[Kzyxtalk] Juneteenth, daddio. The forgotten Black beatniks.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Juneteenth, daddio. The forgotten Black beatniks.

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-06-17) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0493

Thanks 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 go to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided well 
over 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. While you're feeling generous, 
go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart and give what you can. And 
email me your writing and I'll read it on the very next Memo of the Air.

Also, it's getting time to be all anticipatory about attending the 
/massive/ KNYO Fourth of July outdoor musical party at Caspar Community 
Center, just like last year, but it's on Monday this time, which makes 
it special.*
http://knyo.org/images/knyo-event.jpg

*The fourth of /any/ month falling on a Monday is rare, because math. 
Here's a chart:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/weekday-monday-4

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:

The Paul Whiteman Orchestra in 1924 visualized in a way that sucks you 
in and carries you along. (via Clifford Pickover) I'd like to see them 
use this treatment on /Happy Feet/, or Raymond Scott's /Powerhouse/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK98TmMoDEk

Emails between Disney's Standards and Practices division and a creative 
cartoon writer, writers and artists being the resource from whom their 
multi-billion-dollar empire is ultimately derived. It's like, "You, sir! 
Explain this joke to the court!" (Scroll down the same page for lots more.)
https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/1537314312926003201

"So you're telling me that $600,000,000 worth of real estate could be 
freed up and the only people inconvenienced would be four 
richer-than-God douchebags in a tiki bar?" Yes, precisely. And this is 
just one bar.
https://twitter.com/lackingsaint/status/1537189324823085056

Twenty-five or thirty years ago I had a dream about Juanita's pet bird, 
who was an asshole and didn't appreciate anything no matter how 
consistently sweet you were to him. Leave his cage open to get out and 
go back in whenever he wanted. Give him treats all the time. He was just 
pissed off no matter what. He even hated the girl bird of his own 
species Juanita had, who he had known all his life. In my dream, there 
was a Christmas-style show put on by Gloriana Opera Company, and a thin 
little boy was standing alone at the right-hand edge of Cotton 
Auditorium's enormous high empty stage, in ragged clothes and a Tam hat, 
singing sadly and quietly but still filling the theater, in so close to 
/this/ little boy's breathy plaintive voice: "I gave him wahhh 
ter-and-food. Why should he bite me?"
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/06/14/cormac-thompson/

And the Cordon family's confident whip tricks in dreamy kinescope. Hooray!
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/fred_and_coronet_cordons_whip_act

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