[Kzyxtalk] Ever thus.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Ever thus.

/"And remember: the more packages you deliver, the more spiritual energy 
you'll receive. You. You want your son to beat that cancer, don't you? 
And you. You. And you, and you. There are the packages, you silly old 
creatures. Get going! They're not going to deliver themselves!"/

The recording of last night's (2021-12-10) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0466

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:

Info about a new documentary film for the generous, prolific musical 
genius and graph paper aficionado who composed, among 10,000 other 
things, /Scheming Weasel/, that I use for intro and outro music for MOTA 
on the times when I do the show from Juanita's place. His name is Kevin 
MacLeod (say muh-CLOWD).
https://royaltyfreedoc.com/about.html

I like this because this is the world. It's the way the world works. It 
isn't sad. These accomplishments are no less because of imperfections in 
the materials or a suppressed sneeze or a micro-flinch from a stray 
thought. These kids did amazing things and got amazing results. I 
remember doing tiny towers of wooden blocks in preschool for no reason 
at all, and again 25 years later at the Albion Whale School to make 
meeting times go faster. Whatever it is you pile up, it's going to fall 
sooner or later. When it falls it falls. You did what you could.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/07/domino-fails.html

Speaking of which: An elaborate halftime show of old. High schools don't 
go all out the way they used to. Kids are all on the phone all the time 
anymore, or doing a chaotic solo gun massacre, or bullying each other 
into doing one. Where's the whole-field, whole-school choreography 
anymore? Where are the flaming rollers of yesteryear, the shrieking 
sword-swingers, the glowering imperious horse-sitters and the chopees 
and stabees and brave bleeders all in one big insectile dance? ...We did 
have that thing on January 6, I guess. And the tiki torch racist thing 
in Charlottesville a few years ago. I suppose you could count Chinese 
military parades, and Texas hip-hop trample concerts and Macy's 
Thanksgiving and Burning Man and disease-soup motorbike conventions... 
Sure, okay. A little perspective.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/12/this-is-magnificent.html

And Fark.com gave a link to a twitter thread beginning with a courtroom 
artist's color drawing of pedophile drug pimp-to-world-leaders Ghislaine 
Maxwell during the proceedings. In the drawing Ghislaine Maxwell is 
staring directly back at the courtroom artist, drawing a picture of 
/him/. Scroll down to where someone posted a photograph of Jeffrey 
Epstein, back when he was alive and on top of his worm-riddled empire, 
and he and Ghislaine Maxwell are nuzzling side-faced and smiling for the 
camera. In the context of the current court drama, the caption on that 
image is, "Love is finishing each other's sentences." Ahhhh.
https://twitter.com/DJWillMartin/status/1466491155143544834

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