[Kzyxtalk] I am Beef Stroganoff.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: I am Beef Stroganoff.

     /"The world seems a little less funny without you in it."/

The recording of last night's (2020-07-03) 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-0391

*Some distressing news, besides that Carl Reiner died: Friday morning I 
got via text from the on-hand engineer that Mendocino Environmental 
Center's (KMEC's) internet service has been interrupted with no firm 
reconnect date. As this internet thingy is how my show and many others' 
shows get to KMEC live, this particular show was not heard on the air in 
Ukiah but only in Fort Bragg. (If you’re solvent enough to pay the MEC's 
back internet bill, please do; you’ll be a real hero, and not the kind 
of hero that gets other people killed, like in the 2005 film Serenity, 
but the Carl Reiner kind of hero.) (We still have Mel Brooks, until they 
cancel him for being a Holocaust-denying Nazi racist for writing 
/Springtime for Hitler/, like vandals just painted RACIST FISH on the 
Copenhagen statue of the Little Mermaid, commissioned in the year 1907 
and unveiled in 1913.)

And some thrilling news: I’ve been in contact with the San Francisco 
Mime Troupe, whose new project is a series of 25-minute edutaining radio 
shows titled /Tales From The Resistance/, and starting next week I'll be 
airing one every week, as well as other material from the magical Mime 
Troupe. Mimes on the radio! That’s what I’m /talking/ about.

Furthermore, 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:

The true colors of ancient insects turn out to be teal and orange, the 
color scheme of a thousand modern science-fiction films, as though the 
filmmakers were clued in to this ancient secret by an interdimensional 
alien time traveler playing a prank on his power-mad brother that risks 
the destruction of the universe but what can you do? They don't hate 
each other, exactly, they’re just rivals in a contest that has gone on 
since before the beginning. We are less than ants to them… Or it might 
be, as a writer for Cracked.com put it, "To be fair, it’s not 
necessarily laziness per se. Your average colorist has to grade about 
two hours of movie, frame by frame, in the space of a couple of weeks. 
It does'’t take that many glances at the deadline bearing down on the 
calendar before you throw up your hands and say, "Fuck it. Everybody 
likes teal and orange!" Take the next mental step: Why does everyone 
like teal and orange? Perhaps because that's the color everything used 
to be at the dawn of oxygen-based life? Hm? After a hundred million 
years of anaerobic vomity slime-brown, anything would have been a drink 
of cool clean water, so teal and orange it is.
https://gizmodo.com/incredible-amber-fossils-reveal-the-true-colors-of-anci-1844219875

A short film about stoneworker Etsuro Sotoo's involvement in the 
construction of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Spain. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.nowness.com/series/constructed-views/stone-cut-la-sagrada-familia

And a lot of times you see somebody in a vehicle up in the air and you 
think, /That’s not flying. Call that flying? ‘Cause I don’t,/ like the 
old woman said to the filmy, fishy, smelly, seductive invading aliens 
wafting creepily up away from the cats in Carol Emshwiller's /Almost the 
End of the World/. A helicopter, for example, is just constantly 
frantically needily clawing at the air to keep from falling end-over-end 
out of the sky. But this guy is flying. No noisy motor. No seatbelt, 
even. He nonchalantly takes his street shoes off and puts his teevee 
slippers on. Dangerous? Sure, though, notice: from takeoff to landing he 
is in a parachute, in a box of pillows. /Leonardo da Vinci/ could see 
this all those hundreds of years ago and cogitate for an afternoon and 
make this out of stuff just lying around in Italy of those days and fly 
in it, or rather send a small village boy up in it first, just in case, 
and within a decade or two wars would have begun to be fought in the 
sky, and we wouldn't have had to wait so long for progress upward. We'd 
have cities in outer space by now, circling the sun like Kenneth 
Patchen's leopards made of golden wire. This man's project is the very 
definition of inspiring. He is a leaf on the wind. Watch how he soars.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/07/flying-couch.html

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