Train of fuels.

     “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.” — Christopher Morley

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2022-01-14) 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 at least an hour of the above eight-hour show’s most locally relevant material, as usual, without asking for anything in return. (Though I do pay $25 annually for full access to all articles and features, and you should too, if you can. As well as, throw a bone once in awhile to KNYO. Why not go there and do it now? (While you’re there, tour the renovated site, rebuilt by webmaster Chris Dunn, with an updated schedule, whole new design and new features, including a page of local webcams, three to start, but there’ll be more.)

Email me your writing on any subject and I’ll read it cold on the radio this coming Friday night. That’s a really good way to learn to express yourself and be understood. You hear right away where to put the commas next time so people don’t think you’re saying the exact opposite of what you want to. You learn to vary sentence length. And so on.

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:

Silent.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-silent-child.html

I used the word magnificent a week or two ago, and I don’t want to devalue the currency by overusing it, but isn’t she /magnificent/, in a fierce though Seussian sort of way. Maybe I don’t mean Seussian… I’m thinking of the meter. (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus/status/1481756650759462924

Stop! Or go! Turn it off! Turn it off!
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/ski-lift-riders-get-blasted-with-ice-cold-water-from-broken-pipe-at-north-carolina-resort.html

So incredibly lucky.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/12/watch-this-extremely-lucky-guy.html

The end.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-end.html

Fig.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/10/fig-is-a-surreal-animation-by-koji-yamamura.html

Rerun: A.I.-generated people, animals, vehicles, furniture, architecture, locales, headache. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G06dEcZ-QTg

Rerun: Ted Cruz, the booger on the lip of democracy.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/07/watch-but-dont-vomit-the-booger-on-the-lip-of-democracy-is-about-ted-cruz-and-its-hilarious.html

Their chins kind of squick me out a little. I’m sorry, it’s probably racist of me, but I don’t like that kind of chin. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t smiling so hard. I dunno. And they seem crazy.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/usb_wine

An American conversation. (via MissCellania)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/s05eid/japanese_contestants_must_have_the_most_american/

An impawt’nt messij to kayp Ab-rij-nul paypul syfe, translated so Aboriginal people can understand it. (via Fark)
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/12052391

Catherine Tate – The Offensive Translator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY66ZJ0TFUI

On that note. “Here’s the thing: stereotypes are harmful, but the voices are funny. I don’t know how to reconcile those two facts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N1jO3xgXvY

Mortal Combat a cappella.
https://theawesomer.com/mortal-kombat-a-cappella/654044/

Homo erectus Jesus!
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/12/super-fun-pak-comix-feat-the-gibbon-the-ocelot-show-and-more.html

Frequency of miracles over time.
https://imgur.com/akeVeiq

Tumbleweeds.
https://theawesomer.com/tumbleweeds/653638/

A photorealistic fly-through of deserted ancient Rome.
https://laughingsquid.com/virtual-reconstruction-of-ancient-rome/

Invasion of the Pierson’s Puppeteers.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/12/ridiculous-video-of-80-escaped-ostriches-prancing-down-city-streets.html

Psychedelic orangutan. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/pickover?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

“Let us make you fat.”
https://www.vintag.es/2022/01/let-us-make-you-fat.html

This story works fine on the radio. It’s a complete story. I just thought you’d get a kick out of these young women’s /not at all sorry/ faces. (via Fark)
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/glitter-bombing-274809

The Moorish tile art or dinner plate pattern hidden in a purple cabbage.
https://twitter.com/DanBebber/status/1473299989459881990

Gym machines of the 1800s. (Scroll down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym

Satin, not cotton, not chintz.
https://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thewizardofoz/ifiwerethekingoftheforest.htm

“Stop it. Stop it. Wait, am I supposed to smell it? Eugh!”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/01/dont-touch-my-nose.html

“How many ovaries does a woman have?” “Oh, I dunno. I’m gonna say… uh… four?”
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/13/what-do-you-know-about-the-female-body-ask-a-random-guy-for-a-good-laugh.html

Boxing the chicken. Not a euphemism for punishing the pope, nor for burping the worm. It’s a cat actually boxing with a chicken.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/01/chicken-boxing-vs-wing-chun-cat.html

Cameraperson’s commentary on the situation: “Oh, my God! Ohmygod-ohmygod-ohmygod-ohmygod- OH! Oh, my God!” (via Fark)
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43810/cops-pull-man-from-crashed-plane-just-before-train-obliterates-it-in-insane-body-cam-video

“Yeah, well, the thing is, I’m kinda saying all just only the pros of using DMT anally, because it’s kinda great, but the bad thing is, it kinda burns there, y’know, and it put me in a really weird headspace…”
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/11/former-goth-stripper-krystle-coles-extraordinary-lsd-survival-story.html

“This is not just a creepy rock-and-roll house. It allows spiritual entities to cross into our world.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-trailer-for-studio-666.html

Bimbo’s initiation. (“Wanna be a member? Wanna be a member?”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7jggAalCpM

The Johnson Smith Novelty catalog. (scroll down)
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/13/the-johnson-smith-novelty-catalog-offered-600-jam-packed-pages-of-vintage-weirdness.html

Searchable old book illustrations. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

It’s life, Jim.
https://laughingsquid.com/psychedelic-jellyfish/

I would have started with the clock thing. We’re in a hologram.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/05/chagrin-falls-usa-quartervax-sneak.html

Look who’s here! Hey! Solly, come ovah here!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI6Ssb3WUAUUyi-?format=jpg&name=small

Eroded frozen sand looks like a city on another planet.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2022/01/sand-sculptures-created-by-nature-not.html

ArooOOOooooo! (via Fark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2201/eclipse_EV1024.jpg

Bodega cat mylk. Hot dog mylk.
https://thenib.com/a-beginners-guide-to-urban-foraging/

Milk crate.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/01/milk-crate.html

Far Tortuga. Ah said far… /Far!/ (BOOM). Dangit, next tahm /far/ when ah tellya ta far.
https://img2.10bestmedia.com/Images/Photos/220985/p-Dry-Tortugas-Scenic-Flight_54_990x660_201404240348.jpg

A rude shock. Whereas /I/ use him mainly to demonstrate that I know how to spell and properly pronounce his name. (Nietzche, and NEETS-shuh.)
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/428

All about the Nasal Ranger (as seen in Futurama, though that was the Smell-O-Scope).
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/climate/nasal-ranger-chuck-mcginley.html

Combat-ready.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/01/thai-military-drill-performance.html

Defense against being strangled by a shoelace. In short, turn around, sit down, and kick-kick-kick.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/10/something-to-try-if-a-would-be-murderer-tries-to-garotte-you.html

Gay.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/12/ovaltine-wake-up-gay.html

The House of Small Cubes.
https://www.theava.com/archives/174849

Individually people are not so predictable, but in a group, there you go. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmOsDTczOFs

“Where there’s smoke, there’s work.”
https://mcusercontent.com/c6b93ffeed2f362e41fe4aa72/images/57c33b71-db9b-e057-643b-22488696a712.jpg

Water.
https://boingboing.net/2022/01/10/a-bridge-in-brazil-collapses-in-a-flood-both-victims-survived.html

The saxocone. I like the powerful tuba-like BLAATTT of it. I imagine, being in the same room with it, the sound would rattle your chest.
https://theawesomer.com/traffic-cone-saxophone/653430/

And a short film about a boy’s feelings for his lovely teacher, and what he’s prepared to do about them. (15 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTN3q_NjuWs