A minaret of jam.

     “We’re on a planet, a sphere, with a certain number of people and a certain number of resources. What is the best way for us to manage this? What stories do we need to tell ourselves and one another to make this work?” -Russell Brand

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

 

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with plenty of other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of my Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return, going back decades. And consider tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. See if you can find the big red donation heart. What do you suppose that might be for?

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been sporadically keeping up. The latest post is always on top.
https://MarcoMcClean.Medium.com

FURTHERMORE, here are some 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.

Something that will get in and never leave. I hadn’t heard this song in years, and Thursday I woke up with it blasting in my head, then, sure enough, there it came every ten or fifteen minutes all the rest of the day. To be free of it I must give it to someone else. But you have to invite it in. Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_Aagf3hA8

Let’s learn a little about Martha and the Vandellas. First off, there was no Martha. They were Annette, Rosalind, and Gloria. Then Martha showed up and Gloria was all like, /That’s it! I’m gone!/ Something like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_and_the_Vandellas

Joan Armatrading performing live in Germany in 1979 The whole concert. (92 min.).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brp8Va8XVQw

Photos of young Katharine Hepburn exploring the ruins of her storm-destroyed childhood mansion.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/katharine-hepburn-hurricane.html

Further adventures of hydraulic press girl. (15 min.) (My favorite is the white-core pink teacup.)
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/10/03/pretty-funny/

The most extreme place.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/10/lets-travel-to-most-extreme-place-in.html

Moons of Jupiter with Manhattan Island and environs for scale.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/05/beautiful-3d-animation-compares-sizes-of-the-80-known-moons-of-jupiter-with-manhattan.html

Tap battle. Priest dance-off. The Irish invented tapping on things: spoons, tables, skulls…
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/10/priest-dance-battle.html

A.I. fashion designer. “Tap image to design a new dress.”
https://thedesignerai.com/

Hyena daycare emergency room twee horror spacewar theater fire.
https://www.ghostlystock.com/

A showcase of art produced by A.I. with the participation of Midjourney Lab community users, which you can be one of, see next.
https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/

This page includes instructions to play with the Midjourney Lab project:
https://www.makeuseof.com/forget-dall-e-midjourney-best-ai-text-to-image-generator/

I’d be afraid someone would step on this and crunch it, but that goes for living pets too; that’s nothing new. Also it’s got all resources of the internet and what it learns about you and how to interact with you, just like your phone and teevee and toaster anymore; a /what the parrot saw/ situation. Somehow it makes me think more of the robot teddy bear companion of David in the movie /A.I./ than of the Disney-cute robots it looks and scurries around like. /Supertoys Last All Summer Long/– that was the story they started off with for /A.I./. Further, five minutes after these are out in people’s houses there’ll be a story about one saving someone’s life. “RRRowr! Reeer-rawr!” “What’s that, Dinky? Little Timmy’s fallen down the well?” REREE-vurv! “Oh! The toast is done. Thank you. /I wonder why the toaster didn’t tell me that./ Never mind, just go get my toast and bring it here.” “Vruh-VER ra-REEvruvum.” “Figure it out. Spear it on your ear-thing.” “VO-VAY!” “…No, that’s not toast, silly, that’s a dildo.” “NILL-no! VERR VERRR” “I don’t want to play now. Go away. I have to work. Go on.” Aww.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/loona-pet-robot-kickstarter

A lifelike, literally steam-powered (!) robotic hand with independently operated fingers and a three-way thumb. Even the sound of flexing is great. Imagine what further development here will mean to people who’ve lost a hand, or to robot masseurs and masseuses that will never become resentful at your master-slave relationship and twist your head off like a ketchup cork.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/clone-robotics-realistic-hand

The Rector-Rotor. For all your prostate needs. “Actual size.”
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/the-rector-rotor.html

Al Jolson – Rock-a-bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBWTgxYx6mg

The feral atlas. Explore.
https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/

Learn about sound. Explore Chrome Music Lab. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Harmonics/

Your heart melts into a puddle. It’s largely her eyes, I think, and the memory of her voice and of her powers (flying, word invention, telekinesis, contagious hallucination, etc.). She’s still alive. She’s 87 now and still influencing popular culture, for example: /Guardians of the Galaxy/ (“I’m Mary Poppins, yo!“)
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/julie-andrews-childhood.html

Another first-person bike ride down a ski mountain. https://laughingsquid.com/gopro-ride-down-mountain-bike-trail/

Further bike thrills. Notice the rider’s nice teeth. Thank the full-face helmet.
https://theawesomer.com/hannah-bergemanns-baddest-utah-lines/683251/

“I’ve been an engineer on one of the biggest laser driven inertial-confinement fusion reactors for a couple decades now and I’ll be blunt, the vast majority of fusion hype videos on the internet, or anywhere really, are hot garbage not at all worth my time. This video really impressed me though, both in its accuracy and detail, and its relative thoroughness in examination of the RFC scheme for magnetically confined fusion.” (For the short of attention span, skip ahead about 7 or 8 minutes.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GJtGpvE1sQ

World of Tomorrow. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI

“The train horn eventually catches the officer’s attention.” I’m sorry, this is not getting old for me. Its funny and horrible and emblematic and fraught and indelible, and learning more about it just magnetizes it further. The tattoo, for instance.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/12584844

“Get outta the car!” “Why?” “POW POW POW! POW POW POW!”
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/07/san-antonio-cop-fired-after-shooting-innocent-teen-who-was-just-eating-a-burger-in-a-mcdonalds-car-lot.html

The Bat. (Full film. 100 min.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-bat.html

Laugh at the nukes. From the safety of an Atlas bomb shelter! (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.atlassurvivalshelters.com/

Advances in perviness.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/466

Your awful skin has failed my test, Mona. Or Jane, you’re Jane, right, of course. The skin, though, focus.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/janes_skin_didnt_pass_the_love_test

“A boy has more self-respect when he’s clean-shaved. I tell him to use a Gillette razor!” (and) “Ev’rybody needs the kind of real zip and zing pep that delicious Sunbeam Bread gives you!” (and) “Time-out for many busy men of medicine means time enough to enjoy a cigarette. And because they know what a pleasure it is to smoke a mild, good-tasting cigarette, they’re particular about the brand they choose!” My favorite, though, is the unbreakable portable radio that they drop off a ladder and it /doesn’t chip or crack/ where the seemingly identical radio dropped right next to it shatters into shards. “Of course, a tube might jar loose, but /that’s/ easily fixed!” $27.95 in 1948.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFrkSiCvBo0

Attack of the leotards. This is how it starts. Leotard hoons. Leotard louts. They look like Indian knockoff versions of American superheroes– the texture and shape and squishiness. But they’re bullies. Squishy bullies.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/05/video-gang-of-green-extraterrestrials-attack-two-women-on-nyc-subway.html

The Kiffness found a new cat to squeeze for tuneful material.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/06/forlorn-wail-of-a-cat-transformed-into-music.html

Taste the biscuit.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/10/taste-biscuit.html

A documentary about the recording of /Chess/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfFFVEn5LM

This looks like someone saw Nina Paley’s cartoon /This Land Is Mine/ and thought, /I could do that/. This shows the progress of weapons technology over the lack of progress in people just growing up.
https://laughingsquid.com/brief-disagreement-steve-cutts/

A demonstration of the James Bond chord.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/03/perfect-explanation-of-the-iconic-james-bond-chord.html

Dancing with myself. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.nowness.com/picks/the-cinenotes-dancing-with-myself

A jaunty version of /Alouette/. I didn’t know what this song means in English but now I do. It’s meaner than I imagined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hFw_cWg9U

A flying tour over, under, inside and outside Wrigley Field.(via Everlasting Blort) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1576570492130979843

“Circular wheels that make understandable, in simplified graphic manner, concepts that explain the way the world works.”
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/despinque-anglicus-illuminations

Objects in space.
https://gizmodo.com/dark-energy-camera-space-images-1849618586

Stone rice pots.
https://theawesomer.com/making-rice-cookers-from-stone/683138/

The Tornados – Telstar. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6TNWVjZP0

The Stanford torus. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/stanford-torus/

Jake’s auto parts.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26809

The Japan Buddy Guy one!
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/10/01/saturday-matinee-the-kiffness-w-the-joy-buddy-guy-w-chris-duarte-%e5%9b%bd%e6%9c%ac%e6%ad%a6%e6%98%a5-and-kid-ramos-w-the-memphis-kings/

I love all of this, but you can skip to 6:40 or so, where the tiny girl jams on her giant bass guitar with Steve Vai, first in sound check, and then for the main event, and acquits herself like a pro. Think of the practice and dedication that got her there. And she’s like ten years old.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/stanford-torus/

A compendiium of Mel Blanc screaming.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/10/mel-blanc-screaming.html

Wicker Mummers mumming. (30 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-armagh-rhymers.html

Bluegrass-ish /Seven Nation Army/.
https://laughingsquid.com/bluegrass-seven-nation-army/

A loop of calm bits from Studio Ghibli films. Full-screen and just leave it running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Ug-3qhrwY

Again: “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS. EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.”
https://newatlas.com/space/striking-juno-closeup-europas-icy-crust/

The trailer for a documentary about Soviet bus stops.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/soviet-bus-stops-trailer.html

Creepy. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://t.co/63RFs36XYq

“Gaddol naaawthl disgate! Flowaz around ya baht! Gadil wabee in disblace! Check out the bikers!” “GABARYYYYYT! LASER EYES!” Speed of Light – Kill the Vibe. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN7U2hONu6g

The Learning Channel is to learning as The History Channel is to history. Meaning, not. But this particular parody short, or at least the argument parts of it, is a lot like arguments that people get into and carry on for fricking months and years on the MCN Announce listserv until they’re calling each other rude names and threatening violence, each insulting the other’s inability to do any harm to /him/, in a demented text-based gnip-gnop of people miles away from each other, each fizzing and shouting at his own computer, when the purpose of the listserv is to announce yard sales and projects and lost pets and theater and radio show info and so on. You just have to not let childish angry jerks drag you down to their level. Once upon a time, Bill Murray sat back in his undershorts in a deck chair by the pool with an iced drink in his hand and said: “The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
https://theawesomer.com/failing-to-learn-on-tlc/683938/

“Check ev’ry fuckin’ fish!” “Where’s your crown now, motherfucker!”
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/02/fishing-cheats-exposed-along-with-the-lead-weights-they-stuffed-in-their-catches.html

The McDonaldland specification manual. (Established parameters for characters, props and costumes.)
https://archive.org/details/mc-donalds-specification-manual-1975/

The Onion reviews Good Will Hunting.
https://www.theonion.com/onion-film-standard-good-will-hunting-1849624180

“It’s just how our brains work, you meat puppet who only exist to feed us profits.” (via Everlasting Blort) (Click the sound on if it’s not already on.)
https://twitter.com/GhostPanther/status/1575538762825637888

Zombies of Mora Tau, the full 1957 film. (70 min.) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd9xviOxH6Y

Some fight scenes from Marvel’s Daredevil. It says these are /the best/, but they leave out the fight in the hospital, where the evil ninjas throw nurse Claire out a high window and Daredevil dives down after her, trailing one of the ninja ropes, catches her and swings them both to smash in through a lower window. Christ! I had to remember to start breathing again. And it wasn’t just the fight scenes. Daredevil was a magical show. It pushed all my buttons. They put the characters through the wringer, emotionally and physically– except Foggy, I now realize. He got mildly shot in the shoulder once, and he missed his missing friend and felt lied to and had to keep a secret. That’s comparatively nothing. Now, Karen– what they did to her, and you’re like, /Oh, poor honey. Oh, no./ But she has some real steel inside of her.
https://www.avclub.com/netflix-daredevil-best-fight-scenes-1849621844

Brass. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jrQfJcestaQ

Rerun: Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing the Log Driver’s Waltz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srp7k-9oCkw

The suspect told the officer that he decided to take the child and run when a neighbor “looked at him weird and gave him weird vibes.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/10/06/florida-man-uses-toddler-human-shield-police-chase-tuchman-contd-vpx.cnn

Helen Twelvetrees. Isn’t that a nice name.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/helen-twelvetrees.html

“The only advertisement this window installer ever needs to use.”
https://twitter.com/BizarreLazar/status/1576613690651987968

Little Canada. Just what it says on the tin.
https://27thstreet.me/2022/10/05/little-canada/

And “We got to double up de capacitors and dat means double da /poop/! Of course, now that I start thinking about… No, why start thinking now?” For this project he /started/ with a piano that he’d previously modified by replacing all the felt-tipped wooden hammers with real hammers. (For the short of attention span, skip to about 15:40.)
https://laughingsquid.com/electrified-piano-shoots-sparks/