[Kzyxtalk] Autumn in old Raxacoricofallipatorius.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Autumn in old Raxacoricofallipatorius.

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2023-10-13) 
close-to-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-0562

Instead of making a long list of all the fine writers who contributed to 
that show, I'll share the names of two who weren't there that you'd 
expected to be: Del Potter and Eleanor Cooney. Del is busy with an 
important project, and Eleanor's story came in a little too late for me 
to get it in a form I could use. It was a late-model-MSWord file 
attached to an email, not text in the body of the email, and I might 
have been able to read it with my phone once I was at the station but I 
couldn't figure out how to fast enough. There's always next week.

I'm happy to read your writing on the radio. Just email it to me and 
that's all you have to do.

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:

A clip from The Daily Show in 2014. There's an old saying: "Time does 
not pass between times of being stoned." Or times like these, apparently.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/10/tweet-of-day_01462442497.html

Speaking of which, I'm recalling the mellifluous voice of Andy Williams 
and the animation of Nina Paley, again. Shoulda given the Jews Texas. Or 
Alaska. Lands far less populated nor fraught. Rerun: I remember reading 
somewhere decades ago, and every time I remember it, it changes a little 
but conveys the same sentiment, "Billions of years from now, when the 
mighty Himalayas have worn down to nubs, and the oceans have evaporated 
and been blasted away into space by the swollen red Sun, and the Earth 
is a cinder, if two bacteria survive in what's left of the Middle East, 
wherever that is by then, the South Pole, perhaps, they will be at each 
other's throat." There's a 57-year old Star Trek episode about this 
phenomenon, you Half-Black! Shut your filthy pie-hole, you Half-White! 
Aieee! I keel you! I keel you! It's an oversimplification of a complex 
horrific situation, but what isn't, anymore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TuZKtTBAFg

And a functional prosthetic hand is connected to the bones of the stump 
and to the nerves farther up in the arm. This woman, who lost her 
original hand in a farming accident, has 80-percent of full normal use 
of her new hand. She says it burns like tingly fire all the time, and 
you have to plug it in to charge it every night, but it's worth it. Now 
all she needs is a light saber. And a deck of cards. She doesn't need a 
nutcracker anymore.
https://newatlas.com/medical/bionic-hand-restores-life-amputees

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