[Kzyxtalk] Post-racist society, my white ass.

[Joel Waldman]

And speaking of your white ass,

Happy Thanksgiving, Marco.

Have you got my CD?


Joley




On Nov 22, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Marco McClean wrote:

>  The recording of last night's (2014-11-21) KNYO Memo of the Air: Good
> Night Radio show is ready to download and keep or just play with one
> click at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com.
>
> Did you know that even today we can place Lewis and Clark’s camp
> latrines, because they prophylactically swallowed mercury for the
> syphilis they imagined they might catch by trading trinkets to Native
> American women in return for a little consideration of an explorin’
> man’s needs? Also, Frida Lyngstad of Abba (/Funky Town/, /Fernando/,
> /Dancing Queen/, etc.) was among the issue of the Nazi lebensborn
> program. Further, NASA is about to wake up the Kuiper Belt mission  
> robot
> to snap some pictures on its gravity-sling pass by Pluto, which is so
> far away that the radio signals sent by the robot, traveling at the
> speed of light, will take many hours to reach Earth. Meanwhile, an old
> grayish-whitish man in America’s Bible Belt, startled up out of his
> engrossment in Fox so-called News by a noise outside, shot a
> milk-coffee-colored college boy dead for turning around in the  
> driveway,
> paid a $500 fine for it and –it doesn’t say exactly but I think he  
> gets
> to keep his gun too. Are we an interesting species, or what?  
> Furthermore
> allow me to call your attention to the prison breakout scene in this
> week’s (originally December third 1946's) Boston Blackie, where the
> prop-siren failed (!) and the sound effects operator, missing not a
> beat, used a slide-whistle (!!) instead, which you’ll hear warble from
> his own barely stifled laughter in relief that he’d thought to use it
> and then in shared amusement with the actors who were all simulating  
> the
> prison break by shouting, stomping around and helpfully cranking the
> mechanical machine-gun machine because the sound effects man’s hands
> were occupied. Good times. Good times.
>
> And, in addition to this seven-hour-plus show, at
> http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you will find many other
> emotio-educational gimcracks and gewgaws, such as:
>
> Thermal view.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48bwQVa0AQc
>
> A roller coaster ride.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gK5MWQ__Ns
>
> An illustrated discussion of /Interstellar/ sound design.
> http://vimeo.com/112098660
>
> And the sinuous dance of a snake-painted woman and her pretend  
> flautist.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a8lCC-nZag
>
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