[Kzyxtalk] The mysterious traveler.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The mysterious traveler.

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (Friday, 2025-01-31) 
eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and KNYO.org (and, for the first three hours of 
the show, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0629

Coming shows can feature your 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.

I've been doing my show on various Mendocino County radio stations every 
Friday night since February of 1997, when I stopped publishing /Memo/ on 
real newsprint. The project involves several hours every day of 
concentrated prep and then a couple of all-nighters, one to get ready 
and one to go. If you appreciate the show and want to help me out 
personally, here's your big chance:
https://paypal.me/MarcoMcClean

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:

Kitty White and Elvis Presley – Crawfeesh. (via Tacky Raccoons) In the 
early 1970s there was a television ad for something, I don't remember 
what, but it was mostly a man pushing a fruit cart down narrow alleys of 
a European town, singing out, "Straw-berries. Blue-berries. 
Chehhhhh-ries." I think that might have originated here. Also you hear 
this cadence in Tom Waits' music of his Raindogs period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrC5Aybim-Y

Insects that mimic leaves.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/01/leaf-insects.html

If you've seen the teevee series The Magicians, you know about finger 
tutting. Meet toe tutting. Also this an advanced Bene Gesserit exercise, 
or will be in 10,000 years. The first thing they teach you is how to 
move each individual toe, and you work your way up to puppeting other 
people's actions and responses by your tone of voice.
https://laughingsquid.com/finger-toe-tutting-routines/

And The Mysterious Traveler. This is the series I've just got, and 
started running at the end of MOTA. I knew nothing about it; I had never 
even heard of it. I was visiting Mervin Gilbert, we were talking about 
radio shows (Boston Blackie, Chandu the Magician, Blackstone the 
Magician, Ruby Galactic Gumshoe, Joe Frank, Jean Shepherd, Candy Matson 
Girl Detective, The Shadow, Suspense, CBC's Nightfall, Dimension X, X 
Minus One, Quiet Please, Lights Out Everybody, The Green Hornet, 
Dragnet, and so on) and Mervin said, "Do you remember The Mysterious 
Traveler?"
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Mysterious_Traveler_Singles

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