[Kzyxtalk] Sredni Vashtar went forth. His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Sredni Vashtar went forth. His thoughts were red thoughts and 
his teeth were white.

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (2025-04-25) 
8-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP 
Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, 
ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0641

Coming shows can feature your own story or dream or poem or essay or 
kvetch or announcement. Just email it to me. 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:

Making them smile. When Nikola Tesla smiles, that's my favorite one of 
these. I imagine Nikola Tesla crashing a Musk event, pointing his finger 
at Musk, across the stage, and FLASH!BANG! (lightning). Or a sustained 
ZUZZZZUZZZZZZZT! of electrical fluid forty feet through the air between 
his fingertip and Musk's nose, Musk all surprised cooked pain, his arms 
out to the sides, his head and cheeks jerk-wiggle-wobbling left and 
right, with that cartoon bibbled-lips sound. Not the Dance of 
Electricity that Laurie Anderson described, but close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVnANT6T70

Del Shannon - Runaway. The solo instrument sound comes from something 
called a Farfisa (say far-FEE-suh) organ. The Italian company that made 
them is still in business, but they make doorbell intercoms now. I had a 
Moog Satellite for awhile that could be made to sound very close to a 
Farfisa organ. Too piercing, man. Too piercing. (via Perfect For 
Roquefort Cheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSWMJxbxj7c

This VR game reminds me of a short story I read thirty or forty years 
ago called something like The Boy Who Walked Around All the Moons of 
Jupiter. I've tried and tried to find it, but it's just nowhere. I know 
I didn't imagine or dream it; it was in a pulp paper magazine. Anyway, 
the narrator was a reporter interviewing a 20-something boy who was on a 
treadmill in his basement with a video helmet on his head, attempting to 
walk around all the moons of Jupiter, one after the other, in virtual 
reality. At the end, the reporter gets his interview and is leaving, but 
he notices and points out that the boy has pissed his undershorts (which 
is all he's wearing; I forgot to say that). The boy, on Adrastea or 
Valetudo or Themisto or whatever, calls out, "Mom. I'm wet!" for her to 
come downstairs and do something about that.
https://kottke.org/25/04/0046698-baby-steps-is-a-forthcomi#comment-section

And War Pigs in Amharic!
https://theawesomer.com/amharic-black-sabbath/769231/

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