A Firesign Chat
09/12/2019




Archive

||||||||| 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 September 12, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'RedPillTweeny', just granted probation at 6:36 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "6:36 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Funfun Town."
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi RedPill
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Rufus_T_Firetween: ooooops ahaha
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:37 PM, then departs.
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Currently playing: warm up music (Nuke Music)
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||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:45 PM, then departs.
Cease: good stuff, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Cease
Cease: first chat on new computer
Rufus_T_Firetween: everything working smoothly?
Rufus_T_Firetween: What brand/OS?
Cease: Windows 10.
Cease: Some company I never heard of.
Rufus_T_Firetween: What counts is it works :)
Cease: Doc just got me Adobe Audition 1.5 today so I can make collages. Sort of.
Cease: Can't record from Youtube yet. Doc is working on it
Cease: I get a lot of stuff from Youtube, such as the 50s TV series I'm using as the basis for the collage set
Rufus_T_Firetween: Let me know what he uses to make that work
Rufus_T_Firetween: I usd to be able to create MP3s from YT, but can't find working software anymore
Cease: Can you send me a mp3 of the john lennon tune "God"
Cease: I need it for my collage about elvis, which is almost finished
Cease: cant get it from youtube
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lemme see if I have it
Cease: but YOU can
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, I have it in my collection
Cease: "I dont believe in Elvis" is the line I need
Cease: have you heard the Firesign's Nixon Meets Elvis?
Rufus_T_Firetween: hah
Cease: The Firesign Elvis has some bad things to say about the Beatles
Cease: It's on the Fools in Space series
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:54 PM and llanwydd bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
llanwydd: evening folks
DJTweeny: I think I have heard it Cease, but I'm not familiar with it
Cease: Hi Llan
Cease: It's a big part of my elvis collage.
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo llan
Cease: Oneof the 50s episodes is called The Beat, it's about Elvis and Kerouac.
Cease: So I'm making a collage out of both of them.
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
DJTweeny: sounds cool
llanwydd: is that john wettons voice?
||||||||| Outside, the 8:57 PM uptown bus from Leesburg pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: Howdy fellow chatters.
llanwydd: hi beet
Cease: HI Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: yo Beet
Beet: Howdy Llan, Cease, Tween
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DJTweeny: No llan, this is from Greg Lake's first solo album
Beet: Are we under attack?
Cease: You are.
Beet: Thanks
DJTweeny: You will be apparently when you listen to Cat's new collage ;)
llanwydd: aha
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 12, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'John_L_Tirebiter_3rd_Ltd', just granted probation at 9:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: a series based on David Halberstam's tv series The 50s
llanwydd: Hi JLT
DJTweeny: Mr. Tirebiter...
Cease: tonight, the first of maybe 5
Cease: Hi Ltd.
Beet: Did you dedicate your collage to me? I am honored.
||||||||| 9:04 PM: Not Ed jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Not Ed: Pork?
DJTweeny: hello Not Ed
Beet: Hi Not
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: David Ossman’s concert “NOT INSANE 2020: THE OSSMAN CHRONICLES”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Not Insane 2020 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k
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Beet: This'll be good
Cease: HI Not
Not Ed: Cooool Tweeny & Cat
Not Ed: Hey C
Cease: Is your name The 50s, Beet?
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Not Ed: Cheers Beet
Beet: Could be.
Cease: I used this in a collage recently
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the YouTube video of David Ossman’s live concert in Langley, WA last March, ”NOT INSANE 2020: THE OSSMAN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k
Cease: Monster Island.
Beet: If one can be certifiably insane, who can certify sanity?
DJTweeny: Good point
||||||||| Catherwood leads Irving_99 in through the front door at 9:10 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Irving
Beet: Hi Irving
Cease: Hi 99
Cease: Are you the One After 99 the Beatles sing about?
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:11 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Beet: Hey Dang
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny!
Cease: HI Dang
Deputy Dang: HI Cease!
Irving_99: Nope. Just trying to see if I can get this chat thing to work. ;-)
DJTweeny: It would appear so...
Irving_99: Had every FT album I could get my hands on in the 70's.
DJTweeny: excellent :)
Cease: Welcome
Not Ed: Yo Dang, Irv, JLT
DJTweeny: Do you have the Millenium Trilogy they did back around the turn of the century?
Not Ed: Cheers llan & Rufus + RPT
llanwydd: I think I have owned every fst recording up to All Things Firesign
Irving_99: My fellow Dorm Rats thought there was something wrong with me. :-)
llanwydd: back at ye ed
Cease: You were just ahead of them, 99
Not Ed: Corporations S*CK
Rufus_T_Firetween: Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
Not Ed: this is great guys
Rufus_T_Firetween: The 1st of the 3 Millenium Trilogy albums ^^
Cease: Got a very Ossman=heavy collage for you after this.
Not Ed: everything should be edible
llanwydd: immortality was the first cd I ever bought. started late
Irving_99: Take off your shoes (for Industry) and get comfortable...
Cease: Big chunk of his play New Mexico Overdrive
Not Ed: cool C
Cease: The first of my series about the 50s. Lotsa nuclear worries in those days
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the YouTube video of David Ossman’s live concert in Langley, WA last March, ”NOT INSANE 2020: THE OSSMAN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k
Cease: I remember drop drilll. Friday mornings at 10 AM
Beet: The sounds that emanated from the albums didn't sound similar to anything ever before created. If you were listening next door it could be kind of confusing.
llanwydd: yeah, I had air raid drills in first grade
DJTweeny: No doubt, Beet :)
Irving_99: It certainly confused MY neighbors!
Beet: Mine too.
Cease: One of my first flicks too.
Cease: If the Russians had nuked us at 10AM on a Friday, we would all have been safe, hiding under our desks
llanwydd: lol cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
DJTweeny: The desks made for nice kindling ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the DAVID OSSMAN’S WEB SITE at >> http://davidossman.com
llanwydd: we didnt duck under the desk, we lined up in the hallway and put our coats over our heads
Cease: Good book
llanwydd: thats how I remember it anyway
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** David Ossman at Firesign Theatre >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** David Ossman at Wikipedia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ossman
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'Johan Amadeus Myjetski ', just granted probation at 9:21 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: A ton of archives!
DJTweeny: Hey Johan
Cease: That's a lot of work.
Cease: Hi Jammy
Not Ed: Hi ho JAM
llanwydd: hi JAM
Beet: Hi JAM.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Sorry to be late!
Deputy Dang: better late than never! Welcome back!
DJTweeny: Still plenty of good material :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hullo,, djt, beet, llan, cease, not, et al!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : DePuty, hiyas!
Irving_99: Could it be, that this amiable zip had found what we've all been looking for?
Not Ed: maybe
Cease: Could be
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : And they all play the piano, so beautifully...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ray Bradbury was one of my first and remains one of my favorite writers.
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llanwydd: I have read a lot of bradbury myself
llanwydd: the illustrated man was my first
Irving_99: Loved that book! Also the Martian Chronicles.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : LOVE Illustrated Man! Rod Steiger film version was pretty faithful to the book.
llanwydd: I have been revisiting the martian chronicles on youtube
llanwydd: the audiobook version
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the YouTube video of David Ossman’s live concert in Langley, WA last March, ”NOT INSANE 2020: THE OSSMAN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I have developed an affinity for audiobooks, too!
llanwydd: the first audiobook I listened to all the way through was The Fountainhead read by edward hermann
Cease: Theatre of the mind.
llanwydd: exactly
Cease: Proctor has a fine audiobook of his Fortune Cookie
llanwydd: I still think hermann was the best audiobook reader
Beet: Great voice.
llanwydd: I have to get to walmart. see you again in about a half hour or so
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 9:41 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Beet: See you on the return.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Another good reader was Dick Estelle, had an NPR show called the Radio Reader. My first audiobook was him reading Auther C. Clark’s Songs of Distant Earth. Brilliant!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Arthur
Beet: Hey, Cease, last night there was a special on PBS about the Seattle World's Fair. I thought of you.
Cease: I wonder if I saw that. Yeah, that was my first world's fair. did a collage about it, as you may recall
Cease: I milked everything I could find about that fiar from youtube
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : That collage made me feel like i had been at that fair, but I wasn’t
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “Where's My Fortune Cookie?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor’s Audio Book of his recent autobiography “Where's My Fortune Cookie?: My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory” is now available! >> https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v
Cease: 5 fiars, 5 collages
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Beet: I never made it to one. Pretty cool experience from the looks of it.
DJTweeny: I was at the New York and Montreal fairs
Not Ed: oh man kewl
DJTweeny: and yeah, they were amazing
Cease: Van greatly benefitted from its fair in 86
Not Ed: interesting
Not Ed: jealous
Not Ed: btw, tanx Rufus
Cease: speaking of laughter, I saw Maron here in Vancouver last Sat.
Cease: He was fantastic
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Cease: If you get a chance to see him. do it.
DJTweeny: Cool, Cease
Cease: Also a talk by the artist Sara Cwynar. She'll be in next week's collage.
Cease: This is the best poem I've ever encountered
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Almost hep-cat poetry
Irving_99: Mind wandering. Must go follow it and keep it out of trouble. Next time, all...
||||||||| "Hey Irving_99!" ... Irving_99 turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:58 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cease: They still hadthose incinerators in LA when we moved there in 56
Beet: Bye 99
Cease: come again, 99
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Yeah it is Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite Irving!
DJTweeny: 'Beat Poetry'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Real beet, daddy!
DJTweeny: daddy-o
Beet: snap fingers
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“THE 50's” (Part 1)
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/
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Beet: Collage away.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: haha
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 50'S” (Part 1) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
Cease: I call this episode Babies and Bombs
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin, Frazer Smith and Michael C. Gwynne had a radio show in LA in the late 70s called Hollywood Nite Shift, which imagined Ed Teller as an atomic wimp. https://archive.org/details/Hollywood_Nite_Shift_16bit_44_1ksamp_sec
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
DJTweeny: Do you want it listed that way in the archive, Cat?
Cease: Yes
DJTweeny: k
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Cease: I'm thinking 5 parts
DJTweeny: done
Cease: I highly reccommend this TV series on Youtube
DJTweeny: Right, I've stared a new section for them
Not Ed: that's the idea
Not Ed: this should link to my Firesign YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v7ZDxE26jfkOSw8HwIfZCZzPU-m1YcZ
Cease: Good idea, Not
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Can I get a witless?
Beet: The series Chernobyl was pretty frightening.
Cease: Is that HBO?
Cease: I'm getting Netflix this weekend
Beet: Yep
Cease: I want to see Russian Doll
Beet: What's that about?
Beet: I just looked it up. Looks interesting.
Cease: https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80211627
Cease: read New Yorker review of it, made me want to watch
Beet: erle stanley gardner wrote perry mason.
Cease: this is terry southern
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: i have a strange connection to perry mason.
DJTweeny: Oh?
Beet: What is it?
Cease: i have a blog post about it somewhere but i'm too stoned to find it.
Not Ed: mm hmm
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Im a fan of the old perry masons.
Cease: basically, perry's secretary was the mother of a friend in first grade, billy katt
Cease: we were identical.
Beet: cool
Cease: but billy was always getting in trouble.
Cease: so the shcool called mrs katt to come to school to pick up their naughty son.
Cease: when she arrived, she grabbed me.
Beet: needed a good attorney
Cease: it took the whole drive back to house to convince her that she had the wrong person.
Beet: So Della thought you were her son?
Cease: yes
Beet: wow
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : That’s funny,cease, but must’ve been scary at the time
Cease: it was
DJTweeny: haha, that's cool Cease
Cease: i should have asked for a role on perry mason
DJTweeny: yy
Beet: They did have one or two kids involved in a cases.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “THE 50'S” (Part 1) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin, Frazer Smith and Michael C. Gwynne had a radio show in LA in the late 70s called Hollywood Nite Shift, which imagined Ed Teller as an atomic wimp. https://archive.org/details/Hollywood_Nite_Shift_16bit_44_1ksamp_sec
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The pint sized client from season two i think it was
Beet: amazing
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Zach', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:41 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Cease: hi zach
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Zach
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Zach: Hi!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Beet: My mother loved reading mysteries. Had her reading glasses and an open mystery when she passed.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yo, Zack!
DJTweeny: Show's almost over, but good to have you here :)
Beet: Hi Zach
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Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“THE CASE OF THE MISSING GENERAL”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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Beet: Nice one, Dr. Cease.
Cease: Thanks, Beet.
Cease: I hope he series is successful
Beet: Are there still private detectives?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Remember folks, the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:40pm Eastern
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Great collage, Cease, really engaging!
DJTweeny: Sure there are
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Slimy characters most of them!
Beet: I'm sure some very entertaining shows could still be created about these guys.
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
Beet: Everyone's always knocking Nick out.
DJTweeny: Beverly Hicks Polics lol
DJTweeny: *Police
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yeah i caught that, too!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Like a malady
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ha!
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
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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
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Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Nite all! Thanks all!
Beet: Interesting and entertaining evening. Nice to see everyone. Fabulous collage, Dr Cease. Thanks as always, Dr Tween. G'Nite.
Cease: Next week's collage is about TV and advertising in the 50s
DJTweeny: good topic
Cease: I was one of the founders of Adbusters.
Cease: so a natural topic for me.
Cease: can you send me an mp3 of the lennon thing?
||||||||| Cease leaves at 10:57 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..."
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zach - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| John_L_Tirebiter_3rd_Ltd - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 4:32 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
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Irving_99
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Zach
URL References:
http://davidossman.com
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#50s
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://archive.org/details/Hollywood_Nite_Shift_16bit_44_1ksamp_sec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ossman
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80211627
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v7ZDxE26jfkOSw8HwIfZCZzPU-m1YcZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE6aDIxc4k



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