[Kzyxtalk] A minaret of jam.

[David Gurney]

Otherwise known as
misanthropy...
Guess I've become a convert.
Humans suck.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 4:53 PM David Gurney <jugglestone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> '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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