[Kzyxtalk] La grenade à main sacrée.

[Marco McClean]

Cherchez les oeufs. Les oeufs du lapin!

The recording of last night's (2019-04-19) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg and KMEC-LP Ukiah is available by one 
or two clicks, depending on whether you want to listen to it now or 
download it and keep it for later and, speaking of which, it's right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0329

Besides all that, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you can find 
a fresh batch of dozens of links, this time more than ever before, to 
not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless worthwhile educational 
items I set aside for you while gathering the show together. Such as:

The annual Vrondados ritual war of gunpowder rockets. Two churches 
battle it out for hours the Saturday night before Orthodox Easter. 
They’ve been doing this for hundreds of years. It’s about the Muslim 
Ottomans confiscating the islanders' cannons and by some oversight 
leaving the gunpowder behind. The resourceful locals hastily /invented 
and manufactured war rockets/ to retaliate. But for some reason the 
object of the tradition somehow became to strike each other's team's 
church bell across the entire village from each other, and these things 
have like zero accuracy. Also, the instant it's over and all the eyes 
are laved and heads and arms and crotches are bandaged and all the roof 
fires are put out, the entire populace begins all over again the task of 
making and stockpiling rockets for next year.
https://tinyurl.com/FestivalOfTheRockets

Further adventures in religious cults that are more vigorous and fun 
than yours. This one is like a cross between The Purge and The Lottery 
but with turnips. "The first half of the crowd, caught on the wrong side 
of the action, almost trample each other to avoid broken noses and black 
eyes. Then the monster stumbles toward a building and leans back against 
it. Their prey is now an easy target. Now the turnips really fly."
https://tinyurl.com/TurnipLottery

And do you like chess? Do you like dead rodents? "Every single chess 
piece is a dead mouse that has been lovingly dressed up and decorated to 
match the pieces from the game."
https://technabob.com/blog/2019/04/12/taxidermy-mouse-chess-set/

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