Typical.

     “And happy 30th birthday greetings to Rudolf Crudd from the girls on the corner. They’d just like to say, ‘You take our money but you never hit us.’ This goes out to Rudy.”

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2021-12-03) Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready to re-enjoy.

 

Thanks heaps to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with not only the above MOTA show but also other ones going back quite a way.

And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided almost an hour of the above eight-hour show’s material, as usual, without asking for anything in return.

Email me your writing on any subject and I’ll read it on the radio next week.

BESIDES ALL THAT, here’s a fresh batch of 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 sample of David Byrne’s latest project.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/11/david-byrne-and-cast-of-american-utopia.html

Hasselblad photo contest winners.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/12/hasselblad-masters-2021-winners.html

The secret sofas.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/12/hide-a-bed.html

Art.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/11/posters-by-jean-dylen.html

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.margarethe-illustration.com/michael-sowa.html

Art. (via everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOmQt8itFQ

Art.
https://www.theava.com/archives/170761

A neat Chinese faux-history car company.
https://jalopnik.com/this-chinese-carmaker-is-building-cars-from-histories-t-1848143723

Historic Ukiah. (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4e2IiULoCw

The service station. “Evenin’, pretty lady. How much gas you want?” He puts the gas in, then quickly checks your oil, water and tires and washes your windshield. If you’re low on oil or radiator water or tire air he just puts some in till it’s right. This video implies that a lube job might be free, too, but I don’t remember that being true. I remember paying for lube jobs, and taking wheels off in the back yard to repack the bearings with grease. Cars needed grease all the time; they don’t so much anymore. Also, I had forgotten about putting oil on leaf springs to keep the car from going /eee/-er /eee/-er every time you drove over a bump. I actually miss manual window cranks, and manual air and heat controls, where the temperature lever pulled a cable that opened and closed a spigot for coolant water to go into the heater core. I liked knowing how everything worked and being able to fix it with a screwdriver and pliers and stuff lying around in the garage. If the clutch linkage failed you could replace it with a piece of coat-hanger wire. I liked it where if a rock or a deer broke the headlight you’d get another light for $3, take the old one out and put in the new one in the parking lot of the car parts store. Now if the headlight gets smashed it’s $500 for a big plastic part from China that’s practically the whole front corner of the car.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-service-station.html

And just like that it’s 1953 again. With video.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_drumsticks

How to draw butts.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2013/11/have-you-ever-been-stymied-in-your.html

Don’t worry; she doesn’t get hurt, just surprised.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2021/11/28/when-trying-to-be-sexy-goes-wrong/

Bad Lip Reading, Dune.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-bad-lip-reading-of-dune.html

Mystery Science Theater 3000 does The Beatniks. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG-4wam6ZMo

Sondheim is dead now, but here’s what he looked like before that. I had an entirely different picture in my head.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/11/stephen-sondheim-through-years.html

…And here’s a little something he wrote. I’d like to live in that space the kids are dancing in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTLBXllW84

Dogs. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/status/1462910998902448134

Fetuses.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2021/12/03/the-evolution-of-different-fetuses/

To protect and serve.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/02/an-aggressive-cop-steps-on-a-porch-and-repeatedly-kicks-a-dog.html

Packaging.
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/12/03/Wasteful-Packaging-to-Blow-Your-Mind/

Wow!
https://theawesomer.com/on-the-handlebars/648641/

Rerun: Voices.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/01/voices-is-a-self-caricature-by-animator-joanna-priestly.html

Some things to look at from 2019.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2021/12/01/the-best-of-the-internet-2019/

Associated Press photos. Scroll down.
https://apnews.com/article/2021-top-photos-associated-press-d0b894e16a0f7759745c7888331c314b

This is how I am. Not necessarily about someone being late coming home, but that the big show is inside, and on almost all the time, interrupted by the real world (except when I’m critically engaged with the real world, such as driving a car or operating power tools or cleaning my ears with a Q-tip). That’s why I jump, startled, even when someone I’ve been in the same room with for awhile suddenly moves or speaks. I was alone, thinking things through, writing a story. I think people are all like this to a greater or lesser degree.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/01/the-education-of-louis.html

A short film by an artificial intelligence.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/11/vertigo-ai.html

A sleigh pulled by a weasel. A plate of seven yellow and seven purple rocks. Snow blowing up into the air.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/01/the-education-of-louis.html

Lab rats on shrooms.
https://theawesomer.com/experiment/649242/

Hands for drones.
https://newatlas.com/drones/falcon-inspired-drone-claws-snag

Amazing.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/02/astounding-colorful-clip-of-a-spacex-rocket-taking-off-and-landing.html

The think system.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/12/jingle-bells.html

The giant phantom jellyfish.
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/03/gorgeous-footage-of-the-rarely-seen-giant-phantom-jellyfish.html

When I was thirteen I hit a tree once on a saucer sled going about two miles an hour and my hip hurt for months. This is hard to watch.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2013/12/downhill-through-woods.html

Also hard to watch. Kansas City’s finest. “To protect and serve.”
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/02/an-aggressive-cop-steps-on-a-porch-and-repeatedly-kicks-a-dog.html

Prehistoric ice. (via NewAtlas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls_inIwtAZI

What will you be? (via MissCellania)
https://twitter.com/KyleBeautweet/status/1463317888258002947

Omicros! ’60s Italian science fiction movie. (81 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/02/watch-the-1963-italian-sci-fi-comedy-omicros-in-its-entirety.html

Painter. Performance art. (50 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/03/paul-mccarthys-1995-performance-piece-painter-is-on-another-level.html

Alex Finnis’ favorite swear words.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/the-100-most-brilliantly-british-swear-words-in-existence

“This is all that hair-do woman’s fault.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066764/-Cartoon-The-fancy-farce?detail=emaildkre

Crazy-eyes and a gun.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/29/2066324/-Cartoon-Gun-talk

Dancing: backward and in heels. Arguing the law: to a roomful of men grinning at your tits. Climbing: in a full floor-length dress.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/12/ladies-scottish-climbing-club-members.html

Bunnies holding hands.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222669678908802

How we got Get Back.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-paul-mccartney-composed-get-back/

Puttin’ on the Ritz.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/12/transparent-skin-graft.html

Why paper cuts hurt so much.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/12/paper-cuts.html

Apply this problem to everything discussed online, on every subject, except take it farther until they’re calling each other baby-murdering Hitlers.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/11/thomas.html

How they conquered smallpox. This is just one line to one hospital in one town in 1947.
https://www.middletownpress.com/nationworld/article/Vaccine-opposition-has-ebbed-and-flowed-over-11791145.php

Even so, it took until 1980 to eradicate it. Here’s the whole story in a giant Advent-calendarish timeline.
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline/smallpox

Mazes.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/11/maze-master.html

Kodachrome. You give us the nice bright colors.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/11/world-kodachrome-martin-karplus-1950s-1960s.html

Photochrom. Also nice.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/12/warsaw-1890.html

And small world.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/12/03/small-world-16/