Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/12/2026

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 March 12, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Deputy Dang 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.
||||||||| It's 11:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: From Firesign's BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER “The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour (Live at the Pilgrimage 6/6/1969)”
and some of their performance at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
from FOOLS IN SPACE “Episode 1: I Do Not Have Anthrax (Part 2)”
plus from DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES “Radio Prison In Peace & War”
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'
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 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 steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Deputy Dang: Hello folks! I apologize for just lurking in the chat lately.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cease into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Cease: Lurk away, Dang
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! I do appreciate your work in this wonderful experience. I wish there were a modern equivalent to FST we could enjoy in light of the current fuckery.
Cease: I was just listening to a Rachel lMaddow speech at my university from 3 days ago
Cease: indeed, deputy.
Cease: Look up UBC Lind 2026 Rachell Maddow. I just it by accident.
Cease: found
Cease: Was watching my daily Ukraine news and noticed UBC Rachel down the feed
Cease: Will definitely turn it into a collage
Deputy Dang: I'm not sure if I'm watching the "right" Ukraine news. I only hear the good things (good from the Ukraine perspective).
Cease: I watch Anna from Ukraine every day and join her saturday chats.
Cease: This yuoung Irish guy is great, Caolan Robertson. The guy who looks like Charlie Breownm Paul Warburg
Deputy Dang: Okay. I brought it up to watch later. Thank you. I've been watching The Military Show.
Cease: yeah that's very good. my wife watchss that all the time
Deputy Dang: Hmm... a glance at the thumbnails look roughly consistent with what I've been hearing.
Cease: that jason jay smart guy has good info but he's hard to listen to.
Cease: she also watched ukrain news from japanese news sources
Deputy Dang: I worry sometimes that I'm in my own bubble, and only listen to what agrees with my beliefs (or wishes). If that's the case, it sounds like we're in the same bubble.
Cease: i subscrbe to the Kiev Independed and they certainly are.
Deputy Dang: are what? independent?
Cease: yes.
Cease: i quote a couple things in my Ukraine play.
Cease: from them.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match!"
Deputy Dang: Are your plays available for online viewing? I've only been to Canada a couple of times, both day trips. Once in Montreal, once in Toronto.
Deputy Dang: Online, or available on some media?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice."
Cease: https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html
Cease: Most are here, including the 3 I did with the Firesigns
Deputy Dang: Cool, thank you! It looks like more than enough material to last until next week!
Cease: YOu can also listen to some of the collages in links in the Blog.
Cease: I'm as procutive as possible.
Cease: productive.
Deputy Dang: I'm very sedentary. I think it's harming my mental state.
Cease: Tween has the link to his archive which dissappeard with Doc Tech a year and ahalf ago
Cease: I have talked to this guy on the phone.he'
Cease: he's supposed to put the stuff I did with Firesign in the LOC
Deputy Dang: That would be wonderful!
Deputy Dang: Will be? Would be? The best be.
Cease: Ossman tells it's happened but I have yet to be noticed.
Cease: notified. i helped get the Firesign into the lOC to begin with.
Deputy Dang: I had that impression from things you've said before.
Cease: i have told the story here many times
Cease: i wonder where everyone else is tonight? this is great stuff
Deputy Dang: I haven't heard this before. I'm pleasantly surprised how recent it is.
Cease: they did this bit many times but this is a particularly good version.
Cease: just because they weren't and still are endlessly crative, doesn't mean they don't constantly recycle
Deputy Dang: It's cool that it's just he two of them.
Cease: it's cool that's there's any of them left. and proc seems to have embarked on a new life with Adele
Deputy Dang: Well... I mean it would be cooler if it were the four of them. It's cool how awesome it is with only two.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What's it all about, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from Anytown, USA?"
Cease: they both are doing weekly radio shows now.
Cease: i agree
Cease: Proc tells a story about working with Orson on his first flick
Deputy Dang: I'm almost weeping, hearing this.
Cease: it is intense, the way they summon their follow Firesigns
Deputy Dang: exactly
||||||||| 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..
Deputy Dang: that was amazing
Cease: Wish there were more of us to bathe in it
Deputy Dang: yeah. I also wonder where the folks are.
Deputy Dang: Earlier this week, I learned of another work titled Everything You Know is Wrong. It's a nutball theory by a fellow named Lloyd Pye. You can find it on YouTube. It would be funny, if he weren't serious.
Deputy Dang: And yes, I know the FST album starts with In the Next World...
Deputy Dang: And yes, I know that I just mixed up the title with You're on Your Own.
Cease: There is so much, it's easy to mix up
Cease: You'll notice this Almost the same thing as the LOC piece. That's why I'm playing it.
Deputy Dang: I definitely noticed.
Cease: Firesign Chats. That's us!
Cease: I hadn't noticed that before.
Deputy Dang: I'm wondering if I've heard this Mark Time before.
Cease: aven't you heard the whole Fools in Space series?
Deputy Dang: I'm not sure.
Cease: thier last paid project, 2001/2
Cease: No, the All Things Firesign was the following year but that's long ago
Cease: For 90 minutes, there have only been the 2 of us, and you're usually just lurking
Deputy Dang: ok
Cease: did you collaborate with l ron hubbard?
Deputy Dang: That's not the verb I would use.
Cease: i have listened to this many times and i keep learning from it, like all firesign
Cease: thre is another ref on this serfies to nick danger as a scientologist
Cease: both bergman and the fat turtles guy taught at ucla at the same time.
Deputy Dang: what did he teach?
Cease: bdrtgman taught comedyu. flo and or eddie too
Cease: not sure a about turtle taught
Cease: montreal is a great town.
Cease: briwan westly filmed all these shows. don't know if he's still alive
Cease: we were at the 99 seattle show together, with many others
Cease: that seems to have been a pivoltam moment in firesign fandom
Cease: perfhaps more people will show up next week
Deputy Dang: I hope so. I look forward to Thursday nights.
Cease: Me too
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Deputy Dang: Good night, Cease!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood leads OOLaurence 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.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| OOLaurence - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
Cease
Deputy Dang

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html