[Kzyxtalk] The box.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The box.

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (9pm PDT, 2025-05-23) 
7.6-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:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0645

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:

When it's way more than just singing and playing a song like a player 
piano does.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/05/frank-watkinson-covers-blink-182s-i.html

Nouvelle Vague. Imagine if there weren't a France nor anything French or 
French-like in the real world and some quirky genius came along and 
somehow made a French movie out of whole cloth, the language, the 
mannerisms, the style, everything. Just think about that for a moment.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/05/nouvelle-vague-film-by-richard-linklater.html

Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle once wrote a column about 
seeing a small, attractive, cheap electric chainsaw in the hardware 
store, thinking, /Huh,/ buying it and taking it home to limb a tree in 
his tiny Berkeley/Oakland backyard, whereupon he discovered that the 
first-time feeling of superhuman power of having a power tool whizzing 
in your grasp can go to your head. He went around the top of the fence 
with it, evening out the pickets, rounded the corners of his yard bench 
table, flipped the table over to make all the legs the same length to 
de-wobble it and ended up with the seat only three inches off the 
ground, from successively miscalculating from leg to leg and 
compulsively continuing. This is like that, except with a paint blower.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/05/20/talk-about-painting-the-town-red/

And you have the second amendment right to not only own one of these, 
but drag it around with you in a wheelbarrow or a truck. And so do all 
your crazy neighbors. It's very simple technology. Captain Kirk made 
something like this out of bamboo and rocks to overcome a Gorn. My 
friend Jeff and I, when we were boys, made one out of copper pipe and 
nails and nuts and bolts in the dim sheep shed. Luckily we escaped 
injury, except for the /whanga-whanga-whanga/ pulsing painful immediate 
hearing damage. Jeff's grandfather had had his voicebox removed because 
of cigaret cancer, and when he appeared in silhouette in the god-light 
from the bright outer world, in the smoke and dust, in the suddenly 
yanked-open door and said, using a device pressed to his neck, "NNELLO 
BOYZZZ VVAHT NARRR NYOO DHOO-INGZZ!" the jump-scare space alien surprise 
of it spiked the memory permanently to the crime-wall of my operating 
system. All gunpowder weapons equal that. Plus, twenty years after that, 
I found out that my friend Randy was murdered by crazy boys who stole 
guns and ammunition from a housing development, went out to the highway 
and for no reason at all except that they were boys emptied them into 
Randy where he had pulled over to take a nap. That also is what all 
gunpowder weapons equal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5mo-UJ5VdA&t=640s

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