[Kzyxtalk] Significance of the three wise guys: the owl, the alligator and the turtle.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Significance of the three wise guys: the owl, the alligator and 
the turtle.

/"Oh, ring, ring the yule log and sound the holy wreath. Open up the 
missile, too, and trim your crispness treeth." -Walt Kelly/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-12-16) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0519

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

And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides 
about an hour of each of my Friday night shows' most locally relevant 
material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. 
Find KNYO's hidden donation heart and help the station out with a 
one-time holiday gift or, if you can, a recurring gift, from your own 
hidden heart. And/or acquire a concentrated vial of the new 
heart's-blood-red KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep and vibrant health. 
("It's toasted!")

New stories by Ezekiel Krahlin, Douglas Wayne Coulter, Tommy Wayne 
Kramer, David Herstle Jones, Paul Modic, Craig Louis Stehr admonishing 
us all to chant Hare Krishna to defeat the demons, the usual chapter 
each from books by Kent Wallace (Ong Tay) and Clifford Allan Sanders (No 
More My Echoing Song), poetry by the late Jim Harrison, the late Jorge 
Luis Borges (say phlegmily: cHAWR-heh LOO-ees BAWRc-hayss), and others 
not quite so late nor difficult to pronounce properly; also science, 
art, jokes, dreams, car repair advice (and an unsolicited plug for the 
knowledgeable staff of O'Reilly's Auto Parts of Rohnert Park), views 
from up close and from deep orbit of events of the small and big world, 
including the discovery, just this year, of the clitoris of the female 
snake. Apparently, for all the examination and chronicling and 
dissecting and titrating and milking of venom and all the trapping and 
releasing and tickling and probing and cross-legged blowing flutes at 
them and shaking them around in churches in Texas and daring them to 
bite us, it only just now, at the end of history (so far), occurred to 
anyone to really look down there. Certainly the snakes were not talking.

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:

This movie of marionettes from 2004. In Wikipedia: "When a string 
attached to a moveable limb is severed, it is analogous to amputation; 
the individual loses the ability to use that body part. Once a string is 
cut nothing can repair it or bring back to life whatever it was attached 
to. If the head string is cut, it results in permanent death. Since 
nothing can reanimate a body part after its string is cut, repairs to 
injured individuals must be made using healthy, stringed parts. An 
unfortunate collection of poor people and prisoners is kept as a donor 
class. When a person of royalty or other social importance loses a body 
part, one is removed from a prisoner to replace it." Also, when people 
love each other and pull /down/ on their own strings, it lifts the other 
person up. And the impenetrable gate of a city is a horizontal bar 
braced up in the air to stop the strings of people coming in. To let 
people in, you /lower the bar to the earth/. It used to be you could 
watch this movie on the web, but I can't find it anymore. Maybe you can 
find a way to see it. Every library should have a copy. It didn't get 
enough attention. It's wonderful. All these years later I still cry 
every time I think about it. They briefly show us the real puppeteers 
working everything and that makes it even better, like the short part at 
the end of The Boxtrolls where we see the stop-motion animator at work 
as two characters discuss whether there might be someone out there 
somewhere controlling them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(2004_film)

The 1979 blurry and weird Kate Bush Xmas Teevee Special. (complete, 44 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/here-is-the-wonderfully-avant-garde-kate-bush-christmas-special-from-1979-with-special-guest-peter-gabriel.html

An argument that Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer is actually the sequel to 
Willy Wonka. (The real Gene Wilder one, not the remake.)
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/12/fan-theory-posits-that-snowpiercer-is-a-stealth-sequel-to-willy-wonka.html

The three witches.(including The Legend of the Xmas Witch, full movie, 
100 min.) (via MissCellania)
https://spookydaily.com/p/the-witches-of-christmas

And Evangelina brings in the lute.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/16/evangelina-mascardi

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