[Kzyxtalk] Pas de duh.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Pas de duh.

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-10-04) 7-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-0612

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay or kvetch 
or announcement 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 worthwhile items I set aside for you 
while gathering the show together, such as:

Coming soon to the sky of every planet within thousands of light-years: 
A star that becomes visible to the naked eye once every 80 years and 
then hides again. Here's the story with an animated illustration. A 
Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (that goes with his A Fire Upon the 
Deep) involves an expedition to a variable star. A different kind than 
this, but it's what this makes me think of.
https://www.space.com/astronomers-new-star-nova-explosion-t-coronae-borealis

A rich stew of cinematic menace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJjQ6S8xJRw

Food looks delicious on billboards and in magazine and teevee ads 
because it's made of diaper material and shredded white plastic bags, 
tampons and marbles and shaving cream, steamed at with a steam iron and 
torched at with a torch. And there's something called candle gel 
(jellied wax) that's glossier and clearer than ice cubes. A 
sunny-side-up egg is a slice off the side of a peach on yogurt in a pan, 
which at least is edible, at least to someone who likes yogurt. They 
spray varnish on donuts to make them more appealing. Ice cream is mashed 
potatoes, technically also edible if you're not tricked into thinking 
it's ice cream, which would be nauseating, like biting into a pickle 
made of apple, or the other way around, or like biting into carob that 
someone told you was chocolate. But in general, nothing is real, and 
nothing to get hung about. Nor eat.
https://laughingsquid.com/food-stylists-commercial-tricks/

A poem about something like that.
https://decompmagazine.com/picnic.htm

And rerun: Don't pray so much. Featuring Sally Field. Phil Hartman as Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIUkv-9HiE

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