[Kzyxtalk] The airport gummy bear indigestion story.

[Marco McClean]

/"By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads 
your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-­down 
patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that 
when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay 
split!" -Raymond Chandler/

The recording of last night's (2019-02-15) KNYO Fort Bragg and KMEC 
Ukiah world-class Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show 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, through the 
cold in my throat and in between blowing my nose like honking a clown 
horn, it's right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0320

Oh, and KMEC needs a chunk of money by the end of this month, and KNYO 
could always use a little money. Really, if you have any of that shiny 
jingly stuff to put into radio, and you've been tempted to support some 
bloated NPR station-- KZYX, for example, because they have like three or 
four two-week-long pledge drives every year where they have all their 
airpeople /lie/ to you that they need your money to keep the station 
going at all and keep the great shows on the air, you should consider 
that hardly any NPR station needs your money. They’re /swimming/ in 
enough money at KZYX to sluice $300,000 a year to the handful of people 
in the office, who, as you know, don't pay any of it to the airpeople 
who they bamboozle into lying to you that they need it so much, so the 
nice corporate office people can just take it away from them and keep it 
for themselves so it isn't a heavy burden for the airpeople; here, we'll 
hold that, thanks, good job, get back to work. /Just the manager and 
program director at KZYX, just those two people, pay themselves all the 
money from all the $25 and $50 yearly memberships KZYX takes in/. I'm 
telling you in case you didn’t know it, which is easy to understand, why 
you didn’t know, because they don’t talk about that aspect of the 
situation much, do they.

On the other hand, /real community/ radio stations like KNYO and KMEC 
have all the real expenses and responsibilities and technical challenges 
of a giant station but /don't and can't/ get $160,000 a year in a 
government grant (that's almost two million tax-derived dollars in 
twelve years), and we don't have the advantage of the priceless 
government grant of control of a high-power license where a single 
transmitter the size of a suitcase can cover hundreds and hundreds of 
square miles of potential donors. Radio is cheap, so it's possible to do 
it on the cheap. But it's not free. Every penny you give to a station 
like KNYO or KMEC goes to pay for something actually needed: rent on a 
storefront performance space and studios, electricity, water, internet 
and phones, streaming fees, maintenance and equipment, and so on. /None/ 
of it goes into the pocket of somebody in the office. I don't know 
exactly how much KMEC needs, but I know that it costs about $12,000 a 
year to keep KNYO in the black, and it's probably a little more for 
KMEC. It isn't such a terribly large amount of money, but /it's needed/, 
so please help. Maybe when you get your tax return.

To donate to KMEC: You can call 707-234-3236 and if nobody's there leave 
a message so a volunteer can take down your contact information and send 
you a membership form to return with your donation. Or go to 
KMECradio.org/donate. Or mail a check: KMEC, 106 W. Standley, Ukiah, or 
just walk in there, where the Mendocino Environment Center and the radio 
station is, across the street to the north from the Ukiah courthouse, 
and do it in person. The standard membership for KMEC is $40.

To donate to KNYO: You can go to KNYO.org and click on the big Donate 
button. And if that’s too technological for you or it doesn’t work for 
your browser, mail a check to KNYO, p.o. box 1651, Fort Bragg CA. If 
you’d like to underwrite a specific show, or you'd like your own show to 
play with, where nobody's breathing down your neck and they just turn 
you loose to do radio, contact Bob Young: bobb at poetworld.net

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

This person does not exist. (Press F5 key or refresh button for new 
AI-generated realistic person.) But they're all attractive because, so 
far, the system generates perfectly left-right-symmetrical faces. 
They'll have that fixed in a couple of days, and the people will look a 
little more smooshed and lopsided and normal. Also an occasional 
demented tattoo or nose plug or zipper of earrings across an eyebrow 
would repel unwanted sexual attraction, as in real life.
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

The wheel of emotion. Wheels within wheels.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2019/02/15/plutchiks-wheel-of-emotions/

Joanna Connor, genius slinky-finger bluesmaster, playing in somebody's 
side yard for an audience of like fourteen people.
https://tinyurl.com/JConnorBBQGig

And I don't think you’ll be surprised to learn that a great deal of this 
entire genre of art (dance in film) was fueled by amphetamine. It killed 
Carmen Miranda. Stopped her heart like a hammer.
https://tinyurl.com/thumpathumpa

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