[Kzyxtalk] The hose again.

[Marco McClean]

The hose again.


"Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay 
there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. 
Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same 
hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at 
the other and said, 'So. What did you think?'" -Steven Wright


The recording of last night's (2017-01-20) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download and enjoy via 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


Every few years, Biff Rose appears in town as if by whirlwind and shows 
up with a companion of some type,kind of like the Doctor in Doctor Who 
does, wherever my radio show is, and he (Biff Rose) plays some music and 
utters the variably comprehensible and idiosyncratically interpretable 
and vanishes as mysteriously as he came. So that happened.


And Major Mark Scaramella of the Anderson Valley Advertiser telephoned 
to talk about media in general and the newspaper industry in particular. 
I realized instantly that I had many questions for him, some of them 
fawning, some of them impertinent to the point of rudeness and, 
throughout, he was –is– a gentleman and a good sport. With a wealth of 
knowledge of local history, chicanery, triumph and pain and secret 
delight both scandalous and of the Norman Rockwell variety. You will be 
charmed.


Also, as promised, at the end of the show, because I’d used up all 300 
or so Boston Blackie episodes (again), I moved over to the original The 
Shadow, from the era where Orson Welles played Lamont Cranston, and not 
that other guy who's just inadequate by comparison. Orson Welles is 
properly confident and menacing and, you know, Christ, he’s /Orson 
Welles/ when Orson Welles was young and in his power.


Actually, Alec Baldwin's The Shadow, the 1994 movie version, was not 
bad. And it’s a good thing I thought of it, too, because it just 
occurred to me to wonder if they made any movies about Chandu The 
Magician, and it turns out they did! Several, in the 1930s. I must have 
them! (That’s said in a low sneering tone through gritted teeth.)


Also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find links to a panoply 
of wonders that wouldn't necessarily work via radio, for being mainly 
visual or requiring a lot of explanation, but are nonetheless 
worthwhile, that I found while putting radio shows together. Items such as:


A small 4-stroke engine with a clear glass cylinder head. You can see 
the valves opening and closing, the sparked fire pushing the piston 
down, the exhausting exhaust. The operator tries different sorts of fuel 
to see if they look different, and they really do.
http://tinyurl.com/ClearCylinderHead


Spanky men, neither alpha nor beta, nor gamma, delta, etc. Just 
sincerely creepy, spanky men of the past.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-good-old-days.html


And see what it looks like to land on Titan. (Except for the insulting 
CGI spaceships) it's exactly like a very slow-motion version of being 
tripped by a bully on the playground beyond the parking lot in fifth 
grade. This will bring it all back to you.
http://tinyurl.com/careeningtitan


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