[Kzyxtalk] The call of the murderbird, a comely feathered lass.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The call of the murderbird, a comely feathered lass.

/"Getting offended by something on the internet is like choosing to step 
in dog shit rather than walk around it." /

The recording of last night's (2021-01-15) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0419

That show includes /The Vengeance of Ulios/* by Edmund Hamilton (Weird 
Tales, 1935). The story begins six hours and fifteen minutes into the 
show, just after an article about the Prohibition-era ravages of Jamaica 
Ginger and then the song /I Got The Jake Leg Too/. Tens of thousands of 
people were crippled by a chemical put in the drink solely to make it 
legal to sell. It wasn't the methanol, which was bad enough. And Ulios 
is mad because his wife and her boyfriend destroyed all of Atlantis just 
to cover their running off together, so he becomes kind of a immoral 
technological vampire like them and chases after them for 6,000 years. 
It has really nothing at all in common with the 2007 film /The Man From 
Earth/ but somehow I feel they go together, but not like /The Prestige/ 
and /The Illusionist/ do. Nor like /Lucky/ and /The Man Who Killed 
Hitler And Then The Bigfoot/.

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:

Pretty volcanos. Which reminds me, one time back during the paper /Memo/ 
I had made a display ad for a company that sold Konocti red pumice for 
driveway rocks, with a volcano in the background, of course, and, in 
front, the big bold italic line, "Your wife, the SEXUAL VOLCANO, wants a 
real lava rock driveway from [Company Name]!" Judy Brown rarely 
commented on my esthetic choices, for obvious reasons, but she liked 
that particular ad. She said softly, “I would like it if somebody called 
me a sexual volcano.” Now I'm thinking about the comic teevee series 
Robin Williams made just before he strangled himself to death; it was 
The Crazy Ones, about an ad agency in Chicago and their creative ideas 
to sell things. It was ambitious, pretty good, but sad from our 
knowledge of the future; you can see through the professional zaniness 
how unhappy he was. I showed Juanita part of the first episode and she 
started crying.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/01/kilauea-volcano-eruption.html

Joy. It actually doesn’t look like a dinosaur head. It looks like 
Gumby’s friend Pokey's head, but with teeth.
https://laughingsquid.com/demolition-digger-with-dinosaur-head/

And how squid fly.
https://laughingsquid.com/flying-squid/

*A story whose title begins with The Vengeance Of is always good, the 
same way a movie with the word Gypsy or Gypsies in the title always 
turns out to be good. Time of the Gypsies. King of the Gypsies...

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.

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