[Kzyxtalk] Narcissisma, pride of Pomona, belle of Biloxi.

[Marco McClean]

"She got no bellybutton, too, no high-heel shoe." --Don McLean


The recording of last night's (2016-09-09) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download and keep and skip 
around in via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


An unusually crowded night. Notty Bumbo (his real name) came and read a 
story and some poetry. Molly B brought pie and a doggerel paean to a 
redwood's capacity to wreck your septic line. Stuart Cohen played guitar 
until his hand hurt. He sang his song about the big deal on 9/11, which 
was fifteen years ago tomorrow; in three years the trillion-dollar 
war(s) we started in response to that, on all the wrong people, will be 
old enough to join the Army. Scott Peterson called to talk about 
fracking under the sea off the coast of California. Much later on, an 
excited young man wandered in to inform me that /the door was open/; he 
sat at the guest mic and delivered a short fast poem about, um, kegs (I 
think) (possibly cakes), the bitches, and somebody's grandmother, 
between whom he couldn't decide which one to do, or to "do". He must 
have resolved it, because a couple of hours later he stopped by again, 
this time to /shout out/, as they say, to all the bitches (see above), 
or possible from them, hard to tell. The radio station is next to the 
Tip Top bar, which also explains the occasional distant ejaculation of 
laughter or dismay, the giant motorcycles that sound like a string of 
M-80s going off, and the metronomically barking dog.


A busy show with a lot to recommend it. Also a lot of technical mistakes 
on my part that at the time made me cringe, but afterward, skimming the 
aircheck, I just find funny. Volume problems, mostly. And forgetting to 
turn a mic on (or off). Several people talking at once, sounding like 
the visual of the ocean liner stateroom scene in /A Night at the Opera/ 
("And two more hard-boiled eggs.") But mostly it's just a great deal of 
useful information, including an essay on why not to stop a suicide, a 
story about the interpersonal vicissitudes of stripping for a living 
(how not to get shanked for showing up the Queen of Pain), convict yoga 
(and medicinal ice cream, for meth hangover), the discovery of 
surprisingly complex space dust, the new dented-can store they're going 
to plop on the scenic corner of Highways 1 and 20, a few thoughtful 
angles on racism and bigotry, Kurt Vonnegut on kindness, George Carlin 
and Tom Waits on advertising, the 1960s Soviet /Eureka/ (a science 
town), "clean eating" debunked, etc.  It’s a seven-and-a-half-hour show.


Also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find links to a chaotic 
Rolodex of things to read and play with and learn about, that wouldn't 
necessarily work via radio but that are nonetheless worthwhile, that I 
found while putting radio shows together. Heaps of superlative brain 
candy, going back years, and all of it free. Items such as:


An educational comic strip to explain Friday's (Sept. 9) unfortunately 
literally impossibly ambitious massive prison labor strike.
http://tinyurl.com/z8ewmtg


A sweet little act of an old magician that shows he's still got it. Pop 
Haydn in the Parlor. (20 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db8f6-y1DYU


A remarkable dance. This is supposed to be about all those young people 
who were shot in that nightclub in Orlando.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSRyLdjsPA


And Deaf King Kong. A signed joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgGnBwU3QHE


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