[Kzyxtalk] Gargantua and Pantagruel.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Gargantua and Pantagruel.

/"As a result we now have this frightful engine of destruction which at 
the mere rumbling of a farm cart can destroy us all and the rest of 
Europe with it. And are we to go to war with the whole world because of 
it? Oh, I know what our impetuous young friend there would say: 'Guard 
our frontier.' I say let us give America the privilege of guarding its 
own frontier. At least they can afford it. Your Grace, we must give them 
their bomb back immediately!" "I'm not so sure about that, Bobo. The 
Americans are a wonderful people and perhaps we shouldn't have taken 
their bomb, but even if we give it back to them some other country will 
go and invent a Q-bomb of their own, and then we'll have an X, Y, and Z 
bomb, and someday one of them will go off, boom." --Peter Sellers as 
both Senior Advisor Uncle Bobo and Grand Duchess Gloriana/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-07-15) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0497

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

Thanks go to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided almost an 
hour of the above 8-hour show's most locally relevant material, as 
usual, without asking for anything in return. Just $25 a year for full 
access to all articles and features (TheAVA.com). While you're feeling 
generous, go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart and do what you feel.

You can always email me your work on any subject and I'll read it on the 
radio this next Friday night.

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 the show together. 
Such as:

I wish it would rain. Just from looking at this. Also the song is nice 
and sad, with a sort of voice and recording quality that always gets me. 
She could be reading the telephone book and it would still work.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/07/singing-in-rain.html

A friendly reminder of what always ends up happening where politics get 
taken over by religion. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/GinnyMcDonald8/status/1545874425505013760

Speaking of which: the Christofascist pledge of allegiance and statement 
of continuing nightmarish intent. Ooof.
https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1547259907275075584

And a clever cat. There was a story I read a long time ago, or maybe I 
dreamed it, where an evil wizard's terrorist ransom threat was to give 
cats hands, and the villagers paid the full amount without quibbling, so 
he wouldn't do it, but he did it anyway. I think some brave children, 
with the help of the cats, for whom things had turned bad and they were 
resentful of their condition, cut off the wizard's hands in his sleep so 
he was impotent to do magical mischief at all anymore, and everyone was 
safe, but at the end there was a moment of doubt about that, like at the 
very end of the X-Men movie, where de-powered Magneto nonetheless 
telekinetically wiggles a chess piece and the corner of his mouth quirks 
upward ever so slightly.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/07/houdini-cat.html

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