[Kzyxtalk] Stuff that works.

[Marco McClean]

  "I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting – 
the sky turned blood-red, and I felt a wave of sadness. I paused, tired 
to death. Above the blue-black fjord and city, blood and flaming tongues 
hovered. My friends walked on. I stayed behind, quaking with angst. I 
felt the great scream in nature. So I challenge the Mona Lisa and 
Whistler’s Mother!" –Edvard Munch


The recording of last night's (2016-05-20) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download for free via 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


I didn’t crack the tooth after all (see last week's post) but just 
bruised the lignin by biting wrong and jamming it into the socket, and 
that’ll fix itself. Dr. Mattson DDS explained the situation, deftly 
applied a little whirring tool to a couple of teeth in strategic 
locations, and voila! Now I can talk as fast as I want to, forget 
entirely about where my teeth are closing, and just shovel out the words 
and thoughts, and the esses /only very rarely/ make that 
fingernails-on-a-blackboard shriek instead of doing it every time I 
don’t put spare clock ticks into consciously driving the machine. It’s a 
weird, liberating sensation. You can hear the effect throughout this 
show, which rockets along through fair and foul material alike, with 
barely suppressed glee bubbling along the edges. The Human Holiday plays 
for about 40 minutes, starting at midnight-fifteen (3 hours and 15 
minutes in), Elly Cooney called and read a story, and still I read a 
seven-hour show in six hours.


Really, I feel like Absolute Evil in Terry Gilliam’s /Time Bandits/, 
where Evil exults about how now HE has the map (“…and the day after 
tomorrow, the world!”). Actually I’ve always sort of identified with 
that character. At least he tried; at least he did that.


It’ll wear off, or rather become the new normal. Except– a generous lot 
of things have been going right for me lately, some of them my own 
doing, some not. Download the show and I’ll tell you about it.


Guy Clark died, and that’s not good, but everything can’t be good all 
the time, can it.


Anyway, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a wide 
selection of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
interesting things to see and do and learn about, such as:


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