[Kzyxtalk] Self-harmers in VBS.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Self-harmers in VBS.

/"If you read the bible in reverse, it’s about the world’s population 
killing each other until there’s only two people left, and then the 
woman pukes an apple and they both get naked." -Macaulay Culkin, D.D./

The recording of last night's (2021-07-30) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0447

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 that 
show together. Such as, for instance:

The church of God the Giant Chicken. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gereja-ayam

"I have now officially heard a song in the key of Q-Flat Minor." This 
reminds me of an incident in the novella /The Ugly Sea/ by R.A. 
Lafferty, where an out-of-place young Jew in a salty waterfront bar 
incurs the wrath of the whole barful of rough seamen by speaking harshly 
to their beloved crippled pretty twelve-year-old daughter of the barkeep 
as she persists in playing the piano badly. He says, “Stop, miss, I beg 
you. Stop playing. It is acutely painful.” They toss him out on his ear.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/11638900

Further classic paintings animated.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/07/classic-paintings-animated.html

And, regarding the MCN Announce listserv discussion of renaming Fort 
Bragg (CA) after someone besides Braxton Bragg, here's a song about a 
fictional character somewhat modeled on him: /Jubilation T. Cornpone/. 
"He weren’t nobody’s dunce." JTC and Braxton Bragg both seem to have 
been a sort of hapless Southern cracker version of Harry Flashman, 
though without Harry's great luck, nor his luminous wife who he unjustly 
thought of as his "lovely brainless Elspeth." (Until the flight by night 
from psychopathic Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, when he discovers, 
decades into his forced marriage to Elspeth, how talented she is, and 
what a rock she can be in adversity, and how unfair he has been, though 
it doesn't interfere with his continued compulsive sexual infidelity in 
further stories. He knows throughout his life what a pathetic piece of 
work he is. That seems to be the running gag of the series: everyone who 
finds out what a moral and physical coward Harry Flashman really is, is 
soon removed from the picture almost comically by death or worse, and 
Flashman can go on receiving awards and medals and praise --and a statue 
of him on a horse-- and escaping consequences. I think Elspeth might 
have known all along, too, from the very beginning.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/07/jubilation-t-cornpone.html


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