[Kzyxtalk] Journey to Dagnabbit.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Journey to Dagnabbit.

The recording of last night's (2020-09-04) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0400

The last thing I did before printing out last night’s show to read was 
to, just on a whim, experiment with globally replacing all instances of 
plain Donald Trump with impeached president Donald Trump. That turned 
out to be a mistake. Not that he wasn’t impeached, he was, by the house 
of Congress comprised of representatives of the American people who, 
unlike impeached president Donald Trump, were actually elected by 
majority vote, after Republican gerrymandering, dirty tricks and massive 
voter suppression too. But it just made me stumble over each reading, 
feeling strange about leaving all the writers’ names on something I 
changed en masse with a click, or considering explaining every time, and 
sometimes doing that and sometimes just stuttering. Sorry. Not trying 
/that/ again. I think we all learned something here today. Though the 
Trump Trump Trump of everywhere you look and everything you read points 
up how much of what’s going so deadly wrong in the U.S. is directly 
connected to and flowing from that giant serial-lying mob-bossy orange 
turd and his handlers and enablers and pollution cloud of 
armed-and-belligerent racist lumps who adore him for giving them 
permission to cut loose and let it all hang out, many of them in 
government service now, not just on the borders but all the way through, 
getting away with literal kidnapping and/or conspiratorial gang offenses 
and/or cowardly murder or just thuggish bullying every damn day. Men 
with actual Nazi tattoos on their hands and necks and not even hidden 
discreetly in their clothes who were hired and sworn in and who promised 
with fresh-scrubbed faces to protect and serve; well, we see what that 
swear is worth to them, or maybe they crossed their fingers behind their 
back about exactly who to protect and who to serve and that makes it 
right. People descended from immigrants cheering at treating immigrants 
way worse than their own great-grandparents were treated when they came 
here in the good old days, tired and poor, tempest tossed, fleeing 
persecution, for a better life, traveling a hundred or a thousand miles 
for a pandemic-time maskless leader-worship ceremony, bellowing at 
American Indians on Indian land to /get outta the way and go back where 
you came from/. Sorry again. Sorry for the terrible world. Sorry for all 
that cancer I caused, and Hiroshima and everything, and the Triangle 
Shirtwaist disaster. Stopping now. Putting a sock in it. Murfle-burfff. 
Mm-nurf. Forget it, joik, it’s Labor Day.

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:

Speed-fiddled-with drone shots of, around and through the streets and 
pathways of Mont Saint-Michel. Dreamlike flight.
https://laughingsquid.com/gopro-drone-tour-of-mont-saint-michel/

Synchronized swimming to Stairway to Heaven on Japanese teevee. In 
regular life you don’t often see people do upside-down splits in bathing 
panties. There’s nothing wrong with it, it just seems odd, somehow. You 
imagine yourself there, doing that (as if you could, ha) and feel 
awkward. Maybe its because it’s an extreme form of the one thing a 
traditional mermaid can’t do.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/09/stairway-to-heaven-water-ballet.html

And how we get a Chinese teapot. (via Cynical-C)
https://tinyurl.com/MakingChineseTeapot

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