[Kzyxtalk] Thorgellen 2025: Whistling Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Thorgellen 2025: Whistling Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Marco here. Here's the recording of Friday night's (9pm PDT, 2025-11-28) 
eight-hours-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on KNYO.org, on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on 
89.3fm KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part. 
Alex Bosworth, who single-handedly revived widespread observance of the 
ancient festival of Thorgellen, surprised me with a rare call, this time 
from the curb outside the homeless shelter. Good news and bad news. Good 
news: he's finally in line for housing, it's really gonna happen. Bad 
news: his replacement liver is on its last legs. Bad news: When he was 
in jail his venge-a-matic brother burned all his story notebooks and 
threw out his laptop. Good news: everyone who ever got any material from 
Alex rallied and poured it back to him.
https://memo-of-the-air.s3.amazonaws.com/KNYO_0672_MOTA_2025-11-28.mp3

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:

Shakily whistled but catchy Brazil. Theme of the fine film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtHEgINHO0

What's really going on out there over the eons. Our flapjack sea ray 
galaxy, a hundred thousand light years side to side.
https://x.com/i/status/1993537700251812136

And down in relatively microscopic here (Earth). Time's top 100 photos 
of the year.
https://time.com/7336112/top-100-photos-2025/

Sir Ian McKellen. Thomas More 500 years ago on the treatment of 
immigrants. (Sound is not synchronized with picture, but ignore that and 
it's a wrecking ball of a message.) You might have to click the sound on.
https://fb.watch/DzJQlsVQgO/

Rerun: Alex Bosworth's Thorgellen. He did more than a dozen projects 
like this in the 1990s, illustrating his stories with crayon on butcher 
paper, using the VHS video equipment from his wedding video job. They're 
not all available anymore. I remember Hardball, Galactic Popsicle, The 
Shirt Elvis Died In, and some others, one about a Halloween costume that 
reminded an old woman of her dead son. I don't think he made a Crayon 
Productions video about Children Of All Ages; I'd remember the circus 
animals he described, and I only remember the animals from Chip Chip Chaw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kccw_2uHKjQ

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