[Kzyxtalk] A minaret of jam.

[John Sakowicz]

Thanks, Marco. 


> On 10/08/2022 6:50 PM Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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
> 
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