[Kzyxtalk] The road to Thorgellen (or) Wasting a wish on wishing a wishbone worked.

[Marco McClean]

The road to Thorgellen (or) Wasting a wish on wishing a wishbone worked.


"It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for 
everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a 
shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and 
the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out 
of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the 
beasts." -Michael Chabon


The recording of last night's (2016-11-25) KNYO (and, three hours in, 
also KMEC) Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is ready to easily 
download and enjoy, via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


In which we learn from writer and professional wedding videographer Alex 
Bosworth about Thorgellen, the ancient pagan festival of feasting, 
nudity, alcohol, pet sacrifice, fire, natural electricity and 
hallucinogenic mushrooms, not necessarily in that order, to honor the 
Great God Thor and placate his wrath. Also we learn some startling facts 
about the ungulates. Here's just one of those facts: Deer and antelopes, 
wherever they play, are more closely genetically related to whales than 
they are to horses! Meredith Smith advocates for Sanctuary City status. 
Richard Alcott and Cob Martin separately weigh in on the freezing water 
cannons and tear-gas and crippling crowd control weapons and roadblocks 
and so on being used against modern-day interpreters of the Ghost Dance. 
Also a history -to the present day- of Jim Crow. Astrophysics, 
mathematics, meta-ceramics, yada yada... Music by Nightcore 
(Chipmunk-like sped-up German-language Celtic metal used in Japanese 
anime), the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Joe Romersa's indelible Leon 
Russel-esque rendition of /One Meatball/. The poetry of William S. 
Burroughs, Thomas Moore, Conrad Aiken, Anthony Hecht, Carl Sandburg, 
Matthew Arnold, and Juanita's little red parrot Melody, author of 
/Chorteet Chort/, an emphatic statement on both the injustice of others 
talking when she wants to talk and the joy of a hard noodle. (Parrots 
–from cockatiels to rosellas to African grays– are the only birds who 
use their feet to eat or to write with a crayon.) And a couple of pithy 
educational films. In fact, the recording begins with /Alcohol Is 
Dynamite!/ Alcohol is a violent narcotic that will humiliate you, ruin 
your life and the life of anyone foolish enough to care about you or 
even ride in a car with you, and then you end up on Skid Row 
prostituting yourself for a bottle. Don't give in to the taunting and 
daring of your jazz musician schoolfriend; he will teach you things 
you're better off not knowing. There's nothing wrong with jazz, but 
/alcohol is dynamite/.


Also, at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find literally 
thousands of links to not necessarily radio-useful but certainly 
worthwhile things to see and/or do and learn about, perfect for a rainy 
holiday, such as:


Spectacular starling murmuration, with sound. The best I've seen yet. 
Even better than Fresno when I was a little boy. It's like giant 
sky-filling ocean waves made of silky smoke that’s a million dancing birds.
http://boingboing.net/2016/11/24/starling-murmurations-as-you.html


Homemade fire tornados.
http://boingboing.net/2016/11/21/how-to-make-fire-tornados-the.html


How KZYX works. But, to be fair, it’s also how everything else works 
anymore, because these are the sort of people who naturally get in 
charge of and fuck up and drag down and stake to the ground everything 
that just wants to fly, and then cut its wings off and have a pledge 
drive to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay themselves to 
make a hat out of the bloody feathers, and then depend on a corps of 
amiable volunteers to actually make the hat, and then congratulate 
themselves as though they've done something wonderful, because to them 
they have. I mean, look, a hat.
http://wondermark.com/c1268/


And a new easy way to use the most effective tool there is to influence 
the government, besides being born out-of-control rich or assassinating 
someone or martyring yourself by blowing the whistle on the intestinal 
fauna of the elephant in the room.
http://tinyurl.com/CleverCallerApp


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

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