The big black and white game.

   “I know that you can’t see the counterfactual. Perhaps the stressed-out person you know isn’t convincing when they recommend the calming effects of lavender or exercise. But what you don’t observe is the maniac they would be without their remedies.” -Sasha Chapin

Here’s the recording of last night’s 8-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

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Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Check out the schedule of other fine shows there. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. All of your help, whether in the jar on movie night or through the heart or by check (to KNYO, p.o. box 1651, Fort Bragg, CA 95437) goes directly to pay the station’s real-life expenses: rent, electricity, water, equipment, and music publisher and streaming fees. Nothing is wasted. They use everything but the squeal.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay or kvetch. Just email it to me. Or include it in a reply to this post. 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, here’s a fresh exhibit of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mostly found in the fine websites listed to your right…

About Boudica.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/06/boudica-norfolk-story.html

Bucolica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N92YdGrhCjg

Elise LeGrow – Drinking In The Day.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/06/music-for-sunday-morning_0476784198.html

Yet another from the bottomless well of folders of photographs of women you shouldn’t be ashamed to admit you’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/astrid-heeren.html

…Like this bird, here, but a person with a long, slender neck. Like the people on the clone-lab water planet, Kamino, in Episode 2, though they might not swallow an egg, since they are not born but hatched, and come from eggs. Maybe they would, anyway; we eat mammals. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/06/18/a-swallow/

I learned many things from this woman, including that an “Adrian Vididini” is a kind of sweater. That you can take the shoulder pads out of. And that she has one that’s older than the boys who ask her out after this or that show, and she tells them so.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/06/men-will-never-change-everyone-take.html

Good sign-offs. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.are.na/meg-miller/good-sign-offs

Big smile about this little sketch. Perfectly executed. It never turns into the joke you see coming a mile away but plays it straight and honest the whole time. I love this, plus it pushes all my buttons about a good, realistic parent-child relationship, like /Courtship of Eddie’s Father/, and /Lie To Me/, and /Defiance/, and /Voyager/ (Janeway/Seven), and the /Dust/ short-subject /The Shipment/ about a father-and-daughter team of interplanetary smugglers; he ends up going to space prison so his daughter can go to space art school. Also the second /Alien/ movie, the relationship that develops between Ridley and Newt, and Jack and Rose in /The Ballad of Jack and Rose/, and mother, father and daughter in /MirrorMask/, /Rick and Morty/, /True Grit/, /Soldier/, etc. Oh, and that science-fiction book about a hard, dangerous Russian hitman who is stuck time-traveling to live the decades between like 2020 and 2080 over and over again, and in his last go-around he rescues a refugee twelve-year-old prostitute and is a good father to her. That stuck in my mind, though the author and title did not, as usual for the thousands and thousands of science fiction stories I’ve read. I’m not going looking for that anymore. I tried. I give up. If you know it, please tell me. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42tJgX_S48

You’re safe now.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/06/youre-safe-now.html

Crisis in Sector 12.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-its-the-justice-conservatives-of-america-to-the-rescue.html

Norman Rockwell’s reference photos.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/norman-rockwells-reference-photos.html

Millions of magazines to read. Trade journals, comic books. All for free. Start your computer scraping the site, fill up a hard drive; after the apocalypse you can set up shop in a cave and be the fabled oracle of the Before Time, like the old man in Walter van Tilburg Clark’s story /The Portable Phonograph/. It doesn’t turn out well for him. Just prepare better. Set a trap for murderous intruders, of an electrified net that falls from above, or spring-loaded spears in the walls, or a big stone sphere that rolls down a channel. I’ve given you a few ideas. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://archive.org/details/magazine_rack

The Firesign Theater Stuff. Stream 35 full albums.
https://archive.org/details/the-firesign-theatre-stuff/The+Firesign+Theatre/(2001)+Bride+of+Firesign.mp3

This, low-right in the above page, is a direct link to download all 4.2GB of The Firesign Theater Stuff. Welcome to the future. We’re glad you made it.
https://archive.org/details/the-firesign-theatre-stuff

Dress code.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/06/16/repost-setting-the-scene/

Donald Sutherland died this week. My two favorite lines of his in a movie. 1. In Space Cowboys, when the government doctor, who hasn’t been fooled by his memorizing the eye chart, gives him NASA-grade corrective glasses, and he puts them on and can see, really see, for the first time in years, and he ejaculates, “Mother FUCKer!” And 2. When he’s a stoned U.S. G.I. in World War 2, and he grins puckishly and says, “Covet-covet-covet.” (I’ve said that about things ever since. Guitars, cars, microphones… Never about people, but plenty of things.) Also his son Kiefer, yes, named after the milk product but spelled incorrectly, was in one of my favorite movies ever, Alex Troyas’ /Dark City/. I tried to watch /Death In Venice/ because everybody said how great it was, but for some reason I couldn’t stand it. I gave it a chance and it blew it.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/donald-sutherland-1970s.html

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/06/17/marli-toys/

Giant-used-gum beach.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=6zgnNz

The bear’s-grip knot. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/a-brand-new-knot-to-learn-the-very-handy-bears-grip/

Rerun: The smell of real pencil shavings. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1801295286192529420

Road trip. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://plainmagazine.com/ben-geier-route-66-photography/

Foot cramp! Foot cramp! OW! OW!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WeYsxosVLJQ

Life will grind you down until there’s nothing left but the mute decorative nonfunctional buckle your last reflex flings away. That’s a fact.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/06/fortunately-there-were-no-feet-in-these.html

Five useful coils.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-to-coil-ropes-cords-hoses/

New exhibit.
https://www.theonion.com/new-library-of-congress-exhibit-features-items-removed-1851534419

Nothing.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/121961025399/ghost-world

The smoke dance.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/06/18/brukup-smoke/

Mom! They’re back!
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3694055610837783&set=a.2993385747571443

Rerun: There’s a light. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4G-hjfMR4U

How we get lightsabers. (Demo at 12:12.)
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-retractable-lightsaber/742878/

Opulent late-1800s Gypsy caravans.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/03/vardo-opulent-caravans-of-gypsies.html

The feather cut. Pet bird with a brain the size of a pea cuts feather shapes out of a paper bag, sticks them on itself, and glances around to gauge how well this is accepted. If this isn’t full consciousness, what else could it be?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/06/feather-cut.html

This gives me the same keening feeling as video of Dolores O’Riordan singing Zombie. I mean, you’re looking at someone rare and special and amazing when she was on top of the mountain with lightning coming out of her head. I’m ready to accept that Dolores O’Riordan took her own life because of crushing depression, and Jim Morrison’s death might have come from sheer carelessness; he almost died of a stupid amount of drugs and alcohol a hundred times, but I think Janice Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were murdered. I’ve read all about them. I’m not an expert, and I wasn’t there, but that’s the way to bet.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/06/janis-joplin-ball-chain.html

A drunken jealous hot-headed boy sets the object of his unrequited affections’ family’s cars, tree, and inadvertently himself on fire with gasoline. This is security video from across the street. (via Fark)
https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/06/14/arsonist-catches-himself-on-fire/

“This made him wonder which was stronger, his father’s Buick or his grandmother’s God.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/06/19/on-the-road-with-steve/

Monique Marves – You Can’t Change a Man. I learned many things from this woman, including that an “Adrian Vididini” is a kind of sweater that you can take the shoulder pads out of. And that she has such a sweater older than the boys who ask her out after this or that show of hers, and she tells them so. You can see why they would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEh-RkzzV3Y

Rerun: How we get bicycles.
https://kottke.org/12/05/how-a-bicycle-is-made

Rerun: The voder, which Robert Heinlein used five years later in /Between Planets/.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/voder-worlds-first-talking-machine.html

And making a dead dog bark. Which sounds like a euphemism for something comical but here isn’t. (No audio.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/making_a_dead_dog_bark