[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Live on KNYO from Franklin St. all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

MOTA: Live on KNYO from Franklin St. all night tonight!

Marco here. Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday 
night's) MOTA show is like 5:30 or so. Or send it whenever it's done and 
I'll read it on the radio next week.

We've had a problem with KNYO's transmitter that's being addressed as I 
write, so it might be that MOTA is not be on the actual air tonight. 
That's no hill for a high-stepper, as Biff Rose used to say. I'll still 
be streaming live on the web, and then the next night the recording will 
be on my weblog, as usual.

I'm back in town for this show. I'll be in the cluttered but 
well-lighted back room of KNYO's 325 N. Franklin studio. To call and 
read your work in your own voice tonight, the number is 707-962-3022. If 
you want to come in and perform in person, that's okay; bring a mask to 
put on, and of course stay away if you have a tickly throat. But if 
you're in perfect health and neither drunk nor nuts, fine, why not, and 
bring your harmonium or hurdy gurdy or whatever. I saw Jack Leung in 
Rite-Aid Tuesday when I got my shots; he might show up to play the 
eponymous Jack Leung memorial electric piano.

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

As always, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a jejune 
balloon of educational confetti to pop all over yourself until showtime, 
or any time, such as:

"Protect your loved ones from war gas with Scotch tape." Got gas? Get 
Scotch tape. Bonus thought-experiment: Does Scotch tape stick to vinyl 
food wrap? Think about it and settle on an answer before you try it. 
Then scribble on Scotch tape with a blue ball-point pen until it's 
chatoyant; see how nice it looks and feels. Then wash your hands before 
you touch anything else.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/if_war_gas_falls_from_the_sky

Trebuchet guy again with a new kind. Stay till the end or skip to the 
end. It's neat when he adjusts the mass of the projectile to take all 
the kinetic energy of the flywheel away with the throw, leaving the 
wheel stopped. I especially like the idea of a weapon where you have to 
crank at it for awhile before you can use it. Something like this should 
be required for guns, say, in peace /and/ war. But then the sort of 
people who keep guns would just be cranking them all the time, or paying 
or ordering people to crank them, or buying electric motor kits from 
Amazon to fit them with to keep cranking and cranking them when they go 
to the store or for a walk in the park, in case they win their fantasy 
lottery and there's crime going on and they can be the Walter 
Mitty/Travis Bickle hero and righteously shoot someone, and then we're 
right back where we started. Some people would prefer a gasoline-powered 
gun cranker, going ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa in their actual pocket all 
the time, and that would be comforting, except in an elevator or other 
closed-in, claustrophobic space, where non-gun-equipped fellows would 
sniff and side-eye them and set them on edge, even more likely to snap. 
Leonardo Da Vinci sketched a weapon of rotating knives cranked by an 
armored horse pulling it through a battlefield. It's not a new idea.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-flywheel-trebuchet/591274/

And Diagram Of The Elephant's Head. A. Wheels for the eyes. B. Wheels 
for the trunk. C. Cord for drawing trunk inward. D. Cord for drawing 
trunk outward. E. Leather thongs for operating wheels. F. Hook from 
which head is suspended. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1891-mechanical-elephant-woolson-morse-american/

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