[Kzyxtalk] A minaret of jam.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A minaret of jam.

/"We're on a planet, a sphere, with a certain number of people and a 
certain number of resources. What is the best way for us to manage this? 
What stories do we need to tell ourselves and one another to make this 
work?" -Russell Brand/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-10-07) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0509

Thanks to Hank Sims for all kinds of tech help, especially last week, as 
well as for his fine news site: https://LostCoastOutpost.com

Thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser for providing about an hour of 
the 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). And KNYO. Go to KNYO.org and throw 'em a bone, 
why don't you?

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:

Your heart melts into a puddle. It's largely her eyes, I think, and the 
memory of her voice and of her powers (flying, word invention, 
telekinesis, contagious hallucination, etc.). She's still alive. She's 
87 now and still influencing popular culture, for example: /Guardians of 
the Galaxy/ ("I'm Mary Poppins, yo!")
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/julie-andrews-childhood.html

I love all of this, but you can skip to 6:40 or so, where the tiny girl 
jams on her giant bass guitar with Steve Vai, first in sound check, and 
then for the main event, and acquits herself like a pro. Think of the 
practice and dedication that got her there. And she's like ten years old.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/stanford-torus/

The Learning Channel is to learning as The History Channel is to 
history. Meaning, not. But this particular parody short, or at least the 
argument parts of it, is a lot like arguments that people get into and 
carry on for fricking months and years on the MCN Announce listserv 
until they're calling each other rude names and threatening violence, 
each insulting the other's inability to do any harm to /him/, in a 
demented text-based gnip-gnop of people miles away from each other, each 
fizzing and shouting at his own computer, when the purpose of the 
listserv is to announce yard sales and projects and lost pets and show 
info and so on. You just have to not let childish angry jerks drag you 
down to their level. Once upon a time, Bill Murray sat back in his 
undershorts in a deck chair by the pool with an iced drink in his hand 
and said: "The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you 
let things upset you."
https://theawesomer.com/failing-to-learn-on-tlc/683938/

Speaking of which, it looks like someone saw Nina Paley's cartoon /This 
Land Is Mine/ and thought, /I could do that/. This shows the progress of 
weapons technology over the lack of progress in people just growing up.
https://laughingsquid.com/brief-disagreement-steve-cutts/

P.S. Email me your work on any subject and I'll read it on the radio 
next Friday night. If it's full of swears I have to wait till after 10pm 
to read it, that's all.

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