[Kzyxtalk] Hard out here for a pimp.

[Marco McClean]

      "I explained 'gluten allergy' to my grandma and she sighed and 
told me they ate leather belts during WWII to keep from starving." --Paige

     At http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find the recording of 
last night’s (Friday 2015-10-23) KNYO Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio 
show ready to download and keep or just play with one click.

     This is my 917th weekly Memo of the Air show, all told, my 148th 
for KNYO Fort Bragg CA, and just my second for KMEC Ukiah and Redwood 
Valley. The show starts at 9pm as usual on KNYO, then at midnight KMEC 
grabs it in progress and it’s on both stations from then till 3am, and 
then KMEC lets go and anything after that is only on KNYO again. And 
then, next week, and the week after that, and so on.

     I read several stories from the electronic version of the Anderson 
Valley Advertiser ($25 a year, worth every penny), including the one by 
Flynn Washburn about his employment and incarceration history. Two fine 
poems by Mark Winkler of Ukiah. You’re given --/given/-- an opportunity 
to acquire for yourself a goodly share of AzizOmar97’s temporarily 
inaccessible “$48.9MillionUSD and 280 Bars of Gold.” John Sakowicz 
remembers guitar legend Michael Hedges. Alex Balk advises on how to 
manage anxiety (by imagining yourself dead and not having to deal with 
whatever the problem is) (but more than just that). 
Potemkin-village-style cotton-gluing time in Uzbekistan (and locally, 
metaphorically, also cotton-gluing time at KZYX). The 
religious-nonsense-free world KA would like to live in. Oswaldo 
Aquilar’s picks for the biggest lies of still-taught history. A 
defective-flag recall. And– ah-ha: just glancing through the show file I 
grasp now what I bobbled to cause about a fourth of the material to be 
unavailable. It isn’t only the end, it’s a good chunk of the middle, 
including a couple of entertaining true-life horror stories... I’ll 
bring that stuff next week. Anyway, it resulted in an exactly six-hour 
show, to the second, and that’s what I should be shooting for, now that 
I’m old and staying up all day and /all/ night just makes me cranky and 
barky, not like when I was a kid and could eat anything I wanted and had 
that great straight-6 Chevy Biscayne that never burned a drop of oil.

     Just kidding. I can still eat anything I want. Gluten, GMO cheese, 
glyphosate, boiled belts. It rolls right off me.

     Further, at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com there are many 
worthwhile but not necessarily radio-useful items that I found while 
putting the show together. Here are just a few:

     Seven hours on the source of all life compressed into a few 
seconds. A chaotic electromagnetic thermal surface event hundreds of 
thousands of miles wide, involving enough energy to power today’s U.S. 
until the sun's supply of hydrogen runs out and it expands to swallow 
all the planets out to Jupiter. Allow this to put your various little 
quibbles and your neighbor's garage band into perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdXB07FAJpk

     Germany’s new directions in power. (This is the sort of video 
pamphlet you won’t be seeing produced anymore now that Fox so-called 
News perpetrator Roger Ailes has acquired National Geographic, lock, 
stock, barrel, magazine and radio and teevee channels.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ml_3ZfZk8

     If a robbery report was treated like a rape report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0L4V5BWITM

     And swing dancers vs. street dancers. A thrilling display of 
kinetic balance and popping and locking skills.
http://boingboing.net/2015/10/20/swing-dancers-vs-street-dance.html

_____________
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com