Rendezvous with entropy.

   “Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.” -Lewis Carroll

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:

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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. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is on KAKX Mendocino too, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech department at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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:

Onboard the Nautilus things were not as they seemed. “I knew Nemo. Nemo was my friend. You’re no Captain Nemo.”
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-1931-voyage-of-the-submarine-nautilus

You can read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen online free, including some of Nemo’s history, here (scroll down to Issues). Register, to use the bookmark feature.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-League-of-Extraordinary-Gentlemen-1999

90 women photographers exhibit for Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday. (via Kottke)
https://vitalimpacts.org/collections/celebrate-jane-90`

The exaltation of Inanna.*
https://laughingsquid.com/exaltation-of-inanna-replica-gold-lyre-of-ur/

How we get candles. This is a very quiet factory, compared to the ball-bearing factory, the concrete factory, the recycling factory… The protective-film-wrapping machine that the finished candles ride through at the end is the loudest thing there, and it just gently whispers /shfloop, shfloop, shfloop…/
https://kottke.org/24/04/how-candles-are-made

How we get ceramic ocarinas. Equally calm. A lot of it is skilled hand-and-eye work. And there’s one man in a small room off to the side, fine-tuning them. And one woman putting a pattern on some of them “for a higher price”. In the middle-late 1970s my girlfriend Julie shared an apartment for awhile with a big pretty red-haired civil engineer who was all about Star Wars. She liked to play the Star Wars theme, and the Cantina song, and other elements from the soundtrack, on a red plastic ocarina, even while she was watching television. You’d think that would get on your nerves after awhile, but it never did. She was nice and never got upset about anything and it was fine. I think there’s something about an ocarina that promotes peace. Ocarinas For Peace. How does that sound, for a project? There’s already the Ocarina of Time. (Play this and this simultaneously.) Ocarina (little goose in Italian), was so named because, they say, it looks like a goose, but it rather more looks like a sweet potato, and in fact another, slightly less popular, name for it is potato flute. It’s one of the oldest instruments found. People were making and playing them 12,000 years ago.  That’s four or five times farther back than the gold lyre of Ur (*see above).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k8X5ye5Fc

Celestial phenomena in 16th century Germany.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/

One comet, different moods. (via Fark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/Comet12pTails_ShengyuLi_3000.jpg

“Fuzzy Wuzzy bath soap. It grows its own fur.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAepqr6pDe8

Gangsta tigers in the muhfukken zoo. (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNak-6O8lFQ

The Henry Girls.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/17/the-henry-girls/

The Vivian girls (The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.) In the Realms of the Unreal, Jessica Yu’s full film about unsung author/artist Henry Darger and the 18,000-page graphic novel he produced in secret, that they only found out about after he died and didn’t show up for work mopping floors in a hospital. 120 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlvDKcDvsI

Shirley Horn – Consequences of a Drug Addict Role. (via The New York Times)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdmOnhx697w

You’re not peeing right. (After you learn about how to pee right, continue down the page to a wrenching video of vigorous orthopedic surgery. WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!… I didn’t count all the whacks, but if that’s a U.S. hospital it’s probably two or three grand per whack.
https://www.unilad.com/news/health/peeing-sitting-down-as-a-man-better-806567-20240415

I have this and I watched it again this week: The Man Who Killed HItler And Then The Bigfoot. (Sam Elliott.) I think there are two movies this would go well with. 1. Lucky. (Harry Dean Stanton’s last movie before he died), and 2. The Natural. (Robert Redford.) Redford’s character in the movie is named Roy Hobbs, but it’s about real-life baseball player Eddie Waitkus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTeBlbdLyiU

I read about how the dairy industry wants everyone to shut up about cows getting bird flu now, because the bad publicity and measures to mitigate it before it becomes the next pandemic will cost them so much money. Pigs too are getting it. And, naturally, chickens get it because they’re birds. Before, we didn’t have to worry about people getting it, because it didn’t affect mammals, but that was then. This reminded me that a long time ago I saw something about cows eating chickens. Here’s an example of that from 13 years ago, though it’s an odd East Indian deer-like sort of cow. And I don’t think it meant to eat the chicken. The chicken was so small it might have seemed like a tuft of grass wiggling in the breeze. Meanwhile, from an article about the composition of livestock feed: “In farming communities, a variety of protein sources were readily available, from soybeans or peanuts or cottonseed. Or from chicken feces, poultry feathers, cow blood or other parts of pigs, horses, fish, cattle and just about any animal part unfit for human consumption.” I forget about this kind of thing until I get a bag of frozen mystery-meatballs that taste bad enough for even me to notice. Even so, they cost more than the consistently good kind (Johnsonville) used to cost just a year or two ago. Do they cost more because they aren’t allowed to feed cattle pulverized chickens and feathers and other factory-farm waste anymore? Is that it? And I don’t see Johnsonville meatballs anywhere I go for groceries anymore. They always tasted good, and they were red all the way through, like real meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhSyzWxmjc

100 charming Medieval dog names, including Mustarde, Hosewife, Charlemayne, and Bonere.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/medieval-dog-names

Someone having a laugh, and an editor asleep at the switch, resulted in this newspaper article. (via Fark) (You might have to fullscreen the image and click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/970606353080184832

Jonathan Richman – You’re Crazy For Taking The Bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5NkEkaXHQ

“Surely they can’t be thinking of going off there.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/14/watch-these-penguins-belly-flop-off-a-50-foot-cliff.html

Galactic real estate.
https://laughingsquid.com/aliens-oceania-temporary-terraform/

A Thousand Suns. A new science-fiction series in short cigaret-break bursts.
https://theawesomer.com/a-thousand-suns/737104/

Charles Berthoud’s latest.
https://laughingsquid.com/take-on-me-played-on-three-basses/

Classic contemporary dance. When she suddenly without warning dropped like a cross between a mousetrap and a cut-strings marionette into a a full sideways split I shrieked like a little girl and nearly stuck a thumb in my eye throwing my hands up in the air.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/19/meghan-sanett/

It’s like where the Nicholas Brothers jump down the giant stairs into the splits on each step. They’re brilliant, superhuman, and it’s amazing, but it’s too much for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

Evolution of Iron Man.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-evolution-of-iron-man-in-television.html

Evolution of A.I.
https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-index-report-global-impact

A.I. fighter jet pilot goes up against a human pilot and does all right its first time out. We don’t get to watch. We have to take their word for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yjtaZfNCw

A.I. visualizations of a typical night at KFC. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://designyoutrust.com/2024/04/typical-friday-night-at-kfc-according-to-ai/

Ways to use ChatGPT for your music.
https://blog.discmakers.com/2023/06/ways-to-use-chatgpt-for-music

Rerun: I go meow. I go meow. I don’t know who I am. Look away, away.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/i-go-meow.html

Postmodern Jukebox, Heart of Glass.
https://laughingsquid.com/postmodern-jukebox-and-addie-hamilton-perform-a-vintage-1940s-cover-of-heart-of-glass-by-blondie/

“Drama achieves a new frenzy of suspense!”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/crack-up.html

The shapes of different atoms as revealed in the clairvoyant visions of Annie Besant, P.T.S. and Charles W. Leadbeater in 1908. “Based on a Yoga principle that one can reduce one’s self-conception to minute proportions so that very small objects appear large. The observer then simply draws what he sees and his commentary may be taken down by a stenographer.” “The atoms were duly grouped according to overall shapes: spikes, dumbbell, tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, crossed bases, and star. Thus, boron, nitrogen, and vanadium, for example – elements with little in common chemically – all “have six funnels opening on the six faces of a cube.” Six! That’s a lot of funnels.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/occult-chemistry/

Periodic orbits for the Newtonian planar three-body problem. (via Cliff Pickover) (Scroll down and down.) (Some of these gifs play way too fast. It’s not you; it’s the way the gif was made.)
https://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm

Art.
https://biblioklept.org/2024/04/16/evening-song-franz-sedlacek/

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.behance.net/russellgray

Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing (Live, 1976). And Every 1’s A Winner (1978). (via Alan Haack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3fX2_bxEkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTcQB_4AFw

Rerun: Backward and in high heels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmut0FMoK9E

Rerun: Media outlets’ talking heads all saying the same thing. There are examples of several different subjects; don’t get hung up on the first one. You’ll see they all do it, not just Sinclair Network stations, though that’s the poster child for this sort of enforced scripting. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshJn7lgVsY

Real unreal places. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1777026561947963709

Realish places. This is the future. This is how it starts.
https://theawesomer.com/adobe-premiere-pro-ai-demo/737018/

Hobo nickels. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.hobonickels.org/quick_id.php

Musical postage stamps of Bhutan.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/Bhutan-Produced-Stamps-That-Were-Functional-Records/

Looping pendulum long exposures.
https://theawesomer.com/looping-pendulum-long-exposures/737476/

Go, go, ghazaal!
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1c1yre6/this_is_a_gazelle/

“If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he’d be President today.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/153504u/if_ted_kennedy_drove_a_volkswagen_hed_be/

Here’s the real ad they were referring to.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/1972-volkswagen-beetle-commercial.html

Don’t say you weren’t warned. Video. (7 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/18/video-lays-out-what-trumps-first-100-horrific-days-as-dictator-would-look-like.html

Speed. A wolf can run faster than a leopard. I didn’t know that, but it makes sense; leopards don’t run after prey, they leap down on it from a tree. In part 2, beginning at the 7-minute mark, we see the same race from a point of view just above and behind each animal, one after the other. Imagine what it must feel like to be a cheetah, running flat out at 80 mph. It must be the best feeling in the world.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-great-critter-race.html

The sidewalk and its correct operation.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/19/How-To-Use-a-Sidewalk-The-Instructional-Film/

Every dance-off determines the fate of the universe, not just that one in the movie.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/blackpool-holidaymakers-1950s.html

“I often walk this path to the Hoehn, the little songbirds singing. If I am far away, Thuringer Forest, I only long for you.”
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2024/04/das-rennsteiglied.html

A leap of faith.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/emperor-penguin-chicks-jump-off-50-foot.html

The Pyramids – Penetration. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USfMeResE1c

Bliggity bliggity boo.
https://wondermark.com/c/1546/

They could all make a fortune swallowing an egg. Not the same egg. Each one would get an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/mademoiselle-covers-1950s.html

Practice your moves on Angry A.I. Girlfriend. Get some skills, then apply them in the real world.
https://angrygf.ai/

Size.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/tweet-of-day_01318599566.html

Cigaret cards. Trade ’em. Collect them all.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/film-star-cigarette-cards.html

Call for Philip Maah-riss. “Because you inhale, you’re better off, /much/ better off, smoking Philip Morris,” says the Philip Morris guy, ignoring entirely that four out of five doctors, as well as the entire family of Ronald Reagan, famous actor and HUAC rat, smoke Chesterfields, even the baby. Whereas Camel cigarets suit your T-zone to a T: “T for Taste. T for Throat.” The T-zone is a T-shaped outline superimposed on your smiling face and neck that the delicious healthy smoke pours in through.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/follies_of_the_madmen_592

The knowledgeable fan.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/3-year-old-zep-fan-plays-name-that-tune.html

Rerun: Duncan Hatch-animated /Cosmohedron/. (7 min.) (via b3ta)
https://theawesomer.com/cosmohedron-animated-short-film/737358/

Elements of designing and constructing an electromechanical arcade car-driving game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3RdD2qwdg

I like how the clouds make a bushy eyebrow. Also I hope there’s a door in the back where you can go in, go up some steps, and stand in the window, like the scene in /Mirrormask/ where the top floor of the library is a art-deco hood-ornament eye and the window is the pupil, from which you can see the borderland between the Queendoms of Light and Darkness. Here, though, it’s Wisconsin, with an assortment of public art: giant eyeball (check), lifter/loader (check), hippodog-thing (check), homeless Santa Claus (check), quarter-ton prehistoric pheasant (check), storage lockers for amateur time-travel (check).
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=U29JFi

The Pineapple Song, from a small-town-NY production of Cabaret. “But there is no-one… no-one in all of Berlin who is more deserving than you. If I could, I would fill your entire room with pineapples!” The boom seems to be over, but for a good long while you could get 20-ounce cans of pineapple chunks in sugar juice at the dollar store. Those were the days. And you knew who you were then. Girls were girls and men were men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiSDpQXylo

Weird islands. Distortions and grimaces.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/weird-islands/

Philip Glass Solo. (via Kottke)
https://philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip-glass-solo

And further murmuration.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/murmuration.html

Too soon old, too late smart.

   “We suggest a way to associate to each Lie (say Lee) algebra of type G2, D4, F4, E6, E7, E8 a family of polarized hyperkahler fourfolds, constructed as parameterizing certain families of cycles of hyperplane sections of certain homogeneous or quasi-homogeneous varieties. These cycles are modeled on the Legendrian varieties studied by Freudenthal in his geometric approach to the celebrated Tits-Freudenthal magic square of Lie algebras…” (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. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is on KAKX Mendocino too, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech department at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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:

Memento. Otnemem.
https://laughingsquid.com/palidrome-video-crab-canon/

Glass Beams. They seem like people in Mirrormask, one of my favorite movies, a gently edgy modern Wizard of Oz-like story but where the little girl performs in her parents’ traveling circus and the crisis that precipitates her adventure in the Other World is her mother’s medical collapse. Neil Gaiman wrote it. Jim Hensen’s puppet company made the costumes. Look it up, and see it, if you can.*
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/music-for-sunday-morning.html

A whole evening with Glass Beams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHnWi7Wk0k

*Here it is: Mirrormask (the full film, 100 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHgfCwXqVU

Trina Robbins, artist and comic book historian, died Wednesday at 85. “Struggle, Amazon, yes. Struggle in vain. You have failed. Your allies have deserted you. Your world is mine.”
https://13thdimension.com/13-covers-a-trina-robbins-salute/

Closeups of pen tips writing. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://joannecasey.blogspot.com/2024/03/macro-views-of-various-writing.html

“Don’t talk to her, talk to me, I’m the one you talk to.”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/06/Beware-the-Automated-Guilt-Trip/

The 100 most-spoken languages. (via NagOnTheLake) (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2024/04/the-100-most-spoken-languages-around-the-world.html

And Tongues, don’t forget. The universal though unintelligible language of glossolalia. (You might have to raise the volume a little.)
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/10/creepy-video-senator-and-extremists-pray-in-tongues-to-resurrect-anti-abortion-law.html

Rerun: Andre Antunes metalizes an anti-abortion wacko preacher lady throwing a tantrum on stage alternately in regular words and tongues. (Warning: put the volume back down where it was, before you play this.)
https://boingboing.net/2022/07/07/heavy-metal-guitar-accompanies-arizona-preacher-speaking-in-tongues-at-a-church-service.html

It’s raining money.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-09-cgmoney.gif

Slim Gaillard pleasantly glossolali-izing at 78 rpm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIOuJHwuJgc

The lost and found film technology of Mary Poppins.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-disney-made-mary-poppins-without.html

Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric (sic) Oil. “You may want it.” (As a compulsive internal generator of old-style product ad slogans, my hat is off to that one.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/eclectric_oil

Prompt this A.I. to create a complete finished song from a prompt of your devising, in a genre of your choice.
https://suno.com/

Black MIDI. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1778878788400468205

The 1959 Frisky. Just this cute little body set on a modern frame with an electric motor, and you could put a sound system in it and project the Jetson’s flying car sound, proportional to speed.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/1959-frisky-convertible-special.html

Like this, but in real life. Remind me sometime to tell you the Juanita/Marina Rose Jetson’s-car mouth-sound story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnT1VgeXOF0

This is a real exhibit, a real place, that you can walk around in. It also makes me think of Mirrormask. Not just because of the mirrors. (With video.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/bubble-universe.html

Mirrormask (the full film, 100 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHgfCwXqVU

The home of Bendito Machine. Scroll down to Bendito Machine VI and press play. And/or scroll down farther for Bendito Machine V, IV, III, II and I.
https://www.benditomachine.com/

Rerun: All fifty 1962 Mars Attacks cards.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/31558613@N00/albums/72157625601126001/

Little robots like this are a staple in modern science fiction space missions, asteroid mining missions and many space repair jobs, working in swarms of hundreds or thousands.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/spacehopper-asteroid-hopping-robot/

Solar sail project.
https://newatlas.com/space/advanced-solar-sail-mission-ready-launch

Auroras, lightning and other natural phenomena seen from orbit.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-earth-is-beautiful.html

As below, so above.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/tas-mawson-station-chef-photographs-aurora-australis/103685448

I like to think that if we ever get faster-than-light travel, and we ever reach a planet that not only won’t poison us but has parallel-evolution people somewhat like us (an impossibly remote but nonzero chance), they’ll look and dress like these people, the women will sound like a New Jersey Irish Black Peppermint Patty but also like Enya, and the men will sound like Bob Boler, who’s dead now, but he had a slow, snide, wise, gently-chuckling pipe-organ for a voice. And there’ll be something in the air, a kind of brain fungus molecule, that makes everything show up in black-and-white. Also, speaking of Black, I’d like there to be other kinds of people besides powder-white, of course: Creole, Chinese, Inuit, Braziliard, and so on. And Cordwainer Smith’s animal-derived people, like C’mell. But this general feel:
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/07/through-abbes-eyes-2/

A minute or so of a park somewhere, then a minute or so of another park, and so on forever (with the location shown low-right). It might be nice to put a big cheap teevee up on a wall, like a window, and just leave this on all the time. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://sites.elliott.computer/one-minute-park/

WONDERMAAAAAARK, by DAVID MAAAAAALKI!
https://wondermark.com/c/1544/

Those egg things are soft and twelve feet tall.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/resonating_life_which_continues_to_stand

For men: How to escape from a hotel. “Whether you’re a prisoner looking to make a daring escape or a tourist trying to flee from a hotel, tying bedsheets together is a perfectly viable way to make a makeshift rope. Higher thread count means higher tensile strength, which makes a better rope.” (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/outdoor-survival/escape-building-using-bedsheets/

Spider feat.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/08/Spider-Builds-a-25-meter-Bridge/

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

Arresting supercut of Blue Eye Samurai anime set to music. There’s also a Spiderverse one.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/07/check-out-this-gorgeous-blue-eye-samurai-supercut.html

She never spoke Spanish to me.
https://27thstreet.me/2024/04/07/spanish-is-the-loving-tongue/

Austin Lounge Lizards – The Golden Triangle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIVdMHoFTfk

Church fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i-wpis9UVQ

Rerun: Bob Larson binds Thor to Mammon and his lesser demons to lift the curse of Nadia. Andre Antunes backs the proceedings on guitar all the way down to the floor. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4qnZH-Ou7Y/

The Sugarcubes – Cat. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo2_q-TLHBQ

“Rah-rah Rasputin, big rebel, scared the arson nobility, man of many women, it’s better not to know about him.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/blog-post.html

Trick Russian nautical photography.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/11/finally-shoot-your-friends-new-humboldt-growhouse/

The babushka lizard (or) Mrs. Gibeech. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pexels-francesco-ungaro-2299536-1024×1536.jpg

Dregs of San Francisco. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_9N5fNB44

Call of Duty, Humboldt.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/11/finally-shoot-your-friends-new-humboldt-growhouse/

Return to the Caves of Cheese.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/08/the-usda-has-1-5-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stashed-in-caves-in-missouri.html

My 15,000 pound horse, etc. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZKwCVKneg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr1h2Z11oTI

It’s not like the Austrian self-sharpening razor blades, no, sir.
https://twitter.com/timecaptales/status/1775006496687878584

1918 Indian motorcycle factory.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/inside-indian-factory-1918.html

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

Croix de vert and Lumineyes. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5YV49SOpr4/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5koppkvy1F/

Art. (via NagOnTheLake) (Scroll down and down.)
https://designyoutrust.com/2024/04/all-of-the-things-that-are-wrong-with-the-society-that-we-live-in-today-illustrated-by-john-holcroft/

Polly Vinylchloryd – (Pink Floyd) Breathe (on Moog theremin).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJ8ZzNmDXw

Norm MacDonald’s constant shitting on O.J. Simpson, that got him fired from SNL.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/11/watch-as-norm-macdonald-craps-all-over-oj-simpson-video.html

2024 WNPA world photography award winners. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.worldnaturephotographyawards.com/winners-2024

How we get art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/11/francisco-fonseca-2/

Water in the desert. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://mymodernmet.com/water-seer-wind-powered-clean-water

The Dead Princess. (via b3ta)
https://app.suno.ai/song/523f9ee2-ecae-4f2b-b1be-14350bc7f895/

What. (via Fark)
https://www.heritagedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ron1.jpg

100 years (1915-2015), 100 movie clips, in 6 minutes. Set to lush heavy music whose name escapes me at the moment, but that would be perfect for a montage of the destruction unleashed on the dock-town in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel where Nemo’s daughter Janni (a Pirate Jenny analog) has had enough of being enslaved and raped and comes back into her power on the return of the Black Ship. It would also work for an extended ending of Lars von Trier’s film Dogville, a similar situation.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/100-years100-shots.html

The hills are alive. (via Fark)
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1cuzT6.img

Photos of an unknown family who probably owned a liquor store.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/04/10/photos-of-an-unknown-family-who-probably-owned-a-liquor-store/

Highlights of the unveiling of the discovery. Higgs is dead but his boson continues to imbue the cosmos with mass. Maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-dNqCbRc_Y

Volcano smoke rings.
https://kottke.org/24/04/mount-etna-volcano-blowing-perfect-smoke-rings

YouTube playlist of sleepytime music from movie soundtracks, meant to autoplay through, though some start off surprisingly loud. Hushabye Mountain, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5gDzN_GNS4y3ojna2b7wElql1VG3wAnb

30,000 years ago. Click on the image to enlarge.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Panneau_des_chevaux-detail%C2%A9_Patrick_Aventurier_-_Grotte_Chauvet_2_Ard%C3%A8che.jpg/2560px-Panneau_des_chevaux-detail%C2%A9_Patrick_Aventurier_-_Grotte_Chauvet_2_Ard%C3%A8che.jpg

Not quite so long ago –more like 2,000 years– Pico and the Paramours, by Keith Haring, rock the house.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/08/psychedelic-music-depicted-on-ancient-peruvian-rock-art.html

Seeking a dark place for astronomical mischief.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2017/02/finding-dark-skies.html

How we get tortilla chips.
https://theawesomer.com/tortilla-chip-factory/736402/

How to play the musical saw. That’s a pretty big one he has. I remember B. Thomas (of KMFB) telling me that big ones are easier to learn on. But they have to be made specially to play music; a regular saw from the hardware store probably won’t work. Lately you can get one shiny-new for around $100, way cheaper than a commercial theremin, which the saw sounds very like. I made a theremin in the electronics lab at the old Mendocino Community school in 1983, from a circuit diagram and the lab’s parts bins, but I could never get it to work right. The pitch control worked but the volume stayed stuck all the way up or all the way down, nothing in between. Then I started making radio transmitters and that was easier. In two years I made lots of equipment for my recording studio and for live radio shows: mixing boards, a rackmount stereo compressor/limiter/expander, a stereo mic preamplifier for ribbon mics, that had tone controls and a a soft limiter in it. Banjo-player/astrologist/tarot-card reader Antonia Lamb’s son James built a wireless rig into his electric guitar where he’d plug the receiver into an amplifier and wander all around the school and out into the football field, playing, blasting music out of the lab. It had built-in noise reduction, 2:1 compression on the guitar end and 1:2 expansion at the amplifier end, so it was as quiet as a guitar cord… Anyway, musical saw:
https://laughingsquid.com/musical-saw-lesson/

Now boarding.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/04/08/now-boarding-2/

PHWEEEEEEEEEE!
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27396

Compilation of Magical Cat.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/claymation-cat-marathon.html

Mr. Squiggle, Episode 3. “Awww, you really are a nice steam shovel, Bill, even if you do call me Rox, thank you.” (25 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/mr_squiggle

And all the tricks. Inside info on the way the universe works never made it any less magical for me. There’s a moment in an episode of Penn and Teller, Fool Us, where a man does a seamless trick with coins and cards that’s like what both Penn and Teller have been doing for decades, so they understand it inside and out, but his execution of it still wows them. Penn says appreciatively, “We know how it’s done, but we still don’t know how you did it!”*
https://theawesomer.com/23-famous-magic-trick-secrets-revealed/736525/

*Speaking of which, I was just looking up peripheral info about the show Fool Us (now in its tenth year) and out of the corner of my eye I saw where someone asked, “Is Alyson Hannigan related to Teller?” (Teller is the small man who never speaks in their shows; he can speak but it’s part of the act for him not to.) (Alyson was the show’s MC for years 3 through 9.) It turns out that “nobody really knows whether Teller is Alyson Hannigan’s father; not the Hannigan father, not the Hannigan mother, and not even Alyson.” This one time at band camp…

Good-bye to the fruits.

   “I met a guy online and we saw a movie on our first date. At the end of the night when acting like he was going in for a kiss he put his whole mouth over my nose and blew into it. Laughing, he said he does this to his dogs and calls it a puppy trumpet.” -Danielle Snook

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. Playing some of the recording at random while working on this post I heard two instances of it burbling and skipping a second or two of the sound, so there are probably some more of those– I’m guessing it’s because of overburdening my streaming/recording computer with other things to do. And I read the continuing stories all in different times of the show than they’d naturally fallen into over the weeks and months. But it’s mostly there, mostly okay, and pretty good, I think, thanks to a hundred writers, many of them local. Try it:

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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. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is on KAKX Mendocino too, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech department at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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:

Trailer for Antigone. Could do with an umlaut or two in the title, to suit the metal parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0QK-YixdcA

The Dust catalog. 100 short new science-fiction films, free. Five minutes to forty minutes each.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2X2odndvaIc145J7IBL2T-rN1y-gl9-_

A.I.-generated singer, song, venue, audience, apocalypse. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFYshYWo-sk

A.I.-generated voice sadly, sweetly sings MIT software license permission text. (via BoingBoing)
https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1775713487529922702

“She likes kielbasa, naturlich (naturally). She likes kielbasa better than fish.”
https://27thstreet.me/2024/04/03/she-likes-kielbasa-better-than-fish-2/

NASA eclipse posters. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nasa-eclipse-art

John Barth died this week. Here are three of his stories, including Good-bye to the Fruits. Click on the text and scroll down.
https://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/john-barth-c22

Two delightful new-to-me versions of The Palace of the Tsar (Shootin’ With Rasputin).
https://soundcloud.com/cypress-choral-music/risky-encores-shootin-with-rasputin
https://brivele.bandcamp.com/track/shootin-with-ra-ra-rasputin

A tiny pony’s happy dance. Or freakout. You decide. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/syiGQJIFXec

Cookie.
https://laughingsquid.com/stove-mouse-steals-cookie/

Doooooom, DONK-DONK-DONK! Bambi, the Reckoning.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/04/The-Public-Domain-Carnage-Continues-with-iBambi-The-Reckoningi/

Counterintuitive, I know, but it’s perfectly safe to swim naked in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool, as long as you don’t dive to the bottom, and as long as none of the containers on the bottom are leaking. In fact, if you’re just under the surface, you’re protected from natural cosmic rays that blast us all everywhere we go in the open all the time anyway. You might add significantly to your life expectancy by swimming there twice a week. If you’re really worried about radiation: avoid food, earth, sunlight…
https://theawesomer.com/swimming-with-nuclear-waste/735990/

Is Mr. Coffee Nerves wrecking your marriage? Postum can solve that, except you can’t buy it anymore, since they stopped selling it in 2007. It tasted like tea made of breadcrumbs, with a drop of molasses. I use green tea from the dollar store; it’s like a penny per teabag, and it’s not great but it’s not bad. Green tea has some caffeine in it, but even less than other kinds of tea. Unlike coffee, it doesn’t make me nervous or cranky, or keep me awake, nor does it give me a headache if I forget to have it one day, or ever. There’s an old saying, “The elf in tea is gentler than the elf in coffee.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/mr_coffee_nerves

“In his final days Christ is haunted by grotesqueries. Cherubs and putti ogle the last supper’s lamb. Hybrid creatures sprout up in the Garden of Gethsemane. And during his descent into Limbo, demonic bodies roar and hiss at the Son of God.” Gheeraerts’s grotesques. (Scroll down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/passio-verbigenae/

Here’s why it is a federal felony to bring even the tiniest quantity of mercury anywhere near an airplane. Eventually in any space opera the main characters’ ship will fly through a nebula of something with this effect on its hull. Reversing the polarity, rerouting the EPS plasma conduit through the deflector array, producing a tachyon/graviton burst, vibrating the ship like an electric toothbrush, all the obvious first-year-cadet-quiz fixes, will turn out to be useless. It’s alive; communicate with it; give it what it /really/ wants, and next time, go around.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/tweet-of-day.html

Last week I mentioned the dirigible mooring mast on the Empire State Building. I can’t get info on what’s in it now –probably equipment to serve the antennas on the outside of it. If you know or have pictures, please share. Here’s a cutaway diagram of the inside of it back in the day:
https://www.onverticality.com/blog/empire-state-mooring-mast

Who’s in this guy’s mouth, Captain Kirk and Mister Spock? or Sean Connery and Roddy McDowall? Tell me that, and I’ll tell you your political party, math ability, secret fear, and favorite color.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=tpXZIg

Ashley Campbell – 50 Ways. I like the scene layout and historical singing poses as much as the music. Especially the art-deco/high-frontier sideways-Egyptian /ta-dah!/ one at the end. Dinner dishes with this sort of thing printed on them would sell in any era when people have money to buy dishes anywhere but the dollar store, speaking of the dollar store.
https://laughingsquid.com/new-orleans-50-ways-to-leave-your-lover/

For the 50th Anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon, some contest-winning animations to cuts from the album. There was no easy digital way to make music like this in those days. It was all done with inspiration and musicianship and loops of tape cut and spliced together running between a line of reel-to-reel tape decks six feet apart. Great then, great now. (via TheAwesomer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9a8LwAPEvI
https://theawesomer.com/dark-side-of-the-moon-animation-winners/735944/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZgGI_QJcY

Fluid art made in the kitchen with alcohol inks, gold powder, magic candles, an electric screwdriver, paper clips, and a laboratory shaker.
https://theawesomer.com/trinity-short-macro-film-thomas-blanchard/735739/

Fluidic space.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/04/fluid-dynamics.html

Abigail and Shaun Bengson. A well-matched musical couple.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/03/the-bengsons/

Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about solar eclipses.
https://laughingsquid.com/history-of-solar-eclipses/

The solar eclipse story from someone who was home-schooled. In Bizarro World.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1773749782055399728

Speaking of which.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-eclipse-a-sign-god-wants-america-to-repent.html

A catalog of hoaxes. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoaxes

The sound of knitting.
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-sound-of-knitting

The smell of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bcubvgBMfk

The lesson seems to be: Be the guy who talks to the person and gives him a scarf. But what if they mean that the happy-seeming engaged-in-the-world man is the one in trouble, and the man on the left is sad because he knows all about it, and now the seemingly happy man is dead? It could be both at the same time.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13208086

The razors.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/01/philosophical-razors-cutting-through-lifes-complexities.html

/BLATZ! kra-KOOM!/ (Krakoom, or rather KRAKOOM! is the default word splashed across comic book art for lightning and thunder. Search for krakoom images. ZOKK! or BLATZ! or KWATZ!* equally appeal to me, but I’m not the boss of art. (*Not to be confused with the novella Air KWATZ, by Ronald Anthony Cross, 1981,) Pleasant coincidence: Just before I saw this photo I was thinking of when Storm blasts Nightcrawler with lightning in the Statue of Liberty battle, where she asks him if he knows what happens when lightning strikes a frog, he says, “No, what,” and she says, “The same thing that happens when it strikes anything else!” /BLATZ! kra-KOOM!/ (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/DanTVusa/status/1775670977831071799/photo/1

“If your ancestry looks like this, maybe give it a rest on immigration.”
https://www.facebook.com/PiperforMissouri/photos/if-your-ancestry-looks-like-this-maybe-give-it-a-rest-on-immigration/816719517135639/

They can cross thousands of light-years of trackless space and they can’t figure out an electric fence. Sure.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=61uvfR

Evidence.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1775291772165329024

Ka duh ba? /Hah bah dah!/ Dog of Wisdom version 3 (doo-dah, doo-dah).
https://theawesomer.com/dog-of-wisdom-iii/735792/

Rhubarb Bahbara, ahbracadahbra. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkBf0dbs5I

Build Me Up, Buttercup. The Foundations, live in Germany in 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klNean7JJdA

“Emo kid is throwing slo-mo dove at my face. I guess that means that he just flipped me the bird.” Literal Total Eclipse of the Heart.
https://kottke.org/24/04/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-literal-video-version

“Wake up outta your sleep, I command you in the name of Jesus. Wake up, wake up, wake up.”
https://laughingsquid.com/wake-up-preacher-heavy-metal-alarm/

“Hey, you should try our new prescription medication.” Side effects, with bass.
https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.cordova/video/7353113045897350446

Polyrhythms.
https://theawesomer.com/polyrhythms-visualized-in-a-circle/735312/

Surf music.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/currents.html

Yet another covet-car.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/1963-daimler-sp250-dart-convertible.html

On the beginning of /Hey Jude/. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-recording-of-hey-jude.html

The influences of /Ark of the Fun God/ and other similar filmic enjoyments, such as En Busca del IDOLO PERDIDO. (60 min.) (via b3ta) (This gets more and more interesting as you watch.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdozOvPgHzo

Rerun: Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/01/3d-talents/

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5TGSrqic3G/

Northern lights plus volcano. Volcano. Volcano. Volcano. Iceland.
https://theawesomer.com/volcano-northern-lights/735611/

Video art. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://francisalys.com/

Computer-Lego-art-designing toy.
https://laughingsquid.com/brickit-app-leftover-lego-bricks/

Painting the shark.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/symphony-no-42.html

Farm animal family photos.
https://kottke.org/24/04/farm-animal-family-photos

More animal photos here. (via Kottke) Right-arrow through gallery.
https://robmacinnis.com/15ab18a0xis4vccqjldrfplq4yafvz

MIDI-controlled slide whistles.
https://theawesomer.com/robot-slide-whistle-machine/735630/

Art. Non-Player Characters and what they work at all day in Red Dead Redemption 2. Peaceful.
https://laughingsquid.com/non-player-characters-working-dead-redemption-2/

A cool new space game. “Alternatively, you can just point the ship in any random direction you like, spin up the FTL drive and…”
https://theawesomer.com/starship-simulator-game-trailer/735694/

The official demo for it. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332100/Starship_Simulator/

That reminds me of Celestia, that I used to play with 20 years ago. It’s still there, and it still works. It doesn’t have a ship for you to putter around in and take apart and press buttons, but you can fly to planets and other stars, speed up and slow down time, accessorize with add-on texture maps, customize views. And they’re the real-world planets and stars. It’s a digital orrery.
https://celestiaproject.space/

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

Dance. (via BitsAndPieces) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4k04LTSB7M/

Hula Joe. (You might have to click the sound on.)https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/04/01/mesmerizing-moves/

What happens if we do nothing?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-happens-if-we-do-nothing.html

Daredevil gets careless. (via BitsAndPieces) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4gSWJ_yNjB/

Some understated covers of Green Day’s /Boulevard of Broken Dreams/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilLTcTXTI0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3IT2i5W1V4

And an alternately understated and overstated one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZHhttoaAg

Be honest. Would you not stand in line for, say, twenty minutes to watch any of these women swallow an egg? Of course you would.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/gigi-terwagne.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/abe-schrader.html

The evolution of Mozart’s (moht-ZART‘s) music (from 5 to 35 years old, which is all the older he got).
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-evolution-of-mozarts-music-from-5-to-35-years-old

Baby. Doll-face. I can explain.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/tweet-of-day_0981530310.html

Counting the swears on the newfangled medium. (via Fark)
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1hSyf0.img

Uuhai there.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/04/The-Band-Uuhai-Rocks-on-Khar-Khulz/

A cowboy in Babylon.

   “You remember Uncle Joe. He was the one afraid to cut the cake.”

Here’s the recording of last night’s 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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Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is on KAKX Mendocino too, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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:

Graf Zeppelin world cruise. (40 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8xsqebGokQ

Graf Zeppelin March, played enthusiastically whenever the majestic ship flew back to home base at Friedrichshafen, as a beacon as well as a welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLmAvtCLvo

This original 1998 short was later expanded into the delightful feature film /Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow/ and got Gwynneth Paltrow the gig of Pepper Potts in the Iron Man films. In real-world real life, the mooring mast atop the Empire State Building was originally intended to moor airships to, hence the term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgM7plKEVE4

Didjeriduet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXBGZoBYaLY

Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=912U0_sU0_U

Jacob Collier – Little Blue, recorded live in a big empty acoustical church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQvzX0Z3HE4

Means, motive and opportunity. (via This Isn’t Happiness) (Scroll down.)
https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/means-motive-and-opportunity-3/

How we get eight million new crayons every day. Everything from Cerulean Fungus to Fire Engine Red to Tiger Plum Frappe. Color recognition, like ice, is civilization. Unless you’re color blind, in which case God compensated you with other powers and abilities, such as extra-quick side-to-side eye movements, useful in video gaming, proofreading, kung fu, retail loss prevention, and plenty more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5MwlpayiS4

Designing dreamscapes.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/21/vw-hippies/

Miss Barton’s famous cakes.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/miss-bartons-famous-cakes.html

Rerun: Here’s how. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/mj-anti-gravity-lean.html

“I’d like to give it to Frank, /you know where!/”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/youre_the_judge

The cruel unfairness of shutting a pet in and leaving it behind. Maybe it’s different if there are several cats shut in together to have a society while you’re gone. But keeping a cat that can go in and out at will is no good because pet cats kill five billion wild birds just in the U.S. every year. They’ve just discovered that having a pet cat when you’re a child triples the chance of your developing schizophrenia. And haven’t we all had the experience of neighbors who left their dog tied up alone in the yard all day while they were away at work, where the creature was miserable and it barked nonstop like a fricking metronome the whole time. On the other hand, pets are so cute, and they have instincts to protect you from a mambo snake, or a burglar can trip over them in the dark and hit his head, and walking them around the neighborhood so they can crap* and piss on everybody else’s plants promotes personal heart health.
https://laughingsquid.com/cat-reacts-after-human-leaves-apartment/

Xylophone cat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CUe8SUn3Wg

Norman Rockwell: First date, home late.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/First-Date-Home-Late-by-Norman-Rockwell-1970.jpg

Hundreds of free documentary films to watch.
https://www.documentarystorm.com/

A new kind of Russian synthesizer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IvTQ9hBmIk

A new, better kind of airplane.
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/jetzero-blended-wing-demonstrator-faa-airworthiness/

A new, better kind of ion thruster for spacecraft, if it’s not a hoax. I’ve read about generating electricity from alpha particle radiation but I can’t find anything about the other way around. A simple electric arc producing nuclear reactions? I don’t know. [Here I hmmm with eyebrows down and lips flat.]
https://newatlas.com/space/fusion-drive-space-engine

Survey of ascent styles.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/eternal-ascent-3d-artist-montage.html

The dance of the Fudu festival.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/tweet-of-day_0517294456.html

The three body problem.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/26/The-Three-Body-Problem/

Down all the stairs in Paris. That bike must be built like a brick shit-house.
https://kottke.org/24/03/urban-freeride-fabio-wibmer

Toolies.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/22/maftoolism/

Art. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtNlvHS6Q4

Creep times 1600. Smooth.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/25/radioheads-creep-as-sung-by-1600-people.html

Jimmy Barnes – We Could Be Gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC2v-q7kBFg

Scroll down to Mr. Skygack From Mars and click on the image to advance. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28882

Nine of the weirdest penises in the animal kingdom.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-animal-kingdom-180976274/

About Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone going at it in the alcalde’s office. “So, for example, you have a disengage, where you straighten your arm to pretend you’re going to attack. Your opponent comes to parry you but, whoop, you nip underneath and stab them instead.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZxu8W6Njw

Extended Jill Bearup, Swordstress – Just Stab Me Now. (46 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEE_pqix1dQ

The Costanza breakups.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-costanza-breakups.html

Ashkasha. Stop-motion art puppet adventure. Somehow this makes me think of being little in Los Angeles in the Space Age. I’m not really sure why. Something about the crafting style… Ah! Emblems on dingbat apartments? No. I don’t know. Maybe it was a dream.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/ashkasha

Illustrated story of the Utrecht fish doorbell. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/mar/22/constant-bad-news-doing-your-head-in-why-not-read-about-the-fish-doorbell-instead

Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group. (via Everlasting Blort)
http://www.horg.com/horg/

The Pickle Sisters. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://leavesoftrash.com/desperately-seeking-the-pickle-sisters/

“So, Rebecca, your young man, from this he makes a living?”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tz8OkZ_ayow

What you miss by just watching the concert and not reading the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E9AOweTwG0

Running from camera. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://runningfromcamera.blogspot.com/

They still do it this way.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/defecation_relief_unit_for_aeroplane_personnel

“I want it that way.”
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/03/28/police-lineup/

Bimbo Jet – El Bimbo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HyftZVx6tY

13 workers working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL3SECbGIwQ

Don’t be suspicious. Don’t be suspicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyEBeHvNJvE

Murmuration, nature’s lovely teevee static.
https://laughingsquid.com/winter-starling-murmuration-yorkshire-wetlands/

Speaking of which, watch this static and move your eyes around smoothly as if following clumps of birds. You’ll find you can decide where the birds go, and drive them around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8JZCqaJ068

Rerun: My favorite version of Waiting For A Superman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUb85TnTiBk

Japan on 16mm film. Warm and fuzzy and cool and edgy all at the same time.
https://theawesomer.com/japan-on-16mm-film/735024/

“Ends in a number, let it slumber. Ends in a letter, not much better.”
https://xkcd.com/2913

This person makes vacuum tube guitar amplifiers from scratch, and by /from scratch/ I mean he makes his own vacuum tubes.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/29/the-pacific-northwests-own-vacuum-tube-macgyver-is-at-it-again.html

An AC/DC-like We Will Rock You.
https://theawesomer.com/if-ac-dc-wrote-we-will-rock-you/734605/

Little girl nails Nine Inch Nails.
https://theawesomer.com/kids-sing-nine-inch-nails/735199/

“You know, at a time like this I think of my father’s last words: Don’t, Son, that gun is loaded.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-100-greatest-before-kill-movie-one.html

Gary Burton vibing. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHR3F7vp1uc

Bonnie Franklin teaches you to tapdance in a mere 126 minutes. I just found out she died ten years ago. She was so pretty and smart and funny. And she could tapdance. Rosie Radiator died last week; that’s why I’m thinking about tapdancing. My mother taught me to make tap shoes out of regular shoes with thumbtacks. I invented the castanet-shoe, the shaker-shoe, the squeak-toy shoe, and the MIDI-switch shoe. Each generation takes us a little farther, or used to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMHMEs2g5o
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/239167

Cirque du Soleil. Fire and water.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/27/fire-and-water/

Simon and Garfunkel in 1957, when they were Tico and the Triumphs. Just like with the group name Simon and Garfunkel, Simon was first, Tico, and Garfunkel was the Triumphs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGlszwj9ys

Rerun: (Screaming immense cowboy in the sky) Big Enough. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rvrZJ5C_Nwg

Because also you can use a teapot to explain art, culture, thermodynamics, music…
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/543

Wild Bill Jones.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3BNkUQoC4iU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYyxQOs7QU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHvzyBdpRMM

Navigate around. Find the ninjas on the footpath.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=zgXUsY

*Dog poo golf. A pleasant game to play with headphones on. There’s a trick to casting the bag. It’s not that hard to figure out. Also the wind is interesting, both the sound and its action.
https://vole.wtf/dog-poo-golf/

Miss British Reinforced Concrete of 1953. One term in relatively recent history for an attractive woman was: built like a brick shit-house. They also used to say everything old is new again, so maybe you’ll hear that compliment come back into style.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_british_reinforced_concrete

“When you can speedbag this drum part, Grasshopper, it will be time for you to leave.”
https://laughingsquid.com/speed-bag-song-covers/

The Jaegermonster soldiers in Girl Genius are very proud of their hats. They have a saying about battle plans: “Any plen vhere you lose your het iss a bed plen.”
https://apnews.com/article/photo-pope-vatican-cap-wind-photography-a417b47677d9a4b33c08aba991890f8b

“When a robot makes co-expressions with people in real-time, it not only improves the interaction quality but also helps in building trust between humans and robots,” he continued. This is because we’re programmed to like people who mimic our expression and mannerisms, up to a point. Beyond that point, it becomes mocking. One time at a public access teevee channel meeting in 1986, when I was going to meeting after meeting trying to get them to let me use the channel for what it was there for, you know, public access, the chairperson of the board had a thing of ticking her pen on the table in three or five quick little peeved ticks, waiting awhile and then doing it again. I started doing it at (close to) the same time. It took awhile for her to catch on, but when she did, she shot me a look of such hatred I was too surprised to match her look. Later she unconsciously started tapping the pen again a few times but each time stopped abruptly and gritted her teeth.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/emo-robot-senses-responds-to-human-smile

“So terrifying! She will hold you… and hold you… and hold you! Shudder in the House of Degradation! Flesh curdling experiments! Sadistic Suffering!” (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2-heads.jpg

The bird people of Sarah Angelucci.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/sara-angelucci-aviary.html

Sheep.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/sheep.html

1901 Oldsmobile. He finally gets it started at 29:50, spins around the parking lot, takes us for a POV ride. “Drive ’em if you got ’em. Take ’em out and run ’em around, even if they’re a hundred twenty-two years old.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FzR6gXD3b8

Alexander Jean. That’s their middle names.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/29/alexander-jean/

One-man Who.
https://laughingsquid.com/quadrophenia-tommy-one-man-band/

This is my box, this is my box, I never travel without my box. (Also) What’s in the box? Pain. (Also) I’ve bet you’ve got a big box ta put it in, arr harr harr. (Also) Box-office bomb. (Also) Dumb as a box of rocks. (Also) Ballot, wine, penalty, witness, voice, and cat litter boxes.  (via Cliff Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1773730764808454598/photo/1

And an art trick to do with eggs. You don’t have to wait for next Easter.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-process-involves-applying-melted.html

Wapenstilstandsonderhandelingen.

   “If you want a happy ending, that merely depends on where you stop the story.” -Orson Welles

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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 Trip to Mars, Photoplay in Six Parts (1918, full film, 2 hours) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYP_tMZoqyk

A neat plastic repair technique. I’ve used something like this, but with baking soda instead of cigaret ash, and that works too. I learned about the baking-soda-and-superglue trick in the 1980s from a guitar repair guy. You can fix a nut or bridge that you’ve cracked or notched too deeply. Most recently it was worn-down internal trackball parts. And a torn guitar-pick fingernail. And the sliding switch on the perforated-hose hairdryer I use to heat up under the blankets while I’m brushing my teeth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXPOMGFrWI

“Oo00ooh! Look at all those microamps I’m generating! Oh! Just think what you could do with these things stuck all /over/ you! The mind /boggles!/”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn67tMxBi5Y

Art.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/museum-worthy.html

Rays, (via Xeno)
https://newsi8.com/a-close-encounter-of-the-solar-kind-video/

Down the rabbit hole of Bottomless Popcorn.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/bottomless-popcorn.html

Tapestry. “Join the army. Like prison but with more fighting.” (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALK_rV57xvg

Elder master, we believe in you. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RCFBYEVk8I

Dances with octopockles. Halp, octopockles got me.
https://laughingsquid.com/salsa-dancing-with-giant-octopus/

A new Disney ride. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DGOXEEx8k

The original Disneyland Star Tours projector ride from 1987. Juanita and I went to Disneyland after we got married in 1988. This ride was impressive fun. It was in the dark, the screen was big and close, and they shook and tilted the seats with hydraulics. Of course it didn’t have the impact of the Rocket to the Moon ride in the early 1960s, not only because I was four years old in 1962. In 1962 we were really going into space to live and work and make a life there, it wasn’t a /pew-pew-pew/ Punch and Judy show. And the future was –I dunno, look, when I think about what my four-year-old self thought the future would be, and compare it with what we got, I want you to visualize me sitting here shaking and crying real tears. This is /somewhat/ dealt with in the 2012 Brad Bird film Tomorrowland, which I think was a masterpiece of making the audience recognize how we feel about the real world, as well as, probably not a wise box office decision, but how we feel about the /experience of going to that movie itself/. I’m sure there’s a Yiddish word for this that takes fifteen minutes to explain out loud but you feel it in an instant. Anyway, Star Tours 1987-2010:
https://theawesomer.com/the-original-star-tours-film/734426/

Speaking of which, rerun: Jenny Nicholson in 2017 on the subject of the movie Tomorrowland. She’s a little harsher about it than I would be, but in much of this, she says exactly the same things as what Juanita and I were saying to each other on the way home from the theater after it in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-74z9dFYs

See /Tomorrowland/. If you can’t stream movies, I’m sure they have the DVD at the library. It’s pretty good. The feelings are feely and complicated, but so what. For all the film criticism, and a lot of it’s justified, I have watched and enjoyed Tomorrowland at least six times. Ten or twelve if you count watching the first fifteen minutes of it and stopping there. In the middle of that part, when the little boy says, “Who are you?” and the little girl says, “I’m the future, Frank,” and she smiles and he smiles, /that’s what I’m talkin’ about; that’s the good feeling about the future that, really, who has anymore?/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_(film)

If you can stream movies and teevee series, this site helps you find the ones you want and provides a choice of sources and prices. There are free sources for many things. (On the desktop version the search field is dim, top-right.)
https://www.justwatch.com/

Waffle House training film. Plating code. (24 min.)
https://kottke.org/24/03/waffle-houses-magic-marker-system

“It’s a simple head code. Any English schoolboy could catch it.”
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bible-symbols-1908/

Schnoz cat. Like a hep cat but whose defining attribute is rather the schnoz. Say the caption out loud in Durante’s voice.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/name-impression.html

Tribal people react to hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time. “Sir, I think he is referring to Hell by that jungle. There will be cries all over the place, and good people will be those who follow the piper’s tune.” Well, exactly. The man in the giant flowing toroidal hat gives me an idea of where Sam Elliot’s ancestors might have come from. I can easily see him kicking the shit out of rude crime boys who tore the picture of his dead wife, pushing their limp bodies out of the way, getting in his car, saying, “Oh, for Pete’s sake,” and quietly departing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRzh0SAJmig

How to find the next chord in a progression when writing a song.
https://blog.discmakers.com/2016/03/find-the-next-chord-when-writing-a-song

All the illusions.
https://laughingsquid.com/every-optical-illusion-explained/

“He is so handsome and so nice, Coco. All pink like a rose. All round and all cute. He is so beautiful.” Click the Closed Captions on. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gSnrlIp9XI&ab_channel=JohnJ.Boulet

This is not a drill. (Ce n’est pas un exercice.)
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-comic-strip-of-theseus-and-more.html

I immediately recall all, tune, lyrics and product, except number 3 and number 12. How about you?
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/03/20/but-do-you-remember-what-the-jingles-were-for/

Undersea suits and undersea vehicles.
https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2016/03/amazing-submarine-concepts.html

Classical and romantic loungification.
https://laughingsquid.com/classical-composers-lounge-pianists/

New synthesizers.
https://laughingsquid.com/unique-electronic-instruments/

The Michelangelo of tattooing. (Scroll down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos/

“If you’ve reached thirty.” New miracle FACE-BRA.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miracle_face_bra

Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch. (via Futility Closet)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Augsburger_Wunderzeichenbuch

Maybe you’re not all that fascinated by lighters. You will be. You will be. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1768652693579448538

Objet d’art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/16/repost-dancer-as-object/

Objet d’musique.
https://laughingsquid.com/misirlou-on-mulatar-instrument/

A puppet dog and a real dog playing. So cute!
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1bheg1c/next_level_puppeteering_skills/

“Just as their body temperature rises above freezing, their hearts start to beat once more.”
https://laughingsquid.com/hibernating-painted-turtles-defrost-in-spring/

A dance to spring.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/17/watch-intense-wordless-introduction-to-butoh-a-form-of-japanese-dance-theater.html

Whistling macrobiotechnology.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/tweet-of-day_0707820612.html

The Congreve rolling-ball clock.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/01/congreve-rolling-ball-clock.html

Triumph.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/03/world-down-syndrome-day-is-march-21.html

Rerun: Nina Simone – Feeling Good. Even besides her perfect voice and talent of connecting with the audience, first I like the shape of her head. (via 27thStreet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlNpmSN7mRg

Is There A Level Above “Grand Wizard Master Tactical Troll”? Apparently, yes, there is. This is /Leave Britney alone!/-level-impressive cringeworthy-acting-exercise foolery. (I think I might have got this via Tacky Raccoons, but I looked and can’t find it there now.)
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/03/is-there-level-above-grand-wizard.html

Time-lapse of 30-day container ship voyage.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/17/repost-30-days-at-sea/

Megalithic Ireland. (via Tacky Raccoons)
http://www.megalithicireland.com/

Timelapse of JTNP.
https://laughingsquid.com/joshua-tree-national-park-day-to-night/

I’m a little teapot.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/03/im-little-teapot.html

“Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.” Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/itspeteski/

Massive new kind of blueberry. They don’t say what it tastes like.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-blueberry-size-of-golf-ball.html

Hey, pal, my eyes are /up here/. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x7g92vXhqU4

Five brass horns.
https://laughingsquid.com/seb-skelly-brass-horn-gnarls-barkley-crazy/

How we get letters.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/18/Every-Letter-Has-a-Story-Behind-It/

Diagram of the Apocalypse, which, unlike most other printed words, does not appear sounding properly inside my head but always appears goofily as AP-oh-klops. I say it the right way out loud, reading aloud, without missing a beat, but in my head, it’s AP-oh-klops in a sarcastic child’s voice, like the little boy sassing, “moht-ZART!” back to his mother in the episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show where they were auditioning children (at 13:15 in this show). I mentioned this once to a fellow person waiting in a waiting room, and she said, “I do that too, but it’s pork-lips, because of Pork Lips Now.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-founder-of-red-cross-created.html

Murder By Death (the full film, 135 min.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/murder-by-death.html

Train, trainer, trainest. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/old-train-thursday-91/

And another in the endless well of series of photographs of women I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/marie-lise-gres.html

Bajor for Bajorans.

   “Kirchhoff used five cans of Rustoleum Tub and Tile epoxy paint (they were working on two bathrooms at the same time), which cost around $250 total. Even though there’s paint in the name, it’s not like the version you’d apply to your walls. Kirchhoff says to follow the instructions very carefully and, ideally, use it during warmer months so you can open a window and clear little ones out of the house as it stinks really, really bad, they say.”

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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:

Walking on the Moon on banjos. A regular banjo, a snare banjo and a great honking bass banjo.
https://laughingsquid.com/walking-on-the-moon-banjo-cover/

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle in her natural habitat.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/irish-mccalla-erin-go-brag.html

Unused geisha footage shot for the sides of giant blimps in the original Blade Runner film. “Let’s go to that colony!”
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/14/unseen-blade-runner-footage-of-the-geisha-on-the-offworld-blimp-video.html

“Its okay, Brian. Don’t get any ideas.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqamZJ0_3g

Pete and Bas. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBuTTz1-IQU

Busby Berkeley, 1943. Didn’t Carmen Miranda have Jadzia Dax eyes. I just noticed that. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0

“And a Mr. Sennet. And a Mr. Oh!, Oh!, he wouldn’t leave his name.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5MLohUPXZw

The tension engine. (21 min.) Watch the build, or skip ahead to see it in use at 18:24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmX_JcGvtG0

There’s fairy art, and there’s fairy art.
https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2015/06/enchanting-victorian-fairy-tale-art.html
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/14/ziwu-artemis/

Sharpest tool in the shed: lower right. As seen in /U-Turn/, starring Sean Penn. Whenever I use that kind of pipe cutter for PVC pipe I have the –I’m not sure it’s the right term for it, but the instrusive thought of putting a thumb or a finger in it. Of course I never do it, but I imagine it and flinch. I remember being little, five, maybe, and playing with regular pliers, squeezing my hand or the skin of my arm until it hurt, then backing off a little and wondering about how hurt works. One time not long after that I was playing with pliers and the faucet outside the kitchen wall in the driveway, really bearing down on the pliers, and they slipped, so the back of the handle pinched my belly hard. My reaction was to look all around and make sure nobody had seen it happen. I never yelped or cried out in pain when I was a child. Things hurt and surprised me, but I would way more rather be physically hurt than have someone think I was stupid for doing whatever it was that hurt me. People were always telling me how smart I was, but I never felt smart, nor particularly solid, compared to others. It took my entire long life to grow out of that. You should hear me now when I hurt myself. (via Fark)
https://live.staticflickr.com/8167/7696682190_b13b14405a_b.jpg

A new ancient kind of shark made of papier mache. Or perhaps parched liver.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/mar/13/new-shark-just-dropped-cal-poly-humboldt-instructo/

2024 Sony world photography awards.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/03/winners-2024-sony-world-photography-awards-open-competition/677724/

The legendary Carol 3D ViewMaster disk.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/03/14/view-master-carol-1977-78/

Visit the UK. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRoYvFTE3c

World archeology atlas. Experiment to navigate. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://vici.org/

Wild ice skating.
https://kottke.org/24/03/wild-ice-skating

Indoor skydiving ballet competition.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/09/repost-wind-games/

The smoke fairy (1909).
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/10/princess-nicotine-an-enchanting-short-film-from-1909.html

The valence of husky voices. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese) (I think. Actually I lost where I got this from.)
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=62837

Zombie on harp and guitar.
https://theawesomer.com/zombie-on-harp-guitar/732666/

Pixel dancers. The people and their clothes are pixels. Each one is a pixel. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIBwARHyXc

A.I.-generated burrito restaurant ad. Mmm.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13186770

The Rootworks lesbian commune.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/rootworks-lesbian-commune.html

You might remember this from way back in 2010. Tight pants, body rolls. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1c2KzJbcGA

The 1936 Stout Scarab. It had a regular Ford engine in it, back to front, in the rear. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVaBXkYges&t=358s

A.I.-generated cover songs. (via Xeno)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZh4E13yaivJMkNyglFCOpv75yaaQft7B

Hater’s Anthem.
https://theawesomer.com/infinity-song-slow-burn/733379/

Lyrics: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=lyrics+infinity+song+hater%27s+anthem

Rerun: The Ballad of Billy John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMbLImbrjgQ

Ceramic art. When there were hippie stores all over the place that sold copper weed pipes, blacklight posters and sand candles, this sort of design was comical, but now, when it’s made of real ceramics, it feels serious. My favorite is the black ball one with the pink punk-hair hat. Or maybe the mountain/water waves one. Or the volcano barnacle. Or the wiggly sleeve-dress. Or the watercolor Tiffany lampshade. Or the bandage-bikini thong.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/10/repost-zenji-master/

Art.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/classic-japanese-science-fiction-art.html
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/03/kaci-smith-weaving/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4geLuEOHWz/?img_index=3 (via This Is Not Happiness)
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/15/thomas-vorwerg/

Hip-Os
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/hula-hoop.html

The 16 (or 12, or 9, or 23) Best Air Purifiers For Pet Hair. I’m not gonna read this on the air, but you might learn something about the way the web works now by at least skimming it.
https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

Soft flesh. That’s the problem.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/13/tom-the-dancing-bug-one-day-in-january-2025-in-the-new-york-times-newsroom.html

A nested catalog of /catalogs/ of wonders. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese, itself a catalog of wonders) That’s a lot of wonders.
https://satyrs.eu/linkroll/

The most populous cities through history. Double-speed works fine. You can keep up.
https://kottke.org/24/03/the-most-populous-cities-in-the-world-from-3000-bce-to-today

Pluvior. (via BoingBoing)
https://pluvior.com/index.html

Translation.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/711853880730877952/beware-the-ides-of-march

The Conqueroo.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_conqueroo

Amazing pictures of small things.
https://jainarayanshistoryhelthspace.quora.com/What-scientific-photos-are-hard-to-believe-but-are-indeed-real-8

Another Thing Coming and Billie Jean mashup.
https://laughingsquid.com/billie-jean-youve-got-another-thing-coming/

This makes me think of Cordwainer Smith’s stories, that are populated by a servant underclass of people constructed of different animals’ genes to suit them for the various tasks they perform. And also the animal people in the Wachowski siblings’ film /Jupiter Ascending/, which got terrible ratings, though I liked it enough to watch it over and over. Cut it into sections and release it as a teevee mini-series and it would have triumphed. It still can. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA2V3TRRK3A

A dog.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/ollie.html

Bugs’ life.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/10/bugs-after-dark-short-film-reveals-the-night-life-of-insects-in-the-city.html

Read the article and watch the video. This is where we are now. Imagine where we’ll be in just a couple of years. The materials needed to make and power and repair robots aren’t really any more expensive than those needed to make and power and repair humans. And people who complain that machines take human’s jobs clearly have never had to dig up a septic line in the cold rain or clean up after spoiled rich people. I hate the robotic phone trees that replaced humans to answer phones and help with phone company and internet and medical and social billing and problem solving and related subjects, but that’s because these things were rolled out too soon. Like robot vehicle drivers, they just keep getting better at it, where people don’t. Human drivers are as good as we’ll ever get, and we’re terrible at it, based on road rage and tiredness and drug and alcohol related –and merely distraction-related– crash figures. Plus we can only look in one direction at a time, and every time we blink our eyes are closed. Robot drivers are already better, and as problems appear they’re solved. Also I like the new robot voices.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/figure-01-openai-humanoid-robot-real-time-conversations/

(Just the video:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw

The lunatic is on the grass.
https://laughingsquid.com/pink-floyd-brain-damage-dulcimer/

Alas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UyU42TuGe0

WHAT.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2023/03/01/USAT/34c709ec-78c5-4723-936e-ce43c7b0d0b3-Screenshot_97.png

Why?
https://laughingsquid.com/descending-kalavantin-durg-steep-stairs-india/

If no now, Venn? If not you, who?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/terrible-maps.html

Miss Electric Blanket.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_electric_bedding

The meat magnet.
https://newatlas.com/materials/electroadhesion-bond-soft-hard-materials

“I’ll bet every man on the station would like to give her a raktajino.” “Ah, but I’m the one with a raktajino /machine/.”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/13/Raktajino-the-Klingon-Coffee/

Allison Young.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/11/allison-young/

The national distressed community index. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://eig.org/distressed-communities/?regions%5B0%5D=06&geo=states&lat=37.42&lon=-119.27&z=5.33

Pi in song.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/09/Sing-Along-with-200-Digits-of-Pi/

The anthem of the United Federation of Planets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8-OkKZqlrE

Maps.These are all ten or more years out of date but probably still close.
https://www.kueez.com/en/interesting-maps-found-any

Shoes. (via Fark)
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/03/05/USAT/72855003007-ap-aptopix-texas-baylor-basketball.jpg

Time. (via Kottke)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4FnfQbsqy8/

Further photographs of the sort of women I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/larry-aldrich.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/dorian-leigh.html

Yeah, that’s it. That’s the way. Ahhh, yeah. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1759837050155536740

Piano Police.
https://theawesomer.com/every-breath-you-take-grand-piano-cover/733173/

Colorized Civil War-era photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKN03_BvbWY

The shrimp tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180_xij5Kgg

“Leave a voicemail and I might make a song out of it.” (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.instagram.com/mightdeletelatermusic/

Çifteli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTeSv0SKlGc

A futuristic hurdy-gurdy that seems to owe its design to a Klingon disruptor rifle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl4FhfHV6WM

Images of Havana, Cuba.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/habana-vieja-repost.html

/UNGFH!/ (via The Vintage Photo Booth)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7721157101237279

“You have to wear shoes anyway.”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/electricura_shoes

How to light-paint.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-two-minute-light-painting-tutorial.html

Speaking of The Vintage Photo Booth… Scroll down and down forever. Every item is a gem, every time I go there. It’s like the basket of pictures there used to always be in the back corner of thrift stores. They were like a quarter apiece. I’d like to have all of them, but I’d settle on one. Sometimes I used them for cover photos for the /Memo/ newspaper. “Delia love Glady” springs to mind. It was a beautiful young woman in the 1920s, smiling but sad, and it said that diagonally across the back.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/

Call me AI

   “Who’ll be my role model now that my role model is gone, ducked back down the alleyway with some roly-poly little bat-faced girl. All along there were incidents and accidents. There were hints and allegations…”

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem 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:

How to send an email 40 years ago. It hasn’t changed much.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-to-send-email-in-1984.html

One o’ these days, Alice. One o’ these days. Bang, zoom, to the moon!
https://newatlas.com/space/dart-asteroid-redirection-impact

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster.
https://www.tmz.com/2024/03/05/thai-prostitutes-brawl-fight-bangkok-police-turf-war/

The actual The Who recording Who Are You. Keith Moon, drummer, mugs constantly, whether drumming or background singing or whatever. This is just before he died, though there are theories that he never did, nor Marilyn Monroe, nor Fyvush Finkel, and they’re in a spaceship.
https://laughingsquid.com/the-who-recording-who-are-you-1978/

Sportsball opera.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/nfl-opera.html

French com-pong. Like a rom- or sit-com, but with dexterity. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/secretin-purkart.html

Seeing sound using stroboscopy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_dtcZP1EE

“Have you ever lost yourself in the eyes of a pig.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/mysterious-mysteries.html

Hoffmeister’s Rotor. (via The Vintage Photo Booth)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=422638820219597

Spasmodic bendy ballet. This makes me think of the many annual cartoons by Jules Feiffer titled /A Dance To Spring/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9PDSfEjUk

A dance to Somebody That I Used To Know. The people all make me think of Bart in the second year of /Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency/, when she dances in the Bergsberg jail with Trost, Farmer Prince of Wendimoor, the greatest scissor-swordsman in three realms.
https://theawesomer.com/somebody-that-i-used-to-know-dance/732928/

“The most beautiful shots in cinema history.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-most-beautiful-shots-in-cinema.html

You’d think a thing like this would catch on.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/women-garage-attendants.html

Trailer for /The People’s Joker/.
https://www.avclub.com/the-peoples-joker-trailer-vera-drew-1851310129

Some things your dad says.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/dad-says.jpg

Barefoot Sixteen Tons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9kb4-wUAU4

Funk No. 1 – Tokyo Groove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K8dNctci1Y

Rerun: The lady in the tutti-frutti hat.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-lady-in-tutti-frutti-hat.html

About a sound artist.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/invasive-species.html

Ken Nordine: The Sound Museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQR1WmU9Is

A tabletop game invented by NASA engineers. (via MissCellania)
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/

There are some songs I collect all the different versions of– Stairway to Heaven (100-plus of them), the Sukiyaki Song, Psycho Killer, and so on. Also Take Me To Church, now; I don’t know how I missed this particular one of that.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2015/02/04/staceys-mom/

Bird moves. Bird moves, yeah. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/slater_paul/status/1763602849341055243

Slug humiliates a Venus flytrap. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1763694059711844407

Thunderstruck in Gaelic.
https://theawesomer.com/thunderstruck-in-gaelic/732606/

The bug carousel.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/07/the-bug-carousel/

Slums.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/victorian-slums-photos/

Two neat tool projects you can make from the transformer in an otherwise dead microwave oven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2UfglFeOH8

Soulmate Psychic Love Advisor. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpEEbP_PvXs/?hl=en-gb

The biggest organ ever.
https://theawesomer.com/playing-the-worlds-largest-organ/732310/

It’s not the biggest domino/card fall, but it’s clever and pretty, especially the end. (You might have to click the sound on.) (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1760033063784858074

Art. (via Interesting As Fuck)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1bas2wp/the_artistic_technique_of_paul_kenton/

Art.
https://theawesomer.com/the-wild-robot-trailer/732816/

Clarence Thomas, auctioneer.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-you-are-about-to-enter-the-courtroom-of-judge-clarence.html

What.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/03/05/PKNS/72854772007-kn-selection-day-bp-5.jpg

A clever idea for a show.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/07/the-improvised-talk-show-where-guests-are-created-on-the-spot.html

I say never. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0ohgZFVqc

I can’t imagine anyone actually wearing fashion clothes like these anywhere but a fashion runway or a costume party, but the choice of music goes well with the show. Ozzy Man screaming in Strine along with this would make it even better.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/04/wunderful/

Poor whale. What a life. (via Interesting As Fuck)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1b60j5y/this_data_shows_a_blue_whale_in_the_bay_of_ancud/

Smells Like Teen Spirit in classical Latin, with lyrics.
https://kottke.org/24/03/cover-of-smells-like-teen-spirit-sung-in-classical-latin

How we get gas station sandwiches. “A robot suctions up bread slices and places them on a moving belt.”
https://theawesomer.com/mass-producing-sandwiches/732541/

This woman reminds me of when I’m raking across the radio channels on a long drive and I stop on different stations and amuse myself by imitating what the people sound like. NPR, for example. On my own show, the whole time, on top of reading the material as well as I can, I’m making fun of how I sound to myself in my headphones. I’m not kidding about that. That’s really what I’m doing… unless I’m really tired, in which case I’m more like a player piano. (via Interesting As Fuck)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1b4tqav/10_popular_tones_used_in_voice_acting/

A low, slow, lovely desert rollercoaster ride.
https://theawesomer.com/desert-mountain-roller-coaster/732457/

Husbands, too, like Premarin. “It makes your wife pleasant.”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/husbands_too_like_premarin

Rerun: Master of Puppets on slap bass, but also fretless bass with an e-bow.
https://theawesomer.com/master-of-puppets-on-slap-bass/690072/

La Mazura di Papa. Schiavo d’Amore. Danza dei Vagabondi.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/anselmo-ballester.html

Lifelike motion and realism. They show you some static charts near the beginning. Don’t bail then; the best is after that. This is the future of everything.
https://theawesomer.com/emo-emote-portrait-alive/732319/

“How many animals do you eat?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gz9Vj8TMCc

Trippy waterslide. POV ride starts at 2 min. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OELKAUYYyHs

This makes me think of the teevee series /The Magicians/. Also look up finger tutting.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/numerical-hands-1797/?utm_source=newsletter

Electrical snail-flinching action starts at 1:50.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/07/gardeners-shocking-new-trick-keeps-tomatoes-safe-from-snails.html

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/constantin-joffe.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/suzy-parker.html

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

Nap.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/powernappers-paradise.html

Not gay enough.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/purity-test.html

I love this. You might have to click the sound on. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/JoshyBeSloshy/status/1759753644038078612

And this via Everlasting Blort. Lava pouring through a rocky snowfield.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1atqa3e/lava_and_snow_in_iceland/

All our sins and griefs to bear.

   “The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.” –Ernest Hemingway

Here’s the recording of last night’s Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy. This show was the first one I did from a new live remote setup in Albion, made of radio station leftovers, to save an hour’s round-trip drive to town in the stormy wet. Twenty-dollar MXR mic on a ten-dollar boom, an old dented Behringer mixer, a donated laptop from the Vista era with fresh Xubuntu in it, and the sound quality is not too shabby:

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every drop 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of that money, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there. Marshall Brown is the first man whose hand I shook in four years, since covid started. It was a couple of weeks ago. It was like a switch flipped, and I’ve been shaking everybody’s hand now. But I still don’t pick my nose or rub my eyes anymore. That ship has sailed. Remember: a gentleman never grabs or even plucks at at a lady’s hand. She must offer it. It has to be her idea.

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. 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.

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:

“And now, the robot artist that all the raccoons have been talking about.”
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-20-cgrobotartist.gif

One cause of obsessive thinking.
https://laughingsquid.com/cause-of-obsessive-thinking/

Wow!
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/music-for-sunday-morning_069067123.html

How we get rubber bands. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1autffc/rubber_band_manufacturing_process/

How we get Eiffel Towers. (54 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/building-the-eiffel-tower/

Tennesee Waltz.
https://27thstreet.me/2024/02/27/tennessee-waltz/

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/24/repost-meticulous-nature/
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_01615225261.html

Bendy ballet is far sexier than it is creepy. It reminds me of Solid Potato Salad but mellower, less kinetic, less wincy.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/23/brigita-krasovec/

Rerun: Electoral college pong.
https://sippey.com/2024-pong/

Ground effect chopper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oYS_5SgU_0

This is horrible to think about and I’m sorry to show it to you, but if keeps /one child/ from crawling down into a hole in the ground and getting stuck there, it’s worth it. I’m old enough that when I was little they still made refrigerators that latched with a latch, and every child was told to /never play in a refrigerator you find in a field. Just stay away from those./ You’d think, Are there a lot of refrigerators out in fields? But since then, every once in awhile, there one was, and is, and they really built things to last in those days; the latches are likely still intact. Similarly, my grandmother once told me, “Never sit on cement in the winter.” Why? “You’ll catch a cold.” Is that why it’s called a cold? Because cement is cold? “Yes.”
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/02/gruesome.html

Hybrid creatures. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://plastermagazine.com/articles/agnes-questionmark-artist-living-science-experiment/

Dokkedy dok-dok dokkedy dah. Dit daaah, dit-dah-dit-dah-dit-daaah. Wild! Better and better as it goes along. That bass player is the dictionary definition of vivid. She /prints/ herself on your memory. She really cuts loose at about two minutes in. And everybody else in this, too: what a band! What a show of joy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbcW7nxcP3E

Dancing HVAC duct. There was something like this in a couple of episodes of Northern Exposure, when the circus came to town. Two performers used flexible duct costumes. Probably some number of children who saw that were killed getting stuck in ductwork, emulating it, but you can’t warn kids about everything there is to maybe not do. After awhile, they’d be like, why should they listen to you at all? Don’t stick bobbypins in the electrical plug. Don’t eat berries off /that/ plant, those are poison; eat berries of /this/ plant. Never mix carbon tetrachloride and bleach. (That almost killed my Uncle Mo and his wife, in their dry cleaning place.) Don’t put an ice cube in the deep-fryer. And so on. One thing I tell everybody, not just kids, whenever I see them do it wrong is, don’t swing a door shut behind you with your hand the wrong way on the door, wrapped around the shutting edge, absentmindedly trusting your hand to pull itself out at the last instant. They do it in movies and teevee shows and I wanta scream at them. I hate it. It jars me completely out of the show. Some comfort: they stopped making car doors with a frame around the top and back part of the window; people naturally tend not to shut it by the bare glass.
https://theawesomer.com/dancing-ductwork-aka-ductman/731923/

Batman and Superman vs. Darth Vader.
https://laughingsquid.com/superman-batman-darth-vader/

This is what the word magnificent is for. But French, so magnifique.
https://theawesomer.com/insanely-good-musical-impressions/731615/

This singer.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/26/kate-yeager/

These singers.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/01/8eyes/

Echo sax.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/29/caleb-arrodondo/

More from French daredevil skier Candide Thovex.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/02/candide-thovex-one-of-those-days-3.html

Re-entry. The action really starts around 2:30. At 3:00 the microphone fails, and that’s too bad.
https://theawesomer.com/varda-space-capsule-reenters-orbit/732277/

A possible solution to space trash.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/29/A-Possible-Solution-for-Space-Trash/

About the moving panorama, and one in particular.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/27/sublime-moving-panorama-tells-the-tale-of-a-dream.html

Girl with chocolate cigaret.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/permalink/3764186083796244/

Oh, what the hell, everything’s always great at Vintage Photo Booth. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/

“Be nonchalant. Light a Murad cigarette.”
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/rolf-armstrong.html

How we get ball bearings.
https://theawesomer.com/ball-bearing-factory/732163/

How we get quilted maple instruments in the first place.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-quilted-maple-tree.html

Venice carnival 2024 masks. (via Everlasting Blort) (69 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q65lvG6YqA

Snore.
https://theawesomer.com/snoring-dog-song/731743/

Smooth moves.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/sanctuary-phoenix-autonomous-speed-hands

A matrix poem.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/02/23/her-face/

“Late one night when the wind was still, Daddy brought the baby to the windowsill.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3evp6vbzynY

“I stood on the edge of a cliff and I peed on a bird.”
https://27thstreet.me/2024/02/23/he-did-what/

Cats being jerks.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/cats-are-jerks.html

Cats being startled by, mostly, toasters. For leap day.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/tweet-of-day.html

“Nice guy, but he won’t shut up about embryos.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/28/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-embryos-shall-inherit-the-earth.html

Sad /Girls Just Want To Have Fun/.
https://laughingsquid.com/sad-cover-girls-just-wanna-have-fun/

Weird info to dispense on a first date. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.are.na/haunted-house/weird-information-to-dispense-on-a-first-date

Art.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/28/creative/

Rachel Pearl and Bakithi Kumalo. (via My One Beautiful Thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHPnIOLE2Zs

And further in the seemingly endless series of folders of photographs of women, usually clothing models, who I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/joan-whelan.html

Spooky action at a distance.

   “An armed society is a BLAM BLAM BLAM society.” -Drew, of Fark

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager*. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there.

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. 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.

Some news: Bob Young (KNYO’s founder and manager) informs me that worries about losing the downtown studio and performance space have been popped like a balloon. The sale happened. KNYO has new landlords. They turn out to be radio people previously working with KVMR in Grass Valley and very sympatico, so that’s welcome. I think this also means that the project to move the transmitter down into town from out in the sticks and put the antenna atop the studio is back on, and it might be done by summer. Better signal, real-time transmission with no internet buffer lag, closer to the ideal of real radio. Win-win-win.

Besides all that, here’s a fresh bouquet of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mostly found in the fine websites listed to your right:

“We know for sure that we need to do whatever we can to avoid nuclear war.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-happens-after-nuclear-war.html

Happenstantial art. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243854850474250

Roswell. And the mysterio-chord at the end. If the only thing anybody ever needed a whammy bar for was to make that sound, it would still be worth it. (via Juanita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6ZZG3NVMs

“Long before you were crawlin’. Not an aught-three, though. Didn’t have the extenders. Tended to shake.”
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FakeStrat.jpg?resize=555%2C618&ssl=1

Aren’t they great? I want all their music now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlLdqNxTrJM

Speaking of great, all these people, and no danger of superlative creep in calling them so. “If a hamburger is great then what’s the Sistine Chapel?” said Biff Rose. Can the Sistine Chapel do any of these steps?  “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” said Laurie Anderson. But now you can instruct an A.I. to make the painted Chapel ceiling people dance. If somebody hasn’t already tried that, I would be surprised…
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/19/ed-people/

…This isn’t what I mean by that but it’s close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cZIdlqRBCg

Dances of the 1960s. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZdvihA7Y1A

Looking sideways from the Parker Solar Probe.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240219.html

Space. I’m not sure bimbos is the right term. They’re all professionals worthy of respect. The moon babes from UFO, for example, saved the world from invasion more times than you know. A little respect, how about.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/02/19/space-bimbos

Slow chase.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/18/slowest-chase-ever/

Pas de deux with a tractor.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/02/deere-john.html

“That night in Hawaii when I turned into a panther and started making these low-register purring tones that I couldn’t control, shit was wild.” (via Juanita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9X_UTqWYHM

Puderschnee.
https://theawesomer.com/epic-snowboarding-pov/731090/

Webcam tears. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://webcamtears.tumblr.com/

Weird slit-scan photography. (via Kottke)
https://www.instagram.com/francois.vogel/reel/C2PxtBqPq5Q/

Montage of clips from Tim Burton films.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2008/06/films-of-tim-burton-impressive-montage.html

Stevie Wonder without his sunglasses. We’re told. It could be anybody. Not Ray Charles; the chin is different.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/stevie-wonder-without-glasses.html

Florette Regina Ottenheimer.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/margaret-hayes.html

Couches, couches, let me go with you, I would like to sail the ocean blue.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/1960s-couches.html

Amendments, amendments.
https://laughingsquid.com/27-united-states-constitution-amendments/

Julia’s dream. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://laughingsquid.com/julia-dream-mashup-music-video/

Parrot charmingly sings backup on Creep. Juanita’s little parrot of 23 years died during the Dickens Faire prep three months ago and she’s still fragile about it. I have to watch myself about reminding her with things I say. But this is cute. I’m sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_O5VWIOZE

Borzoi not buying it.
https://twitter.com/HeckinGoodDogs/status/1570684225434652673

Nobody buying it.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/19/cringe-at-this-montage-of-donald-trump-peddling-his-many-failed-products-video.html

Hundreds of Gannet-owned newspapers removed this strip from publication to avoid offending their racist lunatic readership.
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/18

About Steven Broken-Nose Murphy. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://crimereads.com/the-most-iconic-nose-injuries-in-the-history-of-crime-film/

Chess trick. This seems cruel to me. How many people laughing at that man would have a hope in hell of lasting even eight moves against him?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/02/grandmaster-maurice-ashley-vs-trash.html

Sibling step dancing and roller skating.
https://kottke.org/24/02/siblings-step-dancing-and-roller-skating

Plenty of Dracula ballets. (via Miss Cellania)
https://spookydaily.com/p/if-you-ever-get-a-chance-to-see-dracula-the-ballet

Super Mario theme in six classical composers’ styles. I enjoy this even more by saying aloud the text that appears on the screen and imagining her exclaiming it as she plays.
https://laughingsquid.com/super-mario-theme-six-classical-composers/

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1757597727939047812

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

Further art.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_0990667059.html
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/20/watch-as-tiny-characters-perform-a-mysterious-looping-dance.html
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/06/judith-beheading-holofernes.html
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/22/cardboard-and-concern/

Polyhedra. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/max-bruckners-polyhedra-1900

Since I’ve lost the ability to hear very well, I am often this dog. But then I hear part of what the person says, respond to that, and they flip out because it’s inappropriate, because everything is inappropriate anymore, whether or not it’s on-point.
https://laughingsquid.com/cockatoo-tells-dog-about-his-day/

Demolition Man knitted for somewhat the same reasons.
https://laughingsquid.com/visibile-mending/

Mister Fantastic of the mollusc world.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_0786232242.html

Miss Frozen Rabbit Meat. Her name was Lola. L-O-L-A.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_frozen_rabbit_meat

Exercise.
https://theawesomer.com/face-to-face-with-newer-samples/731113/

Pulse-jet skateboard.
https://theawesomer.com/rocket-powered-skateboard/730978/

3-motor pulse-jet go-kart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAKekhmTRaY

A collection of Bob’s Big Boys removed from service and imprisoned. They’re much bigger than they look here; that’s a tall fence. (You might have to login to Instagram to view this.) Bob’s Big Boy was a big part of my life. There was one near one of the places in L.A. where my mother worked when I was small, and she often took me there. The best day ever would be a trip to Fern Dell, then the Griffith Observatory, then Bob’s Big Boy. The waitresses at BBB wore little pleated skirts and rollerskated out to your Oldsmobile to hang a tray on the open window and bring you icewater and menus. You’d blink your lights or honk the horn, they’d come back to take your order, and they’d go get it and bring it to you, they were real waitresses; but gliding and angelic. In my memory the hamburgers were perfect, also the fries and a chocolate shake, and they had a free in-house comic book about Big Boy and his friend Dolly. When Juanita and I went back to L.A. to get married in 1988 on the roof of the Griffith Observatory, we swung by that very Bob’s Big Boy, took pictures of each other next to his shiny fiberglass presence, and bought a can of Bob’s Big Boy coffee that I still have, unopened, more than 35 years later. It’s rusty, surely ruined inside, but there it is. If I ever win the lottery, I am getting one of those full-size original Big Boys. And a Doggie Diner nose-dog head. And a Sinclair Oil dinosaur. But first I’d buy KUNK, de-automate it, turn it back into bustling live KMFB, put the studio back out by the transmitter where it belongs, find Bob Woelfel, who must be in his eighties by now, and hand it to him to run it right. Then put the statues there. Put the Doggie Diner head on top of the tower, red aircraft-warning light pulsing from its noseball on quiet misty nights. [triumphant mysterio-chord here, to go with the image in your head]
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3D5pz4vIY0/

“I understand your concern, but world domination is not going to fund itself.” This reminds me of a series of books about a little girl, the daughter of two superheroes, who comes into her power and it’s not what she expected. The first book is /Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Supervillain/, but there’s a prequel –pre-book-1– about a giant superintelligent spider. Fun books for all ages.
https://theawesomer.com/villains-inc-trailer/730825/

Here, the books. Buy them, help the writer out. He went through a horror story with his earlier books, of being screwed royally by his publisher who took all the money, went out of business and vanished. It’s all Richard Roberts’ show now. Get one, see for yourself; you’ll want all the rest.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/143031-please-don-t-tell-my-parents

Mouse P.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/538

“It’s not lying if you’re so narcissistic that you kinda believe it.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-crime-and-punishment.html

Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, will you be my Valentine, do you still look forty-five? And the rest of last week’s Tacky Raccoons hot links.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/02/18/cebocephalic-hot-links/

Ballerina on the boat. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-MQTx1CMM4

A long slow zoom at the brightest object in the universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8E4spViHE

The article explaining all that, including that at its center is a black hole with the mass of 17 billion suns, swallowing the equivalent of another sun every day, or rather it was doing that when the light we now see from it started on its way here. Imagine what it might be eating today, 12 billion years later.
https://newatlas.com/space/brightest-object-universe-swallows-sun-every-day/

Dashcam view of the driver of a truck as it’s bashed in half by a train. He’s fine because of inertia. I miss there being sound on this.
https://laughingsquid.com/train-cuts-amazon-delivery-van-in-half/

“I’m engaged to be married, you fiends from Hell! …So I won’t tell if you don’t tell.”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/19/If-Gilbert-and-Sullivan-Staged-iDraculai/

And the Vintage Photo Booth. Scroll down and down. Forever.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/

Abaddon’s bolero.

   “The broken flower drooped over Ben’s fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard, each in its ordered place.”

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there.

This show, see above, began with the murderously arch Iron Empress Blog of Eleanor Cooney, then there’s a chapter or so each from half a dozen other local writer’s books. There are announcements and conflicts and notices of events and sales, and stories and poems and art and science, history and pornography, quips and queefs and wanton wiles, etc., in short, a feast, all night long, like they used to do in the booths of my grandparents’ Italian restaurant in L.A. when I was little. That’s what I guess I’ve been attempting to recreate: the grownups’ voices in the other room while I sat on the floor in the kitchen making cities and dinosaurs and rocketships out of old pizza dough. And after that the grownups’ voices from the kitchen of the house, rising and falling and laughing and smoking cigarets and drinking coffee like waves on a beach while I fell asleep on a book in my little bed.

The coming week’s show can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. 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.

Besides all that, here’s a fresh trove of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mostly found in the fine websites listed to your right:

Trio Mandili – Kakhuri. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK9KOfknTw
https://genius.com/Trio-mandili-kakhuri-lyrics

Opera – Bohemian Batman in the mirror realm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQn26LPwuY

ASMR snails enjoying dinner. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1755873066154909803

“A fireball in the jungle of hot rods and hot babes… Fireball Jungle!“
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/fireball_jungle

Dragnet – The Big Rod.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oe2P49dRoU

Interesting real houses like you can imagine there might be cities full of them on another planet where, I dunno, maybe people are just like us except their elbows bend the other way or they skip when they walk, or a particular world’s Marilyn Monroe’s head is kept alive in a jar, occasionally winking and whispering something wise and sad. (via NagOnTheLake)
http://arquitecturalibre.mx/

Jesus on the beach. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/11/get-ready-to-be-re-inspired/

Paper art. Scroll down and down.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/11/repost-paper-play/

Moon art from 1874.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/12/james-nasmyths-fake-lunar-photographs.html

The highest escarpment in the entire Solar system? Head out to Uranus and hang a left.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2022/02/v.html

Clips from OpenAI’s new video generator.
https://gizmodo.com/the-best-clips-from-openais-new-video-generator-so-far-1851261989

Another article about that.
https://gizmodo.com/openai-video-generator-sora-is-breathtaking-terrifying-1851261593

Ragtime piano version of /Paranoid Android/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY31FsEEkQ8

The game is to guess what these cookie cutters’ shapes are supposed to be, without a sample of the finished cookie art to go by. (via Everlasting Blort) (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatismycookiecutter/

Why we have construction codes. Watch till the end. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-wasnt-expecting-that.html

The Uneven Lanes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0pyKd6JN4

Leaf-pile-jumping dog compilation. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://americandigest.org/open-thread-2-9-24/

Rerun: Cute sounds a Weddell seal makes in its sleep, dreaming about, perhaps, playing a 1980s video game. Look away from that and at me, in your imagination, for a moment, where I’m making the face that comes with trying and failing to restrain myself from saying, “Looks like you blew a seal,” because I know you know the joke that’s the penultimate line of.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_0220850850.html

Italian murmuration. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to cllick the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1753166995648827656

Prompt: David Bowie in an alternate world where he runs an HVAC consultancy, with something, your choice, sticking out of his vest. Maybe a medal or a prize ribbon. (via Fark)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEV174OGA4yWOqiyKHDsLnsnIz3SyDcplBsdTcrq6HH6u0fQOR8u8ULtIxR-5VfwNqC2v50tK43c9JwLGjMmGld9p_74xC5nUHUTlOJLjVh_qIHAOzigcd5a3NuKibpXwuFf0cRCQi1zUAzBMGjYdufNYA=w1969-h1312-no

Born to add.
https://laughingsquid.com/bruce-springsteen-sesame-street-parody/

This guy.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/12/hozier-unplugged/

Harpist uses odd electronics to make music for video games. They ship her random gizmos and she uses them with guitar pedals and other things she’s collected. She reminds me, in looks and voice and manner, of the young space-techie character Five, in the teevee show /Dark Matter/, actress Jodelle Ferland who, years before that, played Jeliza-Rose in Terry Gilliam’s /Tideland/, a dark, weird film about a little girl taken by her heroin junkie washed-up rock-and-roller father (Jeff Bridges) to his bleak childhood Texas prairie home in the middle of nowhere when her mother ODs. Whereupon /he/ ODs and gradually mummifies in a chair, leaving Rose to go quietly increasingly mad. That was what Terry Gilliam, of quirky comic /Brazil/ and /Time Bandits/ and /Adventures of Baron Munchausen/ fame, made when they gave him the money and let him work without interference for a change. It didn’t do well, critics savaged it, but I was rapt from aborted Viking funeral in hotel room to explosive midnight passenger train wreck; I think /Tideland/ is a work of genius.
https://theawesomer.com/ridiculous-music-tech/730313/

As above.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/as_above

“Speed, the life’s blood of the newspaper! Speed, speed, speed! Get the news to the newspaper, get the papers on the street!” How wire-photos work. Also, count all those great jobs, that you could support a family and buy a house working at.
https://laughingsquid.com/1930s-wirephoto-technology/

Ballet.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/13/kevin-jenkins-choreography/

Nina Simone – To Love Somebody. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymNICNvaH8

“So when you say it sounds harsh, it sounds much nicer in the original German.” “Yeah, there ya go.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/14/maga-mob-agrees-tells-jordan-klepper-that-america-needs-a-nazi-style-dictator-video.html

At the Old Robots’ home.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/openai-1x-eve-humanoid-work

The story of two versions of Hurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z9pB4yI-BQ

They left this one out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU

Video demo of a new game. You wake up in a car. A talking cat is driving.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/nip-for-speed.html

Umbrella.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/02/london-brawling.html

Liberals are always right. Sorry, it’s true.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/14/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-american-story-liberals-are-always-right.html

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cylq5K9IQva

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

These are real buildings. Way cooler than our Lego-block buildings.
https://theawesomer.com/drone-flies-around-chinas-tallest-skyscraper/730901/

Alligator man.
https://27thstreet.me/2024/02/14/alligator-man-2/

Crocodile man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11vYEnmHtmk

The charts. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.boredpanda.com/relatable-funny-charts/

The Special Little Magic Boy.
https://laughingsquid.com/every-epic-adventure-quests/

What life is like for a polar bear without ice. Video and sound from the polar bear’s point of view.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-life-is-like-for-polar-bears-in.html

Vintage typologies.
https://kottke.org/24/02/vintage-typologies

Gigantic smoke man. It makes me think of the /Torchwood/ episode about Abaddon.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/13/mysterious-figure-in-forest-fire.html

Abaddon’s bolero. Starts low, ends loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qthX_gkDpYI

Making a toy nail-wave machine. For the short of attention span, skip to 9 minutes in.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-nail-wave-machine/730700/

Death by Snu-snu. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3V0U-iPIRq/

Acorn. Trigger warning.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/14/cop-confuses-falling-acorn-for-gunshot.html

Shape.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/1947-norman-timbs-special.html

How to metal-electroplate a plastic model.
https://theawesomer.com/electroplating-a-3d-printed-iron-man-helmet/730655/

I don’t know how /unfathomably sick/ this is. I kind of like it. I think /sick/ must mean something different frow what it meant before. Maybe it means a little overmodulated. Chinese invented both the banjo and the zither, so there’s that. Also zither is onomatopoeic, for the sound when one is strummed.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_01016215630.html

“For the split second that the line is drawn your brain can see it.” You might have to turn the volume up a little to hear the explanation.
https://theawesomer.com/disappearing-lines-illusion/730681/

Well, it’s interesting. The drum solo one sounds like tennis shoes in a dryer, but don’t all drum solos? The A.I.-generated sound effects, though, hmm.
https://stability-ai.github.io/stable-audio-demo/

Stop. I can’t.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/13/you-cant-make-this-up-2/

See, but here, I can. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/yoda4everx/status/1716143728602288252

The last time Harvey Pekar was on Letterman. I’ll bet you know someone with exactly his aspect every time you meet. Imagine what it feels like to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcw04jWgiY

10 years of YouTube in three minutes.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2015/02/youtube-anniversary-video-compilation.html

And the exhaustive list of links to full versions of all those clips.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ4GEdTV2hJSecXM8zvCdnOhTYfInN7a5

The all-new cutting-edge-tech rotary-dial telephone that will soon come to /your/ town and put Edna out of work. The phone switchboard is all she has, now that Josiah is gone and her poor son Tom was killed overseas. Can’t they wait just two years? Just a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45T7U5oi9Q

It’s just a piece of plastic for people to put their phones against and participate while they’re out there anyway. Chronolog compiles the results, and the world benefits. This is right up there in the gallery of best simple ideas ever.
https://kottke.org/24/02/crowdsourced-time-lapses-that-help-monitor-the-environment

The girl in the café.

   “Year by year the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.” -Basho

Here’s the recording of last night’s 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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Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown.

The coming week’s show can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. 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 smattering of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, probably found in the fine websites listed to your right:

The Iron Giant. This was Brad Bird’s first film. Of course he was inspired by Gigantor, one of my favorite teevee shows when I was four or five, as I recall, but Wikipedia says it came to the U.S. in 1966, when I was seven or eight. Gigantor was about a little boy who had a fifty-foot-tall robot that could fly carrying him in its hand or on its head. What puzzled me as a child about Gigantor was, the boy controlled him with a metal shoebox with a single button or lever on it. Whatever he needed Gigantor to do –rescue a sabotaged jet, walk three steps and turn right, save a car from a precipice– one motion on the control would make the robot do whatever complicated operation was desired, like magical telepathy. The little boy in The Iron Giant has no control box; the robot came from outer space and is clearly a person you can make friends with, no mere machine. (Hand animation and early CGI, 86 minutes. Voices: Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr. Cloris Leachman.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-iron-giant.html

Mechas by size.
https://theawesomer.com/mechas-from-a-human-perspective/729667/

Yes, who is to say?
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/536

Around the moon. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese) (And scroll down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emile-antoine-bayard-s-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870/ (And scroll down.)

Images and explanatory video of a recent discovery in the real-life sky regarding moon of Saturn, Mimas (say MY-mus).
https://newatlas.com/space/mimas-ocean/

A trick. Mentalists at work are always a bit frantic, which might be because of trying to line up current reality with their last who-knows-how-many Groundhog Day runs-through in alternate universes of that kind of time travel, displacing and discarding their doppels, settling on the time where the details finally match the intent and it works. It’s a lot to hold in your head at once, especially on stage, observed, and you’re troubled with guilt at, in one interpretation, leaving hundreds of alternate versions of yourself behind  in those other worlds, humiliated, as well as anticipation of becoming one of them, to serve a future-present loop-through of yourself, who technically isn’t any more the original you than a Star Trek matter-transported person is the one the transporter disintegrated for a model to construct a copy at the destination down on the planet. Think of it this way, moment-to-moment reality is the result of all possible realities collapsing into it.  They were real, but they’re not anymore. It’s also a little like the Ship of Theseus problem in reverse, in Hilbert’s Hotel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_QfEpA2ag

Mask.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3360426620671109&set=wow-tonight-gdt-announced-this-photograph-as-the-overall-winner-of-the-gdt-europ

Lips. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2024/02/paige-thompsons-lip-art.html

How we get fire.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/burning-match-macrofied.html

Medieval dog names. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2022/09/nosewise-10-127.html

Producer pronounces proposed script socko, he really loves it, kid, you really got somethin’ there, but suggests intolerable changes that you have to weigh on the scale: Do you want the money or not? I guess I want the money. Okay, then, thanks for playing our little game. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlemagne_and_Alcuin_scriptor.jpg

Three blind ladies, one of them a gifted accordionist, go bowling every Friday night. (13 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/friday-night-blind-bowling/

Rerun: The Girl in the Cafe. I’d like everyone to see this film. Unfortunately it will always be relevant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Caf%C3%A9

Architecture.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/green-over-grey-building-in-harmony.html

Office furniture. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/steelmaster-1966

Comedienne Jessa Reed’s true meth story, which I played the sound of on last night’s show. This is very like several of the stories Flynn Washburne, also a meth addict, wrote from prison to the Anderson Valley Advertiser about his adventures under and over the influence, and under again. I think he’s out of prison now. I don’t know. He’s stopped writing. I hope he’s okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMIeyjggbM

24 pages of titles and links to stories* Flynn Washburne wrote from prison to the Anderson Valley Advertiser over the years.
https://theava.com/archives/author/flynn-washburne

*Here’s the one I read on KNYO and KAKX last night. It occurs to me to hope that these aren’t behind the paywall. But if they are, a year’s full subscription to the AVA on the web is just $25, and well worth it.
https://theava.com/archives/42620

Further in the series of collections of photographs of women I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/brian-duffy.html

Soup bowl prediction. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/09/soup-bowl-prediction/

Pong wars. (via Kottke)
https://pong-wars.vercel.app/

Boing!
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=b2wMrU

I’d be pretty good at this kind of racing for a drive short enough to not get a crick in my neck. When I taught at the Albion Whale School, which was two miles down a twisting dirt and gravel driveway through the forest, I’d ferry kids there in the morning and back at night, and often, on the way home, go backward down driveway at safe forward speed with all the kids small enough to stand on the bench seats facing the direction of travel, laughing and screaming and hopping up and down. My easy competence at driving backward hasn’t translated to backing a utility trailer into a garage or alley, however. I have never got the knack for that, and it still bugs me, like it bugs me that, no matter how I tried over many years, I could never learn to make that Mexican or Scottish rolling-R sound with my mouth, though I can sing all the tongue twisters at remarkable speed, no problem. I did develop a trick, The Technique, to fake a rolling R sound by violently shaking my head and cheek-chops while speaking, but it looks ridiculous and gives me a headache.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/08/found-a-sport-we-can-get-behind/

A little perspective.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_01028427358.html

Something else along those lines. This is also how the Haunted Mansion hallway-niche singing ghosts work.
https://laughingsquid.com/roy-lichtenstein-optical-illusion-house/

VW bus mods. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/vw-buses-not-for-the-faint-hearted/

Doodle people.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/08/deville-design/

A words and phrases referring to dogs.
https://www.metaphordogs.org/index.html

50 meters in 5.8 seconds is 23 mph, on six-inch-long legs, fur flying backward in the wind.
https://laughingsquid.com/fluffy-cat-races-human/

The chicken dance.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-chicken-dance.html

A cheese cave. (Extra points for finding the parking lot.)
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=e5wGuZ

Getting in. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/Itsfletchisback/status/1752802431824474501

Here the game is to Mafia-name this guy. I’ll throw a couple on the table to get yez started: Vinny “Hydrox” Ghilotti. Dino “Ten-High” Munro. Chooch “Flat-top” Oreona.
https://amagicalmess.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/10-stack-1000×714.jpg

Some useful carpentry and wiring and fabrication tricks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6V2Zp5q6_g

Animated evolution of New York, 1524 to 2023.
https://theawesomer.com/an-animated-evolution-of-new-york-city/729911/

Street dance. (via BitsAndPieces) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2vTq6_OJKS/

Public safety dance. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1751646276247081061

Miracles from molecules. (via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjJ7G8iSJmI

Six-axis rack, it says. I count three, with two rods on each axis, but I only skimmed this with the sound off, so maybe the narrative accounts for this.
https://theawesomer.com/six-axis-rack-mechanism/729979/

Sleepy sailors. Click on the image to full-size it. Explore the rest of Shorpy.com; it’s collection reminds a little of the British three-episode series, Shooting The Past.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27335

Spooky. Nice. Quiet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDDQrPf7MXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fola80rQop4

Regrets.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/people-share-their-biggest-regrets-in.html

Rerun: “Everything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled and a firestorm engulfs the surrounding city.”
https://theawesomer.com/if-you-could-throw-a-baseball-near-light-speed/730141/meter

The Surfrajettes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXRBQGG_acs

Burl Ives and Johnny Cash.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/goober-peas.html

The oldest person in the U.S. lives in Willits, just thirty or forty miles away from KNYO, as the crow flies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/edith-ceccarelli-116-years-willits-california.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Goose-steppin’ with a big black bat, y’all. Black bat trussed up like a chicken. Mm-hm.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/02/05/USAT/72478215007-gty-1986519359.jpg

A heavy metal exorcism.
https://theawesomer.com/heavy-metal-exorcism/729978/

Harp twins at a steam engine exhibit. Iron Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UV-2E8kEqg

A couple more notable covers of I’ve Still Got The Blues. The accents. The hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X8Iy4H25aI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcfv7zUQw_s

Lana Turner. She seems small, here. The movies made her look taller and less like Drew Barrymore about the face. Not that anything’s wrong with that.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/lana-turner-at-home.html

All the thought experiments. Left out: several hundred more of them by Steven Wright.
https://laughingsquid.com/every-thought-experiment-explained/

A fine cover of CSN&Y’s Wooden Ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV_HFzPaqVE

/Comfortably Numb/ guitar solo on harmonica, by Will Wilde. (via The Awesomer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87BQLUcqw4

J. Mascis – Old Friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ds7REMJR2c

The goat remixes.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/07/the-taylor-swift-screaming-goats-mashup-turns-eleven-this-week-to-celebrate-here-are-some-of-my-favorite-versions.html

AAAAAAAAAAAA.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/02/06/collectors-item/

Chicken Lady.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1kBn8C.img

Vegetable people. “I have my eyes on you.”
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/bernhardt-wall-cards.html

Chvrches (sic) in the Moog lab. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxsabBjmfI

Rick Moranis sings. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_eEx3XPuj0

Fungus art.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ViaDAnneWallace.jpg

“With her last ounce of energy she covers her eggs.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/05/chameleons-psychedelic-color-change-before-death.html

Sigh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51diKTSi2M

Ice. There was an episode of Amanda Tapping’s /Sanctuary/ that had the cold, remote, bleak feel of these pictures. It was the one where they were icebound in a frozen ship in the far north with creatures who could mimic them down to the tiniest detail. Like in The Thing.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/708626946479767552/ice-station-zebra-charles-xelot

Wing – Dancing queen. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBWvmhS-AY

It’s a mystery.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/06/what-sorcery-is-this-2/

The voice is distracting but the skills are amazing. (48 min.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz5yARK2gQk

Ah, youth. (You might have to click the sound on.)/
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/08/ready-for-figure-skating/

She is lost and gone forever.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-darling-clementine.html

There is in fact an I in team. And it’s hidden exactly where you’d expect.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/team.html

Too late now.
https://theawesomer.com/chinese-man-too-late-stop-motion-music-video/730030/

How we get Legos.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/footage-of-lego-factory.html

https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/our-modern-world.html
Re: that Simpsons clip. Back in 1983 I recorded a series of short radio shows at the old Mendocino Community School where in one scene a character on the bus had a /video helmet/ on, a “Sony HeadMan” (like a WalkMan of the time but for your whole head; the idea was, you’d be out in public but able to watch teevee at the same time), and the other bus riders were making fun of him. I imagined the device would be your computer monitor and radio-phone and other tools, and forty years later here it is, but it should be as light and compact as regular eyeglasses. It will be soon. You can get a fair-quality cell phone for $50 now, where just a few years ago they were thousands of dollars, when a thousand dollars was worth five thousand now, ramen was ten cents a brick. A can of sardines was a quarter in the dented-can store. I think the cans might all still have had poison solder in their joints, back then, though.

This week I saw a heavy-set Italian-looking twenty-something guy in the grocery store gesticulating just like the Cybertruck guy, and he didn’t have anything at all stuck on his face. I saw him first in the meat section; a few minutes later in the beans aisle he skipped happily past me like a cartoon of a big skipping schoolgirl, and when I’d paid and was leaving he was by the video rental box and the toy/claw machine, waving and pointing and goosestepping around, big smile on his face, nose in the air, and I went from poor kid, he’s nuts or drugged to realizing that he must be dancing to something playing in his earbuds. This is what /dance like nobody’s looking/ means. There’s no shame in it, nor should there be, just be careful not to whack your wrist on a shelf.

Glasses-phones are a logical next step after bluetooth earpieces that already make every user of them for phoning seem schizophrenic, arguing with invisible faeries. Of course no-one will be allowed to drive a non-self-driving car with glasses-phones on– until they’re as cheap as Zenni eyeglasses and replace them too, because they’ll correct vision and also give you real-time real-world HDR options and glare-free night vision, rangefinding, and A.I. warnings of traffic and even walking hazards. And they’ll diagnose you by smell and eye movements and pulse. If you’re driving and you’ve had alcohol or you’re exhausted or angry or otherwise impaired, they can warn other similarly equipped drivers (and self-driving cars) away and direct you off the road or set a helpful cop on you. One time years before anybody had anything more complicated in their car than a radio, I was on the freeway and somebody in a pickup truck came the wrong way, parting all the cars going the right way like the prow of a pixilated-speed ocean liner. Maybe it was a song on the radio that influenced the driver to do it. Maybe they let Jesus take the wheel and they were driving in tongues. I’m saying, mechanical and computer technology improves as the years roll by, human brains don’t.

And the objection to headset computer/phones that they’re creepy and might be recording everyone around you has never made sense to me. Everyone already has a phone now, and any phone you can see might be recording you. What’s the big deal? Just don’t pick your nose or be racist nor kick an animal nor injure yourself trying a stupid stunt on a skateboard and you’re in the clear.

I’ve still got the blues for you.

   “What happened to, if you shoot it you eat it. Don’t they teach kids that anymore?”

Here’s the recording of last night’s 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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Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager. Furthermore, the first hour of each show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown, who teaches at the high school there and maintains the student radio station, and who just got married, I’m told. Congrats!

Last night’s show had and has all the features, all the regular story writers, sections and departments and Eleanor and Del, and a chapter from Dan Hibshman’s new book, with plenty more to come. Next week’s show can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. 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 an inviting tray of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

Bjork – Human behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mRIhK9seg

Villagers – That golden time.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/that-golden-time.html

Rerun: The lesson of the moth.
https://nationalmothweek.org/2013/08/20/the-lesson-of-the-moth-by-archy-a-poem-by-don-marquis/

That time filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984 when stage pyrotechnics caught Michael Jackson’s hair grease on fire, he didn’t notice, kept dancing, and was rescued by being mobbed by technicians throwing their coats over him, none of which ended up being used in the ad, which is crazy. I’d start with that and build the rest of the ad around it. They did MRI studies and all kinds of scientific experiments that showed that even people who claim to like Coca Cola better really, underneath, like Pepsi –your brain likes it better– but there’s some psychological function twisting this up. You don’t have to understand the function to manipulate it. I’d go with, /Pepsi sets your head on fire!/ with Michael Jackson jerking his head this way and that, grabbing his crotch, spinning around, shrieking. Indelible. And six years later Pepsi actually owned a fleet of Russian war submarines, so I’d tie it in with that too.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-burn.html

Cosmohedron. (8 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/cosmohedron

A good question.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSZQCM6HGmY/

Cell Block Tango. “Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrrz54UtkCc

Still got the blues for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=019HBFdnbxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWeM2UmUxtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojfn5CsVg9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X8Iy4H25aI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcfv7zUQw_s

Mollie Moore – Wild world. Understated mastery in a trio. I kind of like the quirky broken-guitar sound. A whole floor full of effect pedals all plugged into each other; that sound is what she chose. There’s something fascinating about each of these musicians and his or her way, the concentration, the machine of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9nRBzmh0M

Definitive Comfortably Numb. These men first recorded this 45 years ago. The song is old enough to be a great-grandmother in a bible-belt state and it’s still magic. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_MXLI5hyEc

Car-optimized-UK project. (via Kottke.org) (Arrow through the gallery)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2dAJR1MCaU/?img_index=1

I remember doing this as a child, enjoying being destructive and making a mess and also thinking that I was /helping the plant spread seeds/, but knowing that the main thing was the mess part. I think that’s a metaphor for a great deal of human activity. We like to bust stuff up and walk away from it, looking for other stuff to bust up. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1744011885169512894

How we get brown sugar, which is regular sugar with wet brown sauce in it. I’ll bet chocolate syrup would work for this. Almond syrup isn’t brown, but that would be good too. Which reminds me, one of my million-dollar ideas from the column in /Memo/ thirty years ago was almond syrup or chocolate syrup in capsules to drop into a hot drink, in a bowl next to the sugar cubes and cup of cream everywhere they sell coffee, as well as brown sugar cubes, that people would see as a healthy alternative to white sugar. You wouldn’t have to say it’s healthy; it just looks healthier, so by the placebo effect it is, like weird bitter kinds of lettuce, but unlike them by being yummy. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230511/light-or-dark-brown-sugar

Monkey pastry chef automaton.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/01/29/monkey-pastry-chef/

Tire made of rubber chickens. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1088707512578369

A pastel tardigrade, the hardiest life anywhere. You can dry them in a dryer, expose them to the vacuum of space, leave them in an envelope in a filing cabinet for decades, drop a drop of water on them and they jump up ready to run and play like it was a nap. 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cute-little-tardigrades-are-basically-indestructible-and-scientists-just-figured-out-one-reason-why/

About the Codex Seraphinianus. (via Neatorama)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1FXQMmXYoA

“At the end of the day, this is a male fantasy about escaping the humiliation of rejections.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thpEyEwi80

Hmm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHuyhWsz2RQ

Or.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RXlUtgXrdE

Tom’s Jeannie!
https://laughingsquid.com/toms-diner-i-dream-of-jeannie-mashup/

Bleagh. Klingon restaurant food but with eyeballs and better music. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMalyUkNBrQ

“It’s simple, really. We can do this one of two ways.” (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2024/01/18/ive-got-problems-with-your-wifi/

The McBroom Sisters take turns singing, then sweetly finish together.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/06/pink-floyds-great-gig-in-sky-1994.html

Speaking of Marshall Brown, here’s Marshall Brown’s and Doug Nunn’s latest SnapSessions episode.
https://www.thesnapsessions.com/episode-55-martin-siemann/

I wonder how much of this is photography and how much is CGI? How are the slow rack-smooth flying parts done?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/02/winter.html

X-ray photographs of different animals. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://imgur.com/gallery/TGnEkDR

Auction of ancient war helmets. (Scroll down and down.)
https://newatlas.com/collectibles/armor-museum-helmet-auction-rewrites-record-books

They’re 80 feet away from him. He’s just behind that shrub and those trees. He must be whistling very quietly.
https://xkcd.com/2888/

Art.
https://biblioklept.org/2024/01/31/self-portrait-with-palm-fronds-julie-heffernan/
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/01/yannis-davy-guibinga/
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/02/01/volkswagen-all-terrain-camper/
https://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2024/01/gotham-city-in-batman-animated-series.html

From 200 million to 0 million years ago.
https://kottke.org/24/01/an-animated-timelapse-of-200-million-years-of-continental-drift-from-pangea-to-today

The Middle Ages in 15 minutes.
https://laughingsquid.com/middle-ages-timeline/

Flotation fashion. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/15371/rick-owens-aw24-fw24-menswear-show-collection-review

Between Laverne and Shirley.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-01-30-cgsafe.gif

Could humans survive? Enclaves of super-rich ones and their domestic slaves, yes, in bomb shelters stocked with enough air and water and food and power for fifteen years, in a kind of underground Snowpiercer situation. This is why we need a space program, to slowly but surely nudge a giant asteroid off course with rocket engines or bombs, and give humanity a few more hundred years’ chance to deliberately develop all of Earth into a giant Snowpiercer situation, even more than it already has been, instead of having it come in an instant by a mindless hammer. Also in those hundreds of years that we buy with space tech we might grow up as a species and develop a future worth living in, and become spoiled and soft, easy prey for alien domination, or reach the Singularity and vanish into endless worlds of computational matter that will take hundreds of trillions of years to wind down. Meanwhile, there are only eight possible stories, twelve possible rhyme schemes, fifteen basic melodies, and eighteen possible jokes, so maybe the hammer is preferable to an infinity of reruns.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/could-humans-survive-major-asteroid.html

Mars in 4K.
https://kottke.org/24/02/mars-in-4k

2,700-year-old Assyrian dog names. Missing from the list: Consume His Life. Also, Don’t Think, Bite might rather be Bites Without Thinking.
https://memooftheair.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/assyriandogfigurines-1.jpg

Bite. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyqrxVmLZ7V/

What.
https://loveincorporated.blob.core.windows.net/contentimages/gallery/0867212b-2649-43b1-b38b-d43b8ffe5727-travel-photographer-of-the-year-2020.jpg

When.
https://xkcd.com/2889/

Kiss – Psychic Circus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWIW6Ti0PbE

Building a delicate yet powerful Tesla turbine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuzh9mHvzkk

Carnival ride from an antique era. Not shown: how they get the horses back up to the top of the ride again. Probably five guys slogging up a ladder with them. When they talk about the good old days when everybody had a job, that’s the kind of job people had. Now here you are standing all day near the self-checkout counter resetting the machine for people when it locks up because they put a shopping bag on the shopping bag shelf and it felt it and freaked out and refused to continue. UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA. It’s a bag. I think I’d rather carry horses up a ladder. No ladder work underground, though. No way. Typing, maybe, or dusting in a library. Or running numbers, by hand, on your feet, the old-fashioned way, and taking a break in an automat with a ham sandwich and lime pie and looking out the window at the rain. A couple of young but already jaded cops come in, you side-eye each other, they get their own sandwiches and pie, sit down way over there, and everyone minds his own business. Or steady, slow, behind-the-counter work at a dim hotel in the old part of town, where you can read and write, think, nap, noodle on the clarinet, chat with the street ladies. Occasionally you wonder about somebody you haven’t seen in the lobby in awhile, and you go up to the third floor, knock on a door and say, “Frank, you all right in there?” “What. Yeah. I’m fine. What’s up?” “I was just worried about you. If you’re fine, you’re fine. Sorry to bother you.” He says, “I’m fine, thanks. I’m just tired these days.” “When’s the last time you ate something?” … “Frank?” … “I don’t remember. Um…” And you say, “I’m gonna make spaghetti and meatballs. I’ll make extra. I’ll be back in half an hour. Do you like Pepsi?” That is an example of a decent job that somebody might have. In the 1980s the Canadian government paid people to write and produce radio drama. France pays new movie makers to make movies. There are plenty of models for society to try out.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/01/heres-an-amazing-video-of-the-steeplechase-mechanical-horse-ride-at-steeplechase-park-coney-island-in-the-early-1900s.html.

“So let’s begin at the beginning, with your new bloody oven!” (via BitsAndPieces.us)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/01/30/a-challenge-for-elton-john/

Description and visualization skills.
https://kottke.org/24/02/ayo-edebiri-draws-a-new-yorker-cartoon

A box of broken dreams.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/box-of-broken-dreams-repost-from-2009.html

I like this man, his manner, and his gentle act. (52 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCzsjqZZmY

Romeo and Juliet.

   “Rudeness is an expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved and they will open up like a flower… I am reminded of a verse:  The painter’s brush touched the inchoate face by ends of nimble bristles, and with that blush of earth color rendered her lifeless cheek livid…” -M. Gustave, of The Grand Budapest Hotel

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 approximately eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager.

This show has all the features, all the regular story writers and sections and departments and some new ones. Except for Eleanor and Del, and I’m assured that will be remedied next week. I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. That’s what I’m here for.

Besides all that, here’s an inviting tray of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

Raffaella Carra – Rumore. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXLeF_hpmk

Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco. The stage play, not the Gene Wilder/Zero Mostel/Karen Black movie. (2 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFmNG0lSQ2g

I often wake up from sleep with this or that song playing in my head. I woke up from a nap Wednesday night to the theme song of /Flipper/. Here’s the intro and outro, then the revised intro for the second year, sung in lounge lizard style by Bobby Darin (!), though two notes out of his mouth and I’ve suddenly got /Mack the Knife/ stuck on repeat instead. Whistle the Andy Griffith Show intro and that cures that. But then you’re really stuck, because after that where can you go. Black Sabbath? Buddy Guy? Vivaldi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMAVB6HMW38

Both /Lost In Space/ themes from the 1960s series. By John Williams. The movie they made in 1998 was pretty good, and the much more recent teevee series has a lot going for it, chiefly Parker Posey as Dr. Smith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBegeVsA48k

Part 2 of the Lost in Space Forever documentary begins with an arresting six-minute pitch of the original series, addressing advertisers and network affiliates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS_wX-PliKU

Elderly-but-still-got-it Cream in 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCc00pX_pFA

Hanina Ranina.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/hanina-ranina.html

Chopstick trick.
https://laughingsquid.com/playing-guitar-as-cello/

The making of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers album. (Full 90 min. film.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/tom-petty-somewhere-you-feel-free.html

Four seasons.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/26/forest-time-lapse-took-a-year-to-record.html

The United States has thousands of restless-leg nuclear weapons that just need to get out for some fresh air sometimes. Here’s how.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/how-us-government-transports-nuclear-weapons

Why legal immigration is nearly impossible now. (via Kottke.org)
https://www.cato.org/blog/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible

The white room.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-white-room.html

Shadow-enhanced art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/190cwm3/the_way_this_artist_uses_shadows_in_his_drawings/

Doinga-doing doing bnoing doing-ga doinga-doing. Doing bnoing doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22KCGUip2w

Boing.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/baby-goats-frolicking-in-slow-motion.html

The glassmaster.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/01/21/repost-grand-master-of-glass/

A cardboard Bernini.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/planned-obsolescence-cardboard-bernini.html

Crumbled and overgrown ancient cities in the vast Amazon region found by aerial LIDAR. If the canon of pulpish science-fiction is any guide, these, like Arctic mountains, desert sand, temperate-zone caves and the Hellmouth beneath Sunnydale High School, harbor alien tech and/or eldritch horrors better left alone.
https://kottke.org/24/01/massive-ancient-network-of-cities-found-in-the-amazon.

Life for the science fiction writer.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1750984079594418437

Infectious disease.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/26/The-Worst-Infectious-Diseases-in-History/

Tailgate.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/22/buffalo-bills-tailgate-party-gets-a-bit-too-lit-when-one-fan-catches-fire-video.html

Adventures in idiocracy. “…Fields and jungles of Vietnam, they delivered a swipped and swiffy and ya know that sweeping? It was swift and it was sweeping like nobody’s ever seen anything happen, a victory in Operation Desert Storm. A lot of you were involved in that. A lot of you were involved. That was a quick one.” (Video. You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1749519924559798755

“J. Edgar Hoover has said, sex-mad magazines are creating criminals faster than we can build jails to house them.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/pages-of-death.html

Romeo and Juliet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7XBh6Jkn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyxbbkoXdEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8S3wCJNeCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6S2x6KFPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65t_b6aXMn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAiaLQCEbVY

Somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlLNSWAXpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mp0A8kKk-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWvmS2LXevs

Free will does not exist.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1Bc5uF1ju/?img_index=1

Making a compact hunting arrow slingshot thing out of a block of wood, surgical tubing, and a ball-bearing pulley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ZDvCWLr4w

Pooky Park, where the magic of imagination meets the thrill of a lifetime.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/pooky-park.html

Rerun: The Midnight Parasites. (10 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_midnight_parasites

Movies in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlo0Vp5TU8Y

Who’s a good boy? You are. /You/ are.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/21/Very-Good-Dog-Saves-Owner-from-Ice/

Cat and Girl comix. No one can rescue us from history. (Note: water skier /whee!/ and rock DUH.)
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-16-cghistory.gif

How cats and birds work.
https://theawesomer.com/how-a-cat-really-works/728094/

The frenzied noir world of Gun Crazy.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/gun-crazy-1950.html

Mary Weiss, RIP. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqIfe03lXic

Living with lesbians. (The full record album, 40 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/living_with_lesbians

Nina Payne.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_far_out_costumes_of_dancer_nina_payne

Nina Paley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infyJGl_N0o

Further in the series of collections of photographs of women who, in a more enlightened timeline, would have had great side-careers being paid handsomely to be closely observed swallowing a whole egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/marie-therese-pouch-lemoine.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/maggy-rouff.html

Potter who looks very like Charlie Musselwhite back in the 1960s experiments with cream cheese.
https://theawesomer.com/throwing-cream-cheese-instead-of-clay/728499/

“Well, you know, honestly, things got a little crazy when the hive ship destroyed San Francisco.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuBm4imTcE

RIP Laurie Johnson, composer of British cop show waka-waka theme music. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRiiXRj9_C8

Just the motion you see here– when children move like this in the zero-G gym in their city in a hollowed-out asteroid in the future, it’s called ponging. It’s discouraged. The main young female character in a book I read once, whose title and author escapes me at the moment, says sadly to a boy she had liked before she caught him compulsively doing this, “I didn’t know you were a ponger.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/22/see-what-happens-when-a-spoon-of-liquid-nitrogen-is-dropped-into-a-bowl-of-gasoline.html

Bhutan’s penis monastery. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/03/14/a-pilgrimage-to-the-ancient-penis-monastery/

Rerun: “Have you noticed this instrument over here that looks like a frying pan on a big stick? Well…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6DS2bXYmk

“Oh, I can’t tell which is nicer, the biscuits or the shame.” -Dylan Moran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3i71_t-Rg

Family values.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/nazi-town-usa.html

This question was deeply emotionally explored in /Farscape/, in the story arc where John was copied and Aeryn and John finally really got together, or rather Aeryn and /one of the Johns/ got together when away on a mission, and John died horribly of radiation poisoning while Aeryn had to sit there and watch. Then Aeryn returned to Moya and the surviving John who knew nothing of all this, and it breaks your heart, but they can’t relate. Though the Johns are identical, this one isn’t the one she went through all that trauma with, and she can’t stand to look at him, so their relationship is back to square one.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/clone.html

Happy birthday, Tucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHiA-q9Yyu0

“Annnnd tracking chip installed. And memory wipe.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ug6gAO8n0s

Bees and moths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCptY6WgNDw

Bees and spiders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5x2xBa8p0A

Ants.
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e67a064bb8ed43b9fb55e97839b2c858-lq

“Whoa! Where’s Viv! Where’s Viv!”
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/23/massive-rogue-wave-crashes-through-restaurant-doors-in-marshall-islands-video.html

The deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg7jAnS78JA

It’s getting so a time traveler can’t get a reputation as a predictive genius anymore. But you can still stop a war on May 28, 585 BC by commanding the Sky Wolf to eat the sun.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/23/This-Map-Shows-You-When-Cicadas-Will-Appear-and-Where/

And a Guitar Hero winner’s copyright workaround.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/guitar-hero-bark-at-moon.html

The brave little toaster.

   “Dear boys, bad timing. This morning I received the details of your travel plans in a document sent to me from a man named Brendan. Unfortunately I cannot receive you now. A neighboring village requires our urgent assistance due to an emergency, not to mention the recent arrival of a man-eating tiger in the region. I suggest you come in the spring, when you’ll be safe with me. You must know how sad I am to experience this long separation. I hope you will eventually understand, and forgive me. God bless you and keep you, with Mary’s benevolent guidance, in the light of Christ’s enduring grace. All my love, Your Mother, Sister Patricia Whitman.”

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 fast-paced eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager.

I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. But if people in your story swear in evangelical tongues I have to wait till after 10pm local time to read it, to protect other people’s children from getting their mouths washed out with soap.

As usual, here’s a fresh spread of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This is a byproduct of gathering the radio show together:

Stunt awards. Ow. Ow-ow-ow.
https://www.vulture.com/2024/01/the-second-annual-stunt-awards-are-here.html

Nature photo awards.
https://www.vulture.com/2024/01/the-second-annual-stunt-awards-are-here.html

I feel like I saw just this not too long ago, but I don’t care, it’s so great. The man travels the world, getting people on the street to teach him their dance move. Make some space around you so you don’t knock a lamp over, and try them..
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/18/Everyones-Favorite-Dance-Moves/

Journalism in our real-life idiocracy.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-chagrin-falls-diner-journalism.html

And the subject of this cartoon reminds me, as so much injustice to creatives does, of the situation at hundreds and hundreds of public radio stations, such as KZYX, for example, where a CEO/mananger and his or her close minions are paid well to have nice lives while all the local airpeople work for nothing. Whether you personally need the money to live or you’re independently wealthy and you don’t need it, you have an obligation to workers everywhere, no matter where you work or what you do, to never work for free under owners and managers who are paid from the returns your work brings. Especially if they lie to you through their mouthful of money that there’s no money to pay you. If your work is paying the bosses, you should demand to be paid. If any charity project is important enough to require volunteer workers, and there’s truly no money, the manager will be volunteering as well.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-09-cg4000-web.gif

The Anonymous Photo Project. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2CPXJQg7FO/

“We are selling our baby trebuchet…”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/13/Antique-Baby-Yeeter/

…And buying this fabulous kitchen hi-fi cart. Didn’t they make beautiful things in those days. Simply as sculpture it’s lovely. All those tubes and wires, cams and sprockets. It really ties the room together. (via Fark)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/e9/98/bde99853c6a80518d006636a402e8b05.jpg

Missile speed comparison. The last part of this is an exhibit of all of them lined up next to each other. It’s a kind of art.
https://theawesomer.com/missile-speed-comparison/727520/

Apparently SkyLab had something the much more expensive ISS does not, that I knew nothing about: a sizeable zero-G gym. Not as big as the playing field for space-war team practice scenes in the movie version of Ender’s Game, but pretty big. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1744351498023190574

Coke or Pepsi? A competition for liveliness when a red-hot nickel ball is dropped in. At first it’s Pepsi, then Coke comes from behind to foam up like a champ. I’m a Dr Pepper man, myself. Commander Worf would like Dr Pepper; it’s got prune juice in it. “The drink of a warrior.” (via TackyRaccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1541806153307000

Rhyme or die. Dr Who had this in, I think, 2005, where contestants were force to play a future version of /The Weakest Link/, and vaporized by a robot death ray one by one.
https://theawesomer.com/rhyme-or-die-horror-short-film/727936/

Waxahatchie – Right Back To It.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/music-for-sunday-morning_01007180607.html

Vasakange – Robot Story. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/scott_kerr/status/1744839400704418100

Art. This includes a half-hour do-it-yourself lesson. Scroll down.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/01/14/repost-dirty-girl/

“It’s like they always said: The only way to stop a bad me with a gun is a good me with a gun.”
https://www.theonion.com/gun-owner-explains-why-he-needs-weapon-to-protect-self-1851172345

Loony Tunes backgrounds. With a little cropping, you get excellent desktop images. (via ThisIsntHappiness)
https://www.instagram.com/looneytunes_backgrounds/

That time Winston Churchill popped out of his own pants in the pool.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/winston-churchill-losing-swimming-trunks.html

Trailer for /Zappa/. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4F0rT0F6OQ

Rerun: A six-minute stop-o-mation biker film. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeXls4zY2Q8

Musée des Plans-Reliefs.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2024/01/musee-des-plans-reliefs.html

Rerun: A very old but still spry Groucho Marx tells stories and sings /Lydia the Tattooed Lady/ on the Dick Cavett show in 1969. Dick Cavett, now, he was a fellow who’d have trouble catching on in the present day. Calm, bright, thoughtful, well-informed, brave, a sense of humor about himself, not a mean bone in his body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE3_KnJiXaw

Gramma’s clever trick. (via VintagePhotoBooth)
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/419770053_3060072170791626_4769967023979755238_n.jpg

“Jess’s iconic pet is captured in all his glory, wearing a bright pink thong stuffed with dollar bills as he hustles for money, clinging onto a stripper pole.” That is one svelte hamster.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/16/woman-beloved-pet-hamster-hammington-stuffed-a-pole-dancer-20125161/

Another in the long history of days the Earth stood still. It’s standing still all the time somewhere, anywhere people hitch up their floods and turn to watch the skies with wonder.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10228391901534236&set=gm.3717945118420341&idorvanity=1427425394139003

A short smooth Star Wars fanfilm.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/kara.html

Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXRLam5kfUU

Music store employees on a slow day. (via TheAwesomer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3PnzmFZzE

“Please, President Trump, please, please save us from the devil!” (via BoingBoing)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeVideo/comments/196wk1h/crying_maga_karen_begs_trump_the_messiah_to_save/?share_id=kZSINEf6ImB9funjcWZ_S

Their heads look inflated because they’re so tiny. They’re barely four feet tall. I like the one with Owen Wilson eyes. (In any group photo or photo spread I always immediately pick the one I like most. Do you do this too? And it doesn’t have to be people; it can be dogs, furniture, whatever.)
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/geisha-1890s.html

“Please, President Trump, please, please save us from the devil!” (via BoingBoing)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeVideo/comments/196wk1h/crying_maga_karen_begs_trump_the_messiah_to_save/?share_id=kZSINEf6ImB9funjcWZ_S

Are manners important?
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/are_manners_important

“Camp one, mentally disturbed, camp two, mentally challenged.” Warning: R-word, both C-words, other words that begin with letters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUMFbWrz2c

Tokio Jokio. Oh, no. Hmm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9rGAO-qfc

Vertigo.
https://theawesomer.com/red-bull-rampage-pov-ride/727554/

Busby Berkeley in the broken washing machine that is /our/ time. Impressive, jerky, a little scary. Definitely modern.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/01/university-of-minnesota-dance-team-jazz.html

Math. (via MissCellania)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/etienne-jacob-gifs/

Depth-illusion signs. (via TheAwesomer) (Don’t bother clicking the sound on.)
https://theawesomer.com/infinite-neon-sign-effect/727668/

There are no nails, there’s no metal in this structure. It’s all pegged and glued together, to prove a point.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/11/atlas-i-cold-war-era-facility-that.html

Building and flying a giant rubber band airplane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgwkA-hLvf4

To add to the folder of collections of pictures of women who, in an adjacent timeline, have celebrated careers based on swallowing an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/gretchen-harris.html

“Come kick it with the robot man.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBL7IoQ8ePQ

Rerun: Flight of the Conchords – The Humans Are Dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY

Costuming across time and space. I don’t care about clothes very much, but I like this. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_pj0UC29Kc

Soho in 1956, footage enhanced. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bExnm7MZ53M

Documentary about the band Kansas. The full film. It’s a pretty good story of a very good band who came out of nearly literally nowhere.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/kansas-miracles-out-of-nowhere.html

With a modern motor and in any of the pastel gumdrop colors, a perfect, cute little car. Just think if they made these now and kept the price down to, say, $3000 new.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/1957-fiat-nuova-500.html

Keeper of the purple twilight.

   “Human intelligent agency depends more on the intricate sphere of ideas and the cultural intellect that we have grown over thousands of years than on the quirks of our biological brains. The minds of modern humans have more in common with ChatGPT than with humans 10,000 years ago.” -Joscha Bach (via Cliff Pickover)

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 fast-paced eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, 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. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager.

I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. But if people in your story swear like a muleteer I have to wait till after 10pm local time to read it, to protect other people’s children from getting their mouths washed out with soap. That is literally the FCC’s rationale for the safe harbor rule.

As usual, here’s a fresh spread of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This is a byproduct of gathering the show together:

Keven MacLeod, composer of Scheming Weasel, the intro and outro music for Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio when I’m not doing it from the KNYO-LP studio in Fort Bragg, California, gets his day in the sun, again, for another one of his closet hits besides that one and about forty more.
https://www.avclub.com/here-s-why-you-know-that-song-from-will-ferrell-and-kri-1851150082

Rerun: My Cowshed.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-cowshed-is-fresh.html

Raffaella Carra – Ma Che Sera. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6PKmDsgzMRQ

Rolling Stones – Play With Fire (remixed, remastered, clear as a bell) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71msF1p5XI

“In 2008 ABKCO Music, which owns the rights to the Rolling Stones’ early catalogue, filed suit against Lil Wayne (Michael Tullberg), asserting that the rapper’s song /Playing with Fire/ is based on the Rolling Stones’ song.” I dunno, I kind of like it, both ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScB2J0gt9LE

Les Hay Babies – Joue avec le feu. Note the odd banjo-ish sound of their electric guitars. I looked for a punk-bluegrass version and this is what I got. Look me in the eye and tell me that isn’t evidence of machine intelligence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwlcEciz1o8

Most of this is pure negligence and excessive speed. Some is sleep-driving. Much of this trouble could have been avoided or made less traumatic/expensive by drivers just leaving more space around themselves; of course that can’t protect you from someone running a light and ramming you, but so? None of these are the self-driving cars techno-Luddites have been bitching about lately, which aren’t even a ten-thousandth of the problem. From this video I take that, in America, the common thing to say when you see someone crash is, “Oh, my God!” Or, like the guy at 19:40, “Oh, [muted swear]! Oh, my God! OH, my God! OH, my God! Oh my God oh my God ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygawwd. /HOLY/ [muted swear]!” In Russia it’s different; they’re rarely shocked, much less horrified, but rather gently, ruefully amused. A smiling-sad gruff vocal-fry grumbled /bozhe moi, oy yayoi/ is on the other end of the scale from a shrieked /WTF! Shit! Oh, my Gawd!/ Look up Russian dashcam crashes, you’ll see.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-crash-cam-videos-of-2023.html

In similar news, school bus. Note the size and modernity of school buses in Scotland. That is a nice bus.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/watch-double-decker-school-bus-spin-around-and-ricochet-down-an-icy-road-video.html

Earthquakes and tsunamis 1901-2020.
https://theawesomer.com/visualizing-every-earthquake-over-time/726859/

Relatively closeup nature. (Arrow through slideshow.)
https://gizmodo.com/close-up-photographer-of-the-year-competition-winners-1851151515

What. (via Fark)
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/how-to-get-rid-of-raccoons-possums-and-skunks-1024×535.png

Barbie Girl on piano in six classical composers’ styles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BObmcDbhZoM

Re: last week’s theme, the1964 Carol Burnett teevee version of Once Upon A Mattress. Parts 1, 2 and 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB1NHb0cKFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SKWk4QWqJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7mTeoznZ8

Clear Falls High School production of Once Upon A Mattress. Well done, good tech, really good sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLy_2i0EiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsETj95ZG9Y

Crunches. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMTKMWHLbdQ

Rerun: Automatic candle extinguisher. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1742781136328442074

Peacefully restless.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1743467923098751143/photo/1

I wanta be sedated. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zj40gnE5rPQ?si=OSs_4WPN77E7DjFe

Zigged when he shoulda zagged.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/01/05/the-real-ziggy-stardust-who-lost-his-career-to-acid/

1500 words left to live. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://filmshortage.com/shorts/1500-words/

Every second. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://everysecond.io/earth

Click on the strip to make it big enough to read. It’s a pretty good story.
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a815864cb3fa10c03cd4100a7410447a

AI-designed KitchenAide mixers. (Arrow through the set of eight.)
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3665063487147193&set=pcb.1459365404759951

Rob Scallon noodling spaciously in an echo garage. (via SamuraiGuitarist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BObmcDbhZoM

A stick with an ‘orse’s ‘ead ‘andle, and a bird on the top of the stick, on a tripod from Mars with a leg more than thar’s, and wobbling as if it were sick. (via Miss Cellania)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/

South Park did something like this with people from the future coming back to our time, which are, to them, halcyon good old days where life is easy, resulting in crowds of present-day people gathering in churches and meeting halls, shouting, “They took er jerbs!”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/unity.html

Oz in alphabetical order, from A to Zipper. Skip around in this until you get the hang of it.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/of-oz-wizard.html

“Hi, there, I am an archaeopteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers.” “Hi, there, I am a schlogg of foam from the surf with no visible means of support.” “Are you making fun of me?” -Johnny Hart
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/watch-sea-foam-jiggles-across-vancouver-island-like-something-from-another-planet.html

Hedgehog with a chip on his shoulder. (via MissCellania)
https://twitter.com/shouldhaveanima/status/1679850689894432768

Sarah Jarosz.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/music-for-sunday-morning.html

Supers.
https://kottke.org/24/01/the-supers

How to forlornize a race caller. One of the many books I typeset and laid out, when I was working at a publishing house in the late 1990s, was about the terrible lives and cruel deaths of racing dogs. Maybe they treat them better in Australia. I don’t know. Or maybe the announcer is so sad because he knows that once the dogs have found out the truth they have to be destroyed. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_t6vDfpsE

“One of the (ironically named) Tastee Bros’ favorite things to do was take a nice classical piece and then poop all over it with obnoxious screeching.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/the-last-trumpet-christmas/

“How many people have monsters in their minds, do you think?”
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1559260385521197056

Get out and get under the moon. (via 27thStreet.me)
https://27thstreet.me/2024/01/07/get-out-and-get-under-that-moon/

“Rise and shine or the world is doomed.”
https://thenib.com/i-made-the-most-banned-book-in-america/

Every day is miracle day. “Remember, ladies, we’re not selling makeup. We’re selling /hope/.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/every_day_is_miracle_day

A creepy poem, and a creepy video faithfully based on it.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-year-office-chit-chat-poem-and-video.html

True story. The names have been changed.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-big-explosion.html

Video-game-style speedrun of the MOMA.
https://laughingsquid.com/museum-of-modern-art-speedrun/

Subtle but compelling. My nose makes a distant faint foghorn sound sometimes, then just stops doing it. I can’t do it on purpose. Not at all in this woman’s league.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/woman-nose-whistles-a-44-1-decibel-tune.html

Vintage advertising archive. “Nobody will ever know your pantyhose are sheer clear to your hipbone.” (via Everlasting Blort)
https://vintageadvertising.tumblr.com/

1881 Arctic photos. (Scroll down and down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic/

Obscure little islands around the world. (via BoingBoing)
https://amanvir.com/obscure-islands

Sixty-plus years before they blew up the chicken man in Philly and they blew up his house too. Seventy-plus years before “I never wear seatbelts. I don’t believe in gravity.”
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/atlantic-city-1900s.html

The future.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/1964-ford-aurora.html

The future.
https://theawesomer.com/five-interesting-uses-for-ai/726865/

The past. When I was in high school I knew a girl who used to come from hundreds of miles away every once in awhile to visit her grandmother who lived down the street from me. Diane Wolf, small, pretty, strange-seeming because much more worldly-wise than I was. Her uncle had one of these tiny Sunbeam sports cars that he somehow stuffed a big Ford V-8 truck engine into. It stuck up so high through the cut-out hood that the driver had to practically lean out the window to see forward. Incredibly cool, like a hotrod in a cartoon. When he gunned the engine it twitch-twisted the whole car on its long axis.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/1966-sunbeam-tiger.html

Specifically one of these, hotrodded, was what the cops was (sic) after.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/1950s-lincoln-ads.html

And here’s a fine assortment of little Nash Ramblers. I favor the two-tone Metropolitans.
https://fineartamerica.com/art/photographs/nash+rambler

The Colombia Space Shuttle breakup in real time. For the short of attentions span: skip to 12 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNmR2YZO2gw

Projection mapping show. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1734567124763291803

A single number from a single Busby Berkeley movie.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/by-waterfall.html

Further in the series of photo collections of women I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/constantin-joffe.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/ann-klem.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/maggi-eckardt.html

Say uh-uh to words that start with N. “Two weeks after the filming of this interview, footage surfaced showing Kelsey saying words that start with the letter M, which looks like two N’s pushed together. She has since issued an apology.” M is W upside-down. MOM/WOW.
https://www.theonion.com/white-woman-explains-why-as-an-anti-racist-ally-she-ref-1851155199

How we get batteries. “Come to the battery filling workshop where there are many automated filling an assembly equipment.”
https://theawesomer.com/how-aa-batteries-are-made/727001/

How we get pinball machines.
https://theawesomer.com/worlds-largest-pinball-factory/726822/

The fem bias of spookdom. With art.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ghost-women-why-are-there-so-many-female-ghosts

I can smell this. The chicken toy, the donkey, the dirt, the air, the fence, the camera woman’s soap.
https://laughingsquid.com/donkey-loves-rubber-chicken/

Vintage Photo Booth.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth

The call of the swamp.

   “Where e’er I roam, my heart grows dank and cold, my face grows gray, when shadows fall and I hear the call of the swamps of home. I hear them calling me now, calling me back, calling me: Winifred! Winifred! Winifred! Winifred! Who do you think you are? Girl of the swamp, you’ve gone too far! Maid of the marshland, give up the struggle. Listen to the voicsame of the swamp: Gluggle uggle uggle!” –Marshall Barer (1923-1998)

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 more than an hour of each of these fast-paced nearly-eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s hidden shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated goes directly to pay the station’s real-world expenses: rent, electricity, water, equipment, and music publisher and streaming fees. No-one at KNYO takes a cut of it, not even the manager.

I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. But if people in your story swear like a sailor I have to wait till after 10pm local time to read it, to protect other people’s children from getting their mouths washed out with soap.

As usual, here’s a fresh tray of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This is a byproduct of gathering the show together:

The swamps of home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD12-D8Q0o4&t=1683s

If I had a hammer.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/12/if-i-had-hammer.html

Art. (via Kottke.com)
https://zayyarlin.photoshelter.com/index

Airships in Hayao Miyazaki’s films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXrZHJup88

Rerun: A real-life Studio Ghibli character and his electric airplane. Watch him build it, try it, improve it, or skip to 21 min. and just watch him fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7JcmwKQcU

Another one of the same man’s projects. You can cut directly to first flight at 7:10. And, after he’s improved it, 11:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqdtz3tJkbY

Cardboard superman.
https://laughingsquid.com/remote-controlled-flying-superman/

This magnificent thing! The organ-key switches are the grounded strings touching each one’s dedicated segment of each fret, with the wiring all going up the center of the neck to the organ circuits stuffing the bell. Also the whole thing is still a regular guitar. Don’t bail at the ad for guitar lessons; the better part of the video is after that. Look for other videos by SamuraiGuitarist*.
https://theawesomer.com/1970s-guitar-organ-combination/726254/

*Like, for example, this one on the history of guitar delay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEZPlhm_ufU

Tacky Raccoons’ 2023 playlist.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-years-eve-a-playlist/

Why Can’t We Live Together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-Za6G-gAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIgIgojL7Ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwYFRlkTOIw

A nice Motownish version of What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding.
https://laughingsquid.com/postmodern-jukebox-peace-love-understanding/

Yodeling fool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaoJv-NrEU

Yodeling food.
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/throw-up

Rerun: Ambient sound generator.
https://moodist.app/

Art. Anonymous women. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.pattycarroll.com/anonymous-women

Paul Simon – Under African Skies, live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXm6vLLbgo

Tabletop pulse-jet engine project, beginning with a jam jar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7hsUvZmZ2k

Full reverse thrust.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/12/27/USAT/72036865007-afp-1878226275.jpg

Medieval UFOs.
https://laughingsquid.com/classical-paintings-with-ufos/

And a discussion of reentry while we look out the back of a real spacecraft actually reentering. You may have wondered, why can’t they just fly down on wings and slow down slowly and not have to fall in a fiery screaming fireball? There are reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kl2mm96Jkk

A one-minute slow pan left and right across the Japan Airlines jet fully engulfed in flames. All 379 people onboard got out safe because not a single one of them tried to save their carry-on luggage. (via Fark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmSC3tkZ_c

An assortment of somewhat less spectacular but more intimate airplane fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEC5f71Tqhk

Oh, the humanity. RC hydrogen dirigible. (Catastrophe begins at 13:30.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3PU0b8-lks

Pandemical history.
https://ourworldindata.org/historical-pandemics

The first Corvette, the angels did say.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46177518/corvette-ex87-prototype/

Inspiration. Preparation. Concentration. Execution. Flow.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/Seven-year-old-Dances-His-Heart-Out/

Rerun: Philomena Cunk on Shakespeare. (29 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeCpHoy9EQ

Brandon Ethridge.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/01/02/brandon-ethridge/

Cakes. (via Miss Cellania)
http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/the-best-literal-lols-in-cw-history-part-1-2023
http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/the-best-literal-lols-in-cw-history-part-2-2023

Louis Katz. (53 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE

A short musical animation.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/lheure-bleue.html

Freeze.
https://laughingsquid.com/winter-timelapse-jamie-scott/

Foomf!
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/05/Amazingly-Realistic-Steamed-Buns-Puffing-Up/

Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/liturgy-of-anti-tank-obstacles.html

Rerun (with new material added): Bad Lip Reading – Empire Strikes Back.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-bad-lip-reading-of-empire-strikes-back.html

Hover text: “It wasn’t originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served more than two terms have followed George Washington’s example and gotten false teeth.”
https://xkcd.com/2875/

Susan Abraham, model whole-egg swallower.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/susan-abraham.html

And even yet more women you’d like to –c’mon, be honest– watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/oleg-cassini.html

Rerun: Wall of death.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/ethel-purtle.html

In the 1980s, Lynne, a waitress at a restaurant where I worked, had a dog that looked just like this one, named Winifred. She had lots of pets: Winifred, chickens, rabbits, a duck, a cat, etc. One time I went to her house to record her playing the piano. The place was out in the middle of nowhere. The doors and windows were all open. All the pets were in a big pile on the coiled rug in the living room, slowly, calmly nuzzling and cuddling and licking each other, their eyes closed. Lynne appeared, said hi, said in a quiet, singsong whispery voice to the pets something like, “I need the house now. Would you mind going outside, please?” They all got up and shifted outside. It was magical. As for the movie, A Boy and His Dog, I had read and loved the Harlan Ellison story it was made from, and was disappointed, though the cannibalism and punchline were funny to ridiculous teenage me (a less conscious but really no less ridiculous version of the current me). It was the same disappointment as The Princess Bride movie. It was okay, but the people and the way everything felt were dim ghosts of what I got from the book. The way, when you’re telling a child a story he loves, and he goes, “You’re not telling it right.” This is like that. (via Neatorama)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/welcome_to_2024_the_year_of_a_boy_and_his_dog

Read about the story. It’s set in 2024. So it’s good that /real life/ didn’t tell it right. Yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog

The solution is the problem is the solution. Is the problem.
https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/screenshot-2023-12-30-9.12.46-pm.png

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

Book Revue (sic). (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://archive.org/details/BookRevue

Hive cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IblQ79_r1WI

Trailer for Jodorowsky’s /The Holy Mountain/.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/la-montana-sagrada.html

Map of plants. “An oak tree is way more closely related to a pumpkin than it is to a pine tree.”
https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/the-surprising-map-of-plants-a-new-animation-shows-how-all-the-different-plants-relate-to-each-other.html

Simply ten unpleasant wince-inducing minutes of lardos falling off ropes, pool edges, animals, and their own feet, popping sports balls by rolling on them, breaking playground equipment and beds by sitting on them, and so on. I think what would go well with this is a video of tall spindly people barking their shins on coffee tables, striking low doorways with their foreheads, and throwing their back out reaching for the toothpaste.  Anyway, you’ve been warned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEwLmjDIxU

Another condensed scenic rail go-kart project person’s adventure, including killer desert bees, which I didn’t even know deserts have. I remember tramping around in wet forest and finding out there are scorpions, which I’d thought were strictly desert creatures. It’s not that scorpions are so dangerous, it’s that they’re disgusting, especially the oily squeeze-toy-plastic-like flesh-colored ones. They’re the disgusting level of potato bugs, squared. Especially if you trip, put your arm through a rotted hollow log, and a bunch of them get on you. A bunch of scorpions is called a bed or a nest of them, and baby scorpions are called scorplings.
https://theawesomer.com/homemade-railroad-go-kart/726333/

She bit the snake.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/teeth.html

We got pie.

   “Wind from the south has rain in its mouth.”

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 more than an hour of each of these fast-paced nearly-eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO’s hidden shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated goes directly to pay the station’s real-world expenses: rent, electricity, water, equipment, and music publisher and streaming fees. No-one at KNYO takes a cut of it, not even the manager.

I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. Just, if people in your story swear like a sailor I have to wait till 10pm local time to read it, to protect other people’s children from getting their mouths washed out with soap.

As usual, here’s a fresh cornucopia spilling over with not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This is a byproduct of gathering the show together:

If the moon hit the earth!
https://theawesomer.com/if-the-moon-hit-the-earth/725996/

Tom Waits – Telephone Call From Istanbul.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/12/26/earworm-alert-telephone-call-from-istanbul/

35 frames from It’s A Wonderful Life.
https://biblioklept.org/2023/12/24/35-frames-from-frank-capras-its-a-wonderful-life/

/Easy Street/ from the Annie movie. Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Carol Burnett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1qNOlMOdM

Cry once a week. Click to feel something. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.cryonceaweek.com/

Ten thousand Mummers mumming. You might ask why. I can tell you in one word: tradition.
https://spookydaily.com/p/the-new-years-day-mummers-parade-and-its-ties-to-halloween

Rerun: AI-generated beer commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geja6NCjgWY

Monique Et Lucien des Têtes à Claques À Tout Le Monde En Parle. (Click on CC, then the settings gear, then whatever language you need the captions to be auto-mangled into.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQB4VXQ60UQ

A Thai ad for black toothpaste.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13096668

Femident toothpaste, yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvT3JIkX98Q

In fact, all the songs from all the Flight of the Conchords episodes, in one place. They even ranked them from 44th up to 1st, but got the order mixed up, in my opinion. I think at least half of them are all equally the best, and the rest are nearly that great, and the distinction moves around, though Foux du Fafa*, or as it’s also often spelled, Foux du Fa Fa, or Foux de Fa Fa, is the one that I still sometimes just find myself singing; then I think of what went on in that episode, where a hard little blonde woman took sex advantage of Brett on a pastry prep table and the next day he had to sit in the shower with his clothes on, crying, which sours, or at least tarts, the clever fun of the song.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/01-07-2017/we-ranked-every-song-from-the-flight-of-the-conchords-tv-series

*Here’s Pomplamoose’s smooth version of Foux du Fafa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2YOZgCwtbk

Goat rap in a virtual museum of natural history. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=MAODBS2G1sQ

The Neanderthals.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/28/What-We-Now-Know-About-Neanderthals/

Both volumes, so far, of Alvin and the Chipmunks at 48/100 speed.
https://chipmunkson16speed.bandcamp.com/

Relationship training wheels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iCW7aLc8bQ

Kat Eaton – Bad Advice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArdQqi3TIOg

Rerun: Molly Tuttle – White Rabbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlVvM3VKuEk

Milky. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC5MAMD9w4

NewAtlas choices of best all-around photos of the year. (View gallery.)
https://newatlas.com/photography/best-photos-2023-animals-aurorae-amazing-landscapes/

NewAtlas’ choices of best space photos of the year. (View gallery.)
https://newatlas.com/space/best-space-photos-2023/

A Russian band plays /All In the Beginning/ by Chicago. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kQ1llzPiB4

Spermicide, stand aside. Every sperm is sacred.
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2023/12/29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

76 trombones led the big parade, 76 logical fallacies close behind. They were followed by rows and rows of the foulest innuendos, the eye-for-an-eye [thump] that makes the whole world blind… (I hear that line in my head as a mix of the tune and rhythm of 76 Trombones and It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas.)
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/29/76-Logical-Fallacies-Explained-in-11-Minutes/

A short ad for a glass musical instrument.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/glass-harp-model-cumulus.html

A page of twenty-minute videos of Viewmaster 3D disk photo locations found and re-explored. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/@viewmastertravels5114

Rerun: Planned obsolescence.
https://theawesomer.com/on-planned-obsolescence/725659/

Art. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwXKLoepxIh/

I think this airplane is cute. It looks like a kind of cartoon airplane that you might see in a Studio Ghibli film. It also looks like a pelican, or a Basset hound, or like an illustration in a science book of near-speed-of-light Lorenz contraction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crk7zskslmU

Shadow puppet dance. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/12/29/friday-bits-dance-party-87/

Janelle Shane’s AI Weirdness, AI-generated guide to the nativity. Mary, mogheh, Jeboe, hupp, shephep, mise, mose, stap.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/your-ai-generated-guide-to-the-nativity/

A better alphabet for writing in English, that looks like somebody asked an AI to make an alphabet.
https://theawesomer.com/improving-the-english-alphabet-shavian/725783/

Man gave names for sounds of all the animals, in the beginning, long time ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_sounds

Animal sounds and other sounds that cars make.
https://laughingsquid.com/cars-making-unusual-animal-sounds/

“Hey, my eyes are up here.” (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Edith_Newbold_Jones_Wharton_(cropped_02).jpg/687px-Edith_Newbold_Jones_Wharton_(cropped_02).jpg

A single-rail gyro-balanced train system designed in 1910. This reminds me of a Larry Niven science fiction story whose climax was the overburdening and catastrophic failure of the gyro system trying to keep a rocketship standing upright that had had one of its three landing fins shot off. The criminal in the rocket didn’t realize the predicament he was in. The pursuer just stood there at a safe distance and kept him talking on the radio until the rocket, gyros winding up past the speed their bearings and structure could take, tipped over, flipped and flopped around like a fish out of water, and flew into bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M

Foggy Mountain Spaceship, the band, plays Linus and Lucy on three banjos and what sounds like a Wurlitzer rhythm-and-bass machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXCITr4RQA

Space slingshot. Way more practical and possible than a space elevator, because way shorter, and no requirement of magical fantasy materials that, the way we’re going, we won’t be around long enough to develop.
https://jalopnik.com/the-skyhook-could-slingshot-mankind-across-the-solar-sy-1851117250

If they had made Deep Space Nine in the 1950s, Ava Gardner would have played Jadzia Dax. Seen smiling with her eyes, and from the right angle, they’re the same person.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/ava-gardner-1950s.html

Jealous.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1737462856826954173

Pow pow pow pow pow. Pow pow pow.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/12/cat-whips-tiger.html

Tampopo. It’s about noodles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo

How we get fancy ramen. I’ve searched for how we get dollar-store brick packs of five (it used to be 8, then 6; next year it’ll be 3, then 1) servings of ramen, and I can’t find a video of that. This will have to be good enough.
https://theawesomer.com/ramen-noodle-factory/725889/

Jamie Fine.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/12/27/jamie-fine/

Teen girl artist’s hundred-year-old dream art. (via MissCellania)
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/27/virginia-frances-sterrett-old-french-fairy-tales/

How to build your own small solar power system. (via Kottke.org)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/

Three Dog Night — Mama Told Me Not To Come, live in 1970, video and sound reimagined by AI. It’s a little bit weird. We’re still just at the beginning of machines being able to do this at all. I like to think that in a couple more years I’ll be able to take old recordings I made of local events and plays and music shows back in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly on sketchy VHS decks and a smashed camera that Lawrence Bullock pulled out of the trash at the R.O.P. and gave to me, and fix them up this nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgskKlmZJts

There’s a scene in The Big Bang Theory sitcom where Sheldon accompanies Penny shopping. She’s in a drugstore, buying supplement pills. Sheldon explains that the only real result of taking vitamin-mineral pills is expensive urine. Penny says sarcastically that of course that’s why she’s here. Sheldon looks around the shelves a bit, and says, “Well, then you’ll want the /molybdenum/.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-weird-reason-we-think-vitamins-are.html

The latest test of the fascinating rotating-detonation rocket engine. They kept it burning for six minutes this time.
https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-sustained-burn-rocket-engine

Re: that rocket engine. Here’s an 18 min. video from January (2023) that explains how it works. Back in the 1960s somebody noticed that a regular rocket motor might sometimes go into this mode for an instant, and they corrected so it wouldn’t, because it was a problem. But it’s also a powerful opportunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxgyz_avQM

If not now, Venn? (via NagOnTheLake) (You have to click on each one for the label of the shared area.)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/edith-pritchett-s-venn-diagrams

American, British, European, Japanese, inches, centimeters, & mondopoint shoe size vs. penis size conversion chart. (via Everlasting Blort)
http://www.i18nguy.com/l10n/shoes-anatomy.html

Building a fully articulated toy audioanimatronic rusty-looking diesel-engine earthmover Tyrannosaur.
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/25/building-an-animatronic-t-rex-inspired-by-an-80s-radio-shack-armatron-robotic-toy.html

Just the punchline of the only Roy Rogers joke I know is Dale Evans saying, “Now, don’t you go getting any ideas about me.”
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/dale-evans.html

Double jump.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-double-jump.html

Healy. (20 min.) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Y5kdEpcu4

A quiet story about two ghosts at a sea-theme park after the end of the world. You might want to click the closed captions on.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/el-after-del-mundo.html

Dog and leg lamp, sepia.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/photograph-of-day_28.html

Neck and leg break. (Hals-und Beinbruch.)
https://www.rd.com/article/break-a-leg/

Egg. Neck. Swallow.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/gjon-mili.html

Another neat lesson about movies, and how they’re different now because we’re different. (9 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/two-ways-to-film-same-movie-scene/

And Final Cut. (Full film, 2 hours) (You’ll have to click through to YouTube.) I can’t understand the narrator, but that doesn’t take anything away from the experience. I hope they got a good grade on this, because they must have an encyclopedic knowledge of films to do.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/12/final-cut.html

Christmas in the rubble.

   “Sir Egbert offered to show them his famous sofa. Alice felt a shudder of nameless apprehension.”

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

…

Meanwhile, 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 more than an hour of each of these fast-paced nthomearly-eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO‘s hidden shiny red donation heart and help the station out. It sure could use it, especially now.

The last hour of this particular show is the sound from a 2011 performance of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Mendocino Theater Company’s Helen Schoeni Theater. The scenery was amazing. Tiny Tim was authentically tiny. The gigantic spook puppet with the pointing finger was terrifying. Costumes, including the shoes, were authentic. You can really hear that; a lot of it sounds like a clog dance, just like real life in those far-off antique days. But before that, from 9pm to 4am, I read stories by Paul Modic and David Herstle Jones, Manuel Vicent (translated by Louis S. Bedrock), Sonia Sulaiman, Mike Sears (I think; David Gurney sent it, and he hates him, so I don’t know). Craig Louis Stehr, out of medical danger for the moment, refined his scheme to rid the world of what he calls the demonic. Sojourna Lee warned us of a vindictive tenacious professional squatter. There’s Philip Zwerling, PhD. Eugene Knapik of 27thStreet. Wendy Doniger, Richard Luscombe, etc. Poetry by Notty Bumbo and Hafiz. Angelique Richardson on the poetry of war. Edward Abbey on his college days and early sabotage in New Mexico. Eleanor Cooney’s latest installment of the visonary German Goose Girl saga. Kaushik Patowary on the Nazi SS false-flag Gliwice (say GLEE-veet-seh) radio station takeover that started World War Two. Veronica Kane on the 14th Amendment. Harper’s Review, the Clown strike, the college teacher strike, Linda Geddes of The Guardian on the elevated holiday danger of penile trauma. Gizmodo’s story of recent discoveries in ancient Scythian use of human skin for leather 2,500 years ago. The story of a ten-million-dollar law suit over a weed farm raid where the cops cuffed and bound everybody, destroyed the crop, sampled the product, stole money and valuables, threw a party, called out for 57 pizzas, shut off the power and water, set the house on fire, left phones and personal items behind, and it turned out the farm was on Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian land, was 100% legal, and oops. Bruno Ruhland’s calm memoir of growing weed in Boonville in 1982. Clifford Allen Sanders about Navarro Ridge in 1969. Doug Holland, Flynne Washburne, Rebecca Solnit, Kent Wallace. Mitch Clogg’s state of arterial health. Thom Hartmann again on the ripoff of so-called Medicare Advantage plans, which are not Medicare at all. Garrison Keillor on propriety. Anthony Burgess on Jewish humor. Selected jokes from Quora. Anthony Scibelli for McSweeneys. Abortion. My dream journal, Friedrich Engels, the 28th annual Trail-of-Tears 100-mile Nome Cult Walk. The Yikes, a deliberately forgotten people. Sarah Biren’s story of the bad old days of trouble for interracial couples and one such couple whose love outlived all their horrid tormentors. A story of His Violent Rapey Holiness Master Brother David. Emily Gaudette on why historical animal cartoon characters so often wore gloves but no pants. Larry Bensky, on whom youth was not wasted. And Lucky Me, by Ezekiel Krahlin, a story told in nested pee-esses and addenda. An hour of announcements. And MOTA-traditional Christmastime music for all the breaks. Whew.

I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. Just, if it has swears I have to wait till 10pm local time to read it, so not to agitate the swear weasels.

As usual, here’s a virtual shipping container bulging with not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This treasure pile is a byproduct of gathering the show together:

Rerun: The Singing Dundee Sisters. One magical Christmas in 1947.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBpvh4y_lU

“Your Christmas tree. A symbol of joy, or a blazing death torch?” For Hunter S. Thompson, it was both. Also bats.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/burning_christmas_trees

A short, suspenseful family film. (18 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-family-circus.html

Robert Earl Keene – Merry Christmas From the Family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg

Harmonics.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/tweet-of-day_0295930532.html

Celebrating 20 years of FactCheck.org.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/happy-20th-anniversary-factcheckorg.html

Jethro Tull – Living In The Past (live, 1976).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m__wmsIn99E

Bobby Vee – Electric Trains and You.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/electric_trains_and_you

Occupied.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/12/15/reimagining-a-christmas-classic/

Page through Krampus cards from Kristmas past. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0euXShSh4o/

Snoo.
https://ukiyo-e.org/search?q=Kawase+Hasui+snow

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/12/20/jef-bourgeau/

Edvard Munch’s /Sweater Dog/.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-scream.html

Betty Boop was originally a dog. She was an anthropomorphic French poodle. Here she is in Max Fleischer’s /Dizzy Dishes/, her first appearance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop

“Wheels up.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/theres-magic-in-all-of-us.html

Li’l Boo Thang. (via MyOneBeautifulThang)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qNnNYSdcYQ

“Naw, that ain’t right. Watch me now, like this: One, two, step, and /point/.” (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Nutcracker_Rehearsals_Nov_005_(31008608485).jpg

“And good old Jamaican ginger flakes.” “It’s Jelly Week!” (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18h39WqLvPQ

Phoebe Waller-Bridge reads a tale of avian misery. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://vimeo.com/196277011

Christmas in deserted Yorkshire. The electricity is on. Maybe everybody’s just inside.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/12/21/christmas-in-yorkshire/

The Lemon Drop Kid. (Full film, no ads, 90 min.) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nem4xRayVFs

Trombone and Spanish guitar duet, Waltz of the Flowers. I’m told it takes tremendous skill and control to play a trombone this quietly, which is why you don’t see very many duets of these instruments. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpTZUHR5rik

Guitar things everybody does wrong. Don’t bail at the ad; there’s a second half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hqDz4yE28

Unwholesome love. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/fictopicto/p/C1Ffd7nRus4/

Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp back when they were puppies. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, the full excellent film, though punctuated here by fourteen commercials. (2 hours)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-eating-gilbert-grape.html

Movie trailers are cut up and jammed together to make something pretty stirring.
https://laughingsquid.com/movie-trailer-mashup-2023/

“It’s tragic to realize that the only thing that matches the enormity of this achievement is its failure.”
https://theawesomer.com/solstice-5-short-sci-fi-film/724839/

A kind of clock. Short attention span? Skip ahead to 10:50.
https://theawesomer.com/3d-printed-roller-coaster-clock/725218/

Some Gilliamesque Xmas Stop-O-Mation. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHubm5oYJWc

Can these numbers be right? That’s more than five times a day in Spain, France, Italy and that PacMan-shaped one. Can everyone in those countries all be prepping for a colonoscopy every day of their lives? I want to say, to be funny, /That explains a lot,/ but it doesn’t explain anything.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/12/16/now-thats-a-shtty-study/

The original Flying Flea. “It seems to be the poor man’s dream of flying come true. It’s amazing and amusing.” “This very interesting aerial machine may one day be the motorcycle of the future.”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_flying_flea

Colorful cars.
https://jalopnik.com/our-favorite-cars-from-macchinissima-italian-car-show-1851108776

Piano Paper Planes. (via Kottke.org)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cyoi013rJ-G/

An assortment of jolly ethnic Santas. (IMPROVED LINK, NOW WITH MORE SANTAS) (via NagOnTheLake)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737939992729817165

Amaze yourself.
https://mazegenerator.net/

“Did you put out the slag?” “Yes! Stop nagging me!” Putting out the slag. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-908m2B-Fg

“It was a small, dedicated crew on hand for the great moment.” /This/ is America, right here.
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/19/watch-a-13-year-old-evel-knievel-superfan-attempt-to-jump-10-trash-cans-on-his-bicycle-video.html

Now I know where to find you.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/now-i-know-where-to-find-you.html

They’re tryin’ to wash us away.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/1927-mississippi-flood.html

Randy Newman – Louisiana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE

Waves propagating in the medium of sheep. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1737994632045182989

Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, and the Holy Giant Rat.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/tweet-of-day_0808329586.html

Campers. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/camping-saturday-resurrected/

These creatures have survived all five of Earth’s mass extinctions, and here is a single one of their fractal-Christmassy eggs. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1735547334178529656

For the egg file (that is, the file of pictures of women I’d like to watch swallow an egg).
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/ina-balke.html

Land of ice and fire, live. (via Fark)
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2023/12/18/volcanic_eruption_has_started

Art of Roger Dean. Some of the album covers are here..
https://sfae.com/Artists/Roger-Dean

Canada’s answer to Dark Shadows. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWO3f7PM2Y

The traditional high-rez 1925 office Xmas party photo. Navigate about it, examine every pore. Choose a favorite person. In previous years I liked the one on the floor, lower left, best. This year I see them as the cast of a 1925 version of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Go on, assign them, one-to-one. There’s Morn. There’s Major Kira. There’s the scheming, treacherous Kai Winn. Both Daxes, Leeta, Garak; Odo is the tree… Which reminds me, it occurred to me that Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are the Duras Sisters from another flavor of Star Trek. There are so many flavors, it’s hard to keep up. (LB and MTG don’t look very like the Duras Sisters, but they act like them, and they scheme disastrously adolescently Klingonly like them.)
https://www.shorpy.com/node/5120?size=_original#caption

David Gilmour’s guitar solo on Comfortably Numb slightly Hendrixified.
https://laughingsquid.com/david-gilmour-solo-jimi-hendrix/

What those crazy kids get up to in the gym at night. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQxj1UA1_0

A straw man walking a red herring up a slippery slope on his way to the comment section:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162990660513219

Star Wars told without Star Wars.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/12/star-wars-minus-star-wars.html

“Can you even imagine way back in the time when they thought thunder was caused by angry gods fighting on top of a mountain.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-moment-volcano-erupts.html

Weasel sex. “It looks just like killing.” “On the bright side, it goes on for about 90 minutes, so there’s that.”
https://laughingsquid.com/kitten-snake-mustelids/

Suddenly Last Summer. (via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese) (full film, no ads, 2 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqlpNDfQNs

How they fool ya. A math prayer. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCsdhzo6Jg

Result of the equation for a single leg.
https://t.co/wiQEn0dt9b

Constructing a Lego sand drawing machine.
https://theawesomer.com/lego-sand-drawing-machine/725133/

And the Vintage Photo Booth. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth

The bloody olive.

   “When your enemy is making a mistake, don’t interfere.” -Sun Tzu

Here’s the recording of last night’s 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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Meanwhile, 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 always provides about an hour of each of these fast-paced nearly-eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO‘s hidden shiny red donation heart and help the station out. No-one at KNYO, not even the manager, is paid even a penny of that. There are real things that need to be paid for –electricity, city water, rent on the storefront studio and performance space, various fees, replacing equipment that’s past repairing– and if you can help, that would be appreciated.

This was the first Memo of the Air show that was heard on the real air all the way south in Mendocino since I lost the use of KMFB in November of 2011. Marshall Brown teaches media tech and related material at Mendocino High School, and he manages KAKX, Student Powered Radio there. He ran a test of KAKX’ automation grabbing my stream. It was only for the first hour, but sometime this week we’ll work out exactly what hours to join for further Friday nights’ shows. I appreciate the opportunity and the lift.

This show features the usual announcements of concerts and plays and yard sales, as well as a lot of community input on the Navarro River’s problematical sand bar. Xeno on so-called electrosensitivity. A plan to erase millions of dollars in local medical debt. Craig Louis Stehr. A little about my bid to admin. the MCN Announce listserv rather than let them shut if off because of a few bad apples. Poetry, astronomy, Garrison Keillor, Doug Holland, Bruce Anderson, David Gurney, David Herstle Jones, Niels Weisberg, Louis Bedrock, Clifford Allen Sanders, Eleanor Cooney, Ralph Nader, Flynne Washburne, Paul Krassner, Zane McNeill, the Comtesse DeSpair, Suzi Zipp, Sebastian Iturralde, my dream journal, jokes, Kent Wallace, Ezekiel Krahlin, Tom Whitwell’s 52 things he learned in 2023, George Saunders stories /Sticks/ and /Puppy/, from his 2013 collection /Tenth of December/, and selections from trombonist Erik Wik’s 2011 notebook journal. Then /The Shadow/ from Xmas Eve 1939.

I’d like to read your writing on the radio. 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. Just, if it has swears I have to wait till 10pm local time to read it, so not to agitate the swear weasels.

As usual, here’s a bouquet of fresh not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This is a byproduct of gathering the show together:

[Added Dec. 17] Marilyn Bellamy of NagOnTheLake, in response to my call, provided a link to the holiday classic /The Bloody Olive/ that has both French /and/ English subtitles, one above the other, that she ran two years ago, that still works. Here it is:
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/12/happy-noir-christmas-bloody-olive.html

The Bloody Olive analysis.
https://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_05/section_3/artc5A.html

Frank Frazetta, the bloody Rockwell. A short documentary.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/frank-frazetta-conan-the-barbarian-fantasy-art

Some background on the Airtight Garage of Moebius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAsuGDLxjX8

A Very Zombie Holiday. (via Fark)
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13087390

1952 Frazer Nash Targa.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/1952-frazer-nash-targa-florio.html

Paper moon.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/paper-moon-postcards.html

Tiny birds, pointy pointy.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/12/10/repost-365-birds/

Sultans of Swing somewhat in Jimi Hendrix’ style.
https://laughingsquid.com/sultans-of-swing-solo-hendrix/

‘When lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, anything can fly.” -Sister Bertrille
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/schlupfkapp.html

Snoot dog.
https://laughingsquid.com/borzoi-dog-with-long-nose/

Night art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/gianifdp/

The iron in breakfast cereal is actual bits of metal. It’s not good or bad for you. It’s just tiny iron filings mixed into the cornflake batter so they can list iron in the printed nutrients on the box. Did you know that? I didn’t know that.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/12/heavy-metal-cereal.html

Molten aluminum in a fire ant hole. It becomes the Crystal Entity from Star Trek: TNG. Or… a tower of Keith Haring people shapes. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://imgur.com/gallery/ZvmVWDa

An abandoned radar station in Greenland.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/12/11/radar-station-dye-2-greenland/

Auroras resulting from the latest solar coronal mass ejection. (Click to view the gallery and scroll down.)
https://newatlas.com/photography/annual-aurora-northern-lights-photography-2023-gallery/

Better scopes. (Click through slideshow.)
https://gizmodo.com/best-space-images-2023-webb-hubble-telescopes-nasa-1851075754

Rerun: Special effects in the old days. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/Xudong1966/status/1733719137770160423

Cute clouds.
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/12/artist-creates-adorable-creatures-with-simple-line-drawings-on-photos-of-clouds.html

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0ylnnvoFp1/

Different ways people have thought of time.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/

Rerun: How long is now.
https://theawesomer.com/how-long-is-now/724329/

This shy girl, afraid to order breakfast, screws her courage to the sticking place and adorably orders breakfast. This reminds me of when Sherlock Holmes, in /Elementary/, becomes friends with a brilliant neurodivergent computer programmer. His neurodivergence is complementary to hers, so their relationship is fascinating. She visits the house to see him one time when he isn’t there, and she explains to Joan (Dr. Watson) what to say to him and why. I want to go back and see that again and memorize that speech. Anyway, here, shy girl orders room service in a hotel. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/14/young-woman-overcomes-fear-to-order-breakfast.html

Robin Williams and Johnny Carson in 1986. (12 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/robin-williams-johnny-carson-1986/

The 1988 national aerobic championship. (47 min.)
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/12/13/lets-get-physical/

To add to the big file of photographs of women I would like to watch swallow an egg. I had thought it was obvious in previous posts that I mean a hard-boiled egg with the shell removed, and swallowed whole, and maybe a doctor or fireman should be there in case there’s a problem. But several people asked, so.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/jane-derby.html

This guy makes lovely physical models of things in Studio Ghibli films out of bits of trash.
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/12/a-gorgeous-and-intricate-model-of-howls-moving-castle-made-out-of-trash.html

“I arrived last night from far away over there.”
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2023/12/08/hand-talk/

The story of Lord Timothy Dexter, the Informer of Deer.”A pickle for the knowing ones.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=375067024253176

How we get plastic balls.
https://theawesomer.com/how-plastic-balls-are-made/724684/

This is coming in 2024. A channel of news that’s written, assembled and delivered by imaginary people who move their hands in current-streaming-delivery fashion as they speak. “Let’s start with our reporters. You can see us, and hear us, and see our lips moving, but no-one was recorded saying what we’re saying. I’m powered by sophisticated systems behind the scenes. And I can speak in any language…” The Black imaginary newscaster in the demo seems gay to me. I’m not sure why I think that. His gentleness? I don’t know. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/channel1_ai/status/1734591810033373231

Chinese cities.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/12/chinese-urbanism.html

Kumataro Ito’s watercolor nudibranchs. Scroll down for all the nudibranchs. One of them looks like an axolotl/hippo going leftward and a hand-face frog king going rightward. One of them looks like a withered Mandelbrot set. Three of them look like magnified diagrams of a cell. And one looks like a slug island with a single pink baobab tree on its raised posterior. In fact, a lot of them look like islands photographed with infrared film. Is the common tree a sex organ, a heat exchanger, a second mouth, or what?
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumataro-ito-s-illustrations-of-nudibranchs-from-the-uss-albatross-philippine-expedition-ca-1908/

Two sisters who sing together.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/12/12/kiran-and-nivi/

Last Saturday’s Tacky Raccoons music matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/12/09/saturday-matinee-16-horsepower-veronique-gayot-delbert-mcclinton/

Physics wordlessly explained by animated stick figure.
https://laughingsquid.com/animation-vs-physics-alan-becker/

PeeWee Herman’s 1988 Xmas special. It’s got Cher. It’s got everything.
https://laughingsquid.com/pee-wees-playhouse-christmas-special-1080-hd/

Gleefully giving graffiti meaning.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/12/igor-kupecs-typographical-street-art.html

American children performing.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/12/12/listen-til-the-end-i-didnt-but-you-should/

North Korean children practicing to perform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr34Wxv6U8E

The final episode of the years-long glitter bomb fart spray series.
https://theawesomer.com/the-final-glitter-bomb-takes-down-car-thieves/724598/

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2023/12/my-entry-11.html
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/bettie-ringma-marc-h-miller-selling-polaroids-in-the-bars-of-amsterdam-1980

Some really nice posters and stills, and a list of recommended movies they come from.
https://www.thecollector.com/best-film-noir-masterpieces/

The action starts at 5:42. The mother of all finale racks.
https://theawesomer.com/detonating-thousands-of-fireworks-at-once/724636/

And the last part of last fortnight’s funeral for Shane McGowan. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1733186753341665683?s=20