[Kzyxtalk] The Little Golden Book of the Dead.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The Little Golden Book of the Dead.

Marco here. Here's the recording of Friday night's (9pm PST, 2026-01-30) 
eight-hour-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:
https://memo-of-the-air.s3.amazonaws.com/KNYO_0681_MOTA_2026-01-30.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. 
That's what I'm here for.

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:

A haunting short film about the Well of Death. Globes of Death are also 
spectacular. You don't see either kind so much anymore. The kids grow up 
and leave the act, or the lion gets too old, or the whole carnival is 
arrested for drugs and prostitution, or podunk townspeople tar and 
feather the Zipper operator because its trailer wasn't staked down 
properly and it fell over and squashed a crippled child. This is why we 
can't have nice things.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2026/01/gladiators-on-wheels.html

Four hours of CNN coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, 
January 28, 1986. Before that happened, entirely unrelated except for 
being the same general subject, I launched a very big model rocket up 
out of the middle of the Albion Whale School, that all the kids stuck 
post-it notes of their names all over, and that had a screaming-loud 
electronic siren in the nose of, so to be able to find it in the woods 
later, which we did. This was all covered in a live broadcast from the 
little actual radio station in the end room on the trailer closest to 
the driveway, partly using interviews by a couple of kids running around 
with a cassette recorder. A VHS camcorder the size of a suitcase 
captured the rocket breaking up in the sky eerily similarly to what 
happened to the Challenger just a little bit later. My rocket was in 
November, I think, and had no casualties, then the Challenger was in 
January and blew up with seven of the smartest, best examples of people 
in the world in it. I remember all their names
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13955466

Brazilian Seu Jorge sings David Bowie songs in Portuguese, just sitting 
on a park bench, playing guitar. (59 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/26/space-oddity-and-ziggy-stardust-sound-beautiful-in-portuguese.html

And the Budapest Smile School.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/budapest_smile_school

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