[Kzyxtalk] A fractal landscape of shenanigans.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A fractal landscape of shenanigans.

/"When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and 
difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid." -Ricky Gervais/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-01-07) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0470

The phone didn't ring all night. I don't especially encourage people to 
call, so I thought nothing of it. When setting up I check it, along with 
everything else, to make sure it's working, and it was, and the bell was 
switched on, but I didn't call it with my cell phone to see if it would 
ring. I got email from Kent Wallace (he's in Vietnam teaching children 
to speak New Jersey accent English) to the effect that he called 
relentlessly and couldn't get through, so that's something to solve. The 
Skunk carnival trainride corporation eminent domain fiasco stuff is 
mostly near the beginning of the show. And at the end I ran out of 
material to read at the /exact/ right time to fit in the long latest 
episode of Doug Nunn's Snap Sessions project, with a paean to The 
Twilight Zone and a fascinating 45-minute interview with world-class 
drummer, drum teacher and political activist Claudia Page of JAIN, the 
Mendocino Community School girl band from the early 1980s, who went on 
to perform with Tito Puente, Jerry Garcia, and many more, and traveled 
to actual war zones (!) to perform.

Thanks heaps to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here's a page with not 
only the above MOTA show but also other ones going back quite a way.

And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided at least 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. And why not throw KNYO a one-time or recurring bone of 
money while you're at it? It's a feel-good thing to do, and not only 
because it will finally lift the old curse off your family, like it's 
done for so many other grateful families. KNYO really needs the money, 
and you have some, maybe not much but enough, so this is a great idea. 
Be smart. Do it now. Go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart, and 
give till it hurts.

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

FURTHERMORE, 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 that show together. 
Such as:

Don and the lightning. A true story. I really like the gentle 
persistence of the woman who's sweet on him. Any story of someone being 
struck by lightning, even this one, reminds me of the movie /Powder/, 
which I recommend. Even Jeff Goldblum being Jeff Goldblum at the height 
of his Jeff Goldblumness could not ruin that movie for me, and that's 
saying something. One movie he actually enhanced, also in a cameo 
appearance: /Igby Goes Down/, in which he is a comically oblivious, 
self-centered, inadequate but somehow also sympathetic father. It's like 
a cross between the stories Catcher in the Rye and So Much Unfairness of 
Things. My feelings about Jeff Goldblum are complicated. Did you know 
that he's an accomplished jazz pianist, and that he can pitch a 92 mph 
curveball with either hand, or could, rather, before the accident.
https://laughingsquid.com/man-keeps-getting-struck-by-lightning/

The boxes aren't moving, nor spinning, nor changing size. This is, like 
a lot of optical illusions, a good way to think about irrational 
opinions about the way the real world works. Your mind can be fooled by 
arrangements of ideas and particular stacks of words, the way your eye 
can be fooled by tricks of visual elements. You swear you're right 
because it's obvious to you, and anyone who can't see it must be an 
idiot. Apply this to religion, politics, morality, taste in art, so on. 
And even after the trick is explained, we can't help but fall for it, 
because if the obvious is wrong, then you have to start questioning 
/everything/, and that's just too hard, so we go on convinced of 
bullshit, because the evidence is right there, like Jeff Goldblum's 92 
mph curveball, see above.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/03/watch-these-rotating-cubes-are-definitely-moving-except-theyre-actually-not.html

A story about a one-minute time machine.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/01/one-minute-time-machine.html

And a hundred ways to slightly improve your life with hardly any effort 
at all and no time machine required.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/01/marginal-gains-100-ways-to-improve-your-life-without-really-trying

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