[Kzyxtalk] Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio tonight! Live from the back room of 
the KNYO storefront at 325 N. Franklin, Fort Bragg. So if you want to 
come in and play your musical instrument(s) or recite poetry or talk 
about your project or unfair firing or Hostility House, or whatever, 
just wander in any time after 9pm, head for the lighted room through the 
half-curtained doorway and get my attention. I always bring enough 
material to read the whole time even if no-one shows up or calls, so 
there's no pressure. (I'm mainly there just to read aloud on the air 
everything you email me to read and the interesting bits of what I've 
been reading all week. The deadline to get your story in is always about 
5 or 6pm on the night of the show, whether I'm in town or live from 
Juanita's; of course there's email there too. And if you miss that 
deadline, and you can't wait until next week, phone during the show and 
read your work in your own voice. And if there will be swears, wait till 
after 10pm to call, otherwise it agitates the weasels.* 707-962-3022.)

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio: Every Friday, 9pm to about 4am on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, including midnight to 3am 105.1fm KMEC-LP 
Ukiah. And also there and anywhere else via http://knyo.org or 
http://TuneIn.com

*When I mention the weasels in that context, it's because of the 
Cordwainer Smith story that ends with a planet's main defense against 
attack from space being hundreds of tortured, miserable mutant 
telepathic weasels kept asleep in a vault until an enemy force enters 
the system, then a watch witch wakes them and directs their attention to 
the enemies, and the full force of the weasels' pain and self-loathing 
is unleashed in a burst of psychotic energy, and the enemies destroy 
themselves and each other with their own fingernails and teeth. Then the 
planet has to get another watch witch, because a single use of this 
defense instrument burns out her brain. Cordwainer Smith was big on 
people as tools that can be burned out by nobly fulfilling their function.

Also his story-title sense was impressive. Some of my favorites: The 
Game of Rat and Dragon; Golden the Ships Were, Oh! Oh! Oh!; Alpha Ralpha 
Boulevard; No! No! Not Rogor!; The Ballad of Lost C'Mell. And so on. 
Look up Cordwainer Smith and read about him. He had an amazing life. 
Serving as a translator/spy in the Korean War, in a single afternoon he 
saved thousands of lives by an ingenious poetic trick of translation.


--
Marco McClean

memo at mcn.org

http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com