[Kzyxtalk] Typical.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Typical.

/"And happy 30th birthday greetings to Rudolf Crudd from the girls on 
the corner. They'd just like to say, 'You take our money but you never 
hit us.' This goes out to Rudy."/

The recording of last night's (2021-12-03) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0465

Email me your writing on any subject and I'll read it on the radio next 
week. That's what I'm here for. If it's more than plain text, please 
provide a link to the media you want me to see or hear, rather than 
attach it.

FURTHERMORE, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh 
batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering that show together. 
Such as, for instance:

This is how I am. Not necessarily about someone being late coming home, 
but that the big show is inside and on almost all the time, interrupted 
by the real world (except when I'm critically engaged with the real 
world, such as driving a car or operating power tools or cleaning my 
ears with a Q-tip). That's why I jump, startled, even when someone I've 
been in the same room with for awhile suddenly moves or speaks. I was 
alone, thinking things through, writing a story. I think people are all 
like this to a greater or lesser degree.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/01/the-education-of-louis.html

Lab rats on shrooms.
https://theawesomer.com/experiment/649242/

Art of Michael Sowa.
https://www.margarethe-illustration.com/michael-sowa.html

And the service station. "Evenin', pretty lady. How much gas you want?" 
He puts the gas in, then quickly checks your oil, water and tires and 
washes your windshield. If you're low on oil or radiator water or tire 
air he just puts some in till it's right. This video implies that a lube 
job might be free, too, but I don't remember that being true. I remember 
paying for lube jobs, and taking wheels off in the back yard to repack 
the bearings with grease. Cars needed grease all the time; they don't so 
much anymore. Also, I had forgotten about putting oil on leaf springs to 
keep the car from going /eee/-er /eee/-er every time you drove over a 
bump. I actually miss manual window cranks, and manual air and heat 
controls, where the temperature lever pulled a cable that opened and 
closed a spigot for coolant water to go into the heater core. I liked 
knowing how everything worked and being able to fix it with a 
screwdriver and pliers and stuff lying around in the garage. If the 
clutch linkage failed you could replace it with a piece of coat-hanger 
wire. I liked it where if a rock or a deer broke the headlight you'd get 
another light for $3, take the old one out and put in the new one in the 
parking lot of the car parts store. Now if the headlight gets smashed 
it's $500 for a big plastic part from China that's practically the whole 
front corner of the car.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-service-station.html

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