[Kzyxtalk] In the penal colony.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: In the penal colony.

/"The machine was no longer functioning perfectly; the harrow did not 
write, it merely stabbed."/

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (9pm PDT, 2025-05-02) 
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, and after about six hours 
into this show you can hear Juanita cutely snoring in the background. I 
missed that. I was away for almost two months this time:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0642

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:

Dog dance. I imagine the girl being in a relationship with an insecure 
but not unreasonable boy; they had an argument about something silly 
and, what with one thing and another, he said, more than half joking, 
"Either me or the dog." She and the dog smiled at each other as she 
waited a moment for the boy to figure out for himself what a mistake it 
had been to say that. Oh. (sigh) He went to get some boxes from behind a 
grocery store for his clothes and record albums and toiletries, the 
things he'd accumulated in her apartment in their fourteen months 
together. Young people can put their whole life in one seat of their 
first car. Think back. Living felt like flying in a dream.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/04/ive-got-faith-canine-freestyle-routine.html

Servicing a pretty lighter. I always like to look at collections of 
lighters, real watches, reading glasses, musical instruments and 
microphones; like ice, they are civilization. Also I especially like to 
watch a woman's hands make and repair things. It's fine to. You don't 
even have to wait till they look away so you can look there. Look all 
you like.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mFwYaxuImm8

Juanita made her own wedding ring mostly of gold from my dead 
grandmother's teeth that my mother had saved. That's one personal gold 
fact. But in the larger world, this new vending machine thing seems like 
an opportunity for pickpockets and burglars and morticians to monetize 
and cool the loot. It takes pictures of what you put in it; it should 
photograph the user too. Victims wouldn't get their precious whatever 
back intact, but the criminals could be caught. Also, it gives me the 
idea for an attachment to the machine, or a standalone machine to accept 
gold items, that would be a 3D printer to print with that gold. You'd 
describe what you want to the machine's A.I., approve the design on its 
screen or on the screen in your AR glasses-phone, drop in a stolen ring 
or brooch or cuff-link or ancient Roman coin, and receive a Monopoly 
token Scottie-dog or a tiny Eiffel tower or a calligraphy pen nib. I 
still have a green ceramic train engine that came in a box of Tetley tea 
that would be fun if it were made of stolen gold. It's nice as it is. 
Look up Tetley Tea figurines. They were like CrackerJack toy prizes but 
for grownups and not disappointing.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/29/The-ATM-Where-You-Can-Melt-and-Deposit-Gold/

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