[Kzyxtalk] The smooth shmoo swoops through.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The smooth shmoo swoops through.

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-12-30) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and KNYO.org:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0521

This particular show, while only 440 minutes long and not the full 480, 
for reasons which you'll hear near the beginning of the recording, 
nonetheless features the fascinating story of Paul Modic's arrival in 
and impressions of peak-hippie Northern California lo these many years 
ago; Chuck Wilcher's and Steve Hinnefeld's memories of the late Ren 
Oschin; options for drying mushrooms if you don't have a fancy Bluetooth 
mushroom dryer; an account of attending the recent billion-dollar Avatar 
sequel on the other kind of mushrooms; further adventures in quack 
psychic healing and questionable Sovereign Citizen legal advice, as well 
as warnings from competing time-traveling fashion influencers about the 
tunnel to another world beneath Area 51 and real-life Cthulhu, as big as 
a football stadium, stirring at the bottom of the sea, about to yawn and 
stretch and roam upward to land, ravenous for breakfast; heating gas 
delivery options; the usual assortment of /real/ medicine, poetry, math, 
science, history, cosmology and cosmetology; the annual end-of-year 
run-down of all the things Americans got stuck in their various bodily 
orifices that required an emergency room doctor to get them out, listed 
by orifice, starting at the top and moving downward: ear, nose, throat, 
penis, vagina, and rectum ("Rectum? Damn near killed'm!); a brief 
history of Glass Beach; two chapters each of new books by Clifford Allen 
Sanders and Kent Wallace; my dream journal of the last week; Gadeng 
Vadoo and Eid Ma Clack Shaw; Patrick Cockburn on Israel's latest 
Government of Darkness; Ezekiel Krahlin's adventures in homeless 
dog-sitting; Maggie Hart's Peruvian travel rape story; the latest in 
Artificial Intelligence news; and it's all capped off with The Weird 
Circle: The Queer Client, a play, recorded in 1944, of a bereaved 
banker's revenge, remorse and madness. Somewhere in there I recall 
reading a story by John Mahoney and being confused, thinking it was the 
John Maloney I know. Mahoney-Maloney, not the same, but the nickel 
didn't drop until much later. It's a simple mistake; no malice intended. 
Oh, and Ari Yovel, student rabbi, who I was hoping would call for the 
Ask a Jew portion of the show, had other commitments, so maybe next week 
we'll try again.

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:

The Q continuum. These people are clearly ignorant and crazy and easily 
manipulated for the bad and they’re damaging their children, but really 
is this any worse than any family that fills their kids’ heads with 
emphatic nonsense not in a spirit of fun but as though it's real 
information? Religious people, for example.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/23/heartbreaking-visit-to-a-delusional-qanon-family.html

Bill Bixby's last interview ever. Watching /The Courtship of Eddie's 
Father/ I always wondered why he didn't just marry Mrs. Livingston. I 
remember thinking it was unfair that she was always cooking for them and 
cleaning up after them. Why didn't they wash their own clothes and cook 
their own soup? I thought she was pretty and I liked her. That and the 
little talk Eddie and his father always had about this or that on the 
beach at the end of each show was my favorite thing about it. In other 
Bill Bixby news, after Judi Bari died slowly, over years, of 
complications of being car-bombed and cancer, many people were writing 
in the Anderson Valley Advertiser about who might have bombed her. I 
wrote a funny story titled /Who Bombed Bill Bixby/. That was before 
newspapers had web pages, so I can't just click on something and find it 
again. I'd like to see it, if you have the issue of the paper with that 
one in it. A picture of it would be good enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlFH_PTs2lY

And I didn't know starling birds could do this. So nice. Of course crows 
and ravens can. If you have popcorn and a little patience you can make 
friends with all the crows in the neighborhood and teach them all kinds 
of things to do as well as say. In France a few years ago they taught 
crows and ravens to find coins all over a big city and put them in a 
vending machine in exchange for treats. And the birds invented on their 
own a way to crack nuts open by putting them in the street for a car to 
roll over them and then they wait till it's safe and go get the nut 
meat. They do it at a stop light.
https://laughingsquid.com/mimicking-starling-r2-d2/

*Email your written work on any subject and I'll read it on the very 
next Memo of the Air on KNYO.

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