[Kzyxtalk] Taylor Swift's ham sandwich.

[Marco McClean]

"We have scratched the surface and it's made a funny smell. It’s 
something to investigate." –Jonathan Williams


The recording of last night's (2016-07-08) 107.7fm KNYO (and 105.1 KMEC) 
Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download and 
listen to via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


Show by remote from Juanita's house this time. There was one 
three-minute dropout in the broadcast, when Juanita got back from work 
at 10pm and her cell phone's wi-fi needs began chopping up my connection 
to the KNYO transmitter, but after that, smooth sailing.  The recording 
you get is made in the computer doing the streaming, the one I'm sitting 
at, wherever I'm doing the show from, so it's seamless as usual. Anyway, 
there are avenues to fix the internet reliability problem, and I'll be 
starting down one of them the instant I press send on this.


Meanwhile, in the world of people with /real/ problems, the Battle of 
the Somme, a hundred years ago, commemorated July 1, lasted months, so 
it'll still be the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme 
through Thanksgiving. (Last week I forgot to mention that the Somme 
figures prominently in the Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys, as ingeniously 
realistic a description of inner experience as any of his films. You've 
seen Brazil, and Time Bandits, and Baron Munchausen, and The Imaginarium 
of Doctor Parnassus –they're all wonderful– but I recommend you see his 
Tideland. Read the plot in Wikipedia.)


Also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a plethora of 
links to not necessarily radio-useful but worthwhile things to see and 
do and learn about, such as:


How religion and superstition work. Even when someone plainly shows you 
how you’re being tricked you still see something that isn’t there. Faith 
is just laziness, especially faith in what seems obvious.
http://illusionoftheyear.com/


Or you don’t see something that /is/ there, and suffer because of your 
faith in confident authority. Pay attention to the reaction of the young 
lady volunteer. What shocks her, beyond the physical injury, is what I 
call the /wonder of betrayal/. It’s a mixture of pain and bafflement and 
wishing to go back to the way it was before, when you didn't know what 
you know now, and you still don't know whether it was on purpose, 
because both /how could it have been on purpose?/ and /how could it not 
have been?/ And the man who did it to her is trying to help her, /or is 
he?/ because isn't he still there, still doing it? But there's still the 
appeal of trust in authority. It's a loop. (Not the video, the mental trap.)
http://tinyurl.com/z5q8sq4


“The myth of the loose-woman’s vagina is a myth.” Comparing your dry, 
stingy ham sandwich to Taylor Swift’s generous, juicy ham sandwich.
http://distractify.com/entertainment/2016/07/07/swift-gross-sandwich


And “Dammit, Camus! You ruin everything that's good!”
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/140


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


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