[Kzyxtalk] Mermaids.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Mermaids.

Here's the recording of last night's (2023-05-19) 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-0541

Ellie Green, Dan Sutherland, David Giusti (from prison) (via the 
TheAVA.com, as is at least an hour of every MOTA show), Frank Hartzell 
via MendoVoice.com, Hank Sims of LostCoastOutpost.com, news from 
Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund and the Humane Society and Symphony of 
the Redwoods, poetry by John Sakowicz, Notty Bumbo, essays and stories 
by Garrison Keillor, Bruce Anderson, Mark Scaramella, Paul Modic... The 
first chapter of a new book (Death’s Green Eyes) by Kent Wallace, more 
from Clifford Allen Sanders, Ezekiel Krahlin, the 
ever-pissed-off-and-misunderstanding David Gurney, Eleanor Cooney, Louis 
Bedrock, Comtesse DeSpair, Ed Oberweiser, Caitlin Johnstone, Sean 
Kernan, Mary Krupka, Joel Strauss, Jim Dodge, Mike Firesmith, Shruti 
Sharma, Amy Ernano, Michel Moushabeck on the subject of Nakba Day, 
Sharon Zhang, and more, including Chris Bachelder’s epistolary /My Son, 
There Exists Another World Alongside Our Own/, in the collection 
McSweeney’s 23, published in 2007 and available wherever fine used books 
are sold. I almost got mine from Copperfield’s in Petaluma, but I ended 
up getting it through the web all the way from Denver at a third the 
price and free shipping. I’m sorry, but there’ve been expenses and we 
just lost our health insurance and I had to go to the doctor anyway, and 
some scruples need to be jettisoned for the time being. When I win the 
lottery I’ll /buy/ Copperfield’s and double everyone’s pay, how about. 
“We all swore if we ever got rich, we would pay the Mini Mart back.”

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

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:

A young Jon Stewart interviewed George Carlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGGWeD_EJk

A few years later Chris Rock did too. This, and the one just above, is 
the way I remember grownups all used to talk, back when there were 
grownups. It was the early 1960s. I'd be in bed in my little bedroom in 
the back, with the door open, and they'd all be in the front room, 
sitting around the table smoking, drinking coffee, winding down after 
they'd closed the restaurant for the night. And I'd fall asleep on my 
book in the safe, wonderful ebb and flow of their voices punctuated by 
knowing laughter.like clouds of bees flying through and around each 
other and in and out the windows on the alley and the screen door to the 
patio. That's a kind of heaven, to me: everyone talking at once, and I 
can /almost/ understand them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwCHMM23B18

“I don’t know what face Michael [Jackson] was making at the time 
[meaning the time his greased hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi 
commercial], but I chose a kind of /AARRGH!/ lip.” I think Bobby Fingers 
is a genius. He has a nervous tic of sometimes barking a random 
syllable. I’ve known people like that. Their brains are just going so 
fast, the syllable might be a whole paragraph.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/05/bobby-fingers-makes-slightly-deranged.html

How a 1765 battleship worked. The sides of the ship were two feet thick, 
solid wood. Whole forests were leveled to make each one of these things, 
so they could bust each other up into pieces and the pieces end up 
either on the bottom or on beaches and rocks all around the world.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/05/how-c1765-sailing-battleship-worked.html

Present day U.S. military bases around the same world, for aircraft 
carriers and bombers and missiles and staging areas for dragging kids 
around everywhere to brutalize and be brutalized, instead of which we 
could have Guaranteed Basic Income, Medicare For All, free higher 
education, clean water, clean air, a roof over everyone's head who needs 
it, sustainable stable electrical power, free public transportation, but 
who wants any of that?
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/05/us-military-bases-around-world.html

And the Iron Giant says, "I am not a gun."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRr5uRmkNaQ

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