[Kzyxtalk] Live in relatively clean pyjamas, as usual, Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Live in relatively clean pyjamas, as usual, Memo of the Air: 
Good Night Radio all night tonight!

Deadline to email your writing for tonight's MOTA show is around 7pm. If 
seven comes and goes and you're not done, send it whenever it's ready 
and I'll read it on next week's show.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, and 105.1fm KMEC-LP Ukiah. Also there and anywhere 
else via http://knyo.org and click on Listen. And any time of any day or 
night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and hear last 
week's show and shows before that. By Saturday night the recording of 
tonight's MOTA will also be there, in the latest post, right on top.

Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com there's a 
Lake-Erie-size ice-cream sundae of not-necessarily-radio-useful items to 
dump wholesale into the yawning pit of your lonely soul, such as, though 
not necessarily including:

A homemade nuclear explosion lamp for the foyer (say FO-yer). Find the 
link in this article to instructions to make your own.
https://geekologie.com/2020/04/the-end-times-homemade-nuclear-explosion.php

These people did Glengarry Glen Ross in their house with their little 
kids and baby dolls. And then disappointed me by bleeping out the 
swears, but it's still cute.
https://tinyurl.com/2ndPrizeIsTheSteakKnives

And the journal of crap wildlife photography.
https://www.boredpanda.com/crap-wildlife-photography

P.S. Daney Dawson, informed of the breach of half a million Zoom 
passwords stolen, asked, "What is the worst that can happen if one is 
hacked?"

I'm glad she brought that up. They can zoom right up your nose, for one 
thing. A long time ago, back when video cameras were as big as a 
suitcase --that long ago-- I was barked at by an actress for having 
zoomed in too close, so in the video you could see how old everybody is. 
"Nobody likes it when you zoom right up their nose!" she said. And 
that's right. Especially now that you can zoom up people's nose when 
they don't even have any pyjamas on, much less pants.

There are things lying around your house you can use to block that. Pen 
caps if you have a tiny little nose like a pug dog, or thimbles if you 
have a sewing kit, or even quarters, but never magnets. Never put 
magnets in your nose; they can stick together across the septum inside 
and you'll never get them out; two weeks ago famous grown-up Australian 
astrophysicist Doctor Daniel Reardon was humiliated (and injured) by 
this. And duct tape is also not good. Never go away and leave a person 
tied up with duct tape on their face; that's the first rule of capturing 
people, because when they suffocate because you stepped out for ice it's 
considered murder.

And re: the discussion about taking off your shoes when you go inside to 
avoid contaminating your house with viruses:

This isn't like the wheelchair issue. And it's a slippery slope. Because 
what next? You have to change your socks before you leave the house, and 
then use fresh gloves to take off the gloves you contaminated touching 
the socks, and then another pair of gloves to take those gloves off, and 
wash your hands and face and feet in between every action, and then 
touch the shoes again to put them on (!), so you have to disinfect the 
shoes, and then there's the doorknob-- and gloves again and washing and 
changing and spinning around three times with your eyes closed and 
repeating the calming word over and over, and it's like Zeno's paradox; 
you can't even go into the garage, or the /bathroom to wash your hands 
again/, much less outside to get the mail and soak the viruses off it 
with Clorox. So, fresh gloves, fresh mask and hairnet, fresh Mexican 
batteries in the Chinese UV sterilizing flashlight, fresh socks, fresh 
everything, duct tape over the door-latch tongues so you can open all 
doors with your elbow --oops, that's the elbow you sneezed into since 
you took a shower and touched everything in there... so open doors with 
your shoe-- no, that's no good, you haven't even got your shoes on yet. 
Start all over.

It reminds me of Fat Freddy in the comic book /Fat Freddy's Cat/ when he 
was being robbed with a gun and they said, "Give us all your money," and 
all the stoned mental hoops he jumped through to process this, three 
pages of thinking through just how to do that, because he had ten 
dollars in the bank, and was the bank closed by now?, and there was some 
change on the dresser at home, on and on, and somebody owed him some 
money, and was money owed him technically his money?, and he ended up 
sincerely apologizing to the robbers, saying, "Sorry, but it's just /too 
hard/," and walking right past them and their gun, so the robbers looked 
at each other, baffled, with giant question marks coming out of them. 
And their gun.

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