[Kzyxtalk] Shambleau!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Re: Shambleau!

/"And in her living cloak she swayed to him, the murmur swelling 
seductive and caressing in his innermost brain, promising, compelling, 
sweeter than sweet. His flesh crawled to the horror of her, but it was a 
perverted revulsion that clasped what it loathed. His arms slid round 
her under the sliding cloak, wet, wet and warm and hideously alive, and 
the sweet velvet body was clinging to his, her arms locked about his 
neck, and with a whisper and a rush the unspeakable horror closed about 
them both..."/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-12-09) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0518

Thanks to Hank Sims for tech help, as well as for his fine news site: 
https://LostCoastOutpost.com

Thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an 
hour of each of my Friday night shows' most locally relevant material 
without asking for anything in return, going back decades. Further, 
thank tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself (KNYO.org). Find the hidden 
donation heart there and help the station out with a substantial gift 
from your own hidden heart, maybe. Or try the new fire-engine-red 
vibrantly healthy KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep. ("It's toasted!")

New stories by David Herstle Jones, Paul Modic, a chapter each from 
books by Kent Wallace and Clifford Allan Sanders, poetry by Notty Bumbo 
and other poems old and new, science and art and jokes and dreams, 
health advice, some perspective on events of the small and big world. 
And all rounds to a close with the gripping and creepy and wonderful 
1933 story /Shambleau/, read aloud by its author, C.L. Moore 
(1911-1987). She was 22 when she wrote it; it was her first sale, like 
/Black Destroyer/ was A.E. Van Vogt's first sale. So many of the giants 
in the old days seemed to spring full-blown from the brow of Zeus 
without any preamble. Mary Shelley, for example. John Kennedy Toole, 
William Kotzwinkle... Maybe it's the internet that changed that. Now 
they'd have made a thousand skateboarding or unboxing videos and had 
messy public breakups and so on before they're even in their teens. The 
modern equivalent of /Frankenstein (or) The Modern Prometheus/ is a 
nine-year-old girl shredding a guitar, or a boy balancing standing on 
his hands on two wine bottles or reaming a racist a new one in a grocery 
store checkout line... Ah, no, dang it– I see now that I forgot /again/ 
to include Ezekiel Krahlin's story in the show. Zeke, that was not on 
purpose. I'll do it next week. I'm marking it in the show file right 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:

Sign up and try this. It's the first project of this kind that has 
impressed and delighted me to this level since a DOS 
nonsense-poetry-generating program I bought for $15 and ran on an IBM XT 
in the 1980s. This one is made to give advice, and it comes with many 
self-deprecatory warnings. Prompt it with a story idea and see what 
happens. The old Jews have a word for the reaction you are sure to have; 
that word is, fittingly in the case of a story, /plotz/ (the good kind, 
from happiness and excitement).
https://chat.openai.com/chat

Cosplay bully/cowards in military body armor, with their large-magazine 
metal overcompensation penises on display, to oppose people playing 
dress-up in a style other than theirs, that they think is a danger to 
kids because it might make them think it's okay to dress up funny too.
https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1599276094368403457

And real honking bluesmasters. (In the /O.C. and Stiggs/ issue of 
/National Lampoon/, O.C. played harmonica and Stiggs called him a 
honking bluesmaster. That's where that term comes from.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-blues-masters.html

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