Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
06/08/2023

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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 08, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween 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.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 6:40pmET
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW FIRESIGN CHAT TIME **
**THE FIRESIGN CHAT TIME HAS MOVED TO 7PM -9PM EASTERN **
The Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starts at 7pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music now begins around 6:40pmET
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW FIRESIGN CHAT TIME **
** THE FIRESIGN CHAT HAS MOVED TO 7PM -9PM EASTERN **
The Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starts at 7pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music now begins around 6:40pmET
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:30 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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 08, 2023 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus_T_Firetween close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and johan amadeus myjetski steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi johan
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the sitting room.
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts ra 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.
DJTweeny: Hi ra
DJTweeny: streams up in a few minutes, followed by warm-up music
DJTweeny: (DJTweeny = DIllo :)
DJTweeny: *Dillo
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 7pm Eastern this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 6:40pm Eastern
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.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 – ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-A NEW WORLD RECORD
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Zen Cosmos into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hey Zen
Zen Cosmos: hey
DJTweeny: Lynne was such a great addition to the Wilburys in many ways, including the production
||||||||| 8:00 PM: johan amadeus myjetski jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTweeny: ra, this is the first show at our new time so the attendance may be small until everyone is aware of the change
johan amadeus myjetski: +
DJTweeny: Hi johan
johan amadeus myjetski: sneaking to you via early smeakiness
DJTweeny: you sneaky sneak, you
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's morlog, just back from Funfun Town."
DJTweeny: Hey morlog
DJTweeny: Stopped for the evening?
morlog: he there
johan amadeus myjetski: oh, i mean i must've left yours in the car - i'll go get it...
DJTweeny: heheh johan
morlog: unless I ge a rideat a truck stop
johan amadeus myjetski: hey ZenC, morlog, et al
DJTweeny: did you get any of those t-storms that came through the area morlog?
DJTweeny: would make for some wet traveling
morlog: yep
morlog: didn't get wet though, had a ride at the time
DJTweeny: looks to be clear sailing for the next few days
morlog: made it to Hearne,Tx
DJTweeny: not sure where that is, near Waco?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
morlog: no, its on US79 past Taylor
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: David Ossman's STILL WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
DAVID OSSMAN >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman'
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging cat by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
Merlyn: hey
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Mister policeman, what makes America great?"
cat: wow,the audio on this computer works a miracle
cat: hi merl
DJTweeny: Hey cat
Merlyn: hey cat
ra: hey
johan amadeus myjetski: hey cat,merlyn!
cat: merl, you and me (vastly more you than me) and a few other folks have done more to promote firesignh,and to demonstrate firesign as platform for our own creativty, what confuses me is why areb't there more of us? why arent' many many crearive folk having their abilities broadened by exposure to Firesign and then give it back the the community of fireheads, the few of us
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again."
cat: Bruce Snyder squared
Merlyn: Ha
Merlyn: Lech
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
cat: does anyone remember vachel lindsay?
cat: big influence on phil austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: I do not...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Cease squared, eh?, just back from Billville."
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease squared, eh?: ok, i got lost for a bit here. now i'm no longer waiting for that electrifian.
Cease squared, eh?: hi/by morlog
Rufus_T_Firetween: morlog is on the road, hitching from TX to New England
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out ELECTRICIAN at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-rv'
DJTweeny: Humbolt is my absolute favorite FST skit
Cease squared, eh?: Tis wonderful.
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll get more people here when everyone knows the time has changed
Cease squared, eh?: maybe
Rufus_T_Firetween: hahaha, come on now let's be optimistic :)
Cease squared, eh?: the firesign gives us something to be optimistic about.
Cease squared, eh?: there are other options to explore, they open doors
Rufus_T_Firetween: they open doors of perception?
johan amadeus myjetski: oh, for goodness snakes!
DJTweeny: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: David Ossman's STILL WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
DAVID OSSMAN >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman'
||||||||| 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..
cat: is this the real David Ossman?
DJTweeny: Well ra, youre a Firesign fan from back in the day right? Tell your friends about our little chat :)
cat: where is everybody? why are there so few of us here? Tihs is amazing stuff
DJTweeny: No, it's the surreal David Ossman
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed."
cat: tween, i have relentlesslyh promoted this chat since it began in 1995
DJTweeny: Unfortunately, people will show up after the end of the show. I'll post a message letting them know the time has changed.
cat: teh firesign relentlessly thought about what they were doing
DJTweeny: Next week should be better.
cat: I should have my Winnie the Pooh collage ready for next week.
cat: it's gonna be a 2 parter so anchored over the 2 hours
Rufus_T_Firetween: Their cover of Winnie is great
||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease squared, eh? - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cat: Isn't this wonderful?
cat: later babes
DJTweeny: amazing
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out ELECTRICIAN at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-rv'
DJTweeny: A great bit of Firesign history
cat: rhew3ir most comprehensive. and i should knbow
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cat: this is as good as it was in 1968
Tweeny: classic
cat: Firesign brilliace illuminaes us forever
Tweeny: Interesting that Austin said this was the least favorite of the first 4 albums, but he didn't say which one he liked the best
cat: uh, we are lucky about that, tween we dont want to know theirs favs
cat: it would fuck up our appreciatonsk i fear
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Jason Klamm’s VINYL OSSMAN
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out Jeff's Klamm's Podcasts at >> http://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/episode-353-david-ossman-of-the-firesign-theatre/'
cat: a sound scape
Merlyn: ha
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
llanwydd: you guys are early
llanwydd: oh, I forgot
llanwydd: which was austins least favorite, tween
llanwydd: anybody notice me?
llanwydd: catherwood says I got here in time
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 8:00 PM, exactly!"
||||||||| Deputy Dang sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: Hey Dang
Deputy Dang: I love obsidian knockers.
||||||||| 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.net/firesign'
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy, were starting 2 hours earlier now
Deputy Dang: Heya llanwydd!
Deputy Dang: Since when?
cat: Hi. I was trapped in anotrher site. Just escaped
cat: fan should hear this, eh
Deputy Dang: Oh man! I thought I broke the funway!
Rufus_T_Firetween: since tonight
Rufus_T_Firetween: 7-9pm Eastern from now on
cat: tothis day'
Merlyn: sincr today
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
cat: wanna play einstein in my new play?
Deputy Dang: I'll be sure to be more on time next week. I'm bummed that I missed it tonight, but an earlier schedule will be easier for me. Cheers all!
DJTweeny: Yeah, same for me Dang
Merlyn: since today
Deputy Dang: Heya Merlyn!
cat: by
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Deputy Dang: e
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs cat by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
llanwydd: deadful grates
||||||||| Deputy Dang 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..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: okay goodnight folks. I will try to remember the time change next week.
||||||||| llanwydd leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Funfun Town.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule.
Beet: Good Evening!
Beet: Hi, Dr. Tween, Dr. Merl, Dr. Zen, Dr, Ra, Dr. Llan.
Beet: Oh, well, G'Nite all. See you next week maybe.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "not should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as not enters and sits at the bar.
not: Hey Beet
not: Hey Ruf & Merl
not: sorry brb
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| ra - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Merlyn - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Not Ed: Ahh that's better
Not Ed: ....sigh
||||||||| New notice: '** THE FIRESIGN CHAT TIME HAS MOVED **
The Firesign Chat and Show are now
7 Eastern / 6 Central / 5 Mountain / 4 Pacific
See you next Thursday :-)'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Tweeny is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Buzzy and Bunny K.', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Buzzy and Bunny K.: Bummer, I did not know. Just one hour now?
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| not - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Buzzy and Bunny K. - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers SidFudd 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.
SidFudd: Heh. I can really time these things can't I? Oh well
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- SidFudd left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| 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
Buzzy and Bunny K.
cat
Cease squared, eh?
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
morlog
Not Ed
not
ra
Rufus_T_Firetween
SidFudd
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/episode-353-david-ossman-of-the-firesign-theatre/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wfte-rv