[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio live from Franklin St. all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: MOTA: Good Night Radio live from Franklin St. all night tonight!

Hi! Marco here. Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday 
night's) MOTA show is about 6pm.. If you're not done with it, whatever 
it is, send it when it's done and I'll read it on the radio next week.

Or call during the show and read your work in your own voice. I'll be in 
the clean, well-lighted back room of the storefront studio at 325 N. 
Franklin, where the number is 1-(707) 962-3022. If there'll be swears, 
please wait until after 10pm, to not agitate the weasels.

Tonight's show will feature memories of Stan Barr, intrepid traveler who 
sneaked into the mountain jungles of Vietnam during /the/ war to take 
pictures and sneaked out again unscathed only to be taken down thirty 
years later by an insect the size of a pea; installments of several 
creative-writing locals' latest novels-in-progress; some 
financial-disaster news about the Sherwood Oaks facility; further on the 
Skunk Train company's fishy land grab of fully half the value of 
impending mid-21st-century Fort Bragg; poetry by Robert L. Service; a 
paean to Merrie Smith of Mendocino Cafe and Flow, who feeds the hungry 
and destitute; county government's ongoing shenanigans to increase the 
wealth and power of the wealthy and powerful even further; world news in 
science and hilarious creeps and politics and health and lack of same 
and disasters and triumphs, and vax advice from people you can actually 
trust. It's like a giant cubist Rubik's cube, which is already a cube, 
so it naturally lends itself to the analogy. And at the end, the 
full-hour presentation of Mendocino Theater Company's award-winning 2011 
production of Charles Dickens' /A Christmas Carol/, with Bob Cohen as 
Ebenezer Scrooge, and you'll recognize the rest of everybody by their 
voices, of course. Some of them are dead now. This is, after all, the 
Xmas Future the Ghost warned us against, pointing his long bony finger 
at where we will all eventually end up. To paraphrase Lord Buckley: "If 
you get to it, and you can't do it, well, there you bloody well are, 
aren't you." But I'll likely get to all that stuff and plenty more, so. 
Also, a smart dog looks where you point, not at your finger.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via
http://airtime.knyo.org:8040/128
(That's the regular link to listen to KNYO in real time.)

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night the recording of tonight's 
show will also be there.

Besides all that, there you'll find a week-before-Xmas-Eve sample of 
this and that and miscellaneii to twiddle your fingers among until 
showtime, or any time, such as:

A thrilling one-man stage shadow-fight scene.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/16/watch-one-of-the-most-incredible-fight-scenes-ever-staged.html

Flying foxes are the best bats. So cute.
https://laughingsquid.com/flying-fox-celebrates-first-birthday/

A year in pictures. It may take a few minutes for this page to fully 
load; it's worth it. What a world, what a world, as the Wicked Witch 
lamented, melting because of the water thrown on her.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/year-in-pictures.html

And the blitz in color. A nice color blitz. You'll recall, in 
/Hyperdrive/, 500 years in the future, in typically 
British-incompetently-dominated outer space, Commander Michael (Lucky 
Jack, Hendo) Henderson used his scrambled knowledge of distant history 
to buck up his crew in the face of certain death, addressing the crew of 
the Camden Lock thusly: "Back in the Blitz they shook their fist at the 
skies and shouted, 'Come on, ya Zulus, do your worst!'"
https://www.vintag.es/2021/12/london-during-the-blitz.html

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