Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
04/11/2024

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 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 11, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 Tweeny gets out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| 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 LAWYER’S HOSPITAL
plus TALES OF THE OLD DETECTIVE
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'
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 11, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits on the divan.
Beet: Howdy, Folks!
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
Beet: Oh, nobody here yet.
Deputy Dang: Howfy Beets!
Beet: Hi, Deputy
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Cease sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: I like how we always start with Hanna Barbara sound effects.
Tweeny: Evenin' Cease, Beet, Deputy
Deputy Dang: Is Lawyer's Hospital the one with, "I'm not mean to Bambi... she likes it that way!"
Cease: Hi all-night Firesign fans
Cease: yes, dang.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, parders!
Beet: Howdy Cat, Tween.
Cease: Thatg reminds me of Philip K Dick, also an astute observer of American trash
Cease: Demagraphico was supposed to be the whole album, as i recall.
Beet: I heard a reference to Firesign and "How Can You Be In Two Places . . ." on NPR this morning.
Cease: did you note what show it was on?
Beet: No, sorry.
Cease: I was thinking of this when i was inDenver last fall.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Cease: great Firesign audience there.
Beet: There's a guy in the chatroom of a show called "Due Dissidence" who is always encouraging the commentators to check out Firesign Theatre.
Beet: They're on YouTube
Cease: they got a lot out of Ben Bland
Deputy Dang: Road Ready Flatsnacks
Cease: think find this their most annoying soap opera. but then i find all soaps annoying.
Cease: i left just enough of a fuck sound in
Tweeny: An early HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Cat :-)
Beet: I second that.
Cease: Thanks, Tween
Cease: Beet
Tweeny: How's the back coming along, Cat?
Cease: it's still attached to my body.
Cease: austin loved playing nixon
Beet: and a really good Paul Harvey.
Cease: true
Cease: good plug for their new album
Cease: tnhis is amazinglu funny
Cease: this is a perfect example of austin's writing.
Deputy Dang: what new album?
||||||||| Joey Demographico tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: Hi Joey
Cease: Austin sent some stuff to the New Yorker and was depressed by its rejection, but that last story was as good as anything they;ve publisehd
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Joey Demographico by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Beet: Hey, Joey
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Joey Demographico close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
Joey Demographico: I'm back, all. My phone wasn't letting me navigate or type a comment. Via old school pc now. Hello everyone. Good info I saw on Lawyer's Hospital. Excellent piece of work.
Cease: You star in it.
Joey Demographico: Ha ha. I know.
||||||||| 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..
Joey Demographico: Funny damn album.
Joey Demographico: Hey, Beet.
Cease: Did you hear the live at the Rosy version, forget title. I thinik it was the Joey d. show
Tweeny: Hi Joey
Joey Demographico: Hi there, Tweeny. Were you guys around years ago when Austin was chatting with us on Thanksgiving? That was so great.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Tweeny: Yeah, I miss when Austin would just drop into the chat on occasion. I don't remember that happening on Thanksgiving :/
Tweeny: Wish the remaining members would do that on occasion just for yuks.
Cease: he was almost a regular for a while there.
Joey Demographico: Yes. I think he had mentioned going to leave to eat again.
Cease: he came here to ask us for programming when firesign was given a radio station
Cease: 2013
Beet: Well, it's that time again. Must go. Nice to be with you folks. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
Cease: by beet
Joey Demographico: I was Woody One back then and he talked to me. I remember saying a line about Fuzzy Coathanger to him. He said, "What are you talking about, Woody?" LOL
Joey Demographico: Later Beet
Cease: He was very friendly. All of them, actually
Deputy Dang: Good night, Beet!
Joey Demographico: Proctor and Ossman, very nice guys as well. Proctor had corrected me on facebook about Bergman being voices on Rug Rats. He replied that was only him. Cool.
Cease: They've all done an immense about of work.
Joey Demographico: Gotta eat dinna, Fireheads. Talk real soon. It's been a pleasure.
Cease: Likewise, Joey
Cease: I wish these stories were better known
Cease: this is very much an extention of the old detective character
Cease: This is my favourite of these tales. It's like Austin invites us to imagine death, including his own. In a beautiful, sort of Twiillghtzonesque way.
Deputy Dang: That was fun. I love hearing Austin talk.
Cease: That was great, Tween
Tweeny: Thanks for listening all, see you next week :-)
Tweeny: Hope the back's better Cat
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Deputy Dang by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: Will have new collage next week
Tweeny: kewl
Cease: doing creative work is verty therapeutic
Cease: talk to about it maybe sat or sunday.
Tweeny: I'm working all weekend, but we can get together Monday
Cease: talk to you then
Cease: monday is even better
Tweeny: I have Monday and Tuesday off
Cease: we'll talk then
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Joey Demographico - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: will def be done by monday
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 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 intense demonic possession
||||||||| Cease - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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
Joey Demographico
Tweeny

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