[Kzyxtalk] Smithereens.

[Marco McClean]

Smithereens.

/"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor 
have grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet." -Hesiod/

The recording of last night's (2019-03-15) KNYO Fort Bragg and KMEC 
Ukiah arguably 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, 
it's right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0324

Savion, of the Mendocino Community School, was accordion busking in 
Franklin Street when Bob Young finished his Captain Crusty show (of 
mostly mashups this time) and Bob told Savion to go to KNYO later and 
play on the radio. When I got there he came in with a fine little 
electrical piano and a massive non-electrical accordion, played for a 
bit, and then Willow Arthur showed up with her bag of mystical tricks 
and read Savion's cards, palms, eyes, stars and anything else that 
occurred to her, and she told a story of, many years ago, psychically 
turning a whole airport in her favor without endangering a single life. 
And that's just the first hour, there. Savion's been playing keyboards 
for like three weeks and he’s already pretty good. You'll hear him 
again, and also Willow, who's interested in doing a whole 
regularly-scheduled psychic trip of her own on KNYO. Oh, she came back 
in later after realizing she didn't have enough gas to get home. I gave 
her a dollar and wished her luck, suggested there are more people with a 
dollar in the bar next door, went back to what I was doing. At the end 
of the night Jerry told me that Willow went to the bar, recited poetry 
out front and inside, passed the hat, and got her gas money in like five 
minutes. That kind of fearless resourcefulness impresses me. Everyone 
appreciates a cartoonlike combination of haplessness (running out of 
gas, say) and ready brave skill at solving the problems haplessness gets 
a person into. Like Coyote. Or Susan Sarandon in /King of the Gypsies/. 
Or /Big Fish/.

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:

A weirdly hypnotic Paper Moon. My grandmother used to sing it to me, and 
I remember it felt a lot like looking at this.
http://tinyurl.com/BobbleheadPaperMoon

Snail is a leaf on the wind. Watch how he soars.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/03/snail-takes-magic-carpet-ride.html

And something to use your two-color 3D glasses on that you got from the 
/League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/ book that introduced /The Blazing 
World/.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/ultima-thule-in-3d

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