[Kzyxtalk] Better term, please (now) MOTA: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

On 6/12/2020 12:45 PM, liz at mcn.org wrote:
 > Glad to normalize. Would you suggest a synonym for POC that is less 
offensive to you, please? Respectfully, Liz


/Tinted/, how about? Or /enhanced/. /Deluxe/.

Juanita just sent me a link to a webcomic she likes. The full archive is 
available to read from the beginning to the present day. /Shaderunners/ 
is about a world that's entirely in black and white, but an ancient 
source of color is discovered and of course it becomes something only 
rich people can afford. So Robin Hood-like criminal heroes steal color 
and bootleg it. Here's the first page and you can proceed from there:
https://www.shaderunners.com/comic/chapter-1-cover

I also don't like POC because my brain sees it first as POS, the way 
CPAP machine appears first as CRAP machine, and rennetless cheese 
flashes as relentless cheese, though that's an improvement, so skip it. 
But I /would/ like to know what the current non-offensive term is for 
everything, at least so I can choose to break the rules on purpose 
rather than do it by accident, like the way I enjoy the funny 
false-dance-step to stop myself from saying the lifelong-familiar 
Oriental and stutter out /Asian/, and I subtly (ignorantly, racistly) 
savor a drop of resentment that they no longer sell Oriental Flavor 
Ramen; now it's Original Soy Sauce Flavor. Either way it's not as good 
as it was. Everything used to taste better. They should put everything 
back the way it was when it was good, and food knew its place, whatever 
color it was, and whatever country the factory was in that extruded it 
and pressed its wiggles flat into bricks.

I remember how odd it felt the first time I saw someone (Jerry) open a 
package of ramen and bite into it like it was a big potato chip. I just 
looked for a moment and felt that feeling when your eyebrows are doing 
something on their own. Jerry said, "What."

Brown people just always look healthier to me than white people and 
orange-spray-painted people, and their instincts seem more sensible. 
Example: Eddie Murphy's comedy routine about the movie /Poltergeist/. 
Furniture moves itself, a voice whisper-shouts /Getttt outttt!/ and the 
white people move in anyway, where the black man goes, "Nice house. Too 
bad we gotta go. C'mon, baby."

IN OTHER NEWS:

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Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com there are exactly 
/400 pounds/ of educational delights to fool around with while you wait 
for tonight, such as:

Moose and fly.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/06/moose-sings-blues.html

Rerun: Respect the cup. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://vimeo.com/378840916

And "We're thinking about hiring your ad agency to push our product."  
"What's your product?"  "Industrial air raid sirens." "Ah! We have just 
the thing. /Mrs. Thompson? Send an assortment of girls up./"
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/take_a_good_look

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