[Kzyxtalk] We find these tropes to be self-evident.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: We find these tropes to be self-evident.

/"The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their 
eternal splendors, and your eye fixes only on the earth." -Dante/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2023-09-22) 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-0559

Highlight? Eleanor Cooney's haunting Bradbury-like, Cheever-like story 
/Bush On Mars/. It begins about 3 hours and 40 minutes into the show, 
following the Dave Wilcox song /East Asheville Hardware/, in case you 
want to jump directly there.

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:

"Tiamat Medusa the Dragon Lady, once known as Richard Hernandez, says 
they have (has) almost reached their final form – a genderless dragon." 
This presents yet another new opportunity to socially misstep: one can 
rudely mis-species a person now. You really have to be on your toes at 
all times to not transgress. Times are changing. Try to keep up.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/my-ultimate-dream-become-sexless-30965953

/"A DEATHLESS WITCH who DEVOURS MEN turns the Milky Way into a GALAXY of 
GORE!"/ Queen of Blood, 76 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Vpjth59Ik

Candy corn is the most disgusting candy, short of a display of Mexican 
lollipops I saw once, where each one had a different 
scorpion-or-wasp-like creature embedded in it. I didn't try a 
scorpion-wasp lollipop, so in that case I judge by the concept of the 
thing. I said, "Are these real bugs? Or candy bugs?" "Oh, they're real," 
and the man said the word for them that I don't remember now, sorry. Way 
before that, when I was in second grade, though, I saw my first 
so-called candy corn and thought of them as /teeth/ not corn, for 
obvious reasons: they looked like candy rotten teeth. They were in a big 
bowl on a folding table by the door to the classroom. Someone said it's 
candy, it's for everyone, go ahead. I was dubious, but put one in my 
mouth, !gagged!, ran down the hallway to the bathroom and threw up in 
the trash can there. I've only /very/ rarely drunk alcohol, so unlike 
everyone else in the world I can remember and recount every time I have 
ever vomited in my life. Without going into details again, and adding 
two in case I think of some later, I'm gonna say five times, an average 
of once every 13 years, but weighted heavily toward the early years. I 
mean, it's likely I threw up a few times I can't count when I was an 
infant, but who remembers things from when they're babies? Babies are 
all technically physiologically and psychologically blackout drunk. 
Candy corns are emetic candle wax. Not, in fact, crayons at all (they're 
called crayons in the link). I remember seeing other children eating 
paper paste and other glue and powdered-paint school supplies but I 
never tried those. I chewed on pencils, though, not to eat them but 
because pressing tooth marks into a pencil is interesting, the way 
drawing in ballpoint pen on cellophane tape or on the bottom of rubber 
tennis shoes is, or like mixing baking soda and water to make sticky 
white mud in a squeeze bottle and drop it, drop by pea-size drop, in 
rows to form a castle or igloo on the counter or windowsill. Currently 
my favorite candy is chocolate covered raisins in the same bowl with 
toasted salted almonds. Chocolate covered crunchy coffee beans are 
wonderful, but the after-effect is hours of buzzy nervousness and a 
headache, so I know better. Riesen candy is pretty good– that's 
chocolate and caramel, like Snickers bars but harder and without 
peanuts. Cotton candy. Big ball gum (like Painterz or Very Berry) starts 
out good and actually improves with staleness. Regular M&Ms in bulk to 
eat with a soup spoon. Fruit Loops or Apple Jacks right out of the box, 
dry. Dollar-store Cracker Jacks (superior to Fiddle Faddle, fresh or 
stale) are in fact real corn and so improve digestion of whatever else 
you eat while not being digested themselves. There, that's Halloween all 
laid out for you. The stores all have Halloween already set up, so I'm 
starting now too, at least in spirit.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/09/candy-corn.html

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