[Kzyxtalk] One (1) meatball.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: One (1) meatball.

/"I am sorry, My Lady. There I stand, glorious, impressive, and 
helpless. I am your fortress, I should be defending your town. You 
should not have to rely on smug enigmatic murder ghosts." -Castle 
Heterodyne, in Girl Genius/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-07-05) 7.2-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-0600

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay or kvetch 
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:

"Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl."
https://27thstreet.me/2024/07/04/el-paso-3/

Eight hours of fireworks. One idea: use it to desensitize your pet 
animals. You've got a year again, once you can coax them out from where 
they're wedged in behind the bathtub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbPYmjiaS2U

And this grandmotherly creature, that has all the marbles a fish can 
have, hatched from an egg the year Michelangelo spent on his back on 
scaffolds painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. What do you 
suppose a 500-year-old fish tastes like? Well, sir, the answer is, "The 
Greenland shark has a distinctive taste due to its high urea content. 
This gives the shark's flesh a strong, ammonia-like odor, making it 
toxic and inedible until properly treated. It must be fermented and 
dried for several months. The traditional Icelandic dish /hakarl/ is 
made this way. People often describe the taste as being similar to very 
strong, pungent, fishy cheese." When I went to work for Tim in 1989, in 
the toolbox was a Sears-Craftsman nut-driver set whose plastic handles 
smelled strongly of urine; it hit you in the nose when you pulled out 
the drawer. These have been very durable tools. I'm still using them; 
they're not chipped or cracked, despite that I often manhandle them with 
channel-lock pliers to get stubborn parts loose. They still smell like 
stale piss, not as much, but it's there. Remarkable.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/greenland-shark-could-be-512-years-old.html

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