Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/18/2024

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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 January 18, 2024 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 scurries off to the vestibule.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
the Firesign Chat & Show starts at
7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight:
Firesign's DON’T CRUSH THAT DWARF HAND ME THE PLIERS
plus from Box Of Danger “Snakehead Symphony” and
THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN
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'
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Tweeny!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 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?"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with llanwydd close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the vestibule.
llanwydd: happy thursday
||||||||| 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 Beet falls out at 8:00 PM.
Beet: Hello, Friends.
llanwydd: hey beet
Beet: Hi, Llan, Tweeny
Beet: Another interesting
Beet: start to the evening
Beet: NASA updates are very important.
llanwydd: yes, I get updates on them al the time
llanwydd: all
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Deputy Dang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Deputy Dang enters and sits on the couch.
llanwydd: when they launch at night I go outside to watch
Beet: I just watched the press conference with the Apollo 13 crew right after they got back.
llanwydd: Hey dang
Beet: Hey, Deputy.
llanwydd: I rememberthat. that was scary
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
llanwydd: I was just a kid
llanwydd: I wrote to the astronauts about it. I doubt they got my letter
llanwydd: wasnt it boreman lovell and hayes?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!"
Beet: right
||||||||| 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..
Beet: Here we go . . .
Deputy Dang: Yay! It started perfectly!
||||||||| Cease waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: I dont know how they do it. I dont know if I could take a trip to australia without getting claustorphobic
Tweeny: Evenin' pardners
llanwydd: Hey Tween
Cease: Hi all
llanwydd: Hi Cease
Beet: Hi, Tween, Cease.
llanwydd: I feel terrible about falling asleep during your collage last week
Cease: you can always listen to it in the archives.
llanwydd: not tonignt
Tweeny: llanwydd: I feel terrible about falling asleep during your collage last week<< luckily we have archives :)
llanwydd: I mean I wont fall asleep tonight
Cease: Got food feedback from Phil about it. He promoted it on his Facebook page.
llanwydd: I will definiely check it out
Tweeny: www/kurtericson.net/cat for Cat's collages
Cease: No collages from me tonight. Not sure what the next one will be.
Beet: Now, echnically, you wouldn't hear the Chromium Switch.
Beet: technically
llanwydd: I remember the CS
Cease: The probelm when I get positive feedback from the lads, I'm intimidated. Now I feel I have to make something as good as Smothered/Firesigns. A dauntring task.
Deputy Dang: food feedback? Groat clusters?
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Personally, I liked the Beatles Xmas collage best but not feedback on it. I got an email from Oona about the Eddie Izzard collage.
llanwydd: somebody ought to make a firesign cookbook with recipes for stuff like peccary pie and swell pizza
Cease: Bruce Snyder would be the person to do that.
Beet: no anchovies, of course.
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: I had an anchovy pizza once
llanwydd: once was enough
Beet: very salty little critters
Cease: The eat a lot of anchovies in Spain. I don't know if I'll be able to avoid them there
llanwydd: still have to try a tapas bar
Cease: Yeah I had an anchovie pizza slice at Expo 67 in Montreal. It was frighteningly bad.
llanwydd: I make a great paella, though
Cease: I've been studying tapas bar reviews and menus online and a LOT of them feature anchovies.
llanwydd: too bad
Beet: I've seen some PBS stuff on tapas bars. Looks like a bunch of fun.
llanwydd: thats where I heard about it. jeff smith the frugal goumet on pbs
llanwydd: gourmet
Cease: I'll be in Spain for almost 2 weeks. I expect to eat a LOT of tapas, or as they're called in the Basque country, Pintxos.
llanwydd: thats a gentle giant song. two weeks in spain
llanwydd: very good song
Cease: i'd rather have 2 weeks in spain than 2 weeks in pain.
llanwydd: who wouldnt
llanwydd: say gth to franco for me
Cease: no anchovies!
llanwydd: lol
Beet: I was in the US Navy in Spain while Franco was syill alive.
Beet: still
Cease: That waa long ago
Beet: '72
Cease: 52 years ago.
llanwydd: then say hello to picasso for me
Cease: his art in cans
llanwydd: the grand old painter died last night...
Cease: i'll say hello to all the dead Spaniards.
Deputy Dang: all of them?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!"
Cease: they won't notice.
Deputy Dang: Nevermind--*all* of them, not *each* of them.
Beet: You won't have any time left for the tapas bars.
Cease: i just finished a notel set in Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, where I'll be in May.
Cease: novel,called Origin by Dan Brown.
Beet: Will you be in Madrid?
Cease: yes, 2 days at the beginning of the trip, then 2 more days at the end.
Beet: Going to The Prado?
Cease: My wife and I went on our 2002 trip to Spain. My 2nd favourite painting is there, Las Maninas.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and morlog bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: My wife wents me to check out another painting she liked.
Cease: Hi Morlog.
morlog: hey there
Beet: Hieronymus Bosch
Cease: On that trip, I didn't visit the Anthropology and Archceology museums, to they're first on my list.
Beet: Hey, Morlog
Cease: Yeah love that painting, Beet.
Tweeny: Hi morlog
Beet: Love the heckler
Tweeny: What a beautiful day in Austin today. Sunny and over 70F. It's only a brief respite though.
llanwydd: just checked out las maninas. huge painting.you would have to see it up close to get the full effect
Beet: 2 inches of snow here tomorrow
Cease: indeed
Cease: perfecrt painting to go with album. Don't crush that Dwarf
llanwydd: lol. for sure
Cease: What are all these Mexicans doing here? Maybe my fave Firesign line.
morlog: yeah, was a nice day today, did a bit of riding
llanwydd: I dont get that line, cease. what does it mean?
llanwydd: Im sure its complicated
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Elayne: Evenin' all! Told you (on FB) that I'd try to show for the playing of my favorite album. Even have the sound on
llanwydd: hi elayne
Cease: Hi El.
Beet: Hi, Elayne.
Cease: Good news about the sound
llanwydd: it would be a strange thing to say in california but not in korea
Cease: llan, when I arrived in Japan in Aug, 1971, that line had a lot of meaning for me.
llanwydd: I see
Cease: Suddenly I was surrounded by Other People.
Cease: I think all our favourite Firesign lines are because the particular line had a particular situation attacxhed to it inour lives
llanwydd: just curious, cease. how long is the flight from the west coast to japan?
Cease: I think I love Las Maninas becuae of the Dwarf allusion.
llanwydd: never thought about that. I dont know what my favorite fst line is
Cease: about 9 hours.
Cease: My flight to Frankfurt is about the same. 9 1/2 hours.
llanwydd: I could sleep through it
||||||||| Rad steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: HI Rad
Beet: Hello, Rad.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600"
Cease: A Rad hand?
Elayne: Evenin' Rad!
llanwydd: hi Rad
llanwydd: sorry to say it but I hated that movie
Cease: What flick?
llanwydd: Rad
llanwydd: but great to see a new chatter
Cease: Never heard of it.
llanwydd: you missed nothing
Cease: We had the most snow in a day yesterday since 1996. I would have liked to miss that.
llanwydd: no kidding.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW."
llanwydd: I hope I didnt insult Rad
Cease: Are you insulted, Rad?
Deputy Dang: I see... you are... a sailor...
Elayne: Ah, that was a nice album to listen to again. Thanks Tween!
llanwydd: is that your favorite fst line dang
Cease: Inbdeed, El
Cease: I love that Sailor line as well.
Tweeny: Hey Elayne, you're very welcome :)
Deputy Dang: I think it appears structurally in several of the early albums.
Deputy Dang: Or at least Bozos and DCTD.
llanwydd: if I had to pick a favorite firesign line I think it would be ...and pussycats to eat them when the sun goes down!
Deputy Dang: yes, with the mailman--white with foam!
llanwydd: lol
Cease: that was before molecular gastronomy made foam into a major ingredient
llanwydd: I never heard about that until you mentioned it several weeks ago
llanwydd: ...and an anchovy foam on the side
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rad - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Maybe he came to the wrong place.
llanwydd: probably just wanted to check it out
Cease: He should have tried Prague. More Czechs
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Vot into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Cease: Hi Vot
Vot: What does one talk about in a firesign chat?
Cease: WE're listening to them now.
Vot: Hi hi hi
Cease: You know their work?
Vot: I know their work!
Cease: Heloo Kitty. I did a collage about that.
Vot: Lemme slip into the stream here…
llanwydd: we talk about whatever comes up. lots of glibness and oneliners
llanwydd: but mostly we talk about the firesign theatre
Vot: Ohh is Bride of Firesign the one where peorgie & mudhead are delivery drivers?
llanwydd: yeah
Cease: I have never seen The Bride of Frankenstein. I should look for it.
llanwydd: you should, cease
Vot: A pair of able-bodied seamen
llanwydd: some argue that it is better than the original frankenstein
llanwydd: I am surprised to hear that you have missed it
Beet: This whole thing is a limp subject
Vot: I’m coming down from my flaccid trip
Deputy Dang: Oh my!
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Vot: Ahh snap I have to go
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Vot vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Cease: Come again
Beet: See you again.
llanwydd: I wonder if Vot was Rad
Cease: Good question
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You people are soooooo superstitious!"
llanwydd: dfgchjkl;,mjhgffghbjnkml
Beet: Precisely.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Son, it's in the water - that's why it's yellow."
llanwydd: wonder whats up with tween. he is not very talkative tonight
Beet: He has other gigs.
Beet: Cargerwood give everyone some freon.
Beet: bad typing saved the waiter.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
llanwydd: lol
Beet: Ralph could appear at any time.
llanwydd: but he appears at the beggining
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: By Dang
llanwydd: the begginning of 2 Places, fhe beginning of the honehmooners and the begiinningof lord of rhe lord of the fliesl
llanwydd: catherwood what should I havd on mhy steak tonigt
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to llanwydd and asks "Did you want something?"
llanwydd: well I id zk USZFION YOU MIVHF NOFH S HSdIF
Beet: las maninas
Cease: Bozos next week
Beet: wow that was strange. I meant to say Lea & Perrins
llanwydd: THIS IS S WHF AMBIEN DOES TO MY SPELLIN
llanwydd: i DO HAVDLDAD AND PRRIS
llanwydd: i SWEAR i A NOT TRYING TO DO THIS
Beet: This was fun. A nice Thursday evening. Nice to see everyone. Have a good week and see you next week.
Cease: oh, see y'all next week.
Tweeny: Everybody stay safe and warm...
||||||||| Cease leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown.
llanwydd: yOU TOO, BEET
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
llanwydd: THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT THURSDAY NIGHT
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: HOPETO SEE YOU ALL AND RAD AND VOT AND ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS
llanwydd: NITE EVERYBODY
||||||||| 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 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.
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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
Elayne
llanwydd
morlog
Tweeny
Vot

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www/kurtericson.net/cat