[Kzyxtalk] Abso-bloody-lutely.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Abso-bloody-lutely!

/"It's kitchen sink time, Judge. I'll be pulling out all the stops." 
-Douglas Wambaugh/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-02-11) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0475

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 go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart 
and give what you can, just because it's the right thing to do.

Email me your work on any subject and I'll read it cold on the radio 
this coming Friday night. This is a great way to learn to express 
yourself in writing and be understood. You hear for yourself where to 
put the commas next time so you never again must clench your fists, eyes 
and/or spirit in angst because of people thinking you're saying the 
exact opposite of what you want to. You learn to vary sentence length. 
Verb nouns and nounize verbs, why not? Funly tyrant the language to 
/your/ will and purpose for a change. Like Orson Welles told Ed Wood: 
"Why spend your life making somebody else's dream?" That's not a 
question, it's a whole ocean of pearls of wisdom.

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:

A short, touching, numinous film about the immigrant experience. It 
makes me think of /The Arrival/ picture book by Shaun Tan.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/02/depayse.html

How easy flying is (if all you want to do is fly), given light, strong 
materials and a modern little motor. It helps that the raft itself is 
also a wing. From /The Fifteenth Pelican/ (and, later, the Flying Nun 
adaptation): "When lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, 
anything can fly."
https://boingboing.net/2022/02/10/safety-aside-this-ultralight-looks-like-a-lot-of-fun.html

A.I.-generated species of birds.The Lesser Bobber, the Rabid 
Wood-chipper, Henson's Fractal, the Surly Drunkard, Spectacled 
Ringwraith (my favorite), Headless Horseman, Eastern Grump, 
That-Which-Sings (second place). (via MissCellania)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1487913576929103884.html

A twenty-minute talk by Herb Deutsch, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
https://theawesomer.com/giants-by-moog/657089/

And there are tiny eel-like creatures in vinegar, like the jungle of 
microscopic mites in your eyebrow follicles. It's okay; they're not 
parasitic and they're not dangerous, they're just swirling and dancing 
and eeling in the vinegar, the way the mites in your eyebrows think of 
you as their planet. And the way the two-to-five pounds of bacteria in 
your digestive tract happily enjoy your hospitality and repay you by 
helping digest for you all your life and hardly ever rebel against 
working conditions and block bridges and honk horns and send food back 
the wrong way. We need each other. "When someone does you a solid, don't 
be a yutz." -Tony Stark
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/02/vinegar-eels-dancing-in-water-drop.html

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