[Kzyxtalk] Underdog.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Underdog.

/"With whom did you leave my thirty million bucks?" snarled Jacko, the 
gun in his hand as polished and deadly as the grammar in his mouth. 
-Harper J. Cole/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-06-28) 7.3-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-0599

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:

How we get carbon fiber bicycle frames. A lot of skilled hand work on 
space-age materials. Whereas I got my steel bike at a yard sale forty 
years ago for $25. It's single-speed, it weighs about forty pounds, it's 
been out in the weather all this time with the same tires and the same 
bolts and nuts and the same chain and hard seat and everything, and it 
still works. Every couple of years or so I squirt some 3-in-1 oil in its 
various joints, and that seems to be enough for it. I can't even 
remember the last time I had to pump the tires up. I think it was 2014 
or 2015. It was the year my mother broke her hip. She was tango dancing 
and she caught her high heel in a flaw in the floor. She's 95 now. 
Except for two knees and the hip and some teeth, she's all original 
equipment, and she has a comparable percentage of her marbles to my 
count of mine. Speaking of which, I just read where Dick Van Dyke said, 
"I have all my marbles, and I'm old enough to be Joe Biden's father."
https://theawesomer.com/how-carbon-fiber-bicycles-are-made/743049/

Tobe radio vacuum tubes. "They're filterized." (via WeirdUniverse)
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess/R0467

"We were ready to throw it away, but we were just ignorant." But were 
they really? Is it art to throw a mess of crap in a corner of an art 
gallery and put a title on it? How is the janitor supposed to know it's 
not trash? It's trash. You can tell by mentally putting it next to art 
and asking yourself, Which of these things is art?
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/painting_mistaken_for_dropcloth

And the Exotica Project. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://exoticaproject.com/

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