[Kzyxtalk] A kakistical ochlocracy.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A kakistical ochlocracy.

Marco here. Here's the recording of Friday night's (9pm PST, 2026-03-06) 
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_0686_MOTA_2026-03-06.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 all 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:

Some of the saxophone family you haven't met yet. Includes a /leather 
slide/ saxophone, and a Hulk one that should come with a bellows or a 
gas-powered air pump to operate, there's one small enough for a parrot 
to play, and one that looks like an opium hookah. In related news, the 
U.S. military provides decent lives for bands of soldiers who perform 
music at events and travel around making themselves available to 
demonstrate items like these, which is far preferable to shooting and 
strafing and bombing, and kicking down doors to kidnap people away to 
torture prisons, and I have no objection, none. They could take all the 
money they were about to spend on another nuclear missile submarine and 
instead make a saxophone too big to fit in a blimp hangar and only ever 
use it once, and it would be better for everybody.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2018/03/unheard-of-instruments-in-saxophone.html

Rerun: Boom Boom Ba. The accepted spelling, though they're really 
saying, "Ah-boom ba" or "Kaboom ba." It just occurred to me to look up 
the lyrics. It's nothing at all like what I imagined, and I still don't 
know what it's about. It's a song where that doesn't matter. It comes on 
and you're happy. Also all along I was certain she was asking, "Make a 
moniful law, if I may?", whatever that means, when it really was, "Mé 
kouman mé fora y bamê," whatever /that/ means. Art Bell is dead, we 
can't ask him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ox2Y11ciwc

Rerun: The end credits of Boxtrolls, where we see the animator at work. 
My favorite scene in The Boxtrolls is early on, where the girl has 
finally met the boy whose existence she suspected, and she will not shut 
up; she's giving away their hiding place by her excitement, and the boy 
reflexively, non-maliciously nips her hand, the way a similarly 
overwhelmed pet might. Unhurt but flummoxed, she exclaims, "You /bit/ 
me... With your /mouth/."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7p0NckTKc

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