[Kzyxtalk] Regarding the colonized worlds.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Regarding the colonized worlds.

/"The watch argument. A man finds a watch and it is so wonderful that he 
concludes that it must have had a maker. He finds the maker and he is so 
much more wonderful than the watch that he says he must have had a 
maker. Then he finds God, the maker of the man, and he is so much more 
wonderful than the man that he could not have had a maker. This is what 
lawyers call a departure in pleading." -Robert G. Ingersoll, 1896 (via 
Futility Closet)/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-05-10) 7.5-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-0592

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.

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:

What I Like About You. I hesitate to mention this, but usually when I 
notice something about myself, other people speak up to say they get 
that too. Here: I love this music, and while the video is playing I can 
smell the nylons.
https://theawesomer.com/what-i-like-about-you-motown-edition/738803/

The original ending of the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors, where 
the plants destroy the world, that the studio's focus group hated. They 
spent a fortune making this part, but snipped it out and threw it away, 
and the movie succeeded without it. I still think the Gloriana Opera 
Company stage version in Cotton Auditorium was definitive. And Ellen 
Greene was great in the film, but Sandy Glickfeld's Audry was 
incandescent. No electronic sound reinforcement, just comic talent and 
pure vocal power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RjFvcw6ToQ

And Sugarland and Sara Bareilles cover of Come On Eileen. So fun. That 
reminds me of the story where a man has been arrested for public 
indecency. He's talking with his lawyer. The lawyer says, "Tell me about 
it." Man says, "I have a disorder where I'm compelled to do what music 
says. The radio plays Do The Twist, I do the twist. If they play a 
waltz, I waltz." Lawyer says, "I see. What brought the cops?" Man says, 
"Come On Eileen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDqkBjvdMg

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