In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines.

.      “Hold it, Mr. Seven. I’m telling you, you’re through monkeying around with my country’s rocket!”

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Teri Garr is dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/movies/teri-garr-photos.html

Rerun: Puttin’ on the Ritz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1QpADCPjoU

Faery folklore of County Clare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rrdSr2EIM

Memonade. A beautiful sad strange dreamlike A.I.-generated film.
https://theawesomer.com/mnemonade-short-film/754368/

“The Chicken God said I could come back, but if I were to eat chicken again I would be permanently banned.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/george-peterland.html

Rerun: The rules for rulers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Lifestyles of the parasitoid wasps.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/31/The-Brutal-Lifestyles-of-Parasitoid-Wasps/

Freedom from tyranny.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/30/tom-the-dancing-bug-one-d-day-in-normandy.html

International day of intangible heritage.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/international-day-of-intangible.html

Between visits from the Mondoshawans. Built to last. (via Fark)
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1376×774/p0jztgr8.jpg.webp

What about Monkey Moon? And Moon 1999?
https://www.popsugar.com/food/editors-favorite-halloween-candy-49301174

Persian demons. (Scroll down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921/

The Interrupters – Alien. Goes with Creep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLfVAaWByUk

Rerun: Chloe Alexander and her parrot sing Creep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_O5VWIOZE

Zuma, Man of Mars.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/10/29/zuma-man-of-mars/

Costumes. Page through. (via Vintage Photo Booth)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227474800721750&set=pcb.3965092710372246

Dog. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-6up7vocB6d5Wa2R3do5yL_Jv0AskG53iROK2QTju6xIpkorCc88q8Ciivw4LRpLcRd6ziazepGlltlLw13HsiXsstTUsBf2FjOFt3Zg6GO4WdhRmhj-DxR_4_MfRQ5y9Lo0SYt_2XAI/s1600/weird_dodgy_doggie_eyes.gif

Static art of Ray Harryhausen. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2024/oct/25/cyclops-martians-and-myths-the-art-of-ray-harryhausen-in-pictures

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: a shadow puppet film.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-shadow.html

OH! OH!
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-33333-axis-tourbillon/754250/

And OH! I’ve built a few mixing boards, and I’ve known and handled dozens of them. This here is mixing board porn, or pron, as they spell it now. Prepare to adjust your pants. This is the smoky-voiced Julie London of mixing boards.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/31/the-original-beatles-recording-console-is-on-sale-for-3-million.html

Rerun: BOO!
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/boo.html

Hokusai’s Ghost Stories. Art.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830/

Ghost swing. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh_MphodoGA

Rob Zombie’s Halloween horrors playlist. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70RyEpyedsH5aq3NB71B7zCmGk8sod3F

Tom Waits – Clap Hands, live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_geZmhvJE

The Creepshow – Zombies Ate Her Brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8y5I9MYIsA

Messer Chups – Shandor Diabolikov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8Zvc0t2M4

And I am Marie of Roumania.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/romanian-women-1920s.html

Last week’s Tacky Raccoons entire Saturday Matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/10/26/saturday-matinee-pre-halloween-edition-the-interrupters-messer-chups-the-creepshow-tom-waits/

Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/perfect-music-for-moody-autumn-da.html

I think the wooden cards for this are laser-cut.
https://theawesomer.com/playing-a-27-note-street-organ/738252/

“I’m your best friend. I am your Lucky Strike.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/follies_of_the_madmen_609

How to do action comedy.
https://kottke.org/14/12/how-to-do-action-comedy

How to Stonehenge. How to barnturn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c

A playlist of junkyard sound effects. (via Weird Universe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Q8_ZoOJ4Y&list=OLAK5uy_mi3LnWHO9x6KJSbD_trJ3zcnKn0jOPLxk

When I was little and my mother was taking me around with her on her job selling real estate in L.A. (and winning the salesman of the month trophy month after month at the office full of men), she had a Polaroid camera, the original kind that you pressed flat to put it away. You’d take it out of the bag, click the catch, and it accordioned open /POP/ on a spring. like George Jetson’s car unfolding into existence out of his briefcase. She’d take pictures of a house from outside, and in all the rooms, each time pulling the picture out; you’d count to sixty, peel the layers off and toss them and, for some reason, shake it, maybe to dry it faster. The process smelled like beauty parlor chemicals and urine. That camera was one facet of an amazing promised future. Regular cameras and film were cheaper, but for those you’d have to wait until you used up an entire roll of film, drive to a store, drop off the film, and come back in three days to a week to pay and see whether you’d cut the bride’s head off or not, or forgot to wind it and double-exposed every other shot. But, and this is about the way people were then, the man in the store would only charge you for the pictures you liked, plus you could keep the ghosts of cars and pets and whatever. And if your shoes wore out in two or three years, you could take them back to the shoe store and they’d apologize and give you a new pair for free, because they stood behind their goods. And you could take old shoes to your choice of four or five shoe repair shops downtown and have them resoled and patched and refinished like new for like a dollar-fifty. When’s the last time you were in a shoe repair shop? Remember what it smelled like in there. A shoe repair man could have a nice life, live in a house, support his family, even take a vacation in the mountains, and take pictures of the lake, and tape the pictures to the back of the cash register.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/28/enjoy-two-different-looks-at-the-impossibly-instant-polaroid-camera.html

Rerun: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow – Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GifPCmnBBio

Ketchup in space.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/28/never-knew-this-and-now-that-i-have-i-will-never-un-know-this/

Why though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HfvS68aMIc

Magadu. Randy Rainbow. (Song starts at 2:15.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/magadu.html

The hand.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-anti-totalitarian-animation-1965.html

The witches.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/tweet-of-day_01348707516.html

17 dancers dancing.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/10/25/jungle-joy/

Modern worlds need modern lubrication.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_birth_of_the_robot

Good morning, campers. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/camping-saturday-89/

Trailer for the Hollywood Canteen. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/2024/10/i-knew-all-about-it-or-so-i-thought-i.html

Rerun: All your base are belong to us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

Really? Give me a hint.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CTomCartoon.jpg

Day and night.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/28/unhinged-trump-shows-he-is-very-threatened-by-michelle-obama.html

A Platonic promise.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/574

An animated map of every earthquake anywhere greater than 5.0 since January 1, 1980.
https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/

These guys.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vam0_d00bLk

“Whoa, no more blue noodles before bedtime for me.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/nightmare-on-starkiller-base.html

Kate Sisk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGPEBuTSmQg

No. Say it like you mean it. Say it like a child says it. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBzCjuAxApw/

White neighbor belligerently harasses Black neighbor nonstop for months, then shoots him down working in the yard from an upstairs window. Police hold a press conference to declare they’re too afraid of the white guy to knock on his door and arrest him, but he hardly ever goes out of his house anyway, and the guy who got shot is safe all the way across town in the hospital now, so our work is done here, thanks for asking.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-man-charged-shooting-neighbor-not-arrested-prompting-anger-rcna177437

Exciting big electrical faults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYPl7pGXT8

I know how creepy it looks to see a picture of someone and want to watch her swallow an egg. But the whole species of these 1950s fashion women is extinct by now, and they don’t make ’em like that anymore. I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo. So what. What harm?
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/enid-boulting.html

Eggs. (via Banzai Institute) “It’s your hand, Buckaroo.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJsvgTT1LAM

Art.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/10/28/halloween-costume-suggestions/

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://earthskyart.ca/

Street nuns. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://felipe-hernandez.com/work/street-nuns

Dogs in costumes. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.tiktok.com/@elfreda.dean/video/7428532652220632363

Their first car.
https://laughingsquid.com/1971-british-car-show-earls-court/

Scroll down.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/28/well-how-about-that-i-do-see-a-smile/

Awwww. Oh, well.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/beaver-dam-collapse.html

Spookiyaki.

.      “Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? …The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on.”

Here’s the recording of last night’s almost 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:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

The Jackson 5 – Give Me One More Chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnjWBXaxcUg

Dirty Cello. These energetic young people are coming to the Anderson Valley Grange 7pm Friday, Nov. 1. Tickets (and more video) via DirtyCello.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlpTYsQUl5I

That’s pronounced nyeerd.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PlatovsNietzscheWhoistheRealNerd.png

George Carl, French pantomimist.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/george_carl_french_pantomimist_on_the_ed_sullivan_show

Demon Flying Fox’ entire catalog, so far, of A.I. film and teevee reimaginings. (via Juanita)
https://www.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos

1930 Pageant of the superstitions.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/the-pageant-of-the-superstitions.html

You might remember this Australian ad for underarm deodorant from 2006.
https://kottke.org/24/10/stunt-city

The Hucklebuck. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/2024/10/doin-hucklebuck.html

How we get screws.
https://theawesomer.com/making-millions-of-screws/727215/

The inside of Tucker Carlson’s brain.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1849408494606135484

Beatboxing Lux Aeterna.
https://theawesomer.com/beatboxing-lux-aeterna/745619/

Yo-yo-ing to The Devil Went Down To Georgia.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/24/the-yoyos-went-down-to-georgia/

Gobsmacking.
https://kottke.org/24/10/gobsmacking-image-of-a-stellar-nursery

It’s like the Buster Keaton stunt with where the front of a house falls on him and he’s standing in the window hole. (via BointBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBkrjo8lv0A

Self defense for women. (via b3ta)
https://youtu.be/WLIE1GKfluk

Conservative man proudly frightened of everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfvtky4o5YI

…Such as the great Romex staple in the sky.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-horseshoe-vortex-cloud-its-real.html

Echo.
https://theawesomer.com/master-of-echoes/753865/

History.
https://laughingsquid.com/earth-history-condensed-in-24-hours/

A polite carpenter who can stay bent over like that for way longer than I can. He’ll find out. Since the last time I fell off a roof I duct tape packing foam around my knees and go forward on three points, and still I am fearful of being up in the air, and resentful of having to work, and my back hurts. But I do this sometimes, work to a beat. Lime in the Coconut. Deep Purple, Lazy. Iron and Wine, The Trapeze Swinger. Baby Driver. Raindogs. Roundabout. Zombie. Tubas in the Moonlight. Thousands Are Sailing. Sail. The themes of Elementary, Monty Python, Lie To Me, Carnivale, Time Tunnel, etc.
https://kottke.org/24/10/carpenters-symphony

How we get fabric flowers.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-last-fabric-flower-factory-in.html

Out of all the things they get robots to do, this one actually looks like it enjoys doing it. It’s the prancing. It’s like /Let’s go, boss! Take that! And that!/
https://laughingsquid.com/spot-robot-leaf-blower/

Let’s Letkiss.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_letkiss

A 1950s teenage girl’s audio letter to her parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-QQ7ygNno

For the rest of us. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/georgestern/status/1847619960627134922

The Nazi and then Russian space mirror project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWnpB5Wm5E

Can I get your autograph?
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/24/watch-maga-candidate-squirm-when-asked-to-autograph-her-violent-obama-tweets.html

Evolution of cinema, a montage.
https://laughingsquid.com/journey-through-cinema/

The syllabary. (via NagOnTheLake) (Press play.)
http://www.thesyllabary.com/

Rerun: How to make a Netflix documentary.
https://theawesomer.com/how-to-make-a-netflix-documentary/638275/

It was Togo, not Balto. Balto got the credit and the parade and the statue. Isn’t that always the way.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/?multi_permalinks=3957706897777494

“You are not the last of us but the first of us.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IDyirE88M

Temperature scales.
https://xkcd.com/3001/

Funny noises. (via Mark)
https://barthopkin.com/funny-noises/

Dad: “Why would you even do that?” Rachel: “I thought it would be funny.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/teens-head-stuck-in-pumpkin.html

Rerun: The Junkers G38. That’s pronounced YOONG-kehrss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uFNOtsucKE

“Hey, what are we doing out of the bottle?” “This is dangerous.” “A little kid might come along and think we’re candy.” The otamatone one is my favorite.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/21/watch-all-the-versions-of-the-worlds-greatest-psa.html

I like the song better this way. But I don’t like how he’s shouting right next to her ear. I hate it when people do that. Also it’s weird because the Peter Gabriel I have in my mind is bald as an egg. This must have been a long time ago.
https://theawesomer.com/dont-give-up-vocals-only/689086/

Artfully arranged.
https://kottke.org/24/10/artfully-arranged-junkyard-objects

Sand.
https://mossandfog.com/the-fascinating-ghost-town-of-kolmanskop-in-namibia/

The eye of Mars.
https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-potential-life-on-mars-after-giant-eyeball-in-middle-of-planet-looks-directly-into-telescope/

Noisy possums.
https://laughingsquid.com/possums-drinking-tool-schism/

Golden Girls 3033.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kghrhWfJxPg

Madame, what is the minimum amount of compensation you would accept to swallow an egg while these gentlemen quietly and respectfully look on.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/arnold-scaasi.html

A book where the map /is/ the territory.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/1000_cigarettes

A history of HIndi cinema. With video.
https://www.avclub.com/history-of-hindi-cinema-1950s

Dark matters.
https://www.space.com/images/i/000/034/001/original/7-dark-universe-dark-matter.jpg

And a sort of reverse food pyramid for arguments and web comments. There’s a whole category missing, though. Whimsical good-natured but pointed ironical theater wrapped in a non sequitur. Maybe that would be a glowing halo around the point at the top and sound like Peter Bergman of Firesign Theater on a ribbon mic.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/10/21/degrees-of-variance/

Schrödinger’s douchebag.

.      “I had no respect whatsoever for the creative works of either the painter or the novelist. I thought Karabekian with his meaningless pictures had entered into a conspiracy with millionaires to make poor people feel stupid. I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end.” -Kurt Vonnegut

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7.5-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Walk right in, sit right down, daddy let your mind roll on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Z-qiC1jynmc

Jewel Akins – The Birds and the Bees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umyl-wWRkJ4

T – I – M – E. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsoCe7C4Kmk

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass – A Taste of Honey. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAo15Ck-T74

“My name is Gislayne Silva de Deus. You killed my father. You are now going to pay.” So close.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/17/35-year-old-brazilian-policewoman-is-a-real-life-inigo-montoya.html

A rotating string instrument.
https://theawesomer.com/fron2-unique-musical-instrument/753234/

Inside nature’s Ralph Steadman sketch of a pigeon. Maybe Ralph Steadman’s art was like that because that was how he saw the world, like Ray Milland in /X/, and Picasso and Giacometti and Van Gogh and Giger and B. Kliban and S. Gross and Thomas Kincaide, and Rabo Karabekian, each in his own way.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/17/peek-into-the-glowing-microvascular-system-of-a-pigeons-head-in-this-stunning-x-ray-image.html

Donald Trump is not a tough guy but rather a whiny little bitch. “And look at that gut. It’s like a garbage bag full of buttermilk.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGxwn_N9DtE

Sushi Glory Hole. With video.
https://www.cracked.com/article_43980_the-one-note-nbc-censors-had-for-snls-sushi-glory-hole-digital-short.html

The Europa Clipper. “All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/14/europa-clipper-heads-to-jupiter-to-search-for-alien-life.html

“Overnight to Hawaii and beyond. Air travel of tomorrow, today. The Pan Am Clipper, pinnacle of comfort, speed, and safety in flight.” You know how architects sometimes make a structure strange and beautiful because the materials and techniques finally exist to make it possible. Well, once we have light cheap airplane materials and powerful efficient electric motors and long-lasting batteries and practically free power, why /not/ make airplanes like this again, that are a joy to look at and ride in and just fly around and live in them, and steal and smuggle things, like Serenity in /Firefly/, but real. (50 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tneNPSEy17U

From 1: “It was a fast and brutal tragedy that ruined the happy ambience of the crowd.” From 4: “My head banged hard off the right side of the canopy and all of a sudden time stood still. In a span that was perhaps a few hundredths of a second, the comfortable air-conditioned cockpit of our Navy fighter became foreign and hostile.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2aHXrV3zQY

Welcome to the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQqj0DFVAs

“Retrofuturism is all about the past.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk-YERO09EU

A.I.-generated 1950s Star Trek. Lush, grainy, vivid, funny, but actually you’d get a better approximation of proto-Star-Trek by mixing /Forbidden Planet/ (1956) with A.E. van Vogt’s collection of stories /The Voyage of the Space Beagle/ (1950), which includes /Black Destroyer/ (1939), the single story credited with ushering in science fiction’s Golden Age. Sadly, archive.org’s entire library of books is down right now because of wankers; let me see if I can find /Black Destroyer/ elsewhere for you. Meantime, here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TaKJLYw0ZSs

A.E. van Vogt, /Black Destroyer/, complete. Some font weirdness –the dashes aren’t showing up right– but your brain will adapt.
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___5.htm

Inside the Horton flying wing. Thrilling 3D exploded views. Every part of the plane is explained, including the instruments, knobs and levers and operating procedures. Say what you will about the Nazis. But, Christ, /look/ at this. And it’s made of wood!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-EzlsLCUy0

Trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GgyVUDFL1Uk

The future of the 1920s, part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xawVPJCxkXg

Bizarre physics near absolute zero. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yszg4g-AVsg

Robot voice summarizes Idiocracy, which was /extremely loosely/ based on The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqL_yOYv6M

The Marching Morons, by C.M. Kornbluth.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm

I really enjoy robot voice movie recaps, especially now that the voice and reading quality has developed to sound so natural. Here’s the one I like the most that I heard this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyhWXIE7DPw

Not quite such a natural voice, but a good story: “With her newfound strength and determination Emma realized she wasn’t just a girl from a small town anymore; she was Earth’s last hope. Armed with the alien suit and her indomitable spirit Emma embarks on an intergalactic journey to discover the truth about the invasion.” “Stay calm, she murdered [sic], though her heart pounded in her chest.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUfovKNqNGs

Art for Indigenous Resistance Day (second Monday in October). It’s traditional on this day to shower, put on black slacks, best brogues, white shirt and a blood-red cardigan, and march down the center of the street singing Italian barbershop standards, but it’s /polite and culturally apologetic/ to go alone to the Indian casino that is the central industry in your town anymore, like in /Back To The Future 2/, drink yourself shitfaced, lose the rent money, one zori and your car keys, and fall asleep on the curb in the parking lot.https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/664771265698152448/fuck-yo-statue-mark-bryan

Art. (via MissCellania)
https://mymodernmet.com/montage-puzzle-art-tim-klein/

Art.
https://laughingsquid.com/david-gilmour-dark-and-velvet-nights/
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-art-of-yosegi-zaiku.html
https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/731909630915149824/bewitched-paul-ranson

Our cute world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m8vdbbnx-I

Tapestry.
https://going-medieval.com/2023/03/29/on-nobility-courtship-moral-justification-and-sexy-tapestries/

Tapestry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWadQsYs2zs

Tapestry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ4D4_E

Hallelujah, Baby Got Back.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/13/Hallelujah-Has-Been-Thoroughly-Ruined/

Quebec Comicon costumes.
https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2024/10/13/quebec-comiccon-2024-10th-anniversary-cosplay-spectacular/

Rerun: Bad Lip Reading – Chocolate Lagoon. “I’ll clear out the dead bugs, wash out the closet, I’ll never pinch no trout.” Chills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BClI7yNbTFY

“It’s election day, Charlie Brown!”
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/16/tom-the-dancing-bug-q-nuts-its-election-day.html

Boys perform a heart transplant on a live rabbit (or cleverly pretend to), take top honors at 1958 Terre Haute Schulte High School science fair. Second prize was for Tesla-coil-powered atomic transmutation. Honorable mention was a pushbutton motorized map of all the earthquake faults in Southern California. Science fairs now? Lemon battery, 3D-printed virus model, pea plants… What happened to us?
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/science_fair_heart_transplant

What happens when you drop the most powerful magnet you can buy down the center of a thick copper cylinder? Skip to 5:35 and find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRihrPnLt78

Princess Cumulus, her lightning and thunder.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/princess-cumulus.html

Stephan Remmler – Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei. (Everything has an end but a sausage has two.) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JSE32fuOc

Geoff Castellucci sings /Imagine/ in his pipe organ deep voice that you might recall from an earlier song prompting a woman listener to comment afterward, “I think I was just unfaithful to my husband.”
https://theawesomer.com/imagine-low-bass-cover/753546/

Fancy Fur Elise.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/music-for-sunday-morning_0885432040.html

Linsey Pollak’s homemade reed instruments plus beatboxing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Iu60MwpMiow

Further Linsey Pollak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4eziFH7VYc

Rerun: “Blue jeans and bloody tears. Blue jeans and bloody tears.” Music generated by A.I. trained on Eurovision songs. Bloody tears are an indication of old-fashioned rat poison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKAf6YX_7M&list=RDQM5LXmFUG8FuU

Restoring a wrecked 180-year-old violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03p4_YODNWY

First and last scenes, side by side.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-first-and-last-scenes-of-movies.html

Rerun: This guy. I wouldn’t be surprised if he puts on a mask and goes out at night to fight crime. He should. With great power comes great responsibility.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/18/not-sure-who-asked-for-it-but-this-guy-has-skills/

Story. At the beginning, skip ahead to start at 2:45, and then stay to the very end. I wrote to Miss Cellania to say, “You so often find things to show us that kick me in the chest but in a good way. This is so good. I’m never getting around to preserving my own work, or digitizing it all, or cohering it into a book, but I’m relieved of that duty now; I see that all I have to do is let some people who love me know vaguely where it is, so when I die they can gather it all (Tesla coils, giant dinosaur marionette, crates of newspapers I published and VHS tapes of the teevee shows, hard drives full of forty years of radio shows and video projects, electronic projects, etc.)  into a storage locker and then forget to pay, and that will be okay. That will be fine.” Note, there’s something about the sound here so you hear a crackle on the trailing edge of volume spikes. That’s part of the video; it’s nothing wrong on your end.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/look-at-this-thing.html

“Hindemith’s opera premiered in 1922 after being canceled in 1921 and faced controversy as it examines the relationship between celibacy and lust in Christianity, depicting the descent of a nunnery into sexual frenzy. When the work premiered, critic Karl Grunsky wrote that the performance signifies a desecration of our cultural institutions.” Well, all right, then. (via b3ta)
https://operawire.com/explicit-sex-scenes-sadist-despictions-in-sancta-susanna-leave-18-audiences-seeking-medical-attention-at-staatsoper-stuttgart/

Wide-format photo awards. Be patient and scroll down.
https://thepanoawards.com/2024-winners-gallery/

Teensy pirates.
https://newatlas.com/biology/microscopic-pirates-cellular-cannons-grappling-hooks

Clang clang clang went the trolley.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/18/Variation-of-the-Trolley-Problem-That-Makes-Use-of-Infinite-Properties/

It’s Fresno, Jack.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/1960s-fresno-auto-accidents.html

The only bluesman in Heaven.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/sonny-boy-randy-newman.html

What I see is several immense stone people on the left who’ve come for an audience with the dog king and his vizier the seagull (or goose, or pelican, depending on its direction and pose). (via Fark) (Click on the image to make it big and sharp.)
https://mediaim.expedia.com/destination/1/5de1879f89e261a7adf3b32ea3a2c0c2.jpg

I looked for fem covers of I’m On Fire, and except for an uncomfortable soft porno one they’re all pretty good. Here, for example, three at random:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVYn6BXLjOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDGEq1kg8vw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uene-9w38U8

It’s like at the carnival when you’ve got an unlimited rides bracelet and they’re about to close for the night so everyone is gone but the ride operators. You find the ride that’s the best and go on it and run around right back on, and keep doing that and doing that until they turn the generators off. When Juanita and I got married, her best friend’s mother gave us the wedding present of a day and night at Disneyland. It was November of 1988, so nearing closing time this was like that and we were the cat.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/tweet-of-day_01363079175.html

Brave, skillful scaffoldpersons..
https://theawesomer.com/a-video-tribute-to-scaffolding-workers/753174/

Mayor explains (with video). I show this because Fort Bragg, California, home of KNYO, is about to change its name away from slave-owning traitor to the Union, Confederate General Braxton Bragg. But it won’t be Salami Town. It will be either The Palms or Lindy Petersville. I’m thinking, Lindy Petersville because, ask anybody who they think of first when you say Mister Fort Bragg. It’s Lindy Peters every time.
https://theonion.com/mayor-explains-why-he-changed-city-named-after-slave-owning-founder-to-salami-town/

Pull.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/08/barge-haulers-on-volga.html

The smell of Ariana Grande’s best friend’s house.
https://laughingsquid.com/ariana-grande-my-best-friends-house/

Sally Field’s personal illegal-abortion-era story. And this was a mild one, among such stories. Let’s not go back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4J7t2Yxgbo

Clips from pre-code films. One foot on the floor at all times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y9nX6BGxlc

Iron and Wine – The Trapeze Swinger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7O8gDy0DA

Argentinian trapeze act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8AvyRlXpQ

A leap of faith.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/cat-jungle-gym.html

Remember when you were a kid and you and your friends built jumps out of dirt with a shovel, or out of plywood and two-by-fours liberated from a construction site, and pedaled as fast as you could to get three feet in the air. This is like that except with a padded landing ramp. That’s a good idea, that if we had it would have involved all available couch cushions and possibly a paddling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA7c65mrHVA

1. Together they’re a whole person. She’s better, though. The paint idea. 2. The first thing /I/ would have done, immediately in the door, is open the cabinet simply to see. 3. He’s the one afraid of the future, and yet, before he went in after her, I was going, “Take food. Take water and tools. Take matches.” And after it’s over I think, /I’ll bet the controls or at least clues to the operation are in the cabinet./ Now that they’re lost in an alien world, maybe it’ll be okay because they’re together and they love each other, but it will get dark and cold and they’ll get hungry eventually and maybe if they had the wherewithal to survive for a week or two without choking on a poison plant, someone already there who detected their arrival with instruments would arrive from that ringed moon in the sky and take them to a brilliant civilization of art and science and immortality and fulfillment. But no. He just jumped in because he was afraid she’d think he was a pussy and he’d lose her in both their minds and in the world.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-move.html

Sand art. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/halloween-sand-art.html

Rerun: Sand art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zLa-o7ZeiQ

Thermite metallurgy.
https://theawesomer.com/the-many-wonders-of-thermite/753087/

The evolution of weaponized gunpowder, one video in a series. https://theawesomer.com/the-many-wonders-of-thermite/753087/

Devil Went Down to Georgia. (via BitsAndPieces)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnM1S3B2BHY

Police seize more than $50 in wire from nation’s wealthiest crystal meth dealer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU2SWgP9qao

Project 2025 explained in comic strips. (via MissCellania)
https://stopproject2025comic.org/

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I’m bleeding out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojr4ryZZzpY

Broken Peach – Call Me.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/15/Broken-Peach-is-Rocking-Out-for-Halloween-2024/

Wall of death. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://themindcircle.com/well-of-death/

Hydraulic jet-pack fire dance.
https://theawesomer.com/fire-dancer-wearing-a-jet-pack/753146/

Test flight. For the short of attention span, skip ahead to 4:27:00. Some thrilling action at 4:30 when the stages separate and you see attitude jets in the launcher make fast adjustments. And the catch at 4:34. Fifty years ago (just five years after Apollo 11) Travus T. Hipp quipped that rockets to the moon are just modified campfire technology. There are probably versions of this out there that don’t have an enraptured little man gawping and exclaiming in the upper right corner, but I don’t have time to look around for that now, and this works, so. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHL3B_NDFg

Apollo 16 lunar rover dash cam.
https://kottke.org/13/01/apollo-16-lunar-rover-dash-cam

Another vehicle speed video.
https://theawesomer.com/fastest-objects-comparison-pov/753226/

Giant foam and cardboard toy airplane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKXQbJU70yw

What.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=DplQPI

Those lips, those eyes. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSiUA8HMvn/

The fifth pig.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/10/14/in-the-fold/

Another woman long dead of old age who I missed the opportunity to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/june-duncan.html

A short film about the Pythons, made on location of shooting The Life of Brian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNExGHBXDOI

Rerun: Finland, Finland, Finland. Finland is in NATO now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkvOuYCAcA

Rerun: Laurie Anderson – Finnish Farmers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iWoqufjQpU

Chet Baker – Almost Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c

Chet Baker – Time Afte Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yGvmGtIn8

The Moody Blues – One More Time To Live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND8JzGlkgSo

You get what you pay for. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggrnXX5VaA3WN6ou_M7BG2p6hGHraougOU7q4iglP81Y78P48TC6eSJSQ7DS62gKxdX8eyTO653y-d4p78P05HzB7aVaofBjaQqiEvqGJP-CLh3fy2e_XQJb6aPHO1uy61z3hOGhdvYny_H3FB1QPfo311RT8rcsRK2Alk4h8hn21m5yG2FPItouik=s1939

Some articles about lateness. “If you don’t have a late friend, you are the late friend.”
https://getpocket.com/collections/how-to-stop-being-late-and-be-on-time

Sorry I’m so late. I was tied up.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/osprey-tangled-in-fishing-line.html

Parking ticket story.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-parking-ticket.html

Filled up on cheese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJk8UevZbIs

Ian Bowerman, one man blues band. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3YZansyYRU

Rerun: You will. And the company that’ll bring it to you? AT&T.
https://laughingsquid.com/1993-att-you-will-ad-predicted-technology/

Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford. Cowboys and Aliens. It got poor reviews but I don’t understand why, just like I don’t understand why Jupiter Ascending flopped, or The Postman, or John Carter. Am I that much different from other people? What other ways, I wonder. (full film, 119 min.) (It defaulted to 360p; you can turn it up to 480p.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI5mlkx_Irk

Settlement.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-10-15-cgexploration.gif

DCFC – Someday You Will Be Loved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-CFv72J3_U

Curse of Dracular!
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-curse-of-dracular.html

Fascinating clips of aircraft having a moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWuEzZ85gU

“You know how someone dies and then all their debts go away and no-one has to pay them? Well, this is like that, except with countries.” “Thank you for watching, and God bless Octavia.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgRz3nSG7o

I remember reading an old comic story, possibly in /Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales/, where the qualifications for preacherhood in Arkansas towns was, you had to possess a fearsome bellow of a voice, a giant dick, a hollow leg, and a bottomless gullet for fried chicken.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/dont-miss-it.html

Whereas, in the North and West, and regarding the laity:
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CrumbHamburgers.jpg

The NPR hmm face.

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7.5-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Two neutron stars colliding. It looks pretty in the animation, but if this were to happen within a hundred light years of our solar system the gamma ray burst alone would destroy all life on Earth. The nearest two neutron stars to us are 400 light years away, 24 light years away from each other, and they haven’t spoken since their awful row at Paula’s wedding. Childish, but lucky for us.
https://x.com/i/status/1843344919047393391

How we got the moon. (via Joseph DuVivier)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlhlCWplqk

Tiny automata. My favorites are the shrimps and the fencing mice, and the riding mouse with scrolling night background. The dinosaur flying a kite. The Roman soldier mouse’s cape. The boat on the waves. Meriden’s yarn hair.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/10/04/stoccafisso/

Japanese scarecrows. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awdr-XtK1JE

3D papercraft.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/10/06/repost-the-paper-mesmerist/

3D Mamie Van Doren. Cross your eyes. I can smell the cloth, the cigaret, and some kind of furniture oil on the wood, in that order
https://tinyurl.com/3DMamie

Further cross-your-eyes 3D material. (One issue of my paper /Memo/ in the early 1990s was all black-and-white cross-eye 3D. The cover was R. Buzby crucified, on E Road, by the ruined greenhouse he lived in, with spikes through his hands (he held them there in his curled fingers, like cigarets, with ketchup for blood), looking up and to the right, anguished and handsome.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/271296043894572/

“Ruth wanders the boat in search of John, but soon the captain and crew believe Ruth must be crazy!” World of Noir. Scroll down and down forever.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/346724357341839/

Use what ya got.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/06/beardy-music/

/Take this cottage to any lake!/ Starting at $275. (About $3,000 in modern money, which would still be a bargain. I’ve seen camping trailers half this size and half this nice for $17,000, used, on a show lot.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/interior-of-schult-mobile-home-trailer.html

Wildlife photos of the year. Click on images to embiggen.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery

Whales’ co-op bubblenet.
https://x.com/i/status/1843283637296361982

Circular runways.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/circular_runways

“We were lookin’ for treasure in the Titanic and instead we found a /frozen man/.” “Laser cutting complete. Warm liquid goo phase commencing.” “Here’s a story/ About a boy/ A boy named Jack/ Stuck in an ice cube./ He was dead/ Now he’s running/ From the police…” This is like what happened to Captain America; he too froze in ice, saving others’ lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsdBcoDpLTU

She’s a Dairy Queen, gunpowder, turpentine…
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/dairy-queen.html

Art.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/miniature-car-photography.html
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/06/07/laura-mcgarrity
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eluard-ernst-les-malheurs-des-immortels
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/anders-zorn.html`
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/10/11/the-gif-friday-post-no-876-cat-pong-hen-class-a-crash-test/
http://www.moirahahn.com/paintings/index.html (this via Everlasting Blort)
https://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2021/10/jindra-capek-czechia-1953.html (this via This Isn’t Happiness) (Scroll down.)

Dance. (mostly via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w1YlMCPHfU8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZPuawHUPc
https://x.com/scott_kerr/status/1722985469858754628
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/1960s-college-dance-parties.html

Blues bird.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/tweet-of-day_0704827543.html

Automatonical audio-animatronical opera. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUpKIFHqZk

Rise of the Automatons 1913. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFHgIxxqLZI

Chinese metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUgsHAnlAZo

“Well, y’all know I’m a huge Chinese metal fan.”
https://newatlas.com/energy/sany-world-largest-onshore-wind-turbine

Places to watch films made by A.I. tools.
https://www.makeuseof.com/sites-where-you-can-watch-ai-films

Trailer for /Grand Theft Hamlet/. “Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.” “Shit! It’s the fucking police!” “Bernardo, who has relieved you?” “Fuck, I’m dead.” “But we did pretty well to get as far as we did, there.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUvXc5ESFo

Flufferdammerung. With video. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/09/is-flufferdammerung-the-first-furry-opera.html

A musical machine. “Each one of these three masters was nearly perfect in his art.” (via Mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAo-q2iqjjI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twittering_Machine

Pen tapping.
https://laughingsquid.com/pen-tapping-1234568-challenge/

Burden. Full-screen, darken room.
https://theawesomer.com/burden-short-film/753052/

Photographs of a fascinating, terrifying Spanish crowd sport. Scroll down and down. (via NewAtlas)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/10/photos-building-human-towers-spain/680191/

A cool little trick that Big Zip-tie doesn’t want you to know, and its connection to Middle Earth.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-to-reuse-zip-ties/

For Our Daughters. No joke.
https://www.forourdaughtersfilm.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

This is an example of how people change as they grow up and get older. I saw this movie when I was eleven or twelve and it bored me senseless, though I grasped the uncomforable theme. Now I want to see it again and I think I’d really like it. This clip moved me to ask ChatGPT how The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Dead Poets Society are alike and how they differ (go there and ask that). They fit together, like The Prestige and The Illusionist, and like Event Horizon and 2001 A Space Odyssey, like The Fountain and Cloud Atlas and Timestalker, like Dark Matter and Firefly, and like Elementary, Sherlock, Lie To Me, Monk, House, Columbo and Banacek. Eureka, Warehouse 13 and The Lost Room. Treasure Planet and Stardust. Ice Pirates, StarCrash, David Lynch’s Dune. Slipstream and Waterworld. And, to a lesser degree, like Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies, like Legends of Tomorrow and Doctor Who and Time Bandits. Like Small Wonder and A.I. and E.T. and I, Robot and Alita Battle Angel. Dark City and City of Lost Children. Dirty Filthy Love and The Wedding Gift. I’ll stop now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBtPjtTAOQ

Trailer for Timestalker. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vRyyzSByhU

Steve Talbot’s documentary: 1968, The Year that Shaped a Generation. (Full film. 56 min.) (via Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://vimeo.com/409161014

Where it all ends up.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/photos-of-e-waste-in-ghana.html

Geosynchronous time-lapse.
https://newatlas.com/space/changing-seasons-geostationary-orbit-twilight-zone/

One future, please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1PI0imDyI

Grandma on the virtual roller coaster.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/08/grandma-on-the-virtual-roller-coaster/

AAAAAAAUGH!
https://theawesomer.com/bike-bobsledding/752933/

Wheeee.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/10/06/having-the-time-of-his-life/

Inside the X-15. (32 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjx2ywbIww

The ongoing business of threatening the world with atomic destruction over perpetual smoldering and occasionally flaring up manufactured murder/pissing matches so a handful of obscenely rich men can stay obscenely rich for another fifteen minutes, goddammit.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/10/opinion/nuclear-weapons-us-price.html

A good reason to schedule updates rather than auto-accept them.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/07/new-jersey-gop-candidate-freezes-during-debate-in-what-viewers-called-a-medical-episode-video.html

Russian riverdance. A lovely ad for some nebulous product that could be named at the end but isn’t yet. I remember ads in the 1970s like this for a new kind of pen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obslr_DnNHI

All that trouble over a writ of replevin. And the icing on the cake: the poem, except in my imagination the young woman did it to get his attention, because she had a little crush on him, and it worked. They were soon married, and they had kids and grandkids and grew old together, more and more in love. And they were so cute together. He was a shy deliberate ruddy-red giant and she was rather a dark shaggy impulsive voluble Shetland pony of a person. They died on a roller coaster at, respectively, 77 and 72. There used to be a plaque at the fairground, but somebody with the county took it and put in the library. Would you like to see it? We can go there after lunch. It’s a bas relief of them smiling, holding hands.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/10/skeffington-kelso.html

The intersection of several rabbit holes.
https://x.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1844387504046432262

The machine they use to cause hurricanes. But it can’t function without the power cell, which one of them must have swallowed, because they searched for hours, it can’t have left the room, and it’s not here. They’re like, /Just settle down. Nobody’s leaving until we figure this out. Maybe we can use a wall-wart from something else until it turns up./
https://live.staticflickr.com/3677/9460222206_ec68299a3b_z.jpg

How to make your own Wilhelm Reich orgone-powered cloudbuster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7uz2ua-RJc

This interstellar spaceship is really a deep-sea kind of jellyfish. (via Smithsonian Magazine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGla91-qmk

This jellyfish is a math equasion.
https://x.com/i/status/1844814537184145821

The Abominable Dr. Phibes. (Full film. 127 min.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-abominable-dr-phibes.html

First they came for the mimes, and I wasn’t a mime, so I said nothing.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/10/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-trump-presidency-wouldnt-harm-me.html

A lot of things about the world work like this.
https://x.com/i/status/1842331153652420725

Self defense. And let that be a lesson to you.
https://x.com/i/status/1843270136477938025

The flashing red flag that it is.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/red-flag.jpg

Auroras all over the joint, and spotty cell service. What a mess.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/northern-lights-dazzle-skies-across-the-us-and-world-as-severe-solar-storm-hits-earth-131432905.html

My favorite is the old gray Irish music teacher man in the baggy gray sweater, with his reading glasses around his neck on a string. Starts at about 15 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDw9iwy2kw

“You’re my love/ You’re my angel [rat-a-tat]/ You’re the girl/ of my dreams.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGla91-qmk

Rerun: Puttin’ on the Ritz.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/puttin-on-ritz-official-music-video.html

Radiohead – Everything in It’s Right Place, at normal speed, and then at 1/8-speed, frequency compensated. Everything like this turns into Inception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnXxh5U25Y
https://kottke.org/24/10/radioheads-everything-in-its-right-place-800-slower

Low-tech techno.
https://theawesomer.com/low-tech-techno/752716/

Technique. Those are dry spaghetti sticks. (You might have to click the sound on.) (Top-right.)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1297715454726958

A typing game. Get practice typing, a words-per-minute count, and accuracy percentage. And if you’re competitive, compete.
https://entertrained.app/books

A romantic gesture from a cute snarling-angry little guy. (via Fark)
https://globalchange.vt.edu/content/globalchange_vt_edu/en/outreach/lifelong-learning-institute0/Fall-2020-Global-Change-V/_jcr_content/article-image.transform/l-medium/image.jpg

A word on cars. I wonder what kind of car the Converto-Gaid was. Nor the Biblseth. I’ve never heard of it. Nor the Slearns. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://chromeography.com/

Vintage Mexico. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://flickr.com/photos/agk/albums/293206/
https://flickr.com/photos/agk/11988912/in/album-293206

The story of the Pink Panther. (18 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/peter-sellers-inspector-clouseau-pink-panther/

The farmer’s life.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/10/08/the-farmers-life-2/

Hippo house.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=4oFHPY

Be safe, not sorry or mangled.
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/11/chinas-safety-video-makes-dumb-ways-to-die-look-like-childs-play.html

Layla. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayE46o9VP2Y

Rerun: the interior of the HMS Ocelot. Take a tour, click and drag, arrow around.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=rnHuJI

Murmuration of seabirds.
https://x.com/i/status/1843266524699611143

Squirts. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1842573809976787382

Where do you suppose they find all these women for fashion spreads, who I would like to watch swallow an egg? They’re like the people on the stormy-sea clone-shop planet in Star Wars, or like the benign distracted far-future robot aliens in /A.I./ by Kubrick and Spielberg. They come to this planet and they’re fascinated by kinetic carnival rides. They don’t have anything like that on their planet, for obvious reasons. They get in line. The ride attendant wisely turns them away. “This isn’t safe for you. Frankly, it isn’t safe for anybody, but you especially. I’m sorry.”
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/omar-kiam.html

No side rearview mirrors, so that’s dangerous, but the front and side-to-side driver’s visibility is perfect. Present-day car have heavy thick posts angled up from the back corners of the hood to the roof. If a car or motorcyle is coming across at just the right angle when you’re pulling out onto the road, bang! To keep that from happening you have to bobble your head all around. Meanwhile things are happening where you’re not looking, because you have to work so hard to see around the post, and then /bang!/ from the other side. I’m thinking of the Prius, which is notorious for that. The posts (including half-tone window edging) are as big as your leg, right in the way of where you need to see, especially if you’re tall. It’s a trade-off: which would you prefer, being protected from being crushed when your car flips upside-down, or not crashing in the first place.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/chevrolet-testudo.html

These slinky costumed cats make me think of the sphinx cats in /MirrorMask/, whose trailer, I see, is nightmarishly all wrong and deceptive. Don’t look at the trailer; just get the movie. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://x.com/PostsOfCats/status/1807018644674642198

How we get butter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZbjsrAubc

Pour La Suite du Monde. (Full film. 106 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/pour-la-suite-du-monde.html

Real tough guys. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLIZpWrK8xo

The tomatoes.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tomatoes.jpg

Serendipitous sync. (via Kottke)
https://bsky.app/profile/adamcsharp.bsky.social/post/3l5yyo2azng26

The exchange. (via b3ta)
https://youtu.be/c39VzE2gbQA?si=DO5AbfI9kbCkSFYl

And a code to govern the making of motion pictures. (You might have to page using the arrow they give you at low-right; the usual keyboard arrows don’t seem to work here.) (via WeirdUniverse)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000766325&seq=3

Pas de duh.

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

The auntie-verse.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/niceaunties.html

Yog is right. We really don’t.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/09/tweet-of-day_01687176721.html

This 1925 car. Everything about it. The interior. The shape of the doors. The color. The pictures make it look like you can’t see out the back, but you can– it’s not solid; those are louvers. And the cute little window cranks. I actually miss hand-cranked windows. The driver’s side window of Tim’s truck broke so the window fell. I took the inside panel off, strapped and epoxied the metal part that had come loose, let it cure overnight, greased the sliding parts, put the panel back, and it’s fine now, for half an hour of work and fifty cents’ worth of epoxy. It’s very different when electric windows break; you can’t fix them; you have to get a whole motor from the wrecking yard and take everything out and put everything back; it’s hard to do, you need tools you don’t have, and you need to watch a YouTube video to learn how, and something will go wrong and it’ll take all day. Also I’ve had my modern twenty-year-old Prius for like ten years now, and I’m still not used to the gesture-based driver’s side window control. I touch it to crack the window an inch, the way I used to in the Mercury, and it’s like /Yes, boss!/ and it zooms all the way down. I swear mildly. Put it back up, touch it /properly/ and it just goes down until I take my finger off the way I wanted it to in the first place. This happens every time. I refuse to learn that. I enjoy swearing at it. But I never use the voice control for the air conditioner or radio or anything. I tried it and that was obviously never right. Whatever you said, it did the wrong thing and you had to undo that. And every time I start the car, it tells me, “Bluetooth not connected,” and I say, “That’s nice, dear.” Ten years ago my mother bought me a toothbrush that has a Bluetooth logo on it. It is a /toothbrush/.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/1925-rolls-royce-phantom-i.html

Some 1950s Super Panavision projects that I hadn’t seen yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLSVhkdR06E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzqTC8qKtYY

How to make a 1950s Super Panavision work of your own. See? Technology is good for plenty of things. This is better than the old hand-cranked video machinery. Some new things are fine. You just have to look around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuUgvSto6EM

Ladies of Studio Manasse (1930s). Scroll down and down.
https://lapetitemelancolie.net/tag/studio-manasse/

Maggie Smith is dead.
https://laughingsquid.com/dame-maggie-smith-tribute/

Kris Kristofferson is dead. Since he died there’ve been all these articles that list his songs and his movies, but not one that I’ve seen mentions /The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea/. It was one of the drive-in movies that my friend Jeff Coburn’s mother took us to in their pickup truck with the living room couch lengthwise in the truck bed. She parked sideways across two spaces and we used two speakers. There were plenty of empty spaces in the lot, so this wasn’t rude.

Here’s how I remember it: It was filmed in Elk or Mendocino. Kris K. played a sailor who met a waitress, became friends with her, and stayed at her giant old house when he was ashore. She had a little boy who heard and maybe peeked in on her and Kris having sex and being happy with each other. Kris and the little boy got along fine, but the little boy had a psychotic, manipulative friend who for no apparent reason persuaded him to poison Kris, who talked slower and slower, fell asleep peacefully, and died, while the boys watched, on a hill overlooking the ocean. The end. It was puzzling. That he fell from grace I got from the title, but what had the sailor done wrong? Was the movie telling us that he should have stayed on his ship, away from the waitress, and not made the sea jealous enough to mind-control available boys to kill him? Or was it just that you should always be careful and never eat anything you didn’t make yourself? I leaned toward the second message. I still, whenever someone gives me a brownie, ask them if it’s a normal brownie, not a weed brownie, and if I feel weird about the way they answer I don’t eat it. I’m not afraid of being poisoned to death, I just never liked being high. Some people like it.

I’ll go look the story up later and find out if that was exactly how it went. It was fifty years ago. Sometimes I see a movie again after decades and find out that a whole important scene I remember from it is not there, or is there but so different in effect on the feel of the movie that it seems like someone sabotaged it. And I’m not talking about movies where there are several versions because of a conflict between the studio and the director, like /Blade Runner/ and /Brazil/ and yadda yadda. I’m talking about, for example, /The Whole Wide World/ about Robert E. Howard, inventor of Conan the Barbarian. One scene in particular in TWWW is totally different from how I remember it, and my way is better.

I think that lots of people do this with real things and events and history, not just movies. And they wreck their own lives and others’ lives and collectively steer the real world in unfortunate ways over issues where the real oomph behind their opinions and passions only exists in their own mind and the minds of others who have the same contagious error, like with patriotic or religious and/or moral zealots.

Okay, I just did look it up, and I found that The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea was filmed in England, not Mendocino. There was a whole gang of kids in the story, not just two. Killing the sailor was down to the main little boy, because he /wasn’t/ okay with the sailor making his mother happy, who /wasn’t/ a waitress, but a wealthy widow, and the boy was filled with jealous rage and never liked the sailor. Also, the movie came out in 1976, a couple of years after I lost touch with Jeff, so I couldn’t possibly have seen it with him and his mother.

And, case in point: the way the world treated Sinead O’Connor, and why, and how cruelly righteous and sure of themselves so many people were, while being so very wrong.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/kristofferson-oconnor.html

I remember, when I was little, thinking that Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins were married, because how could they not be? They so clearly belonged together. But at the same time I thought that Mary Poppins and the nanny in The Sound of Music were the same person, or at least came from the same agency, and in The Sound of Music she married the man there, so.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/julie-andrews-mary-poppins.html

A downhill-path bike park in Germany with motorized cable lifts to get you up the mountain and several paths to choose from to go down. This looks like a lot of fun. If they had it in the U.S., though, on opening day someone would twist his ankle or hit his head on a tree and sue them for 700 million dollars and that would be the end of it. They’d settle for $300,000, open again a year later, but you’d have to wear a Michelin-man suit of inflated armor, and someone would get a rash from that, or suffocate, or have a comedy of errors and marry the wrong person and cause an ectopic pregnancy, nearly die, and sue them for that. I was talking with Juanita maybe thirty years ago about a newspaper article where some boys ignored a sign and climbed over a rail to ride their bicycles up the arched concrete truss of a bridge and one fell off, luckily from a low end and onto the rail and then the roadway, not the other way and down to the rocks, and he broke his leg. His parents sued the city for a million dollars because /the rail and the DON’T sign weren’t enough/. Juanita said, “They don’t do that in other countries. In Italy, for example, if you hurt yourself and it’s obviously your own stupid fault, that’s the end of it.” Also, in other countries than the U.S., the hospital patches you up for free, no matter whose fault it is. They even come get you and take you there for free, or cheaply… In Canada an ambulance ride is maybe $100. My friend Mitch fell down from an exercise rope in his house (in the U.S.) one time when I was over and he snapped his ankle so his foot was turned around the wrong way. Luckily he had some antique Korean-war-era opium in the bathroom, and Jerry and Elly and I were there to lift him into the car to go to the ER. He’s a veteran, so I don’t know how much the hospital adventure cost, but if we’d called an ambulance it would have added thousands of dollars. For a ten-minute ride. So we can’t have fun things like this here like they can in Germany. But we have skiing. How did they work that out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbJ75oei18

Jack Stanford – The Rag Dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZvUlVudNwc

A big sewage pipe explodes all over a busy road. Dashcam video with sound of all that wet shit plopping and splorching on the windshield.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13412794

A little smell to take your mind off the bigger smell.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/06/27/forgotten-object-du-jour-the-vinaigrette/

Coming soon to the sky of every planet within thousands of light-years: A star that becomes visible to the naked eye once every 80 years and then hides again. Here’s the story with an animated illustration. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (that goes with his A Fire Upon the Deep) involves an expedition to a variable star. A different kind than this, but it’s what this makes me think of.
https://www.space.com/astronomers-new-star-nova-explosion-t-coronae-borealis

Rerun: Shadow illustrations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqvx4eKgRaQ

Can they reach the Golden Beach of Rich Vocabulary? The rest is a piece of cake after that. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=103133

The real railway children.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/sending-children-through-us-postal.html

The big picture. (via Kottke)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Sunset rocket launch. What are those cables, I wonder. (via Fark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2409/Galileo_L13_DSC_9929.jpg

A rich stew of cinematic menace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJjQ6S8xJRw

Mum does the washing.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/joshua-idehen-mum-does-washing.html

La pyramide du systeme capitaliste.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CapitalistPyramid.jpg

How jellyfish work, by Ze Frank.
https://laughingsquid.com/jellyfish-poisonous-sting/

To appreciate this scene properly, you need to know that the golden M in the sand, if stood up, would be about 30 feet high. The people are enormous.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/aliens.jpg?resize=735%2C956&ssl=1

Schmidt’s plaster moon.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/09/30/passing-through-3/

Joan Jett and the Black Hearts sing the theme song of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
https://laughingsquid.com/joan-jett-love-is-all-around-1996/

In the late 1980s or early ’90s the post office had small green monochrome CRT monitors at the clerk stations. If I bibble-buzzed my lips at different frequecies I could make the light on the screens seem to wave and wiggle upward or downward like water waves. If they were all in view, they all moved together, synchronized. This didn’t work with my green or orange monochrome computer monitors, but did with an old green terminal. Also I could affect my experience of old-style television static by slightly defocusing my eyes and slowly moving my gaze around the screen. If I went just the right speed it animated a tingly subjective blob that moved around just slightly behind the path my eyes went, with the whole rest of the screen in sympathy, like a flock of tiny birds flowing and swirling.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/effect_of_humming_on_vision

A pretty, flexible, red-haired girl filming herself learning to dance on rollerskates.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/27/peachy-skaterr/

Cruel.
https://theawesomer.com/staring-contest/752093/

Food looks delicious on billboards and in magazine and teevee ads because it’s made of diaper material and shredded white plastic bags, tampons and marbles and shaving cream, steamed at with a steam iron and torched at with a torch. And there’s something called candle gel (jellied wax) that’s glossier and clearer than ice cubes. A sunny-side-up egg is a slice off the side of a peach on yogurt in a pan, which at least is edible, at least to someone who likes yogurt. They spray varnish on donuts to make them more appealing. Ice cream is mashed potatoes, technically also edible if you’re not tricked into thinking it’s ice cream, which would be nauseating, like biting into a pickle made of apple, or the other way around, or like biting into carob that someone told you was chocolate. But in general, nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about. Nor eat.
https://laughingsquid.com/food-stylists-commercial-tricks/
https://decompmagazine.com/picnic.htm

I see a slightly distracted loving smile. Smug but benign. And cheeks full of nuts, or possibly it’s practicing its Dizzy Gillespie trumpet embouchure puff-up, or didgeridoo circular breathing bagpipe-bag-mouth form. Meanwhile, this is the only shade of purple acceptable on a car of any era. (via Fark)
https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/rkm/1/4017/274093/1920×1440/1937-buick-series-40.webp

Dog Songs: poems by Mary Oliver.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/30/mary-oliver/

If Netanyahu was honest. The wiggly animation technique reminds me of Ed Sullivan’s Topo Gigio. Remember him? “Kees me, Eddie,” he used to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9XmzOWJZSw

Randy Rainbow’s latest. (The song starts at about 2 min.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/09/blank-space-donalds-version.html

A documentary about the musical legacy of Woody Guthrie. (Full film, 53 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/this-machine-rising-full-documentary.html

Sentient static. (via Kottke)
https://kottke.org/15/01/a-murmuration-of-starlings

Matisse.
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-work-of-a-madman

Metisse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ox2Y11ciwc

I would like to watch this woman swallow an egg. Who’s with me?
https://www.vintag.es/2024/10/della-oake.html

Things dark-skinned people will never tell you.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/09/colorism.html

Genesis Garcia shows you how to make Day of the Dead sugar skulls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a30_DamLrQ

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/phyllis_shafer_painting/

Art.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-sculpture-that-looks-like-real-life.html

Art. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DASGectNnV9/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=2180d3de-f3a3-4900-b9c9-e5c74e49bd86

Asparagus, by Susan Pitt.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/asparagus_by_suzan_pitt

Chromolithographs of cephalopods. Cephalopods? Cephalopods.
https://laughingsquid.com/chromolithographs-of-cephalopods-song/

Rerun: Don’t pray so much. Sally Field, Phil Hartman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIUkv-9HiE

This is neat, but playing on it without wearing a helmet sets a bad example for kids who can weld.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-mad-max-style-car-pole/751790/

Rerun: Perineum sunning. It’s so funny when people believe things.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/11/where-sun-dont-shine-normally.html

Rerun: Sunscreen.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/08/put-on-some-damn-sunscreen-already.html

Making a toy projectile weapon. The steps along the way are presented at just the right speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvmThVtsPA

Another neat musical toy. Forty years ago, Mickie Zekley of Lark In The Morning Music showed me a small black box with squeezebox buttons on it, that one of his friends made, that ran on batteries and sounded exactly like bagpipes but quieter. It was entirely analog. This can do more things than that. I’m not sure why I don’t like it more than that. Similarly, I have a digital guitar stomp box that can make all the different pedal sounds (distortion, echo, reverb, flanging, clean compression) that was $50 ten years ago. It does everything, but I still rather use just my homemade guitar amplifier that has one trick: you turn it all the way up and it distorts. It’s like the Aesop’s fable of the cat and the fox.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/dualo-musical-instrument.html

And relax with George Clooney at the end of a movie.
https://kottke.org/24/10/relax-with-george-clooney-at-the-end-of-a-movie

Hubris debris.

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:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Ironic. And I can smell the Ulurical petrichor.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/rain-on-uluruayers-rock.html

Art.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/surreal-suburban-fantasies.html

The snapshot. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/21/The-Snapshot-Photography-for-the-Masses/

Our friend Mr. Sun. The deepest we have seen into him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbuAEagQj4

Chicagohenge. (via Fark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1803/Chicagohenge_Artese_1320.jpg

Electric bird toothbrush.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/fb9a/live/11454050-767f-11ef-b02d-c5f3b724a1ea.jpg.webp

Torremolinos, a little town in Spain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XrqaySdbXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTH9z0Cf6Zs

Missed it by /that/ much. Or, If I fits, I sits.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/25/magnificent-cinematic-footage-of-chinese-rocket-exploding-into-fireball-just-1-6-feet-away-from-a-perfect-landing.html

A massive snake of high-voltage glass insulators being hypnotically puppeted up into the air. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C94D4zMo_T6/

This is what people should be like.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/21/polaris-dawn-astronaut-performs-music-from-star-wars-with-orchestras-around-the-world.html

…And this is not. Who would do this in real life? and waste all that good food, and all those record players and typewriters. I understand the long-haired radical socialist Jew overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the temple, because I see it as an analogy for how I feel about the money corruption of the promise of free radio. I can /almost but not quite/ imagine doing something like that in the office of a crappy wealthy NPR-colonized radio station. But what would it accomplish? Nobody would get it; explaining it would ruin the joke and the point; and I’d just look like a crazy person and justify their continuing to treat me like shit on their boot-heel. And it might hurt my hands. See? Think it through and control yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqwQAaRiD0

…Also this cartoon MAGA man in the virtual million-MAGA march.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/25/tom-the-dancing-bug-how-it-started-how-its-going.html

The noses.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/09/21/breathing-exercises/

The robot.
https://theawesomer.com/human-or-robot/751521/

A compilation of giant glacier collapses. Collapse is a verbnoun now, like fail, and cringe, and rude. Rude, really? Yes, you can rude. You can say something is not just rude, but /a/ rude. Or the other way around: you can say someone is ruding, or harshing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToiiZmqBNMc

A 92-year-old man with the sweetest voice.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/24/grandad-sings/

Steerable cordless pill camera. It’s a medical robot that transmits video in real time. Adam Savage swallows it at 18:20. You’ve got to drink a lot of water so they can swim it around in you as it passes through the various tubes and corridors and vessels and squish-pumps. And then at 27 min. he swallows another one. They have lots; they make them there. And then the pill-robots meet each other inside Adam! (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE93ox9e2c

The wizard’s apprentice.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_wizards_apprentice

What’s most likely to kill you next week.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/Whats-Most-Likely-to-Kill-You-Next-Week/

I like the John Wick movies because, like millions of others, I also think the measure of a man is how fast he can reload a gun, and how accurately he can shoot attackers all around and behind him while walking purposefully across a room looking straight ahead. And, regarding this new one, who /isn’t/ fascinated by small women who are indestructible graceful mayhem machines, like River in /Serenity/, /Alita, Battle Angel/, Scarlett Johansson, Buffy, Gamora, Elektra, Lola, Leeloo, Wanda, Furiosa, [mumble-mumble, several others], and Ana de Armas, a ninja ballerina/assassin.
https://gizmodo.com/john-wick-ballerina-trailer-ana-de-armas-keanu-reeves-2000503725

The 2025 A.I. Chevrolet Belair. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/a-2025-chevy-belair/

The 2025 project in song.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/25/this-video-explains-project-2025-schoolhouse-rock-style.html

Rerun: Stun glove.
https://boingboing.net/2020/08/21/electric-glove-for-police-to-h.html

Any Place But Here.
https://archive.org/details/anyplacebuthere/anyplacebutherereel1/anyplacebutherereel1.mov

A plethora of wildebeest. (Scroll down to video.)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69385/watch-million-wildebeest-journey-across-serengeti

My employer Tim had one of these on his ’70-something diesel Volkswagen Rabbit.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/swamp-coolers.html

What would you call the principle at work here? (via x.com/pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1837316330539635163

Samuel T. Cohen’s wall of radiation.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/neutron_radiation_wall

A.I. (full film, free, for now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VfxU0bOx-I

We belong together.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/1960s-couples.html

Rikki Lee Jones – We Belong Together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzn-kPi7rgo

I did the ismy.blue test a couple of weeks ago and it showed that my tendency is to think of most of the scale people call blue-to-green as green (to me, turquoise is green). But, go back, remember the newspaper children’s-pages puzzles they used to have, where the object was to spot the differences between two seemingly identical drawings? The method I invented back then was to cross my eyes to make three images, focus on the middle one, the overlapped one, to make the differences shimmer, so easily find and count them. A couple of days ago I saw a web magazine article where the art at the top was two identical images except one had a blue background and the other had a yellow background. I crossed my eyes, focused on the middle of the resulting three, and the background was not shimmery green as I guessed it would be, but solid blue; so I can see all the colors fine with both eyes, but my brain relies on my left eye to decide what color anomalies or misfires are. Just now, reminded by a link someone gave to the color test, I went back to ismy.blue and took the test twice, first time closing my right eye, next time closing my left eye. My left eye tests in the exact middle of the scale, relative to other people’s eyes. My right eye tests nearly all the way on the blue end of the scale (turquoise is green). So my /not/ normal eye is the one that my brain relies on for color sense. You try that, now, one eye at a time. See what you get. Then, here’s a page of spot-the-differences drawings: https://www.rd.com/list/spot-the-difference/ I see that the crossed-eye method still works great for me. Details are equally good in both eyes and differences shimmer. It’s just on colors where one eye wins. This really interests me. I wonder if this relates in any way, in the brain, to handedness (left hand, left eye, both go to the right side of the brain; but I’m not particularly right or left-handed. I do some things right-handed (guitar, throw, scissors, bat) and some left-handed (write, fork, phone) but most things with whichever hand is nearer, reaching for the tool). Or it might be that one of my eyes (right one) is developing a cataract faster than the other one, and my brain oddly puts what that one says about color in the pilot seat, like the Peter Principle, kind of.
https://ismy.blue
https://www.rd.com/list/spot-the-difference/

The great art wall.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-great-wall-of-los-angeles.html

Bossa nova Du Hast.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/09/bossa-nova-du-hast.html

Nazca by A.I.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-newly-discovered-nazca-drawings-depict-llamas-human-sacrifices-more-180985133/

The end of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85h4th4iMOA

Jazz Hot (1938).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxQxajcOyCI

Everlasting Blort was 24 years old last week. If the post of flaming letter candles on a green cake, spelling out HAPPY FUCKING BDAY is no longer at the top by the time you read this, page down to it and then click on every item below that, because that’s when they highlighted things from their archive that they particularly think you’ll get a kick out of. Such as Chinese space program art:
https://chineseposters.net/themes/space-program

…And whatever this is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Er1654hlo

…And the LSD blotter art gallery.
https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_images_gallery1.shtml

Dredge catastrophe. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSJkT0SP-A

Genius lifesaving tip. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYCcOl0WsAA42Ro?format=jpg&name=medium

Crafting.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/09/diy-project-goes-little-overboard.html

Pillow flight.
https://laughingsquid.com/pillow-flight-new-york-city/

Godchecker. Gods, gods, gods. You want gods? We got gods. We got gods up the wazoo. Jealous gods, drunken gods, helpful gods, mischievous gods, psychotic gods, fish gods, hippo gods, gods in all the colors of the rainbow. Come on in for all yer god-related needs. Three-for-one every Thursday.
https://www.godchecker.com/

Just the ones they used in Stargate.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Category:Gods_and_Goddesses

The bell sound of striking a Damascus steel knife with a hammer.
https://vimeo.com/46430171

Becket! A Quinn Martin production. Win Andre the Giant as Little Bim.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/beckett-quinn-martin-production.html

I’m not sure what this is or where it’s originally from, but it has a certain je nais se quoi. It’s like a fast little dream you have just as you drop off to sleep, but then a truck starts outside the window and you startle awake and say /huh/. (via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ervz4YY8kwiAZkQJ5EMXt4qbG0CEpnUPQ3HU0WCxzQJN3uoalVsBzL5Z3oRPLpOlNN5Igl-Y8Z_MiDShcpZGIFia1NyJdqSwyQIKkKCHJEkHAIrQLqvSOIAMTyvIJGcsMM1t_Lpbi8w/s500/jinxy-super-blogger.gif

Sports air was prettier then. Worth every ounce of all that cancer.
https://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/why-old-sports-photos-often-have-a-blue-haze/

Octopunch. (via Fark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbWrctH4DM0

Evacuation.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAJH238yqY5/

Nikki Glaser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-W2KGV0Ga4

The dream of your phone attached directly to your face is finally coming true.
https://gizmodo.com/metas-orion-glasses-offer-its-first-true-ar-experience-2000503337

“The headband also includes a plurality of loops, disposed at intervals along the length of the headband. The device further includes an elastic cord, one end of which has a snap hook capable of engaging any of the loops…”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/neck_exercising_device

Rerun: Don’t be a sucker. (via Miss Cellania)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2018/08/dont-be-sucker.html

Alpha Bits. (via Weird Universe)
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adviews/dmbb23013

Art, again.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/richard-karlovich-zommer.html

And an interesting couple. I have always wondered about that kind of ancient Roman shoe. What keeps the shoelace from immediately sliding down to one’s ankle? Unless here it’s not a shoelace but a cylindrical lissajous tattoo. I knew a girl who had barbed wire tattooed up and down her legs like that, but in Doc Martins, not sandals. Doc Martins, barbed wire, pleated skirt. Giant round blue eyes. Pretty, bipolar, chain-smoker, 17 to early twenties. She’d be, let’s see… maybe 50-55 now. If you see yourself in that description, please get in touch; I’d like to hear your story about how things turned out for you.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226990413092362&set=gm.3919989634882554

Your uncle from Zhprajdnyek.

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:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Trussssst in me.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/09/two-handed-snake-sings-trust-in-me.html

Margaret Kerry Tinkerbell.
https://www.instagram.com/axelmalibu/reel/Cg5VVkDLQ-w/?hl=en

Shadow art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/19/vincent-bal/

“Despite everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-haitians-of-springfield-usa.html

60th anniversary documentary of /Bewitched/. (via Rusty’s Electric Dreams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MysjOapWnlo

In 1916 a navy submarine got stuck just off Humboldt. Pulling it free wrecked a battleship. It costs more than that now to fly a single fighter jet up into the air and run it around for exercise so it won’t stiffen up. Or strafe a wedding party. Or “fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.” (George Bush)
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/sep/14/video-humboldt-outdoors-submarine-ran-aground-humb/

Antarctica from the air. So cold and clean and sharp.
https://kottke.org/15/04/a-tour-of-antartica-by-drone

I’ve spent probably more than a thousand hours soldering wires and parts together, a lot of them under a magnifying ring lamp or with magnifying goggles made of stacked dollar store cheater glasses. This brings back hot solder memories of middle-youth. Also, the narrator’s cute Peter Lorre-like voice makes me think of /The Further Adventures of Nick Danger/, by Firesign Theater (the Peter Lorre character crossed with Catherwood). And Rodant Kapoor, in ZBS Radio Productions’ /Ruby, Galactic Gumshoe/. When I try it, it’s like squeezing the sound out through a valve in the middle of my head, level with the eyes.
https://newatlas.com/technology/soldering-powerful-microscope/

Live in the future, which is already in progress.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/retro-futurism.html

The future so many of us expected and were disappointed not to get. (Scroll down and down.)
https://onlineonly.christies.com.cn/s/over-horizon-art-future-paul-g-allen-collection/lots/3727

Elbows off the control panel, Veena. You know that. Have you done your space-homework? Well, I don’t care /what/ your friend Astrid’s mother lets her do. You’ll finish your homework or there’ll be no zero-gravity sex carousel this Saturday for you, young lady. And don’t you roll your eyes at me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Yck0zkbAY

It’s like the joke that ends with, “That was the demo.” This is the demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUUqT4MV_vE

I suppose this is okay. It’s just not enough. I’m sorry.
https://www.freethink.com/space/new-space-station

’50s Super Panavision Futurama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KNXWLs9yM

STAR TREK ACID PARTY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlRt05RY9Y

Rebecca Horn is dead.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/rebecca_horn_rip

“I love you,” he said in a husky voice.
https://laughingsquid.com/i-love-you-he-said-in-a-husky-voice/

Wow!
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/20/friday-bits-dance-party-117/

They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tvfF6zfCHY

Speaking of which, miles and miles of Donald Trump transcripts. Comic songwriters, start your engines.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcript-category/donald-trump-transcripts

Oh, come on, we do, too.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/bs.jpg

Ralph Nader’s 1988 presidential campaign ad, with his pet parrot.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/poor-ralph-nader-his-only-friend-is-bird.html

Tom Waits – Way Down In The Hole (live). I love him enough to, nearly always when I hear him, and I hear him a lot because I have all his music, say, smiling, to his ghostly presence, in my poor approximation of his voice, “Christ, ya know, man, clear your throat. Get a drink o’ water or somethin, heh heh heh.'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g

The lunar cycle. (For the short of attention span, skip ahead to 2:30.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/rowland_emmetts_lunar_cycle

Mr. Ho Thanh Che’s flying saucer boat project.
https://theawesomer.com/ufo-jet-boat/750833/

Steel guitar Cantina Song cover.
https://laughingsquid.com/star-wars-cantina-band-steel-pedal/

Forbidden Planet saucer landing scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTll9D1u_I

Vitalic – My Friend Dario. (say dairy-oh) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOtmWxqN1fY

Another collection of static Looney Tunes backgrounds. (Scroll down and down.) When A.I.-equipped replacement eyes, or merely A.I. glasses or contacts, are available, one of the things they’ll be able to do for you, if you tell them to, might be to make the whole world look like this. Just simplify everything to what’s important and leave it stuck that way.
https://www.instagram.com/looneytunes_backgrounds/

Brit zoot. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/Dina_Shakti/status/1832871555459842437

Screaming memes. (Scroll down and down.)
https://tenor.com/search/screaming-meme-gifs

Rerun: Anni Hogan – The ghosts of Soho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9QQjz_vTtc

Edna Purcell’s Hot Cross Buns. Image only, alas. But my Ohio cousins had an organ very like this one, in the 1960s, in a room in the basement with a bass guitar and a Sears drum kit, too. All the way to the year 2000 you could get an air-powered chord organ or, sometimes, even a bigger, more complicated actual electronic church organ, from any thrift store for the price of a hamburger today. They were everywhere for nearly free because nobody wanted them anymore. In the early 1980s I got one from the Humane Society thrift store, that weighed hundreds of pounds. It had racks of vacuum tubes with an elaborate wiring harness of sticky oiled cotton-and-paper-insulated wires. It made exciting sounds when you switched it on, while the tubes all warmed up and the circuits gradually settled their arm-wrestling matches with each other, humming and whistling and motorboating and squealing. And then if you turned it all the way up it distorted and sounded like the organ intro of /Lazy/ by Deep Purple. And here’s the weird thing about it: I can’t remember what happened to it. It must have been given away or lost or something. I had it, then I didn’t. Where did it go and why don’t I remember when it left? Did I still have it when I met Juanita?
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/edna.jpg

Trailer for Daaaaaali!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmpCVMxrYc

“Don’t play Snoop in the O.R.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/09/tv-doctor-reviews-tv-doctors.html

The latches.
https://theawesomer.com/unique-interesting-lock-designs/750166/

It’s a TARP!
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/17/tourist-trap-traps-tourists/

Animated parkour project.
https://laughingsquid.com/3d-artist-parkour-challenge/

“Updated with chain final drive for 1920, it became known as the SD (Spring Drive) because of its clutch-mounted, coil-spring shock absorber and formed the basis of the later four-valve Ricardo model.” I’d like you to internally hear that in old Andy Divine’s punched-in-the-throat-when-he-was-a-boy voice, never mind the fact that, I just learned, he was never punched in the throat, but “a childhood accident in which he fell, while running with a curtain rod in his mouth at the Beale Hotel in Kingman, caused the rod to pierce the roof of his mouth, so that when he was able to speak again, he had a labored, scratchy, warbling, duo-tone voice.”.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/triumph-with-sidecar.html

Renewing the train track bed and resetting sleepers (ties) to put everything back level and perfect, like new. Compare this with digging up, patching and refreshing an asphalt highway. I remember reading a science-fiction story where an alien civilization made roads of “vitrified earth” by a machine rolling along, leveling and boiling the ground with atomic energy, churning it into glass goo and forming it up and texturing the surface, all in one continuous process, at about the speed this machine runs.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/17/ever-wondered-how-they-replace-sleepers-and-renew-the-ballast-on-railroad-tracks/

Just in time for Halloween (store-Halloween, when the stores fill with Halloween products), tips on how to get that Marjorie Taylor Greene look. For your face. Cobble up the rest of your body’s look using some other method. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56ip6fGKno

Nature as hallucinating A.I. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1832888806577684584

Mexican sister act, The Warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6b_FgQnXL8

Rhapsody In Bluegrass. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RbbSwbL7ag

I know who Billy Piper is from Doctor Who. When she and The Doctor are separated into mutually inaccessible different universes by her brave act in Torchwood One Tower to pull a lever to save Earth from the Daleks /and/ the Cybermen, never (or so we think at the time) to be reunited, and she’s on a bleak beach in other-world Norway, talking to a hologram of the Doctor, and he explains that this call takes a tremendous amount of energy, that he’s /burning out a sun/ just to be able to talk with her one last time, and she says, “How long have we got?” and he says, “Not long,” meaning maybe a minute or two… Just thinking about that sends tears squirting out of my eyes like a cartoon character crying. I knew that she was a pop star in the UK before getting the Doctor Who gig, but I never heard anything she sang until much later, by looking it up. One time I was talking about Doctor Who with Jason. It was my contention that Rose (Billy Piper) was the best of the Doctor’s companions. Jason disagreed. He didn’t like her mouth, he said. It was something about the way she often set her jaw, and puckered weirdly, and seemed to chew on the inside of her cheeks. It bugged him. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3oU-Z4Vxo

Speaking of opinions, I don’t like Harleys much. They’re incredibly stupidly unnecessarily loud. But I hope they gave this model one, for looking nice sitting on them.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/vivian-bales.html

Our friends, the virae.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/17/Our-Bodies-Are-Full-of-Beneficial-Viruses/

Ayrton Senna’s heel-and-toe braking technique. With video in the original Czech-accented Japanese.
https://kottke.org/12/05/ayrton-sennas-heel-and-toe-braking-technique

Oh, this is nice. This man is who I’d really like to think I seem like. When it goes as well as this, though, it’s because I’m simultaneously daydreaming a Secret Life of Walter Mitty scenario, which dilutes and reins in disastrous non sequitur shortcuts that come out of my mouth and creep even me out and I cringe about for the rest of my life so, when I’m alone or with Juanita and I recall it, I say aloud, “Stop thinking that,” and when there’s someone else around to hear and that happens, I, uh… No, I still say, “Stop thinking that,” but add, “Not you, sorry.” That said, I’m always a little worried when people who look this alike in films or real life are attracted to each other. Here, they’re both soft and puffy-white, with the same accent and tone of voice and clock speed. For imagining what might happen later between them, it’s better for me if people don’t seem so much like they could be brother and sister.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/do-you-think-about-me.html

But no problem with this.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/18/sullivan-twins/

Or this.
https://x.com/i/status/1836894263667478832

Daphnique Springs. (44 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZd-3UpMadA

Shafts, gears and cams. The mechanical analog fire-control computer (1953). Restricted security information. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug

Medieval fire arrows. What they are and what they can do. (30 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNCU4WndtYk

This has always been what I think of when I’m reading a story or watching a show where it’s the future and people are hiding on the ground from fully computerized and sensor-encrusted police airships or drones, yet somehow they evade detection by ducking down a little in shrubs or tall grass until the pursuers have flown right over them and missed them completely. It’s similar to when its the future and people have an energy-gun battle in a tunnel or in corridors of a spaceship, they’re like twenty feet away from each other and they /shoot and shoot and shoot/ and never connect. Here in the primitive past, a single thirty-cent shotgun shell can reliably clear the entire hallway. Apparently in the future they’ve somehow lost infrared cameras and blunderbuss tech. Also seatbelts. And fuses. But not ocarinas. It doesn’t matter where you go in the future /or the past/, somebody near you will have one of those.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fglyih/3yo_lost_in_massive_cornfield_at_night/

The Shriners. They’re not just about the parade go-karts, though you could get that impression. They maintain children’s hospitals where “children up to the age of 18 years, with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate are eligible for admission and receive all care in a family centered environment at no charge.” Funny little hats off to the Shriners. Also the Moose Lodge. “No man stands so tall as when he stoops to lift a child.” (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/09/06/mostly-this-secret-masonic-order-just-wants-to-have-fun/

Rerun: The mechanical integrator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-y_lnzWQjk

Constructing, maintaining and upgrading the Bell telephone system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAebA_z_7rk

Rerun: The story of video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDX5ItsOnQ

The experts. For what this turns out to be, it’s surprisingly listenable. (28 min.) (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrRnin7rDq0

“Dioramas are lit.”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/17/Military-Museum-Tour-in-Gen-Alpha-Slang/

The What Came First game.
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/what-came-first/ZQGBUPErEE3bVg

Making a teeny tiny working steam engine. This man’s hobby machine shop is better equipped than any I’ve seen. He has what he calls a centering microscope (a medical binocular microscope, mounted over what critically needs to be centered), but also /a scanning electron microscope/ (!), and uses it to examine the cutting edge of a micro-drill bit for flaws. The bit is barely thicker than a human hair. I remember being impressed with friend Merlin Tinker’s hobby mill equipment, which amounted to an antique dentist’s drill and attachments he used the drill to create, in a series of steps– one attachment used to make the next one, and so on. But in this video there’s a separate whole machine for everything you might need to do. Finally, regarding the finished product: “It works surprisingly well and sounds a bit like an obese mosquito.” What we hear is a subharmonic. It’s actually spinning at 42,000 rpm.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-tiny-steam-engine/750861/

Railway Children. (Full film, 99 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsuMNYcw8M

About George Givot. (say zhee-VOH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhhR5mBGXRo

Brought to you by the Church of the Prawn God. And skin-loosening wipes. “Ouch. Too tight? Loosen tight skin with skin-loosening wipes.” (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm92JNgPbqk
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_tMgPYyvnN/

“Mickey, I am fed up with your bullshit devil magic.”
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ab2c6901b7732202671f38f0c632c3e5

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/17/stuart-dunkel/

“Mark. What have you done. What have you done, Mark.”
https://laughingsquid.com/forgetting-the-reusable-bags/

That’s why we are parting her out. We can’t afford not to.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/15/never-let-anyone-tell-you-that-you-are-worthless/

Juggling. It’s a slippery slope. First it’s one hackysack, then it’s two or three hackysacks, then you’re going to jail. Because of the sound of your voice, and because you /don’t listen/.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13401046

Knuckleball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvp7HEXXMc

War pianos. Pianos for war, at war.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/that-time-when-america-air-dropped.html

The Paris gun.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2024/09/paris-gun-world-war-ones-greatest-weapon.html

“I’d like you to meet my leetle friend.”
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/20/hoowah/

You know this bridge; it’s famous for this. But this one time is the best, for me, so far. It’s a whole poem, including the aftermath.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/16/can-opener-bridge-strikes-again.html

Scroll down to the video showing the sequence of disassembly of The Intimidator, a puzzle whose parts took the artist over a year to machine from many different kinds of metal. Some of the steps require a special key or tool. Once it’s apart, two bullets (included inside) and certain puzzle pieces can be assembled into a functioning gun with a laser sight.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/15/repost-not-rubiks-cube/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Po64G72gQo

The joy of art. You get an idea, and you do it, and it works… “I’m getting dizzy; I can’t breathe!” he says, because he’s laughing so hard, but also, I just realized, because he might be allergic to the smell of cosmetics. Many people are. I don’t like even just being in a room with someone in enough makeup to stink up the place, and he’s got it on his face, on his nose. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/slater_paul/status/1833152709655982247

The kids are all right.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/20/national-youth-orchestra/

I remember something like this from high school. The right answer still feels weird and wrong. Follow-up question for the student: “Put two scales in series in place of the horizontal scale. What will each read?”
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/09/math-problem-how-many-newtons-does.html

“Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. She has slept with most of her male friends. Most of her male friends have slept with most of her female friends. Sexual promiscuity is the norm. But up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center. Like many people, she imagined herself disembarking, finding herself face-to-face with another human being, ‘and there we would remain in our permanent station in life: the future.'” (via Kottke)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571331998/ref=nosim/0sil8

Mitotic waves and gastrulation in a fly embryo. (The video is silent, but you may hear the title generated in your head in the voice of John Cleese dressed in a military officer outfit.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjDm02h8bI

Night shift in the puzzle factory.

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Gimme that old atonal music like Poppa used ta play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzodB0Sp6ZI

Keep the magic alive. Keep haggis wild. Keep Scotland mythical. (via b3ta)
https://youtu.be/ey794pYaYCU

Flying.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aYReipkftew

Ionic thruster project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc2pbgdcCkw

The 1952 gas-turbine SOCEMA Gregoire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6FuF09zd_I

…That video mentions this gas-turbine motorbike, which turns out to be the fastest stock street production motorbike in the world. It’s beautiful. It’s art. This thing is a monument to the entire course of science and industry since fitted clothing and the campfire, except for it’s as loud from a block away as a shop-vac in your hat.
https://www.marineturbine.com/motorcycles/

Rerun: Loony Tunes background art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50tAXNvUE8

An A.I.-generated steampunk river town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVVUKMcqdk

The actual opening of the hatch starts at about 1:53 (one hour and 53 min.) into the video. It’s stuck. It doesn’t want to open. They use the term /sticktion/, which I remember being used for early personal computer hard drives. They had the problem of, if you left the computer alone for long enough, maybe only just a few weeks, turning it on might not start the hard drive turning. You had to shut the power off, open the computer, unscrew the metal clips that held the drive’s guide rails back, unplug the power and data cables from the drive, pull the drive out, plug the cables.back in with the (heavy, large) drive in your hand, switch the power on, and with both hands sharply jerk the hard drive in the air, twisting it on its spindle’s axis to overcome sticktion and start it turning. Then turn it off, put everything back the way it was and hope you had been just rough enough but not too rough, because hard drives were expensive. A 10MB hard drive then could cost more in today’s money than a whole classroom of adequate cell phones or chromebook computers or Android tablets. I always liked combination words like sticktion. Guesstimate. Frenemy. Motel. Spork. Infotainment. Chinglish. Breathalyzer. Bollywood. Cosplay. Sitcom. Botox. Jazzercise. Medicare. Carjack. Eurasia. Frappuccino. Talkquake. Glumbrage. Coffertina. Your turn.*
https://newatlas.com/space/polaris-dawn-first-private-spacewalk-how-to-watch/

Alba S. Torremocha – Quand je Bois du Vin Clairet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeFPo8pp4qA

Blossom Dearie – Buckle Down, Winsockie. I hear Nellie McKay in her voice. I see Maria Bamford in Nellie McKay. I’ll stop now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c6dIpevEa4

“Arwen’s paintin’ toenails, yellin’ at the dowg.” The dowg. (Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/ASo1omons/status/1832435210161639493

Tina Friml, cerebral palsy comic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbaK754C4Kk

Don’t be surprised when you find out this is the way all the kids dance now when grownups aren’t looking. They’re all right. I think it’s because the level of tetraethyl lead in the environment has gone down below the mentally and emotionally crippling level it was in the 20th century. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UtI0nbVqJhc

Speaking of which, I haven’t been around a lot of young people lately, but if kids are all as smart and self-aware as this girl, they’re okay, you don’t have to worry. “Don’t bury me with this guy; he’s been dying with other people behind my back.” She’s wrong about chocolate-covered raisins, though. They are the best candy. (The milk chocolate kind are. Dark chocolate has lead and cadmium and other heavy metals in unsafe amounts if you eat as much as you want. You can pretty much tip the box up and /inhale/ milk chocolate raisins and be okay. Plus milk chocolate doesn’t keep you awake all night the way dark chocolate does.) (I remember when chocolate-covered coffee beans appeared as a candy; nobody warned me what would happen, and I ate like three or four of them. They were great, the best flavor, and crunchy, but the effect, which developed after about twenty minutes and lasted for exhausting hours, was awful. My eyeballs were vibrating. My neck and shoulders hurt.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagNYHB3Kzk

“I don’t wanna go in there! I don’t wanna go to bed yet!”
https://laughingsquid.com/cockatoo-late-night-tantrum/

Goodnight Moon, by Jake Fried (say freed). Art.
https://x.com/pickover/status/1833865125930942675

“Why, thank you, giant sir. Don’t mind if I do.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/spider-makes-short-work-of-wasp.html

Ow.
https://theawesomer.com/stuntman-reacts-to-gunshots/749977/

Oy.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/10/white-people-in-the-80s-rapping-about-karate.html

Face It, Tiger. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYioMVQWp9Q

Ricky Lindhome – Middle Age Love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3gUy40Stzg

*Fridgescaping.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/fridgescaping-with-vintage-items.html

The wages of pork. Don’t be in a hurry to eat that. Cook it first.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/09/freaky-truth-behind-the-x-rays-of-the-woman-teeming-with-parasites-from-eating-pork.html

“Sorry, Cap’n, I didn’t mean to let you down. But I got one whiff of your arse and it knocked me to the ground.”
https://youtu.be/JcyHxis3_Y0?si=Rj6dTX4CY75VT-nZ

“Great. This always happens. Hey, hello! …A little help, here? …Fuck.”
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=4XxZ7B

That would be Capricorn, and the dates don’t match up. This is an astrological crime, not a witchery crime. You are in the wrong office, Madam. This is why we prefer you to use the app. (via Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/goathead.jpg

What sorcery is this? The first intentional long-lasting photograph in the history of the world. Joseph Nicephore Niepce (say YO-seff NEH-seh-fohr nyeps-uh) made what he called /retinas/, temporary images that lasted a few seconds, and he kept working on it and working on it, and finally.
https://cool.culturalheritage.org/byorg/abbey/an/an26/an26-3/an26-307.html

He’s kidding. Nobody hates musicals. “Friend, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge or you are unaware of caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community!” Think, what all would have to be wrong with someone to hate that? “I stand for motherhood, America, and a hot lunch for orphans. Take off your hat, sir, there’s a tear-stained eagle passing. Do you see him on the field at Gettysburg, ‘neath that great triumphal arch?” Who could hate that? “I gotcher horse right here, the name is Paul Revere.” Golden lines, shining music. “You must have heard wrong Grandma, there’s no tailor! You mean the butcher, Grandma, by the name of Lazar-Wolf.” “No! No! No! I mean the tailor, Tevye. My great-grandchild, my little Tzeitel who you named for me, Motel’s bride was meant to be!” “Oh, sneakin’ up on me, eh? Try and pull an ax on me, eh? Why, I’ll ROOOF! And I’ll GHROOOF!”
https://laughingsquid.com/howie-mandel-muscial-soundtrack/

I can’t wait. Obviously I can, but I can’t. Fullscreen the trailer.
https://theawesomer.com/flow-trailer/749957/

How to Fosse. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z6ozavAaT48

Our kinetic world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En3PdPueVAY

Requiem.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/11/mozarts-requiem/

Requiem for a Dream. I saw it when it came out, and not since then, but just now I was thinking about it, burst into tears and said, “Oh, the poor little people. Oh, no.” Back when I was in high school in the early 1970s they’d show us 16mm movies in the gym on rainy days. They showed movies of car wrecks with slides of before-and-after face-reconstruction surgery of kids our age who thought they were too cool to wear their seatbelt, and that worked. But they showed movies of people talking about how drugs would ruin your brain and your life, and they weren’t very effective. When I saw Requiem For A Dream, I thought, This is what they should show kids to scare them from trying drugs, because it would fucking work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Dream

Wait for it.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/09/tweet-of-day_01864932059.html

Pleasant video game music played on acoustic instruments. Magnetic reverb on the banjo, but that’s about it for effects.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/10/fantastic-cover-of-the-theme-from-16-bit-classic-the-lost-patrol.html

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – You’re All I Need To Get By. (via Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XHQ_yKigY

“Anything mindful is a scam.”
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-09-10-cgbeans-1.gif

Your skin, a conveyor belt of death. Every hour you shed 200,000,000 dead skin cells, and good riddance. But under the skin, the grievous insult of a tattoo. A man who worked in the hardware store forty years ago had crashed his bicycle when he was a boy and somehow asphalt had got under the skin of his nose and cheek and stayed there forever. It didn’t look too bad, but you had to consciously look him in the eye to keep from focusing on the blotches, while you were describing the part or tool or product you needed, or handing him your key to duplicate. When kids have acne problems I feel so sorry for them. You don’t have to just imagine how they feel; they look haunted, the expression in their eyes. It’s misery. And there was a graceful, tall, seriously smart, pretty woman who used to work in the library forty years ago, and she ran a reading program for the school district; she had the crinkled scar of severe burns on the side of her face and down her neck. She dressed in well-fitted, thin-flowing-cotton dresses like sharp magazine ad women in the 1950s, and she looked sad, even when smiling. I always wanted to say something about how pretty she was, but, Christ, Marco, she’ll think you’re a creep, and you are, so I never did. (via Kottke.org)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGggU-Cxhv0

Man.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/567

The zipperbird.
https://laughingsquid.com/parrot-imitates-zipper/

Trade show body armor demo. This reminds me of the old joke that ends with, “Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! There’s your frickin’ canoe, ya bastards!”
https://theawesomer.com/stab-proof-vest-demo/749855/

Head on floor prank. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/10/head-in-the-hallway-prank/

The importance of punctuation. (via Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/commas.jpg

Kristen Schaal (Mel from Flight of the Conchords).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9aedBtbCgM

Rerun: Kelsey Cook. “Another joke I wrote next to Wendell.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RXlUtgXrdE

And this will bring back memories to those of a certain age. Model airplane construction. The impressive airplane this represents was made in 1934 by men who weren’t even born when the Wright Brothers duct-taped a motor to a big cloth-and-sticks kite and flew it at seven miles an hour for 120 feet, which is close to the /wingspan/ of the Short Sunderland flying boat, that weighed 20 tons fully loaded, and could fly at 210 miles an hour for 3,000 miles, set down anywhere in the water and tie up at a dock like any other boat. It’s a lot like Serenity, the spaceship in /Firefly/. Kaylee: “You ever sail in a Firefly?” Shepherd: “Long before you were crawlin’. Not an aught-three, though. Didn’t have the extenders. Tended to shake.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ItIpkqdbI

And two hard-boiled eggs.

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:

…

(I made two notable mistakes in that show. 1. I read chapter 14-b of Kent Wallace’s new book Switcheroo, not noticing that I skipped right past 14-a. Sorry, Kent. I’ll do better next week. And 2. I didn’t even /look/ to check over the text of Scott Peterson’s story about corruption in local nonprofit organizations, that I ripped kind of on autopilot from the PDF file, and it ended up scrambled and almost-but-not-quite readable, though I tried to read it, mangled it and gave up. Sorry, Scott. I’ll do better about that next week too.)

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2e8B2CmicQ

Bonnie Tyler – Heartache.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEOl38y8Nj8

Christina Julian – Down With the Sickness. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://theawesomer.com/bathroom-mirror-lip-sync/749339/

Oh, that’s easy. The secret is to just make the lid first. Nah, kidding. I’ve tried to use a potter’s wheel. Before I could get it shaped anything like a real pot it just flurped into a folded lump. Try again? Flurp. Again? Almost… almost… Flurp. Always flurp, never pot. In an ancient-times pot-based society I’d probably do okay as a hut-to-hut pot salesman. Or to make a trailside billboard for pots, out of palm leaves. Or to dream up pottery innovations, such as a ceramic kazoo or ocarina or village-crier megaphone or rat-proof breadbox. Or invent the ceramic flush toilet, like a person did on another planet, a religiously enforced pre-industrial Hindu planet, in Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny, which I’m reading a little bit of every show, now, near the end of the show, and enjoying it all over again, as much as the first time when I was ten and every time since. “Twice or not at all!” Then you realize he is saying, /Double or nothing!/ And the ten-page lead-up to where the narrator can say, “Then the fit hit the Shan.” Zelazny wrote much of his work, including Lord Of Light, and the sprawling Chronicles of Amber, while he was a postal clerk. So many of his books and short stories cry out to be made into graphic novels and films and teevee series and stage plays, and the only thing they managed was Damnation Alley? Tch. Every few years I read that they’re about to make the Chronicles of Amber for teevee, but they never do. They do other things that winkingly borrow from it, but never the real thing. It’s a story about a nested multiverse, and a family of descendants of the creatures that created it out of capital-C Chaos, who live nearly forever and are casually at each other’s throats for power in the place at the heart of it all. It has magic and artificial intelligence and sword fights and demons and monsters and romance and role models for good, to emulate, and for evil, to not be like. And, like real life, morally puzzling problems to urgently address without enough information, and then consequences. Anyway, here’s a person with impressive pottery skills, consequences: pots.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/09/tweet-of-day.html

“When you go away, apply what you’ve learned at Arthur Murray. You’ll never sit on the sidelines again.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/dancing_fools

NGO. (Never Gets Old.)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/09/01/mamas-roller-coaster/

The push man. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG2ytfXG9c&t=63s

Our kinetic world. So many obstacles and material properties to negotiate. Such physics. Such gravity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyJcI4UkAzs

9 out of 10 people in the world are younger than I am. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://population.io/

Breakdancing ballet.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/05/jinjo-crew/

Further in the line of women I would like to watch swallow an egg. The older I get, the less creepy that feels to say. Therefore the more creepy it is. And if something is creepy, a million people will pay for it. Except, I read an article last night about how young people have brought /consensual sexual asphyxiation/ into the mainstream. Now, that is creepy, but nobody would pay for it, because when something goes wrong and the person dies, and there was money involved, it’s not just mortifying, it is, like the entire spectrum of playfulness, impossible to explain in a court of law, and that’s intuitive, it’s baked in, almost the only form of forethought you can count on people to show, especially in their teens and twenties, when who has to pay for it anyway? so that solves itself. You really pay later, though. Not necessarily money. I’ll stop now.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/eugene-vernier.html

Rerun: Hi there, Hon. What can I getcha, besides cigaret ashes in your omelet.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/09/krystal-employees.html

This is more jello than it is actual cake, and it’s made with candy-coconut, which is vile, but it’s so pretty and the person who made it calls it a cake. Close enough for contract work. If soap or makeup or rice or urinal sanitation chemicals can be a cake, why can’t jello? In the 1950s they made whole jello dinners out of hotdogs and celery and everything else in the fridge and called it a /salad/. Even words can be a salad, so. See what I did, there?
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/04/This-Cloud-Cake-Looks-Like-a-Slice-of-the-Sky/

Beautiful machines. Which is your favorite? (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BebbFcuAnr4

A Finnish solution to save reindeer from cars at night. We can’t introduce genes for luminosity into deer everywhere, because their predators hunt at night. We could breed them to be just a little bit smarter about roads; it wouldn’t take much of an increase in IQ. Or we could keep it under the speed limit, and never hit a deer in the first place.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1f9glx3/in_finland_every_year_about_4000_reindeer_lose/#lightbox

A video of attractive animal people. Inspired, no doubt, by Cordwainer Smith.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/05/living-hybrid-ai-art-captivates-and-unsettles.html

Welcome to NamibiCam. In two minutes, this has everything: jealousy, frolicking, peevement, coolth, warthogs, cheetahs, ostriches, etc. (via Neatorama.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whGdgHLufQU

“Bentham! …Bentham! Wake up!”
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/566

No dogs.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/no-dogs.html

Dogs.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/shadow-play-by-scotdrone.html

Trapped in a blanket.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/02/doggos-hilarious-struggle-to-escape-his-blanket-video.html

“And so I’m like, What if sharks got into the Lincoln Memorial pool?” America is trapped in a blanket. Come on. Let’s go. You can do it, I want to say.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/04/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-campaigning.html

Nate White’s description of Donald Trump, read aloud by Anthony Davis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACKi4TlQoE

Type in a word or name, click Enter. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/

Rerun: Video made from the numinous sepia emigrant/immigrant-experience picture book /Arrival/ by Shaun Tan. Look up the actual book and buy it for a gift for someone in your life– a young person, say, or an old person. They will think of you fondly for the rest of their life. Also, you can teach them how to use the ubiquitous conical kitchen hand-torch-hose appliance, and show them around the libraries and public works monuments and other features of this marvelous land, free of fear of being vacuumed up into the sky by marauding mecha-wraiths like they had in the Old Country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGlCxUCLsXM

Speaking of which.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-prisoner-in-guantanamo-builds.html

Stewart Lee, Britain’s favorite comic, full show, 90 min. I quite enjoyed this. I hardly ever stay for the whole show of something like this, but I did. I made time for it. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdTuCA9o0WQ

Відзнака – Національна легенда України. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgefQARmiN4

Constructing a slingshot pistol. For defending your family from balloons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENG6ZbTkcu0

An intriguing reddit community of people who don’t like that cars have entirely taken over everyplace, and so they need somewhere to vent. This is that place. Scroll down and down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/

Smiling my head off. Near peak glee.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/03/Smac-vs-Parrot-Who-Danced-It-Better/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrkm40Y2PY4

…That woman is the same Sarah (Smac) McCreanor who did the smash dance series. She’s been goofy-graceful dancing on stage since she was a little girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqB6UxERAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G536yPokzA

Rerun: Smash dances, a peaceful meditation. (15 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuIYjTc6lJE

Rerun: Evolution of dance. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCtXX9iQkuw

Imagine the wild electrical activity in this barking-mad preacher’s brain. Imagine afterward, when she’s just gone offstage. She flops into a chair, says softly but emphatically, “Ah yeah,” like an inflatable guest bed ripping a seam and relaxing flat, or like Jack Nicholson said, pleased and exhausted after sex with Angela Huston in /Prizzi’s Honor/. (via Christian Nightmares)
https://x.com/ChristnNitemare/status/1829738752517796130

Disco snails, etc. I especially like the one about the funky duck.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/09/03/vulfpeck/

A cute new kind of wombat, who is endangered, to learn about. It looks soft, George. Nah, Lenny, leave it alone, you got hands like hams, ya don’t know your own strenth. Oh, no, Lenny, didn’t I just say leave it alone? That’s okay, get rid of that, we’ll get you another one, that one ain’t fresh now.
https://newatlas.com/biology/ultra-rare-baby-wombat-video/

Batman and Catgirl.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/09/batman-bad-kitty.html

I like their noses, except for the one with a metal ring stuck through the bottom part. I’m never getting used to kids doing that. Seeing metal, or anything, that’s stuck through someone’s living flesh for no medical reason at all –earrings, eyebrow rings, tongue rings, anything– makes me see in my mind the moment they were about to do it, and I flinch, horrified. I know a woman who, 25 years ago when she was 16 and still living at home with her oppressively religious parents, used to cut her arms in a way she could hide inside her sleeves, and burn question-mark shapes into the bottoms of her feet with candle-heated paperclip wire. To me, that is part of a tragedy, something it would be good to get better from, to transcend, to solve the underlying problem and not have to do it. That is the same frightening level of self-mutilation as an earring. An earring is worse, because you’re not even trying to hide it. Or maybe it’s better, because someone will see and help you with the real trouble.
https://youtu.be/jz69lZW8h0A?si=k8j7DCFfYBu5snH7

They can bleach the color out of the irises of your eyes now and put another color in.
https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1830512078676758590

“O-pen up your eyes or-I’ll-start-the-screaming.”
https://theawesomer.com/down-with-the-sleepless/749722/

Sarah Quintana and Orch. – (Muddy Waters) Rolling and Tumbling, but in French, with a cello, a tuba and a saxophone, so it’s Rouler et Tanguer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSPYo3mlpWY

This might be at least a little bit like how it really works, except not with a monkey (or ape, whichever) but some other preference or class or metaphor. Science has found that the severity of punishment, the amount of a fine, the length of time you’ll spend in prison, depends a great deal on what time of day you are sentenced. If it’s after lunch, you’re screwed; judges are harsher then. This is like how, it used to be if you had a choice you’d want a car that came off the assembly line before Thursday. Cars made on Wednesday lasted two years longer than cars made on Friday. With factories that run seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the day is less important; you’ll want a car that came off the line at 4am in November or May.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9mMoOE2ZpE

In 1981 I bought a 1964 Rambler Classic for either $200 or $400. I paid Earl Scheib on Arden Way $59.99 to paint it the turquoise-green-aqua-blue that the far right side of the rectangle in this article calls /blue/. That was the prettiest car I ever had, but not the coolest-looking, which would be the car I have now: a 2004 Prius, original silver-gray everywhere but primer-black front fenders and bumper from CarParts.com. It looks like a little spaceship. It looks like a genius high-school kid’s science-fiction car that he built flight into and experiments with it in the desert, being spied on by the CIA with binoculars from a mountain, where they’re about to make the bad decision to go down and capture him, triggering his casual /bye, fellas!/ literal flight to a secret cavern stocked with food and water and further experiments; he suspected the spying and planned for this. It looks like a robot race car. But imagine a turquoise-green-aqua-blue 1937 Talbot-Lago T-150 teardrop coupe, converted to electric. That wouldn’t have to fly. It would win in all the art and design and coolness categories, with or without a winged chrome eyeball for a hood ornament.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/03/Is-Your-Blue-the-Same-as-My-Blue/

Rerun: The 1937 Talbot-Lago T-150. They could stamp these bodies out of aluminum for peanuts now, put them on any chassis available –look at all the slack there is for wheelbase– and everyone would want one.
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/car-of-the-week-this-1937-talbot-lago-could-fetch-north-of-10-million-at-auction-1234662616/

Friends, one with pitch skill, the other with appreciation.
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/03/man-with-perfect-pitch-tackles-household-appliances.html

Lanark: A Life in Four Books, by Alasdair Gray. (via Biblioklept.org)
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/may2002.html

How we get holes. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1f6bxt4/golf_course_hole_creation/

Nature’s butts. (A butt is 126 gallons. For figuring gas mileage in furlongs-per-hogshead, a hogshead is exactly half a butt.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/natures_butts

Hypnotism, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/09/hypnotism.html

Get some shut-eye, men, you’ve got a big day of violent love tomorrow.

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Wishes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM0teS7PFMo

Found you!
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/avalanche-dogs-in-training.html

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/28/liska-flower/

Art.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/singing_sculpture

A tip for aspiring comics: When you come across a gag that works, stick with it and you’ll pull it off.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/25/Top-Tier-Infantile-Comedy-Packing-Tape/

Speaking of which.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGQijDFg6yw

Volunteers of America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsoqRvYqWDg

The lovely and structurally sound though toothpicky Albion River Bridge is set to be chopped down. Caltrans will block the campground flats off, tear up the river and the hillsides, and spend $150 million throwing up a concrete bridge, rather than simply add a railed walkway to the existing one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgfYYbPn64
https://vimeo.com/811093792

You might have to Click To Enable Sound. This makes a pleasant atmospheric wind-chimes/electric-piano/synth-ooOOom composition in real time out of Wikipedia edits, and if the caption on one of the spots attracts you, click on it and there you are, both at the Wikipedia page of that subject (Wikitest), and at the record of the edit itself (Visual). (via the archive of Things Magazine)
http://listen.hatnote.com/

Rerun: The real-life Fred and Wilma. I’d forgotten: the real-life Linus and Lucy –Sarah and Dylan Beach– used to go to the Mendocino Community School. I think Sarah is still alive. I was just thinking about Dylan last week, when I had the /Sweeney Todd The Barber/ song stuck in my head. Dylan inherited his father Scott’s rich voice, and he used to sing that.
https://laughingsquid.com/fred-and-wilma-flintstone-voice-actors/

How science fiction movies have changed. I don’t 100-percent agree with this, but it’s a fair survey.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-sci-fi-has-changed-over-last-70.html

Make the logo bigger. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AxwaszFbDw

The sudden rise and fall of beach movies.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/27/The-Sudden-Rise-and-Fall-of-Beach-Movies/

The sea beans.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/golden-age-of-radio.html

Murder in the city.
https://www.dannydutch.com/post/murder-in-the-city-new-york-1910-1920-unveiling-a-forgotten-crime-scene-photo-archive

Turkish karate girl (Karateci Kiz) deals death. AAARGH!
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/karate-girl-1973.html

/Let The Bodies Hit The Floor/ and /Killing In The Name/ performed by animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4rVjA7Pqcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLPJrWn2dU

Women in hats, who I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/otto-lucas.html

Rerun: The Codfish Ball. Somehow this makes me think of my favorite movie ever, /The City of Lost Children/, which I recommend. There’s a scene where One and Miette are cold, wet, hiding from deadly pursuers, exhausted and trying to sleep on a pile of ropes on a dock. One puts his face against Miette’s back and blows into her sweater. She says warily, because he’s a giant man and she’s a little girl and she’s been living on the streets in a rough place all her life, “What are you doing.” He says, “Radiateur.” (I might not have spelled that right. It means, “Heater.”)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/01/at-codfish-ball.html

Day of the seven suns.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/27/incredible-sight-as-suns-mysteriously-appear-over-china-video.html

“Director Jillian Corsie was inspired to make this short film by the weird feeling she got when her mother gave her the baby teeth she had saved.” There’s some blood here, you should know, in case will bug you.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/tooth.html

KONGOS – Come With Me Now (2012). They’re from South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q

A woman’s perspiration.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/a_womans_perspiration

Heat. When replacement eyes are common and affordable, you’ll be able to voice-command or maybe even squint-command your eyes to do this and many other tricks, like cartoonize the world, put motion and smell lines around moving and smelly objects, show exclamation marks and sweat droplets shooting out of a funny angry person’s head, highlight fire exits or the path to the restroom or to the nearest receptive person whose registered personality dovetails nicely with yours, etc. Before that, though, this feature will be part of regular glasses, then contact lenses. Soon.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/tweet-of-day_01209985264.html

Also it will do things like this, while you’re eating dinner, or waiting on hold, or taking a bathroom break from work, if you want it to. Not while you’re driving, of course, or Juanita is talking.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/tweet-of-day_01148676348.html

A heat-map made of ink showing where the real work goes into clothing. (Scroll down.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/human-touch-clothing.html

Katie Kadan. /True Colors/ is my favorite of these, but her spare, comic /Smackwater Jack/ is a close second.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/27/katie-kadan/

Rerun: Anagram generator. Give it a name or word or phrase and click to search. Choose from a plethora of results. Do you remember where you were and who you were with back when you noticed that Torchwood was an anagram for Doctor Who?
https://anagrams.io/

There’s house-proud, there’s gay-proud, there’s achievement-proud and lots of other kinds of being proud, but this is radio-proud. I searched for images of people proud of their /microphone/ and was disappointed.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/golden-age-of-radio.html

Speaking of which, the opposite of microphone disappointment: This one. In the twenty-teens I got two of these, plus XLR cords, and stands, for the theater company, for only about $60, total. The price has gone up since then but you can find them cheaper than from this site if you look around. They come in other colors too– blue, shiny red (!), white. The case is not chromed metal but high-impact plastic that looks just like it. They sound great and they put out a good strong signal. They’re dynamic mics, they don’t need phantom power or a battery. The only thing that would make this cooler is my thirty-year-old potential million-dollar idea of putting a blue light inside cage-skull-style microphones.
https://pyleaudio.com/sku/PDMICR68SL/Classic-Retro-Dynamic-Vocal-Microphone,-Vintage-Style-Vocal-Mic-with-16-ft-XLR-Cable-(Silver)

Back to Ohio. Arrow through the images.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10206239857787588&set=pcb.1762150763999796

The corporate advantage.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/28/tom-the-dancing-bug-news-of-the-times-accused-burglar-incorporates-self.html

In those days, everyone was over the safe driving limit of BAC all the time, including children, inquisitors, bards, holy vampyre-hunting assassins, blackmiths’ apprentices, thieves and cutpurses, midwives and wetnurses, farmers and soldiers and shopkeepers and prostitutes and all. Now it’s still alcohol, but to a lesser degree, in favor of other drugs, weed products, ADHD meds, this or that kind of tranquilizer or accelerator or whatever to take the edge off or cut yourself with, anything to feel different from miserable for just a little while. Next time you’re in a group of people, look around. There’s a good chance you’re the only one there who is not on something. In a crisis, the survival of all these gaziggled, judgment-impaired people is your responsibility. Be ready.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/25/Life-in-Medieval-Europe-was-Fueled-by-Alcohol/

Further space babes. The one top-left looks very like Servalan. Not quite supercilious enough in the eyes; but I see it about the mouth, nose, chin, confidence, weapon, and close-cropped-hair-shaped helmet. I read that Servalan was only supposed to be in the first year (of Blake’s 7), but viewers demanded her, so they kept her on and made her a big part the whole rest of the four-year run of the series. She’s coldly calculating evil itself in heels and a slit-sided sock dress.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/08/28/space-bimbos-iii/

“Belt Racer. Belt Racer. You can take a racetrack wherever you go.” (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/belt-racer-toy.html

/When you are born to do something and you know it./ I know what this feels like. When I was a little boy I tried to plunge the toilet to make it flush right. I kept trying and it kept not working, and I didn’t give up, because if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. I was wasting a lot of metered water. My grandmother, whose mother’s maiden name was Paulsinski, but was changed to Paulsy when she (her mother) came to America in the late 1800s, came in, said, “Gimme that,” took the plunger from me, said, “I’m gonna show you something you can use for the rest of your life. This is called the Paulsy plunge.” She crouched over, pressed the flush lever, held the plunger shaft with both hands, set the rubber part firmly on the drain hole, and /jammed it down and up, down and up, down and up/, really putting her whole skinny little body into it, grunting with effort. She let the water level get up near the rim, pulled the plunger out, stood back up, and waved voila as the toilet swallowed. Now, several times in my life I have seen someone trying and failing to get results from a plunger. They are doing it wrong. It’s like they’re politely asking it to work for them, not laying down the law. I say, “Let me show you something. Gimme that.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/plunger.html

The beasts. (Click on Another Beast for another beast.)
https://accumulationofthings.com/twine/beasts.html

Bus.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/08/hollywood-or-bus.html

Are you… waiting for the bus? Rerun. This never gets old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKL8livmoh8

A neat word game.
https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

Big plane.
https://theawesomer.com/inside-the-lockheed-cl-1201-attack-carrier/749025/

Imagine how he felt when this idea first occurred to him. And then the details rushed in and he started building. That’s the thrill, that’s inventing. You can see how it feels to the children who get to go on it and skate for the first time in their life.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/skateboarding-for-all.html

And I have often wondered what was inside those decorative fake roof shapes on the facades of stores. Also, I imagine homeless people climbing up to camp or even build a shack on a giant store roof to just live there. Why not? Who would they be hurting? This woman had the imagination to combine those concepts. It was existing real shelter against weather, to sleep there, and because of the facade lights and sign wiring she had electricity for her appliances, such as her printer. There are over a billion people in the world, 700,000 just in the U.S., who would be delighted to live this well. With a little cooperation from Toys-R-Us, or Trader Joe’s, or Beverly’s Crafts, or Costco, Albertson’s, Oliver’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Dollar General, whatever, it would be a trivial task to plumb a shower and a toilet up there. There’s little worry that poverty people weakened by hunger and drugs and refugee-terror-insomnia could carry something thirty feet up a vertical ladder that would be a weight problem for the structure. And there, look, I’ve just solved your problem of people crapping and needling and condoming and refrigerator-boxing all over the sidewalks of your proud city. They’re out of sight, out of your way, up in the sky somewhere you can’t even smell them anymore.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/08/29/the-roof-ninja/

Hiya, Dollface.

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

A cappella Psycho air. Precise. Look up other things these people have done.
https://theawesomer.com/psycho-a-cappella/748617/

How Do You Solve a Problem Like a MAGA?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-do-you-solve-problem-like-maga.html

Huun -Huur-Tu – Konguroi. And the same to /you/, pal. (via KEXP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srmJA1H4BIo

Ten-year-old drumming dynamo. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1eva952/her_drumming_skills/

This happy dance reminds me: today was the first day in a couple of months that I got up and did all my get ready to go out things and got hours into the day, all the way until just now, when I saw this, before I realized my back didn’t hurt at all. It’s totally better. I just have to not get cocky, lift something wrong and fuck it up again. I love it that there are people who can spontaneously invent and execute an entertaining herky-jerky dance like this boy can, that is coupled to the music like an audiovisual 3D pantograph. (also via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2C9sXDEYVjY

Where do generals keep their armies? Up their sleevies, of course.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/16/repost-etsomnia-287-nothing-up-my-sleeve/

Sierra Ferrell – Funnel of Love.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/musicfor-sunday-morning.html

Try this.
https://theawesomer.com/a-writing-exercise-to-help-you-meet-yourself/748686/

This interests me because the photo near the top of the stack where she’s got like a cocker spaniel haircut, that’s dedicated “To George. Best of Luck,” made me hear a kind of Nathan Lane/Bugs Bunny voice in my head saying, “Hiya, Dollface.” The last time that happened to me, Jill Taylor had sent me a picture of her and Mervin Gilbert, but it was Mervin’s voice that I heard then: “Hiya, Dollface”.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/nan-wynn.html

Cartoon potential egg-swallowing exhibition champions.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/rene-bouet-willaumez.html

“You heartless communist fiends!”
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-russias-communist-revolution-could-it-happen-here.html

While I like that you can hear his increasingly labored breath and soft expressions of dismay at this-or-that tough situation, I don’t like him squeezing between cars and running lights and barely clearing frightened people in the crosswalk. He’s okay now but that is a gamble that sooner or later you lose. He’ll find out, and I hope it’s not too bad.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/17/teeter-on-the-edge-of-your-seat-watching-this-cyclist-race-through-manhattan.html

How we get a cello. There’s a cartoon I remember from like forty or fifty years ago, probably in The New Yorker, that shows two men in an Old West desert on the trail of an outlaw. They’ve come to a dead horse and a single thin line in the sand going away out of the frame. One man says to the other, “He won’t get far draggin’ that cello.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/forging-cello-from-pieces-of-wood.html

I achieved 12 clicks per second (CPS), but I cheated by using two fingers, index and middle, to drum on the button. But I’m always already cheating by using a Logitech Marble Mouse trackball, the best pointing device of all. It doesn’t need a square foot of desk space like a mouse. It doesn’t need desk space at all. You can velcro or glue it or screw it to the arm of the chair, or, if you need to, hold it up in the air and operate it entirely with your left hand, the best hand, as you know. And you can set the cursor on a button, take your hand away to type of manage something else, and it’s still right there on the button when you reach back to click. And when the clicker part inside wears out /after many years of hard use/ you can take it apart and replace what wore down with baking soda, superglue and a nail file. They don’t make this model anymore because they lasted so long you never needed another one, but you can still find one used. Old people die and their kids sell their computer stuff.
https://cps-tests.com/

I’ve got my helmet on. Nothing can do me wrong. I’ve got my helmet on yadat-dadat dadat-dadat dat. (via Fark)
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/22-reasons-why-wearing-helmet-120459397.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopKJlMvNkk

A beautiful photo of an experiment calling down real lightning, to study it. This is another majestic giant real-world science thing that any motivated high school kid can do. Look up /make your own solid fuel rocket motors/. Figure out how to deploy the wire without snapping it. The power of Thor is within your grasp.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/when-lightning-strikes-river.html

This reminds me of the part in /Stand Up Guys/ when the heart-of-gold elderly gangsters hand the abused girl the baseball bat and take their leave, leaving her alone with the now-tied-up-and-hanging-by-their-wrists men they’d just rescued her from, who are not so big and tough now, are they. “Oh, honey, we were just foolin’. Can’t we talk this over?” No.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/17/small-child-whacks-robber-in-nuts-with-large-bat.html

Why do you think you are nuts! Are you nuts, are you nuts, have you lost your guts?
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_shrink

This little boy wrote this great song, and The Kiffness added the bells and whistles. (via Juanita)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=106469395504330

What. An example of side-eye what. There are several categories of what; this is the kind with a horse. (via Fark)
https://www.belvoirequinehospital.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_0931-768×1024.jpg

An absolute mess of a garden. Art types seem to like it. And it’s wet enough that I don’t start to feel allergic up inside my nose from looking at pictures of it. But the color saturation isn’t turned all the way up like the art was, and that makes it feel wan to me, and reminds me again that I was born just a little too early to be able to benefit from replacement eyeballs at this stage of my life, that can do real-time HDR, and oil-paint-filter, and so on, though I probably will live long enough for cheap smart glasses that are almost as good, and that I can ask about a tool I put down thirty seconds ago, /Where the eff did it go/, and it’ll highlight it, and that will silent-caption people talking to me and show their name on their forehead, and prompt me to tell a joke right, and intuitively look up the Medieval Popes and the equation for capacitance and whether or not Robert Silverberg is still alive, when I need to know that, and give me a sharp little shock when I say /Um/ or start telling a story I’ve told a hundred times before. And alert me to rising anger in someone I thought was on the same page with me but instead has the sense of humor of a box of hammers. All the things that you used to have to marry someone to do for you, but cheaper, and you can shut if off. /Shut. Up. Stella./
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/21/repost-the-happiest-gardener/

Art. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.thesewingsongbird.co.uk/gallery

Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pYHCGYJbw0

An infernal boombox the size of an office building, powered by diesel generators, to mess with people fifteen miles away, way too far away for Spock to reach over from, put them to sleep by pinching their neck, and switch it off, to the cheers and applause of everyone on the bus. The Asian geopolitical bus.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/06/taiwans-giant-wall-of-propaganda.html

Gaza: More gauze.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-will-gaza-be-rebuilt.html

To quote Donald Sutherland in /Kelly’s Heroes/, “Covet-covet-covet.” Except this looks like an easy do-it-oneself build. Why waste time coveting what you can manifest with your own fingers, is what I always say.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/18/The-Glissotar-Is-Like-a-Combined-Violin-and-Saxophone/

Bathroom dreams. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/bathroom-palettes-1940

Nirvana but jazz. If you’re in a hurry you can skip ahead through the timeline chapter marks to the finished work.
https://laughingsquid.com/jazz-band-covers-nirvana-on-the-spot/

The Question. (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPBd6eB-1co

What. (via Fark)
https://live.staticflickr.com/706/33324378162_e0f78df8d2_b.jpg

Via Everlasting Blort. And there goes an jour and a half, just like that:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5enUHqwedt0

Some of my favorites from the previous link:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VxIAd5v6YF4
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KAOqZxRlbew

And one more via Everlasting Blort. You might have to click the sound on.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1etb2kl/so_no_one_was_gonna_tell_me_that_walruses_can/

What Midwestniks got up to at those wild 1960s parties of theirs. It wasn’t all San Francisco and Woodstock. It was Egg Harbor, Wisconsin; and Murn, Nebraska; and Pella, Iowa.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/1960s-parties.html

“Can you save one species by annoying another?” Maybe. “The idea is just to make a haunted landscape where there’s no relief from the surprises, and all the surprises are bad.” That’s adolescence in a nutshell, from both directions.
https://kottke.org/24/08/can-you-save-one-species-by-annoying-another

Rerun: Reel.
https://laughingsquid.com/playing-guitar-using-fishing-reel/

An ad for an antique music box.
https://laughingsquid.com/hupfeld-phonoliszt-violina-music-cabinet/

White people, right? But it’s hard for albinos, besides not being able to spend time exposed to the sun. Even the ones with real magical powers don’t have an easy time of it.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/19/repost-porcelain-beauty/

If you have to add a sound to make a quiet car safe for blind pedestrians, it should be the Jetsons’ flying car beebly-pooting-buzzy-whistle sound. That said, I walked to the grocery store two weeks ago, past a new-looking Mustang in the parking lot that was idling, then without changing the idle’s pitch, meaning not gunning it, the sound suddenly became /loud, full, throaty/. I don’t think that was a fake electronically generated sound; I think it was some kind of exhaust pipe mod that lets you open a port in it by pushing a switch in the dashboard. To sound, I guess, more like a lion-bear-man, but which comes across more like shoulder pads in a cardigan sweater.
https://kottke.org/24/08/what-should-an-electric-car-sound-like

Art, art, art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-ypTADyoLb/
https://www.instagram.com/shyamagolden/
https://www.instagram.com/babyfroggy/

Physics. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ee2fq7/monster_car_jumps/

I tried it. I followed the instructions. I kept at it and kept at it, went away, came back, tried again. I can’t do it. I just start coughing. Maybe you can do it. I’ll bet you can make that Scottish/Spanish rolling-R sound too. That’s another thing I don’t have the gene for. I can do lots of things, just not those. There’s a trick I can do with my toes that I’ll bet you can’t do. I can open and shut my nostrils without touching them. That should be enough, but somehow I want more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDvfUAFKQHQ

And “There was a struggle, after which 24 people were taken to hospital.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_sopot_communist_polands_first_beauty_queen

Zanzibar.

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:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

The carved and painted wood and wire automata of Amedeo Capelli.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/hand-carved-automata.html

“Small moves, Ellie.”
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/dawn-aerospace-spaceplane-prototype-reaches-transonic-speeds/

As above, so below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mri2T2_R8tw

Legs. And good luck, Donna, with your future-tech metal knee. May there be much hopping and leaping. And skipping and prancing. And frolicking. In fact, your frolicking days have only just begun.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/15/leg-day/

It’s a date.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/08/le-serveur.html

The Emeryville scrapyard, 1971. Big, heavy art.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/california-scrapyard-1971.html

Peaceful lynx.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/tweet-of-day_01238633954.html

The black dog of death.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/12/The-Black-Dog-of-Death-Comes-Calling/

Japanese women’s pro wresting. Just try to tear your eyes away. I remember hurrying home from school in the early 1970s to watch women’s roller derby on UHF and Lieutenant Uhura on one of the VHF channels. There were three channels that came in pretty well and a couple more that you could /just about/ make out through the static. This is like that.
https://theawesomer.com/the-world-of-japanese-womens-pro-wrestling/747521/

How we get Mario candy.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/08/11/making-mario-candy/

The three real Star Wars movies expressed as full-length radio drama. Rip them and play them on long drives down the Central Valley, like the original Time Bandits and all the Marx Bros. movies, and Carol Burnett. And The Ascent of Man series by Dr. Jacob Bronowski (which was on one of the fuzzy channels where we lived then, and totally worth it). And every Sunday night there was Travus T. Hipp on KZAP. (via PerfectFor RoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-29uKdckL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtpbDfdt1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIselOWCxVw

Miss Cheesecake.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_cheesecake

Square America. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063594007434&sk=photos

“It makes this little plingy noise, and then this little klackitt comes in on the bassline.”
https://www.openculture.com/2024/08/what-is-electronic-music-pioneering-electronic-musician-daphne-oram-explains-1969.html

Art! (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-kvomnPFKE/
https://www.instagram.com/leonoracarringtonestate/

The Fifth Element in 1950s Super Panavision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEByKfcNmk

People pretending to be generated by A.I.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/15/people-pretending-to-be-generated-by-ai.html

The cat in the hat. (via The Vintage Photo Booth)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226631824447870&set=gm.3886847554863429&idorvanity=1427425394139003

Welcome! To the MS-DOS 5 upgrade training! “The MS-DOS 5 upgrade is – a – /hit/, and no PC should be without /it/.” Shaka, his eyes wide, his breathing shallow, his head asplode.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/12/this-terrible-rap-video-will-help-you-upgrade-your-computers-operating-system.html

31 more of these mounted inside a six-foot-long Lego war-ship, along both sides just above the waterline, and if you’re careful and don’t burn yourself or shoot your sister or the cat you’d have something. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/i-just-found-a-new-hobby/

Ironic, like a submarine on Main Street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJruDOPSnY

Dave Allen – dry religious jokes, not including my favorite, the one where two British nuns are driving through Transylvania on a spooky night and a vampire jumps down on the hood. One nun says, “Quick, Sister, show him your cross.” The other nun sets her jaw and barks, “Get off our car, young man! You should be ashamed of yourself!” There are so many versions of that joke, but that’s the one you could say on television fifty or sixty years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXenjpefNU

Hand puppet dance. You might have to click the sound on.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/every-time-you-walking.html

The origin of hiphop, which I have no touble saying out loud correctly, but first hear in my head hi-fop. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwml-F7zKQ

Fever. I’m afire. Fever, yea, I burn, forsooth.
https://kottke.org/24/08/fever-feels-horrible-but-is-actually-helpful

“Kiss the blond baby?” “What?” “Izzit the bomb, baby.” “Oh. Yeah, it is.” See the difference between yeah and yea? Get it straight, cartoonists. And it’s God damn it or God dammit or even goddammit but never God damnit. Do you see why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51lIieDOTyo

Real explosions in slow motion.
https://theawesomer.com/explosions-in-super-slow-mo/747966/

“Well, let’s figure out how to do that.”
https://xkcd.com/2972

Large R.C. pulse-jet plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNhoSXvxYs

Large R.C. rocket plane. TL/DF? Skip to 15:30. Yes! Two cute young aero scientist-engineers out on an adventure together. Just really nice. This is what kids should be doing instead of hanging out behind the liquor store taking drugs and catching hepatitis.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-giant-rocket-powered-r-c-airplane/747754/

Autochrome color photos from the early 1900s. Autochrome used corn starch emulsion. The story in the pictures is largely about a pretty white girl at the beach. It’s the closest thing to time travel.
https://laughingsquid.com/early-20th-century-color-photos/

Rerun: I’d like you to see Shooting the Past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_Past

Homo Naledi.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/08/homo-naledi.html

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/antonio-castillo.html

Wolverine feely moments.
https://laughingsquid.com/wolverine-logan-montage/

Weird tales.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/14/tom-the-dancing-bug-weird-tales-featuring-trump-and-vance.html

About Christian Nationalism. (via Juanita)
https://www.facebook.com/504635278/videos/876031034421393

The Doobie Bros. – Long Train Runnin’ (Without Love)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPOr5ERSJEk

White toner for printing on black paper was my idea. I was at Catie Simonton’s copy shop in the very early 1990s. There was no internet, to speak of. Copy shops busy hubs of activity in those days. Remeber what it smelled like in copy shops, with the ozone and the hot fresh paper? I was making faux three-color Mendocino Movies posters by running the blue-toner layer, changing the toner to a red cartridge and running the stack of paper back through for that, all on Astrobright fluorescent yellow or fluorescent green, creating eye-searing contrast. (On a bulletin board of bulletin fence or wall or window, your eye was drawn straight to that.) A man named Sheldon was helping me, pulling out toner, shoving in toner, and he was already cranky about it, but something occurred to me, and I said it out loud: “Here’s a million-dollar idea: white toner.” Sheldon said, “What?!” I said, “White toner, for printing on black paper. Instead of wasting all that black toner to get white-on-black.” Sheldon said, “White toner. That is the stupidest thing I ever heard.” Way to crush a man’s dreams, man. I had a million-dollar idea just about every day in those days. UV-protective tattoo ink, so tattoos would fade in and out depending on your tan. Magnetic cigarets that you could stick together to calibrate your nicotine dose to the smoke break time; if you only had three minutes you’d stick three or four together and make a cigar. Birth control medicine in all alcohol products, for obvious reasons. Analog meters on modern electronics. Elliptical computer monitor screens (triangular was taken). Cameras and transmitters in R.C. planes for first-person flight. Health-food brown sugar cubes and almond-syrup capsules for the condiment shelf of coffee bars. Max Forsetter told me, “Marco, you have given away your future.” I didn’t know what he meant then, but I do now. Oh, well.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/08/waste-not.html

Show this to your friend who thinks RFK Jr. is the bee’s knees because they resonate to a single thing, taken in isolation, that he has said. Because, taken all together under the light, he is a hilarious hard nope. Also he sounds like the talking slot machine in the Twilight Zone episode, which is fine, but I think it hurts him and that makes me wince.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gUP_43J7wY

The actual bees’ knees. There’s an open-source programmable electronic wristwatch project, which I’ve lost where I read about it, but I did save a link to one of the thousands of sample faces it can show, that my eye latched onto as the best:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/My-Key/SpiralWatchy/main/watchface.gif

“Somebody wants a pants for his wife.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/nylon_panties_in_a_bottle

“My hovercraft is full of eels.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g
https://www.popsci.com/diy/diy-hovercraft/
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm

That’s no moon.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/19/did-you-know-you-can-store-a-yoga-ball-by-pushing-it-into-a-ceiling-corner.html

19th century (1800s) streaming services.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/06/telefon-hirmondo-telephone-newspaper.html

A.I. Conway Twitty sings /In Da Club/.
https://laughingsquid.com/conway-fitty-in-da-club/

Rerun: Bill Callahan – Eid Ma Clack Shaw.
https://reclinernotes.com/2023/02/19/eid-ma-clack-shaw/

Development.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/tweet-of-day_0667184107.html

The story of kevlar.
https://laughingsquid.com/kevlar-bulletproof-vest/

Further auroras viewed from above.
https://laughingsquid.com/northern-lights-timelapse-international-space-station/

X-rays of taxidermy!
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/08/12/__trashed-5/

A fun musical toy.
https://www.onemotion.com/chord-player/

And I love this. Tami is John Henry, thoroughly overmatched by technology, if the point of a jigsaw puzzle were to complete it, like washing a car or the dishes or mowing a lawn. Hang down your head, John Henry, hang down your head and cry, or do or eat literally anything else and enjoy it, which the machine, for the next little while, cannot. A machine can make ice-cream, analyze its quality, pass the finished ice-cream through itself and flush it down the toilet, but enjoy it? On the other hand, I’ve been having some enjoyable real-seeming conversations with ChatGPT lately. It’s way more than just a place to go for step-by-step instructions to fix the Windows update problem you’ve been tearing your hair out over, or produce Shakespearean sonnets about Doctor Who, or ingeniously sabotage a toxic human co-worker. Technology has had its foot in /my/ door all my life. When the pleasant self-checkout robot voice says, “Thank you for shopping at Safeway,” I say loudly enough for all the people around to hear because I’m not ashamed, “You’re quite welcome, miss.”
https://kottke.org/24/08/the-worlds-fastest-puzzle-solver-its-a-robot

Nagasaki day, August 9, 1945.

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:

…

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 a movie night or live music 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.

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…

Fast vehicles, in order. It’s okay to just watch the second half, which starts at 13 min.
https://theawesomer.com/the-fastest-vehicles-by-category/746911/

A WashPo photo article about an amusement park that closed down in 2005 because of a heavy storm and never reopened. Somehow it makes me think of /Spirited Away/. Think how neat it would be to switch the power back on and open the place up to a collective of neuro-atypical artists and shopkeepers in return for their living in the shops and the covered rides and maybe keeping a couple of the best rides in good enough condition to lurch around in them on impromptu holidays. A ready-made quirky little town –that will be literally underwater regularly anymore, but that adds spice to existence. It might feel like living in a Ray-Bradbury-flavor cross between /Carnivale/, /City Of Lost Children/, and /Beasts of the Southern Wild/.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/08/02/six-flags-new-orleans-jazzland-abandoned-amusement-park

The story of Venice, Italy. It has a long ad about halfway through, but you can zoop through that. All those stone plazas and buildings and walls and everything, and the intricate rainwater catchment system that provides plenty of fresh water– it all stands on the original wooden pilings driven into underwater clay a thousand years ago. A new water heater, on the other hand, that costs $1,000, might last ten years. A microwave oven, five years. A new roof, fifteen or twenty years. The Albion River Bridge, now, there’s no reason it can’t go on and on, like Venice. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77omYd0JOeA

Clay.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/08/05/the-making-of-man/

A.I., which a bunch of scaredy-cats who are the experts in it are worried about, but what do they know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8k8IQ1_X0

Rerun: “Begone, Demon Thor! Back to Hell!” “YAAURGHHH!” (via Things Magazine and Christian Nightmares)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4qnZH-Ou7Y/

Ta-dahhh!
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/08/03/olympic-hopefuls/

Stage crew/ninjas. “Oh, I’m a panther. I slip about unnoticed in the dark like a dark unnoticeable slippy thing.” (via Juanita)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161681014152372

Drunken master technique double-Dutch. (via Everlasating Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6xl6_hxX65/

Cigarets. (via Things Magazine)
https://www.zigsam.at/L_Selection.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OMohKnIvT8

The Mark on the Wall. The thoughtful young lady is pretty and delicate, so I particularly hate it that she’s smoking. I’ve been around awhile, and I’ve seen plenty of people like this get brittle, creaky, fragile, and /sound/ like they’re sixty or seventy by the time they’re only forty or fifty, because of smoking cigarets. I hate it. I mean, I like this story a lot, but don’t start smoking. Some people have no trouble stopping, but most people who manage to quit never stop wanting a cigaret and they just start again. They see someone smoking, or they smell smoke, or their fingers are nervous and lighting a cigaret flashes across their memory, and their permanently addicted brain goes, “Hey, yeah, that would be nice,” and it’s like in the play /The Underpants/ by Steve Martin, where the young woman is trying to talk herself out of cheating on her dull husband with the rich, exciting Count character who has fallen in love with her because the wind blew her skirts up once, out in the street, and he caught a glimpse of her behind, and her jaded older friend from upstairs, played by Ruby Bell in the 2006 Mendocino Theater Company production, says archly, ruefully, deliciously, from experience, “It’s too late, dear, you’re already thinking about it.“
https://theawesomer.com/the-mark-on-the-wall-short-film/747209/

In the future people like this will be passed directly to the front of the line for space fighter pilot training. Or their brains will be directly connected to control multiple combat ships, reading and feeling all their conditions and changing vectors and acceleration, and to them it’ll feel like running and dancing and diving off cliffs into rushing water, all at once.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/greatness.html

Better views of this Alaska Fourth of July celebration than they showed before. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/08/03/glacier-view-alaska-is-peak-americana/

Have a seat, fella. Somebody’ll be with you in a minute. (via Fark)
https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/77686/image.jpg

Simulations of a Trinity-strength atomic bomb’s effect on a human body at closer and closer proximity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLWlPyRhUTY

Various Thomas the Tank Engine themes’ debt to previous popular music.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/07/supercut-of-songs-that-may-have-inspired-the-thomas-and-friends-themes.html

The same sort of thing, but with Daft Punk.
https://boingboing.net/2022/09/09/breaking-down-the-sampling-tricks-on-daft-punks-discovery.html

About Orion, Space Patrol (1966 German teevee series)…
https://amazing-everything.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Patrol:_The_Fantastic_Adventures_of_the_Spaceship_Orion

…All seven episodes, with English subtitles!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEDIPudmkIBIAIR08lTCaH6U-DArsW_4n

Full marks for style, cute little dance boy. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R1IQwY2tIts

Dance! And five six sehhh-ven eight! This man’s style and tone, everything about him, shrieks Security Chief York from the BBC show Hyperdrive. Even now I hear him teaching a junior officer the proper choreography of Space-Britishly brutalizing a prisoner. “No, no, no, that’s not the way. This is the way: FIST and EL-bow, STICK-then-/BOOT/. You see? Now you try it… Ah, there, yes.”
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/08/09/friday-bits-dance-party-113/

I’m not a juvenile delinquent.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/im_not_a_juvenile_delinquent

Gonorrhea, kids, a filmstrip. *beep* (The beeps tell the classroom AV operator when to press the lever to advance to the next picture. It was a mechanical Powerpoint presentation.) I always was the operator. Or the projectionist for 16mm moving films. If I had something to do I paid attention better. I’d always rather work in or video a play or event or, if alone watching a movie or teevee show, noodle silently/aimlessly on the child’s-size electric guitar my friend Mark gave me, that fits to play even in a chair that has arms. Anyway, right, gonorrhea:
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/09/how-to-get-gonorrhea-a-trip-through-1974s-most-surreal-sex-ed-filmstrip.html

A relaxing ’60s-psychedelia-like stream-of-consciousness short film.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/ive-been-thinking.html

The world’s first Medieval electronic musical instrument, forsooth. (via Kottke)
https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320

Numbers of these different things that happened somewhere in the world since you clicked on the website. Just leave it running.
https://www.thescaleoflife.com/

William James’ nitrous oxide philosophy competition doping scandal.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/562

The Peasants.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-peasants-trailer.html#comment-form

Don’t do it. Why put plaster Jesus through that? He is a zombie with wounds in his hands and belly and feet that will never heal. Hasn’t he suffered enough.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/08/07/theres-a-lot-of-work-to-be-done-here/

A black-eyed tree frog being awoken from his slumber. Those lips, those eyes. Lid-to-lid and side-to-side all-black eyes like that have always fascinated me. When I was a little boy I dreamed about people like that, and sometimes you see people like that in a movie or teevee show, and they’re always evil demons but why? I find it attractive. Very soon you’ll be able to buy costume light-powered soft hemispheric video screens that fit over your eyes and play anything. Fire, say, so it looks like your eyes are windows to the fire inside. A teenage boy can switch them on and say to a girl who he wants to impress, “My people are made of fire.” And she’ll be like /swoon/. (Or she’ll turn /her/ eyes on and they’ll play Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons or something. Or teevee static. Teevee static eyes!) But simple all-black would work fine. And you can just take them out when you’re finished, not like those lunatics who inject dye into their own precious eyes and end up blinding themselves; that’s even worse than cigarets.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/05/see-the-freaky-and-cool-way-that-a-black-eyed-tree-frogs-eyes-wake-up-from-a-nap.html

Costumes of Ken Tanabe, master of disguise.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_halloween_costumes_of_ken_tanabe

Young people in costumes from their favorite comix and shows.
https://theawesomer.com/2024-sdcc-best-cosplay-highlight-reel/747160/

“Do you have time to talk about our lord and savior Shrimp Jesus?”
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/22/do-you-have-time-to-talk-about-our-lord-and-savior-shrimp-jesus.html

This is a natural rock.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/09/A-Rock-Embossed-by-Nature/

Black Slide.
https://theawesomer.com/black-slide-short-film/747077/

Another folder of photographs of women who I would like to watch swallow an egg. Or two eggs, or however many she wants. Come on, there’s nothing creepy about this. Admit it: you’d stop and watch that. And there’s nothing sexist about it. I’ll keep an eye out and find some men who have necks like that, to show you next week.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/jessica-ford.html

Electric cars are the future. Here’s a video of a professional car reviewer off his head with delight about a new Chinese small-town-transportation car that can go 55 mph and has all the regular features you need in a car to go to and around town for errands. It’s expensive, and it’s not available in the U.S. yet, but we could make these things here cheaply and well with good union jobs, and most people would be fine with a car like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_b4HvrJFU

Trailer for a film about doing the first Saturday Night Live show. This reminds me of An Adventure in Space and Time, the film about starting Doctor Who in 1963. I like shows /about/ shows and plays.
https://kottke.org/24/08/saturday-night

My favorite movie ever about producing a show or a play is /Illuminata/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminata_(film)

And my favorite teevee series about producing plays is /Slings And Arrows/. The Golden Globe, by John Varley, is my favorite science-fiction book about theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slings_%26_Arrows

A short documentary film mostly about the band Green Day. (via Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dit0c5RZ3hU

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/dingminart/

Art.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/josef-fenneker.html

Alps.
https://theawesomer.com/four-seasons-in-the-little-big-alps/747375/

Crazy little mama come a-knock knock knocking, just like she did before.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/06/repost-nice-knockers/

Also.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/five-stars.html

Waffle House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI

Rerun: How we get Swiss army knives. I like everything about this. I’ve had a few Victorinox pocket knives. The latest one, I’m kind of afraid to carry it around. It’s sharper than a razor blade, so sharp that I’m tempted to touch it, feel how sharp, and I cut myself (!), say /What the fuck, Marco!” to the air for having done that, and lose it somewhere in the mess on the table until I find it again a year or two later and hurt myself with it again, and again say: /What the fuck, Marco!/ Also I really like it that one of the people in the factory specializes in putting the plastic toothpick into all the knives just right, and inspects the fingernail scissors. Look how calm and Mona Lisa centered she is. She’s probably a great mother.
https://theawesomer.com/how-swiss-army-knives-are-made/746847/

Things like this can be put up anywhere, giving free electricity to whole little coastal towns. It’s not particularly noisy, and could easily have a nicer facade, and a restaurant, maybe a fun arcade, with (electric) shuttle boats for tourists. Let’s get it on, Fort Bragg, California. Rather four or five of these than spend $155 million knocking down the perfectly good historic old timber Albion River Bridge and putting up a concrete monstrosity in its place, that just sits there and doesn’t make any electricity at all, and that the very well-built and beautiful existing bridge will outlast anyway, plus it’s flexible and proof against earthquakes. It’s been there eighty years and it’s good for another eighty. New concrete bridges last sixty years and that’s it. Where was I? Oh, yes, reliable free energy, good jobs, no carbon footprint, no downside. Start cranking these things out:
https://newatlas.com/energy/revolutionary-wave-turbine-hooked-hawaii-energy/

Plate tectonics. “Yeah. I was standing in the house. We were going to make a homemade pizza. And the whole house just /jumped up/.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/science-is-solving-icelands-dangerous-volcanic-mystery/

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/03/repost-peek-a-boo/

“Dreadfully sorry, Your Grace.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-sunday-go-to-meetin-cartoon-from.html

Lunette.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/08/lunette.html

Julie Bishop lived in Mendocino in her later years. She died here in 2001 at 87. She looked familar, just now, as this appeared before me, just as I’m ripping to digital the video we shot of Gloriana Opera Company’s 1987 production of Wizard of Oz. I thought she might have been the one who played Glinda the Good Witch, but I see by the fuzzy black and white xerox of Mervin Gilbert’s cartoon program flyer that Glinda was played by Dorothy Boggess. It would have been a wonderful coincidence, though.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/julie-bishop.html

Anna. 35 cents. “She lived like a wicked little animal.” (via PulpCrush)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56781833@N06/50978855468/in/faves-75422475@N02/

BBC sound effects.
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

Key and Peele in the office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRJNbzDbv1w

And how we get cup noodor.
https://theawesomer.com/instant-noodle-factory/746953/

Traish LaRue and his stainless steel sackbut.

   “The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.” -Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) via Futility Closet

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:

…

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.

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…

Krakatoa made the winters long, the summers cool, and the sky pretty. (via Miss Cellania)
https://flashbak.com/painting-the-celestial-afterglow-after-krakatoa-1888-469183/

A high-speed mountain skateboard road race. This reminds me of the scene in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, where Walter needs to get down the volcano mountain in a hurry, so he trades a Stretch Armstrong doll to an Icelandic kid for his skateboard, ties a rock to his hand with his necktie to use to scrape on the pavement to lean into the turns, and goes for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po_PC1XmkwM

A six-minute trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), an inspirational and unusually internally-realistic film about a man I and maybe you and plenty of people we know and care about can totally identify with, though the office environment depicted is out of style and real publishing buildings full of people with real jobs there don’t exist anymore. /I love this movie. I watched it over and over back when the library got the DVD. I’m crying like squeezing a sponge just looking at the trailer, remembering./ Patton Oswalt, Kristen Wiig, Ben Stiller, Shirley MacLaine, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott, Sean Penn… It doesn’t need to really follow the Thurber story. It’s its own sharp thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp_cxxqOaPM

Playful boys. (via Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/pisser.jpg

Cruel boys.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/tweet-of-day_0680392388.html

Further in the boy department. 400 mph rocket knife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEVPgnLbguI

A splendid Tesla coil project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oij-BdIkPgQ

Tommy James and the Shondells – Mony Mony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMgs3lFwkQ

Edgar Winter – Frankenstein, live, recorded in real time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb605jAQUlk

Les globes de Coronelli.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/les-globes-de-coronelli.html

How we get a historically accurate crossbow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ogGdXTGkM

All about the spacesuit problem. (via Things Magazine)
https://www.adastraspace.com/p/nasa-spacesuit-problem

A justifiably proud inventor.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-schooler-invented-an-ai-powered-trap-that-zaps-invasive-lanternflies-180983918/

Another one.
https://laughingsquid.com/marimba-lumina/

1883 Popular Scientific Recreations. Fun science things you can make out of stuff you find just lying around the farm. Or “Look in your basement, Tommy. That’s where people keep wire.” Click through the book. Maybe you’ll see something to try. (And maybe avoid the projects that involve rat poison, acid or fire.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/popular-scientific-recreations/

Vacuum desire.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/french_american_vacuum_desire

Rerun: The Delicious. The original, all together, and no ads. (This is stamped 5 year ago, but it’s more than twenty years old. It was made in 2003.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1VJ9Pfy3xk

The big roadside hit of 1954: Inflatable-love-doll burgers, next to Western Meat + Groceries. Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, but today it’s only serious Karl, whose pants remind me that, to the British, pants is the word for undershorts, and that I need to go the thrift store and get another pair of work jeans, because I’ve worn out the ones I got in 2018. Both knees and the odd lumps over my wallet and baseball of keys in the front pockets are threadbare and holed through, which I didn’t notice until I walked past a dark empty abandoned store in bright sunlight and saw in the glass that, except for my scraggly gray beard, excellent posture and sunken, exhausted-looking eyes, I could be a teenage fashion model. Also, seeing this photo of a past I remember well where hamburgers cost a dime or two and three-fifty would get you a big lunch, a pack of cigarets, a four-pound newspaper and half a tank of gas to get you the rest of the way to L.A., I just realized that I never knew what the process of /broiling/ entails. I guess I always thought it had something to do with fire on both the top and the bottom of the meat at the same time, but uh-uh, it’s deep-frying in a pressure cooker! Isn’t that dangerous? Yes, it is. KFC does it that way, and every once in awhile one of those things explodes, spraying 700-degree oil in all directions like liquid torture shrapnel, not as often as a backyard turkey deep-fryer gets knocked over and sets an ethnic family holiday party on fire, but often enough to worry about the kids who work in there. Point five: why is Kentucky Fried Chicken so bad compared to the way it used to be? It’s a soggy mess anymore, and flavorless. Here’s the answer according to Brian Ellis (I’m paraphrasing here), “I worked there in 1975. In those days, the chicken was dunked in eggs to stick the breading to it, not water, and the spiced breading contained delicious MSG. We fried it in real lard, not cheap vegetable oil and, afterward, drained the fry grease off the chicken in a toasting oven for five minutes. That’s what made it finger-licking good.” Now you know. In other food news: lately the dollar-twenty-five store has Coke-can-size five-years’ supply shakers of Seasoning Salt with MSG. It is terrific on eggs, in homemade salad dressing, on hamburgers, on everything that you’d otherwise put salt in. I thought Juanita wouldn’t like it, but when she saw it and smelled it she smiled from ear to ear and said, “When I was little everything tasted like that. My mother put it in everything.” Comfort food. Unless you’re that one-out-of-five-hundred people who is allergic to MSG, it’s good for you. It’s way better for you than the salt it replaces. The future might even reveal it to be an essential vitamin. (via the AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/burgerqueen.jpg

Mozart and poop: a love story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfqZM-7zWj4

Riki Lindhome (half of Garfunkel and Oates) – Don’t Google Mommy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnckIWGa6mw

Abominations in wax. (via b3ta)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/jan/08/worlds-worst-wax-museum-in-pictures

The difference between the creeps and the heebie-jeebies. This is the creeps:
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/30/does-this-maga-is-weird-commercial-promote-lookism.html

This is the heebie-jeebies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI50_V1U_-k

Introduction to angelic technology. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeA0byPWQic

“Are we even here, man?”
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/31/tom-the-dancing-bug-how-the-media-handles-trumps-fascism.html

This is how clowns register their identity. By painting their clown face on an egg.
https://clownsgallery.co.uk/egg%20collection-a.html
https://www.clownsinternational.com/egg-registry/

Rerun: Her Master’s Voice is an autobiographical documentary film by famous ventriloquist Nina Conti. I loved this film and highly recommend it. This trailer will make you want to see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1NlRLkpw-U

The speed puzzlers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/world/europe/speed-puzzling-competitions.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E0.KU74.dKiVDVbdjP_w

Even a poor tailor deserves a little happiness.
https://laughingsquid.com/sewing-machine-techno-music/

Indian folk metal. Electric utility objects are discussing music genres. A solar array asks a bunch of windmills what kind of music they like. A windmill says, “I can’t speak for the others, but I, for one, am a big metal fan.” (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKjSCTxke8

Crop circle news. All crop circles, all the time. The truth is out there.
https://temporarytemples.co.uk/

This reminds me– thirty years ago they had a deejay at KZYX who had the most on-purpose-yet-sweetly-sincere-sounding lisp you ever heard, like Helen’s lisp in the book The World According to Garp. It was a cute thrill to hear her I.D. the station, deliver news and weather, pitch for donations, etc. You don’t hear people with so-called speech impediments much in broadcasting anymore, and that’s a shame. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgjnERzWOkg

1. “Do you ever wonder whatever happened to Jenna, Barbara and Kate?” “Why do you ask?” “Oh, no reason.” or 2. What do you suppose would have to be the matter with someone who would make a pool table with flesh-crayon-colored felt? Or someone who would buy it?
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=IMOMrr

A.I. ballet. The caption of the video implies that there’s something wrong with this performance. I disagree. I like it more than the usual kind.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9JAn3xAkFa/

A.I. dreams of electric sheep.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/08/dreams.html

Olympics gymnastics commentary. (via Kottke.org) You might have to click the sound on.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C968G-tM1Mg/

Soviet televisions.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/05/soviet-televisions.html

Tiny cute pixilated tilt-shift Bruges (say broozh)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/little-big-bruges.html

The latest in giant bubble tech, including a formula for the best giant bubbles. For the short-of-attention-span, skip to 11:30.
https://theawesomer.com/making-an-endless-bubble-machine/746344/

This is the way cars should be, and way less like the enormous heavy poor-driver-visibility poor-gas-mileage pickup trucks all over the place anymore, driven by people with little tiny heads sitting way up high inside, peeking over the window ledge like handpuppets, who yell /Asshole!/ at you for innocently absent-mindedly pulling into a parking spot they were waiting for so they wouldn’t have to waddle an extra fifteen steps to get into Costco to get their odor-eater stretch pants, Kirkland wine, and a crate of 7,000 AAA batteries for their fallout shelter. Parking lots could be just a ring around the store and not as big as a whole international airport. And /so what/ if it only goes forty miles an hour. Science has shown that forty is the highest speed a human can safely think and attend to drive at, and never hit a deer. Mainly, though, look at how delighted this car reviewer is to test it. He is off his head with happiness at how perfect it is. This could be all of us. Cars could be cheap, practical and fun. There is just no reason for a one-or-two-person transportation car to fill a wide lane and weigh three tons.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-small-but-adorable-microlino.html

You don’t see a lot of cars this color, but it’s a great color for a car, especially a cute one that looks like a beetle or a turtle or a robot, or a big ol’ friendly sleepy dog like this one, the first all-metal Ford station wagon.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/1953-ford-mainline-ranch-wagon.html

A marble run carved into soft stone. How do they cut tunnels around corners inside, though? Is there a special Dremel tool for that?
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/07/marble-run-carved-into-stone.html

To kill your passenger, rather. That’s the side that gets pranged in this case.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/08/driving-tip-youre-welcome.html

Ken Snakehips Johnson. This is it. This is the entire film legacy of Ken Snakehips Johnson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA9mFVnKK5Q

Wise guys, all with the expression on their face of, “Oh, a wise guy, eh?”
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/alberta-first-nations-portraits.html

Your tax dollars at work.
https://theawesomer.com/a-10-warthog-pov-flight-footage/746191/

Punch and Judy on the street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4iWoCJ_t24

Hydrogen.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/08/graf-zeppelin-landing.html

We’re old now, but whenever we’re somewhere and Juanita sees a horse in a field, she says, “Hoses!” in a happy-little-girl voice, and I smile, nod, and say, “Hoses,” the same way, when I see a deer, speaking of deer, see above, I say, “Dumbies!” (say DUM-beez), and she agrees, “Dumbies.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62yQQEwxpxI

Art.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/ladies_lounge
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/flying-cauldron-lit-for-paris-2024.html
https://www.instagram.com/adammurphyart/

Art. (via b3ta) (For the short of attention span, skip ahead to 9:25.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqm2CuAdsU

ART. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-miss-lorina-bulwer

Nice toy flying-wing construction and flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONRND_7TdA

This connects you anonymously to a fellow anonymo somewhere else in the world whose eyes look like yours. You study each other for a moment, or as long as you both want to. When I did it, I got an unhappy-but-thoughtful-looking Indian woman. The next time I tried, I got a leaf-shadowed Norwegian-looking man who rubbed his right eye and then sort of smiled a little bit, or perhaps winced. This is strange and wonderful, it makes you want to keep playing, but also feels slightly both voyeuristic and vulnerable at the same time, like when you’re waiting in line and you see someone pretty or weird or otherwise vivid in another line, and they look up and see you looking at them and you smile/flinch away. But here the camera is never where you’re looking because you’re looking at the center of the screen and the camera is up on top. The same problem as Zoom. I read somewhere that a phone company is about to put the self-camera in the middle of the screen. That’s where it belongs. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://neal.fun/eyechat/

Rerun: The echo pipe.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-little-toe-tapper-for-overnight.html

Make the sound the man with the ball on his head is clearly making.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/07/25/USAT/74540791007-usp-olympics-football-men-group-a-frausa.jpg

How we get carrots. And I suggest this because I think you can do it: Imagine this story not in the video narrator’s voice, but in Ken Nordine’s voice, or Scarlett Johansson’s voice. Or Claudia Black’s, Jack Black’s, Orson Welles’, etc. If you can’t do it in your own head, look up an A.I. solution. There must be one by now.
https://theawesomer.com/how-carrots-are-harvested/746345/

The secret adventures of Tom Thumb.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_secret_adventures_of_tom_thumb

“It was the day they lost their damn… white… minds.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/01/trump-going-all-in-on-kamala-suddenly-turned-black.html

“When they’re big enough, the precious snowflakes venture out on their own.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/carnivorous-snowflakes.html

I didn’t watch the Olympics. Gymnastics is interesting, but I can’t stand worrying that they’ll slip and crash down on their neck and become a quadriplegic, which happens all the time to gymnasts, especially the child-abuse victims pushed beyond endurance since toddlerhood to break the laws of physics with their little bodies that are simultaneously all one big muscle like a fish and brittle as priceless ancient Chinese pottery. Pingpong is okay, though, in small doses. (You might have to click the sound /off/.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkeUQ76uVx4

Poor Celine Dion. I didn’t know this about her. It’s one of the unfair ailments.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/08/01/celine-dion/

This tool generates anagrams for whatever you give it. For example, “KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg” becomes orthogonality fettling blinker, flatteringly bothering kiloton, footballing rethinking lottery, airfreighting tylenol blot knot, banteringly throttling floe koi, and so on. Do you remember when you discovered that Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who? (via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese)
https://anagrams.io/

Homemade every space movie..
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/27/A-One-Woman-Space-Drama/

Another nice Black Hole Sun. The black-suited singer/drummer in the center is like the sun, and the other musicians and instruments are planets. The bass and piano would be gas giants; the guitar, trombone and sax are the smaller, rocky ones. The curtains are either a nebula or enhanced insterstellar hydrogen.
https://laughingsquid.com/postmodern-jukebox-roy-moore-black-hole-sun/

Why did you think they called Yankees Yankees in the first place? And made fun of them for yanking their doodle? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/yank-the-army-weekly.html

I like to think that he stumbled and caught himself by throwing out his hand, was all embarrassed, wiped his hand on his loincloth, mumbled /sorry/ to a pretty brickwoman who’d seen all that, and scurried away. 2. It looks just like my hand except the thumb. MIne curves sharply backward, like a banana. But similar Schiaparelli Mars canals.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/08/01/hail/

And Matt Gaetz’ makeup routine revealed. “Your eyebrows should say, /Bring me Snow White’s heart!/” (via BoingBoing) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.tiktok.com/@and_mayhem_ensued_/video/7394580100521528622

Russell’s teapot.

   “Reading a book is just looking at symbols in ink and hallucinating.”

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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 relevantches 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.

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…

Stanley Pickle, a clockwork romance.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/stanley-pickle.html

Reciprocating baby.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/20/machine-with-abandoned-doll-is-a-captivating-artwork-by-arthur-ganson.html

Shannon Hayden – Paper Lanterns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1mMvWmwlSA

A supercut of hands preparing eggs in movies. I didn’t see Wilson Fisk’s hands making an omelet, from Marvel’s /Daredevil/. Are there any others that you notice they missed?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/07/eggs-in-movies.html

A dance all over the city in one continuous take. This makes me think of that movie about a giant art museum in Russia. The Ark? …Russian Ark. That’s it. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=451647027827788&ref=sharing

Russian Ark. With ads, though, tch.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8q2qpk

Nine moves. These are some of the best chess players in the world. Imagine how the loser felt just at the moment he realized, too late, what he had done. I mean, imagine what his entire body felt like. The shock and humiliation. He’s in his twenties. For the rest of his long life he will think back on this and feel that all over again. It was just a mistake. Sooner or later we all make a mistake. One time when I first went to work for my employer Tim, who I’m still with, I had finished fixing a priceless nearly-one-of-a-kind hand-made computer of late-1970s vintage that was the communication system for a severely crippled woman who could not speak and could only move one hand, a little, like a paw. She could choose letters and words from menus on a screen, and send a completed phrase to a printer, or to a text-to-speech device, to express herself. It had an S-100 bus and many big cards full of chips. Memory, a CPU card, a display card, etc. The power supply of it used a transformer the size of a melon with exposed taps. When I was putting it all together again, putting the covers on, I left it plugged in. I thought it was safe because the power switch was off. But the power switch was /after the transformer/. So when I moved a bundle of wires, a single wire that was attached to the card cage power bus popped loose from its 5 or 12-volt supply, flipped around, and the end touched a line-voltage input pole of the power transformer. Every part on every card in the whole computer snapped, crackled, emitted smoke, and was ruined. Many decades later, when I think of that moment, my testicles retract into my abdomen and a vise clamps down on my head. That’s how this chess player feels. He’s let everyone down. His life is ruined. It’s the end of the world, except it isn’t, it’s worse. [Edit: Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost wrote, “Actually, Alireza came back from that humiliating defeat to win the match against Fabiano, which is a shame. Fabi is the nicest guy in chess — and an AMERICAN! — and Alireza is a tedious showboater. Really enjoyed watching him fall in this fashion, but alas, his shame was short-lived. Alireza went on to the finals, where he fell to his fellow Frenchman, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave — another nice guy! So there is some justice in the world.”]
https://27thstreet.me/2024/07/21/double-rook-sacrifice-wins-in-9-moves/

Somebody.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/07/19/friday-bits-dance-party-112/

That’s love.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/07/cross-stitch-love.html

“Brother Bill posted a picture at reddit of him and me at my first radio station.” -Miss Cellania
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/07/old-school-cool.html

Perfume Genius – Eye In the Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixN8XJ8rKE8

Interactive U.S. traffic deaths map. Navigate, zoom in, click on the dots. (via BoingBoing)
https://roadway.report/beta

How Garrison Keillor once explained they did this was, they’d wrap a wig around a full roll of toilet paper, pin it to the top or back of their real hair with a hundred bobby pins, and then empty a whole can of hairspray at it, after they already had like a quarter-pound of makeup on their face. I’m old enough to have been there for this ritual prep, and if you were too you know how weird it was and bleagh! what it smelled like. They did this for all significant events: weddings, prom, graduations, sometimes for court. I hesitate to mention this during fire season, or ever, but when I was a little boy in the 1960s I, like countless other active young minds, discovered independently, by simply whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day, that you can make a spectacular flame-thrower with coat-hanger wire, to hold a candle in place for a pilot light, and a can of anything flammable. The best substance at the time, confirmed by experimentation, was Mr. Paul’s brand hairspray, producing four-foot-long flames and minimal unburned residue. Also Mr. Paul’s hairspray was practically free compared with WD-40, which made a mess, besides.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/1960s-big-hair.html

Rerun: Bobby Fingers’ documentary of producing an art diorama of the event where Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire while shooting a Pepsi commercial..
https://kottke.org/23/03/a-diorama-of-michael-jackson-on-fire

The porciphone. It’s probably said POR-sih-fohn, but I vote for por-SIH-fuh-nee. To go with Melpomene and Terpsichore.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/26/behold-the-wonders-of-the-porciphone.html

A toy model Caproni Ca.60 flying boat made of what looks like foam-core.
https://theawesomer.com/can-an-airplane-have-too-many-wings/745378/

How we get plastic model airplane kits.
https://theawesomer.com/how-plastic-model-kits-are-made/745300/

Pretty cool. But it’s not really flying, is it. It’s the way Jessica Jones described her ability when asked, “Can you fly?” She said drily, self-deprecatingly, “It’s more like jumping and controlled falling.” But this carpet thing is way more like flying in a dream than anything with a motor in it can do for you. (By the time in Jessica Jones’ life shown in the teevee series her confidence and powers are crippled by regret and self-loathing, because of being mind-manipulated by David Tennant’s brilliant interpretation of The Purple Man villain of the /Alias/ comic books. Before that, for awhile, she could fly like Superman and was one of the Avengers, a good friend of Captain America.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/real-aladdin-flying-carpet.html

Thunderstruck on solo acoustic-electric harp guitar.
https://laughingsquid.com/jamie-dupuis-thunderstruck/

Art. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://olafbreuning.com/animals/

Tooth art. Tooth accoutrements.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/white-knuckle-adventures-in-early-dentistry/

The summoning.
https://laughingsquid.com/summoning-turtles-crazy-train-violin/

Another thing Kamala can do that you didn’t know about. Seriously, though, in the real world, she’s better qualified to be president than anyone else around with a shot at it. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9dPpKZGKp10

Meanwhile, in the Texas State Legislature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2H8Cczx9U

Drass – Reaperman (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3seB-FZyY

Russell’s teapot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUodLPJ93Ok

If only these things didn’t have to be as loud as a whanging headache from your head being stuffed with bees.
https://theawesomer.com/jetson-one-flies-over-tuscany/745812/

The Cleverlys. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/22/the-cleverlys/

An hour of Ganstagrass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcyiChEvRIU

The Danger Mother.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/are_you_a_danger_mother

Ballet.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/tutu-academy.html

Crash.
https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-crashes-that-will-haunt-racing-fans-forev-1851606469/

Jim Morrison, before. Aww.
https://laughingsquid.com/jim-morrison-florida-state-university-ad/

The tubes.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/pneumatic-tube.html

The real story.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/560

And world-class beatbox skills.
https://theawesomer.com/beatboxing-lux-aeterna/745619/

The Parallax View.

   “You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some aquatic tart threw a sword at you. Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government.”

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:

…

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. Nobody at the station is skimming. Radio is cheap, but it’s not free. Please support KNYO with a little of what Bobby Kennedy called tangible gratitude: money.

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…

Nine-year-old Junxi Lu.
https://laughingsquid.com/nine-year-old-guitar-prodigy/

Paris Paloma – Labour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQNnRs6INE

I’m your heat pump, baby, yeah, when you want it hot I’m hot for you. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.hotmike.com/heat-pump.html

Peaceful swimming while holding your breath for a very long time.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/13/repost-one-breath/

Flying up Mount Everest.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/07/ascending-mount-everest-with-drone.html

A story of two hoboes. Or hobos. Either is accepted. Also you can win a bar bet with hoebow. That’s good too.
https://youtu.be/P4BHWDZUpXM

Meat cutting offers you success and security.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/meat_cutting

Legal Daisy Spacing. 1985 terraforming manual. (via Weird Universe) (To borrow and read the whole book you might have to get a free account and log in. It’s not hard, and then you can borrow any of a hundred thousand other books, free.)
https://archive.org/details/legaldaisyspacin0000winn

The kind of thing people were up to, back when America was so great, before everything got weird. They wouldn’t even fire you from teaching P.E.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3203111389821036&set=gm.3864553960426122&idorvanity=1427425394139003

Rerun: Kurt Schwitters – Ursonate. The video on graph paper will fill you with delight.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/ursonate

“Our journey will be long and perilous.”
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/perilous.jpg

Understanding fireworks.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/14/hear-a-pyrotechnician-answer-all-your-fireworks-questions.html

The rockets of Mysore.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/05/the-rockets-of-mysore.html

Sugar and potassium nitrate toy rocket project. Numbers are in grams. One comment: “If you cook the sugar and potassium on low heat, it becomes a brown paste. This is a more effective fuel.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9u_ojWOA7w

Fireworks aren’t effective there because in July there’s daylight nearly all night, so they do this every year instead. They recycle the mess, and they use the trees that get wrecked, for firewood. It really is far less wasteful and less toxic than a chemical fireworks show. And it gets the polluting rolling wrecks off the road.
https://laughingsquid.com/glacier-view-alaska-4th-of-july-car-launch/

Just the falling cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTBGNwrC0yg

America’s Arctic.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/americas-arctic.html

Rerun: “You can’t expect to weild supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9c2TAWMlg

I love these guys.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/07/repost-the-sultan-of-squeezebox/

Last year Kelly Kurdi translated R. Kelly’s /Baby Got Back/ to ASL for deaf people at a show and I missed it. Well! (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.tiktok.com/@christinawritessfca/video/7198203248489057578

Contact juggling exercises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rqeR-iLKYA

It’s true. This is everyone. Children should be shown this in school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

Wowie Yowie.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/09/yowie-deschanel/

You already know that I’m a huge fan of the Marvel /Daredevil/ teevee series. This makes me think of that.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/echo.html

Tom Petty – Free Fallin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcgEf1kJ3wo

The Rhythm Shakers. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.therhythmshakers.com/media.php

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand (live in Copenhagen).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI2abN5a0-I

It was a mild, tolerable nightmare that just went on and on, is how it looks and feels to me now. And so simple. You could go to another state or merely around a corner and no-one had any idea where you were or how to contact you or /what/ to do besides shout your name and wait, and hope you hadn’t fallen in a well or been kidnapped by gypsies or were suffocated in an old refrigerator in a field that you were playing in even though they told you a hundred times to never do that.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/1950s-american-life.html

Animation.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/mirror_animations

Rerun: Animation of road signs. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/an-animation-built-from-road-signs.html

The Parallax View. Assassination choreography always reminds me of this film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRS4yhbIYE

A map of all the hellmouths in England, to avoid or to enter, as suits you. Zoom in.
https://vole.wtf/hellmouth/

Lackadaisical French caramel pasta acrobatics.
https://theawesomer.com/dancing-noodle-animations/744796/

Give me all your lupines.
https://laughosaurus.com/p/the-mugger-and-the-social-media-influencer

Another project that’s like in /Northern Exposure/ when Ed got all the elders together to dub /Prisoner of Zenda/ in Tlingit.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/18/the-avengers-cast-has-dubbed-the-film-in-the-lakota-language.html

…Following (rerun) the Navajo version of /Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope/.
https://boingboing.net/2021/02/22/disney-adds-navajo-language-dubbing-to-star-wars.html

Art. (via NagOnTheLake) (scroll down and down)
https://www.annibalesiconolfi.com/works

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/dingminart/
https://kottke.org/24/07/jimi-hendrix-goes-acoustic#comment-section

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/18/kate-jarvik-birch/

India Arie.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/12/india-arie/

Snoop Frogg.
https://theawesomer.com/snoop-frogg-gin-juice/744881/

Jimi Hendrix unplugged.
https://kottke.org/24/07/jimi-hendrix-goes-acoustic

The Surfrajettes – Easy As Pie (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez5UMddX_Pg

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort trailer.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/les-demoiselles-de-rochefort-1967.html

Rerun: Foux de Fa Fa. “Stop comparing everything to Top Gun. This situation is nothing like Top Gun.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1TKiUBMASs

Trailer for the new Terminator anime.
https://theawesomer.com/terminator-zero-teaser-trailer/745061/

The future. Scroll down and down forever.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spacemansluck/

The guys who designed public bathrooms. This is 200 years before the three seashells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLNnwN62_8w

Good lard.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7845851125535740&set=a.658843017569956

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/jacques-griffe.html

The Adler archive of underground comix. All free. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.jstor.org/site/risd/adlerarchiveofundergroundcomix/

What hypertext is for.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-cant-believe-such-a-hateful-violent-act-could-happen-in-the-hateful-violent-era-ive-created

What. (via Fark)
https://www.komonews.com/resources/media2/original/full/1600/center/80/82dc727c-dd0a-45fe-81f5-ebd10e507b4b-MacaroniPenguinChick04.jpg

What! (from Old Sci Fi Art) https://www.facebook.com/groups/591276324883101/
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161367717722410&set=gm.1391707401506652&idorvanity=591276324883101

How we get basketballs.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/07/tweet-of-day_0934010098.html

The truth is out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evw9HMnYEmY

The secret of securing bog bodies.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-bog-bodies-were-secured-underwater.html

This is angry people on the internet. They’re reacting to their own reflection in the glass and blaming their distress and rage and bad feelings on others, when really they’re just freaking out at reflections of themselves.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/13/cat-sounds-like-donald-duck-having-an-exorcism-when-he-sees-his-own-reflection.html

Fail often, fail better. “Lizard falls down.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReD5mieJ1c

Lizard momentarily levitates. Notice that it /knows how to keep level/. I remember a science story I read probably fifty years ago, where there was a terrible war on all of Earth, and the astonauts in a space station took the escape craft and went back down, because they felt it was their duty, or they anticipated running out of air, and they casually abandoned the fully sentient repair and maintenance robot. It took care of things for awhile, go bored and lonely, and built a reentry craft to go down. When it was starting out, steering by means of control sticks and a wheel, and so on, it wondered at its natural ability to drive a vehicle. That stuck in my mind. Think about it: A tiny human child, evolved in an environment of zero vehicles besides one’s feet and legs, can be set on a tricycle and immediately operate it, to proceed in a desired direction and avoid obstacles, without any instruction. So here’s this lizard, surprised by a situation completely out of its experience, steering and balancing, prepared to land on its feet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Su546mXhzk

This ride is faster than terminal velocity from diving out of an airplane. I’ll tell you now so you can enjoy it without worry: he never crashes.
https://theawesomer.com/isle-of-man-tt-world-record-lap/745099/

Rene Strange, Singing Cartoonist.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/rene_strange_singing_cartoonist

Evolution of dance. (A tip: Roll up a washrag to clamp onto to keep from grinding your teeth about the vertical format.)
https://laughosaurus.com/p/a-more-comprehensive-evolution-of-dance

Weird dude energy. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQb0TYGAmso

Ow. “The same people wearing a stupid bandage on their ear in solidarity with this guy were the ones who refused to wear a mask to cover their contagious mouths in a grocery store.” (via b3ta)
https://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/51228/1720926762/trumpsear.jpg

Bad haircut…
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/bad-haircut.html

…Marshall Efron /The Haircut/, music then sketch, from the Neutrino News Network album, which I bought when it was new and still have it somewhere in the mess. (Haircut sketch starts at 3 min. in.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt-cBUVVKZM

Macaw. Macaw. There are several videos here. Scroll down for the rest.
https://laughingsquid.com/flying-parrot-returns-to-bicycle/

About Miyazaki’s weird little guys. (via Kottke)
https://www.vulture.com/article/miyazaki-weird-little-guys.html

I’m not sure why, but these fiber-art insects, arachnids, moths and a bat make me think of the Japanese ghosts and spirit-world creatures in Studio Ghibli films. Chiefly the one that looks like a Japanese white murder spirit in a kimono.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/07/08/molly-burgess/

Happy-shitball-beetle etiquette.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/07/11/greetings-4/

That is his mom driving.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-car-ride-with-motoki.html

There are thousands of these movies in capsule form, narrated by a robot voice. I like them all, but this one is special. It’s about vampires, so there’s a fair amount of blood and guts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poHfeDW4ieY

And Kimo Kiva Blatz.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27478
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Blatz_Brewing_Company

Back pain.

I had to miss doing this last Friday’s show because I couldn’t prep for it and certainly couldn’t go to any of the places I can do the show from, because flat on my back in bed. I got through to Bob at KNYO and he kindly and cleverly reran an old show for me. Cheryl came by and brought me supplies.

I have food and water, books to read, over the counter pain pills and a heating pad. I’m getting a little better every day. I expect to do the show this coming Friday.

I’ll tell you all about it then. Thanks for the encouraging emails responding to my email newsletter. It’s good to have friends.

One (1) meatball.

   “I am sorry, My Lady. There I stand, glorious, impressive, and helpless. I am your fortress, I should be defending your town. You should not have to rely on smug enigmatic murder ghosts.” (Castle Heterodyne, in Girl Genius)

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7.2-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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…

“This is fine.” Oroville, July 2. (via This Isn’t Happiness) (arrow through images)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C886euJuoc_/?img_index=1

Skiddymerink adink aboomp means I love you. You can take that to the bank, sweetheart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzOTl-jym3s

Mobile phone use is now the leading cause of death behind the wheel. Here are some creative road safety ads to drive home the value of putting your phone in the glovebox until you get where you’re going, the bank, perhaps, and you’ve shut the motor all the way off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KcvMLEYF1w

“Yah, I gotta million of ’em. A million of ’em!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQxFLcnwc0

Wally Cox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1528AeDYHnU

Candy Candido – One Meatball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXkCnAyGsc

Die pflanzen.
https://theawesomer.com/time-lapse-plant-compilation/743627/

Pillars of creation.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/29/newly-released-pillars-of-creation-visualiztion-is-stunning.html

75-percent off the price of spray paint for the rest of your life, with this one weird trick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTW3O0C8_UU

Documentary of Negativland. Full film, 95 min.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/30/stand-by-for-failure-the-full-documentary-on-negativland.html

Interdimensional gymnastics. (Scroll down to video.)
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/01/this-ai-video-of-gymnastics-might-be-the-freakiest-ive-seen-yet.html

Summer of France between the wars.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/biarritz-france-1928.html

Bartkira. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.booooooom.com/2013/05/21/the-simpsons-akira-bartkira-community-project/

A toy jet engine made of a soda pop can. For the short of attention span skip ahead to 9:50.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcR0-8Zn-dk

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness) (Scroll down and down.)
https://flashbak.com/edmund-dulacs-american-weekly-covers-468799/

Olivia.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/olivia-de-havilland-1940s.html

Eight hours of fireworks. One idea: use it to desensitize your pet animals. You’ve got a year again, once you can coax them out from where they’re wedged in behind the bathtub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbPYmjiaS2U

Art.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1dpr8w2/a_father_in_shandongchina_made_his_own_aircraft/

Annie get your yo-yo.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/annie_get_your_yo_yo

Mission Temple Fireworks Stand. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIsDzRCO5yM

An easy, educational hydrogen project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08XGs7pZSlE

The entire history of atomic theory in 48 min.
https://laughingsquid.com/history-atomic-theory/

Ze Frank on eels.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/30/Eels-Can-Be-Very-Freaky/

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/dovima.html

Haacch! Plaaacch! What is it? Get it out! Get it out! /Ptui!/ Oh.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/07/tweet-of-day_0504712797.html

This grandmotherly creature, that still has all the marbles a fish can have, hatched from an egg the year Michelangelo spent on his back on scaffolds, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. What do you suppose a 500-year-old fish tastes like? Well, sir, I asked ChatGPT, and the answer is, “The Greenland shark has a distinctive taste due to its high urea content. This gives the shark’s flesh a strong, ammonia-like odor, making it toxic and inedible until properly treated. It must be fermented and dried for several months. The traditional Icelandic dish hákarl is made this way. People often describe the taste as being similar to very strong, pungent, fishy cheese.” When I went to work for Tim in 1989, in the toolbox was a Sears-Craftsman nut-driver set whose plastic handles smelled strongly of urine; it hit you in the nose when you pulled out the drawer. These have been very durable tools. I’m still using them; they’re not chipped or cracked, despite that I often manhandle them with channel-lock pliers to get stubborn parts loose. They still smell like stale piss, not as much, but it’s there. Remarkable.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/greenland-shark-could-be-512-years-old.html

If you could watch the evolution of species in time-lapse you’d see the similarity to A.I. hallucinations. Because they operate on the same principle, as do we all, don’t we, in aggregate. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/another-ultra-cool-dinosaur/

What sort of bogus but comforting therapy do you suppose would go on in a room like this. Click on the image to really zoom in and get the full benefit of the treatment. How ’bout that leopard hassock, hey? (via Fark)
https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/63fce0bac8a8e6bfacfe6ce1/4:3/w_1600,h_1200,c_limit/Megan%20Hopp%20NYC%20project-14591%20(1).jpg

That was music. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://archive.org/details/best-of-big-bands-will-bradley-ray-mckinley/

Ana Popovic. Also music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzTMQKGD9Js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-1_Ev5J79U

Barry Allen – Armful of Teddy Bears.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/an_armful_of_teddy_bears

ABC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bJrYdOZ7S4

Spacetime for springers.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/01/if-you-could-see-spacetime-it-would-look-like-this-video.html

Saturn and his rings and moons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSbiOEGwOg

Geometry.
https://laughingsquid.com/animation-vs-geometry-alan-becker/

Fish Men, non-Euclidean math nerds, absinthe aficionados, all agree on the party of Cthulhu. Note matching eye-orbs and weskit. /Ph’nglui wgah’nagl fhtagn!/ (grunt gutterally, from the belly, as if strangling up out of, or down into, a nightmare: FIN-gloo-ee WAH-guh-nog-ul Fuh-TAHG-en)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/happy_fourth_of_july_2024

Frigidaire front-load washer noisy? Rear Tub/Bearing #131525500.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugBzlqTJt6s

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness) (browse galleries)
https://www.mikeworrall.com/prints-available

Sound.
https://laughingsquid.com/panting-dog-steam-locomotive/

Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/07/new-zealand-1960s.html

My bicycle wheel is melting, he spoke softly.
https://laughingsquid.com/taiwan-xero-bike-wheel-factory/

I’m impressed by the variety of materials as much as by the ingenuity.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/07/03/long-trick-shot/

The first educational work of sex art ever banned by the Catholic Church. Huh.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-sixteen-pleasures.html
https://flashbak.com/the-sixteen-pleasures-the-vaticans-16th-century-sex-guide-376734/

Hedges.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/you-see-hedge-he-sees-something-else.html

The 1978 Oberheim OB-1.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-1978-oberheim-ob-1.html

“Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl.”
https://27thstreet.me/2024/07/04/el-paso-3/

“She locked her car door and took hold of my hand, two bodies were thinking with only one gland, and then in my mind’s ear I could hear some guitar player say….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIVdMHoFTfk

“No! Don’t eat with your hands, son, use your entrenching tool.”
https://apnews.com/article/giant-prehistoric-salamander-tetrapod-bf56d8dfbd2e48908a87b32254f04b8d

Imagine. A teeming mound of non-GMO tofu studded with rubies and drizzled with Night Train, served atop a bed of parking tickets, all for only $1.99. Not bad.
https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/6679f15f599866d59202f285/master/w_1280,c_limit/a23627.jpg

Underdog.

   “With whom did you leave my thirty million bucks?” snarled Jacko, the gun in his hand as polished and deadly as the grammar in his mouth. -Harper J. Cole

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7.3-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy:

…

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…

Kinky Friedman, of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, is dead.
https://27thstreet.me/2024/06/27/asshole-from-el-pasp-rip/

Arabs got talent. Apparently wow is wow in all the languages, like oy and hmph. This is less robotically precise than some famous Asian troupes of this style of dance, but it adds to the experience, for me.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/06/24/mayyas/

Foolproof plan. Just one problem.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/06/22/key-and-peele-with-an-awesome-plan/

What happened before history. Vas you dere, Charlie?*
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-happened-before-history.html

*Why, yes. Yes, I was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX2RuZm-Fk

Well, there goes the weekend, if you have one.
https://calculatingempires.net/

In heaven everything is fine.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/retro-americana-is-on-the-menu-at-these-17-diners

This is the Underdog theme version I’m singing over and over in my head, and out loud when alone, lately. The background humming that leads into it, I make into a musical dog howl. Ah-WHOO ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo OO-ooooh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQaLrI6I2MI

Audio map. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.audiomapa.org/

Music changed forever. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/music-just-changed-forever

About the gay accent. It’s okay to call it that anymore; science has established that it is a thing.
https://laughingsquid.com/gay-voice/

Corgi!
https://laughingsquid.com/corgi-skateboards-down-stone-steps/

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/jangkoal/

Art. (via Biblioklept)
https://biblioklept.org/2024/06/27/the-pleasures-of-dagobert-detail-leonora-carrington-2/

How to tell a painting from a portrait. It’s the lips that give them away. So soft. My hero. My little hero.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/06/23/unquote-679/

The Exotica Project. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://exoticaproject.com/

Tobe vacuum tubes. “They’re filterized.” (via WeirdUniverse)
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess/R0467

A cab driver took pictures of his passengers for 30 years. This is a very different world from the one I live in, and I’m fascinated by it. (via Kottke)
https://www.huckmag.com/article/ryan-weideman-nyc-cab-photography-in-my-taxi

A little encouragement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izyZLKIWGiA

Rerun: Kevin Olusola – True Colors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adJIBx0O4r0

Rerun: Katy Perry – Firework.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw

How we get carbon fiber bicycle frames. A lot of skilled hand work on space-age materials. Whereas I got my steel bike at a yard sale forty years ago for $25. It’s single-speed, it weighs about forty pounds, it’s been out in the weather all this time with the same tires and the same bolts and nuts and the same chain and hard seat and everything, and it still works. Every couple of years or so I squirt some 3-in-1 oil in its various joints, and that seems to be enough for it. I can’t even remember the last time I had to pump the tires up. I think it was 2014 or 2015. It was the year my mother broke her hip. She was tango dancing and she caught her high heel in a flaw in the floor. She’s 95 now. Except for two knees and the hip and some teeth, she’s all original equipment, and she has a comparable percentage of her marbles to my count of mine. Speaking of which, I just read where Dick Van Dyke said, “I have all my marbles, and I’m old enough to be Joe Biden’s father.”
https://theawesomer.com/how-carbon-fiber-bicycles-are-made/743049/

How we get the big bongs.
https://theawesomer.com/how-giant-bells-are-made/743212/

Birds allow ants to swarm over and clean them. Everybody wins.
https://hasanjasim.online/a-photographer-captures-an-unusual-image-of-a-crow-bathing-in-ants/

“Sauron is often portrayed as a force of pure domination and destruction, but that was more Morgoth’s deal, Sauron was originally a student of Aule, the Smith God, and was interested in a perfectly ordered world that progressed through industry and craft. In a way Sauron’s was the world that came to be, organized advanced industrial capitalism (or the Soviet system, I doubt Tolkien saw too much difference) which globalizes the economy and destroys local traditions.”
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/SaurontheEconomist.png

Wait a minute. What have you done with the /real/ red spot? (or) A charming spot but clearly not the spot for me. Science is nice, but fans of the Wachovski sisters’ film Jupiter Ascending know the truth behind the red spot.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/is-jupiters-iconic-red-spot-the-same-one-that-cassini-observed-in-the-1600s/

Finally, a new kind of piano that’s still a real acoustic piano and not a computer. It doesn’t say here how much one costs, but I’m going to guess, as much as a new house.
https://theawesomer.com/ravenchord-piano/743124/

The best rat and mouse trap ever, for just $14.95. (via Grant Miller)
https://tinyurl.com/TheBestRatAndMouseTrapEver

Why they call Earth Deathworld. (It’s the parakeets.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxQYpbiIPqY

Explore the world of cigarets. (via Things Magazine)
https://www.zigsam.at/index.html

Rerun from four years ago, verbatim: Thirty or more years ago I read a science fiction story that I’m almost certain was titled /The Boy Who Walked Around the Moons of Jupiter/, about an 18 or maybe 20 or 22-year-old boy being interviewed by a technology reporter because he was engaged in a project to early-virtual-reality walk on a treadmill around the approximate equator of 3D images of all the then-known moons of Jupiter. At the end, the boy called out to his mother to come in and clean him because he’d pissed himself again and couldn’t stop his game without having to start all over. “Mom!” She didn’t come in right away, so he shrieked, “MOM …I’m wet!” This is like that, except real, and the video-game-playing boy doesn’t care that he’s disgracing himself but the mother cares. (If you can find that story for me, the Moons of Jupiter one, I’d be obliged. It’s as gone as the song, from the same era, about Samson’s Radio Dogs that I’m starting to wonder if I just dreamed it.) (Another thing but from only like fifteen years ago that I’m having trouble finding is a weird ten-minute video of sexy dangerous or distressed women on paperback book covers computer-morphing from each to the next over music made of deep OOOoooming sounds and metal squeaking and clanking– it was called Pillow Girl. That’s gone. But in compensation I’ve just learned the Urban Dictionary definition of the term: “A Pillow Girl is a female who puts many pillows on their bed that they don’t sleep with. Example: What a Pillow Girl she is.” I like that and will be saying it occasionally on the radio, where appropriate: What a pillow girl she is. Also it might be a cute thing to say in a baby-talk voice to your pet dog. It doesn’t have to mean anything; dogs are good at tone of voice. Yes she is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTomMm61Ixw

“These are the new FreeAim VR shoes, shoes that allow you to walk in VR with your actual legs.”
https://theawesomer.com/freeaim-vr-shoes/743177/

“In 100 years we went from grammar schools teaching Latin and Greek to universities teaching remedial English to native English speakers.” (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/diagramming-sentences-in-the-19th-century/

Huge toy airplanes.
https://theawesomer.com/the-worlds-largest-r-c-airplanes/743211/

Good morning, campers. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/camping-saturday-new-restos-and-resto-restos/

Couched in luxury.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/women-on-sofas-1960s.html

Do your own google search for “landfill couches”.Really, do it.
[Your search results here.]

“We were ready to throw it away, but we were just ignorant.” But were they really? Is it art to throw a mess of crap in a corner of an art gallery and put a title on it? How is the janitor supposed to know it’s not trash? It’s trash. You can tell by mentally putting it next to art and asking yourself, Which of these things is art?
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/painting_mistaken_for_dropcloth

Read this aloud at conversation speed.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/06/21/brave-new-world-4/

Counterintuitive entropy.
https://theawesomer.com/making-order-from-chaos/743295/

Okay. Got it.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/24/john-oliver-on-trumps-plans-for-a-second-term.html

I’ve been reading books from the library in the Internet Archive. You might have to make an account and log in to read more than a sample of this or that. I have had some trouble logging in, depending on what computer I use, but no trouble ever when I just let it log me in via my Google account. Here’s something via Futility Closet that I saw today.
https://archive.org/details/godsmannovelinwo0000ward/mode/2up

And The Arrival, by Shaun Tan. Click on the three dots, then Visual Adjustment, and turn the brightness up all the way. They scanned it too dim. But it’s beautiful; let it convince you to buy the big real book, for yourself or for a gift, if you can.
https://archive.org/details/arrival00shau/mode/2up

On the other hand, giant publishing companies sued the Internet Archive over the lending of just 178 titles, and won, which set a precedent so the Archive just this last week /had to remove half a million titles from lending. Also in the one-step-forward ten-steps-back department, Oklahoma just required public schools to have a King James bible in every classroom and for teachers to teach from it. Next stop, Republic of Gilead. Or maybe the train won’t be stopping at all, and it’ll be like /Snowpiercer/.

Further:
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/24/john-oliver-on-trumps-plans-for-a-second-term.html

Rerun: Insult passphrase generator. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.cheswick.com/insult

Danger stunt.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/24/extreme-urban-explorer-climbing-around-the-ceiling-of-huge-arena-during-depeche-mode-concert-video.html

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8cpduyIVRl/

Oh blinding light. Oh light that blinds. I cannot see, look out for me.
https://theawesomer.com/blinding-lights-ska-edition/743007/

Baby girl, bitch girl, baby baby girl.
https://laughingsquid.com/the-baby-song/

Concatenation. A single kinetic minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2WGHP4V2Hc

Immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBr2CojKYbg

Exterior Kansas map projection.
https://xkcd.com/2951

Roadside America. (via Things Magazine)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america/

Experiments. (via Things Magazine)
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/experiments

“I roll my dice to check the horse for oil.”
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=062624

THE WHITE DEATH. When a waifish Southern woman coughs blood onto the lace around her sleeve, and it’s not from being punched in the mouth, that’s a bad sign.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/26/The-Perfect-Human-Predator-is-More-Deadly-Than-the-Plague/

She knows. She’s messing with them.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/06/26/kids-smh/

There is good, there is good, there is untapped good! Like, inside, the woist of us is good.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/1950s-teenage-boys.html

Rerun: Live music is good. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fjBw48bgtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZQsF1-LfSg

“Are you a Mexican or a Mexican’t.” “I’m a Mexican.” “Good.” And “I can’t believe you committed suicide! (Sigh.) I can’t help you out of this one, Joe.” Film dialog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2WGHP4V2Hc

And rerun: The best and wurst of bad acting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BKT-8FD4s