[Kzyxtalk] Make a little birdhouse in your soul.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Make a little birdhouse in your soul.

     /"So a couple weeks later he calls because he played it for the 
Queen Mother and she kinda got a kick out of it. And I said to Mel, the 
biggest shiksa in the world loves our record, we're in!" -Carl Reiner/

The recording of last night's (2020-07-10) 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-0392

*Except not KMEC this time, again. Further info on the KMEC saga is late 
in arriving. I’ll blab as soon as I get something concrete on the 
disappointing state of affairs that I struggle mightily to restrain 
myself from speculating paranoidly upon. As of press time, their 
website’s been down for two weeks, their web stream is off, their 
facebook page appears static and their phone line is dead.

Meanwhile, half an hour into this particular show is the San Francisco 
Mime Troupe‘s first installment of their new project /Tales From The 
Resistance/, and it’s pretty good. One line of many that stuck in my 
mind: “The man’s fingers tangled like a ball of indecisive sausages,” 
and that’s not only because I cut an entire hot Italian sausage into 
sauce for the spaghetti dinner, or rather breakfast, I cooked while the 
extra-long Futility Closet podcast, the Galapagos Affair, played to 
close the show. In between those, a remarkable dreamlike poem about 
ghostly throat-singing monks of Mount Shasta, by John Sakowicz, Scott 
Peterson’s questioning the questionable morals and funding of Project 
Sanctuary, the first two chapters of Jay Frankston’s book /El Sereno/, 
which I’ll be serializing until October at this rate, selected material 
from the invaluable Anderson Valley Advertiser, the usual array of 
edutaining tragi-comic events of our strange times, a fascinating 
explanation of a promising new theory of the origins of consciousness, 
and much more. A bottomless fractal landscape of rabbit holes in rabbit 
holes in rabbit holes. Oh, and Ennio Morricone died, so also there’s his 
music, for inspirational breaks.

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:

Danderine grew Miss Wallace’s hair. And we can PROVE IT. “After using 
Danderine, my hair grew so fast it fairly /crawled out of my head/.” I 
guess they made their real money when people discovered the effect 
couldn’t be turned off, and they were willing to pay anything to stop 
it. It’s like the Blue Fairy Book story of Why the Sea is Salt.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/danderine_grows_hair

Tokyo in 1913, interpolated, colorized, enhanced in every way for 
historical veracity.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/08/incredible-restored-video-of-t.html

And the National Joy Council reminds you that joy doesn’t last. You get 
a taste of it and you spend the whole rest of your life trying to get it 
back. It’s a gateway drug. It leads to harder stuff. I know what I’m 
doing. I can take it or leave it alone any time. Yeah? Tell us who gave 
it to you, kid. Do yourself a favor. Be smart.
https://laughingsquid.com/baby-laughs-as-mother-bounces-ball-on-spoon/

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