[Kzyxtalk] A cowboy in Babylon.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A cowboy in Babylon.

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-03-29) 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-0586

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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.

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:

Graf Zeppelin world tour. (40 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8xsqebGokQ

Graf Zeppelin March, played enthusiastically whenever the majestic ship 
flew back to home base at Friedrichshafen, as a beacon as well as a welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLmAvtCLvo

Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=912U0_sU0_U

Jacob Collier - Little Blue, recorded live in a big empty acoustical church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQvzX0Z3HE4

How we get eight million new crayons every day. Everything from Cerulean 
Fungus to Fire Engine Red to Tiger Plum Frappe. Color recognition, like 
ice, is civilization. Unless you’re color blind, in which case God 
compensated you with other powers and abilities, such as extra-quick 
side-to-side eye movements, useful in video gaming, proofreading, kung 
fu, retail loss prevention, and plenty more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5MwlpayiS4

Murmuration, nature's lovely teevee static.
https://laughingsquid.com/winter-starling-murmuration-yorkshire-wetlands/

Speaking of which, watch this static and move your eyes around smoothly 
as if following clumps of birds. You'll find you can decide where the 
birds go, and drive them around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8JZCqaJ068

And the cruel unfairness of shutting a pet in and leaving it behind. 
Maybe it’s different if there are several cats shut in together to have 
a society while you’re gone. But keeping a cat that can go in and out at 
will is no good because pet cats kill five billion wild birds just in 
the U.S. every year. They’ve just discovered that having a pet cat when 
you’re a child triples the chance of your developing schizophrenia. And 
haven’t we all had the experience of neighbors who left their dog tied 
up alone in the yard all day while they were away at work, where the 
creature was miserable and it barked nonstop like a fricking metronome 
the whole time. On the other hand, pets are so cute, and they have 
instincts to protect you from a mambo snake, or a burglar can trip over 
them in the dark and hit his head, and walking them around the 
neighborhood so they can crap and piss on everybody else’s plants 
promotes personal heart health.
https://laughingsquid.com/cat-reacts-after-human-leaves-apartment/

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