Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/19/2026

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 19, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: Peter Bergman's RADIO FREE OZ from the mid-60s
plus Bergman's experimental show THE DIGITAL DINER from 1994
and from BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER “FT Live @ USC 2/27/71 [BTCTW pre-release]”
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'
||||||||| Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweeny exits at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 19, 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 accompanies Cease 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 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Funfun Town."
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Hello down there.
Cease: A vegetable and a Dang.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Ceese! Howdy, Beat!
Beet: Hey cease.
Cease: It was only Dang and me last week. We've increased by 50% already
Beet: Hi, Deputy.
Cease: I was a student of radio at USC in 68
Cease: oh, this isn't the 66 stuff I promoted, bummer
Cease: we just lost sound
Cease: Burroughs. 5,000 hard bound copies of the naked lunch
Cease: one of my fave cds. Welcome to Timbuk 3
Cease: Bergman had such high hopes for rhis show and it didn't find an audience, Alas.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
Beet: I listened to it live and it was thrilling to be a part of it.
Cease: this show?
Beet: yep
Deputy Dang: Is this Melinda Peterson?
Cease: canned hash. apparentlyh bergman smuggled hash in cans of peas.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
Cease: doesnt sound like her
Cease: i feel likethat too. so old
Cease: You still here, Beat?
Cease: bop sax reminds me of kerouac riffs
Cease: good musicains, these
Beet: I'm still here.
Cease: Good
Cease: Last week it was only Dang and me.
Beet: Yeah, I missed last week.
Cease: so did most chatters
Cease: would love to hear from llan. he's supposed to be in my new play.
Cease: johann was a regular here and he suddenly died. actually, many chatters have in our 31 years
Beet: Kickass band.
Cease: No shit
Beet: Where is this show available?
Cease: It ain't. YOu can hear it only here Enjoy.
Beet: OK.
Cease: Large amount of stuff you hear here is from my prvatre collection
Cease: I wish there was a greater audience for this stuff
Beet: Your contribution has always been appreciation.
Cease: appreciated?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Beet: appreciated
Cease: by a few, true.
Cease: ossman likes it.
Cease: in a few weeks, i wil have oulived bergman (75, he died at 74) which is weird. '
Beet: Have you been in contact with David recently?
Cease: newly girlfriended proctor and sgeless ossman continue, far beyond my age
Cease: contact s a relarive term. some times, he emails me, sometimes he doesnt asnwer my emails. he has other thingd to do
Cease: bopth proc and oss are on Facebook All the Time
Beet: Proctor has a new girlfriend?
Cease: yep
Beet: Good for him.
Cease: fellow DJ named Adele.also lawyer in DC
Cease: indeed
Cease: i think her husband died at the same time as melinda's desth, so both in the same space
Cease: they were both in a flick about a maryland radio station she was on, snd they're been together ever since. Good for them bothk eh
Beet: I admire a good romantic story.
Cease: who doesn't
||||||||| 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: Pete mentioned this was the second show. The one I heard was the first one.
Cease: Tween told me to suggest a replay as he's busy today. I thought this would work. not so much, alas
Cease: Tasty Waste
Beet: remember Yellow Pages?
Cease: WASTE: We await silent tristero's empire. from Pyncheons' Crying of Lot 49, one of my faves
Cease: yedp
Cease: I remember the Yellow Peril. I lived in its midst for many years
Beet: Sounds like actual tap dancing.
Beet: Well, gotta go. Enjoyed as usual. Nice to hang even with our small number. Y'all have a great weekend. See you next week. G'Nite.
Cease: By Beet
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Buzzy K.', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Buzzy K.: Hello all, Bunny's in the kitchen whipping up more blue moss.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
Buzzy K.: Maybe someone already said this, Adele will be back on WOWD LP this Sunday at 9 AM Eastern, 6 AM Western. She plays lots of great music.
Buzzy K.: You can find it online. Phil is there in the studio with her but he hasn't said much so far. I asked her to play some firesign bits this coming Sunday
Buzzy K.: I tried to post a photo of Phil from a couple of days ago but it won't let me
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Kestrel74 close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the Aviary.
Cease: The Buzxz
Cease: and Kestrel too
Cease: Hi foloks
Cease: Want to dance, Ms Cheese?
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Deputy Dang!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Kestrel74 - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 Bonzo disembarks at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Buzzy K. - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bonzo - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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
Buzzy K.
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