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

[John Sakowicz]

Thanks for posting.

> On July 26, 2018 at 2:13 PM Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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