The itsy shvitzy spider.

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2020-07-24) KNYO 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.

I’d just begun playing the intro music and reciting my intro spiel, and a giant spider minced into view on the wall to my left. I left the music playing, got a plastic cup and a piece of cardboard, caught the spider, took it outside and propelled it over the rail into the topiary, came back to say that the theme of the show was /The itsy shvitsy spider/, which I’d chosen earlier in the afternoon. There, a sign. Though this time could have easily been The Eucalyptus Chronicles. (I didn’t know people have such strong opinions about a particular kind of tree.) The theme will never be President Ass-clown, because anything that would always be should never be. You can’t get away from him. Look this way, there he is. Look that way, there he is again. Like in Flight of the Conchords when Bret is thinking about the bongo-drummer creep who broke up the band. If you could only catch him in a cup and fling him away. The whole world can hardly wait for that. Never flush anything alive down the toilet, though. Do it right. Take it outside into its natural environment, let a cat find it.

Among the regular and irregular features, this show has, half an hour in, the second in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s summer radio drama series /Tales of the Resistance/. This week’s installment of Jay Frankston’s serialized book El Sereno begins about two hours and ten minutes in, rather than later where you’re used to it being. And the show ends not with the Fulity Closet podcast but with a half-hour recorded reading of Jonathan Nolan’s haunting short story /Memento Mori/, which, if you only want to hear that, is here.

Besides all that, here are links to worthwhile 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:

Wake up.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2020/07/wake-up.html

Really. Wake up from this horror… But wait a minute. How is this different from the way it was before? It’s exactly the same.
https://news.avclub.com/behold-the-damned-hollow-eyed-robots-fox-is-forcing-to-1844489274

Randy Rainbow’s latest. /Gee, Anthony Fauci./
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUiDLcp_hIw

Cardboard flying saucer.
https://theawesomer.com/matchstick-ufo/581166/

Some moons. Here’s something interesting: the escape velocity of Mars’ smaller moon, Deimos, is thirteen miles-per-hour.
https://theawesomer.com/moon-size-comparison/581718/

Looking sharp, there, Mars. Sharp is the next higher, after dapper.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/21/new-footage-from-mars-rendered.html

Higher and higher. USA, USA.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/23/new-lincoln-project-highlights.html

We clearly live inside of a glass dome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCQHQkc3uNI

…with President Ass-clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTYsl9TTvA

Exactly.
https://i0.wp.com/www.theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EnterTrump.jpg

John McClane shop light.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/07/john-mcclane-shop-light.html

“Shove it up your floop, mother!” Floop. I did not know that’s the Irish word for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLU6m1D_uWs

Avalanche.
https://www.theava.com/archives/131192

She’s so happy. This is so great.
https://geekologie.com/2020/07/tracking-month-by-month-electric-guitar.php

Or these kids. It’s too bad the trumpet and the sax are so far down in the mix. This is 2011; they ought to be kings of the world by now. It’s a little rough in the middle part, they get a bit lost, but that just makes you smile harder. I have this because Juanita misheard something I said from the other room as “Frankenstein with a horn section,” and she found like a dozen of them and sent links to me for review. There actually are plenty of versions of this song done by really fine bands with a horn section, a couple of them are even all-horn bands, but they’re precise, lifeless as a player piano, no wildness, nothing to stir the blood, they’re just playing the notes, where these kids are not just playing nor just performing but being music. This is a shining moment. They help play each other’s instrument to keep the sound going when they /switch instruments/. Note the transfixed groupie girls on the left, seen only from the back– there’s a story there. The honking shitty-sound-system feedback (remedied finally by the bass player reaching over and shutting off the guitarist’s guitar). You can easily imagine future alien archeologists machine-scanning through billions and billions of videos made by the sadly vanished Earth people and stopping on this one. /Oh./ The one who caught it, the one at that machine, calls its fellow researchers to come see. They float around the monitor with their great big eyes and flexible ear holes flapped wide open. They watch it over and over and over. They determine to find some cells somewhere and recreate this lost ancient race and their fascinating world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHiceYcQVQ

Yeah, good choice.
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/351

The bass makes it.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/21/the-lincoln-project-turns-trum.html

“Ideally we walk away from this with ever’body havin’ the same number of holes in their body that they came with.”
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/21/bizarre-coverage-of-the-2020-b.html

They won’t be getting their deposit back. This ship cost four billion dollars to build, which of course doesn’t include how much it costs to take it out and drive it around anywhere, nor any of the cost of hundred-million-dollar flying machines flitting on and off it like flies. And it’ll cost 10 billion dollars to replace it. In other news, President Ass-clown and his allies have already spent a billion dollars just on getting him re-elected. Though the events are not directly related, and the volume knob on the military bathtub-toy continuous bankrupting of America is glued and screwed down tight, all the way up to eleven.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/07/17/heres-what-the-damage-inside-the-bonhomme-richard-looks-like/

Meanwhile, old Taiwanese people model clothes left behind at their laundromat. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/07/taiwanese-elderly-couple-in-their-80-pose-with-clothes-left-behind-at-their-laundry-shop/

Oh, dear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mguSmqozG4

This is how things should be.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/22/otter-cant-sleep-without-hug.html

White woman impedes food delivery by Black guy. More funny than tense. Really, there’s no sense of menace. She’s just nuts, and he’s just patient.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/23/woman-tries-out-for-title-of-w.html

Watch a newsperson talk to Donny in 1990 the way newspeople should have been talking to him all his life since, including his whole impossible, ludicrous, disastrous presidency today. And why haven’t they been? And why don’t they?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/23/1963181/-Resurfaced-video-from-1990-shows-Barbara-Walters-eviscerating-Trump

Cool! A tear-gas tornado!
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1286585525365768193

Great Gig in the Sky for theremin.
https://theawesomer.com/the-great-electronic-gig-in-the-sky/581670/

Classical pianist arranges accompaniment to neighbor’s cat demanding demands.
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/harmony-on-deranged-cats-yelling/

The singing valise.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25762

The singing singers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ56xcFSkng

The golfing tapdancer.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/07/golf-fred-astaire-style.html

Walking materials. Won’t you come walking, materials, with me.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/24/spellbinding-cgi-animation-of.html

Harp.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-sound-of-silence.html

One leg.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2020/07/pic-of-theday.html

Assault donut. Or doughnut, the way we used to spell it in the old days when they were five, six or eight cents depending on how fancy they were. I just suddenly remembered riding bikes with my stepbrother Craig to a donut place when we lived in Fresno in the middle-late 1960s and, yes, there were cops in there. Craig explained to me that there are always cops in a donut place because they give them free donuts for protection, and I thought Craig was the cleverest person in the world for making up on the spot something so funny and stupid, you know, leaving it up in the air about who was protecting who, or what. Much later, when people really started about how it’s okay for police to be rough with people and shoot them and shoot their dog and so on because police are in /so much danger all the time,/ I found out that they’re really not. Roofers, fishermen, carpenters, forest workers, delivery drivers, late night convenience store (and doughnut shop) clerks, and that’s just part of the list, are all in way more danger to life and limb than policemen, and you hardly ever hear of any of them punching a twelve-year-old girl’s teeth out with her own phone, do you, or blinding a man with a T-club, or, in a group, shooting or strangling someone to death and /then/ looking around furtively and shouting /stop resisting! stop resisting!/ This skateboard kid here is the one in danger, for lese-majesty, for disrespecting them. I have no idea how to fix this.
https://god.dailydot.com/donut-man-arrested/

This is how it starts.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/this-is-how-it-starts-lincoln-project-releases-new-attack-calling-out-trump-for-sending-unmarked-agents-into-our-streets

“We’re all a part of daddy’s big mob family.”
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/24/enjoy-this-we-are-the-world.html

MIT is concerned about deepfakes. Watch this film through to the end and take the quiz.
https://moondisaster.org/film/

It’s important to note that this isn’t putting lost detail back, it’s /inventing likely detail/. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://petapixel.com/2020/07/23/myheritage-unveils-photo-enhancer-tool-that-uses-ai-to-restore-old-photos

Speaking of which, moon landings get a remaster.
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/24/Moon-Landing-Videos-Get-A-60-FPS-Remaster/

The Last.
https://i2.wp.com/amultiverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-24-Master-of-All-Elements-1.jpg

Art. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.betinadutoit.com/image

Art.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/21/this-video-for-classical-gla.html

Art.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/22/man-saws-neighbors-garage-in-h.html

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
http://www.travislouieart.com/

“We have a hit! and let’s see what it’s done! Just look at this! It’s just gone down like matchsticks, as if these great timbers were nothing! The walls are now breached and the opposing army will be on its way!” The wonderful show going on inside this man’s head! The big show is always inside.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/22/watch-this-replica-medieval-tr.html

And there are so many different styles of people’s inside shows. Here’s another kind. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/5-minute-meditation-boningtons-an-estuary-in-northern-france

Bird sound visualizations. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/07/andy-thomas-visual-sounds-amazon/

Catch.
https://boingboing.net/2020/07/20/this-robotic-plate-can-catch.html

Physics.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2020/07/i-need-some-help-understanding-this-one.html

A parallel-world fireman calendar.
https://www.boredpanda.com/mister-global-2019-national-costume

Far side of the moon. It’s so flat looking, this way.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2020/07/composite-image-of-far-side-of-moon.html

Test.
https://lifehacker.com/where-to-take-a-free-cognitive-test-1844444658

Belugacam.
https://explore.org/livecams/beluga-whales/beluga-boat-cam-underwater

And fonts. Illuminati bold. Dipshit condensed.
https://twitter.com/tds153/status/1282687592077627392