[Kzyxtalk] The lie your character believes.

[Marco McClean]

"Et sinceram orationem ex adventicio fulget, et vir pauper, tristis es, 
o rex: tyrannosaurus, sui alicula subornatus, usque ad nasum, booger."

The recording of last night's (2017-11-10) KNYO Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show is ready to download for free and enjoy at any time of 
the day or night, via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

An unpacking of just crates and crates of interesting material, 
including a letter and a call from death-defying daredevil Alex 
Bosworth. The genesis of Elly Cooney's outlook on life and otherwise. 
Three chapters from John Passyka's autobio. Major Mark Scaramella on the 
subject of a disgruntled subscriber. Rex Gressett, Cindy Richards, Scott 
Peterson. Flynn Washburne chased through a pear orchard by zombies! 
Mickey Chalfin, John Redding... Look at this, there's so much here. And 
also another in the series of Jerry Philbrick's entertaining because 
goofily wrongheaded angry rants. It takes all kinds, it really does.

Zeke's story confused me as to how to read it, depending on links to 
other things and images that didn't come with the text I had, so I did 
the best I could but soon gave up. I'm sorry. Next week's show he'll 
call at 1am and read it himself and no doubt it will all make perfect sense.

At about 3am, near the end of the show, before /Murder! At! Midnight!/, 
is a collection of nightmares donated by readers to AtlasObscura, 
including, "The corpse of Ethel Mertz rose up out of the dirt and came 
after me. GAH!"

(From the tangled nest of Wikipedia articles about /I Love Lucy/: "Ethel 
Mae Mertz is the middle-aged landlady of Lucy Ricardo. Ethel was born in 
1905 and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico (episode #113). She is 
married to Fred, with whom she had a career in vaudeville. Ethel and 
Lucy are close friends, habitually scheming together; Ethel is generally 
the voice of reason as a counterpart to Lucy's hare-brained ideas.") Did 
you know Fred and Ethel had a career in vaudeville? I didn't know that. 
Also the actors who played them, Will Frawley and Vivian Vance, could 
not stand each other. Vivian Vance was in every way a professional. 
She'd show up ready to work, with her lines down cold. Will Frawley 
would be smoking and drinking and listening to ball games with his feet 
up in the dressing room when not wandering around messing everybody up 
and being a dick about everything. The on-screen bickering and attitude 
between them was realistic because real. The comical micro-expressions 
of revulsion that can't be faked or paid for.

Anyway, besides all that, as usual also at 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh batch of links to 
other educational goods I collected for you while putting the show 
together, to add to the literally zillions of wonders and amusements 
already there, that might not necessarily work on the radio because of 
being mostly visual. Such as:

Soviet paratrooper training, 1973.
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/921538840900308992

A constructive proposal.
https://newatlas.com/vincent-callebaut-5-farming-bridges/52012/#gallery

An ad for weed that both perfectly parodies Big Pharma drug ads and 
accurately advertises an actual company and service.
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/09/cannabis-ad-brilliantly-parodi.html

The latest four-story-high Calaisian steam dragon puppet.
https://twitter.com/Steampunk_T/status/927637345494556673

And a rubber fist stomping on a rubber face, forever. He looks a little 
like Crocodile Dundee in a bald-head cap.
http://tinyurl.com/RubberFistProjectileLoop


-- Marco McClean