[Kzyxtalk] The fruitcake of knowledge of good and evil.

[Marco McClean]

The fruitcake of knowledge of good and evil.

/"So there I stood in line at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the 
aroma of tuna hotdish permeating the church basement, waiting for Mrs. 
Magendanz to finish carefully carving pieces of warm apple pie and place 
each one gently on a paper plate, and I found myself staring at the back 
of Myrtle Krebsbach's dress, her long dark hair falling gracefully on 
her shoulders. I thought back to that time, a few years ago, when we 
found ourselves together sharing a cigarette behind the Statue of the 
Unknown Norwegian while we waited for the city council meeting to begin, 
and as the soft light of autumn sunset disappeared behind the horizon 
and the whippoorwills began their crepuscular trills, I reached out and 
firmly took hold of her bosom in my hands and said, HONK! ...And then I 
said to Mrs. Krebsbach, If you ever tell anyone about this, I will kill 
you and throw your body in the lake, and you will never work in radio 
again."/

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost, the recording of last night's 
(2017-12-08) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is 
available with a single click. Here:
https://tinyurl.com/MOTA-KNYO-0258

And thanks to the fine folks at KMEC-LP Ukiah, this show ran live there 
too, from the beginning, at 9pm, not waiting till midnight to be 
included, as had been the way. Thank you, Joel Thompson, Ed Nieves, Sid 
Cooperider, Alicia Bales, /the/ Govinda and others at KMEC for this 
improvement and opportunity.

It seems to have worked okay. KMEC left about 20 minutes before I signed 
off KNYO at about 4:05 a.m. but the very end of the show I'll always be 
running an old-time radio play while I clean up my mess and make the 
studio presentable for the next person, so if losing KMEC at that point 
is the most likely thing to go wrong electrically and it happens again 
once in awhile in future shows, and nothing else goes wrong, who could 
ask for anything more?

This show is a little more uneven than usual, due to I don't know what, 
nervousness, probably, but that's the good thing about your getting the 
recording. You can skip right past anything that doesn’t interest you 
personally, or that you're embarrassed for me about, or that grates on 
your nerves, and find something that does interest you. It won’t hurt my 
feelings, and it's so kind of you to even worry about that. You're a 
good person to care about others that much in general, or to care about 
me in particular at all, after what I said to /you/, whatever that was. 
See, I don’t even remember! You’re that much better than /I/ am, and 
good for you. Good for you.

IN OTHER NEWS, as usual at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find 
a fresh batch of links to educational activities and amusements, such as:

Labyrinth. Salt art.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/12/07/a-way-through/

Piano-wire spring-reverb memory. OH! AMAZING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIx2x-Q2fE

What's the best version of Peter and the Wolf?
https://www.theawl.com/2017/12/whats-the-best-version-of-peter-and-the-wolf/

How much corn could a corn duck horn if a corn duck could horn corn?
https://laughingsquid.com/duck-eats-bowl-of-corn/

And deathbed thoughts.
https://theawesomer.com/thoughts-from-your-deathbed/457108/

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