{"id":853,"date":"2001-11-09T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2001-11-09T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=853"},"modified":"2001-11-09T07:36:19","modified_gmt":"2001-11-09T12:36:19","slug":"i_spell_my_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/09\/i_spell_my_name.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I spell my name &#8230; DANGER&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesigntheatre.com\/\">Firesign Theater<\/a> has recorded a live show for the PBS &#8220;Weirdly Cool&#8221; show.  It&#8217;s their 35th Anniversary, and they do some of their classic bits, including &#8220;How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You&#8217;re Nowhere At All?,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers,&#8221; and, natch, &#8220;Nick Danger, Third Eye.&#8221; You can find your local TV schedule for is showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesigntheatre.com\/weirdly\/cities.html\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\"><i>Denver, CO KRMA Sat 12\/1 10:20 pm (approx)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m there.  Or my VCR is.  If I only had a TiVo, of course, it would be easy to be there &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Firesign Theater fan of sorts for years.  When I move to Ft. Collins in high school, the two Funniest Guys in the School did the <i>Nick Danger <\/i> skit for the school talent show.  I later passed on the (bootleg) script to my brother, who did it somewhere as well.  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