[Kzyxtalk] Complex and thoughtful kaiju unfairly maligned.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Complex and thoughtful kaiju unfairly maligned.

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (9pm PDT, 2025-08-29) 
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 89.3fm KAKX 
Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0659

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:

Tristan Guillaume Group - Impressions of Rachmaninoff. I don't often 
listen to this kind of music all the way through, because I don't 
understand complex music enough to hear it as much more than several 
people who are very good at their instruments noodling at random and 
they can't hear each other, or they can and they don't care. This group 
is just enough to me like they can and do, and are playing together, to 
make it sweet, especially past the time where the drummer begins 
actually touching the drums and not just waving his brushes over them. 
Though the guitarist's loose metal string ends, not coiled up or clipped 
off, keep me on edge thinking about how, moving around with it later to 
put it away, he's liable to poke himself or someone else in the eye with 
one and scratch the cornea or even pierce the eyeball so the fluid 
dribbles out and it goes flat. /Shudder./
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qzT1OJCUo

The effect of progressively more powerful firecrackers on an upturned 
cook pot. Before this, I knew of only three kinds: regular firecrackers 
like an inch-long pencil, M-80s like the end joint of a man's thumb, and 
something called a quarter stick, which I had only heard about.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/28/Testing-the-Power-of-Various-Firecrackers-with-a-Cooking-Pot/

That cook-pot video reminds me of the true story of the first man-made 
object fast enough to entirely escape the Earth's gravity. /Five times 
escape velocity./ It was the manhole cover atop a tunnel down to an 
atomic bomb test.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownlee-2016-2

And speaking of manhole covers, in this case to describe the aerodynamic 
(or not) properties of the iconic Earth Reentry Vehicle, is Professor 
Hannah Fry. An exercise in self control: attempt to not smile from ear 
to ear just because she's talking to you. I bet you can't do it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P4Bmh1aa_gM

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