[Kzyxtalk] Traish LaRue and the ass-clowns of Ganymede.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Traish LaRue and the ass-clowns of Ganymede.

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (Friday, 2025-02-07) 
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-0630

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 work and want to help me out 
personally, now's your 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:

Reading the English translation of this haunting song about a fraught 
gazelle makes me think of Watership Down and the prayers the rabbits say 
to Great Frith. (via Bold Eagle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r69nsxvLFJA

1950s Super Panavision The Matrix.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-matrix.html

On one hand, think of all the trouble in the world that comes from our 
species being like these contentious children, but on the other hand, we 
might not have survived if we weren't like this a little bit. I remember 
a Larry Niven story from the 1970s about a purely scientific 
interstellar expedition from Earth after we've solved war by breeding 
aggression and competition out of ourselves. But our ship is detected 
and attacked by Kzinti, a spacefaring warlike race of tiger-headed 
people, who are overconfident because their ship's psychic-officer 
reports that the humans are gentle prey animals and don't even have 
weapons, so the Kzinti are literally surprised to death when the human 
captain, who has /just a little, just enough/ aggression left in him, 
spins our ship around with the fusion engine switched on full-blast and 
silently slices the Kzinti ship in half like a katana through a 
watermelon. That story was pre-light-saber.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/02/taking-game-seriously.html

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