[Kzyxtalk] Lucky Strike, so round, so firm, so fully packed.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Lucky Strike, so round, so firm, so fully packed.

Here's the recording of last night's (2023-08-04) eight-hour-long Memo 
of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and 
KNYO.org:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0552

An unusual lot of this is from the AVA, maybe more than an hour of it 
this time: The Skyhawk/Edmundson kerfuffle put to bed, hatchet buried, 
bygones declared bygones, the way mature adults do it, an example for 
all of us. Marguerite on local varieties of heirloom roses. Anonymous 
radio poetry. R.D. Beacon. Louis Bedrock's translation of Manuel Vicent 
on Dora Maar, Picasso's self-mutilating lady of sorrows. Various related 
local and distant legal issues, from casual color-of-authority racism in 
Ukiah to lifelong institutional torture in Texas. Mitch Clogg reports, 
ischemically nude, on the view from the porch, and a bird-shaped mystery 
solved. Paul Modic, on another porch, reminisces about the wild old weed 
industry days. John Sakowicz' in-case-of-inevitable-doom advice. Caitlin 
Johnstone Caitlin-Johnstoning up a storm. Magical realism by David 
Herstle Jones. The finale rack of Eleanor Cooney's serialized Requiem 
for a Pasha. Further developments in The Blind Steal by Kent Wallace. 
Norman Solomon on invisible and so perpetual war. Clifford Allen Sanders 
on Mendocino Village architectural history and the comical expensive 
puerile power squabbles that shaped everything from skyline to sewer 
hookups. A little more about Sinead O'Connor (RIP) from a 
respectful-from-a-distance friend and editor. Details of the inspiration 
for John Hiatt's Smashing a Perfectly Good Guitar. Ezekiel Krahlin, 
Flaco, Lucky, two Deeks, dead-or-alive Kevin, and Scooter. The deflected 
golden age of atomic space-rocket propulsion, a future that might have 
been. And, lastly, a past that might have been, had one small fluke 
jinked the other way and crashed in the jungle: The Lucky Strike, by Kim 
Stanley Robinson (see below for text). And that's it. Have a pleasant 
Hiroshima/Nagasaki week. Try not to bog down in the bathos; squeeze the 
squeak-ducky every once in awhile, and when all the other toys look up 
to see what's what, smile and nod knowingly. Faking it is half the battle.

Email /your/ written work on any subject and I'll read it on the very 
next Memo of the Air.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to worthwhile items I set aside for you 
while gathering the show together, such as:

Tsar Bomba, the most powerful atomic bomba ever. If the bomb that 
destroyed Hiroshima and incinerated all those tens of thousands of 
people was a potato bug on fire, the Tsar Bomba was an elephant made of 
the center of the fricking sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swmcldi_jc4

A steam-powered gramophone. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsGx4iQNaqm/

Merle Travis – So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfPkGcVi8Mk

And Kim Stanley Robinson's /The Lucky Strike/. (100 minutes if you read 
it out loud, maybe 30 or so to yourself.)
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-lucky-strike/

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