[Kzyxtalk] Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.

[Marco McClean]

Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.

"A garment that squeezes the testicles makes a man think differently." 
-Umberto Eco

The recording of last night's (2017-03-10) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download and enjoy via 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

Ezekiel Krahlin called, and also Scott Peterson (later I read Scott's 
story /Death Spiral/). TJ came in and shared his insights into self 
defense. At about 1:30am (that’ll be 4 hours 30 min. into the recording) 
a bunch of people leaving the bar saw Jerry working on a computer in the 
front and came in. Jerry sent them back to me. They were friendly, but 
you know how easily I am overwhelmed by a crowd, and at first I didn't 
understand what they were all saying. It soon became clear: Jay or Jake 
Smeck (I’m guessing at the spelling), of Yuba City, has a new song out. 
I gave him a wire from the mixer to plug into his phone, and he sang 
along with his recording that I played on the monitors. When I'm doing 
the show from Fort Bragg I don't use headphones, so it didn’t occur to 
me in time to hand them to him, and I felt a little silly about that, 
but it worked out fine and he sounded like a pro, which means he’s very 
good; the monitor situation was primitive and terrible and he just 
instantly adapted and performed. They all shook my hand, I was hugged 
from several directions at once, and they left.

I'm trying to convey how this all felt to me: I'm alone in a quiet room 
in the middle of the night, reading into a microphone, and suddenly 
there's this kaleidoscopic whirl of activity, like a scene in The Magic 
Christian, and everything's happening at once, and then I'm alone again, 
and it's quiet, and I go back to reading. It's like: did that really 
happen? Well, yes, because one of them brought a cigaret in and it still 
smells like cigarets. But on the air, and in the recording, it's just 
radio. Somebody's talking, you hear some music, somebody's talking 
again. The inside is so different from the outside.

Also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find directions to many 
non-radio though worthwhile goods that I found while putting radio shows 
together. Items such as:

Relativity.
http://boingboing.net/2017/03/09/squash-stretch-and-general-rel.html

Disturbing.
http://tinyurl.com/TeachersShareDisturbing

Back to the future.
http://tinyurl.com/ThisIsLikeThat765

And the Hupfeld Phonoliszt.
http://tinyurl.com/HupfeldPhonolisztViolina

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