[Kzyxtalk] Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

Hi! Marco here. Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday 
night's) MOTA show is around 7pm. After that, send it whenever it's 
ready and I'll read it on the radio /next/ week.

Half an hour into the show, meaning 9:30pm, I'll play this summer's San 
Francisco Mime Troupe radio play series: /Persistence/. Tonight: Episode 
9, a /discussion/ about last weeks episode /Hoboes In Space/, and about 
homelessness in general. (that goes till 10pm), then lots of local work, 
including a poem by Mickey Chalfin, three poems by /driven/ David 
Herstle Jones (ThinkInTheMorning.com), press releases by local 
authorities, news of the area and beyond, as well as stories by 
Sebastian Iturralde of Belgium, andy by /the/ Brian Aldiss of the great 
hereafter, the reanimated and reinvigorated Comtesse DeSpair's posts to 
her Morbid Fact du Jour crowd (many around here number among that crowd, 
not necessarily in Goth drag, passing seamlessly for mundanes) and the 
general tragicomedy of worldwide existential 
on-one's-toes-and-tenterhooks-ness. Another long, interesting show in 
store, if I do say so myself, and why shouldn't I? After the personal 
events of the past few weeks I'm a little sleep deprived, but we'll see 
if I can once again make good on all my promises, and if I can't, after 
so long in the industry, so what. (I'll be talking a little about that too.)

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via
http://airtime.knyo.org:8040/128
(That's the regular link to listen to KNYO in real time.)

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night the recording of tonight's 
show will also be there.

As if all that weren't enough, also at 
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com there's an abstract sculpture of 
Cotton Mather on a pogo stick --not a literal one, but one with 
educational and amusing items stuck all over it to harvest like 
enjoyable colony job assignments until showtime, and also between 
shows-- items such as:

At first it was just fun. Then it became more like that New Yorker 
cartoon of a woman in the other room saying, "Are you coming to bed, 
dear?" where the man out in a cone of light at the desktop computer says 
over his shoulder, "I just can't now. Someone on the internet is wrong!" 
And now it's like this:
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=090221

By next year, if we haven't all burned up or drowned, it'll be more like 
The Neural Yorker twitter page, and all the bitchers and whiners and 
meanies out on the street, out of imaginary work, replaced by machines 
that have learned to bitch and whine for them (and cartoon and do 
standup comedy and drive a truck and cook and placate angry customers 
with A.I.-generated /bedbug letters/ and walk the dog and change 
diapers) with steadily improving efficiency, not like people, who long 
ago plateaued in all those areas.
https://twitter.com/NeuralYorker

"...And the tardigrade conspiracy is that tardigrades exist. When they 
clearly don't. There's no such thing as a tardigrade. It's a total lie. 
A total Democrat lie. Sure, they can show you a tardigrade, just like 
they can show you a talking sponge, or people eating pizza in the 
"International Space Station". That doesn't make it real. Show me where 
it says tardigrade in the Bible. Go on. Because you can't. And if this 
school board continues to push the Tardigrade Lie on our children, we 
are coming for you!" [Ma'm, you three minute have expired.] "That's all 
I got ta say. /You are all demons from Hell and you have been warned!/" 
[Edgy cheering erupts in the meeting hall. The air reeks of steamed pink 
righteous fear sweat even with the cross-breeze of the transom being 
open to the hallway.]
https://boingboing.net/2021/09/01/astonishing-videos-of-a-microscopic-tardigrade-going-for-a-walk.html

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