[Kzyxtalk] Step right up.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Step right up..

/"A guy with experience in invasive vegetation once said to me that 
bamboo is like a cold slow fire that is alive. If you don't keep it in 
check it will destroy everything."/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-05-24) 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-0594

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:

Tom Waits - Step Right Up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTdScE3Rqh8

Star Trek TOS (The Original Show) theme for theater orchestra and 
theremin. The pretty theremin player's plucky smirking rebellion against 
frantic direction from the conductor to /knock it off/ with the 
occasional extraneous exuberant /zzzzip/ fillips is icing on the cake. 
She's like, Yeah, right, you're not the boss of me. /zzzeeep!/
https://laughingsquid.com/star-trek-theme-on-theremin/

Dr. Manhattan's sad superhero origin story. Fans of Watchmen, the 
graphic novel, have mixed opinions on the subject of the movie and, 
later, the teevee series, but I like all of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnrzW0NeKQ8

/Tales From The Loop/ is set in Ohio, but it's rather a European-feeling 
/Eureka/. The year of ten episodes is all one big story, but the stories 
stand on their own feet, so you can start anywhere in it. My favorite 
episode is the one where a lonely man is transported to a parallel world 
where the friend of his dreams actually exists, but is not quite the 
person he dreams of. Or, no, it's the one where a father lets his life 
go to hell, obsessing about the safety of his daughter, and he learns an 
important lesson, sells the monster robot, repairs the house's fusebox 
and electrical system, a metaphor for his own sanity, and so wins his 
wife and family back. I guess they all have the quality of, whichever 
one I'm thinking about becomes my favorite. Anyway, here's Philip Glass' 
sparse, Satie-like solo piano version of the music from Tales From The Loop:
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044655-todays-music-to-work-to

And the little white Ford Falcon 12 photos up from the bottom of the 
page. If they made those now, with modern materials and a modern motor, 
maybe electric, everyone would want one.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/05/people-with-automobiles.html

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