[Kzyxtalk] Every throw a coconut, every lass a queen.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Every throw a coconut, every lass a queen.

/"[The blue key] opens the worst aspects of herself. Like Pandora's 
opening the box containing the ills of the world, Diane's commission of 
murder provides a mechanism whereby the most evil parts of herself will 
flourish and find expression. Her hire of the hitman is the key that 
opens her darkness, which up to this point has been contained."/

The recording of last night's (2021-07-09) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0444

A lot of wonderful made-up stories this time, especially later in the 
show. One from Sebastian Iturralde, as usual, and another from his 
friend and, in this case, collaborator BurnHeaven. A long story by Ted 
Chiang: /Hell Is the Absence of God/, from the book /The Story of Your 
Life/, whose title story was adapted to make the movie /Arrival/. And, 
of course, there's poetry by Notty Bumbo, John Sakowicz and others, and 
a new story by Alex Bosworth, who wrote me last week to tell me to stop 
saying he lives in Arizona. Sorry about that, Alex. A report by Andrew 
Scully. Health info, genetic and space science and medical and 
paleontology triumphs. A new mind-control fungus found in a 
fifty-million-year-old ant's butt preserved in amber. Just a million things.

You too can be part of next week's show. Sent your writing as plain text 
in the body of an email to memoNOSPAM at mcn.org (remove NOSPAM for the 
address to work). If you'd like me to enradio your music or recorded 
work, send me a link to it.

This coming week again I'll be in the back room of the KNYO storefront 
(325 N. Franklin) for the show. The number there is 707 962-3022 (after 
9pm PST, Friday night) to read you own work in your own voice live in 
real time. Or, if you're local enough, walk right in with your 
instrument(s) and show-and-tell materials any time (this coming Friday) 
after 9pm, though take into account that for the rest of summer 9:30 to 
10pm is taken up with the San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest radio drama 
series /Tales of the Resistance, Vol. 2: Persistence/. We have a Max 
Forsetter-approved piano-thing. It's all safe with masks and two-meter 
distancing and everyone's vaccinated. No-one will jump at you and hug 
you or even grab your hand the way I always hated it that people used to 
do everywhere. It's actually better now.

BESIDES ALL THAT, 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 the 
show together. Such as, for instance:

The God of Loss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KduHrvCxM

Elysia, valley of the nudes. "The American Indian never caught cold 
until the white man put clothing on him." Hmm, is that so?
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/elysia_valley_of_the_nudes

Josephine Baker, 1935.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/07/princess-tam-tam.html

Weigh in on what to change the name of Fort Bragg (CA) to. I say, Lindy 
Petersville, or The Palms.
https://tinyurl.com/RenameFortBraggCA

Comic drama. I love the way the little creature looks up afterward as 
if: Did I do good, boss? This reminds me of one time Juanita was 
carefully, totally painlessly trimming her pet bird Melody's toenails to 
keep her from getting stuck in blankets and cloth, and Melody was 
/screaming and screaming/. Juanita said something in a tone and accent I 
don't remember hearing from her before or since: "Come on, you'd think I 
was /killin'/ ya."
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/07/doggie-drama.html

And dreamy photos*. (via Neatorama)
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2021/07/03/titus-poplawski-creates-dreamy-analog-photos-youll-fall-in-love-with/

*I felt these photos would look better in black-and-white, so I looked 
up how to quickly turn my monitor to grayscale (and back again 
afterward) in Windows. Correct; they do look better. And it turns out to 
be kind of cool to continue to use the computer in all black-and-white. 
Here, try it:
https://www.technipages.com/enable-greyscale-mode-for-windows-pc

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