Love in the time of cholera.

     “In the future when sex robots are perfected, the only way to know whether your partner is human or a robot will be to show them a grid of pictures and have them check off which ones have a stoplight in them.”

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2020-03-20) 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 awhile. And you can go to Links To Recorded Audio, see above, and hear older shows yet.

There’s been no-one scheduled just before MOTA, so I always go on early and play sound from an instructional film or something, to make sure my connection to the transmitter is good. I left that part in the recording this time. If you already know all about how it’s not sissy to wash your hands and be clean, and that even cowboys wash themselves after a dirty filthy roundup in order to protect themselves from germs, then just skip ahead about ten minutes.

Furthermore, for the sheltering in place, here are links to worthwhile educational and/or sensational items that I set aside for you while gathering last night’s show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

Kurzgezagt explains COVID-19 in a nutshell, and gives you a gear and a direction, as they say in improv games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=BtN-goy9VOY

Walk this way.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/03/walk-this-way.html

Linked jazz. Hover, move around, zoom, click. There’s a huge amount of info here:
https://linkedjazz.org/network/

500 museums you can tour from your self-quarantine couch.
https://lifehacker.com/you-can-virtually-tour-these-500-museums-and-galleries-1842343589

Free to use and re-use odd architecture photo collection. Over 10,000 images.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=mrg&st=gallery

Shorpy.com
https://Shorpy.com

Disney-park ride ride-throughs. (The It’s A Small World one is shot in 360-degrees video, so you can drag it to look up and down and all around.)
https://jezebel.com/disney-parks-are-closing-but-online-ride-throughs-rema-1842317133

Bodabil! A documentary about Bodabil (Philippine word for Vaudeville). (From the 1910s until the mid-1960s, it was the dominant form of Filipino mass entertainment. It peaked in popularity during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines from 1941 to 1945. -wikipedia) (15 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYj4Ar9cOo

Two hours of Dropkick Murphys.
http://www.cynical-c.com/2020/03/17/dropkick-murphys-live-streaming-concert/

Some pictures from a picture-book about red haired women.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4321382/Photographer-captures-portraits-130-redheads.html

Until the end of March you can get the Korg Kaossilator musical composition toy as an app for your phone for free. I’ve tried it. The combination of low tap latency and automatic quantization lets you actually play and record music with it. Experiment, make beats and backgrounds for your barking swear poetry. Use it for a practice band to learn to improvise on clarinet.
https://www.korg.com/uk/news/2020/0313/

Then, not to be outdone, Moog. MiniMoog Model D, free as an app, except this one’s only for iPad or iPhone, not Android, dang it. Who can afford an iPad or an iPhone?
https://boingboing.net/2020/03/16/korg-and-moog-have-made-their.html

Or do it the old-fashioned way, au naturel. The women’s beatbox champion of the world teaches you to beatbox. (15 min.) In tough times, street-corner beatboxing can quickly get you fifteen cents for one meatball, and that is nothing to sneeze at.
https://laughingsquid.com/butterscotch-13-levels-of-beatboxing/

Always beatbox into your elbow. If you’re a pastel porg, though, you get a pass as they have no elbow, and they’re not susceptible to, nor can they transmit, Earth disease. Earth is way in the future of them and in an entirely other galaxy, far far away.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/03/tweet-of-day_18.html

This psychic trick is a good analogy for a whole raft of tricks a clever and cynical psychic reader uses on gullible clients.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2020/03/20/magic-5/

This makes me cry, it’s so beautiful and delicate an art. (via b3ta.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLxnOvT5FY

Speaking of which, I want to see this film:
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/10749849

Kabuki wrestling minus the crowd.
https://news.avclub.com/wrestling-with-no-audience-becomes-eerier-and-more-pal-1842416197

Further WTF-ery at the Conscious Life Expo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3xueXaG2rI

How we get chainlink fencing for all purposes: caging dogs, children, digging equipment, a sewage plant, etc., or defining the perimeter of a zombie (or other plague) dystopia redoubt.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-do-they-knit-chain-link-fence.html

Chinese high-tension line workers.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-on-electrical-wiring.html

Puppets. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/handsomedevilspuppets/

Why not to leave a laser pointer out for any child or drunk or idiot.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2018/12/this-is-why-you-dont-shine-laser-in.html

Saint Corona, actual patron saint of plague and epidemics, beatified centuries before the scanning electron microscope revealed the crown shape of bumps on so-called coronavirii.
https://sspx.ca/en/news-events/news/there-saint-corona-and-she-patron-saint-against-plague-and-epidemics-56032

Christian shares Christian love with all athetits. Athtepits. Morans.
https://twitter.com/TheFTProphet/status/1237472588835762177

…for there is no hate quite like Christian love.
https://twitter.com/HeliaTropist/status/1237833447583830017/photo/1

Down in the River to Pray. I don’t believe in Jesus but I sure do like the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BumCkswUUDA

“Holy moley! Now, that was a release, right there, whatever /that/ was.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPvH6Q7KNxs

Go, chicken, go. Go, chicken, fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvt-Rii3Xs4

Josephine in Paris.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/03/josephine-baker-sings.html

Randy Rainbow’s latest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CCW4Xnp_sQ

The safest way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fi3rb4/stay_safe_out_there/

Faux news.
http://www.cynical-c.com/2020/03/18/how-fox-news-has-shifted-its-coronavirus-rhetoric/

A cruel demon of the deadly bright alien upper world.
https://abc3340.com/resources/media2/original/full/1600/center/80/b2b6217a-192d-4f60-80bd-9b5e0b79f42c-89327726_10163142709085453_3607770046148902912_o.jpg

Invisible-but-blacklight-fluorescent powder shows how we spread germs by pawing at everything and grabbing at each other’s paws. This reminds me of third grade in Escondido in 1966 or ’67, when they gave us all bottles of red dye pills to take home to teach us to brush our teeth better. A fine idea, but they used too strong a dye. You could brush for /ages/ and not get it off, especially in between teeth and near the gums, and the effect of the first pill and the brushing and brushing and brushing was to make me go, /The hell with it, then,/ except that it tasted like candy, so there went the rest of them. Your tax dollars at work.
https://theawesomer.com/how-to-see-germs-spread/564440/

Hand washing steps: Lady Macbeth.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2020/03/hand-washing-steps-lady-macbeth.html

Make a sentence with these words.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25481

Art.
https://www.romain-langlois.com/

Art.
https://theawesomer.com/metal-animals-by-andrew-chase/564107/

Art.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_solitary_surrealism_of_gertrude_abercrombie

Animation School Dropout: Panic. Fun for sound, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9AtLVPjPLw

Perspex bike wheels.
https://boingboing.net/2020/03/19/this-bicycle-has-invisible-whe.html

How we get coils of sheet metal.
https://theawesomer.com/hot-rolling-steel/564280/

Remember the last time I told you something was the coolest musical instrument ever? I take it back. /This/ is.
https://www.boredpanda.com/rare-instrument-cristal-baschet/

Maker of custom nixie tubes makes a custom nixie tube. (15 min.) (There’s mostly vacuum but just a little neon in a nixie tube, and you select and electrify the internal shape to light it up. This used to be the way to make a numerical display.) (Technically a plasma teevee is an insanely complex nixie tube but the discharges make /ultraviolet/ light that makes very nearby fluorescent pixels glow.) Plasma teevees are kind of the electrostatic speakers of the teevee world.
https://theawesomer.com/making-a-logo-nixie-tube/564211/

Colorized old photos of Imperial Russia. Wait till you get to the young Ioseb Jughashvili. He’s just some goofy kid with skin problems and five o’clock shadow. Who would’ve thought he’d become Joseph Stalin, whose “totalitarian government has been widely condemned for overseeing mass repressions, ethnic cleansing, deportations, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines which killed millions.”
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/03/the-color-of-russian-history-beautiful-vintage-colorized-pictures-of-the-imperial-russia-by-olga-shirnina/

“You wanta go one more time?” “No. I don’t think so.”
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=kumOM_1584397668

“Touch your face, lose the race. The enemy wins when you touch your face.”
https://theawesomer.com/duke-cannon-psa-posters/564397/

Rerun: I love this. I love these people. How can they be this energetic and sound this good even when they’ve been up all night after an exhausting wedding the whole day before? They are superhuman creatures.
http://www.cynical-c.com/2020/03/13/ho-ro-the-rattlin-bog/

And these guys. Great work.
https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/and-now-a-ditty-about-the-guy.html

When the stars came dreaming.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/when_the_stars_came_dreaming

Pompey was an inside job.
http://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-03-17-cgthesame.gif

“Just so you know, I have an extreme vitamin D deficiency, so in the middle of our /doing it/, I will take several emergency milk breaks, and I will scream, ‘Get off me, you douche! I need milk!'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkwAttkRao4

Kids now.
http://marriedtothesea.com/031720

Liz sent this. There’s some Australian swearing in it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/minhtngo/status/1238680076088033282

People in masks scare me, even including makeup in the category of mask, but somehow these do not. I guess my undermind doesn’t see these masks as sinister masks but rather as hats. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/02/liz-sexton-papier-mache-animal-masks/

Wired animals. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.cotefineart.com/wire-sculpture.html

Happiness.
https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/dog-enjoys-leaping-into-large.html

Wheelchair dancer.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paralympics-2020-wheelchair-dancer-wi/olympics-or-not-japan-wheelchair-dancer-has-message-diversity-is-cool-idUSKBN20X1DM

Traktor violina i gitara. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlEzNVmYIs

Horse Head show.
https://www.horseheadshow.com/

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
http://www.daniel-shaffer.com/

The eyes have it. (via Everlasting Blort)
http://neocha.com/magazine/fantastic-creatures/

This is exactly what the world looked like when I was a little boy in L.A. and my mother was driving us somewhere for her work. The sky is pale-bluish brown-gray photochemical smog. And your eyes always felt gritty, like there was fine sand or baking soda in the air. I half-remember finding out later that the grit was from all the civil and military incinerators as much as from vehicle brake, tire and carbon exhaust dust and stirred-up actual sand of the desert L.A. was built in and on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrEtVSy0v5A

Here’s somebody’s 2013 video of Fern Dell, a place in Griffith Park, in the middle of the towns that make up the L.A. area, that my mother used to take me in the early 1960s to play in the artificial-seeming creek. Here you can see blue-blue sky because of decades of fuel composition rules and emission controls and regulation-required better motors. (The Trump administration has been removing and sabotaging regulations like that left and right, for everything concerning water as well as air.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMACOxuq–8

And here’s a web page that shows all the places in Griffith Park that they used for scenes in /Star Trek/. The place with /Voyager’s/ Tuvok, and Tom Paris, and a young Sarah Silverman is the Griffith Observatory that as a child I Ioved with a passion– that’s my sacred ground, right there. Every time my mother took me to Griffith Observatory was the best day ever. And then decades later, in 1988, Juanita and I went down to L.A. to get married on the roof there. My mother’s husband at the time, Bob, a former prison guard and hapless financial schemer who, for example, had made and lost a fortune in trick carburetor attachments that were supposed to give you 153 miles per gallon in a 3500-pound Chevrolet Biscayne, shook my hand right there on that roof, squeezed really hard, and said, “You have a family now, son, so /no more fucking around/. Understand?”
https://www.startrek.com/article/finding-trek-in-l-a-s-griffith-park

From the air.
https://flashbak.com/humours-of-london-by-tony-sarg-wonderful-illustrations-of-the-city-from-above-1914-425471/

Infomercial for air travel in the early 1930s. I’m listening along, and then it gets to the part about “the sight of happy darkies loadin’ cotton.” Ahem. Not to mention the scary crappy rickety boxy biplanes, freezing in the winter, baking in the summer, noisy and smokey and miserable, which nonetheless looked, to people of whatever color of the time, like sleek spaceships, like chariots of the gods, like the future itself. And every stewardess was a registered nurse, because passengers and pilots alike often threw up and passed out. They make it look so nice here, but this is the demo. (20 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCnWLR28pfE

Powerful gasoline, a clean windshield, and a shoeshine. (via science popularizer Cliff Pickover’s RealityCarnival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdb1x2vQ2Z0

Toucan play at that game.
https://tinyurl.com/ToucanDesktopImages

Fashion disasters.
https://www.boredpanda.com/fashion-fails/

Hygeine disaster. This is a year ago, in the before time.
https://www.insideedition.com/man-filmed-drinking-directly-buffets-soup-ladle-chicago-supermarket-48109

Hardens the feet.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/anti_fut_swet

Rachel explains why demonic possession and exorcism isn’t real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZirjKacDHg

Other people in the world with their own idea of what’s what. What a concept.
http://marriedtothesea.com/031920

“Are you ready? Hold it steady. Come to Deddy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_dWvTCdDQ4

Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNMXfV6Ekw0

Mad Heidi.
https://madheidi.com/

Explaining the worst pandemics of history. Try not to wince when the narrator mispronounces zoonotics over and over and over again as if on purpose to get right on your top note.
https://laughingsquid.com/explaining-the-worst-pandemics-in-history/

Cats and dominoes.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/03/cats-and-dominos.html

And Weird Al borrows from old ephemeral films, including /Soapy the Germ Fighter/ wherein a giant anthropomorphic bar of soap visits a little boy’s bedroom. “Just close your eyes, Billy… That’s right…” Like the bathroom scene of Morty’s rape in /Rick and Morty/. King Jellybean: “Just relax… let it happen…”. Later Morty violently kills him, though, and I suppose it’s the same with soap: you eventually, over time, grind every bar of soap to nothing between your hands to wash away the experience of that terrible night when Soapy came, filling the dark room with his ghostly rectangular bulk, and he called you Pardner. Also in Cub Scouts we all got jackknives and whittled bars of hard soap into a boat, or an eagle, and cut our thumbs, and learned respect for sharp things.
https://laughingsquid.com/germs-and-you/

Remember, kids, in the real world, soap explodes germs. When a germ touches soap, it explodes.