[Kzyxtalk] The versatile interrobang.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The versatile interrobang.

/"There is a part of Mount Everest known as the Rainbow Valley. It is 
named not because there are rainbows there, but because of the 
brightly-colored jackets on the frozen corpses that litter it."/

The recording of last night's (2021-01-01) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0417

Further, 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:

Restoration. What a beautiful color. In the very early 1980s I paid an 
extra $20 at Earl Scheib on Arden Way ($79.95 instead of $59.95) for 
that special color paint on my third-or-fourth-hand Rambler. (You can 
see one like it by searching for aqua 1963 Rambler Classic.) When that 
car died utterly, every part of the motor and drivetrain and brakes and 
all hopeless, it still looked like a gem, and the neighbor bought it 
from me just to leave it in his barn and sit in it with his wife. True 
story.
https://boingboing.net/2020/12/31/amazing-restoration-of-a-soviet-era-motorcycle.html

Enhance.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2020/12/labourers-in-victorian-england-1901.html

And a shoebox of old photographs. I have questions about some of them. 
The double-exposure with the noose, for example. It used to be that 
every thrift store had a box of random families' old photographs all 
mixed up together because people would die with no family and the estate 
sale people wouldn't want to throw them away. For many reasons, I'm sure 
you can think of a few, that resource has dried up, and it's a shame, 
because there are all sorts of creative uses for old photos (see 
Trachtenberg Family Players). I had one for a long time that I remember 
getting for 15 cents, a professional photo of a pretty, young woman of 
about a hundred years ago now. It said in pen, "Delia, love, Glady." 
Remind me to tell you sometime the incredible story of the headstone of 
Elizabeth Vivian.
https://flashbak.com/the-shoebox-negatives-joan-ruppert-found-photos-435623/

p.s. If you want me to read on the radio something that you've written, 
just email it to me and that's what I'll do on the very next Memo of the 
Air. That's what I'm here for.

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