[Kzyxtalk] A little word.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A little word.

/"I hauled in the line, and I took my first look/ At the half-eaten 
horror that hung from the hook./ I had dragged from the depths of the 
limpid lagoon/ The luminous body of Mrs. RAVOON." -Paul Dehn/

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (Friday, 2025-03-07) 
7-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, music, current events and history, 
sex, jokes, puzzles, financial advice, yadda yadda:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0634

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. Send 
a little word.

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:

Amazing forest-protecting Bill Heil died this week. Here's a short video 
featuring Bill and Linda that gives you some idea what he and they were 
about, in their own words.
https://www.rffi.org/oral-history-bill-heil-linda-perkins/

In honor of Bill Heil we have spared no expense to schedule a total 
lunar eclipse next week, visible from all of North and South America, 
given clear skies. It'll start late the night of March 13 and continue 
into the wee hours of March 14. You might want to know, in case a 
four-year-old ever asks you, how a lunar eclipse works. Here:
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/eclipses/

News of the Voyagers' continuing missions. With video of their tracks 
through space, showing how a gravity slingshot works.
https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-tweaks-voyager-probes-half-century-of-service

I don't remember which site showed this to me. It's a kind of story that 
always gets me. Some things a lot like it were: Odd John, The Child 
Buyer, the film Powder. Even Flowers for Algernon. And a story I don't 
remember the title or author of, but there's a line in it about how a 
human child raised by wolves will be limited to grow up to be a wolf, 
and it's like that with the next, better, smarter model of child, who 
could become anything, something way beyond us, but he's raised by us 
(raised by wolves), so. But this story surprised me; the adults involved 
are not oppressive and dim; they understand what's at stake, recognize 
the girl's value and potential. I think things might go okay for her, 
judging by the tone at the end. She'll shoot up through the dull canopy 
of us and drag some of the fabric of society a little bit after her into 
the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFhEBrwZso

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