May Day. International Workers’ Day.

     “Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.”

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2020-05-01) 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.

Furthermore, 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:

Shrike galleries. Prey artfully impaled on barbed wire by birds with a brain the size of a pea. Before people came along with fences perfect for the job, the shrikes used plant thorns. (via TYWKIWDBI)
https://www.audubon.org/news/this-stunning-photo-project-showcases-loggerhead-shrikes-gory-deeds

Satisfying and frustrating at the same time, this short story will remind you of the episode in Black Mirror about people blackmailed into following odd communications and instructions and interacting with others in the same predicament, but nothing mentally strenuously horrible happens here. I’m not sure why I like this so much, and the end is right and not right. It’s strange. See what you think.
https://vimeo.com/410448352

Art.
https://www.boredpanda.com/art-painting-recreations-quearteencasa/

Good.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/04/the-turkish-hotel-built-above-ancient.html

Delicious. “Every person I’ve had taste this has had the same reaction. Their eyes roll into the back of their heads.” (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/maple-cream/

Jellyfish cat. The sound.
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/04/28/Jellyfish-Cat/

Nebula 75! Featuring mysterious Space Maiden. (15 min.) In Thunderbirds, the blonde woman puppet (not Space Maiden in Nebula 75) seems modeled on actress Wanda Ventham who played Colonel Virginia Lake in /UFO/ (1970-1971). But that was years after /Thunderbirds/; Wanda Ventham (Benedict Cumberbatch’s mother) looked very like Sylvia Anderson of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson who produced not only /Thunderbirds/ (in Supermarionation) but also /UFO/ (live action). Sylvia made the original puppet characters, and Wanda Ventham was cast in /UFO/ because she matched the puppet. Now you know everything and I have to shoot you, blast-and-damn-it-all. You are too clever for your own good. You’re probably tired of people telling you that. Sorry. But you are, and it just gets you into trouble, poking your wooden nose where it doesn’t belong, Commander. We’ll see how clever you are with your /strings/ tangled, like /so/!
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/nebula_75_episode_one_a_new_for_2020_supermarionation_drama

Skate tap. View this as a marionette show.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/04/tap-dancing-on-roller-skates.html

/Pachuco Bailarin/. I want to say, Pablo Escobar, but that’s not right… Perez Prado, that’s it. Pablo Escobar, when he was young, could have stood in for Andy Kaufman; look him up, you’ll see. Perez Prado could not, not only because he was so tiny, only 154 centimeters. Small but scrappy, as Jo Lupo described herself in /Eureka/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy7ep9e6qNo

Galaxia de pasión. (“¡Cómo puedo pensar en volar mi barco pirata cuando mis bolas arden con la pasión de mil soles!”)
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/04/galaxy-of-passion.html

Randy Rainbow’s latest.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-spoonful-of-clorox.html

I love this. Pokey LaFarge – Something In The Water. And look up everything else you can by Pokey LaFarge. I don’t remember which of their songs it’s from, but the harmonica player makes a haunting didgeridoo sound, and the clarinet woman is consistently brilliant, winding loops of notes that go around and around your midsection and right up your back and pat you on the head and pinch your cheeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXzEVLSoVqw

Technical support.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1254742269686624257.html

Fitness. “As an incentive to excel, the colors of the boys’ shorts indicate their ratings on performance charts.” This was 1962, when you were eligible to be drafted into the military up to 26 years old, so a few of the boys you see here working so hard to perfect their little bodies were blasted into lean hamburger and/or driven mad in Southeast Asia anyway for the profit of the war industry. I’ve heard theories one way or the other about whether JFK would have seriously inflated the American war in Vietnam into what it became if he had lived. But we’ll never know.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/04/high-school-fitness-1962.html

Your mother when she was your age in Minnesota years. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://flashbak.com/a-snapshot-explosion-of-big-hair-and-boozing-in-the-1980s-426336/

Everybody who was anybody. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://flashbak.com/the-little-woman-who-knew-all-the-big-big-stars-the-incredible-photo-album-found-in-a-thrift-store-424143/

“A mass of hatchling Giant Rainforest Mantids danfling [sic] below their ootheca.” (via TYWKIWDBI)
https://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/resources/australian-praying-mantises/

“What’s the hold-up! …/Wouldja go!/ …If you’d just /go/ then we could /GO/.”
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/t0aMtNkUwmOxoE1ONrnHIcJlKxg=/1500×1000/media/img/photo/2020/04/photos-week-3/a04_1210677689/original.jpg

Stable geniuses. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kkBseVTUow

The troubleshooter.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_trouble_shooter

Rusty old toy truck new again. Nice work. For the short of attention span, play at 2X speed.
https://boingboing.net/2020/04/28/extremely-satisfying-1960s-ton.html

All the punks. Scroll down. (via DarkRoastedBlend)
https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Punk_Punk

Spanish-language sci-fi cover art. Scroll down and click on the individual items to make them big and sharp.
http://howtoarsenio.blogspot.com/2011/04/luchadores-del-espacio-saga-de-los.html

Further 1950s Soviet space art. Much of it is new to me, probably to you too. (via DarkRoastedBlend)
http://www.fandom.ru/about_fan/koltchitsky_1.htm

This interests me: “All images copyright Lee Shulman.” I understand about pictures forever belonging to the photographer who shot them, but can you really claim copyright on digital copies of anonymous family pictures found in a thrift store? It seems like claiming copyright on an old book or an action figure because someone threw it out and you found it and liked it enough to copy it and share it, and I’m pretty sure that’s frowned on. Or is it a result of digitally cleaning up and sharpening and revivifying the photos and somehow making them fresh art by the work put in. Or the order or format they’re presented in, as in a collage or a montage. Is this like that? Who cares; they are interesting photographs of the world of the past.
https://www.anonymous-project.com/

Museum of bad art. (via BoingBoing) But none of it is bad. I don’t understand why they call it bad, unless they mean good by saying bad, like saying something is sick because you like it, or saying something is cool because it’s hot, or the other way around, or nicknaming a giant Tiny or a baldheaded man Curly. This is great stuff, not bad at all. Maybe I only think that because I’m an uneducated Philistine art slob, but I like all these paintings way better than those $20,000,000 splashes of crap that periodically get stolen and make the news and you can’t even tell what it’s a picture of. Is it a swirl of mashed car parts? Is it, somebody ate a box of colored pencils and threw up? Did a squirrel dipped in paint paint it?
http://museumofbadart.org/collections/

Further professional Ghanian movie posters.
https://nerdist.com/article/hand-painted-ghanaian-movie-posters/

Baphomet cross stitch. Sweet. “Lord of lies, watch over this house, I pray. Make it safe by night and day.”
https://imgur.com/oTOEAYq

They died peacefully. (bia b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwD-ZFPSDPc

Martyred screams.
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=042820

Nerdwriter on comics and Alan Moore.
https://theawesomer.com/how-marvelman-changed-superheroes/569547/

Covers.
https://www.instagram.com/covidbookcovers/

Tony Santoro’s guide to illegal tree planting. This is not the Tony who with his wife Sally used to fix cars in Fort Bragg (CA), but he sounds just like him. I could listen to this guy all day, and so can you; he’s recorded hundreds of videos. He’s a self-taught botanical expert who swears like a sailor. Swaz, rather. Swaz like a sailah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtqKMxZ95s

MST3K Godzilla vs. Megalon. Including the commercials of the time. (Film starts 10 minutes in.) “This watery manifestation of a vengeful wrathful god couldn’t have come at a worse time.”
https://archive.org/details/MST3K_Godzilla_Vs_Megalon_Comedy_Central_WOC_1996-04

Wheeee!
http://www.amyoops.com/2020/04/weeeeeee.html

Carmen Miranda. (via NagOnTheLake) Just on a whim I saved a couple of adjacent frames, where she’s moving laterally, and used Irfanview to combine them into one image, a pretty good stereoscope 3D pair (scroll down a few inches to that,  cross your eyes to merge the two Carmens into one, and focus on the relatively stable hat-face-decolletage area). I’m sure I’m not the first to think of this technique for making stereo images from film clips, but it’s pretty great. Try it yourself using this and other films. Here’s the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDdeq3Sn1ZA&fbclid=IwAR2jOw3MvqRtgUmpb-DBu6RRlP45kaDYmun4AXY8fRSWh8BjP8UC6gfA1ik

…And here’s the 3D image:

Tin Tan & The Malagon Sisters – Cha Cha Cha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtWgQZqcpUM

Mary Neely.
https://twitter.com/mneelzy/status/1250844274108686336

Rex Chapman.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1253476902699925511

How they do it in Egypt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/g8cptn/in_egypt/

Hey, kids.
https://www.gocomics.com/matt-bors/2020/04/28

Computer-generated music and lyrics in different styles.
https://laughingsquid.com/jukebox-neural-network-imitates-music-styles/

“A puff of smoke that ruined their lives.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8268715/Sex-Satan-permanent-INSANITY-dangers-marijuana-according-1930s-America.html

Makeup, to me, runs somewhere on a spectrum between ridiculous and repulsive, but for some reason this sort of thing is all right. Tattoos of this would be crazy in the bad sense of crazy, but it’s only paint, and after she takes a picture of it she washes it off, and that makes it okay for me, as if it’s any of my business what she or anybody does with their own body.
https://laughingsquid.com/makeup-artist-laura-jenkinson-recreates-popular-cartoon-characters-on-her-mouth/

All the piano hooks.
https://laughingsquid.com/evolution-of-the-piano/

The real BleachMan.
https://boingboing.net/2020/04/29/80s-mascot-bleachman-wa.html

Speaking of Andy Kaufman, Andy Kaufman on the Midnight Special. (via EverlastingBlort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37C-BudYnzw&list=PLhg6ikhbGe-bZ0SwQRHCBUoXCZuQMA-Nl

The big one in VR.
https://boingboing.net/2020/04/29/experience-a-classic-nuclear-w.html

Ethereal, numinous, other-worldly.
https://laughingsquid.com/dolphins-swimming-in-bioluminescence/

Trailer for a documentary series about conspiracy theories, that for a change isn’t just slapping your face with goofy theories but making sense of it all.
https://theawesomer.com/this-is-not-a-conspiracy-theory-trailer/569955/

And Linnea Quigley’s horror workout. “You get lots of sunshine and fresh air. There’s nothing I like better than going for a run in the woods, past an old cemetery, alone,” she says.
https://archive.org/details/LinneaQuigleysHorrorWorkout1990