[Kzyxtalk] CHICKEN HEART! Thump-thump. Thump-thump.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: CHICKEN HEART! Thump-thump. Thump-thump.

/"How dare you speak to me in that tone of voice! There's murder going 
on in that place, I tell you, I know it as sure as I'm standing here! 
Research Institute? It's a house of murder, that's what it is! I've 
always known it was! Vivisection and torture and crimes against nature..."/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2023-10-20) 
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-0563

This particular show has a couple of unusually long stories: Chapter 14 
of Del Potter's work-in-progress autobiography, the part about the LSD 
lab supply debacle that derailed years of work, and Eleanor Cooney's 
/Tour Of Duty/, about the flying-phobia nightmare big-publisher 
publicity tour for her 2003 book /Death In Slow Motion/, about the years 
of caring for her Alzheimered mother, as she puts it, which coincided 
with the beginning of twenty years and trillions of dollars of 
ridiculous destruction and mass war crimes ten thousand miles away so a 
handful of obscenely rich arms manufacturers and military contractors 
could stay obscenely rich through their retirement years and for no 
other reason. And there are poems, stories, songs, health info, science 
breakthroughs in both the microscopic realm and outer space. Flynn 
Washburne's true story about traveling to Mars as a child on the wings 
of his bossy sister's contagious imagination. David Herstle Jones' story 
about a restaurant cat from the point of view of the restaurant mice. 
Notty Bumbo, John Sakowicz, Manuel Vicent (translated by Louis Bedrock). 
A letter from Gaza by Ahmed Abu Artema, RD Beacon's weekly peeved 
punctuation-challenged lament for a gone world, the Norm MacDonald (RIP) 
story of The Moth and the Podiatrist /and/ state-of-the-art A.I.'s 
pass-fair attempt to replicate the Norm MacDonald experience. Ezekiel 
Krahlin. Sebastian Iturralde. My dream journal. (I wish you'd send me 
your dreams, but apparently I'm the last person in the world who writes 
his dreams down anymore. Prove me wrong.) And so on.

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:

Ghost in the Shell locations, kind of. The anime, not the Scarlett 
Johanssen one. I liked /Lucy/. It goes with /Limitless/, which has Anna 
Friel, who I prefer to Scarlett Johanssen, though I'm not able to 
articulate exactly why. It might even be just that the relationship 
between her and Lee Pace in /Pushing Daisies/ was so natural and sweet, 
though they could only kiss through a sheet of cling-wrap because if 
their skin touched she'd have to go back to being dead again, for good.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/10/ghost-in-shell-scenes-then-and-now.html

Rerun: Hot Israeli army girls. And in the middle of all of them, Santa 
Claus parkour-flipping along battlement crenellations, for some reason. Hmm.
https://www.instagram.com/hot_idf_girls/

Chloe Firoanzo (say klo-ee fee-doh-AHN-zo) reminds me of my Aunt Jenny 
(of Aunt Jenny and Uncle Dave fame). Except Aunt Jenny wore very thick 
glasses that made her eyes enormous. Her eyes filled the frames of the 
glasses. And Dave's ankles hurt so one or the other of his feet was 
always up on something. And he smoked cigars, the biggest cigars you 
ever saw. As big as a kielbasa.
https://laughingsquid.com/jazz-cover-enjoy-the-silence/

Biff Rose's jazz funeral. (108 min.) (via Bob Woelfel of KTDE) It's in 
portrait mode, and would only play the very middle of the picture, 
chopping off the top and bottom, until I full-screened it. If it's like 
that for you, do that. This really drives it home. He's gone.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=169523822817091&id=587643584&mibextid=qC1gEa

And the future we all really wanted. The future we could have had 
instead of the one we got.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/10/startling-stories-covers.html

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