[Kzyxtalk] The marriage of Bette and Boo.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The marriage of Bette and Boo.

/"Why were you so mean to Soot. And why did you call her Soot?"/

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (Friday, 2025-02-28) 
7.5-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). Local announcements, poetry, theater, 
fantasy, science fact and fiction, journalism, tragedies and travesties 
large and small, two shams of a mockery, and, uh, like that:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0633

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.

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:

Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (full album) if it had been made in 1950.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXa27GmLjEw

Singing in a reverby stairwell. There was a big bath/shower room in the 
dorm building where I lived in the fall of 1976 that sounded like this, 
where the reverb seemed louder than the original sound. A difficult 
bowel movement echoed down the corridors, and then, of course, there was 
the flushing and the water turning on and off. A boy a few doors down 
from me used to play guitar and sing in there at night. His acoustic 
guitar had a metal bridge from a Fender Strat on it, the kind with each 
string independently adjustable for height and intonation, and I've 
never seen another guitar like it. The mass of the metal did not color 
the sound, or maybe it did and I couldn't tell because of the bathroom. 
Another very rare feature on some guitars, that I admire, is when 
there's an end-fret where the nut usually is, and the nut is behind it 
not holding the strings up but with deep grooves so it only separates 
them; the fret holds them all up at exactly fret height. I read where 
you can get something close to this by cutting the grooves down in a nut 
that's in the normal place and gluing a fret-thick section of guitar 
wire against it and the neck. Or, I've seen pictures of a mechanical nut 
that has a separate roller for each string, so there's no friction. You 
can see how this would improve tuning, and help it stay in tune, because 
no binding there to make a tension difference. Anyway, here: She's 
pretty and she has a pretty voice, also her mother.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/02/24/lauren-paley/

Meanwhile, two-and-a-half million years ago as we see it now ("Hey, 
Lucy, I'm home"), here's M31, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda. A trillion 
stars there, most of them a million times bigger than our whole Earth, 
just like the Sun is. And that's one galaxy; there are a trillion more, 
just in /our/ universe. So have some perspective on your moral outrage 
over, say, which public bathroom someone uses, depending on their fleshy 
plumbing, speaking of bathrooms, see above. It's just a bathroom. If 
there are partitions around the toilets inside, that should be enough. 
And there should be real mechanical spigots in the sinks, not electronic 
lab experiment tricks that tease you into dwelling there, waving your 
hands in random gestures until one works and a single second of water 
comes out and shuts off again, then you wave again the same way and it 
doesn't work this time, so you have to learn a new gesture, like pigeons 
pecking at a food lever that also doesn't work. The electric soap 
dispenser puzzle too. And don't get me started on the hand-dryer hot air 
thing as loud as a jet engine. I just dry my hands on my shirt now, or 
run them through my hair and put on a fresh rubber band in back, from my 
thumb-drive pocket. Be prepared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2aCFTYiJ4k

And Lambrini Girls: No Homo. (via b3ta) "...delves into the struggles of 
internalized homophobia and the journey toward self-acceptance. The song 
addresses the quiet shame and unspoken guilt associated with queerness, 
highlighting the internal conflict between desire and self-rejection. It 
critiques societal pressures that demand conformity, portraying how 
individuals often police themselves to fit heteronormative standards. 
The track progresses from the initial denial of same-sex attraction: 'I 
like your face but not in a gay way,' to eventual acceptance: 'I like 
your face and it's in a gay way.' This evolution underscores the band's 
message that embracing one's queer identity leads to joy and pride over 
repression and shame. Musically, the song features a 90s 
punk-influenced, surf-rock bounce, adding a lively and cheeky tone to 
its serious subject matter."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aoE40OeyqA

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