Memo Of The Air

2023/03/18

See Hy-Brasil on $5 a day.

“Angels wrestle over control of their own shining hands, each crying out to the other, Stop hitting yourself. I’m not. Yes you are. Stop it! Shut up. You shut up. God gets back from business and says, Is there a problem here? No, sir. That’s good, because I have a job for you. I have a bet going with The Other Guy. I want you to go down there and blight someone, almost enough but not quite. You think you can do that? Oh, yes, sir. Get going, then.”

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.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I add to at random every week or so, usually by Sunday or Monday, in case you’d like to look at that. I want to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. Or send me a link to your writing project on any subject. I’m mainly here to read your work on the radio and I don’t care what it’s about nor even if you can’t control yourself from swearing like a sailor; 87-percent of the show is during Safe Harbor hours when that’s okay. See About and Contact and do what you do.

Gabriel’s Oboe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTVjvrVPms

Artisanal IUDs. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/williambroidery/

Baby changing station.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/changing-station.html

Rerun: a marvelous startling animation technique.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/12/the-distortion-of-time-and-a-moving-crowd-come-together-in-hiroshi-kondos-multiverse.html

Cult cinema classics for free. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/@CultCinemaClassics/videos

More from Earl Okin. “Bessie, Bessie, Bessie, get your fat arm offa me.” With Dutch subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0hLCkPDFE

Meat logs with a magic cross-section picture along the logs’ entire length, colored by slightly different meat, by a technique used also for clay jewelry and Japanese candy.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/13/novelty-meat-logs-you-know-for-kids.html

About 3-D comic books. (via Fark) You can get two-color 3D glasses and enjoy all sorts of things like this; for example, the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels that sometimes flew into two-color 3D, like in the acid-in-the-park scenes, and the characters’ journey through The Blazing World (Alan Moore’s concept of Hy-Brasil). You can even make your own with colored felt pens.
http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/images-from-the-archive/comic-books

There can be only one.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/03/09/this-girl/

“In the village of unspeakable secrets: corruption, murders, zombie [sic], forbidden love… the warrior meets his worthy opponent.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/ninja-vs-shark.html

The Popeil Pocket Surgeon. Fits in the briefcase, the glovebox, even in your pocket, hence the term, so you’re always ready to remove an appendix or gangrenous thumb or assist a difficult birth in a barn-fort surrounded by zombies (speaking of zombies).
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-02/16/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-03/sub-buzz-23842-1487265448-11.jpg

Rowr-bazzle, Zardoz Aslan Vaal.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=tpXZIg

Will Wheaton’s /William Fucking Shatner/ story accompanied by Paul and Storm on guitar and hose-melodica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cwz7DJ4N8

Rerun: Imagine one of these with electric assist in it, tearing along at 50 mph on an elevated lane through rainforest canopy. That’s the future we gave up but could have now. Any company making these beauties would rule the bicycle world. And then, a few years later, like the innovative toy drone we saw last year, but life-size, you’d press a button, the wheels would split down the middle, flap up into rotors to the sides and you’d zizzz up into the sky for real –easily possible with ever-better batteries and motors. Just /try/ to tear your eyes away from the aqua-turquoise one. In the early 1980s I had a ’63 Rambler Classic that I had bought whole for something between $50 and $200, that I gave Earl Scheib on Arden Way the extra $20 to paint it that best of all colors for a vehicle, the color of a glorious future. Rockets and robots and swimming pool tiles and front doors and doughnut glazing and shiny-toe tap-shoes, reading glass frames, ceramic teeth, aerodynamic washing machines and toasters. What a color! When I win the lottery, tch, a plug-in hybrid Fiat 500 that color inside and out.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-spacelander.html

And a lovely little record player to go with it. People spent $1.2 billion on records last year. You still have all your old records. That’s not going out of style. I’ve been following the price of these particular boxes for awhile now. It can go as high as $85 to as low as $45 in a week and then go back up again. It’s plastic, mostly, and probably not built to last, but it’s got Bluetooth, so you can connect it directly to the speakers inside your Bluetooth-ready electric toothbrush. You’ve been wondering why your toothbrush has Bluetooth, well…
https://www.amazon.com/Victrola-Bluetooth-Suitcase-Turntable-Turquoise/dp/B01MQ2RBTZ

Past to future. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmuDIjwAswc/

Classic film special effects, how de do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5p8VIbt0Y

Rerun: Rotating sandwiches. Though technically an open-face pita roll is not a sandwich. Nor is a meat pie. Nor hash-on-a-couch.
https://rotatingsandwiches.com/

Pies.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/14/karin-pfeiff-boschek/

Michelle Yeoh /forty years ago/. She’s still got it. She’ll be fighting like a banshee in a blender until they carry her off to Penglai, the Chinese Tir Na Nog.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/12/to-celebrate-the-oscars-lets-watch-michelle-yeoh-battle-a-guy-with-a-chainsaw.html

When worlds kaleid.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/12/danse-exquise-is-an-animation-that-evokes-the-feeling-of-being-inside-a-kaleidoscope.html

Rock models of future cities.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/12/repost-rocks-and-leaves-and-obsessive-behavior/

Fireflies at dusk.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/fireflies-at-dusk.html

My favorite is 3. The healing grid.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514964/10-award-winning-optical-illusions-and-brain-puzzles

Backwards.
https://theawesomer.com/performing-songs-backward/700247/

You can buy the current version of this for $25 or use an old version for free to see if you like it. My best computer is not good enough even for the old ones, alas, but yours might be.
https://lifehacker.com/spaceengine-is-your-ticket-to-exploring-the-universe-1850228567

…Which reminds me: twenty years ago, or even more, I used to play with a free program called Celestia, that also let you download detailed textures for planets and objects in space. You could fly around and go to any of hundreds of nearby stars, many with planets, turn orbit rings on or off, turn atmospheres and clouds for planets on or off. In /verbose/ mode the screen was filled with text about whatever you were looking at. You could look at things from any angle, speed up or slow down time. You could change the light level to see shadowed places better. It was a thrilling 3D orrery. And it worked fine on a computer and version of Windows that was old /then/. Amazingly it still exists. I just found it again (by using ChatGPT to figure out what it was called because I’d forgotten even that), downloaded it, installed it, and wow. When you get it and start it, click on Help then Demo for a survey of what’s available, Help then Controls opens a window of keyboard and mouse controls. Just flail at it and try things until you learn what’s cool to do. You can’t break it. Here:
https://celestia.space/

The perfect face for a sheriff robot. Like if Robert Preston was a catcher’s mitt.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/rod-taylor.html

Speed. (Via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/215365254336268/

The Hispano-Suiza H6B Dubonnet Xenia. The one with the built-in luggage cut to fit like a puzzle in the triangular trunk.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/hispano-suiza-h6b-dubonnet-xenia.html

“It’s approaching the main hangar. Activate the zeebocons!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqP7Ln_WrCw

Shake your dude thang.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/shake-your-dude-thing.html

How we got Trajan’s column. And how the Roman Catholic Church waltzed in later, appropriated and rebranded it, the way they did everything else.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/03/time-travel-to-ancient-rome.html

Landlord-tenant disputes in the 1970s. (28 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/16/sideburns-handlebar-mustaches-and-tiny-trunks-the-wild-world-of-landlord-tenant-disputes-in-the-1970s.html

Ze Frank’s latest.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/15/Ze-Frank-has-More-True-Facts-Animal-Awards/

The whole true story of Amelie. Now it can be told.
https://youtu.be/IB_lTTxYSsg

For Ireland: Victor Borge at the Kennedy White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei9VVDNxCc8

Epilogue.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/2001-space-odyssey-epilogue-with-frank.html

We’re on a beach, we’re on a beach – stompin’ on the avenue by Radio City with a transistor and a large sum of money to spend… I collect a list of paired songs that pour back and forth into each other. It’s pages long by now. Some of my favorites: Blue Moon – You Send Me. I Ain’t Got Nobody – Eric the Half A Bee. Aaaaa-men, Aaaa-men – You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. I Am the Walrus – The End of the World As We Know It. Somebody That I Used To Know – Hey ho, nobody home, meat nor drink nor money have I none. And there are some that are not pairs but quads or quints or more, like: Oh That Gorgonzola Cheese – Mud Mud Glorious Mud – Have Some Madeira My Dear – Abdul Abulbul Amir.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/music-for-sunday-morning_12.html

I know it’s a lot of ifs, but if cigarets weren’t stupid and horrible but rather pleasant and good for you, and if they still made this kind, this is the kind. Also: a pack of 20, enough for a whole month of illicit schoolday bathroom trips, was 15 cents. (Granted, you could buy a piano for $7.50 in those days.) “Rich in flavor and aroma, full of snap and sparkle, yet deliciously smooth and mild.” “And lately, by the tavern door agape, came shining through the dusk an angel shape.” Attracted to the stench of your cigarets, no doubt.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/omar-cigarette-ads.html

Lymphocytes.
https://xkcd.com/2749/

Beachheads.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/mardi-gras-giant-masks.html

British wildlife photo awards.
https://gizmodo.com/british-wildlife-photography-awards-winners-2023-nature-1850221341

He’s rollin’. I remember a video where a famous woman singer let a very high young woman float up out of the audience onto the stage with her and the girl leaned in and licked her face (!). The singer said sarcastically but gently, motherly, to 20,000 people at the venue, “Yeah, she’s rollin’,” and all 20,000 people murmured at the genuine kindness of this. I don’t remember who that was, though. It might have been Ani DiFranco. It might have been Pink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfEMONJj5Vw

A compressed lesson. Learn all of them. Play the hard ones at half-speed until you get it down.
https://theawesomer.com/the-history-of-rock-music-one-riff-per-year/700045/

A sampler of Martha Mears’ voice in films. She was the singing voice of dozens of actresses who might have looked like a million dollars and might have been able to sing –Lucille Ball, for example– but they couldn’t sing like Martha Mears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxUrn8kRKk

Trampsta – Chunky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGd4fmGrTE

A whole documentary film about music from Greenwich Village 1961-1973.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/greenwich-village-music-that-defined.html

How we get steel.
https://www.rferl.org/a/technology-industry-photographs/28457003.html

Equilibrium. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg

Borscht-belt Roman noir: Rinse the blood off my toga.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/rinse-blood-off-my-toga.html

An hour of Star Wars knockoffs, funny and sympathetic. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aeyUWLPLAs

“Girl’s a mind-readin’ genius, can’t even figure out how ta eat a Ice Planet.” (via Fark)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/046a1a89bc5ae12bbcb26056b1e5bd88/e92892e2b302723a-e8/s1280x1920/59bb85920aeb5c0865a5207ec41c23756540a134.jpg

Action Delivery Force. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YenrZQbj5ss

“If there is a problem, yo, I’ll solve it. Check out the hook while my deejay revolves it.”
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/17/auralnauts-version-of-ice-ice-baby-features-wilford-brimley-and-the-cast-of-the-matrix.html

And Joe Namath’s Hanes Beautymist pantyhose drag ad. He was a famous sportsball guy back when we were burning and strafing and murdering and bombing Southeast Asia back to the Stone Age so a handful of rich criminal war-bucks motherfuckers could stay rich for just a little bit longer. Sportsball and sportsball people took our mind of that. A lot has changed since then. Now he could be arrested in a Florida library for dressing like a girl and smiling about it. He still can. He’s still alive. He’s only like 80.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/joe-namaths-iconic-1974-pantyhose.html

2023/03/11

Götteryämmerung.

“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.” -Oscar Wilde

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.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I add to at random every week or so, in case you’d like to look at that. I want to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. Or send me a link to your writing project on any subject. I’m mainly here to read your work on the radio and I don’t care what it’s about nor even if you can’t control yourself from swearing like a sailor; most of the show is during Safe Harbor hours when that’s okay. See About and Contact and do what you do.

That show is more like I’d like the show to be than it’s been in awhile. Lots of longish creative work, including the Gabriel Garcia Marquez story Louis Bedrock translated into English and sent; it’s another one about Ana and her sex adventures on the island. There’s Del, Ezekiel, Amanda, Paul, Douglas, Lorrie, Laura, Louise, Kent… And I see Clifford, Craig, Molly, Sky, Sebastian, W.J., John, Sam, Bill, Norman, Jean, the other Jean, Mark, Nate, Diedra, Carol, Travis, Erik, wow, so many and so much. Thanks! Let’s do it again next week. And Alex Bosworth called on the phone after a self-described comical butt-hurt hiatus of like two years and we parted on an up-note for a change, so, good omen.

First things first: here’s Physics Girl’s entire YouTube channel. Knock yourself out.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA

And here’s what’s going on with Physics Girl now, told by Simone Giertz because she can’t tell it herself. Get out your hankie; this is gonna wreck you. Get out a large t-shirt for a hankie.
https://theawesomer.com/what-happened-to-physics-girl/699669/

Help her, please.
https://Patreon.com/PhysicsGirl

How we see.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/catching-brain-creating-reality.html

Hopperpop’s epicycle drawer. Play with the various demos and all the controls. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://hopperpop.github.io/EpicDrawer/

Moving while not moving.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1634293885080858627

March of time. (via Cliff Pickover) (You might like to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1634204429049004032

Simple pareidolia. Scroll down and down. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.instagram.com/francoisrobertfaces/

Projection mapping restaurant. For when white gravy isn’t enough to ameliorate questionable meat. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LJYY4KI8g

Far. A cute story about an unusual date. (21 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_CuiJ193A

Caves of Cheese: the story of America’s strategic reserve of Ronnie cheese, the opposite of runny cheese.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-cheese-caves-of-united-states.html

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2023/02/instant-zipper-repair.html

Defining groups.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/defining-groups.html

Blood machines, the cosmic opera. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLHhr8Xc4AM

La Luz – Mean Dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oETEFW1g-hs

Keep your hat on, Jenny.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/03/03/keep-your-hat-on-jenny/

Variously accoutred 1960 El Dorados. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://designyoutrust.com/2018/12/wonderful-photos-of-the-sinister-1960-cadillac-eldorado-cars/

The bicycle of the future.
https://designyoutrust.com/2021/08/spacelander-was-the-bicycle-of-the-future-1946-1960/

Further bike art.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/bicycle-posters-1890s.html

Architecture. (via Fark)
https://www.thesun.ie/news/10330983/dubai-plan-megacity-tower/

Nature photography winners. Click to view the gallery.
https://newatlas.com/photography/2023-world-nature-photography-awards-winners/

Why ski? This guy can ski better than you ever will. Why do anything? Kurt Vonnegut wrote on this subject, how the small groups people lived in for hundreds of thousands of years made room for everyone to be and feel respected by our fellows for skills and creative performance, but since radio, television and now the internet, we all have to compete, even in our own eyes, with world-class performers, and who can measure up to that? A seven-year-old girl can play the accordion like Jascha Heifetz. The Bellamy Brothers can spring out of the splits like a pogo stick. And so on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqHK8i-HdA

Heart of Glass in Inuktitut. Way sweeter than the original.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/uummati-attanarsimat-heart-of-glass.html

Train on the Island. (27thStreet.me is a reliable delight every day.)
https://27thstreet.me/2023/03/10/train-on-the-island/

Yo. Ridin’ dirty.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/04/watch-the-first-baptist-church-senior-adult-choir-tackle-a-rap-medley.html

Nature portals.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/04/nature-portals-is-an-immersive-trip-through-a-neural-network-of-alien-like-plants.html

Rock Rock Rock (1956). The whole film. Tuesday Weld. Connie Francis. Alan Freed. Chuck Berry. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzSlbkOZSk

Earl Okin. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeKi4Mm0x8

Mostly rockers and one fine purple pedal car.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/06/repost-rock-on/#more-89241

Oh, what the heck: Tacky Raccoons’ weekly superlative musical link dump.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/03/04/saturday-matinee-biscuits-gravy-revew-olena-uutai-reverend-peyton-the-terraplanes-blues-band/

Speed dog. Whippet good.
https://supafluffy.com/p/most-energetic-dog-ever-finds-the-perfect-home

(See above.) The one boy is just sitting there. The camera guy says, “Wait, are you trying to actually fart?” Read his eyes: Wasn’t that the instruction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uey1cojWQg

How we get plastic cups.
https://theawesomer.com/plastic-cup-machine/699466/

Plastic hand. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlBOTw58-8

DakhaBrakha live at Koerner Hall. The whole 100 min. show.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/03/04/dakhabrakha-at-koerner-hall/

Instrument guy makes new pool-ducky bagpipes out of medical valves and PVC plumbing.
https://theawesomer.com/ducky-bagpipe/667764/

The world of fruit reamers. “The biggest boom for reamers came in 1907 when the California Fruit Growers Exchange was formed. This co-op marketed the name Sunkist to sell fruit to the east coast. Sunkist reamers were produced as a promotional item. However, not until 1916 when the /Drink an Orange/ campaign was launched, were reamers marketed to the masses.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/reamer_collectors

Girls buckled their knickerbockers below the knee, boys above. Which explains Professor Hill’s ominous question/warning to mothers of River City: “When your son leaves the house, does he re-buckle his knickerbockers /below the knee/?” Also, when I was very small and my mother was selling real estate in L.A. for a living –and doing pretty well; she was a shark of a saleslady– she took me with her on jobs, and once, meeting with a client around the pool at the Knickerbocker Hotel, she was engrossed in negotiations when I kicked something barefoot and split my big toe open, sealing the deal with blood. I had forgotten all about that until this moment, sixty years later.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/1920s-women-in-knickerbockers.html

While you wait. (via Fark)
https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6239/121016/61644352_1_x.jpg

Star Trek TNG (The Next Generation) characters in a dieselpunk alt universe. Arrow through the collection.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10167186538310433&set=pcb.754580022973901

Size.
https://laughingsquid.com/animal-size-comparison/

Yeah.
https://laughingsquid.com/yeah-audio-track/

For the General-Cho’s-chicken category of finding out the tattoo guy pranked you.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/tweet-of-day_01822506906.html

Attack of the giant bubbles. In the next part, it would be cool for immense frantic-happy dachshunds to snap them all out of the sky and save us.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/08/The-B-movie-We-Want-to-See-Attack-of-the-Giant-Bubbles/

The P yard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwFvFKjMMhQ

This is the end.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=sg4LU6

Lose the very.
https://www.losethevery.com/

Bad apples.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/09/charges-for-11-ohio-cops-filmed-beating-suspects-and-destroying-evidence.html

Forty Fridas. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/young_vam/status/1633378596482957313

These boxes are not moving. Though technically no video of anything is moving.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/tweet-of-day_02094750609.html

Natural machines.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/natural-machines-triadsculpture.html

Hidari.
https://theawesomer.com/hidari-a-stop-motion-samurai-short-film/699765/

So smart. So useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMp_IBvlbo

Tucker Carlson laughing at people.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/09/video-montage-of-tucker-carlsons-adorable-laugh.html

What.
https://www.fashiongonerogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/60s-Fashion-Couple-Yellow.jpg

No capes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3w73MAuIM

Capes.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/09/etsomnia-caped-crusaders/

Free-range parenting felonized.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/08/free-range-parenting-punished.html

Exactly.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/precise-description.html

Selling Polaroids in the bars of Amsterdam, 1980.
https://flashbak.com/selling-polaroids-in-the-bars-of-amsterdam-1980-love-hair-and-brothel-creepers-459114/

So… here we go. The future.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-ai-impacts-creativity/

Landscape. Fullscreen.
https://theawesomer.com/little-science-ml-generated-short-film/699712/

“Hot-cha! That was wonderful! Didn’t that make ya tingle all over?” It kind of did, yeah.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/hazel_scott_playing_two_pianos_simultaneously

Famous Malinda.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/10/malinda-kathleen-reese/

Picturing pregnancy in early modern Europe. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pregnancy-in-early-modern-europe

Another project video that makes you wanta make something, not necessarily a bike-boat. It’s magical to me that a fist-size motor can be eight horsepower now. Put that in a wheelchair and you could go like sixty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlJu6Z6I4-w

And some mini water-related gif funnies. Speaking of water, and fist-size things, if you’re in a place where it’s raining buckets lately and you have to park in a place where the ground is wet and the relative micro-warmth of the car coats the windows inside with condensation, there might be some fist-size plastic dessicant boxes in your nearby dollar store. Take the tops off and put three or four in the car and just leave them there. The bottom part of them eventually fills up with water and you spill it out and put it back until the pellets inside are used up. Juanita told me about them and I’ve been using them. Something like this.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/03/10/the-gif-friday-post-no-792-hosin-down-the-bebes-hydrophobic-splat-beware-the-tiddyfish/

2023/03/04

Take an eye, leave an eye.

“True friends stab you in the front.” -Oscar Wilde

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.

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 Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Seek out KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with a one-time gift or, if you can, a recurring gift from your own hidden heart. Especially now, at this crux of history, whatever that means.

Yes! The sort of mighty Whitmanesque yawp that shows we’re not all finally and irrevocably dead.
https://laughingsquid.com/middle-school-band-sweet-child-o-mine/

The upside down.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/24/walking-upside-down-on-the-ceiling-of-a-frozen-lake-in-finland.html

1920s German car stunts.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/crazy-car-stunts-from-1920s.html

Cute Irish hand step dance duo.*
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/01/repost-irish-step-dance-sort-of/

*The last one is my favorite. This one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdZzSFUYpBE

What Peter pulled.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/teeth-pulled-by-peter-the-great.html

Objects.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-ballet-of-everyday-objects.html

The truth? You can’t handle the truth.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/velma-meets-earlier-velma.html

All the way to France.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/27/happy-anniversary-to-me/

A better mousetrap, though if those are real Coke cans, those are not mice but rather rats. And you end up with all the rats for a mile in a box; /now/ what will you do?
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-49009898707b4bc81d554dfa0275ede1

A rainy-day school gym film about sex and the handicapped, from a better, saner society than ours, of course nearly 50 years ago, and in Sweden.
https://ia601901.us.archive.org/8/items/sexandthehandicapped/sexandthehandicapped.mp4

The value of philosophy.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/487

The value of vaccines.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/your-immune-system-is-more-dangerous.html

“Breasts and fear– now, that is very interesting. Breasts and fear. Fascinating association.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2WFFwBZPc

And imagine what this magical unprecedented technological innovation felt like to people at the time, lining the shore or merely looking up. What today feels like that? Really, name three things.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2023/02/st-petersburg-tampa-airboat-line-worlds.html

“As you can see now as I push down the wagon, that it is so friggen satisfying.” Friggen.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/lego-spring-loaded-shooters.html

Methods of the greatest hand-puppeteer ever.
https://laughingsquid.com/barnaby-dixon-hand-puppets/

Cinematography.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/oscar-winning-cinematography.html

12 To The Moon. (full film, 75 min.) (via Miss Cellania, I think; I lost the attribution, sorry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl5x3_Y1nmw

Good golly.
https://www.facebook.com/rick.small.54/posts/pfbid028Cj91U4E5DF6nroxk7XF74YURT3fnbUFa3mNzdh8DHxAVLLrhP5vmrgHcap1KdRKl

This reminded me that when I was a cook in Brannon’s I’d sometimes make something I called Potato-henge, of bits of leftover fries. And eventually eat it, or put it in the pig-slop bucket for the pig man to get for his pigs. Nothing went to waste.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/25/repost-food-funnies

“But at the very moment the homecomeing queen was receiving a deservedly warm reception from the crowd…” “I was on my lunch break at the drive-up ATM when it happened. The Volvo proved even safer than advertised.” It turns out that if you’ve survived nuclear armageddon and you’re male, a random two-finger patch of hair somewhere on your head turns white as cotton, and that’s the only effect on you; no nausea, no anxiety nor dread, no rent. That’s kind of hopeful. No dentists, though, nor ice cream, nor new Doctor Who shows.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/woops

Hi.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/25/The-Beauty-of-Pang-Ways-Praying-Mantises/

Seriously. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://hyperallergic.com/790721/the-preserved-beauty-of-italian-island-traditions-alys-tomlinson/

Zip it.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/zip_code_music

A Kavalcade of Karens.
https://www.theroot.com/15-of-the-kraziest-karens-weve-seen-so-far-1849658177

A better view.
https://laughingsquid.com/microscopic-footage-ballpoint-pen/

Self-described model of patriotic American masculinity Ben Shapiro shown shrieking his dominance at an inanimate object, punching himself in the nose with it and running away crying.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/02/young-ben-shapiro-trash-talks-a-punching-bag-which-then-knocks-him-out.html

Sonata for car alarm and deck-rail piano.
https://laughingsquid.com/car-alarm-piano-music/

Furry bagpipes.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/02/Lynyrd-Skynyrds-Freebird-on-Bagpipes/

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
https://archive.org/details/rikkitikkitavi_201701

Epic classic anime RPS battle.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/27/An-Epic-Anime-Battle-of-Rock-Paper-Scissors/

The daughter of Art Clokey (creator of Gumby) killed herself, so he made this.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/02/mandala.html

Claymation Tina Turner, Barry White, and Antonio Banderas.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/02/bizarre-funny-hot-animated-music-video-by-tina-turner-and-barry-white-guest-starring-wallace-gromit-and-antonio-banderas.html

Moon River.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzCVLFw1Kdg

Speed. For the short of attention span, skip ahead to 4:32.
https://theawesomer.com/man-made-vehicle-speed-comparison/698607/

Another Kiffness cat song. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.facebook.com/rick.small.54/posts/pfbid0pUjNN3pMovTx5GWEYrgeb8FwFVDy2iv4QUnJfzt6CpSjtkr9CPy7DTUWkzGuSVczl

This guy. Because that guy.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/an-appearance-in-ohio.html

“Experimental pilot testing a new rocket-powered craft (actually a Convair F-102 interceptor) manages to fly into the future and land at the now deserted airbase he left. He ends up in a city with people who are suspicious he is a spy and who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler’s daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile. He manages to escape and return to his own time but with consequences.” This really happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6EdVv01Rqo

Toddler toddles.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/tweet-of-day_01719206507.html

Become a master of the occult and /show them all/.
https://archive.org/details/easylessonsforun00grum/mode/2up

Amazing! (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://freakspotting.tumblr.com/post/710303233642545152

More of that instrument guy’s instruments. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.facebook.com/rick.small.54/posts/pfbid0Kp1S2uFs4geQ5yUxLUsnmYpVVg8St8nqELzE9f1vABnVyRm1JjRHp2Lv8zfNN3oDl

It’s getting closer. Small steps. Eerie, shredded-looking steps. I’m not sure why, but it makes me think of Agent Coulson saying, “It’s a magical place,” about Tahiti.
https://theawesomer.com/wist-vr-memory-recorder/698888/

Nature’s stain.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/28/repost-natures-stained-glass/

Nature’s twitchy wiggle dance.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/02/undersea-timelapse-in-glorious-color.html

And ridiculopathy.com, which has been there all along. For some reason, I don’t know why, I forgot about it until just now. A wealth of wonder.
https://www.ridiculopathy.com/

2023/02/25

A cheap room in a sad town.

“The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.” -Nikola Tesla

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.

What rust beast. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/02/08/the-ruin-and-revival-of-the-city-that-built-america/

Apartment buildings of Hong Kong. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://themindcircle.com/gigantic-buildings/

A new augmented reality game.
https://theawesomer.com/augmented-reality-roller-coaster-game/697950/

Rescue.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-mother-dogs-worst-nightmare.html

NASA’s eyes. (via MissCellania)
https://eyes.nasa.gov/

One of many spirographs in the sky. The solar system is a clock. Planets and moons aren’t magical gods decreeing your fate, they’re places made of gases and/or liquids and/or metal and/or dust and rocks. Constellations are /three/-dimensional, not two, the Rorschach connect-the-dots of their shape is entirely arbitrary, and they’re made of stars, which are also not gods. When someone asks you what’s your sign, say, Which one do you think it is? And when they say which one they think it is, happily shout, WRONG! And when they say, Ah, Scorpio, look on them with pity, like you’re watching someone go back and forth with the vacuum cleaner across a paper clip rather than just bend down and pick it up, and /you/ bend down and pick it up and hand it to them, and they throw it down in front of the vacuum again to go back and forth some more, because that’s what’s happening here. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1627734356268617729

Rerun: Tim Minchin – Storm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWj3tI-DXg

Gear down. Flaps down. Touch. Reverse thrust. Engines off.
https://twitter.com/scott_kerr/status/1620039000449851392

La vida loca improved with devil screaming voice.
https://theawesomer.com/livin-la-vida-loca-sum-41/697987/

Volume.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1627102051636334593

No.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/02/17/bubble-bull-soccer/

There was a New Yorker cartoon about forty years ago where happy rich people are flying down the road with the top down, and the woman says to the man, “Have you noticed how all our recreation involves burning fossil fuels?” In the video, the second guy, not the crashed sliding guy but the one who shows up to try to help– where did that guy pop up out of?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/02/when-you-lose-your-snowmobile.html

Memories. If you like your front teeth, your nuts and your arm bones intact, you have to keep your feet on the pedals and hit the ground with the back wheel first, not both at once, and certainly not the front first. In those days there were /so many kids everywhere/ that your chance of surviving this behavior was actually pretty good, because as soon as someone else broke his arm or landed on his little sister and cracked her skull that was the end of the game for a few weeks until everybody forgot and it started all over again.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/bike-jumping.html

Nina Simone – Go To Hell. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RGiV46pHQ8

Dolly Parton – Go To Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvY68HmVIYE

Cher and Charo do America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzSXwKJD_pI

“So we just wait?” “We just wait.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1624361590958043138

Generate another random comic. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://theoatmeal.com/pages/horrible_therapist

Generate another random inspirational quote. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://inspirobot.me/

Cat and Girl give up.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-23-cggiveup.gif

It’s even /more/ art now. They can sell the broken bits.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/jeff-koons-balloon-dog-broken-miami/index.html

“Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard. Increase production. Prevent accidents. And be happy.” Also you’ll want to follow the link to the Robot Spirit Guide.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/24/gpt-as-a-spiritual-counselor.html

How we get real records. These workers risk their lives every day. You lose concentration even for a moment and that thing could close down on your arm and you’d have a record for a hand when you went home. I like learning that the colored records don’t sound as good nor last as long as black ones. Translucent red vinyl is the worst, they say. Though I have some red records from the old days and they’re fine, no problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2SW-Fys6I

Tiktok taught me. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/TikTokTaughtMe

For example, thank gosh for aspartame.
https://www.tiktok.com/@chemicalkim/video/7139355779991162158

The Alice In Wonderland model.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/kathryn-beaumont-alice.html

Walk.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/02/transfiguration.html

How to knock it off, already, no matter what it is.
https://getpocket.com/collections/how-to-quit-almost-anything

And images from the collective unconscious.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/images-from-the-collective-unconscious

2023/02/18

Ja’loja!

“In the sight of those who stand with me, and those for whom I would sacrifice my being, I begin the release.” -Bortus of Moklus

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.

The toxic pollution cloud over Ohio viewed from far above. The railroad company paid out twenty-five whole thousand dollars to the citizens of Ohio, out of the goodness of their heart, to make this right. In space no-one can hear you cough, unless you cough into the microphone and somebody left his thumb on the button.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-pollution-cloud-over-palestine-ohio.html

Iceland from just a /little/ bit above it. This is so dreamlike, this kind of flying.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/02/drone-footage-of-iceland.html

And this. Every once in awhile someone uses the word magnificent for something and it really is.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/14/magnificent-footage-of-the-matterhorn-video.html

The /real/ halftime show: the ASL translator. I like that the sign for /money/ is you slap one hand with the back of the other hand and scowl Italianly. Also I remember the original weird video for this song where the singer drives around with two other singers, with the entrunked kidnapped girlfriend of the man who, I guess, owes her some money, and they stop in various places in America and let her out and torture her a little, then they eventually bring her back and kill the guy and get their money… Oh– no, I think I have it confused for /Bitch Better Have My Money/. That’s a different song entirely. Never mind… Wait, that /is/ the same song. Huh. Wholesome family entertainment certainly has evolved, probably to clear the palate from the tribal savage spectacle of the stupid game and the military recruitment propaganda of warplane flyovers. Remember a few years ago when somebody’s brassiere flapped open there and that was a sure sign of the end times? I mean, what next? (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1625174520847032320

Speaking of which: Rerun: They gone about as fur as they can go. “They got skyscrapers /seven stories high/. Why, in Kansas City, they got a big thee-ay-ter called a bur-luh-kyoo. Fer fifty cents you c’n see a dandy show. Gals? One of the gals was fat and pink and pretty, as round above as she was round below. I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel, but later in the second act when she began to peel, she proved that ever’thin’ she had was absolutely real!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfywkvRq4Ns

Meat-theme Valentines. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kipling_west/sets/72157625869488017/with/6663580061/

Splatter painter.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/11/repost-master-of-splatter/

The Vitruvian mothman. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1625530963961823233

A deep lesson about public domain images and films that begins with historical footage adulterated with the Getty Images watermark. Which reminds me of the 1999 BBC mini-series /Shooting The Past/, that you should find and see. It requires the attention span that people used to have, so give it a try and if you can’t stand it, no harm done.
https://theawesomer.com/a-history-of-the-world-according-to-getty-images/697565/

Scott Peterson’s story /Queens of the Damned/ that I read the first third of on the show, but here it’s in his voice and accompanied by all the illustrations. He puts a great deal of time and energy into these productions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz9xue489lU

A roo flexing for the ladies. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1621448038626492418

Walter’s Blues. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUDxw5cn890

Chelsea girl breaks the record. “She reached for the Constable’s eye with her shoe, which she had in her hand, and now the Constable’s eye is all wrong.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/chelsea-girl.html

The midnight parasites. (10 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/12/the-midnight-parasites-is-a-short-psychedelic-animation-directed-by-yoji-kuri.html

Kisses. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://flashbak.com/photographs-of-a-kiss-for-valentines-day-450147/

Screws.
https://theawesomer.com/how-screws-are-made/697225/

Tom Jones and Janis Joplin.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/tweet-of-day_01274948550.html

Andre Antunes and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
https://theawesomer.com/pakistani-metal/697337/

WHAT.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA17q24t.img

Dead.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/raquel-welch.html

Frances.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/14/dont-worry-about-me/

Si tu vois ma mére.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/02/si-tu-vois-ma-mere-sidney-bechet.html

Dwight Diller dead.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/02/16/dwight-diller-rip/

Rerun but colorized: The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway at their peak. When they jump down into the splits from high places, even though they bounce back up like a pogo stick I flinch away and scream like a little girl. It’s the same horrible shock and surprise, how it affects me, every time. It’s like when an old person starts to tell you how much her fingers hurt and points at the inflamed knuckles, but then it’s just the flinch, not the scream. Or like the clip from /Un Chien Andalou/ where a straight-razor is leveled against a woman’s eyeball in close-up and the scene cuts to a sharp cloud sliding across the full moon.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/02/colourized-tap-dance-scene.html

A.I.-generated stills illustrate an essay about robots in film.
https://theawesomer.com/the-history-of-robots-in-film-told-with-ai-generated-art/697138/

Futurama characters reimagined.
https://theawesomer.com/if-futurama-was-a-1980s-dark-fantasy-film/697020/

Enlightenment. (via Ezekiel Krahlin)
https://thenib.com/the-enlightened-ones/

Thermal imaging of three bodily functions at once in four seconds. Ja’loja!
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/15/do-farts-show-up-in-thermal-camera-footage.html

“Coming soon, but not /too/ soon.”
https://www.facebook.com/rick.small.54/posts/pfbid0uNzqQbX15njSqtBUpyFmiKKfEFSKdjW7t2Jpht7bNZ3iaDq2PooPsN8oU7q8Vf4Wl

Double pendulum ring and bar. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxqlkQ1VBA

I don’t know half of the shows these people were in when they were young, but they all seem to have learned to sing very well. Tonya Harding? Why not. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3JhgupA_pg

“Nice beaver!” “Thanks. I just had it stuffed.” “Lemme help you with that.”
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/02/12/leslie-nielson-clips/

Demoniacal demon doodles.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-demon-doodles-of-1565.html

Rerun: Lobsters in motion.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/16/astounding-audio-illusion-reveals-why-our-ears-and-our-perception-cant-be-trusted.html

Awww.
https://laughingsquid.com/storycorps-love-in-elevator/

The inventor of it, himself. Long pre-Peter Frampton. It’s a very simple analog device, merely a speaker driver and a hose.
https://theawesomer.com/weird-electric-guitar-sound-effects/682214/

Here he is on the Jimmy Dean show.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/16/bobby-mcferrin-and-yo-yo-ma/

Pete Drake.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/pete-drake-steel-guitar.html

Two circles.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/02/13/my-eyes-deceive-me/

Try this in your own sink. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1626018392418271238

Kite skills.
https://theawesomer.com/flying-a-giant-kite-indoors/697336/

“When the lady go round there, there the other ‘un , then the guy you know he came around then there the counter, and then he pointed on her there the big knife, but the lady there she’s a brave girl that then fought against him, and got the knife, and then chase him, trying to get him.”
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/14/woman-grabs-knife-from-would-be-attacker-and-chases-him-out-the-door-video.html

Art.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/02/awesome.html

Rerun: Lavatory love story. (via Everlasting Blort) I think there should still be jobs like this. You could work on your art or writing project. And it would pay enough to live. For old people and students.
https://vimeo.com/14906069

The Byrds in 1970 at Fillmore East. That’s Gene Parsons on the drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymkBEhdHBE

Horses diving.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/11/the-diving-horses-of-atlantic-city.html

You’re gonna need a bigger piece of string. (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1625147055852199936

…Or a Bible.
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/robert-leblanc-photos-west-virginia-snake-handling-church/

“Let there be /YOW!/
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/14/see-this-astonishing-image-of-jesus-getting-struck-by-lightning.html

T-Bone Walker. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/bluezharp/status/1621246931820335110

Lennon be bangin’, yo. (That’s how all the kids talk now.)
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/15/this-crazy-mashup-of-the-beatles-and-beyonce-really-comes-together.html

Here’s a thing– this sketch is idiotic but I still like it. If you get the idea to talk like this for a joke, wait to see if someone around you already does it, because, though it’s a real accent of real people and that’s why this is funny, it also can be construed as making fun of mentally impaired people, and even if that’s not what you’re doing, someone who sees the video someone’s shooting of you –and there is nowhere you’re safe from that anymore, even in your own bathroom– will make a big deal out of it on the internet, what an ableist monster you are, what an asshole, and your life is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEWSNylwS8

And a great ride!
https://theawesomer.com/swiss-alps-toboggan-ride/697629/

2023/02/11

Cor meum, carissimum, tibi mentiar?

“Baby, Sweetheart, would I lie to you?” -Leo (The Hat) Octavius

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.

All the usual stuff and more. Chapters of Kent Wallace’s and Clifford Allen Sanders’ books. A story about Jorge Luis Borges translated to English by Louis Bedrock. Further weed-related material of Paul Modic. A full hour of local announcements divided by the latest news from Vietnam in a call from Kent. A call from Scott. Ronnie James on PEEP. Pebbles Trippet update. Charlie Engels. David Gurney apologizes to Mike Sears. Suzy Zipp’s forwarded astrology info. Poetry. Mitch Clogg. Garrison Keillor. World news. (The international situation is desperate, as usual.) Medicine. Rockets. Biblical abortion recipes. Mark Scaramella on the connection between the U-2 spy plane and Chinese weather balloon incidents. Atomic fears debunked. Jim Sears on guns, Teddy Roosevelt, and crooked oil corporations. Roger Waters. Dream journal section. Ezekiel’s continuing dog story. A discussion of religious relics: enough pieces of the True Cross to build Noah’s Ark. And at the end, a forty-minute condensed reading, on LP in 1959, recorded on the occasion of the book Lady Chatterley’s Lover being declared legal to read in the United States. It’s the very record I played to inaugurate the first radio transmitter I ever built, in a coffee can on a plastic pipe with a car antenna on top. It was February of 1985. I leaned it up against the roof of the electronics lab trailer of the Mendocino Community School, put that record on, drove around at like 1:30am to see how far it would go, and was gratified to get it loud and clear all over the village, down to the headlands, and uphill almost to the grammar school. That was the Radio Free Earth transmitter I put up in the spire of Corners of the Mouth, connected to an answering machine and a phone line, where anyone could call and just be on the radio to do– whatever they wanted to. It worked out great. Eventually, after a month, I was busted and had to pay a fine, but the whole thing was totally worth it. That was so long ago. That was a year before I even met Juanita.

A.I. Valentine cards. “Mon Dieu! Not everyone misses me/ And eagerly waits to pluck me out of/ The forest of the shadow.”
https://www.aiweirdness.com/roses-are-red/

Catalog of Tardises.
https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/tardis/interior/

Cat-Women of the Moon. The full film. (63 min.) “We must bring our culture to Earth!” “NO!” “Ha! She has fallen in love with that– that radio operator.“
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/cat-women-of-moon.html

This was considered a slum.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26964

Celebrate.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/celebration.html

Twinkletoes Germanhelmet’s skate reel. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk8dy4NIzBU

Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel at 100mph on a hoverboard. It’s so much like National Lampoon’s parody of Popular Mechanics, whose cover story was Radio Robots Play Ice Hockey On the Moon at 300 Miles An Hour! Except this is real; it’s done with tiny turbojet engines in the box under his feet, and that pack on his back is a bag full of kerosene.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/02/crossing-channel-on-hoverboard.html

Simulating evolution.
https://theawesomer.com/simulating-evolution-in-video-games/696507/

Well, I swan.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/02/04/swan-lake/

Gallery of items in an odd little shop. (via BoingBoing)
https://freyjasforest.com/pages/gallery

“Staedert, I have a doubt.” “I don’t, Mister President. Fire!”
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2301/barnard68v2_vlt_960.jpg

Star Wars directed by Stanley Kubrick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuKtJ2A0DA

A drone with a heart.
https://theawesomer.com/drone-a-short-film-about-drones-ai-and-live-streaming

A real doctor reacts to TikToks of a medical nature. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrbiPlT-rJU

I read a list of bands that I’d never heard of before, or not so I remembered. They’re Raging Speedhorn, Damage Plan, Cave In, Static X, Svalbard, and Wizzo. Here’s a song by Raging Speedhorn set to an enigmatic video story. See what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIE9IsaohyQ

The Kiffness’ latest. And, I think, best yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829XDgQFgXs

Ah, yeah, this is the life.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/02/05/everyone-loves-someone/

When I was little I was told that eating gelatin was good for your fingernails because it’s made of pigs’ and horses’ feet. But it’s not; it’s made from their shredded and processed skin. I guess it makes sense. Fingernails are a kind of hard skin, like horns are made of skin, where antlers are made of bone. Either way, here, watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0uEWGWLgg

We’re more like these creatures than like anybody we’re likely to ever meet on another planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iuLe5inW84

And whole galaxies, even our own, are just specks.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-deep-field-zoom-from-jwst.html

Mister Darkside.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/04/Mr-Darkside-a-iStar-Warsi-Story/

Last week’s Saturday Matinee collection of links via Tacky Raccoons.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/02/04/saturday-matinee-ren-gill-mocca-garden-laid-back-country-picker/

Further Bad Lip Reading: Congress. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBA7MA3qBM4

Cars making animal sounds and other sounds.
https://laughingsquid.com/cars-making-animal-sounds/

A magical world that millions of crazy people lived in long ago, and many millions more do today.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/06/god-spoke-to-modern-man-in-1952-and-its-quite-a-sight.html

“De troubles ob true lub ain’t a few, but nothin’ can’t keep my lub from you.” Oh, dear.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/racist-valentines-day-cards.html

On the other hand, /oy/.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/kristof-inclusive-or-alienating-the-language-wars-go-on/

If you’re going to make a time machine, you use the best car. One that will pass in any era of history. (This link is giving me fits. One time it works, another time it sends me to the home page. That’s okay, the home page of Wonders Of Street View will keep you busy for hours.)
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=C5f49i

Messing with high voltage and magnets.
https://theawesomer.com/electric-arcs-magnetic-fields/696845/

Delilah Doolally. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7XHQQ1SuA

Infinite Lego domino ring.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/08/jk-brickworks-makes-an-infinite-lego-domino-ring.html

And light-painted stop-o-mation.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/08/Dreaming-A-Light-Painting-Video/

2023/02/04

The talons of Weng-Chiang.

“This is your home now. We welcome you with three merit points and a work assignment. In your time here, full cooperation will be rewarded with further merit points, which may be traded for privileges such as food, shelter and permission to speak. Anything less than full cooperation will cost you points. Attempts to avoid service, by digging, or self-harm, are permitted during sleep period. Oh, yes, ahem, and the attitude adjustment facility is soundproof now, thanks to the generous merit point donations of those who came before you. That’s all. Get to work, and have a wonderful, uh, day.”

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.

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 my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with a one-time gift or, if you can, a recurring gift from your own hidden heart. And/or acquire a concentrated vial of new and improved fire-engine-red KNYO hot sauce, to promote vim and pep and vibrant health. (“It’s toasted!”)

Ken and Ryu. Ryu and Ken.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/tweet-of-day.html

Wayne. (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/BigRedCeltTT/status/1619714229275365377

The Zaoule (say za-OO-lee) dance.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-worlds-most-impossible-dance.html

The Zouave (say zwahv) dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXXpV4OUuA

3 Sunnys. (vie b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWyxzmNdJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIywz7sn_xo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcssY8ia770

Cold Little Heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9wAC9MGpmI

John Hartford – Gum Tree Canoe.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/02/03/gum-tree-canoe/

Num-Num cat loop progressive compilation. It starts out so simple.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/02/03/cats-num-num-compilation/

3D Mars flyover. This would go great with Laurie Anderson’s /Big Science/ playing over it: “Hey pal! How do I get to town from here? And he said, Well, just take a right where they’re going to build that new shopping mall… Go straight past where they’re going to put in the freeway…Take a left at what’s going to be the new sports center. And keep going until you hit the place where they’re /thinking/ of building that drive-in bank. You can’t miss it. And I said, This must be the place.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/stunning-3d-flyover-of-mars.html

Pink Floyd live at Pompeii. It makes me think of /Spinal Tap/ and the Stonehenge scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk

Rerun: Turntable dance. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-sJtUpftFU

Art-chitecture. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/yanis.crys/

Asking A.I. to create a Sailor Moon Mad Max movie. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn9_SN8oPoa/

Asking A.I. to generate a whole new sign language. Result: Ihonialllilal. Requires custom hands.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/01/31/a-i-creates-universal-sign-language-ihonialllilal/

The Seinfeld/Pulp Fiction deepfake.
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/02/this-seinfeld-pulp-fiction-deepfake-is-a-little-too-good.html

Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player teaches you to play Smokestack Lightning.
https://twitter.com/bluezharp/status/1618660634090168320

A comic-strip history of company towns.
https://thenib.com/company-towns-history/

The all-aluminum 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt. The green one– not turquoise, not aqua, not Mig-green (Russian-jet-cockpit-green), but something in the middle. Juanita’s 2000 Honda Insight is made of aluminum and plastic. The tow-truck guy had a hell of a time finding somewhere to stick on the magnetic towing lights.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/1941-chrysler-thunderbolt.html

Color. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1618298413338234881

Bessie Coleman Barbie. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/bessie-coleman-barbie-doll-cec/index.html

This is your brain on conspiracy bullshit.
https://twitter.com/TakeThatNurses/status/1615585414403833858

The prophecy.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/29/The-Prophesy-A-Classic-Fantasy-Tale/

Those /other/ cops.
https://thenib.com/a-message-from-your-local-police/

That mecha is modeled on the robot in this scene from Robocop. They have a fully detailed life-size (car up on its hind legs size) one in Fundemonium, in Rohnert Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM

You can see the Fundemonium robot in their promo video, just briefly, on the far left, at 1:22. The camera seems to avoid it, probably to not make it the focus of what the store’s about, because it’s not; it’s just cool. The last time Juanita and I went there, they’d moved it out of the window and way off to the side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfplKERh3gk

Our Town on shrooms. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://sputniknews.com/20221210/1105188938.html

Rerun: Awkward. It reminds me of a lot of Bill Plimpton’s work. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.notofagus.com/films/awkward

Music for (last) Sunday morning.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/music-for-sunday-morning_01377942261.html

Melting.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/29/watch-everyday-objects-melt-under-a-macro-lens.html

Exercise.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/29/the-vigorous-workout-routine-of-a-giant-andromedan-spidersnail-seahorse.html

Ze Frank on slime.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/ze-frank-has-lowdown-on-slime-molds.html

Rerun: Zappa – I’m the slime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFIkty4Zvk

The /important/ issues. (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/tt-issues.jpg

The curse of the classified documents.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-curse-of-classified-documents.html

Back in /my/ day.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/30/plentiful-past/

Black Mask Magazine cover art.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/black-mask-covers.html

Mrs. Betty Bowers of Landover Baptist Church, America’s Best Christian, flowcharts the Bible for you.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/31/mrs-betty-bowers-americas-best-christian-made-a-useful-flowchart-for-interpreting-the-bible-maga-style.html

Motor Mouse and Autocat.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/motor_mouse_and_autocat

Poker Face as old-timey Western swing. (Lantec1000 wrote: “Interesting fact about this song. Lady Gaga was very anti-war at the time when World War II first broke out. But after D-Day, she did a performance for the soldiers overseas and saw first hand the destruction that the war has caused. She decided to fully support the war effort and this song was alluding to the radar technology the British invented and played as a taunt to the Germans.”
https://laughingsquid.com/poker-face-old-timey-western-swing/

A self-explanatory game that I think I’m just average at but that’s still fun. You look at pictures that have lots of clues in them that turn out to be natural unintended tricks– black and white, for example, or anachronistic cars, or Eastern Europe, or a film still– and guess what year they were taken. You get points for how close you come.
https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html

Every time a baby is born, its country on this map flashes yellow. (via MissCellania)
https://neal.fun/baby-map/

How the cell is like Star Trek.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/tweet-of-day_013442219.html

If famous architects designed cars. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://mossandfog.com/cars-designed-through-the-style-of-famous-architects/

A 32,000-year-old Lunar calendar. (Edit: 1,000,000,000,000 –one trillion– seconds is 32,000 years.) (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/oldest-lunar-calendars/

45 min. of clips of Tim Minchin’s musical standup about religion, much of it from 2019 when he was 33 (Jesus’ age).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA5lIFUply0

Curly sings the alphabet. Moe and Larry also sing, and all the college kids join in.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/30/stooges-the-alphabet-song/

A.I. generates an endless Seinfeld episode in real time forever. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever

Happy capybaras jumping in the watta..
https://twitter.com/CAPYBARA_MAN/status/1612530377708412951

AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2qQmj0_h4

How I met your father.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/at-first-glance.html

Further on the subject of Adolfo Kaminsky, the Argentinian Jew who saved 16,000 men, women and children from being murdered by the Nazis, using his fingers, a razor blade, cleaning fluid, forged forms, less than an ounce of ink, and a centrfuge made from a bicycle wheel. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dup6KOoaAUc

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://gotting.fr/wp/categorie-produit/estampes/

Rerun: future of car travel. The inn’s /predigested food/ sounds delish. In your choice of colors, probably.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/02/key-to-future.html

How to make a fire-starting device to have for when all else fails and the rubber roads run down. Make it while you still have access to a drill, a file, a pocket knife, a hacksaw, copper pipe, a pipe cutter tool, a rubber O-ring, a cupboard knob, and a section of wooden dowel; don’t wait until you’re on the run from zombies in a post-apocalyptic forest and your Bic lighter is empty. (The last zombie movie I saw was made in the 1960s, so I don’t know if fire still works as well, but a tallow torch should be a pretty good defense. 1960s zombies went up like tissue paper. Also you’ll need some tallow and a stick or a real estate company sign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKJksRIBzNc

Innovative self-soldering circuitboard. His first project using the technique self-solders a circuit to control the process of self-soldering future self-soldering circuitboards. I love how excited he is about his idea.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/30/maker-creates-electronic-device-that-solders-itself-like-a-self-cooking-pizza.html

She’s the new Pickle Queen, and her award is, she gets to kick a field goal with the world’s largest pickle, which is billed as real but clearly is papier mache, so the whole thing is bollocks. Think about that first photograph, the relationships and proportions and eye-lines. Sometimes a pickle is only a pickle, but here, I think, it’s more.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/kicking_the_pickle

“Top this, Janet! You don’t have a chance! You’re through as County 4-H Snake Queen! Through!” Your point of view would be Janet. You’re smiling inside, gently, because that kind of overconfidence, there, is the downfall of them all, and you have nothing to worry about. Just tend to your own giant snake and enjoy inevitably re-upping your title, and watch your back. (via Fark)
https://imgur.com/br6sy81

Music.
https://theawesomer.com/playing-god-on-guzheng/696292/

A number of pocket calculator emulators. I was disappointed at first because I thought they were all broken, but then the nickel drops and I realized that all the buttons are live, including the /on/ button. You have to turn them on. (via b3ta)
https://archive.org/details/calculatordrawer

“May cause dizziness.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy7e28VUJWc

Dimension 5. The whole film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EimxJAcoU8

Pete “Big Elvis” Vallée weeg meer dan 200 kilo en gelooft dat Elvis zijn vader is. Hieronder kun je zijn verhaal bekijken. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://vimeo.com/276103410

We’ve seen him play this instrument before. It’s so sweet. So far, this is my favorite /Over the Rainbow/, though a couple of the theremin versions are also nice.
https://laughingsquid.com/somewhere-over-the-rainbow-acoustic-reverse-slide/

A fun test of your ability to perceive color. I was close to average about it. I tried again with the monitor tipped backward a little and did a little better. (In other words, don’t be discouraged; it might be your device and not your eyes and brain.)
https://www.lenstore.co.uk/vc/colour-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/

Here’s an article about color and the above test.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/575383/color-perception-test

Rerun: Youth and aging.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/youth-aging-tales-of-mere-existence.html

Point of view. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorcaCtjmog

The Eye of Smyrna (Wisconsin).
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=U29JFi

History of math. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://history-of-mathematics.org/

And the wreck of the Princess May.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2023/01/princess-mays-dramatic-grounding.html

2023/01/28

Heart of a dog.

“Some trainers say in order to understand your breed you have to imagine what their voices would sound like and what they’d say to you when you give them a command. So, give a command to a German shepherd and he’d say, Right, boss. No problem. Consider it done. Give a command to a poodle and it’s: Please love me. I’ll do anything if you just love me. But give a command to a terrier and they say, Um, is it gonna be fun? Because if it’s not gonna be fun I’m just not interested.”

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. As sometimes happens lately I had to start the show forty minutes late because of getting Juanita home from work when they move her schedule around, so that explains why just a few minutes into the recording I’m already telling you it’s ten o’clock. To cover the time I was gone this time I put on the sound from Laurie Anderson’s film /Heart of a Dog/, a story about her life, key elements of her childhood, her relationship with her mother, a little about her husband Lou Reed’s harrowing but philosophical months of dying of liver disease and, throughout, her tender love for her little dog Lolabelle ties the whole thing together. Juanita’s car is likely to be finished being fixed this week, so things will probably be back to normal next week. Nine to five is normal. Nine p.m. to five a.m., the best hours for anything creative or contemplative or that requires steady work and a steady hand and freedom from interruptions. My grandmother used to say, “Night air is bad air,” but to me everything’s always been better at night, including air. No-one you owe money to is bugging you for the money. They’re all drunkenly asleep, dreaming of cakes and pies and sour-faced sausage-like women, breasts muffining out over the top of black rubber bathing suits, breathing like Darth Vader, rhythmically snapping a quirt across their fishnet pantyhose crisscrossed buttocks or merely against the arm of a chair, like Shirley Stoler in Lina Wertmuller’s disturbing masterpiece /Seven Beauties/, which I was reminded of yesterday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Anyway, here:

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 my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with a one-time gift or, if you can, a recurring gift from your own hidden heart. And/or acquire a concentrated vial of new and improved fire-engine-red KNYO hot sauce, to promote vim and pep and vibrant health. (“It’s toasted!”)

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I add to at random every week or so. I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. It doesn’t have to be a dream. I’m here to read your writing on the radio and subject is no object. See About and Contact.

Through the fire and flames.
https://theawesomer.com/through-the-fire-and-flames-accordion-duo/695327/

I love videos of this sport, though people who do it eventually all get killed. They’re going 200 miles an hour within just a few feet of rock and ice. The slightest miscalculation, or a sneeze, and /POW/… But it’s so wonderful when they live.
https://theawesomer.com/worlds-longest-wingsuit-proximity-flight/

The futuristic kites of Alexander Graham Bell.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/alexander-graham-bells-tetrahedral-kites.html

The whole Star Wars saga generated as anime stills by A.I. Chewbacca looks kind of like a terrier/panda, like John Candy in /Spaceballs/.
https://theawesomer.com/star-wars-as-an-anime/695301/

More from the same project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwVFMz6Pm1w

Art deco NYC.
https://www.johngrimwade.com/blog/2021/05/18/art-deco-nyc/

Kitchen styles down the decades. The 1950s kitchens make me want a car in any of those colors. I think of one of them as retro-future-robot-green. You’ll know it when you see it.
https://homesandhues.com/p/the-evolution-of-kitchen-style-in-the-late-20th-century

Buying bread from a man in Brussels. He was six-foot-four and full of muscles.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/brussels-1950s.html

Background music for all your 8mm home movies. Skrillex also works. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/10j4535/kodak_sound_8_volume_1_background_music_for_your/

Why children need to be quiet.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/01/why-children-need-to-be-quiet.html

Your horoscope for today.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/your-horoscope-for-today.html

True story.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/blog-post.html

Rerun: When Zoot walks in.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/zoot-suit-old-photos/

Symphony for Chubby Cat. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbK1Q_riyxA

Comparative physiognomy.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comparative-physiognomy-or-resemblances-between-men-and-animals-1852

A catalog of monowheels.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/monowheel-historical-photos/

Missing from the above: Mr. Garrison’s /It/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK362RLHXGY

French art. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.instagram.com/gallicabnf/

The corset x-rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell. This should scare smart kids off of corsets for awhile, if just telling them they’ll louse up their ribs doesn’t do the trick.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-corset-x-rays-of-dr-ludovic-o-followell-1908

The Irish famine follies.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/irelands-famine-follies.html

Lucy Ellis – Just The Two Of Us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2u_-QomGXU

Same song but Lizzy McAlpine and Swatkins (with old-fashioned guitar talk-box tube tastefully not overemphasized).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxuKgfkQXs

When they say, They don’t make ’em like that anymore, here’s a pretty good example of who they mean.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/betty-hutton.html

Though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkXyQASN2aM

Penn and Teller Fool Us shows have resumed. Here’s the first one for the new year. (You might have to passively mouse over the space to the left of /Penn & Teller Animal Style/ and then click to play, or not.)
https://www.cwtv.com/shows/penn-teller-fool-us/penn-and-teller-animal-style

All the people responsible for these atrocities are still rich and running around free as a bird. When /they’re/ the ones who should be in prison for the rest of their lives, and not the people they caused to be tortured all these years and treated worse than animals.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/22/the-forever-prisoner-a-documentary-about-the-us-torture-machine-by-alex-gibney.html

“Welcome to Black Lotus, bitch.” I haven’t seen the show this is making fun of, and I don’t need to, to enjoy it.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/22/snls-the-black-lotus-spoofs-its-white-counterpart.html

A fun typo game. I’ll bet you’re pretty good at this. Give it a try.
https://10typosgame.com/

Insurance lawyer discusses liability of damage caused by superheroes.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/23/real-life-insurance-lawyer-assesses-damage-in-superhero-movies-and-tv-shows.html

Frank Turner – Gift of the Magi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTYvOsgxJw

Frank Turner – Recovery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fQ3kXFVIF0

Nathaniel Rateliff.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/01/23/nathaniel-rateliff/

Soviet socialist sanatoria.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/inside-strange-world-of-soviet.html

An astounding project. Watch this man take a few random wrecked motorcycle motors from the breaker yard, cut them all up, grind and fasten and weld everything in just the perfect way to make a single V-4 engine that actually runs and doesn’t even leak oil. He does everything, including fabricate the new crankshaft required, the mounts, the manifolds, the this, the that. Play it at 2X speed. My friend Dan and I once rebuilt a VW bus engine, no cutting nor welding required, just simply took it apart and put it back together around and in a new uncracked block; it took all summer, and it never even worked right after that. It worked, but not right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0X2vXL0gCw

Making and flying a 12-foot-long toy jet airliner.
https://theawesomer.com/building-a-giant-r-c-airbus-a380/695174/

Making a sub-octave bass guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq7LSVKRUd0

And playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesU6FvHBJ0

An electric guitar made entirely of melted-down aluminum cans. Heavy, man.
https://theawesomer.com/recycled-aluminum-can-guitar/695012/

The guitar lesson starts at 4:40.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/23/listen-to-the-main-squeezes-killer-rendition-of-pink-floyds-comfortably-numb.html

“And then someone in the chemistry department came up with a solution.”
https://laughingsquid.com/choir-boy-uses-helium-balloon/

Lily Yokoi, the Ballerina on the Golden Bicycle. Performing without a net on the main stage. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxa7I33YN1g

“It hurts! Oww!” “That’s all right. I see what’s wrong. We’re going to help you.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fk7oNpQagAAvXEZ?format=jpg&name=900×900

Randy Rainbow’s latest.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/23/watch-randy-rainbows-hilarious-new-musical-number-about-kevin-mccarthy.html

“How did my father make you so fussy? Where is your adventurous spirit?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhDPe8aRAo

A teevee show about competency.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/31/old-enough-is-the-post-pandemic-palette-cleanser-i-needed.html

Speaking of which, life is a cabaret, old chum.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1609719192596381696

“This short was written over a single cup of tea by all the members of the cast.” (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5f-_rU4Ww

We are the world. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUA_sI6JDo

Fancy ceilings of Europe.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/01/26/stefania-bendato/

Rerun: The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist. “This is like when you fall asleep in front of the TV and your dreams start riffing on whatever’s on.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

A new, more powerful, more fuel-efficient kind of 3D-printed rocket motor. Watch a test.
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-validates-propulsion-technology-deep-space-1850036531

A new two-way turbo/ramjet. Watch a test. You’d get the impression from the video that the boys did everything, but the /real/ engineer is the Valley Girl. She’ll probably also turn out to be the badass test pilot who breaks all the protocols and pushes it past Mach 5 to Mach 7. If /I/ were writing the story, they’d all be pissed off at her for crashing the test plane, when the problem was their fault, their bean-counting lack of vision, and the trailer quote would come from the press conference, when she addresses a snarky boy reporter thusly: “You make one more crack about my voice and I’ll pull your tiny dick out through your nose. Got it?”
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hermeus-chimera-hypersonic-test/

And a new kind of silent propeller.
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/toroidal-quiet-propellers/

A beaver-themed vitamin pill ad from 1970 AD.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/follies_of_the_madmen_553

Wish-fulfillment paintings of stacks and wads and barrels of money.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illusory-wealth

Puzzle.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/26/4000-pieces-in-33-seconds/

As if /we/ never do anything like this. Humans are doing things just like this all the time.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/05/confused-collie.html

A unique work of art: MassTransiScope.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/masstransiscope.html

Farge lies with tomato horse. (This story is set in New Zealand, where pissed means drunk. (via Fark)
https://www.bandt.com.au/ferret-oh-frish-new-maccas-campaign-celebrates-its-most-loyal-customer-the-pissed-one

Hmm.
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1617570753561477138

The passions of a life in rock and roll. “Anybody seen my glasses?” Rockin Al and the Five Stars. What exactly was the offense that set off the drummer in the first place?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=R4552iGlxZw

Riding on a giant radio telescope.
https://theawesomer.com/riding-on-a-radio-telescope/695215/

An echidna blowing snot bubbles to look cool for the lady echidnae. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-R2_SOC2HA

With video of the two-umbrella fighting dance. This reminds me of an ad I saw once for a /tactical/ umbrella that was designed specifically to strike or stab someone with, or to hook a gun away from their hand. Its main selling point was, you could put it across between two chairs and stand on the middle and it would hold you up.
https://soranews24.com/2023/01/27/sickle-wielding-attacker-safely-fended-off-by-victims-umbrella-in-aomori/

In the second video down, when he zipped past a bike like it was standing still I just about swallowed my tongue.
https://theawesomer.com/a-ride-on-the-veteran-sherman-electric-unicycle/

Clearly nobody involved in this story has read /Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency/, because there is a fourth-dimensional solution to the very problem. And no, it’s not to go back in time to when there was no house there and drop the couch from a crane at the same moment as bringing the crane and couch back to the present day. It’s rather a topography problem. It can be done. And it’s often worth it to take the legs off anything the legs easily come off of. Zip them inside one of the cushions and you won’t lose them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-64353190

And Tinkerbell.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/audrey-hepburn-ondine-1954.html

2023/01/21

La morte ha fatto l’uovo.

“Married couple Anna (Gina Lollobrigida, R.I.P.) and Marco (Jean-Louis Trintignant, also R.I.P.) run a hi-tech automated poultry farm, breeding boneless chickens. Unbeknownst to Anna, Marco is a serial killer, who lures prostitutes to motel rooms before stabbing them. The arrival of Anna’s cousin Gabri (Ewa Aulin) further fragments the troubled marriage, as she and Marco begin an affair and conspire to run away together. However, Gabri is actually plotting with her husband Mondaini (Jean Sobieski) to kill Anna and frame Marco, as they have discovered Marco’s secret. When Marco discovers Anna’s body in his hotel room, he cleans the crime scene and takes the body back to the farm to dispose of it. What Gabri and Mondaini do not know is that Marco’s fixation is not with killing prostitutes, but simply hiring them to role-play murders, letting them go safely and handsomely paid. At the farm, Marco falls into a machine used to grind chicken feed in which he was trying to dispose of Anna’s body. When the police arrive, having responded to the murder at the hotel and then coming to the farm to investigate Marco’s alleged activities, the police focus their attention on Gabri, suspecting her of committing the murder out of sibling jealousy. Gabri and Mondaini are eventually arrested for Anna’s murder, as the farm chickens feed on Marco’s ground corpse.” -Wikipedia

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with a one-time gift or, if you can, a recurring gift from your own hidden heart. And/or acquire a concentrated vial of new and improved fire-engine-red KNYO hot sauce, to promote vim and pep and vibrant health. (“It’s toasted!”)

Also, about the above recording, because of all the complications and oddnesses of this week I noticed at the last instant that my show file had enough material in it to take two more hours to read than there was time available. I had compulsively amassed way too much. So I used my trick for that, which is to brutally jettison (until next week) the longest pieces first, and the longest piece was by Paul Modic so, Paul, next week, for sure. And I got Louis Bedrock and Clifford Allen Sanders mixed up together in my mind, so I think I might have declared that Louis Bedrock is in his 90s, when that’s not right. Other than that, it’s a pretty coherent show.

BESIDES ALL THAT, here are some not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering MOTA together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. I’m sorry, I don’t have time to check the links; if something’s out of place and you feel the urge to be a hero, please let me know what it is so I can fix it up. You /are/ a hero. You prove that every day.

John Brosio’s art. Explore the galleries. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://johnbrosio.com/

Will Wilde play the Freebird solo note-for-note on harmonica? Will Wilde will. (via MissCellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXP2-5IC2E

Rebecca cuts loose at 4:50. (also via MissCellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8MEqBVYcVE

Thirteen moons.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/14/youve-been-mooned/

Latest rocket triumph– launch, various steps, all go like clockwork,
booster separation through their tandem powered landings like two good
sheepdogs running back to the truck. Multiple simultaneous views of
every step. I cued you ahead to just before the launch so you don’t have to wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxyF1_Ylkk&t=19m19s

“I been thinkin’ about movin’ up there. The moon might be nice.”
https://theawesomer.com/hello-tomorrow-trailer/694785/

That /was/ the future.
https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/its-a-groove-thing-miami-condo-from-the-days-of-disco-available-for-529k/

Scarborough moonlight. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1616212137331888134

The sunspot cycle.
https://xkcd.com/2725/

Willowmere, Drumthwacket, Il Paradiso, some real names for some real pretty places that won’t look anything like this anymore. It’s probably all Walmarts and freeway cloverleafs now. Cloverleaves?
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/american-gardens-1910s.html

Oregon seems nice.
https://theawesomer.com/oregon-in-8k-devin-supertramp/694111/

And Dublin.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/dublin-timelapse.html

Slums. (via b3ta) (Give it a letter or a number and watch the slum develop.)
https://alambik.itch.io/slums

Dystopia. (via MissCellania)
https://thenib.com/love-to-live-in-the-capitalist-dystopia-hell-world/

Two-hour kaleidoscope.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-splendor-of-color-kaleidoscope.html

Why should I die? Why. Whyyyyyyy.
https://theawesomer.com/whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy/694112/

La morte ha fatto l’uovo. There’s an actress in Mendocino named Gina O’Feral who also I’ve always thought is very pretty. That might be a useful general rule: Ginas are pretty. Like how movies about Gypsies are always good, and especially when the word Gypsy is in the title. King of the Gypsies, Queen of the Gypsies, Time of the Gypsies, Angelo My Love, Latcho Drom, and so on.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/jan/16/gina-lollobrigida-a-life-in-pictures

Modesty.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-business-2eab4089860404b7b97ccac00563c082

Meanwhile in the decadent witless West. Ah, youth. Don’t be drinking anything that could short out your keyboard when you look at this.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/17/it-hurts/

Rerun: Playing For Change – Gimme Shelter.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/gimme-shelter.html

“I /am/ with the group. I hate women. I’m supposed to be here.”
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/man-trolls-forced-birthers-blocking-planned-parenthood.html

Four short Dust good tiny-budget science-fiction shows. Exit Strategy, Click, Multiverse Dating For Beginners, and It’s About Time, all about characters recognizing their mistakes and attempting to rectify them while stuck in the same day. (Total 47 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL410HGuv-U

The 1950s story The Cold Equations done as a play. (12 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VkUjGQuSuA

The 1926 German Impressionist version of The Simpsons /Steamed Ham/ episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsof0cwFPY0

Indian Superman choreography. (Click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/iWolowitz/status/1613575985877717006

Gong.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/bang-gong.html

The entire Joni Mitchell music catalog on YouTube. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/jonimitchell/playlists

Joni Mitchel (with Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker and Pat Metheny) – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (2006).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbkKFDHmTik

Jeff Beck (R.I.P) – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1996).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyG0PgX6uQ

Jeff Beck (R.I.P) and Jimmy Page in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHKsg3NIIgQ

Jeff Beck – ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOPvOBd8IA

Richie and Rosie.
https://27thstreet.me/2023/01/17/above-the-galaxy/

Hup! Hup! (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cradle2Grave.jpg

Ro! Ro! Rotate ya owl!
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/rotate-your-owl.html

Woodcut art. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.instagram.com/brianreedy/

Fashion. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/mario-testino/m08k4c9?hl=en

Natural green.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2301/RockyArchAurora_Pellegrini_960.jpg

Man-made purpledy-blue. (via Fark)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/01/17/feeling-a-little-blue-you-might-be-standing-under-a-bad-streetlight

David Crosby (R.I.P.) when he was just a puppy.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/young-david-crosby.html

Man-made animals. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.instagram.com/pixelmatedanimals/

To guard the peace of these hollow hills. (56 min.)
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/19/The-Power-of-Decision-a-1958-Nuclear-War-Movie-Produced-by-the-US-Air-Force/

The Stockholm telephone tower.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/09/the-stockholm-telephone-tower.html

Watch a man make a lovely working toy-size real seven-cylinder airplane motor. At the end, it starts and runs. He’s /so happy/. It looks like the only parts he doesn’t machine himself from blocks of metal are the glow plugs and the valve springs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k81UdDiV4WQ

Watch a man make a lovely acoustic-electric guitar starting with chunks of wood. Videos like these will teach survivors of the apocalypse how to use a cache of machinery to rebuild the world. All the tools are demonstrated. See how he goes wide on all his cuts. Its easier to cut things smaller than to cut them bigger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x7cv7FwiEA

Watch a woman make a 1920s amplifier from scratch, including making the vacuum tubes, speaking of a valuable skill useful in the dystopian future. Even if it doesn’t become dystopian. Some fusion-power experiments are basically vacuum tubes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UEfqAWb3fE

This is like when Bruce Lee said, “Be wiggly water.” (You might have to click the sound on.) (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.tiktok.com/@stanceelements/video/7184742086204312874

“Oi always knew about Louis Prima because oi’m a huge fan of The Jungle Book.” “There’s always a part where it goes fadoomp! and then it goes phWAAAURGHH!” (57 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpimuXlMMP8

Tongue-mouths on stalks.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/14/choir-is-a-robotic-mouth-art-display-by-server-demirtas.html

The mistakes.
https://thenib.com/spot-the-mistakes-2/

The passions.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/les_baxter_the_passions

The real moon. Full-screen your browser. Click on the image to magnify. Arrow to move around. “The image colors, although based on the moon’s real composition, are exaggerated. Here, a blue hue indicates a region that is iron rich, while orange indicates a slight excess of aluminum.”
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2301/MoonEnhanced_Mirza_4085.jpg

“Ja, ja! Tefal go into Fiskar like hot pee into snow.”
https://theawesomer.com/hydraulic-press-kitchen-knife-battle/694591/

The 1959 Plymouth XNR.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOolS5t6JNc

*In the same series: The 1953 GM Superliner truck and the 1963 Ford Thunderbird Italien.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0ZPzDIVYE

*And the Phantom Corsair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEKoKMvGQ0

Aw, yeah. Right there. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Thund3rB0lt/status/1611439073453051906

What safety looked like back when everyone had fourteen kids and if you hit a bump or the brakes and one flew out through the window there were plenty of spares and it wasn’t so bad. Safety seat.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/baby-car-seats.html

Worlds I never made. Because I didn’t have to. (By the year 2026, 90-percent of the internet will be written by A.I.s.)
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-01-16-cgai.gif

Infinite diversity. This made me think of the trouble du jour inside KZYX. It’s a /little/ something like this. Human /cult/ consciousness is already easy for a machine to mimic.
https://theawesomer.com/infinite-diversity-in-infinite-combinations/694896/

“And pretty soon a little feeding frenzy started there around the camera…”
https://theawesomer.com/dropping-a-gopro-off-a-fishing-pier/694641/

Jealousy or envy of the pictured bird? Or simply the joy of pecking at aluminum? (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8qp3whnsDw

Peter Gunn, Season 1, Episode 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTMVMRJtF68

Arresting animals. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/jens_cullmann/

Wildlife photo contest winners.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-choice

Dogs.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2023/jan/16/pooch-portraits-dog-photography-awards-in-pictures

Make your own professional infrared photographic filter out of a cut-apart floppy disk.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/photographer-makes-infrared-filter-from.html

Dust – Future Boyfriend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_1YHHhry0w

Dust – Heartless. (15 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ApRpHCuic

Dust – Strong (10 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpLUsAqCeQQ

Dust – Macrocosm (13 min.) (Warning, physical comedy.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrJ5Sx1Dtc8

Baba Yaga. This would be like halfway on the scale from Sheelba of the Eyeless Face to Ningauble of the Seven Eyes.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/01/19/baba-yaga/

A modern sportsball player’s method of recovering his mojo: Seek advice from 8,000-year-old witches. They’ve been around the block a few times. They know.
https://www.theonion.com/aaron-rodgers-to-decide-future-by-consulting-with-coven-1849996614

This is a story about Frank Whittle, arguably the greatest aero-engineer of the twentieth century, and about the turbojet engine, which he invented in 1931, before there were materials suitable to make it work, and which the British patent office unwittingly gave to the Nazis /almost/ (but not quite) in time for them to win the war with it. “People in the area hadn’t heard that particular kind of noise before. You couldn’t really hide it, however secret it was supposed to be. One officer said, ‘How does that thing work, John?’ And John replied, ‘Oh, it’s easy, old boy, it just sucks itself along like a hoover.'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0T4-XG612Q

Actual Apollo engineer explains the Saturn 5 Rocket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLHIM2IPRY

Latest rocket triumph– launch, various steps, all go like clockwork, booster separation through their side-by-side powered landings like two good sheepdogs running back to the truck and barking, /Ready to go again, boss!” Multiple simultaneous views of every step. A thrilling ten minute show. I used YouTubeTime to start you at 30 second before the launch. I hope they don’t replace the original link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxyF1_Ylkk&t=19m19s

Vicky’s famous backside.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/vikki-the-back-dougan.html

A Studio Ghibli moment in the real world.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CWlWSNTjO9O

“Are you a disembodied brain, created by a random assemblage of atoms in the vastness of infinite time and space? Did your brain randomly assemble with the full set of memories of a specific male human being on 21st century Earth, including once getting sand kicked on you by a bully at the beach?” Well, I had sand thrown in my eyes once, when I was five, by bigger boys higher up in a playground rocket-shaped jungle-gym slide structure, so, hmm.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/18/some-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-mcsmeltys-world-percival-dunwoody-actually-man-and-more.html

It’s not the flying that’s dangerous, it’s coming down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppcplVf9nzM

Advice about your body image. (via Everlasting Blort) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/walkgoodetienne/status/1612995359508410368

Similar encouragement in airplane runway sign language.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/16/youre/

“Today I don’t have the pussy for little lanterns.” “This brings me by the street of bitterness.”
https://www.boredpanda.com/badly-translated-signs/

Some more Hark A Vagrant favorites of mine:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=377
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=382
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=384

Gift-wrapping your compliant little goat. (via Danese)
https://www.facebook.com/divadanese/posts/pfbid02T7HKPHXcpHMGq4SN2qkb157ccxSYEKYus6dqqxvvJCgsRxYsZhe5GxhVFRjU6Mmkl

John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzauZa_7Peo

Borned in the hellscape.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=011523

Trampsta – Chunky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGd4fmGrTE

Patterns. Two hours to come full-circle.
https://theawesomer.com/hypnotic-rainbow-pendulum-wave/694595/

“Meanwhile an evil caricature of a crazy scientist in a boat lab is trying to crossbreed a fish and a human to make a new kind of underwater creature. He needs athletic subjects for this, so he kidnaps exclusively wrestlers.” Video catalog of worldwide Batpersons, and companion catalog of exotic Spidermen. With great power comes great responsibility.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/16/Some-Truly-Bizarro-International-Batman-Movies/

2023/01/14

Whatever Lola wants (or) Body ritual among the Nacirema.

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.” -Lord Henry Wotton

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:

Here’s a link to my dream journal project, that I add to at random every week or so. I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. It doesn’t have to be a dream. I’m here to read your writing on the radio and subject is no object. See About and Contact.

Whatever Lola wants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQv2sq6jEhU

The Sarah Vaughan version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcaSBN82ns

Beany & Cecil theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxgrG8CFBM

Fountains. (via Juanita)
https://www.skulptur-chodakowska.de/en/fountains/

/This is fine./
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/08/psa-family-spends-quality-time-together-as-their-house-burns-down-around-them.html

Time-lapse 133 days on the sun in an hour.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/11/watch-nasas-fiery-and-magnificent-time-lapse-video-of-133-days-on-the-suns-surface.html

An hour of Louis Prima and Keely Smith. At around 16 minutes into it the sound goes screwy for one song, but all the rest is solid, Jack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFA-tzeQcLY

Peak kimono.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/kimono-rebellion.html

Nasty boys.
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=347

Tomorrow always comes. In the future the miracle-fabric underslips have fancy faggoting that leading corsetieres, experts in corsetology, favor, so you can throw away those pins with confidence, and leave the duct tape and all your worries in the screwdriver drawer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsuLV1WK54

It is as I suspected. We have all dreamed that.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/08/aoc-and-paul-gosar-get-the-bad-lip-reading-treatment.html

“We’re just married. We’d like a suite, please.” “Bridal?” “No, I’ll just hang onto his ears until I get used to it.”
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/1960s-brides.html

How we get elements.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230108.html

In memoriam, 2022.
https://laughingsquid.com/actors-who-died-in-2022/

The Clarinet Polka on hammered dulcimer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9KMhUbhHzI

Feather art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/01/07/repost-light-as-a-feather/

What. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.charlesfreger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/charles_freger_aam_aastha_2019_2022_012.jpg

He bit her. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pdvd2WHS6o

Miss Electrical Wonderland and her radioactive key.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_electrical_wonderland

Futurmmercials. (That’s the way they spell it in 2177 AD.) My favorite is the one with the French guinea pigs. It’s like the chess-piece scene in Darren Nichols bloodless conception of /Romeo and Juliet/ in /Slings and Arrows/.
https://theawesomer.com/futuremmercials-2177-vol-1/693877/

Art.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/01/11/sci-fi-woodcuts/

Twenty-five minutes in one eerie literally otherworldly second: The view from lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P. Read the info.
https://www.livescience.com/62394-comet-snow-rosetta-twitter.html

That reminds me so much of /The Borderland/ episode of the original /Outer Limits/ (Xmas of 1963). I’d just turned five, and this show, among other episodes of /Outer Limits/ in that and the next year, made a huge impression on me. (You might have to click to unmute it.)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4jtdpz

Rerun: sea monster solid diorama. “In fact I’m working on many small pieces at the same time.”
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-sea-monster-in-epoxy/652136/

Mathwow. Where would a sq rt 7 line go? (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1612202384171667459

All the Cats Join In (1946).
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/all_the_cats_join_in

UnAustralian.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-worst-australian-insult.html

“My dear sir, there are individuals roaming the streets of fallen London at this very moment with the faces of squid! Squid! Do you ask them their gender? And yet you waste our time asking me trifling and impertinent questions about mine. It is my own business, sir, and I bid you good day. Good day, sir, or madame, I couldn’t care less.”
https://genders.wtf/

Congress.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/12/a-bad-lip-reading-analysis-of-what-mccarthy-and-gaetz-really-said.html

Those are some very long sleeves. Also this coat looks like the kind of coat that could get up and go dancing on its own. (via Fark)
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/images/960/259000-259999/259502.jpg

Office dance.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/09/genxer-dances-to-midnight-stars-freak-a-zoid-kills-it.html

Hair-on-fire dance. There must have been some flammable product involved; natural hair doesn’t flame like that. Also, for future use, smother it. Flapping at fire makes it worse.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/10/hot-hairdo/

Debbie and the Muppets.
https://laughingsquid.com/debbie-harry-1981-muppet-show/

“This is the greatest athletic achievement I have seen in my life, bro. This is better than Kobe’s 81-point game, Usain bolts 100-meter dash, breaking all sorts of physics.” (Not to mention, he got all of the ladies in the stadium pregnant by looking at them.) (Which reminds me of the HipHopAPotamus song line: “My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment/ I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant/ Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist/ But you lovely bitches and ho’s should know
I’m trying to correct this.”)
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/08/when-men-enter-beast-mode.html

A talent like this springs full-blown from the brow of Zeus.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/08/8-year-old-irene-cara-singing-a-nice-song/

“You’re just going to keep smiling, aren’t you.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/school-portrait.html

…This horse has a similar power to the little red-haired girl.
https://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=339

Woods birds.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/01/08/repost-birds-from-the-bay-of-plenty

With love.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1613279493333950464

This creature, to a space alien, might be indistinguishable from a human being. We’re more closely like it than anything we’re likely to encounter out among the stars. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/scott_kerr/status/1497306940757749762

Creatures. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/les.creatonautes/

From which the word fruit was removed for being offensive. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePsUt816PU

Nanjing in 1901.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/old-footage-of-china-street-scenes.html

Shadow puppet art.
https://laughingsquid.com/hand-shadow-puppet-artist/

Bathroom jam for horse and electric violin. (via Rick Small)
https://www.facebook.com/1501661423/posts/pfbid0LfzxP9GQCpwoniRJvmm3bkov1rRPXcVoWFNhRGkaaHkTp65aPNCZuPLsxa8ugfh4l/?app=fbl

“All right, clean yourself up before you come down the stairs.”
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/13/the-unbearable-loudness-of-that-dude-revving-a-car.html

I am vengeance, I am the night, I live on the moon.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-great-moon-hoax.html

Oh, a wise guy, eh?
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-01-12-cgupandup.gif

Duke of Connaught and Strathairn sets the fashion, 1874.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/prince-arthur.html

Harpya. A weird short film by Raoul Servais. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ytotfJSLp8&feature=emb_title

Fort Bragg (CA) librarian Sylvia Kozak Budd (RIP) was married for a short while in her youth to an actual Italian count who owned an Adriatic island. Years later he came to Mendocino to visit her and I met him. I asked The Count about the different Italian contempt gestures and what exactly they meant; he graciously explained everything and showed me how to do them right, for maximum intended effect. With that in mind, enjoy the Italian chicken dance:
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/01/11/italian-chicken-dance/

Cameras in a more civilized world.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/photographer-uses-ai-to-create.html

/Man With a Movie Camera/. Innovative 1929 Soviet film.
http://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2023/01/blog-post_8.html

The Golem: How He Came Into the World. (The full 1920 film, 105 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxqpZ9mwKNc

Fashion is danger.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/09/louis-vuitton-unveils-realistic-audio-animatronic-yayoi-kusama-display-in-nyc-storefront.html

Black Canary. Her power is to blast you with her Sonic Scream, which can knock even Supergirl down. This came from comic book writers acquainted with pet birds, not necessarily canaries, that make a /painfully loud/ screech when pissed off.) Depending on the era, Black Canary can be a villain or a hero or something of both. She wears a black rubber one-piece bathing suit with sleeves and gold piping, fishnet pantyhose and fingerless gloves.) (Don’t confuse her for Black Widow, who technically has no superpowers but almost does. Black Widow is an acrobat/martial artist, “master in espionage, infiltration and subterfuge,” and she can talk Dr. Bannon down from being The Hulk.) (Black Canary has never aimed her Sonic Scream at The Hulk, being from a different comic book universe– DC nor Marvel. I don’t think it would work on him. Loki is a god, and The Hulk grabbed him by his feet and slammed him around like a sock full of bloody pennies. They shot an atomic missile at him once. The Sonic Scream is an inconsistent power, though, like Jessica Jones’ powers, wed to her need and will and current level of brokenness.)
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=351

A.I. art of the different countries as villains. (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/CryptoTea_/status/1611017391709765633

A.I. randomly anime-izes famous dance scenes from films.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/11/This-Animated-Dance-Video-Looks-Eerily-Familiar/

Flight of the Conchords – Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Qve4nXMYI

Flight of the Bumblebee on theremin.
https://theawesomer.com/flight-of-the-theremin/

Justin Johnson – Wish You Were Here.
https://laughingsquid.com/fingerstyle-cover-of-wish-you-were-here/

O brave new world that has such dogs of space in it. (via Fark)
https://miro.medium.com/max/4000/0*OgIIzrMo39u_FjiE.jpg

Imagine you couldn’t sleep. You took a walk from your little apartment, and you went inside one of these place, sat down and said in Japanese (because you speak Japanese), “Are you closed?” “No, no,” the guy says, “Noodles?” “That sounds good,” you say, and take out your book. Put the book away. Look out the window at the rain.
https://www.tokyotimes.org/the-light-and-warmth-of-little-japanese-bars-and-eateries/

The Star Trek community underappreciates /Enterprise/, the series. Here’s Trip and T’Pol the morning after they finally got together in the sack. In space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYTTQHsYNWQ

No friction. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7vadyu/quadruple_pendulum_motion_oc/

Pub-friend ladies’ day out.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/01/mothers-day-off.html

Allison Russell.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/01/13/allison-russell-music/

I saw this and assumed it’s a goof, a parody piece. But it’s real. This is the real world.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/13/these-are-the-rules-of-power-slap-pay-attention-video.html

“You wanta fight? You wanna go, bud?”
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/10/man-challenges-elk-elk-pops-mans-tire-in-hilarious-video.html

An ornithopter. There are flying machines very like this in some Studio Ghibli films– I’m thinking of /Howl’s Moving Castle/ and /Laputa: Castle in the Sky/. When I read /Dune/ in high school in the 1970s I had picture in my head of the ornithopers being like this, but enclosed and sleek.
https://theawesomer.com/serenity-flying-ornithopter/612525/

Rerun: Bad Lip Reading, Dune. “Sorry about your feelings.” “I appreciate that, Peanut.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-bad-lip-reading-of-dune.html

And an A.I.-generated video of the entire Dark Side Of The Moon Album.
https://laughingsquid.com/ai-generated-dark-side-of-the-moon/

2023/01/07

The Penguins, The Moonglows, The Orioles, and The Five Satins.

“Now, I don’t like the name Pumpkin Puss, but since you’re upset we’ll talk about it some other time.”

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:

But you can’t be pepful in perpetuity; you have to sleep sometime. Here’s a link to my dream journal project, that I add to at random every week or so. I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. It doesn’t have to be a dream. I’m here to read your writing on the radio and subject is no object. See About and Contact.

I almost forgot to say: KNYO’s antenna tower, a 70-foot redwood tree, broke off and crashed to earth in this week’s storm. Luckily it didn’t fall on the transmitter trailer. The equipment was all salvaged and the antenna is now installed on Sean Keppeler’s shop roof, about twenty feet to the southeast and 55 feet lower than it was, and pumping out the waves. It’s weaker because of the forest around it, but it still reaches town. Top people are deciding the best course forward, which might be to get FCC permission to move the whole kaboodle downtown and put the transmitter in the studio on Franklin Street and the antenna on the roof there. But it might go up on a tree again near where it was. In any case, KNYO especially needs some extra money now, it really does. Everything you give to KNYO goes to the physical plant and real expenses of staying on the air. Unlike all the other radio stations that ask you for money around here, at KNYO not even a single penny goes to owners and managers and people paid to raise money to pay themselves to raise more money. If that means something to you, and it should, then come on. Also there are significant airtime slots open on KNYO. You have an idea of something to do on the radio, you can just arrange it and do it. Your own show. Just think about it. And then do it.

BESIDES THAT, here are some not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering MOTA together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right.

Blackbird in Mi’kmaq. (via Everlasating Blort)
https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/the-beatles-blackbird-sung-in-the-indigenous-mikmaq-language.html

Strange movement.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1609251741190729728

A wind-dancing tree creature. It’s like a shaggy sexy cartoon dinosaur-dog.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/tweet-of-day_01055002319.html

Exercise. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/JimHarris/status/1609844134528811008

The Last Polka (the whole 60 min. John Candy film in lovely jittery VHS soft-focus). The tuba-ist solos impressively, if not interminably, just after halfway in.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-last-polka.html

Orbs.
https://theawesomer.com/turbulence-experimental-short-film/692742/

Lipidity.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/abiogenesis.html

Chain reaction project.
https://theawesomer.com/chain-reaction-machine-multiverse-2022/693123/

This will be our year.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/music-for-sunday-morning-new-years-day.html

This is how Sarah Vaughan sounded when she had a /cold/ so bad she felt it necessary to apologize to the audience for poor vocal quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXLqAutql4

Four women sing Nina Simone’s Four Women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_Qk1AN5S4

Rerun: Straw feminists in the closet. /Ssssssssssssss./
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=341

1920s Weird Tales Magazine covers. My favorite: The BAT-MEN of THORIUM.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/weird-tales-covers-1920s.html

Twinkletoes.
https://theawesomer.com/hittesh-patel-master-of-flex/692902/

And. (via Danese Cooper)
https://www.facebook.com/divadanese/posts/pfbid02Cn5Ru21KZT3gEyav5o2AGcbupcFaxrYKiVkCSkbVQGEb9yPpA1C62TrEb8LXoEY4l

Footloose.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/footloose-warehouse-scene-without-music-video

Rerun: Bret’s anger-dance in Flight of the Conchords. With the lead-up showing his motivation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K44HxkcnEMU

Motivation.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/01/math-education.html

Sisyphean automata.
https://theawesomer.com/wooden-sisyphus-automata/693151/

40 Fingers’ latest.
https://theawesomer.com/the-marriage-of-figaro-on-four-guitars/672126/

Igudesman & Joo in /Rachmaninov had big hands./
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/31/repost-small-hands/

Same guys: And Now Mozart (the whole 77 min. show). “Pliz, give monyeh… Music sound better with monyeh… You sit first row? You have monyeh, pliz give… No? …You, sir, monyeh? …Pliz, madam, monyeh, pliz?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boMJMjEBwoQ

“America’s most copied cars.”
https://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1949-Frazer-1.jpg

Baby beaver creatively, or perhaps compulsively, recycles last month’s holiday items into a dam across the door to the kitchen. It seems increasingly puzzled at the pond’s failure to fill up with water even a little, like, /The heck’s the matter with this thing?/
https://laughingsquid.com/rescued-beaver-builds-indoor-dam/

Armored soldieress. Soldrix. This is better than the usual comic book armor of metal bikini cups and/or a brass tiara. (via Fark)
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/archery_1820s_final.jpg

A source of gas tanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxPh34VNao

How we get rubber boots. Fifteen minutes, and the time flies by. Very pleasant. Imagine the smell there of hot rubber and toxic glue, though… But maybe it’s not toxic. They don’t wear any special breathing equipment. Maybe it’s like lung vitamin glue and they’re all going to live a thousand years.
https://theawesomer.com/how-rubber-boots-are-made/692901/

The Better Sex! The game where we determine which is the better sex!
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_better_sex

Generic glowing sportsball game commentary applied to toys.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/01/robot-soccer.html

Scroll down to the video. I like the sound this robots makes, and its manner, like a mincy-jincy spider. So eager and careful, and clever: the way they made the magnet feet so the default unpowered state is magnet-on. The coils are wound on an armature of permanent magnets, so current one way gives zero magnetic field and the other way gives twice or more the permanent magnet’s field. Think of some other applications for this idea, like in car motor/transmissions.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/marvel-quadruped-robot-magnetic-feet-metal-walls/

Fun with magnets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyv9GhaITNE

Itsy Bitsy Spider sung like Hamilton.
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/02/watch-bitsy-the-musical-where-hamilton-and-itsy-bitsy-spider-are-brought-together.html

Pretty, but sometimes also /yeeech/. (Click to view gallery and scroll down.)
https://newatlas.com/photography/cupoty-close-up-photographer-of-the-year-awards-winner-gallery/

DONK DONK! (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/music__language/status/1604215417119055874

The screaming ghosts that come in on little cat feet.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/01/05/four-trapped-souls/

Western style /Running Up That Hill/.
https://theawesomer.com/running-up-that-hill-western-style/692844/

The Five Satins – /In the Still of the Night/. “Sho-doten sho-bee-doh. Sho-doten sho-bee-doh.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztm8_SECO_E

Cute cups and vases spinning in place, accompanied by Spanish guitar.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/pottery.html

A neat project to watch complete. It’s already sped up, but you can speed it up some more if you want to. Something like this would be good to save in a dry underground vault with all the tools, a power supply, a good store of metal, maybe a whole junkyard of metal of dead cars and machines under there, for people who come along decades after the smash and have to learn how to use things and make things again. There won’t be any shop teachers to slap your hand away and tell you to be more careful, nor to show you pictures of what can happen to someone with long hair or a scarf or loose clothing too close to something spinning at 6,000 rpm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgsoows5rjI

What!
https://www.roadarch.com/09/8/coopig.jpg

Time.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/life-is-particle-time-is-wave.html

Together.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/04/A-Surprisingly-Satisfactory-Supercut-of-People-Moving-in-Perfect-Unison/

Eureka! A house afire!
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2023/jan/4/photos-early-morning-fire-erupts-vacant-eureka-hou/

The first time I ever heard this song, it was used in Mendocino Theater Company’s production of /A Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo/. I couldn’t tell what it was about, but it’s so stirring, and I associate it with the war story of the play. Here’s a choir version. It’s not as aggressive and punchy but it really sings. I’m still not sure exactly what it’s about, which reminds me of another play from much longer ago, starring Carie Miklose, where a brilliant concert vilolinist is dying of multiple sclerosis and can’t play anymore. She says something about how music can sometimes express emotion more powerfully than any words, which it can, /though not reliably/. The only line I remember exactly from that play, /Duet For One/, is where Carie’s husband barks, “You’re just mad because you’re dying and in that wheelchair and I’m not!” Which at that point in the play, when I saw it, was so miserable and sad and /actually true/ that the audience laughed. That might have been an independent production in Crown Hall, not of MTC, which would make the husband Carie’s real-life husband of the time, Doug Warner, so she was Carie Warner. The big-time production in the big world of /Duet For One/ had Julie Andrews in the wheel chair. (The plays Carie did with Doug were just masterpieces. They put on Sam Shepard’s disturbing incest drama /Fool For Love/ once and it only made it better that they were together in real life, like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in /Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf/, for example.) Anyway:
https://theawesomer.com/some-nights-choir-edition/656777/

I want to say I made the sound for more than a hundred of these MTC plays, but looking through them I only remember doing a few from the first twenty years then like three or four from each year thereafter, so I’m going to underestimate and say sixty or seventy instead. You scroll down the 1970s through the 1990s; so many of the people in those plays are dead now. Bob Boler springs to mind. He was Carie’s father in the play above; he had a voice halfway between a diesel engine and a pipe organ. Lines he spoke shook your chest. But, um, Mendocino Theater Company: tiny little theater: Helen Schoeni Theater; eighty seats.
https://mendocinotheatre.org/production-history/

Potential Hitler or Einstein or PeeWee Herman or Joe Doakes oaks.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Acorns.jpeg

“Will you help me fix my gate and my door? Now, officer, let me ax you another question.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

“It’s uncanny how many ways bottles are really saying something.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/groovin_with_the_glass_bottle

I, for one, welcome our twitch-thrashing robot masters.
https://laughingsquid.com/robotic-band-smells-like-teen-spirit/

Landing in Antarctica to bring luxuries from civilization. Copier toner. Vienna sausages. A deck of cards. Microscop slides, guns, dynamite and kerosene in case of a Thing.
https://theawesomer.com/landing-a-jumbo-jet-in-antarctica

I love the videos people like this make, but they all end up splattered across the side of a mountain eventually. They can stop now. They’ve done enough.
https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/06/experienced-dutch-wingsuit-pilot-dies-base-jumping-accident-switzerland

And Deerwoods Deathtrap. For Elly.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/01/deerwoods-deathtrap.html

2022/12/31

The smooth shmoo swoops through.

“I am the Great Beast risen from the depths of Tartarus to bring oblivion to all; bow before my might as the blood tycoon descends upon the innocent to release your pitiful human forms from the chains of hope.” -Dana Perino in The Onion

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:

They transferred Juanita to a new store farther away and her car is still waiting to be fixed, so I’ve been staying at her place to get her to work and back. And they changed her schedule, so this time I had to connect to the transmitter at 8:30, set things playing to run by themselves, drive away, get back, and start the real show at 9:40. Those things playing for filler there are not in the recording above, but you can look them up and hear them: From the 1950s /X Minus One/ radio drama series: A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber, a true story about a small family of survivors of a rogue planet’s having pulled Earth away from the sun, so the very atmosphere has settled in layers of oxygen and nitrogen snow. The boy forays from the group’s sealed basement apartment nest in a diving suit to get ever-dwindling supplies /and literal pails of frozen air/ to melt next to their fire, which must never be allowed to go out, and in this dead city in this dead, dark, silent world, running out of the very sparse air in his suit, he sees a light moving in a building across the street! There are dozens of good X Minus One shows, most adapted from pulp science fiction stories, but that’s my favorite. So cold and bleak. And the family dynamics, with the mother having gone crazy a long time ago from the horror of the situation, and then the hopeful ending. After that, The Human Holiday, a cross between Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and a giant alien Tupperware party. “Join your host Midal Gogat of The Finite Corporation as he and a cast of thousands present to souls bored of an eternity of bliss a slickly-packaged sales pitch on the joys of incarnating on Planet Earth.” You can find the original recording here, and it’s available via Spotify. Tell your soul friends, who might also like to spend a lifetime as a field mouse, an Ordovician-era sponge, a mountain (!), a delicate Nubian princess, or any of a zillion other unique choices.

This particular MOTA show, while only 440 minutes long and not the full 480, nonetheless features the fascinating story of Paul Modic’s arrival in and impressions of peak-hippie Northern California lo these many years ago; Chuck Wilcher’s and Steve Hinnefeld’s memories of the late Ren Oschin; options for drying mushrooms if you don’t have a fancy Bluetooth mushroom dryer; an account of attending the recent billion-dollar Avatar sequel on the other kind of mushrooms; further adventures in quack psychic healing and questionable Sovereign Citizen legal advice, as well as warnings from competing time-traveling fashion influencers about the tunnel to another world beneath Area 51 and real-life Cthulhu, as big as a football stadium, stirring at the bottom of the sea, about to yawn and stretch and roam upward to land, ravenous for breakfast; heating gas delivery options; the usual assortment of /real/ medicine, poetry, math, science, history, cosmology and cosmetology; the annual end-of-year run-down of all the things Americans got stuck in their various bodily orifices that required an emergency room doctor to get them out, listed by orifice, starting at the top and moving downward: ear, nose, throat, penis, vagina, and rectum (“Rectum? Damn near killed’m!); a brief history of Glass Beach; two chapters each of new books by Clifford Allen Sanders and Kent Wallace; my dream journal of the last week; Gadeng Vadoo and Eid Ma Clack Shaw; Patrick Cockburn on Israel’s latest Government of Darkness; Ezekiel Krahlin’s adventures in homeless dog-sitting; Maggie Hart’s travel rape story; the latest in Artificial Intelligence news; and it’s all capped off with The Weird Circle: The Queer Client, a play, recorded in 1944, of a bereaved banker’s revenge, remorse and madness. Somewhere in there I recall reading a story by John Mahoney and being confused, thinking it was the John Maloney I know. Mahoney-Maloney, not the same, but the nickel didn’t drop until much later. It’s a simple mistake; no malice intended. Oh, and Ari Yovel, student rabbi, who I was hoping would call for the Ask a Jew portion of the show, had other commitments, so maybe next week we’ll try again.

By the way, here’s a link to my dream journal project, I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. It doesn’t have to be a dream. I’m here to read your writing on the radio and subject is no object. See About and Contact.

BESIDES ALL THAT, here are some not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right.

A gallery of bemusingly gazeable photos of 2022.
https://newatlas.com/photography/gallery-best-photography-2022/

Slick 2022 movie trailer mashup. It makes me want to see all of them, especially the ones later on in the selection.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/sleepy-skunks-2022-movie-trailer-mashup.html

Here’s the tongue of a silly dog who has taught his human to bark on command. Which reminds me: I hate it when people misspell whoa, woah (WO-uh! WO-uh! Ugh) even though that’s the way translators of Tintin and Snowy spell it, but I love it when people spell tongue, tounge. I hear /townjj/ in my head and smile. Also it’s a Jerry Lewis version of the aliens behind the glass wall in /Arrival/. (via Everlasting Blort) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1601268367461339136

Cher presents her one-woman West Side Story. She skipped /Gee, Officer Krupke/, though.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/cher-does-west-side-story.html

She’s fourteen years old and she’s already the greatest ice skater in the world.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/27/isabeau-levito/

Train. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1607175353528901632

Moon landings faked? Not. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs

Separate and unequal.
https://audacity.substack.com/p/separate-and-unequal

! (via Clifford Pickover) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1606763503058034690

The twelve days of Xmas start on Xmas day. They won’t be over till next week. So: A Three Stooges Xmas.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/christmas-with-three-stooges.html

Kamikaze cards.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/kamikaze-new-years-cards.html

A further Xmas thing.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/12/24/she-wants-it/

Oh, heck, one more. /Time Xmas/. Stay through the credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eey8h0y0zCg

It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/26/Kids-at-Christmas-Pageant-Stage-Combat-Scene/

And I didn’t know starling birds could do this. So nice. Of course crows and ravens can. If you have popcorn and a little patience you can make friends with all the crows in the neighborhood and teach them all kinds of things to do as well as say. In France a few years ago they taught crows and ravens to find coins all over a big city and put them in a vending machine in exchange for treats. And the birds invented on their own a way to crack nuts open by putting them in the street for a car to roll over them and then they wait till it’s safe and go get the nut meat. They do it at a stop light.
https://laughingsquid.com/mimicking-starling-r2-d2/

The Q continuum. These people are clearly ignorant and crazy and easily manipulated for the bad and they’re damaging their children, but really is this any worse than any family that fills their kids’ heads with emphatic nonsense, not in a spirit of fun but as though it’s real information? Religious people, for example.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/23/heartbreaking-visit-to-a-delusional-qanon-family.html

The A.I. that wanted to be famous.
https://theawesomer.com/fckai-famous-short-film/692511/

Future hats. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://plainmagazine.com/stephen-jones-g-star-raw-haute-couture-headwear/

“Obviously, the lady doesn’t know.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/magic_oval_panties

How we do it.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/28/a-desert-island-recession.html

A case of the shuffles.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=122922

It’s nice, but I don’t understand how it can be a beauty contest when the only parts of her that aren’t covered up with something are her knuckles, her nose, and one ear with staples in it.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/tweet-of-day_0322707166.html

A Hobbit song made from the new Rings show cut up.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-hobbit-song-i-will-show-you.html

What.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/12/25/stylin-for-the-holidays/

Space.
https://newatlas.com/space/news-near-and-far-the-year-in-space-2022/

Rerun: Peeps into the past.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/1830s-peepshow-book.html

Freezing soap bubbles.
https://laughingsquid.com/soap-bubbles-frozen-in-real-time/

Rerun: Spirals in spirals. Inspire means to breathe in, as well as a spire being a pointed tower, so make of it what you will. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WwxhBirHkcQ

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/scott_kerr/status/1605533948813234180

Roger on jobs.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/an-honest-explanation-of-jobs.html

Jeep.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/12/28/no-joy-in-this-ride/

A little more about Tom Cruise. I think the sort of people who use the word jealous when they really mean envious, who may very well be the same people who spell whoa, woah, are envious, and that’s why they don’t like him, not because of any failure on his part to be friendly. They just don’t measure up to this hard-working, talented, tiny little man, and they can’t stand it.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/27/why-is-tom-cruise-always-running.html

What doesn’t kill us… leaves it to something else to kill us.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/26/How-Causes-of-Death-Have-Changed-Over-Time/

/The Originals/.
https://laughingsquid.com/carroll-gardens-brooklyn-animation/

Bill Bixby’s last interview ever. Watching /The Courtship of Eddie’s Father/, I always wondered why he didn’t just marry Mrs. Livingston. I remember thinking it was unfair that she was always cooking for them and cleaning up after them. Why didn’t they wash their own clothes and cook their own soup? I thought she was pretty and I liked her. That and the little talk Eddie and his father always had about this or that on the beach at the end of each show was my favorite thing about it. In other Bill Bixby news, after Judi Bari died slowly, over years, of complications of being car-bombed and cancer, many people were writing in the Anderson Valley Advertiser about who might have bombed her. I wrote a funny story titled /Who Bombed Bill Bixby/. That was before newspapers had web pages, so I can’t just click on something and find it again. I’d like to see it, if you have the issue of the paper with that one in it. A picture of it would be good enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlFH_PTs2lY

Linotype operator. (Click on the image for fine detail.) The paper she’s looking at is not the product, it’s what she’s composing from.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26911

And here, watch how a linotype machine works. Newspapers and book publishers used linotype machines /for a hundred years/ before something better came along. (The story starts 30 seconds in.) I like their choice of birdlike voice to narrate this. They could have gone with an Orson Welles or a Don LaFontaine style of voice but they went another way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5slfQizimtg

Surf Rider on fretted electric zither.
https://laughingsquid.com/harpejji-cover-of-surf-rider/

Schnabelperchten kommen. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORkMDFwT0I

Fabric art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/29/rachel-wright/

I see a giant cyclops creature’s face. The window is the eye and the rock thing at the bottom is its talking lips on a kissy stalk.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FknWAt0X0AExaZW?format=jpg&name=large

It’s only weird if you make it weird.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/weird.html

The Webb space telescope and why it’s worth every penny. Plus it’s so well made that, though parts of it are already smashed out by space debris, it still works great and will continue to work great for years to come.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-weeks-in-the-webb-space-telescope-is-reshaping-astronomy-20220725/

Rerun: Ze (say ZAY) Frank, end of year animal winners. (via MissCellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUKzeflvR0

Whoa, don’t eat with your tongue, son, use your entrenching tool. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973/status/1607283070201208833

“What the fuck do you think freedom means, Earl?” (via Everlasting Blort) (via Marilyn Bellamy)
https://mastodon.world/@NagOnTheLake/109540909567146901

Speaking of whom, also via Marilyn Bellamy, recordings of interviews with survivors of the Titanic. The first woman went through the entire ordeal and didn’t think anything of it; she thought this was the normal way of getting to America: ride in the dim bowels of a ship, climb out when everyone starts screaming, get in a little boat, and wait to be picked up by the next boat going that way.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/titanic-survivors-interviews-from-1956.html

How we get humanoids.
https://theawesomer.com/the-humanoid-factory-animation/692730/

They told the engineers to do anything they wanted, just make it look nice. And so they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuWiKz9zno

An expanded collection of A.I.-generated photographs of Burning Man in 1963. Here are some more than they showed a couple of weeks ago. I like the cars best, and the beehive-hairdo girls.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/1963-burning-man.html

Jonathan Coulton – The Town Crotch. A song for a cold night. Isn’t it strange that the audience laughs and laughs through this sweet and sad and true song. They must have had some risibility left from the song before, that might have been /The Future Soon/ or /I Crush Everything/, which are also sad and sweet and true, I guess. Or maybe /Mister Fancy Pants/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4d7hhMNEA

And winter on Mars. Don’t forget your Mars scarf.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/28/look-at-this-gorgeous-winter-wonderland-on-mars.html

2022/12/24

What cuetlaxochitl said. (Say kwet-luh-sho-SHEE.) It sounds like Chinese but it’s Nahuatl, and it means poinsettia.

“In the first drawer I keep my magic stones: One carnelian against all evil and envy. One moonstone to make you sleep. One red coral to heal your wounds. One lapis lazuli against quartan fever. One small jasper to help you find water. One topaz to soothe your eyes. One red ruby to protect you from lightning.” –Kaspar, the second of three singing kings

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with a one-time holiday gift or, if you can, a recurring gift from your own hidden heart. And/or acquire a concentrated vial of new and improved heart’s-blood-red KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep and vibrant health. (“It’s toasted!”)

New stories by Marilyn Davin, Ari Yovel, Ezekiel Krahlin, David Herstle Jones, Kym Kemp (/the/ Redheaded Blackbelt), Paul Modic, Craig Louis Stehr, John Sakowicz, Mitch Clogg, Mike Sears, Nick Wilson, Mike Firesmith, Garrison Keillor, the Comtesse DeSpair, and so on. I forgot to read the usual chapter of /No More My Echoing Song/ by Clifford Allen Sanders, but I’ll make up for that next week. And I didn’t read from Kent Wallace’s book, because he called to read a timely story from the point of view of Mary-Mother-of-God’s Chicago/New-Jersey/Florida-mob-accented donkey and King Melchior’s equally colorful camel. (Yonda lies da camel of my faddah.) Poetry by John Roedel. My dream journal, and a few tentative experiments with ChatGPT. And the usual survey course of music, science, tasteless jokes, art and architecture… And at 3:45AM (6 and 3/4 hours into the recording of the show, see above) I put on the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s /A Red Carol/ (58 min.), then closed with William S. Burroughs’ quavery/gravelly reading of his own /A Junky’s Christmas/.

AND BESIDES ALL THAT, here are some not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right.

Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah. (57 min.) (via Vulture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71U-3s_2e-U

Amahl and the Night Visitors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-W1jwu4M0

Hit and Run Theater’s 1995 /The Nutclucker/. The entire adorably goofy project.
http://www.thesnapsessions.com/holiday-special-the-nutclucker/

From the Guardians of the Galaxy Xmas special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E1ULv6LcOk

The Singing Sisters. This is my favorite short Xmas bit ever (right up there in the pantheon with The Bloody Olive), all the way through the final line, nearly the only line from the bartender; I’m not about to spoil the gag by quoting it here, though you’ll see it coming a mile away. As with many three-or-four-women full-range-of-talent sketches (singing, acting, timing, bathing suit competition), my brain plays with replacing the ladies with Tracy Burns, Pamela Stonem, Ellen Callas and/or Kathy O’Grady.from Hit and Run Theater in the early 1980s, and the men with Harry Rothman, Steve Weingarten and Doug Nunn from the same era. Same flavor of casual improv-ish excellence, like flashbulbs flashing in your face, but in a nice way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBpvh4y_lU

Some more from where that came from (in this case via Everlasting Blort and MissCellania).
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/12/merry-christmas-from-saturday-night-live.html

Tom Lehrer made all his songs available to download for free, made them public domain so you can do what you want with them– perform them, make a show of them, use creatively, whatever. He says, “You’re welcome.” But all of them in one place like this won’t last forever, so jump if you’re gonna jump.
https://tomlehrersongs.com/

When seals sneeze. It’s the wet sort of sneeze, as you might imagine.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/tweet-of-day_01575214968.html

Which is real?
https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php

A dream world. The past in recently revealed photographs. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.rferl.org/a/color-photos-archive-planet-albert-kahn-history/32166970.html

An ad for a store, but a true story. The Christmas truce. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

The future of warfare.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/12/22/last-minute-gift-ideas-christmas-weaponry/

The future of medicine.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/bizarre-medical-treatments-20th-century.html

And yet somehow they left out the Lawson vaginal washer. Another true story: just before I saw this device I was dithering over the wisdom of using, for a quote at the top of this post, the old saying, “It ain’t the miles, it’s the sand in your vagina.” Done and done. Because that’s also true: it ain’t, and it is.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/the-lawsons-vaginal-washer.html

Rod Serling’s 1964 /Another Christmas Carol/. (86 min.) (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbp1du33l0c

Cat on percussion.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/17/cats-performing-music-is-what-the-internet-was-made-for.html

The pains and audacity of Nardwuar (say nard-wahr).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6_B5pibt8

The first commercial typewriter. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malling_Hansen,1867,_D%C3%A4nemark.jpg

America’s department store Xmas monorails. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W780LSQHbYY

Minnesotastan’s youth.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2022/12/fifteen-years-old.html

Glass cracking goes five times as fast as a bullet from a gun, and this is just regular glass, not even Prince Rupert’s Drop glass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAO1i9Z9GpQ

Gunhild Carling wailing on the bagpipes. She can play anything. If you can blow in it or bang on it or squeeze it or wiggle it, it doesn’t matter, she can play it. She comes from a circus family. She can contort into a pretzel, do a somersault on a slack-line, she speaks seven languages, including ventiloquism. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W780LSQHbYY

This is science. This is an important part of the way science should be taught. Kids are stimulated to think of how things work, and imagine what uses the knowledge can be put to. (via TYWKIWDBI)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/y2kjmi/experiment_on_the_chinese_space_station_during_a/

Speaking of which, here’s another. I like his enthusiasm. And as he learns and adapts and guesses and changes course, it gets more and more interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wnTy_FhdM

You want more like that? Here, look: measuring the tiniest forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXoZQsZP2PY

And look up Sabine Hossenfelder’s YouTube series. And Physics Girl. And Vi Hart’s math videos. Simone Giertz. Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day… There’s so much, and there are so many great teachers.

Speaking of whom, Vi Hart plays and sings 314 digits of chromatic pi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWFJDqq035k

Experience can also be a great teacher. Other people’s experience, if your smart. Put the helmet on your head. You know what doctors call two-wheelers who don’t wear a helmet? Donors. (via TYWKIWDBI)
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/xdqcer/proof_helmets_really_do_save_lives/

Charles Berthoud in a Michael Myers mask on musical saw.
https://laughingsquid.com/michael-myers-musical-saw/

A new branch of gymnastics to cheer for: Tossing and being tossed. But it’s not so new. Many film and radio stars of the 1930s through the 1950s started in vaudeville when they were small enough to be tossed around. Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Ish Kabibble, Baby Snooks… They weren’t at this level, though; in those days they just /tossed/ them on or off the stage and didn’t necessarily bother to catch them. Everybody had fourteen kids; if you broke one you could just go get another one. (via Bruce the trumpet player)
https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/comments/ztcq3x/maybe_maybe_maybe/

“Disney doesn’t do googly, dear. There’s not a single eye in Disneyland that’s googly.”
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/22/actor-jack-plotnick-again-spoofs-vintage-walt-disneys-wonderful-world-of-color-footage.html

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY

“The girl from iffy-doo-dah– whassit? whassit?” “Ipanema.” “Ipanema! Thassit! Girl from Ipanema1” (Montage of 1980s British game shows.) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Hym84thUc

I thoroughly enjoyed Tom Cruise’ science fiction films: /Minority Report/, /Oblivion/, /Edge of Tomorrow/. I haven’t seen any of his Mission Impossible series except in short clips. Things like this make me really want to. I’ve said it before: he’s a Scientologist, he jumped up and down on Oprah’s couch, eh, so what? He’s a good actor, he picks good projects, and he works hard at it and risks his life for it again and again. A few of his relationships went wrong but whose haven’t? Nobody ever accused him of hitting them. One time in 2020 he lost his cool and swore at a crewmember who wouldn’t wear a covid mask, and that’s okay with me because the guy was endangering the project and /all/ of their jobs. I hope Tom Cruise doesn’t get killed one of these days doing the next amazing thing.
https://jalopnik.com/watch-tom-cruise-jump-a-motorcycle-off-a-cliff-in-the-n-1849910216

‘Course.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=121822

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=121822

What would Burning Man have looked like in 1963? Artificial intelligence paints it for us.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/what-burning-man-looked-like-in-1963-as-imagined-by-ai.html

What downtown Victoria looked like in 1907. Nobody had a car in those days, nor needed one. So peaceful. The trolley went slowly enough that you could swing right up onto it or step off at your destination without waiting for it to stop. Of course, everyone was drunk all the time and you could die from a toothache. Pretty much the only people around to see in a film like this were in the vigorous young prime of their lives, having won the lottery to survive childhood and not yet subject to ailments of old age, which started at about 35 when the teeth your father hadn’t knocked out of your head as a child started all falling out or needing to be yanked out with pliers anyway.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/21/colorized-videos-from-urban-areas-across-the-globe-during-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century.html

The 1987 Muppet Holiday Special, with original commercials. (55 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/22/you-can-finally-watch-the-1987-henson-holiday-special-complete-with-original-commercials.html

The Maccabeats – D’ror Yikra. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIG4WU3WUc

Why a handful of people will always end up owning everything until we change the system in one tiny, sensible, easily do-able way. (Make sure to click on appropriate buttons to activate the animated graph illustrations.)
https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/

I don’t disagree with the man’s argument as stated. But it’s even more simplistic than the films he criticizes. It’s as though he were criticizing the real production of the world we’re all participating in, by saying, /The characters are born, they fumble around for seventy years, and they die, and they don’t really do anything or change anything or stand up for anything; they’re just there and then they’re not./ It’s true, but there’s more going on. Also the Marvel and DC movie stories about supers are a small fraction of stories about supers, and many of them are rich with symbolism and strong life lessons for kids, chief among which: If you’re powerful enough to kill people by flicking a pea at them with your finger, don’t kill anyone even if your really want to. Because with a gun, which there are hundreds of millions of scattered around America on shelves in closets and in pockets and gloveboxes and balanced precariously against the mud-room doorjamb, all you have to do is wiggle your finger and the person who pissed you off by being insulting or the wrong color or eyeing your woman is dead. Don’t. It’s the main one of the Ten Don’ts? My favorite supers that instantly come to mind are only a little super: Jessica Jones, Daredevil, River Tam, Ed Chigliak, Cal Lightman, Scorpius, Spock, Data, Chihiro, Emily Kolburn (and Android and Two, of Dark Matter), Gil Hamilton, Helen Magnus, both popular 2010s series versions of Sherlock Holmes…
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/20/what-are-superheroes-good-for-anyway.html

Mighty Mikko (1922 book of Finnish Fairy Tales). (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mighty-mikko

“Look for straight lines and perfect circles, something nature doesn’t make.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/mudlarking-on-thames.html

Snow and ice coming off roofs and towers and things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqT9TVskXV0

How we get washers. It’s more of a clothes washer, though, not a dishwasher. I don’t know why they call it a dishwasher.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/12/21/dishwasher-factory/

Semicircles rotate at different speeds. The semicircles never change length. Follow one at random. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/eov5bb/what_happens_when_semicircles_rotates_at/

He shoots! He scores!
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/477

A serious proposal before the city council to build a sex dungeon. They’d better do as these women say, or there will be serious consequences for a bad, bad boy.
https://twitter.com/fguzmanon7/status/1605412312860573700

Fire.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/hot-stuff-zagreb-film-and-nfb.html

A fun flash-paper magic tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NumWFbyo-Yc

A homemade replica of the best and most real batmobile, including working weapons: rotating blades, smokescreen, rear flamethrower. (Flamethrower at end of video.)
https://theawesomer.com/worlds-greatest-batmobile-replica/692221/

3 seconds from each Star Trek: TNG episode.
https://laughingsquid.com/3-seconds-star-trek-next-generation/

Awww. (via Fark)
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/16/53/72/3849858/3/rawImage.jpg

Waiting to go on. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://kateabbey.co.uk/projects/22/

Xmas of Europe.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/19/national-geographics-45-minute-aerial-tour-of-christmas-in-europe-is-pure-holiday-magic.html

This is the future. Right now it only works on recorded files, but it won’t be long before whatever you record or stream with can do this in real time, or close enough to real time. And by then it’ll do it for music, too, and video. All your old videos and recordings of bands and events and plays, where the mic was too far away and the camera /and/ camera work was crappy. But try this free tool now on a digitized cassette tape of your grandmother telling about the war. Really.
https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance

Pickle Queen of 1947.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/quickle_queen

“I didn’t know that Heaven was a little spot in Honolulu… Oh, good Gawd! Nuts! Fricken-fracken-/fuck/.”
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/20/hilarious-bloopers-from-hollywoods-golden-age.html

Slap Hitler’s face with your old used rubber.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26901

Here they come/ walking up the beach/ They get the funniest looks from/ everyone they eat.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/photos-of-aliens-emerging-from-sea.html

A music video made of cancer CAT scans.
https://laughingsquid.com/justin-wright-hellbrunn-automatons/

George Crumb – Black Angels.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/george_crumbs_black_angels

Interesting place. Nice voice.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/structures.html

And, Free! /FREEEE!/ (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/mondomascots/status/1604396056472522752

2022/12/17

Significance of the three wise guys: the owl, the alligator and the turtle.

“Oh, ring, ring the yule log and sound the holy wreath. Open up the missile, too, and trim your crispness treeth.” -Walt Kelly

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with a one-time holiday gift or, if you can, a recurring gift, from your own hidden heart. And/or acquire a concentrated vial of the new heart’s-blood-red KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep and vibrant health. (“It’s toasted!”)

New stories by Ezekiel Krahlin, Douglas Wayne Coulter, Tommy Wayne Kramer, David Herstle Jones, Paul Modic, Craig Louis Stehr admonishing us all to chant Hare Krishna to defeat the demons, the usual chapter each from books by Kent Wallace (Ong Tay) and Clifford Allan Sanders (No More My Echoing Song), poetry by the late Jim Harrison, the late Jorge Luis Borges (say phlegmily: cHAWR-heh LOO-ees BAWRc-hayss), and others not quite so late nor difficult to pronounce properly; also science, art, jokes, dreams, car repair advice (and an unsolicited plug for the knowledgeable staff of O’Reilly’s Auto Parts of Rohnert Park), views from up close and from deep orbit of events of the small and big world, including the discovery, just this year, of the clitoris of the female snake. Apparently, for all the examination and chronicling and dissecting and titrating and milking of venom and all the trapping and releasing and tickling and probing and cross-legged blowing flutes at them and shaking them around in churches in Texas and daring them to bite us, it only just now, at the end of history (so far), occurred to anyone to really look down there. Certainly the snakes were not talking.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project, I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates.

The Bloody Olive. A holiday tradition.
https://vimeo.com/12487814

Kids in the Hall‘s Xmas special: Chalet 2000, parts 1 and 2 (1993).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3SseJV5c0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW-asm_oA_o

Edward Hopper and films influenced each other. Who knew? KNYO is next door to one of the very few bars left in town. One time I parked up the street a little bit, so I crossed there carrying my computer suitcase and coat and shopping bag of papers, books, crackers, chocolate covered raisins, an apple, spare headphones… The night was dead quiet. Nobody anywhere but a blonde woman smoking a cigaret just outside the bar’s open door; she might be the bartender (I’ve never been in there, so I don’t know). I could see all the way through, most of everything shades of brown but the woman’s red dress in the foreground, then maybe a neon beer sign, the sense of depth, bright green arrow-shaped sliver of the pool table’s top in the very back. I said, “That looks like a painting.” The woman said, “It does?” I said, “By Edwin Hopper.” She said, “Oh.” Later I thought over it and winced at my mistake. /Edward/ Hopper. /Edward/.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/edward-hopper-and-cinema.html

The 1979 blurry and weird Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel Xmas Special. (complete, 44 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/here-is-the-wonderfully-avant-garde-kate-bush-christmas-special-from-1979-with-special-guest-peter-gabriel.html

The three witches.(including /The Legend of the Xmas Witch/, full movie, 100 min.) (via MissCellania)
https://spookydaily.com/p/the-witches-of-christmas

Quasi at the Quackadero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH7LcVNusQE

Tony Soprano in God of War.
https://laughingsquid.com/tony-soprano-in-god-of-war/

The notorious 2003 Peter Serafinowicz Marlon-Brando-as-Jabba-the-Hutt acting masterclass video.
https://tinyurl.com/SolveClimateWithMilitaryMoney

Based on a true story. (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/La_barca_de_las_grullas_MLCSLP.jpg

Yeah. What happened to those guys.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/awkward-band-photos.html

Life as we weren’t around to know it but found out later. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_Chaetopoda.jpg

How to terraform Mars with giant Jewish space lasers.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-to-make-mars-more-like-earth.html

Bong Joon Ho’s /Snowpiercer/ is actually the sequel to Willy Wonka. (The real Gene Wilder one, not the remake.)
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/12/fan-theory-posits-that-snowpiercer-is-a-stealth-sequel-to-willy-wonka.html

Yule train!
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/12/16/the-gif-friday-post-no-780-yule-train-snow-dogs-a-glasshole/

Silent snowplow trains.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/13/check-out-amazing-drone-footage-of-a-snowplow-train-clearing-tracks-after-a-major-storm-video.html

Geoff Castelucci sings White Christmas. (One woman’s comment after hearing another of Geoff Castelucci’s singing videos: “I think I was just unfaithful to my husband.”)
https://laughingsquid.com/geoff-castellucci-low-bass-white-christmas/

Harmonica showoff. Pretty good.
https://theawesomer.com/will-wilde-rock-solos-on-harmonica/691586/

Rerun: Seagulls, Stop It Now.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/12/15/seagulls-stop-it-now/

“Please urinate with precision and elegance.” (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/12/06/museum-of-wonky-english/

Subtitles for real life. It’s made for all-the-way-deaf people, but it’s useful for everyone else. No more “Wha?” nor “Say again?” nor “Speak up, sonny, speak up!” Except now there are plenty of people who might shoot someone when it gets a crucial word wrong, and then be sorry, but it’s too late, a life is lost. Maybe the kind of people who have guns everywhere ready to shoot someone are the kind of people who shouldn’t have a gun. Maybe that’s how you can tell.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2022/12/live-caption-glasses-for-hearing.html

The revolutionary new FDM L5 5-bore single barrel rifle, which now that it exists you’ll totally be able to walk into any Walmart and buy soon, because it’s a biblical right God gave every American. I remember a guy who called himself Mad Dog, on Redwood Free Net in 1995, who argued that if the gubment can have an atomic bomb, /he/ should be able to have an atomic bomb to fight off the gubment if they ever came to take our atom bombs away, which of course they will. (You might have to click the sound on to get the full benefit of the treatment.)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=382456709173999

Q-Nuts: It’s the War on Christmas, Charlie Brown!
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/q-nuts-its-the-war-on-christmas-charlie-brown.html

Impressively improvised musical comedy. At the end: “We get a lotta points for that! Put the points there!” Exactly.
https://theawesomer.com/welcome-to-mountport-improv-musical/691419/

What. (via Fark)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjO1I-nXkAQ9luw?format=jpg&name=900×900

“You! Trombones! You’re rushing it! Not yet! …[sigh] Okay, let’s try again, people.”
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/mrg/03300/03398v.jpg

Great lumbering beasts (or) Right place, right time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBsVEvpkk0

Mexican Xmas cards from the 1950s.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/alejandro-rangel-hidalgo.html

British Xmas cards from the 1800s. Dead birds, mostly. It’s the thought that counts.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/creepy-victorian-christmas-cards.html

Just one song from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/i-dont-know-what-christmas-is-but.html

What if a sewing needle hit the planet Jupiter at the speed of light? Short answer: Don’t.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/16/what-would-happen-if-a-needle-traveling-at-the-speed-of-light-collided-with-jupiter.html

Xmastime ad. (via Everlasting Blort) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/SimonBrodkin/status/1601328754458243073

Nice things.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/10/repost-the-glass-master/

Tomb tours.
https://giza.mused.org/en/tours/

Lost treasures. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1600620708572368896

Kurt Vonnegut called this sort of thing destructive testing. He felt this was being done to all of us. Though his image was of one of those machines in the engineering wing of a car factory that opens and slams a car door 10,000 times to see which part of it breaks first. The world is the machine. We’re the car door.
https://theawesomer.com/28-lego-mechanisms-destroyed/691267/

Rerun: For fans of Thunderbirds and Fireball XL-5. /SuperThunderStingCar/.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/12/hilarious-supermarionation-puppet-parody.html

This movie of marionettes from 2004. In Wikipedia: “When a string attached to a moveable limb is severed, it is analogous to amputation; the individual loses the ability to use that body part. Once a string is cut nothing can repair it or bring back to life whatever it was attached to. If the head string is cut, it results in permanent death. Since nothing can reanimate a body part after its string is cut, repairs to injured individuals must be made using healthy, stringed parts. An unfortunate collection of poor people and prisoners is kept as a donor class. When a person of royalty or other social importance loses a body part, one is removed from a prisoner to replace it.” Also, when people love each other and pull /down/ on their own strings, it lifts the other person up. And the impenetrable gate of a city is a horizontal bar braced up in the air to stop the strings of people coming in. To let people in, you /lower the bar to the earth/. It used to be you could watch this movie on the web, but I can’t find it anymore. Maybe you can find a way to see it. Every library should have a copy. It didn’t get enough attention. It’s wonderful. All these years later I still cry every time I think about it. They briefly show us the real puppeteers working everything and that makes it even better, like the short part at the end of The Boxtrolls where we see the stop-motion animator at work as two characters discuss whether there might be someone out there somewhere controlling them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(2004_film)

Not a rerun. This is a new version of Straight No Chaser’s /12 Days of Xmas/.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2009/12/twelve-days-of-christmas.html

“You’re not learning English to be a /bigot/, are you?” “Okay.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzNGkwGYE4E

Saturday matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/12/10/saturday-matinee-the-avalanches-otava-yo-the-ape-man-abby-the-spoon-lady-w-chris-rodrigues/

GHOSTBLEED: The Bio Horror. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL4-E53Ed58

A-pack-of-gifts Now.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-pack-of-gifts-now.html

Pretty white kids with problems.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/16/revisiting-mad-tvs-1999-skit-pretty-white-kids-with-problems.html

Art. A selection of fine AI cinema stills. There’s a lot more here than it looks like at first. Poke around. (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/a-selection-of-fine-ai-cinema-stills-9d3

They want things where they should be. They want it lined up right. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1597144838063149056

“Fuck you and your shitty scooter.” (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1598757715517460480

The jolly grendier.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26894

The beauty queen of Neptune.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_beauty_queen_of_neptune

What did you do to make him so mad? What were you thinking. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c4gkUZ9VM8

Fill ‘er up with 25 cents’ worth of regular, please.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2011/04/esso.html

Mitchel & Webb bits, Season 3, part 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUH413T8Oi0

Miss Pearl Harbor Vengeance Legion.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/pearl_harbor_vengeance_legion

“Oy, nyet! It can’t be!” “I’m made of children’s /dreams/, beyotch! Suck /this/!” POW.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-very-cold-war-christmas.html

Perspective packing. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1603481942095273984

Optical art like this is a good analogy for ideas and politics and feelings and thoughts and morals and religion. It shows that what’s obvious is only so because of the presentation and the way perception works, and also what’s obviously right is often wrong. What’s obviously wrong equally as often turns out to be right. And what’s /really/ wrong is people getting all hot and righteous and insisting that their club’s interpretation of this or that event or crime or boon or magical book or mere phrase is just common sense and people who don’t agree with them don’t have the sense God gave a goose and they’re idiots besides. Or they’re Hitler, or Satan. This concept applies to so much.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1602801003702665218

Speaking of which.
https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-mike-tyson/

Ten years ago.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/on-this-day.html

Friends pop-and-lock together. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/AnnieLennox/status/1601612756998062080

Diving. With a full explanation afterward.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/476

A model of lightning. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1602100520549769218

Our most powerful weapons cannot penetrate their shields!
https://laughingsquid.com/video-game-cat-boss-battle/

It’s a multiple choice riddle.
https://twitter.com/Hibb_Bird/status/1602131272112910336

13 things. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/12/12/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-dcxxviii/

I remember reading about this when it happened, but I didn’t really grasp /what/ happened. Flight simulator animation illustrates the radio conversation between a random lunatic who stole an airplane for a joyride and several patient experts trying and failing to talk him down. At least he got to do his barrel roll. (17 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpaf8WdppM

How is this different from American shows like this? Fox News, for example. (via b3ta)
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1602323518305325056

Super! Thanks for asking!
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/tweet-of-day_01256611313.html

Where’s your toy? Is that your toy? I think that’s your toy. /Go get it! Go on!/ Who’s a funny little guy, then. Who’s a funny widdo guy.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/screaming-hairy-armadillo-loves-his-rubber-toy.html

Online circuit simulator toy. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.withdiode.com/projects/bd1778cb-c245-423f-b03e-ed4ba808cf11

“Have a good day, man.” That’s the way, right there. Everybody has a bad day once in awhile and makes a mistake. No harm done.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/gentleman-tries-to-steal-a-couple-of-phones-embarrasses-himself-instead-video.html

And Evangelina brings in the lute.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/16/evangelina-mascardi

2022/12/10

Shambleau!

“And in her living cloak she swayed to him, the murmur swelling seductive and caressing in his innermost brain, promising, compelling, sweeter than sweet. His flesh crawled to the horror of her, but it was a perverted revulsion that clasped what it loathed. His arms slid round her under the sliding cloak, wet, wet and warm and hideously alive, and the sweet velvet body was clinging to his, her arms locked about his neck, and with a whisper and a rush the unspeakable horror closed about them both…”

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find the hidden donation heart there and help the station out with a one-time holiday gift, or even a recurring gift, from your own hidden heart, maybe. And/or try the new fire-engine-red vibrantly healthy KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep. (“It’s toasted!”)

New stories by David Herstle Jones, Paul Modic, a chapter each from books by Kent Wallace and Clifford Allan Sanders, poetry by Notty Bumbo and other poems old and new, science and art and jokes and dreams, health advice, some perspective on events of the small and big world. A fun article by Marilyn Davin about steak-eating, whisky-drinking, homeless-and-loving-it, spiritual-advice-giving, social critic, enlightened activist guru and chanter of chants Craig L. Stehr. And it all rounds to a close with the gripping and creepy and wonderful 1933 story /Shambleau/, read aloud by its author, C.L. Moore (1911-1987). She was 22 when she wrote it; it was her first sale, like /Black Destroyer/ was A.E. Van Vogt’s first sale. So many of the giants in the old days seemed to spring full-blown from the brow of Zeus without any preamble. Mary Shelley, for example. John Kennedy Toole, William Kotzwinkle… Maybe it’s the internet that changed that. Now they’d have made a thousand skateboarding or unboxing videos and had messy public breakups and so on before they’re even in their teens. The modern equivalent of /Frankenstein (or) The Modern Prometheus/ is a nine-year-old girl shredding a guitar, or a boy balancing standing on his hands on two wine bottles or reaming a racist a new one in a grocery store checkout line… Ah, no, dang it– I see now that I forgot /again/ to include Ezekiel Krahlin’s story in the show. Zeke, that was not on purpose. I’ll do it next week. I’m marking it in the show file right now.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been keeping up– not compulsively like the old days but at least several dreams each week. The latest post is always on top. (I send a batch of dreams from the week all at once on Sunday or Monday night.) (I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or give me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates.)

Book of leaves.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-book-of-leaves.html

All the time in the world.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-cgtime.gif

Night light. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.keitamorimoto.com/select-works-2022

Fashion plan: Be enslaved, get the nice dress, escape, keep it.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-fresh-look-at-princess-leias-slave.html

The Handsome Cabin Boy. Three decent versions, including one sung by Kate Bush.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_handsome_cabin_boy

Brave Sir Bentham, utilitarian knight.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/475

Biomass. One year is one full cycle.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1599100336391585793

Melodramatic tai chi checking behavior that’s good for the trapezius and frowning muscles. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/curtains-5.gif?w=840

“What’s that?”
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/12/07/surprise-at-school/

A free tool for colorizing black and white photos.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/ai-tool-colourizes-black-and-white.html

(Almost all) the Adventures of Tintin (for Android phones and tablets)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.moulinsart.tintinbooks&hl=en&pli=1

What.
https://img.atlasobscura.com/ujSoqB7oOnQIP1koJmEDw4aNZXSBhqJTtE3r7NQIYIQ/rt:fit/w:1200/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy8wYTdm/Nzk2Yy0xZDc2LTQ0/M2MtODIwYy1hMzRi/ZTIyYmU0MTE1NTZl/YWVjMWIwMzFlMGFm/NjFfMjAyMjEwMDFf/MTQyMjU3LmpwZw.jpg

What.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/12/06/collared-aracari-pteroglossus-torquatus/

Towers of Baloney (that’s the American pronunciation).
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/08/the-towers-of-bologna.html

Cat mind blown.. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/weirdlilguys/status/1593981169699377159

Art. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Soli%C5%84ski

Art.
https://www.tiktok.com/@paulkenton/video/7171449448931888390

Art from your text prompt.
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/

Rudolph’s revenge.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/12/rudolphs-revenge.html

The tailor story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4J6O6ke6Jk

Skyler’s prom proposal.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-robin-williams-helped-co-star-ask.html

Rerun: Zenosyne. “Life is short, and life is long, but not in that order.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/zenosyne.html

Sign up and try this. It’s the first project of this kind that has impressed and delighted me to this level since a DOS nonsense-poetry-generating program I bought for $15 and ran on an IBM XT in the 1980s. This one is made to give advice, and it comes with many self-deprecatory warnings. Prompt it with a story idea and see what happens. The old Jews have a word for the reaction you are sure to have; that word is, fittingly in the case of a story, /plotz/ (the good kind, from happiness and excitement).
https://chat.openai.com/chat

Dena Takruri: “How Israeli apartheid destroyed my hometown.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdGcej-6D0

A Bible-accurate Xmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_e1DWjaSQ

Antivax people I know from the MCN Announce listserve were antitvaxxing a long time ago– it isn’t just the latest vaccines; they were against vaccinating children for measles, polio, tetanus, yadda yadda. And they’re the same people who’ve been claiming all along that cell phones cause brain cancer. Here’s a graph of the incidence of brain and nervous system cancer over the last thirty years. In 1992, hardly anyone had a cell phone and there were cell towers hardly anywhere. In 2022, nine out of ten people use a cell phone and cell towers are all over the place. If cell phones cause cancer, the line on the graph should be nearly vertical by now. But it’s entirely horizontal. Not even a blip.
https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html

Riches beyond measure.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-temple-of-knowledge.html

Calculate the level of your hoarding disorder. I thought I was pretty bad but I’m somewhere in the middle. Whew. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://hoardingdisordersuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/clutter-image-ratings.pdf

I got 49. Not too shabby.
https://www.britannica.com/quiz/united-states-of-america-quiz

12.
https://xkcd.com/2707/

“Isn’t this a support group? Support me!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZnCSTrq0g

Bathing beauty contest judges of the Monte Rio Water Festival.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Bathing-Suit-Judges.jpg?ssl=1

Ze Frank’s latest.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/07/Ze-Frank-Announces-His-True-Facts-Animal-Awards/

Rerun: The future of law enforcement.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/07/cancel-culture-ends-san-franciscos-plans-for-killer-robots.html

Nighttime downhill trail bike ride. Doo-dah, doo-dah. Nighttime trail is five miles long. (It’s not that long. Also the the next line would be /All the doo-dah day,/ and that doesn’t work because it’s at night. Never mind.
https://theawesomer.com/nighttime-mountain-bike-downhill-ride/690832/

The honking bluesmasters. (In the /O.C. and Stiggs/ issue of /National Lampoon/, O.C. played harmonica and Stiggs called him a honking bluesmaster. That’s where that term comes from.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-blues-masters.html

A better asteroid-impact info calculator. Choose an impact point, set asteroid diameter, speed and angle, launch. Reconsider your objections to our learning how to protect against this in real life, and against space science in general. (via BoingBoing)
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

Meanwhile at ground zero, which is and has always been everywhere (see above; and think of dinosaurs), there are tests they used to give children on whether this thing will fit there, or how do you have to turn this shape to get it through that shape of hole, if it will even go, or how many of these things can you fit in that box if the X on them is always up versus if they’re on their sides. I was especially good at that. I was good at pretty much all the tests except the one, later, in high school, that had a section where you plod along copying columns of numbers from one list to another with a golf pencil for twenty minutes, to see if you’re suited for a career in a financial scrivening firm in 1846. “Fuck this,” I recall muttering two minutes in, and skipped the whole rest of that one, dragging my overall percentile down out of the clouds. Though it turned out there was a college in Iowa specifically interested in young people who similarly said /Fuck this/ about that. A freight train honked and roared diagonally right through the center of campus twice a day, and the theater was a dark dusty maze-like building from the Civil War era, while the sports complex and the library were light and airy modern-art jenga piles. Anyway, sorry, the video:. Space aliens who’ve figured out faster-than-light travel between star systems see things like this, and what do you suppose they conclude about our formidability to withstand their invasion plans?
https://twitter.com/ronkephillips/status/1599679652414504960

“Do you know Journey?” “Yes.” “Okay, then, let’s go.” This reminds me of several little girls at the Mendocino Community School in the early 1980s who could just, impromptu, get up on a stage and sing this impressively, loud and clear, confident as all heck. One was Rain. One was Midnight. I think one was named Verlaine. Ver-something. Verlette? There were so many very talented kids there: drummers, guitarists, poets, dancers; one boy could really blow on a trombone. Generally their parents were all hippie artists and musicians, some of them quite famous. So it was both nature and nurture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esIYtWPKACs&t=138s

Doi. (say doy)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/autograph.html

The negative-space pig of Lucerne.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/08/the-pig-of-lucerne.html

Movie stars looking at mirrors. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://neptsdepths.blogspot.com/2022/12/upon-further-reflection.html

“Love you, Santa.” “Love you, Krampus.” Hey, get a room for that, you two. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/109418256821609840

R. Crumb on R. Crumb. (via Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ZWrWmypA0

Masturbation is the devil himself attacking you to ruin your life. Keep an eye on the vehement young lady’s Freudian left hand. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.tiktok.com/@dreamsnpoetry/video/7168895944652606763

Absurdism. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Jv79l1b-eoI

Anne Reburn sings Flight of the Conchords’ song /Friends/, to the letter, including Murray’s one-cent-flat “ping” near the beginning.
https://theawesomer.com/anne-reburn-friends/690991/

How we get rebar.
https://laughingsquid.com/turning-steel-to-rebar/

Cello underpants metal.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/06/mr-marcaille-plays-death-metal-in-his-underwear.html

A more civilized age.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/1950s-female-fashion.html

Vallejo police destroyed video of five cases of police shooting people (that we know of), before its destruction was allowed (destruction of evidence video, not of people). Now it’s allowed, I guess, (both), so that’s okay, then.
https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-says-it-inadvertently-destroyed-records-in-five-police-shooting-investigations/

Abandoned space station? Abandoned shopping mall? Abandoned something. (via Fark)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjJ2EaqVEAAzaH_?format=jpg&name=900×900

Snow-dercycle.
https://theawesomer.com/uncharted-a-snowbike-film/690668/

Cosplay bully/cowards in military body armor, with their large-magazine metal overcompensation penises on display, to oppose people playing dress-up in a style other than theirs, that they think is a danger to kids because it might make them think it’s okay to dress up funny too.
https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1599276094368403457

I love this. In each case somebody thought of a great thing to do and had to get past all kinds of obstruction to actually get to do it, and it’s perfect.
https://www.cracked.com/article_36177_the-most-mind-fing-meta-moments-in-comedies.html

Santa is a mushroom. “The shaman would eat the mushroom and he would urinate, and his followers would drink the urine and get the effects, and then /they/ would urinate, and the reindeer would follow them around wanting to drink /their/ urine.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/12/santa-is-psychedelic-mushroom.html

To Bunk Strutts of Tacky Raccoons: You may have my latest million-dollar idea: a 3D-printed microphone housing in this shape, plastic-chrome or real chrome. Your market would be every garage band with an umlaut in its name, and every dark Goth club on the Strip, and buskers. Maybe also light it milky blue inside with LEDs.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/12/08/beware-the-ascidians/

Speaking of which: Jäzz Säbbäth. The perfect HannuKwanzissimus gift for your jazzophile friends. (via TheAwesomer)
https://jazzsabbath.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-sabbath

2022/12/03

Memoirs of a shy pornographer.

“You spotted snakes with double tongue, thorny hedgehogs be not seen, newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, come not near our fairy queen.” -W.S.

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find the hidden donation heart there and help the station out with a holiday gift from your own hidden heart. And/or try the new fire-engine-red vibrantly healthy KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep. (“It’s toasted!”)

This show was particularly exhausting for me, so I quit half an hour early. Every week, every show since I started doing MOTA in February of 1997, I’ve printed the material out and read it off paper. I’m really used to doing it that way. This time enough things went wrong at the worst possible times that I had to read about two-thirds of the show off one long column on the computer screen. It doesn’t sound like much of a problem, but I found it disorienting and twitchy, and when contradictions arose in the text and story order, that ordinarily I’d move the pages this way or that way and solve in an instant, I was baffled, confused. And you hear that. So… You know what, this is a challenge. I’m going to do it this way on purpose next time and fucking master it. Think of all the paper and materials I’ve been wasting all these years, even though I use each page twice lately by turning the stack over and printing on the other side.

Ah, and here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been keeping up– not compulsively like the old days but at least several dreams each week. The latest post is always on top. (I send a batch of dreams from the week all at once on Sunday or Monday night.) (I’d like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or give me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates.)

The real world exists, while we’re all focused inward on pronouns and snowflakes and slaps and gropes and imagined malice and gaslighting each other and ourselves and resenting the outrageous price of cinnamon. Lanscapes of 2022. View the full gallery.
https://newatlas.com/photography/international-landscape-photographer-year-awards-2022-gallery-winners/

A random Koyaaniqatsi generator.
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/gifaanisqatsi/

“We fart free water. Say sliders to drugs. Say no to yes. I’m a truck!!! I don’t stop when I stop I stop when stop TRUCK.” (via Neatorama)
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-confusing-signs/

I started picking favorites here, the way I always do with something like this, but these are all my favorite.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/25/les-creatonautes

Fantastic.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/11/fantastic-adventures-covers.html

People from the somewhat distant past, who had the same basic hopes and needs and disappointments as you do, and I do. The ancient Scot woman is about to swear gently at you for forgetting her birthday and then kiss you anyway because she knows you didn’t really; the present is in the satchel. /Och, ye didnae; it weren’t needful. But I do love ye, ye great omadhaun!/ (via Neatorama)
https://www.livescience.com/gallery-of-reconstructions

Christine McVie, R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91_1YDXTbME

Some photos of Christine, one of which she probably would have wished they’d lose. You’ll know it when you see it. Oof.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/young-christine-mcvie.html

And some more.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/12/christine-stevie.html

Adorable little wooden songbirds. You can imagine them singing like they know the score.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/12/01/wooden-islands-birds/

Rerun: Andre Antunes’ ska-ified barking-mad pastoress. An illustration of literal barking madness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSNz2tEL5C4

Exactly the way Jesus said to do it: “Do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. But when you pray, go alone into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.” Also, “Render unto Caesar,” meaning pay the taxes on your giant multimillion-dollar business empire. The Mormon church, say, has amassed /billions/ of dollars’ worth of real estate alone. I remember reading somewhere that if church leaders all paid fair taxes, all the homeless could be fed and housed, and lots more done too. Ah, here: “Question: How much money do churches bring in every year? Answer: The majority of donations in the U.S. are given to religious organizations. U.S. faith-based institutions account for combined revenue of more than $378 billion per year.”
https://twitter.com/Eric_Erins/status/1596917329010446336

Melissa Carper and Rebecca Patek.
https://27thstreet.me/2022/12/02/king-of-the-road-2/

You’ll poke your eye out, kid.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FimylUcWAAAQ_1-?format=jpg&name=900×900

Josephine Baker singing in French on Italian teevee in 1962. What a doll.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/just-josephine-baker-twisting-night.html

Some lessons and a puzzle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgqWbp_0oU

Superman says, “Never say yes to a cigaret.” He knows. Tobacco is humans’ kryptonite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDRMeeuP3F0

The way the world works.
http://marriedtothesea.com/112722

7 to 2 if solid, 5 to 2 if hollow. This is so nonobviously cool, because once you know how it works, you can’t unsee why. It’s for the same reason a square block slides to the bottom of an incline faster than an equal-mass wheel rolls down.
https://theawesomer.com/the-turntable-paradox/689810/

The voice in the hollow.
https://theawesomer.com/the-voice-in-the-hollow-short-film/690286/

Top tier bass guy Charles Berthoud’s latest.
https://laughingsquid.com/master-of-puppets-slap-bass-solo/

A fascinating seemingly bottomless random photo archive. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://noonereallyknowswhatwedo.com/

It forms the Chinese character for /serenity/. (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1598102834062708736

Beer. Is there anything it can’t do?
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/29/gentleman-knocks-himself-out-after-fighting-another-man-at-hockey-game-video.html

Turn down for what. Some of these old people’s backs and knees are in way better shape than mine.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/11/senior-citizens-dancing-to-turn-down.html

Comfortably Numb in Dire Straits’ style.
https://laughingsquid.com/comfortably-numb-as-dire-straits/

Sing like no-one is watching.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/28/Owner-Catches-Footage-of-Dog-Playing-The-Piano/

“In colour.” This was awhile ago, in like Canada, so these people were paid for this. This was their job. There used to be all kinds of jobs people could buy a house with. In a publishing house, for example, people had jobs just going up and down the elevator with bits of paper or a roll of film, and jobs cutting out shapes with razor blades and sticking them down, and they were paid for their lunch hour, which was a whole hour, long enough to walk to the automat, eat, enjoy the newspaper and digest your food a little bit; and now, all those publishing jobs can be done by one teenager with a tablet, whole buildings of music companies and studios and rooms full of instruments and equipment have been replaced with a computer in your pocket, constructed by suicidal slaves on the other side of the world, where also all the tennis shoes and t-shirts come from. I’m not sure I understand the story the dancers are telling with their motion, but they clearly have a plan, and I appreciate the mini-fridge-size teevee cameras on mobile camera cranes. I mentioned /Serenity/ above, for /Firefly/, but this all sounds like the incidental SFX in /Blake’s 7/, and for good reason.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/02/dig-these-freaky-experimental-dancers-and-robots-modulating-to-moog-music-in-1971.html

On the other hand: Russian /Popcorn/. Synthesizers and tape technology replaced by musicians on real instruments. And maybe these people are paid. I don’t know. I’m still paid for the occasional sound-effect job. Not very well, but I can get a hamburger often (barely) enough to not forget the flavor of meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMZghFO9SVY

See, you don’t have to scribble all over yourself with psychotic tattoos to be boss. I Break Everything, by Speed of Light. As one old fart wrote afterward: “There’s hope for youth yet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLw7vzqfapg

Rerun: I Crush Everything, by Jonathan Coulton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFEzpUsUBk

I don’t think you even have to know who Jennifer Coolidge is to like this, because I had no idea. “Are you lost? Mister Finch, are you trying to seduce me?” Actually, the things this woman says and the emotion involved and randomness of it all are what real people often sound and look like to me whenever I’m in a public place with people all around. It’s why I like OverheardInNewYork.com. Real conversation between strangers that you only hear a few seconds of, tell a whole complicated story, that you’re misinterpreting, sure, but there it is.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/02/comedian-mimics-white-lotus-star-jennifer-coolidge-to-a-tee-video.html

Trailer for /Mad Heidi/. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGIWcOrq-I

What. (via Fark)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fih2I-nXwAE-VQm

Proud, patriotic citizens of Underwear Town decorating on their special day for the king to ride past in his king car of the monorail. Just one universe above or below ours in the stack.
https://media.nga.gov/iiif/516f6abc-021d-4123-8ab3-4baefe506c41/full/full/0/default.jpg

Snake oil.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-cgpoet.gif

Ow! Okay. No! Okay, one more chance. Yow! That’s it, no more for me. Maybe it’s for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNe1D_E3R8E

An Advent colander.
https://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/20932/1448910522/advcol.jpg

What.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HensandRoosters-AlextenNapel-NEDERLANDSE.BAARDKUIFHOEN.-ROOSTER32017.jpg

Rise up.
http://marriedtothesea.com/120122

The whole spectrum of shyness to boldness, and different levels of situation awareness. Some of them don’t even notice the camera. Some see it, duck their heads and smile painfully cutely… They’re all dead a long time ago. This was their youth and their time. And it’ll happen to me and to you, whether we wink at the camera, or startle and fumble, or what. And in another five thousand or five million years we’re all just rocks and molecules again, part of the earth or other creatures and things, or floating in the water or air or drifting in space. Actually, drifting in space anyway. Everything everywhere is in space.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/gibson-girl-edwardian-historic-film

Fly, Robin, Fly. Up, up to the sky (wiggle around and repeat forever, or four minutes, whichever comes first). (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPdG4DA42g

Three Dog Night – Liar (live, better-than-the-album version). I’ve been hearing this song off and on, mostly off, for over fifty years and I only just last night realized that the fingernails-on-a-blackboard effect of their shouting /LIAR/ is done not by just the reverb effect but by the drummer with a struck cymbal stopped by his fingers, just as it took Nellie McKay’s version of Three Dog Night’s song /Murder In My Heart For The Judge/, that I heard last week, for me to grasp the lyrics of /that/ song: “Judge looked down at me and said, for getting smart, boy, I’m gonna give you more than a lifetime.” The line I imagined was nothing like that. “Said, for getting smart, boy,” was, to me, “Circle getting stronger.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5_pEO8a8U

Restoring a remarkable antique toy. In the early 1960s when I was just a sprat, my cousins in Ohio had a mostly plastic version of something like this, but it was the sun and planets, with a battery-powered motor, and a crane made of wire that went around at controllable speed as the planets also went. A lever raised and lowered the crane with a metal spaceship on the end, and the object was to transfer a cargo magnet from a planet to the ship and to a planet again, without dropping it. The distance in time between the racetrack toy and the planets toy was about the same as between the planets toy and now, just like the distance in time between the Wright flyer and the SR-71 Blackbird was about the same as from the Blackbird to the Cassini robot space mission.
https://theawesomer.com/restoring-a-mechanical-horse-racing-game/689463/

The internet: a system of electrical tubes to communicate and do commerce, that one can also laugh and play and get stuck in.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/07/londons-mail-rail.html

Here’s another thing you’ve been able to get a job doing for awhile now: shouting along with the game for everybody. Baseball, basketball, ballball, all the sportsball games; they all need people to do it. It’s a skill you can develop, and if you’re good at it you can fly all over the world and shout to millions of people who also, for some reason, care about these details, though you have to memorize the intricacies of the actual game, too. The offside rule, the designated hitter, you can’t spit on the ball or catch one in your hat, you can only castle once, a fair-catch dropkick has to be from the point of the catch, no hitting below the belt, etc. Oh, and with golf, you must not shout but whisper as if over a sleeping baby, even if you’re a mile away in a teevee truck in the parking lot. At KMFB, Lindy Peters used the wired phone to commentate Fort Bragg (California) high school ball games. He was so good at that, they made him mayor of the whole town for two terms. And now that there’s a movement to change the name of Fort Bragg from a slave-owning Civil War monster to something better, the leading two candidates for a new name are The Palms (for the palm trees on Main Street) (that we’ll put there if the name chosen is The Palms), and Lindy Petersville, which has the edge, because it showed up for practice and it came to play.
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/02/check-out-this-hilarious-meme-about-obsessive-football-fans.html

And A.I.-generated cereal boxes. (Hear that in your head in the voice of the very last line of /What Do You Want From Life/ by The Tubes.)
https://theawesomer.com/ai-generated-cereal-boxes/690242/

2022/11/26

An Alex Bosworth Thorgellen.

“The difference between a cult and a religion: In a cult there is a person at the top who knows it’s a scam. In a religion that person is dead.”

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find the hidden donation heart there and help the station out with a holiday gift from your own hidden heart. And/or try the new fire-engine-red vibrantly healthy KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep. (“It’s toasted!”)

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been keeping up– not compulsively like the old days but at least several dreams each week. The latest post is always on top. (I send a batch of dreams from the week all at once on Sunday or Monday night. (I’d like to read /your/ dreams and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply. Or give me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to always go there and check for updates.)
https://MarcoMcClean.Medium.com

Our whole galaxy of 100+ billion stars is the single pixel at the bottom of this new map of just a tiny fraction of the /real/ world out there.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/11/17/interactive-universe-map/

What a supernova in our stellar neighborhood could do to Earth.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/23/What-a-Supernova-Could-Do-to-the-Earth/

The sunscreen essay.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/everybodys-free-to-wear-sunscreen.html

The tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken

Thorgellen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kccw_2uHKjQ

Wow! Wow! Wow! What a terrific project. Scroll down and feast. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphTF9wHwhCt-BzIq-s4V-g

The best kites ever. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1591128560265490433

See the long-form infographic. Also: how do you suppose NPR got left off this list?
https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/

Aired only once but never again. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/MichaelWarbur17/status/1595848337760350214

Put French people with funny laughs in the same room. (via Everlasting Blort) (Click sound on.)
https://twitter.com/AFC_GLEN/status/1575942075287158785

Kimbra – Settle Down. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHV04eSGzAA

Rerun: Nelly McKay – I Wanna Get Married.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrvri6xCr4

Rerun: Somewhere That’s Green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIvpOIUqKKA

A taste of their own medicine. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1592075305870848001

The saga of CUM, Canadian United Media.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/12653336

Cosplay art. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.instagram.com/lowcostcosplayth

“He only has to paint half the burger because the camera films from just one side. A mixture of Vicks Vaporub and pulverized meat helps fill in any holes.” Well, I bought a Big Mac at a McDonalds a couple of months ago for five times what it cost the last time I bought one, but it was pretty good, but I was very hungry and there’s an old saying: Hunger makes the best sauce. The Big Mac was soft and messy and salty and wet with something orange, the way I remember a Bob’s Big Boy burger was when I was little in L.A., and that was nice. This was a very different experience from the time I had Taco Bell food once after not going to Taco Bell for decades. Taco Bell food is also five times more expensive than it was, and also not bad, exactly, but there was something about it that didn’t sit right, that I can’t articulate, and that’s my failing, not Taco Bell’s. Just not what I think of as a real burrito. There used to be a Mexican restaurant in Healdsburg that I’d go to sometimes on my way to or from The City, where a burrito was no more expensive than anywhere else but it was substantial, chewy, flavorful, big enough for you to think about maybe not eating it all at once but you’d do it anyway. There was a place down in Noyo Harbor for decades –El Mexicano– where they had a burrito like that, too. Last time I was there was around the turn of the century. Yelp says they’re still in business. Anyway, sorry, here are food cosmeticians, or rather food /morticians/, because you can’t eat it after these technicians have tarted up the food for its sexy close-up, with turpentine and soldering irons and foot powder and melted crayons and so on; all you can do is throw it away. It makes me think of businessmen and teevee newspeople and elected officials; they all go through a process very like this every time before you see them. Even women in makeup all look like 1950s stage female impersonators to me… not that there’s anything wrong with that. Soon it’ll all be done with hackable CGI in our replacement eyes, like in /Minority Report/.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-tricks-behind-major-food-commercials.html

Without the text, I would guess this is a dish sponge. Say dish sponge five times fast in the mirror without looking like you’re swearing at someone you hate with a passion. Just try to; see how hard it is.
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-orion-views-moon-surface-artemis-1849820337

Much ado with Lissajou (say LEES-uh-zhoo). (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/noondlyt/status/1595660544152768512

Matt Berry reads his favorite memo.
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/18/matt-berry-reads-hilariously-prurient-matt-stone-memo-to-the-mpaa.html

Cents.
http://marriedtothesea.com/112422

So a snafu, a shitshow and a clusterfuck walk into a bar…
https://qz.com/work/1225213/the-difference-between-a-snafu-a-shitshow-and-a-clusterfuck

2022/11/19

Popsicle toes.

“You can’t deny Jews control the international Rube Goldberg machine market. Wherever a bowling ball falls on a switch to a fan blowing a paint balloon onto spikes, startling a mouse that pulls a string to raise the curtain on a sign that says EAT AT JOE’S, there’s a Space Jew in a throne room somewhere, in a high collar and tight gold and purple helmet, though in black and white, watching it on a round screen on a pole, washing his hands in the air like a fly, smiling with just his mouth, not his eyes, muttering, ‘Excellent,” or “Splendid.'”

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find the hidden red donation heart there and help the station out with a substantial gift from your own heart. And/or try the new iron-rich vibrantly healthy KNYO hot sauce, for vim and pep. (“It’s toasted!”)

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been keeping up– not compulsively like the old days but at least a post of several dreams each week. The latest post is always on top. (I have a batch of dreams from this week that I’ll proofread and post by Sunday or Monday night. It works better that way; I don’t get confused about which ones I sent to Medium and which ones I only read on the radio.) (I’d like to read /your/ dreams and I always offer to, if you’d send them.)
https://MarcoMcClean.Medium.com

Unslicing.
https://theawesomer.com/unslicing-tomatoes/688511/

Theda Bara Salome. Hubba-hubba. Hot-cha.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/11/theda-bara-salome.html

What a nice place to live. It’s like competing floating villages in an art game environment about a water planet.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/07/lake-kavicsos-hungary.html

Monju hunters of Sofugan Island. (9 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIPLQZrlMGs

Live Goa’uld larva Xmas ornament, perfect for that special someone on your list. (via Fark)
https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/8488/image

I don’t remember where it comes from, but at one part in a story an old Jew who’s been through absolute hell sees something like this and growls, “So the /whole world/ isn’t crazy.” I think it might have been Walter Matthau, or a man sitting next to Walter Matthau. My grandmother used to sing this song to herself sometimes when she was working. She was constantly working in her house or in the restaurant. I have no picture in my head of her ever just sitting there thinking about something, though she must have done, because I rode to Ohio in an airplane with her when I was five and all I remember of the trip was the scene outside the window my nose was stuck to.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/11/moon-river.html

Philosophy.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/472

God.
https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/684ctemp-bd-deus-ex-machina.jpg

What. (Eleven years in prison, that’s what, because she frauded a few rich people out of a few drops of their money. Meanwhile the entire Sackler family profited in the billions of dollars from mass murder, drug pushing of the worst drugs on a huge scale, and not a single one of them will even ever spend fifteen minutes in the back seat of a police car, much less be frog-marched across the lawn to it. And they all get to stay wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, too, and keep all their mansions and golf course hotels and jet airplanes and basketball-court-size sex dungeons. And the Mormon church’s multi-billion-dollar tax-free real-estate empire, and on and on, all the religions including, of course, the ones with their own cities and countries. I remember reading an article about a poor boy in prison for stealing a cookie. And a woman put in prison for five years because, to get her daughter into a slightly better school, she registered to vote in a school district a block over the line from her apartment. I’m not saying the woman in this creepy A.I.-produced squirming picture shouldn’t be punished for stealing, but start with prosecuting and pauperizing the royal long-term dynasties of world-class stealers first, how about, and people who are millionaires because of war, or because of their position in government and insider trading. (Or) Just stare back at pretty, psychopathic, hypnotic Elizabeth Holmes for awhile, until you wake up, on your feet, in a strange city, with someone asking you, “How would you like to pay for that, sir?” And you say, “Pay for what?”
https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/holmes.gif

Janet, Janet, Brad-Brad-Brad. Doctor Scott!
https://theawesomer.com/rocky-horror-but-its-only-the-characters-names/688773/

YMCA.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/11/ymca-by-bottle-boys.html

The judges of contests like this are just mean and horrible. It’s their job to say yes or no; they can say no. They don’t have be such a dick about it and roll their eyes and make fun of these people who came a long way to audition and are doing the best they can, and doing it pretty well, to me. I would say thank you for coming, and say something nice about them, and give them a treat of some kind. Chocolate covered raisins, or free tickets to a game.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/17/dcc/

Disney voice actors, including Walt Disney himself.
https://laughingsquid.com/disney-voice-actors-side-by-side/

Kinetic mayhem. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://americandigest.org/the-day-after-the-night-before/

Bach into Down Hearted Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVk5txhdxA

Waaah-eeya-ee-aahh, eeeyooo-eeeyohhhhh. Here’s a skill. Two and sometimes three different notes at once.
https://theawesomer.com/polyphonic-overtone-singing-in-an-echo-chamber/688294/

Nature.
https://gizmodo.com/nature-conservancy-photo-contest-2022-1849774085

Minions washing and recoating a telescope mirror. Note: they don’t use the tail of their shirt. They use the special cloth that comes with the mirror.
https://theawesomer.com/re-coating-a-giant-telescope-mirror/688570/

Fire one million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg

All the prisons in the U.S., seen from the air. Spread out all over this great land of the free and home of the brave is a giant, expensive, and still growing gulag fungus, that’s like one of those adhesive traps that people with zero empathy put on the floor so mice get stuck there and suffer in tighter and tighter captivity until they succumb. You know who should be put in places like that? Rich people who don’t pay their fair share of taxes, and who profit from the misery of poor people and people in prison especially. See above.
http://prisonmap.com/

DUST: Recycling Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZL0fOo44oo

Sand-powered acrobat.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/sand-powered-automaton.html

2001: a remix.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/11/2001-remix.html

First-person toy roller coaster ride.
https://theawesomer.com/knex-steel-vengeance-roller-coaster-pov/688941/

Pulse-jet model plane engines. Apparently they’re hard to start, but once started, away they go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMiP1GN1vU

Flight.
https://theawesomer.com/evolve-drone-fpv-freestyle-flight/648891/

“Color. It’s just… better.” (Or) “Without color, it ain’t blood!” (Or) “Well, there’s your problem, Tom. This is completely shot. I think we’re looking at replacing the whole unit.”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/color_photographs_to_fight_crime

Date.
https://xkcd.com/2698/

Rerun: Trapped in the web of love. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ao4ILWfl8U

Our universe narrated by Morgan Freeman.
https://theawesomer.com/our-universe-trailer/688828/

Mawaan: Are you checking me out, or are you just a racist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayczwaGr-lU

The story of the last Hiroshima survivor. There are moments in this that will kick you in the chest.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/what-akiko-saw-at-centre-of-hiroshima.html

Turkey.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/11/turkey-trot.html

Rerun: Beef.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/11/tweet-of-day_01030226385.html

Raawrrr!
https://www.vintag.es/2022/11/pachimon-postcards.html

Echoes by Pink Floyd, illustrated by A.I. (15 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/ai-generated-pink-floyd-echoes/

The first version of /Twisted/ that I heard was Joni Mitchell’s. Annie Ross wrote it, and here’s that, though I still like Joni Mitchell’s better. What do you think?
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/14/they-dont-make-em-like-annie-ross-anymore.html

Elderly Joni Mitchell and Elton John sit there talking about Joni Mitchell’s music. This is pretty good, though it’s sad how her health has deteriorated. (25 min.) (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/joni-mitchell-tells-elton-john-the-stories-behind-her-most-iconic-songs.html

French comic acrobats in the prime of their lives.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/14/repost-commitment-to-the-bit/#more-87907

Dave Chapelle’s SNL opening monologue last week.
https://www.theroot.com/dave-chappelle-tackles-kanye-west-kyrie-irving-and-mor-1849779632

The LinkSys Unifiller Cake-O-Matic 1000 with patented Swing-Away Tray Table!
https://theawesomer.com/rocky-horror-but-its-only-the-characters-names/688773/

Divorce as objects in a house.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/empty-house.html

Tip your head 45-degress to the left, see the panda-catdog-otter-baby emerging from a wormhole through spacetime. Just look at for a bit. You’ll see it. (via Fark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2211/wr18_woronow_2048.jpg

A relatively local road luge race. Ryan Farmer wins. The others can hock their luges. Or stand on them. When I was in third grade our neighborhood was a long steep hill. There were lots more kids around in those days, traveling in wild packs, and a rite of passage was to stay on a skateboard all the way down that hill, which was hard because the road was bumpy and skateboard wheels were tiny and hard and loud, and the merest pebble would stop the thing and yank it out from under you and your feet with it. I still have marks on my arms and legs from that. No helmets, of course; that was the before-time. Most cars didn’t even have seatbelts, or if they did, they lived stuffed in the crack between the couch bottom of the car-wide front seat and the back of it, which came up to just below a grownup’s shoulders, so if a car hit you from behind, your entire head was liable to pop right off like a ketchup cork.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2022/nov/11/video-ferndales-ryan-farmer-takes-first-place-worl/

“I can’t believe this is what F. Scott Fitzgerald’s hair looked like. No one ever talks about it.” (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/spiritnght2/status/1591222940628324354

A baby star burping.
https://newatlas.com/space/james-webb-stellar-burp-protostar/

And what do you suppose is going on here, for 50,000 uma pulu ribu ruvics? (via Fark)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fhr8jsZWQAEElWC?format=jpg&name=medium

2022/11/12

Armistice Day marks 10 years of MOTA on KNYO.

“The Green People are street vessels used by the United Nations to prepare for a total takeover of the United States. The privately held property inside the U.S. would be internationalized, the citizens’ weapons confiscated and children gang-raped if we allow them to continue their covert operations. We have been softened for decades. The continual dumbing-down of our education system and the increasing banality of popular culture are just two trends we can trace to one sick source. That source is Welsh people. They are right out in the open. Society has become so Welsh that most people do not recognize Welshness when they step in it. Like my mother’s lawyer. Fucking Welsh bastard.” -Spider Jerusalem in Transmetropolitan (2001)

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:

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find the hidden red donation heart there and help the station out with a substantial gift from your own heart. Or try the new iron-rich naturally healthy KNYO hot sauce, famous from approximately coast to coast. (“It’s toasted!”)

Last night’s show marked ten years of Memo of the Air on KNYO (five of them also on KMEC), after almost 15 years on KMFB, and, before that, five years of publishing Memo countywide, after edit/typesetting the Mendocino Commentary for two years. Sound effects for hundreds of plays for Mendocino Theater Company, Gloriana Opera Company, Warehouse Rep Theater, yadda yadda… Before that, two years of live radio drama (Chuck Frank, Private Op; and Cleveland, Ohio, 37th Century!) through the phone lines from the Albion Whale School to KKUP in Cupertino. Four miserable months trying to do radio at the beginning of KZYX with rotten rat bastard Sean Donovan tapdancing on my head, a month in 1985 of my little automatic phone-answering pirate station in Mendocino, in the Corners of the Mouth church tower. Oh, and two-plus years of the Radio *Free Earth 2-hour variety teevee show, recorded every Wednesday in the back room of that little pink house in Caspar and put on Friday nights on the cable in town (it was Warner Cable in those days). I have a crate of tapes of over a hundred of those teevee shows, many of which featured people who are long dead now, musicians and fishermen and artists and a large, florid preacher woman who would sit on a bar-stool and read the bible into the camera. Recording the Lark In the Morning music camp. And all the videotaped stage shows and music shows and Cynthia Frank’s Women’s Choirs and, ahem, birthdays and bar mitzvahs and Gala Grand Openings. And six months of just a deejay radio show on KMFB in 1983-84 midnight-to-6am Friday and Saturday nights, back when I was almost too shy to even speak the station I.D., that I would start with the recorded radio drama I wrote and directed at the Community School, where I learned and taught recording engineering, and recorded, among other things, kids’ bands, experimental art video, the Lark In The Morning record album for Mickie Zekely and Michael Hubbert… Klingensmith– that’s the name I was hunting for: the boy who ran the board for a lot of those Community School /Radio Free Earth/ radio shows, including Lawrence Bullock’s private detective /Joe November/. And the live radio dramas in Crown Hall and Helen Schoeni Theater, and on and on… But, in short, my latest milestone is: ten years of all night, every Friday night, eight hours and sometimes more, at KNYO, in one or the other of the places in town, or by remote from elsewhere in the great darkness, and I’m kind of proud of it.

Armistice Day, when traditionally, for the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh /month/ we bow our heads to listen to the guns’ having gone silent, and reaffirm that the Great War of a hundred years ago was in fact the War to End All Wars, being so terrible and infuriatingly stupid that the world would not ever let another one happen– and yet, of course, we did and do, all the time anymore, overlapping, never without a war, because a handful of obscenely rich people need so very much to stay rich, and their money is so persuasive to men who are clawing to be /just a little bit/ rich. And the jobs book-falsifying and screwing and pounding and welding forty-billion-dollar aircraft carriers together, that are obsolete before they’re even slid into the water and christened with champagne, let’s not forget about those.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been keeping up– not like the old days but at least a post of several dreams each week. The latest post is always on top. (I have a batch of dreams from this week that I’ll proofread and post by Sunday or Monday night.)
https://MarcoMcClean.Medium.com

The first 14.5 billion years.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1589375405357948928/photo/1

Galaxy in the 1950s.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/11/galaxy-science-fiction.html

A vibrating coin sorter. My (dead) stepbrother Craig had a football-game toy that worked on this principle. It was louder than this, and razzier.
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/09/this-1960s-coin-sorter-is-an-electromechanical-delight.html

Al White, Marine, his story in his own words. (100 min.)
https://theava.com/archives/202913

Stop right there.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/07/repost-bursts-of-beauty

Shut up and dance with me.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/05/repost-shut-up-and-dance-with-me

Welp.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/05/The-Horror-of-the-Midwest-Goodbye/

Hammer time.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hammers.jpeg

Hammer names. I had a ball peen hammer when I was a little boy. They say, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” but a ball peen hammer is not like that, it’s just fun to hit dirt and rocks with and make moon-crater landscapes of scraps of wood and inscribe your name in dots on the concrete wall next to the alley. And you can’t help but smile when you say it: ball peen hammer. Try it.
https://www.theengineerspost.com/types-of-hammers/

A shark made of hammers, some of them of the ball peen persuasion. A hammerhead shark.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/11/09/punny-art/

And scroll down to brainstorm/green-needle. It is a weird thing about our brains, and a good reason not to fly off the handle when someone offends you. You heard them wrong because your brain is not reliable but carries a lot of random crap around for you to punch yourself in the nose with and blame other people who have no idea what your problem is and who just want to get away now. And it’s not just you, nor is it just sounds. It happens in every aspect and facet of communication. Everybody does it. We take turns unwittingly gaslighting ourselves and each other.
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/07/ventriloquist-says-poor-peter-parker-without-moving-his-lips.html

Some smitement. A path of smiting.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/12631256

How sound works in horror movies.
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/05/how-sound-design-works-in-horror-movies.html

Feynman on the scientific method.
https://27thstreet.me/2022/11/08/feynman-on-scientific-method/

What. (via Fark)
https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_content-image-full-desktop@1/v1667508677/2022-11-02T232958Z_1431128580_UP1EIB21ELT3U_RTRMADP_3_GYMNASTICS-WORLD.jpg

“I had the patron saint of dads for sissies, and no, I didn’t know it at the time, but I know it now.” Don’t sneak, son. Excellent advice.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-saint-of-dry-creek.html

Snake dance. This reminds me of when Tyler and Ruthell Lincoln’s Symphony of the Redwoods, and, I think, Gloriana Opera Company, spent a risky $18,000 (thirty or forty thousand in today’s money) to put on /Dido and Aeneas/ in Cotton Auditorium. There was a girl in a snake-slug suit in the underworld scene that gave this very impression.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/11/contortionist-snake-dance.html

Freaks: the glass blower, the baldheaded tattooer of canvas ships, Italian mafia cigar Indian, man with dinosaur feet, Thomas Dolby beatboxing into a harmonica mic, tough, bored woman bouncer in sparkly shorts, ready to bounce you right out if you get fresh back there, mister.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26861?size=_original#caption

Three million flamingos flaminging (say fluh-MING-ging).
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/11/tweet-of-day_01717599836.html

Traffic moderate to heavy on the 405 to the 10. (via Fark)
https://chicagoyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-7.14.58-PM.png

How we get screws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtcf5rum3fw

How we get pencils.
https://theawesomer.com/inside-a-pencil-factory/688052/

How we get sick.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/11/just-flu.html

How a universal flu vaccine might work.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/06/How-a-Universal-Flu-Vaccine-Might-Work/

Why golden retrievers are much more likely than other dogs to be fat pigs. They don’t just eat food, they spasmodically engulf it. They inhale a whole day’s food in one horking breath and go vacuuming and snarfing around the floor for more. Why? I looked it up; science is baffled. Not a clue. It’s neither genetics nor environment. All Lab-like dogs are like that. They are chow-hounds. That’s the term we in the industry use.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/11/spaghetti-eating-competition.html

In all, there are 327,322 images of human faces in /Time/ magazines since 1923. And here they all are, catalogued and linked to the photographs and articles they’re from.
https://magazineproject.org/sandbox/chronological/

…which reminds me of the slow, majestic, poignant (say POIN-yent) story in the 1999 three-episode British teevee series /Shooting the Past/, about the stories of people in old photographs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_Past

Palindromic Bob. (via AVClub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

“Pavilion that soars above the clouds.”
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/11/ryounkaku-japans-first-skyscraper.html

Low-gravity simulator exercise equipment. The man demonstrating it makes me want to scream at him to be more careful. He’s going to hit his head on the sharp corner of that pile of plywood.
https://theawesomer.com/low-gravity-stunt-rig/688220/

Toy!
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/1970s_flight_simulator

A post of various intriguing sounds in Tacky Raccoons.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/11/05/saturday-matinee-konzerthausorchester-berlin-mario-wienerroither-the-reverend-peytons-bid-damn-band-and-johnny-winter-w-edgar-winter-rick-derringer/

Visiting Henry Dagg. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfOtb8_dsqc

Art.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/painting-of-day.html

Park blancmange.
https://live.staticflickr.com/2359/2467830942_360f49213f_b.jpg

Each room in this seemingly ordinary house should be named for a different planet, or perhaps for the specific perversion or catalog of perversions it might be particularly suited to. (via Fark)
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7-Windsong-Ct-Baltimore-MD-21208/36347154_zpid/

Too sweet. Hurts my teeth to look at it. (via Fark)
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-9th-St-Pacific-Grove-CA-93950/19324264_zpid/

Printing a replacement foot for a duck.
https://mylistofthangs.tumblr.com/post/103263793220

Ornithopter. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXg-qoRN0co

Collectively, Le Signorine Grandi Firme.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/signorina_grandi_firme

How different foods would walk. She should do Taco Bell and run.
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/10/how-would-food-walk.html

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! “Them as don’t work don’t eat.” This was not Marilyn Monroe’s first movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gD8YZu8uLs

Popcorn on church organ and drums.
https://theawesomer.com/apopcorn-on-church-organ-and-drumspopcorn-on-pipe-organ-and-drums/687806/

Video of octopockles throwing and spewing dirt, rocks and shells at each other, slapping at each other and getting briefly stuck together by their suction cups. “Stop it!” “/You/ stop it!” “No, /you/ stop it!” Though mostly when they act like this they’re not immaturely sparring but rather they’re octo-ladies telling masher octo-men to leave them the fuck alone and keep their junk to themselves.
https://newatlas.com/biology/octopuses-hurl-objects-rare-animal-throwing/

Bouquets of coral. Maybe one of these would change her mind.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/11/repost-lungs-of-the-ocean/#more-87877

The book.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/using-astronomicum-caesareum-book.html

The pessimist’s archive. The latest technology is always the end of the world. (via BoingBoing)
https://pessimistsarchive.org/

No amount of prayers or magic or old wives’ tales will get you this. Only real education and real medical science.
https://newatlas.com/medical/neurons-help-paralyzed-patients-walk-again

Rerun: “What a great studio. Boy, did we have some times in this place.”
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/07/listen-to-merry-claytons-incredible-background-vocals-for-gimme-shelter.html

A clock made of four-inch-tall nixie tubes, not LED strips in jars but real high-voltage wires in rarefied neon gas.
https://theawesomer.com/zin-70-giant-nixie-tube-clock/687709/

“Another bag of Molly was discovered inside McMullen’s brassiere.” She seems nice. (via Fark)
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/florida/jeepers-creepers-peepers-407501

Catering to the carriage trade.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/471

Fashion.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/11/tear-you-apart-bela-lugosis-dead.html

Gallagher, inventor of the kitchen Sledge-O-Matic (“And don’tcha wanta know how it works!”), dead at 76.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2017/03/remembering-gallagher.html

An advertisement for alcohol. “Or against it,” said Juanita. Either way, have a hankie ready.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/11/08/repost-the-students-surpass-the-masters

FOUS. I want to make one like the biggest one. Plastic drainpipe should work fine.
https://theawesomer.com/playing-progressively-larger-flutes/687895/

Edison Studios’ interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (via MentalFloss)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fM9meqfQ4

Look at how many there have been after that. Wow. Hundreds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_Frankenstein%27s_monster

I haven’t seen even a tenth of those, but the best I saw is this one. Very faithful to the text:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley%27s_Frankenstein_(film)

Memo Of The Air

See Hy-Brasil on $5 a day.

Götteryämmerung.

Take an eye, leave an eye.

A cheap room in a sad town.

Ja’loja!

Cor meum, carissimum, tibi mentiar?

The talons of Weng-Chiang.

Heart of a dog.

La morte ha fatto l’uovo.

Whatever Lola wants (or) Body ritual among the Nacirema.

The Penguins, The Moonglows, The Orioles, and The Five Satins.

The smooth shmoo swoops through.

What cuetlaxochitl said. (Say kwet-luh-sho-SHEE.) It sounds like Chinese but it’s Nahuatl, and it means poinsettia.

Significance of the three wise guys: the owl, the alligator and the turtle.

Shambleau!

Memoirs of a shy pornographer.

An Alex Bosworth Thorgellen.

Popsicle toes.

Armistice Day marks 10 years of MOTA on KNYO.

Endless educational enjoyment

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