[Kzyxtalk] A map of Fillory (or) Kazak, hound of space.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A map of Fillory (or) Kazak, hound of space.

The recording of last night's (2021-06-25) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0442

But first: Annie Liner wrote:

Many of you have asked how you can help Jose Xanuitzil's family and his 
young children. A terrible tragedy happened on June 11th when Jose, a 
long time beloved employee at Harvest Markets died in a car accident 
with his girls in the car. Jose's 11 year old daughter Samantha was 
severely injured and was hospitalized and had to undergo surgery to save 
her life at UC Davis. Fifteen year old Nicole has had to make decisions 
while her mom has been at UC Davis with Samantha. The family was still 
grieving the loss of Jose's sister to COVID and now they have lost him 
as well. The funeral mass was Friday, June 25 at Our Lady of Good 
Counsel Church, followed by graveside services.

Donations to help with burial expenses and the girls' care can be made 
at all Harvest Market checkout registers. You just ask to donate and the 
checkout clerk will add it to your items and it’ll show up on your 
receipt. Any amount is good, however small or large. You can also mail a 
donation to Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund, PO Box 1616, Mendocino, CA 
95460 or donate at https://mccf.info

Please note Misfortune Fund on your check or cc donation. Let's surround 
these children with generosity and love. The MCCF Misfortune Fund acts 
on behalf of our coast community to provide aid to children impacted by 
accidents, illness and/or the loss of a parent.

Our condolences to the family. (signed) Annie Liner of the Mendocino 
Coast Children’s Fund.

* * *

There’s a passel of material in this show. Ecology, science, psychology, 
a cure for Alzheimers, critical race theory, space news, latest 
developments in sex robots, poetry, pathos, artificial intelligence, 
Mendocino County history, Louis C.K. on the comic juxtaposition of a 
fictitious chain of pet stores and insane wealth. Andrew Scully called 
to read his new article about world-famous covid-liberty-circus 
Fiddleheads cafe; the phone device I used to put that call on the air 
sounded weird, but you can understand every word. This coming Friday and 
one or two Fridays after that I’ll be back in Fort Bragg for the show, 
and the phone thing there makes you sound great. The number is 707 
962-3022, after 9pm, Friday night.

And I’m keeping my dream journal again. Here's the latest of it:
https://tinyurl.com/MarcoDreams2021June23-24

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:

See, KZYX airpeople? They know how to do it in /Zambia/. This is all you 
have to do. Just get up on your hind legs and say it: "We have to get 
paid." They’re probably going to shoot that guy, but /you/ don’t have 
anything to worry about. Say it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zambian-tv-anchor-kabinda-kalimina-b1872561.html

This man is running against Sarah Huckabee Sanders for the governorship 
of Arkansas. I'm instantly in love with him and his whole family, who 
are the polar opposite of the selfish corrupt ignoramus middle-school 
bullies nearly everywhere anymore in politics. I wouldn't be surprised 
if this campaign ad turns out to be a clever hoax, but I hope he and 
they are real, and I hope he wins. I mean, the Trumps, and people who 
ally with or merely hope to emulate the Trumps, are Ferengis from 
fricking Ferenganar, compared to this family.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/06/meet-chris-jones.html

Randy Rainbow’s latest. It's about Barbra. It was late in the game --I 
was in my forties-- when I learned that gay people have a special thing 
for Barbra Streisand, but you don't have to be gay for that; I have 
always liked it when a woman's nose is wide at the top like that. It 
makes them look like a pretty lion or a tiger. If it's a man, though, it 
makes him look like a woodcut of the Golem of Prague. I'm sorry, but 
it's what I think. There's nothing wrong with it. I don’t treat him any 
differently. I know my crooked Horton-Hears-a-Who nose is no prize. One 
time in high school in animal husbandry class, before the teacher got 
there one of the cowboy kids --aggies, they liked to be called-- 
confronted me and drawled slowly and menacingly, "Yer nostrils are 
large."  I said, "Oh. Hm."  He pondered for a moment, and said, "See 
these boots? These /shit/-kickin' boots, and they gon' kick some 
/shit/."  I said something like, "Ah, I see."  He looked puzzled, or 
disgusted, or something. Frustrated, probably, I see now, because I 
wasn't reacting properly, so giving him no excuse for violence. The 
teacher came in, everybody sat down, and that was the last of that. I 
don’t know if it was all because he saw me looking at a girl he liked, 
or if it had something to do with graphic arts class that also had a 
high share of California-cowboy-accent boys, and a bigger boy there 
wanted me to fight his smaller friend in the fistfight-yard behind the 
church across the street from the school, which I had disrespectfully 
laughed off, because, are you kidding? No. Well, no, then. The teacher, 
Mister Atkinson, a master of offset printing on the antique equipment 
available, saw this confrontation, took me aside later, into his office, 
and said to me, and I quote: "Whyncha just haul off and deck him." I 
remember telling you the story of when I was on the way to school one 
time in Randy’s '64 Falcon with Mark Dennis and Chris Byer –Randy, of 
course, driving, and maybe Mike Bell (who later became a professor of 
nuclear physics)– and, uh, Mark Dennis waved around at the high school 
as we turned into the parking lot, and said, "Isn't this... weird? I 
mean, school is... /weird/. You know?"  And I understood him exactly. 
Later I learned that all of life is just more high school and high 
school situations and unfairnesses and attitudes and confusions and 
popularity contests and it only gets /more/ weird as you age and your 
ears and nose get longer and longer. I might be projecting. Whatever it 
is, when it seems like it’s everyone it’s probably you, or the filter 
you think you can't do without, which is the same thing.
https://tinyurl.com/RandyRainbowBarbra

And Shok, a short film about wartime in Kosova. (Warning, true story, 
not funny. Weeping now; be warned.) (20 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/06/shok.html

That's it for now. Email me your written work and I'll read it Friday 
night on the radio on the very next MOTA.

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