[Kzyxtalk] Zeppelin spy basket.

[Marco McClean]

Zeppelin spy basket.

/"And then she was in the sky! And he picked her up! And then she was awake
again! And then..." -ecstatic little girl to her mother, walking past me,
going the other way, across the parking lot of the theater multiplex and
the FoodMAX, last Monday when I went for salad parts and oranges, cheap
olive oil, etc. I had just been in the Salvation Army store and passed up a
chance to buy, for a measly ten dollars, an antique pneumatic chord organ
just like the one my cousins had in their basement in Ohio when I was six
years old, and I'm still kicking myself about that, but it's not like I
don’t have enough musical toys. I just love the design and the sound,
especially the thrumming whirrrr of the air pump, and the way everyone in
the place jumps and/or cringes and/or merely turns to stare when you hold
down all the keys at once. But ten dollars is ten dollars, as you'll recall
from the punchline of that old joke about Fred and Edna at the State Fair.
I always felt that if Fred and Edna loathed each other's company that much
why did they stay together so long in the first place... Ya know what? The
instant I press send on this I'm putting my street clothes on and going
back over there to see if it's still there./

The recording of last night's 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-0360

This is a pretty coherent show, as these things go. It has a kind of flow
to it. I worked hard and played hard and did a good job of it. That's what
comes of a routine. Everything went right, including taking quite a bit of
time out to help search for Juanita's Dickens Faire costume corset when she
was frantic and stuck and late to prepare and unable to progress. It's the
element that ties the whole room together, so to speak. I put my fingers on
it in one of the stuffed bags and /knew/, and pulled it out and held it on
display, and she was so incredibly happy, hopping-up-and-down happy, all
better, the world wonderful again. “Now,” I said, “Kiss me like I just
found your corset.” You're welcome to use that line in your own life; I'm
not proprietary about a gift from the gods.

A lot of the show's break-time music is related to Shakespeare-flavored
subjects: Shakespearean HipHop, Green Eggs and Hamlet, Tesser singing the
famous Five-Minute Hamlet, Bluegrass Lady MacBeth, and so on, because of
the show at Mendocino Theater Company's little theater the Helen Schoeni
Theater in the middle of the Art Center in Mendocino, running 7:30pm
Thursdays through Saturdays and 2pm Sundays, through December 8 (707 937
4477 for info and tickets). Also, if you get this tonight (Nov. 23) it's
not too late to see the locally produced extravaganza /Aladdin/, not at all
the Disney version but written and directed by Felicia Felicich of Fort
Bragg and choreographed by Amanda Ficili of Albion, starring a bunch of the
kids who were so great in /Really Rosie/ last month, and that's 2pm Sunday
Nov. 24 in the Matheson theater downhill and across the street to the east
from Mendocino High School.

Besides all that, 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:

We go forward. We go back.
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/08/joy.html

You know how sometimes you see a recording of an act that's not going over
well, for whatever reason, and the stereotypically ugly audience expresses
displeasure by silent physical and psychic withdrawal, and the performer
nervously jokes, "Tough crowd." This scene is what the polar opposite of
every part of that looks and sounds like.
https://tinyurl.com/YeahTheyRollin

And there you have it.
https://laughingsquid.com/rick-and-morty-the-world-hates-smart-people/

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