[Kzyxtalk] Acrobatic obloquy.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Acrobatic obloquy.

/"An adult polar bear can eat twenty pounds of raw meat per minute for 
five minutes. Then it must rest, or suffer what we call bloat."/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-07-29) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0499

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 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 real 
small-town local radio a nice favor, and see how the whole world 
brightens up for you because of a simple act of kindness.

You can always email me your work on any subject and I'll read it on the 
radio the upcoming 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:

One veteran's carousel project.
https://boingboing.net/2022/07/23/scott-built-the-carousel-of-happiness-as-a-pathway-to-healing.html

Sweet Home Alabama on piano. Usually in this Russian woman's videos she 
really strikes and bangs and lunges lustily at the piano, but a real 
piano can take that. This one, her travel piano, is made of plastic, 
suspended between two chairs, so she keeps a rein on her passions, 
because she can. That's attractive: people who are naturally wild but 
have no trouble controlling themselves to protect the musical equipment. 
A standup comedian in Crown Hall got wild with one of my microphones 
once and the entire audience recoiled in horror. Now everyone is inured 
to it. Performers deliberately throw down the microphone. I hate it when 
they do that; I'm never getting used to it. It's like smashing a 
perfectly good guitar.
https://theawesomer.com/sweet-home-alabama-piano-cover/675258/

A 15-minute documentary about Miss Cleo, the psychic fortuneteller and 
/obeah woman/ from Jamaica, who was really a Catholic girl from Los 
Angeles named Youree Dell Harris. She ended up making a billion dollars 
(yes: $1,000,000,000) for the Psychic Readers Network and had a ball 
doing it. "And she wasn't even a real psychic!" So? That's like saying 
someone isn't a real Pope. Nobody with a brain in their head believes 
anyone is a real psychic or can make infallible decisions because they 
have a direct line to God or gods. Also, and you might wanta sit down 
for this: there are no angels or leprechauns or selkies or pookas nor 
princes of Nigeria who need your bank numbers to bless you of contact 
with their fortune. Now, I saw a real unicorn in person once, but it 
wasn't a spiritual heraldic creature portending good omens for the 
kingdom by manifesting in a glade, it was a hippie family's pet goat 
with one horn, and so what, and it smelled awful. No-one ever said 
anything like that about Miss Cleo. She was always a lady and only the 
spokesperson for the real crooks, so she skated on all charges, and 
that's show biz.
https://boingboing.net/2022/07/25/remember-miss-cleos-web-of-lies.html.

And my prophetic dreams from Mon-Wed, July 25–27, 2022. Make of them 
what you will.
https://marcomcclean.medium.com/dreams-mon-wed-july-25-27-2022-80e11c7281f8

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