[Kzyxtalk] Almost like being in love.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Almost like being in love.

/"The human fascination with fun has led to many tragedies in your short 
but violent history. One wonders how your race has survived having so 
much fun." -Tuvok /

The recording of last night's (2021-01-22) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0420

As well as all the regular MOTA features and surprises and what we in 
the industry call the droll slog, the show ends with a Firesign Theater 
recording from 1973 that I, a card-carrying  Firesign Theater 
afficionado [say uh-fiss-ee-oh-NAH-doh], did not until recently know 
even existed: /TV or Not TV/. (It’s not the entire troupe but mainly 
Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman.) In case you wanta skip straight to 
that, it starts about seven hours and ten minutes into the show and runs 
forty minutes. Bonus activity: Simultaneously play this silent 8mm film 
of Proctor and Bergman doing a later on-stage version of /TV or Not TV/ 
for enhanced simulated verisimilitude and further reclamation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLlEnLTIsc

And 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:

Nyckelharpa.
https://27thstreet.me/2021/01/18/nyckelharpa/

A practice bagpipes chanter. Illegal in California, Vermont and Sweden, 
but you're a wild rebel; what care you for their puny law. Scissors and 
a plastic straw is all you need. Also cellophane tape for if you get the 
holes in the wrong place.
https://laughingsquid.com/musician-plays-plastic-straw-like-instrument/

And some of the weirdness of Mars. You might recall the spider 
iconography in Edgar Rice Burroughs' /Mars/ books of the early part of 
last century. We’re only just able to see this stuff now, though, with 
our best instruments in actual low orbit around actual Mars. Hmm.
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/mars-is-weird

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