[Kzyxtalk] Tortoise is safely home, sleeping with the bees.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Tortoise is safely home, sleeping with the bees.

     /"Look, whoever planned this stunt was smoking a lot of jazz 
cabbage, I can tell ya that much." -Ze Frank/

The recording of last night's (2020-06-26) 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-0390

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:

Why America's police look like soldiers anymore.
https://boingboing.net/2020/06/25/why-americas-police-look-lik.html

Do, do, do.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/06/all-i-want-to-do-do-do-is-dance.html

How ancient Egyptians really lived and worked, and why they liked cats 
so much. (23 min.) (via Clifford Pickover’s Reality Carnival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQE4BVUEg4

And ballet/contact-juggling a weighty broadsword. I know a guy who has a 
sword just like that, for historical costume drama fun. It’s not too 
heavy to pick up with one hand, but you can't swing it like a sword with 
only one hand at the base of the grip, and two or three emphatic swings 
with both hands and your arms are tired and your lower back has made 
that /tchh/ sound that means it's going to hurt for a week. When you see 
people fighting with these things in movies, and they hit each other and 
fall down and get up and just keep fighting for half an hour? That’s 
some bullshit. But the broadsword fight at the end of the Sean Connery 
film /Robin and Marian/ is entirely realistic. Two swings each, a single 
flat glancing blow on armor that staggers both combatants, swinger and 
swingee, and both sit down in the mud to catch their breath and discuss 
the wisdom of this course of action. All of that, and this waifish 
little superpowered tutu guy /dances/ with it and makes it look like 
it's floating in the air. (Sorry this is a Facebook link. I can't find 
it elsewhere.)
https://www.facebook.com/laixuanhuy/videos/2562411097193459/

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