2009.05.05 07:00 - Theater FireSign

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Adams and I exchange the best of memories. Well, at least really good memories. That is what we can remember of our memories. Actually, we remember some issolated bits.  Those are pretty scrambled too..

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning, Master Listener
Adams Rubble: Hi Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning, Adams
Riddle Sideways: was just sitting quietly
Riddle Sideways: waiting for you
Adams Rubble: hehe

Adams Rubble: I am bringing the war back home
Riddle Sideways: ?
Adams Rubble: Everyone calls me nancy
Riddle Sideways: oh ok
Riddle Sideways: I seem to both slow and fast today

Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: There are very few people who look fondly of Firesign theeater
Adams Rubble: seems to require a different kind of sense of humor
Riddle Sideways: ah, I told you I saw them
Adams Rubble nods
Riddle Sideways: they zoomed right past the nancy reference
Riddle Sideways: they were great live
Riddle Sideways: and so in sync
Adams Rubble: They've had lots of tiome to practice :)
Adams Rubble: time
Riddle Sideways: toward the end one of them started losing it
Riddle Sideways: would start giggling if looked toward #3
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: (can't remember their names to bodies)
Adams Rubble: You are only the second person I ever met who appreciates them :)
Riddle Sideways: TY
Riddle Sideways: the lobby was selling "Ralph SporsSport Motors" license plate holders
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble thought it was "Spoilsports"
Riddle Sideways: probably
Adams Rubble: If you lived here you would be home by now
Riddle Sideways: My all time favorite line
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I look for that sign wherever I go
Riddle Sideways: talking signs is the one that hooked me
Riddle Sideways: I have seen 2 of those signs
Adams Rubble: wow!
Adams Rubble: Bet you never saw anyone carrying a brown apper bag with a pickle in it
Riddle Sideways: usually I don't ask what ppl have in their paper sacks :)
Adams Rubble: probably a good idea
Riddle Sideways: the audience recited most of the lines right along with them
Riddle Sideways: until they changed something
Adams Rubble looks shocked
Riddle Sideways: them everybody would applaud
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: This will be a very confusing log for most people :)
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: serves them right :)
Riddle Sideways: most will have to read between the lines and do research
Riddle Sideways: it is about time remembered and rerun of past enjoyments
Adams Rubble: and a bit of maddness
Riddle Sideways: it is about revisiting a space that pleased us
Riddle Sideways: about a part of our reality that is always just back there
Adams Rubble: yes, an interpretation of the real maddness of a time past
Riddle Sideways: when you see somebody smile and laugh at seemingly nothing
Riddle Sideways: do you think they laugh at you
Riddle Sideways: or laugh at themselves
Adams Rubble: they mostly look oddly at me (giggles)
Riddle Sideways: or laugh at a remembered firesign theater line about their condition
Riddle Sideways: like the 15min/90 sec gong
Riddle Sideways: they would just say "bing"
Riddle Sideways: which meant "now for something completely different"
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: the title of the show was 40th birthday of Nick Danger (third eye)
Riddle Sideways: but they did not do any Nick Danger stuff
Adams Rubble: ohhhhh
Adams Rubble: poor nancy
Riddle Sideways: they have a large following on cyberspace
Adams Rubble: I did not know that
Riddle Sideways: they mentioned mary lou ___ (can't spell)
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble trying to remember
Riddle Sideways: 3 of the people around me were on their forums regurally
Riddle Sideways: they did not seem to know each other
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: yet everybody spoke the same phrases
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: May I see your passport please
Riddle Sideways: like being (should that be capitalized) in an auditorium full of Bozos
Adams Rubble falls on the floor giggling
Riddle Sideways: umm, why do you need to see my passport
Riddle Sideways: hey, where are you taking my passport
Adams Rubble: Thie palace is gone...they are cleaning it
Adams Rubble: and now for the really big disease....
Riddle Sideways: Beeeeeeat the Reeeeeeper
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I haven't heard any of that in years...it is all carried around in my head
Riddle Sideways: Forward intothe Past
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: funny how we do that
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: It is the Bozo in us :)
Riddle Sideways: we can pull it out anytime
Riddle Sideways: I'll just put on this av suit here
Riddle Sideways: ta da, another bozo
Adams Rubble: lots of us here in Vespucciland
Riddle Sideways: ah
Adams Rubble: USV
Riddle Sideways: why, friends I have right here page 9A
Riddle Sideways: shoe s for Industry
Riddle Sideways: shoes for the Dead
Adams Rubble: hmmm. don;t know that one
Riddle Sideways: Join the millions of your neighbors and turn in your shoes
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: not one I knew either
Riddle Sideways: Often, when we hear a song on the radio
Riddle Sideways: it reminds us of that special moment
Riddle Sideways: where we were when that song played
Riddle Sideways: well there are those images of "MORE SUGAR"
Adams Rubble: and there is that special moment we think of when we see a brown paper bag with a pickle in it
Riddle Sideways: and when we hear that big theater organ start to play the intro
Riddle Sideways: "Ding"
Riddle Sideways: Think of being 18 years old
Riddle Sideways: and having some friends
Riddle Sideways: that wrote silly stupid drug inducted humour
Riddle Sideways: andyou record it
Riddle Sideways: then for 40+ years you have to recite it again
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: I didn't need drugs to be that silly
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: Imagine being 19 years old and writting "I can't get no satisfacation
Riddle Sideways: and still singing it in your 60's
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: There were people who wrote worse stuff they had to keep singing :)
Adams Rubble: but your point is well taken
Riddle Sideways: the BeeGees come to mind
Adams Rubble: Imagine having to keep singing "Venus"
Riddle Sideways: poor Arlo having to do Alices Resturant again
Adams Rubble: I think that keeps getting shortened
Adams Rubble: I just listened to that a couple of months ago
Riddle Sideways: I heard him redo it 2 years ago
Adams Rubble: ah
Riddle Sideways: what really surprised me though
Riddle Sideways: was that Pema knew/quoted Frank Zappa lyrics
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: there are corners in your friend's minds
Riddle Sideways: that need special care
Riddle Sideways: and dusting
Riddle Sideways: "may I see your passport"
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: may I see you passport, please
Riddle Sideways: can remember the weight of those 10lb headphones
Riddle Sideways: used to listen to those albums
Riddle Sideways: "what's a record, daddy"
Adams Rubble: That is one way to avoid the odd looks from people :)
Riddle Sideways: It is not the odd looks
Riddle Sideways: it is when they call the coppers
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: Fortunately I did not experience that ;)
Adams Rubble: I just waved the pickle and they put down the phone
Riddle Sideways: You have the wrong number... I spell my name D A N G E R
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: I had an idea of what I would chat about today
Riddle Sideways: thank you for not letting me
Riddle Sideways: this has been much more enjoyable
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: and educational
Riddle Sideways: the reader shall have to dig deep
Riddle Sideways: to get our meanings
Adams Rubble: We may find other FST fans
Riddle Sideways: ok, everybody write in to the comment boxes below...
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: that is what it was/is all about
Riddle Sideways: loosening up reality
Adams Rubble: Bringing the war back home
Riddle Sideways: and your grip on it
Adams Rubble: where it ought to have been before
Riddle Sideways: we're all bozos in this virtual reality world
Adams Rubble: Thank you Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Well this has been Ralph Spoilssport of Sporssport motors just down the freeway which is still in progress
Riddle Sideways: saying I need to go get a RL
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Yes back to work....
Riddle Sideways: thank you Adams
Adams Rubble: Have a good day!
Adams Rubble: bye for now :)

Riddle Sideways: c'ya