[Kzyxtalk] Spooky action at a distance.

[nsi at mcn.org]

Really good news! --beth bosk

On 2024-02-24 6:19 pm, Marco McClean wrote:
> Subject: Spooky action at a distance.
> 
> An armed society is a BLAM BLAM BLAM society.” -Drew of Fark
> 
> Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-02-23) 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):
> http://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0581
> 
> Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too.
> 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.
> 
> Some news: Bob Young (KNYO's founder and manager) informs me that
> worries about losing the downtown studio and performance space have 
> been
> popped like a balloon. The sale happened. KNYO has new landlords. They
> turn out to be radio people previously working with KVMR in Grass 
> Valley
> and very sympatico, so that's welcome. I think this also means that the
> project to move the transmitter down into town from out in the sticks
> and put the antenna atop the studio is back on, and it might be done by
> summer. Better signal, real-time transmission with no internet buffer
> lag, closer to the ideal of real radio. Win-win-win.
> 
> 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:
> 
> Roswell. And the mysterio-chord at the end. If the only thing anybody
> ever needed a whammy bar for was to make that sound, it would still be
> worth it. (via Juanita)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6ZZG3NVMs
> 
> "I understand your concern, but world domination is not going to fund
> itself." This reminds me of a series of books about a little girl, the
> daughter of two superheroes, who comes into her power and it's not what
> she expected. The first book is /Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a
> Supervillain/, but there's a prequel --pre-book-1-- about a giant
> superintelligent spider. Fun books for all ages.
> https://theawesomer.com/villains-inc-trailer/730825/
> 
> Here, the books. Buy them, help the writer out. He went through a 
> horror
> story with his earlier books, of being screwed royally by his publisher
> who took all the money, went out of business and vanished. It's all
> Richard Roberts' show now. Get one, see for yourself; you'll want all
> the rest.
> https://www.goodreads.com/series/143031-please-don-t-tell-my-parents
> 
> And a collection of Bob’s Big Boys removed from service and imprisoned.
> They’re much bigger than they look here; that's a tall fence. (You 
> might
> have to login to Instagram to view this.) Bob’s Big Boy was a big part
> of my life. There was one near one of the places in L.A. where my 
> mother
> worked when I was small, and she often took me there. The best day ever
> would be a trip to Fern Dell, then the Griffith Observatory, then Bob’s
> Big Boy. The waitresses at BBB wore little pleated skirts and
> rollerskated out to your Oldsmobile to hang a tray on the open window
> and bring you icewater and menus. You’d blink your lights or honk the
> horn, they’d come back to take your order, and they’d go get it and
> bring it to you; they were real waitresses, but gliding and angelic. In
> my memory the hamburgers were perfect, also the fries and a chocolate
> shake, and they had a free in-house comic book about Big Boy and his
> friend Dolly. When Juanita and I went back to L.A. to get married in
> 1988 on the roof of the Griffith Observatory, we swung by that very
> Bob’s Big Boy, took pictures of each other next to his shiny fiberglass
> presence, and bought a can of Bob’s Big Boy coffee that I still have,
> unopened, more than 35 years later. It’s rusty, surely ruined inside,
> but there it is. If I ever win the lottery, I am getting one of those
> full-size original Big Boys. And a Doggie Diner nose-dog head. And a
> Sinclair Oil dinosaur. But first I’d buy KUNK, de-automate it, turn it
> back into bustling live KMFB, put the studio back out by the 
> transmitter
> where it belongs, find Bob Woelfel, who must be in his eighties by now,
> and hand it to him to run it right. Then put the statues there. Put the
> Doggie Diner head on top of the tower, red aircraft-warning light
> pulsing from its noseball on quiet misty nights. [triumphant
> mysterio-chord here, to go with the image in your head]
> https://www.instagram.com/p/C3D5pz4vIY0/
> 
> Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
> https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
> 
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