his constant diligence. G'Nite all. ||||||||| Deputy Dang enters at 10:54 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex. Rufus_T_Firetween: wb Deputy Deputy Dang: This was awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! DJTweeny: You are very welcome :) Cease: We're here almost every Thursday, Dang Rufus_T_Firetween: With rare exception ;) DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Cease: Bye all ||||||||| Around 10:56 PM, Cease walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| llanwydd leaves at 11:11 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..." ||||||||| 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 enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Froggy close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 1:31 AM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room. ||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Froggy - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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 2:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| 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 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 4:32 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
Betty Jo B
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
