[Kzyxtalk] Shih tzus in the mist.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Shih tzus in the mist.

The recording of last night's (2021-03-19) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0428

Also, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com there's a fresh batch of 
not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for 
you while gathering the show together, such as

Further fascinating demystification of the Antikythera orrery. (27 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/03/experts-recreate-mechanical-cosmos-for.html

For the planets are in fact not gods and goddesses ruling the affairs of 
man and advising you to be cautious in dealing with a friend but simply 
colorful and interesting places, hands of a giant clock, and if our 
robots can go there we can go there, and they can, and we will. Not you 
or I, maybe, but people-- the best, smartest and bravest people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5E2FSFOjU

"She wansa fight I’ll give 'er a fight!" The big one built like a fridge 
got the worst of it, I think, but she doesn't think that. She thinks she 
won, and she wants to go back and win some more, and she's the one who 
started it by showing up to make trouble in the first place, and the 
other one wasn't even the one she was mad at. That’s the problem with 
situations like this: I watched the video, I read the whole story, and I 
still don't understand it, except that bigotry and family pride is 
involved. Bigotry between Gypsies and crackers in this case. This is 
West Side Story (Puerto Ricans and Poles), Pizza My Heart (rival 
restaurant families), Warm Bodies (mortal girl, zombie boy): it's Romeo 
and Juliette. “Two families, both alike in dignity, in fair [Wherever], 
where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where 
civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”
https://tinyurl.com/UnforgettableWedding

This is only 40 seconds long; you can hold your breath that long. It's 
like the driver of the car considers his options for a moment and then 
goes, "Ehh, she'll be all right. Let her get up by herself," and 
continues on as if nothing happened.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/mar/19/eureka-pedestrian-injured-hit-and-run-captured-sur/

And Corgis. The periodic squeaky-toy punctuation is the heart of it. 
It's a complex nearly choreographed interaction between nearly identical 
pets –I'm trying to stop from saying /both alike in dignity/ but, sure. 
Like with the wedding aftermath, see above, I think here it's something 
like this: "/I/ am the boss." "You are not!" *squeak* "You still here?" 
"/I'm/ not leaving, /you/ are leaving!" "I hate you!" "/I/ hate /you/!" 
*squeak* …But compared to the wedding, the little dogs are more– um– I 
dunno, I don’t have much of a vocabulary, just: Even with brains no 
bigger than a hazelnut, with the dogs, this isn't impending crippling 
carnage, it's a conversation. They'd be /horrified and miserably sorry/ 
if someone got hurt, not elated. They’ll be going in to eat dinner 
together later out of the same metal dish. They're fine.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2019/09/war-of-corgis.html

p.s. Email me your written work and I'll read it on the radio on the 
very next MOTA. That's what I'm really here for, even though it's 
sometimes obscured by all the bells and whistles (and squeaky-toys).

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