[Kzyxtalk] I've still got the blues for you.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: I've still got the blues for you.

/"What happened to, if you shoot it you eat it. Don't they teach kids 
that anymore?"/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-02-02) 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-0578

Last night's show had and has all the features, all the regular story 
writers, sections and departments /and/ Eleanor and Del, and a chapter 
from Dan Hibshman's new book, with plenty more to come. Next week's show 
can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. Just email it to 
me. 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 not-necessarily-radio-useful but 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, 
such as:

That time filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984 when stage pyrotechnics 
caught Michael Jackson's hair grease on fire, he didn't notice, kept 
dancing, and was rescued by being mobbed by technicians throwing their 
coats over him, none of which ended up being used in the ad, which is 
crazy. I'd start with that and build the rest of the ad around it. They 
did MRI studies and all kinds of scientific experiments that showed that 
even people who claim to like Coca Cola better really, underneath, like 
Pepsi (your brain likes it better) but there's some psychological 
function twisting this up. You don't have to understand the function to 
manipulate it. I'd go with, /Pepsi sets your head on fire!/ with Michael 
Jackson jerking his head this way and that, grabbing his crotch, 
spinning around, shrieking. Indelible. And six years later Pepsi 
actually owned a fleet of Russian war submarines, so I'd tie it in with 
that too.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-burn.html

How we get brown sugar, which is regular sugar with wet brown sauce in 
it. I'll bet chocolate syrup would work for this. Almond syrup isn't 
brown, but that would be good too. Which reminds me, one of my 
million-dollar ideas from the column in /Memo/ thirty years ago was 
almond syrup or chocolate syrup in capsules to drop into a hot drink, in 
a bowl next to the sugar cubes and cup of cream everywhere they sell 
coffee, as well as brown sugar cubes, that people would see as a healthy 
alternative to white sugar. You wouldn't have to say it's healthy; it 
just looks healthier, so by the placebo effect it is, like those weird 
bitter kinds of lettuce, but unlike them by being yummy. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230511/light-or-dark-brown-sugar

Could humans survive? Enclaves of super-rich ones and their domestic 
slaves, yes, in bomb shelters stocked with enough air and water and food 
and power for fifteen years, in a kind of underground Snowpiercer 
situation. This is why we need a space program, to slowly but surely 
nudge a giant asteroid off course with rocket engines or bombs, and give 
humanity a few more hundred years' chance to deliberately develop all of 
Earth into a giant Snowpiercer situation, even more than it already has 
been.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/could-humans-survive-major-asteroid.html

And Tom's Jeannie!
https://laughingsquid.com/toms-diner-i-dream-of-jeannie-mashup/

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