[Kzyxtalk] For all the marbles.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: For all the marbles.

/"Imagine being me," I don't say to the friend who has lost, over the 
past seven years, both parents, her only brother, a cousin, an uncle, a 
childhood crush, a newly discovered half sister and beloved family dog 
to a cruel array of accidents, crimes of passion, and unpronounceable 
afflictions too ghastly and protracted to fathom, "with all that ahead 
of me." -Suzanne Buffam/

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (2025-03-28) 
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 KAKX Mendocino, 
ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part, my 1,405th, during which, 
as usual, no animals were harmed, except to eat choice parts of them, 
and there was no mention of toilet paper or white slavery, nor was there 
kissing without at least one foot on the floor, nor glorified 
criminality or disrespect of authority or faith, though there was some 
swearing, miscegenation, and a Dachshund wearing split trousers, so PG:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0637

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:

"I hope you carry that through to the end of all soft pieces for the 
rest of your performing lives."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wwtLofwwVys

A fun, scientifically proven game to result in an intuitive 
understanding of where the countries all are, so if you're ever in a 
beauty contest, or it's quiz night, or if sarcastic minions of a 
talk-show host ever stop you on the street and attempt to humiliate you, 
you can smile and shine.
https://map.koljapluemer.com

Waiting For Guffman and The Science of Sleep, full deep rich movies free 
to watch. But I'd really like you to see /Never Let Me Go/. That was 
2010 and I'm still not over it. The trailer is terrible, and everywhere 
on the web someone tells you about it they tell it wrong and ruin it. 
It's a quiet science-fiction story, the best kind, with no special 
effects necessary.
https://kottke.org/25/03/free-warner-bros-movies-on-youtube

The horrors. The horrors.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

And how we get alphabet soup. This gives me the idea to use such a 
smashplate for ancient magical Hebrew runes, to market soup that when 
shaken aligns the runes, becomes animated, opens and cooks itself 
without stove or pan, rises up, walks across the counter and waits 
before you, soft-shoeing sleepily with its arms up and out to the sides, 
mitten-palms up, like an old man at an Old World wedding, for you to 
plop it into a bowl. You do so, stir it to break the word/number-spell, 
and it's liquid soup, ready. Then use video of that in a remake of the 
famous heartstrings-tugging early-1970s Campbell's soup commercial that 
ends with the little girl mumbling, "My mother used to make this kind of 
soup for me," and the woman, who up to then we assumed was her mother, 
waits for more, then says gently, "My mother used to make this kind of 
soup for me, too. Why don't I tell you a little about my mother, then 
you can tell me about yours." Fill the screen with the sepia image of a 
can of Golem Soup.
https://theawesomer.com/how-alphabet-soup-noodles-are-made/766603/

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