[Kzyxtalk] John's not a squealer.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: John's not a squealer.

/"When secretly pyrokinetic co-ed LaTawndra, shy heiress to the Hot 
Pockets fortune, hires very ripped swoon-worthy time-traveling 
fireman/spy/luthier-apprentice Zack to protect her against an undead 
dragon-shifter horde, will their scorching sexual chemistry break all 
the rules? [6 upvotes]"/

The recording of last night's (2020-02-21) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg and KMEC-LP Ukiah is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0373

I've been told that I'm too cryptic and that I should explain things 
more. Okay: I remembered a magazine ad from my youth for a then-new kind 
of toilet valve designed to be quiet, to turn the water on full-blast 
until the toilet tank was all the way full and then quickly shut off, to 
not squeal the whole last third of filling. Across the top of the ad it 
said, "John's not a squealer," and that stuck in my mind. I just 
searched for it from several different searchical angles, to see the ad, 
and apparently it's too obscure even for Google. There's a bunch of 
material in last night's show about plumbing and toilets. And every show 
I read a couple of BookBub's recommendations for books, where I checked 
the boxes for 1. children's literature, 2. erotica, and 3. science 
fiction, so the result is always either a book about a little boy or 
girl duck, lizard, robot or dinosaur learning to tell time or cross the 
street, or a chesty-cover-art romance novel about vampires or werewolves 
(or werebears or weredragons, called dragon-shifters) (or firemen or 
Navy Seals or cowboys) in space and the human librarian, hand model, 
waiter/waitress or attractive young congressperson who they have to hire 
to protect them or pretend to be their wife or husband for an important 
space, um, thing, whatever, but they end up falling in love for real and 
always, in every case, /breaking all the rules/, so that explains the 
title, the goofy fake pull-quote and one minute of an eight-hour show. 
If there are no further questions.

Next week the whole first part of the show will be a brand-new live 
radio drama put on by Kylie Felicich's Community Center of Mendocino 
theater group of kids, and I don't know the title of the show or 
anything about it yet, except that it might be in Italian. Why don't 
/you/ come in and be in the quiet but appreciative studio audience for 
their show and hang around after to recite poetry or show off your 
accordion chops or roll out your standup schtick? Mark it: 9pm Friday 
Feb. 28 in KNYO's storefront performance space, 325 N. Franklin, Fort 
Bragg CA, next door to the Tip Top bar. You don't have to get permission 
or arrange things in advance or even put on a clean shirt, or a shirt at 
all; this is radio. That’s the beauty of real radio. You don't know, but 
in the old days a lot of radio people performed in nothing but socks and 
shorts and a cigar between the fingers, or they wore pyjamas and a 
bathrobe, or an animal suit, whatever they were comfortable in as long 
as it didn't muffle their mouth or pose a danger hazard or create what 
the law calls an attractive nuisance, like when tourists climb up a 
stupidly designed sculpture and fall and hurt themselves. A lot of those 
shows, the audiences too came dressed, or undressed, like the later 
beatnik hippie freaks, like the /Rocky Horror Picture Show/, for 
example, which was written by fans of Jack Benny, Joan Alexander, Korla 
Pandit, Arthur Godfrey, Rosa Rio, and so on. All their 
normal-in-the-bank but on the radio stage weird-with-a-beard (or the 
other way around) heroes.

Also at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll 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:

Ze Frank – The mating dance of the peacock spider.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/02/true-facts-mating-dance-of-peacock.html

The Boing 377 Stratocruiser. Scroll down for color and for the cutaway 
diagram.
https://tinyurl.com/Boing377Stratocruiser

Choose a genre and mood, suggest a topic, and this A.I. will write 
decent song lyrics for you, and then all you have to do is form a band 
and practice in your buddy’s garage for awhile and attract a 
neighborhood following, and pretty soon you'll be playing at school 
events, and weddings, and in park bandshells on holidays, and then get 
scouted and get a record contract. Avoid alcohol, heroin and bad 
management, don’t sweat the small stuff, get enough sleep even when on 
the road, and that's all the advice I have for you. You're just coming 
into your power and this is an exciting time, kid.
https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/

One more wisdom: An x-ray of why never to ride with your feet up on the 
dashboard.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2020/02/dont-ride-with-your-feet-on-dash.html

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