[Kzyxtalk] Pantone 130U.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Pantone 130U.

The recording of last night's pretty darn good (2020-09-11) Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0401

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:

They look so happy but they weren’t, really. People of that era were all 
drunk nearly all the time and/or on amphetamines, and in private, at 
home, they bickered bitterly over the slightest thing. Life was jagged. 
All the food did taste better, though, even airplane food, because they 
were young. The older you get, the more everything tastes like 
cardboard, and the more salt and spices you have to put in it to make 
you want it at all.
https://mossandfog.com/the-golden-age-of-flying/

Thank you, mask math.
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/09/The-Mathematical-Magic-of-Masks/

And forty-five British soap stage-slaps. You bitch. You cow. You 
bastard. How dare you. How /could/ you. Don’t you ever say that to me 
again. And so on. It’s interesting to watch because, though I know that 
people probably have actually slapped people in real life, I’ve never 
seen it clearly, up close and in person, except in theater with no real 
contact. I’m having trouble imagining doing it, myself; it’s like the 
gears of the thought get stuck and won’t turn to that point. Try it– 
choose a person and /imagine/ actually slapping them. Your hand would 
stop. You couldn’t do it. You’d be afraid you’d miss by a small amount 
and sprain a finger or scratch them or poke them in the eye (!) or clap 
their ear and burst their eardrum. And another thing: the slappee just 
stands there /looking right at them/ while the slapper, clearly out of 
his or her mind with anger, waves a hand all the way out to the side, 
obviously about to do it; why doesn’t the slappee’s head reflexively 
turn or duck backward three inches and blunt or avoid the blow? Why 
doesn’t their own arm come up to block it? How is it possible to slap 
anyone who doesn’t want it… Oh. Maybe they want it. People are weird, 
and things they do on teevee are even weirder. But here’s something 
else: you have no trouble at all imagining /entirely/ impossible things 
like clenching your fists and flying up into the air. But just to 
consider violence: since I was small I’ve dreamt of every sort of it 
/except/ slapping, including something like what the Hulk does to Loki, 
where you pick the enemy up by an ankle, or both ankles, and slam them 
over and over against the walls and floor until they’re all busted up 
like a sockful of bloody pennies. See, you have no trouble at all 
imagining that. You’ve probably dreamed of it yourself long before that 
movie came out. So funny, though, when the Hulk does it, regards what’s 
left of Loki and grunts, “Puny god.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1YVH94VoU

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