Traish LaRue vs. El Santo! At the Palindrome on Thorgellen!

     “Does it have to be human? …Does it have to be fresh? …Where’m I s’posed ta GET it?” -Seymour Krelborn.

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2019-11-29) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show ready to re-enjoy. (Left-click for instant-play. Right-click to download.) And thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with the latest show and also other ones going back a couple of years. And you can go to Links To Recorded Audio, see above, and hear older shows yet, though the farther back in time you try to go, the less likely it is to work right, just like real life.

It was a circus last night. Hank Sims and Jenny came in. That’s /the/ Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost, providing real, old-fashioned small-town journalism but on the web. Al Nunez (say NOON-yez) came and reluctantly accepted the money help everybody gave this week to get him over this rough patch, and he was persuaded to sit down and talk for a little while, and if you’ve been following his saga on the MCN listserv I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear it from his own mouth here. Kay Rudin called a couple of times to talk about the Big Band event coming to Lauren’s in Boonvile /next/ Saturday night, and I only hung up on her once. Alex Bosworth called from Arkansas, as promised, to give the skinny, the lowdown, the poop, etc., on Thorgellen, the ancient pagan festival of blood and fire in honor of Thor, which Memo of the Air celebrates every year and has done since 1997, including the Airing of Grievances and the solemn playing of William S. Burroughs’ /A Thanksgiving Prayer/, hands and knees and heads bowed down. Thomas showed up and explained the financial term /derivatives/ in a way even /I/ could understand. Blues legend Lucky Otis called from Los Angeles. And people who didn’t even want to be on the air kept coming in and going out. I didn’t really get to start reading the material I brought to read until way after midnight. I have work tonight, so I’m not going into any detail here but, let’s see… If you want to hear the part where Al Nunez is there, you can skip directly to about an hour and eight minutes in. Oh, and Thomas heard me say something about a hamburger, so, just like about three years ago, he came back later with a hand-cooked cheeseburger on toast, with bacon, lettuce, tomato and a thick slice of onion in it. Oh, my god. Perfect. There’s your Thorgellen feast, right there.

Besides all that, here are links to further worthwhile educational and/or sensational items that I set aside for you while gathering the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

Rerun: Turkey dubstep.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/11/those-turkeys.html

Duck art.
https://www.demilked.com/people-drawing-ducks/

Things people used to do before phones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05svBr3FJD4

Speckled octopockle.
https://laughingsquid.com/camouflaging-octopus-changes-color/

Open memory box.
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/27/open-memory-box-hundreds-of-h.html

Style. Some home design ideas for you. I have about five favorites in this collection. How many for you?
https://www.boredpanda.com/apartament-home-design-fail-pleasehatethesethings/

We regret the error.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1197940986040770560.html

Industrial park.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/11/repurposing-old-industrial-sites-as.html

A queer ferry.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/a_queer_ferry

It’s hard for a trolleyman to hold still. The trolley is the future, and future is always moving.
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/aef9c2ca2a23a8df4b303d92fc2028a3ce8a6fa2/c=0-12-1064-613/local/-/media/2016/08/15/WIGroup/WisconsinRapids/636068630355526528-streetcar.jpg

Hong Kong. Summary. Short video. Pretty much the whole story of what’s the big deal here.
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/22/20804294/hong-kong-protests-9-questions

“A Jew coup.” Ahem. The last line of this lunatic right-wing evangelical Christian preacher radio/teevee star’s delusional rant is the money shot for this sort of thing. Stay for it. It’s not that long. I wonder what happens when somebody, just on the street, tells him and his crazy cult friends that his Jesus Christ is a Jew. Or asks him to think of a single instance in all of history where what he’s paranoid about actually happened: the Jews getting in power and slaughtering and killing all the Christians.
https://vimeo.com/375426140

Dragon.
https://laughingsquid.com/dragon-woven-from-palm-leaves/

Asbestos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfZSEboVM4

William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE

Comedic juggler.
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/11/comedic-juggler.html

Why do you suppose they call her popcorn girl?
http://bitsandpieces.us/2019/11/26/popcorn-girl/

Clock. (via Everlasting Blort). It’s wonderful, but I would prefer an equivalent ultimate value in plain milk chocolate and caramel.
https://twitter.com/Steampunk_T/status/1172246833583796225

Food timeline.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/

Dubstep on power tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh6itBrjlD0

‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy. Bow-bow-bow ba-da BWARR, ba-da BWARR.
https://laughingsquid.com/ramones-i-wanna-be-sedated-on-dulcimer/

Scenes from The Shining dubbed in Japanese. (via b3ta.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izinvUZUZ5Q

Always remember.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2019/11/23/kickstart-my-heart-misheard-lyrics/

If donkeys’ nostrils had eyeballs.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2019/11/22/heres-lookin-at-you-kid-2/

Watch the center of the gif (say jiff) for about 30 seconds, then look at the picture.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2019/11/21/trippin-2/

They called it the Danger Dance. You could cripple yourself. You could break your stupid foot completely off.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/dangers_of_the_charleston

What.
https://imgur.com/lsH9vDD

How we get nuts.
https://imgur.com/LoVuanr

How we get chameleon puppies.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/dldnwp/baby_veiled_chameleon_takes_the_first_breaths_of/

“/Sigh./ It’s like this.”
https://theawesomer.com/the-ants/548985/

One day and one night in a place where they have winter.
https://gfycat.com/faithfultintedalaskanhusky-nature

Jaguar (say JAG-yoo-ahr) versus croc-thing.
https://gfycat.com/uniquegoodclumber

Jellycam.
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-exhibits/live-web-cams/jelly-cam

Seal snot.
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/27/the-irish-language-has-the-bes.html

What all your problems look like from up there.
https://theawesomer.com/the-world-below/509218/

The path (or) Why not to put wet scrap metal in the furnace.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=kpLMa_1574880545

Boy gets dog.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/dsgt0p/getting_a_dog/

O Fortuna, the real lyrics in English for a change.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/11/o-fortuna.html

Auroral meaning.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/response-list-for-trumpers-this-thanksgiving

The page counts for you so you don’t get stuck and never get out.
http://chihuahuaspin.com/

6 kinetic characters.
https://theawesomer.com/six-kinetic-characters/549039/

A man with a really good videocamera in his hat, with great stereo sound, just wanders around Osaka for an hour in the middle of the night, and it seems like a really night place. Very different from the anime shows I’ve seen, where rocket-powered motorcyclists have sword fights and battle terrifying ghost bears from the other world. Nothing like that at all in real life. Use your good headphones.
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/28/watch-an-evening-stroll-throu.html

Let this actual astronaut tell you what’s wrong with all your favorite space movies.
https://jalopnik.com/let-this-actual-astronaut-tell-you-whats-wrong-with-all-1840032072

Magnificent model rockets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvYe37r44c

The X-ray craze of 1896. I love the little dreamlike soft-focus electrical X-ray-booth trolley car.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-x-ray-craze-of-1896/

Yes, the big question on everybody’s mind.
https://thenib.com/a-real-head-scratcher

He gets to the new one (repeating bow and arrow) at about two minutes 30 seconds.
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/25/jorg-sprave-is-back-with-a-new.html

Capybaras. These things are about he size of a very big dog. Technically they’re rodents. Capybara fact: everyone loves them. It doesn’t matter what kind of animals you put in with a capybara they get along great.
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/25/capybaras-relaxing-in-a-hot-to.html

Cardboard. Enjoy them while they’re here. These things don’t last. Water from the air gets in and makes everything soft and all we’ll have left is the pictures.
https://laughingsquid.com/kinetic-cardboard-sculptures/

More than the sum of their parts.
https://laughingsquid.com/penny-hardy-blown-away/

Where your bullshit magic earth mother crystals come from: Mos Eisley, and you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy… No, wait, the scum and villainy part, yeah, but Tucson, on Earth. Not Mos Eisley on Tattooine.
https://newrepublic.com/article/148190/know-healing-crystals-come-from

About Cthulhu Ventures LLC. An investment opportunity.
https://nerdcore.de/2019/11/26/cthulhu-ventures-llc/

Yggdrasil. Sounds like an ointment for lumbago, whatever that is, but it’s not. It’s the root and trunk and branch of everything there is. So… it’s an ointment? No. It’s… never mind, okay, it’s an ointment.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yggdrasil-the-sacred-ash-tree-of-norse-mythology

Everyone’s different inside, but surprisingly almost everyone shares the rotating glitter-fluid Jupiter marble effect.
https://laughingsquid.com/the-other-side/

And SquatMagic /will be/ your butt-transforming secret. The results are amazing, they say. Just /look/ at how fit these kids are, and it all comes from the magic of simply squatting in a rubber wrestling suit on this ingenious device. /Transformo posteriori!/ (via b3ta.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TykqB18FCc