[Kzyxtalk] Party hat and whizzer, check.

[Marco McClean]

Party hat and whizzer, check.


"I’m gonna let you enjoy this for 60 seconds. Then I'm turning the 
reality hose back on." -Shauna


The recording of last night's (2017-02-17) KNYO (and, three hours in, 
also KMEC) Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is ready to download 
for free and enjoy, via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


By the way, that was just twenty years of Memo of the Air that went by, 
just then. February 1997 to last night, whoosh. And the main thing it 
makes me think is, I had a House of Mystery comic book when I was in 
fifth grade, the year white men landed on the moon (thanks to a lot of 
black lady mathematicians) (and, before that, Nazis, don't forget them), 
where the cartoon story was about an evil photographer who ruined 
people's lives with blackmail, and this was shown by a blackmail-ruined 
businessman, whose twenty year business is about to be destroyed even 
though he paid the blackmail money, and he's running after the 
photographer's car in the night, wailing, begging, "Twenty years! TWENTY 
YEARS!" Like Kilgore Trout running after Kurt Vonnegut in his Breakfast 
of Champions dark parking lot of the soul, yelling, "Make me young! Make 
me young!"


I didn't sleep right and so was kind of tired for this show, and you can 
hear that, but it's still all there. Alex Bosworth called very late, and 
that was nice, though I almost fell asleep while we were talking. Alex 
has been a constant over the years, except for the two or three years 
where we all thought he was dead, but even then I had his stories to 
read and recordings of his stories to play. /He's/ had an amazing life. 
The world used him for a punching bag, and he just keeps getting back 
up, like one of those inflatable clown things that you punch and it 
rights itself or, no, more like Captain America, who's beat all to shit 
by a bully, and the bully is vile, snickering, a little out of breath 
from all the kicking and beating he's been doing, and Captain America 
(he's half the size of the bully) gets up, spits out blood and a tooth, 
raises his fists and says, "Hey. I can do this all day." That's a hero.


Also this show's /The Shadow/ episode is a particularly good one. And 
Rich Alcott's /Attention Deficit News/.


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


Charles and Emma Darwin had ten kids, and the kids drew and painted and 
scribbled all over his manuscripts, and at first, whenever one did, Emma 
would worry, but when Charles saw the damage he’d go /Oh, look at that. 
Such a clever child./
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-origin-of-fantasies.html


Dolls that are creepy because they suggest real people more than regular 
dolls do.
http://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/16/Surreal-Dolls-With-A-Dark-Fantasy-World-Inside-Them/


Time-lapse military airplane boneyard. Recall the used-spaceship lot 
scene in the Out of Gas episode of Firefly. "She’ll be with you till the 
day you die."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUWMGaubjA


And speaking of which, and of Darwin:
http://boingboing.net/2017/02/17/watch-a-model-dangle-off-a-sky.html



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