[Kzyxtalk] Hiya, Dollface.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Hiya, Dollface.

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-08-23) 8-hour Memo of 
the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and 
KNYO.org (and, for the first hour, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0606

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay or kvetch 
or announcement or whatever. Just email it to me. Or include it in a 
reply to this post. Or send me a link to your writing project and I'll 
take it from there and read it on the air. That's what I'm here for.

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:

I tried it. I followed the instructions. I kept at it and kept at it, 
went away, came back, tried again. I can't do it. I just start coughing. 
Maybe you can do it. I'll bet you can make that Scottish/Spanish 
rolling-R sound too. That's another thing I don't have the gene for. I 
can do lots of things, just not those. There's a trick I can do with my 
toes that I'll bet you can't do. I can open and shut my nostrils without 
touching them. That should be enough, but somehow I want more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDvfUAFKQHQ

An infernal boombox the size of an office building, powered by diesel 
generators, to mess with people fifteen miles away, way too far away for 
Spock to reach over from, put them to sleep by pinching their neck, and 
switch it off, to the cheers and applause of everyone on the bus. The 
Asian geopolitical bus.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/06/taiwans-giant-wall-of-propaganda.html

A beautiful photo of an experiment calling down real lightning, to study 
it. This is another majestic giant real-world science thing that any 
motivated high school kid can do. Look up /make your own solid fuel 
rocket motors/. Figure out how to deploy the wire without snapping it. 
The power of Thor is within your grasp.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/when-lightning-strikes-river.html

This interests me because the photo near the top of the stack where 
she's got like a cocker spaniel haircut, that's dedicated "To George. 
Best of Luck," made me hear a kind of Nathan Lane/Bugs Bunny voice in my 
head saying, "Hiya, Dollface." The last time that happened to me, Jill 
Taylor had sent me a picture of her and Mervin Gilbert, but it was 
Mervin's voice that I heard then: "Hiya, Dollface".
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/nan-wynn.html

And this reminds me of the part in /Stand Up Guys/ when the 
heart-of-gold elderly gangsters hand the abused girl the baseball bat 
and take their leave, leaving her alone with the 
now-tied-up-and-hanging-by-their-wrists men they’d just rescued her 
from, who are not so big and tough now, are they. “Oh, honey, we were 
just foolin’. Can’t we talk this over?” No.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/17/small-child-whacks-robber-in-nuts-with-large-bat.html

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