[Kzyxtalk] Interesting civic art vs. MCPB Corporate Bureau of Radio.

[Marco McClean]

Interesting civic art vs. MCPB Corporate Bureau of Radio.

Comment on https://TheAVA.com Mendocino County Today column Thursday, 
July 26:

Regarding Petaluma civic art proposed for Water Street:

The bathtubs on stilts are really nice, especially with the lighting. 
Except for having /four/ legs each, they're like steampunk renditions of 
H.G. Wells’ Martian war machines.
http://www.petaluma360.com/news/8366264-181/water-street-art-project-approved

People like spindly things. I'm thinking of the walking plant in the 
video for Kwoon's /I Lived on the Moon/.
https://tinyurl.com/KwoonMoon

Maybe spindly things are fascinating and compelling because that's what 
we all are inside. I mean, look:
https://tinyurl.com/XraysOfSexyModels

And regarding choosing from among candidates for official positions in 
Mendocino County:

The criteria you describe: "…The question is never about who can best do 
the job, when a vacancy occurs, but rather who is the best presenter, 
that is, who has the higher skills at /landing/ the job, who is the 
better schmooze, the glibbest flatterer, the more assiduous nuzzlebum, 
the better bootlicker, the best lickspittle out of all the candidates”– 
applies perfectly to KZYX, where the board of trustees is comprised of 
people who have next to zero knowledge nor real experience doing radio, 
designing, building or repairing radio equipment, writing for radio, 
playing with radio, no understanding or sense of humor about radio at 
all, and so the string of managers they hire at absurdly high salaries 
are no better. They’re like the Bureau of Art in some totalitarian 
country, who lack the talent, ability or inclination to make art 
themselves and so meet regularly to cruelly fix it, as far as possible, 
so nobody can freely do it, and the bosses live in a big house filled 
with expensive ancient or foreign art, and the workers in licensed and 
sanctioned government monopoly art shops are paid very little. In the 
case of KZYX, the workers are not paid at all, and if they step out of 
line or speak up about any of this, they're just mysteriously not on the 
air anymore, so they don't.

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