[Kzyxtalk] A case of the bazazzas.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A case of the bazazzas.

/"Oh, 'scusi moi. I was just pampering myself with a Sleeping Beauty 
glow masque." "Actually, I've also been wearing that masque, except I've 
combined mine with a Scrubulator oxygenation masque for complete 
relaxation." "I think chemically you're not supposed to combine those." 
"Oh, really? I feel fine. It's like a faceful of hot snakes."/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-02-04) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0474

Thanks heaps to Hank Sims for all kinds of tech help over the years, as 
well as for his fine news site: https://LostCoastOutpost.com

And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided almost an 
hour of the above eight-hour show's most locally relevant material, as 
usual, without asking for anything in return. (Though I do pay $25 
annually for full access to all articles and features, and you should 
too if you can. As well as shower some largesse once in awhile upon 
KNYO. Why not go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart and exercise 
your largesse muscles right now? Let them entirely off leash to run free 
and cavort and frolic.)

Email me your work on any subject and I'll read it on the radio this 
coming Friday night on the very next MOTA show.

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:

I'm inviting you to compare your own pursuits and obsessions and 
dedication and accomplishments and joy in life with Lily Hevesh and her 
projects, like this one:
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/02/this-hexagon-is-world-record-domino.html

Coney Island. The romance, the happy pinheads, the soft-focus ropes of 
Edison bulbs in cigar smoke and steam and tangible smell of wet wool, 
the heaviest tapdancing pianist in the world, the amazing and perturbing 
headless woman, tattoo tent, clanking wheezing rides hanging by a 
thread, dueling calliopes, kielbasa sandwiches and taffy candy that 
/glues your teeth shut/... A phone with games in it can't really replace 
this, but it has, alas. It's all gone, a world lost forever.
https://tinyurl.com/ConeyIslandInABlender

Here's some quickly replaceable property being damaged, barely the money 
equivalent of a single car crash, and probably insured against. Alcohol 
kills 3,000,000 people (!) every year and ruins and blights the lives of 
many millions more and their families. It's addictive and more 
destructive than all other recreational drugs combined. I can easily 
imagine many good reasons for this woman to do as she did. Maybe a drunk 
driver killed her little daughter. Maybe her drunken lout of a husband 
just gambled away all their savings or slapped her face and/or merely 
bellowed viciously at her through a locked bathroom door one too many 
times while she huddled behind it, weeping. Maybe she came to a 
realization of the harm from her own drinking and, despairing of not 
being able to ever give it up, just snapped. People speak of waste-- 
"what a waste, all those bottles"-- I'm thinking of the blithe waste of 
production of all that poison in the first place, regardless of whether 
it ends up clean and fresh on that floor or mixed with vomit on a 
hundred other floors and in the street. [Update: I see that they removed 
the video. I wonder why.]
https://boingboing.net/2022/02/01/modern-day-carrie-nation-singlehandedly-destroys-shelves-of-liquor.html

And twin shoulder-mounted eye-tracking high-power lasers. They set on 
fire whatever you swivel your eyes to look at, no matter how far away, 
so be careful. You don't want to shoot somebody's eye out, like that guy 
last week in Virginia who shot his glovebox pistol at a deer in a field, 
missed three times, of course, but felled his 81-year-old neighbor 140 
yards away and then had to go over there and futilely try to stop the 
bleeding with a towel while he waited for police to show up. He's in a 
lot of trouble. It's against the law to shoot across a road at a deer.
https://theawesomer.com/supermans-heat-vision-irl/656553/

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