[Kzyxtalk] A minaret of jam.

[David Gurney]

'Fraid we're in a species
in a certain kind a hell
wiped out all others
with a horrid silent smell
We were warned about it
but no one would ever tell
Humans are a goin'
To where they'll finally fell.


On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 1:57 PM John Sakowicz <sako4 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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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