[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio show is on all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: MOTA: Good Night Radio show is on all night tonight!

Soft deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday night's) MOTA 
show is 6 or 7pm. If you can't make that, send it whenever it's done and 
I'll read it on the radio next week.

For this show, so far, I have stories by all the usual suspects. Biff 
Rose died, so there'll be somewhat about him. Fifteen minutes pre-show 
(8:45), expect Operation Cue, audio of a short government film about 
testing survivability after nuclear war by building a whole town in the 
desert, furnishing it, populating it with plaster mannequin shop-window 
men, women and children, blowing it up with an atomic bomb, and serving 
a crowd of volunteers with stew made of canned goods dug out of the 
peripheral wreckage. The model radio station survives handily in its 
concrete block bunker. They just have to put the jostled equipment back 
on the table; it's all made with vacuum tubes, which laugh at radiation, 
so... When Tim Falconer and I were working to put up a little 
medium-power radio station in Caspar in the middle-late 1980s, we had an 
ancient tube-type Altec board, and the transmitter we had in mind would 
run on tubes, too. We had a tube-type limiter. Ready for the worst. 
Someone else was granted the frequency, put up their station in Fort 
Bragg, automated it to the max using mostly prerecorded programming on 
8-hour videotapes (which would be toast after a nuclear exchange; 
fortunately no such exchange occurred), and they failed anyway in a few 
short years. KSAY, I think it was.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am PST on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as via KNYO.org. Also the schedule is 
there for KNYO's many other terrific shows.

Furthermore, any day or night you can go to 
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and hear last week's MOTA show. By 
Saturday night I'll put up the recording of tonight's show. And you'll 
find plenty of fun educational material to traipse bemusedly among until 
showtime, or any time, such as:

Astor Piazzola - Tango Suite for Two Guitars, with score. (15 min.) (via 
b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJTItA7TfI

The Hand of Satan on the Sea of Darkness, and The Flooded Crypt of San 
Zaccaria. (via This Isn't Happiness)
https://www.superpunch.net/2023/07/the-hand-of-satan-on-sea-of-darkness.html

And how the rhythm section swings, according to Wynton Marsalis.
https://laughingsquid.com/wynton-marsalis-rhythm-section/

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