[Kzyxtalk] Dog on Albion Ridge!

[Marco McClean]

On 2/17/2017 4:18 PM, nottyb at bumpintheroad.net wrote:
 > Love this title! I may use it for a story!


     That's a good idea, Notty. It belongs with Kenneth Patchen's 
/Journal of Albion Moonlight/, and /The Dogs of Elsinore/, one of Jean 
Shepherd's thousands of radio monologues-- that one was from a news 
report about canvas and wood WW2 glider planes and other small aircraft 
at a remote airport (Elsinore) being mysteriously destroyed over the 
course of several foggy full moons. At first nobody knew /what/ to 
think, but it was eventually put down to a pack of suburban dogs and 
delicious meat tallow in the wing and fuselage varnish.


     In other news, I'm doing my show live from away at Juanita's 
tonight so I won't be at KNYO (next to the Tip Top bar) to greet you and 
turn on a mic for you. If you want to come in and talk about your 
project or play your musical instrument, or rag on your lousy employer 
and get yourself fired, or whatever, come next week (after 9pm Friday 
Feb. 24t) and walk right in.


     9pm to about 4am every Friday night on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, 
including exactly midnight to exactly 3am on 105.1fm KMEC-LP Ukiah. Also 
via http://knyo.org and http://TuneIn.com (and look for KNYO-LP)


     Further news: Tonight's show is the beginning of my 21st year of 
Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio. From mid-February 1997 to the 
Halloween show of 2011 it was on KMFB, commercial radio, which paid for 
my time and also a cut of the underwriting I brought in, and also paid 
me to fix things and build things at the station. Then an uncannily 
Trump-like old man named Claude Hooten bought KMFB, fired everyone, got 
rid of all the quirky specialty shows, changed it to KUNK (which, look 
up what that means in Urban Dictionary; also /kunked/) and he went to 
nearly-all-the-time automation and Fox Radio so-called News every hour 
on the hour*. I started jumping through the stupid hoops to get my show 
scheduled on KZYX, but got my first inkling that was never going to 
happen after waiting eight months (I'm still waiting). A man who called 
himself Uncle Rusty recognized my voice in the checkout line in Safeway 
one night, and he recommended that I call Bob Young and get on KNYO.


     The next day I got ahold of Bob. He said, "Meet me at the office. 
I'll show you how to work our equipment, and we'll figure out what time 
your show starts." That was mid-November of 2012, and I've been there, 
at least electronically, ever since. And you can too! ( Bob's email 
address is bobb at poetworld.net )


     And a year and a half ago, KMEC also adopted my show. Thanks to the 
wonderful Ed Nieves and Sid Cooperrider.


     So: the culmination of twenty years of twenty-plus hours of 
concentrated prep for almost 1000 weekly six-to-eight-hour shows. Again, 
woo-hoo!


*Claude Hooten has since sold KUNK to a new guy. I'd like to meet him. I 
heard Fort Bragg mayor Lindy Peters' voice coming out of the radio at 
Albion Grocery a couple of weeks ago on a folksy avuncular 
commercial-sounding note, so I guess Lindy's back on the air. Things are 
looking up everywhere, I guess, besides KZYX.


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