[Kzyxtalk] Traish LaRue and the Oracle of Appalling Advice.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Traish LaRue and the Oracle of Appalling Advice.

/"Every neutrino is left-handed, Jack. That’s how I knew Professor 
Sheinbaum was the killer. It’s over. Call off your mathboys.”/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-06-14) 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-0597

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:

Veronica Lake, real-life Jessica Rabbit.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/i-wanted-wings.html

Watch a man persevere through adversity to make a Telecaster-style 
guitar body and neck entirely out of cast bronze. It ends up weighing 
forty pounds, /after/ he took seven pounds off by making the body 
smaller and thinner than the plan. With pleasant, comprehensive 
narration. One of the things I made in school was a heavy bronze fantasy 
stage-prop religious human sacrifice knife that perfectly fit my hand, 
whose blade extended like a flap of metal skin from the bird-claw-like 
tip down around the outside of my fingers to a heavy two-inch sphere at 
the base. One time years later when I went back to visit, it was in the 
garage. My stepfather Roland had been using it for a hammer and a 
pry-tool, and then he died of a heart attack when he was out on a 
business trip. The damage to it actually made it look more real, like 
something someone would get cursed for stealing from an ancient alien 
crypt. That’s something I wonder about: where that ended up. It survived 
their house burning down. But then where did it go? It’s out there 
somewhere. The gay art teacher of the class where I made that knife was 
later beaten to death outside a restaurant in Sacramento, which was 
awful, but I don’t think there’s any connection, though in fiction a man 
is beaten to death with an electric guitar by a crooked politician in a 
season 5 or 6 episode of /Elementary/. (Spoiler.) I don’t believe in 
curses. I think it’s mostly probability and the Brownian motion of 
society, where a small but significant number of people will become 
hair-trigger mad dogs no matter what you do, and drugs, including 
alcohol and caffeine, don’t help, nor does it help that the people who 
carry around guns with them everywhere they go, loaded and ready to 
shoot someone, are exactly the wrong sort of people to have a gun in 
easy reach when events become frustrating or anything startling or 
confusing or insulting happens. And it ends up like that video you might 
have seen of a whole floor of mousetraps and the guy tosses a pingpong 
ball in and the place goes crazy, everything chaotically snapping 
everything else, only its not mousetraps, it’s people with guns who 
fantasize about being a hero and, inside, they know they’re the opposite 
of a hero, that’s why they want a gun. A word we don’t use anymore, 
because it’s not acceptable, for a person like that if it was a man was 
pussy. That was the word.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-bronze-guitar-from-copper-wire/741986/

And Lola de la Mata, tinnitus-suffering musician (say TIN-ih-tuhss), 
gives back. “An uneasy and often jarring mixture of high-pitched rings, 
deep scrapes and dull thuds, she employed tuning forks used during the 
Rhine & Weber hearing test, as well as a Canna Sonora, a rare instrument 
consisting of aluminium poles arranged vertically across a rack.” 
Aluminium, that’s the way much of the world says it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7umtdzHM6Q

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