Half man, half ant! MANT!
“Ninety-nine percent of all living creatures die by being eaten alive.” -Mary Ann Tirone Smith
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. (This time well over an hour.) And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. If you can find it in /your/ corazon, find the big red donation corazon there and put twenty or more toward sorely needed replacement equipment. That would be so great. If you were never a special person before, you are a special person now. Or buy some KNYO hot sauce. (“It’s toasted!”)
Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I restarted a couple of years ago and have been keeping up– not like the old days but at least a post of several dreams each week. The latest post is always on top.
https://MarcoMcClean.Medium.com
Last night’s show, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis, had and has new features for you to discover, as well as timely local election and health information, some poetry by Notty Bumbo, D.H. Lawrence, and David Gurney, stories by Molly Bee, David Herstle Jones, Sebastian Iturralde, Paul Modic of Laytonville, Nona Smith, Tony Bourdain, and lots more; the usual two chapters of both No More My Echoing Song by Clifford Allen Sanders and Kent Wallace’s new book, a work in progress: Mister Westerner. Speaking of whom, Kent Wallace called to recount an encounter with a bellicose Russian cheerleader in Vietnam. Andrew Scully called to cast an unflattering light on our town’s historically malodorous namesake, General Braxton Bragg, and also to list some of the sex-and-violence-related shenanigans of Ukiah’s Finest. Some corazon-related music, mostly after David Jones’ story about a corazon attack in Zihuatanejo, and, uh, like that. Corazon– why does it sound so familiar, like some kind of ethnic food… Oh! Calzone. That’s not the same thing. They’re not at all interchangeable.
ANYWAY, 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.
Space interview with Nicole Aunapau Mann, NASA astronaut on the international space station, US Marine officer, fighter pilot, graduate of the US Naval Academy and Stanford University, and Wylacki member of the Round Valley Confederated Tribes. She’s the first American Indian woman astronaut. (20 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoD1kebM6U&t=130s
Mant! Half man, half ant! Mant! (The whole short film. 15 min.) “Oh, Bill, if you could only listen to the man and leave the insect aside.” “Insecticide?! Where?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVEjdGQSzc8
The existence forecast.
https://theawesomer.com/the-existence-forecast/685445/
Horror comic drawn around real cop quotes.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/15/im-a-cop-is-a-classic-horror-comic-using-real-life-quotes-from-police-departments.html
Italian fabric ad.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2011/04/coral-steppi.html
Ads. (50- ja 60-lukujen parhaita suomalaisia mainoksia.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMIxQk3Tm58
The synthetic party.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/synthetic_party
London in the 1930s.
https://laughingsquid.com/colorized-1930s-london/
Cosplay winners showcased in an arresting video style. Also: this all looks like back to normal, to me. I hope we don’t get another tidal wave of disease this year because of a huge number of people defiantly refusing their shots for anything and also not wearing a mask. Domino masks don’t count, nor would a Daredevil mask, though owl-bear or Spiderman or Rorschach masks might, depending on the fabric.
https://theawesomer.com/the-best-cosplay-comic-con-2022/685328/
Let’s Summon Demons coloring book.
https://theawesomer.com/lets-summon-demons-coloring-and-activity-book/685048/
Rerun: Hard ‘n’ Phirm, El Corazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQPVp1Pd5o
Real, actual aborted pregnancy photos. That’s not a baby. It’s not even a chicken. It isn’t screaming any more than spoiled food in your fridge is screaming. Every wanted abortion is a medically necessary abortion. People who don’t like an abortion can just not get one, and mind their own goddamn business.
https://jezebel.com/viral-photos-show-what-early-abortions-actually-look-li-1849683495
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet. Wardrobe stills.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/forbidden-planet-wardrobe-test.html
All new tricks from Bicycle Ballerina.
https://laughingsquid.com/bicycle-ballerina-lea-schaepe/
Thriller in 20 styles.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2014/10/thriller-sung-in-20-different-styles.html
200,000 sandpipers.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/sandpipers-hunt-while-being-hunted.html
A collection of /startling/ results of the hydraulic press project.
https://theawesomer.com/the-most-unexpected-hydraulic-press-moments/685691/
Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/10/16/repost-the-needle-painter/
Art. (via Clifford Pickover.)
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1583148885718945792/photo/1
Dance.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/10/14/yang-liping/
The new telescope works better than the old ones. Previous Pillars of Creation images were pretty good, but this, wow.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation
Nose jobs of the 1920s
https://www.vintag.es/2022/09/nose-jobs.html
Look at that nose. What a nice nose.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/shirley-ross.html
Smokin’ and posin’. My favorite is where happy blondie casually uses her friend’s velour dress for an ashtray. That’s clearly on purpose, from both of their face espressions.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/vintage-smoking-ladies.html
The real (latex) George. George is actually the English word for Jesus, the way Peg comes from Margaret. He looks like like Humphrey Bogart in the African Queen, after the leeches.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ultra-lifelike-jesus-christ-with-28256273
Inside the wood. “De gnurrs come from de voodvork out.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/woodswimmer.html
Rerun: The buttface ballet.
https://www.facebook.com/juanita.watkins.714/posts/pfbid0bKcEBGP2QZ2Mu2K3MJxeZcBM9a1fGfvuND4V1exRQj26kf6dsmn2s2obtosTV8H1l
Puddles Pity Party sings War Pigs.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/17/puddles-pity-party-covers-war-pigs.html
Rerun: True real-life colonial horror.
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/alice-seeley-harris-photo.html
Bella Ciao in Farsi. That’s Persian.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2022/10/farsi-version-of-bella-ciao.html
You never know when your hardy band of partisan Italian anti-fascist patriots might need to hide in the forest and have a stealth camp. A stealth camp needs a stealth stove, for hot chocolate and squirrel stew and whatnot. Follow this man’s safety suggestions; you don’t want to cut your finger open with those snips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nkF0bYYLE
Talking Heads, /Crosseyed and Painless/ live in 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03NRrOXDk8
One minute of Led Zeppelin’s /Black Dog/ in a major key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejoGRvzkVjM
Turn any music into a MIDI file, free, in your browser.
https://theawesomer.com/basic-pitch-sound-to-midi-converter/685007/
Innovative tactile drone music synthesizer. Not tactical, tactile.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/20/folkteks-weird-beautiful-droning-custom-electronic-instruments.html
A further new music toy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hk-kOPdHAY
Blackenshear (Blackshear) the Curious. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WAWHhHe3tY
Pet beaver builds a dam in the kitchen.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/doing-what-comes-naturally.html
What.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfH1tuiVsAI4Mdd?format=jpg&name=900×900
What.
https://thesmokinggun.com/buster/california/painted-perp-popped-265730
Darwin giggled. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/and-darwin-giggled/
Nature red in tooth and claw. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rjk0vqBZeb1rkp3i3.mp4
Bugs.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/20/new-ai-based-video-from-sci-fi-prog-metal-heavyweights-voivod.html
Big smile.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/music-for-sunday-morning_0962317887.html
Continue smiling.
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-evolution-of-tap-dance.html
An ad for delicious gum with no plastic in it. Though my favorite gum lately is called Painterz, from the $1.25 store. It’s a bag of big gumballs in bright colors that stain your lips. (“The lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning.”) They’re pretty good; it’s good gum. I do like gum a little stale so the first few chews are hard to do and provide some exercise and, incidentally, induce manly cheek dimples, which, with the stains, produce a dramatic Heath-Ledger-Joker effect.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/everyday-meals-with-milliways.html
Your childhood ruined. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.facebook.com/YourChildhoodRuined
Art. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://www.fineartphotographyvideoart.com/2020/12/Wilfred-Jenkins.html
Greetings, Earthling.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/10/18/fabulous-weird-trotters/
Rerun: David Pumpkin.
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/18/snls-classic-haunted-elevator-and-the-amazing-david-s-pumpkins.html
Your Rubik’s cube of cubes. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/etiennejcb/status/1582027687337435137
Menopause, myth or hoax? (via Redwood Mary)
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-63234486
Coyote and badger friends playing and going somewhere together. Either that or coyote luring badger to his dark doom, like the wolf character luring exhausted Corwin into its cave of bones near the end of the fifth /Amber/ book.
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1583130244659417089
Country singers sing opera.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/10/country-singers-do-opera.html
Model airplane science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55G-mwT9uCE
Being Mr. Rogers. Can you think of a better sort of person to represent Earth to visiting space aliens, because I can’t, and he’s dead, so we’re screwed.
https://laughingsquid.com/mister-rogers-1997-emmy-awards-speech/
“A photograph is a secret about a secret.”
https:/newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-vivian-maier-saw-in-color
Another great reason besides defense against asteroids to pursue space tech might be to have a viable gene pool of people living anywhere else but Earth when the next extinction-level supervolcano shoots its wad. The one in Yellowstone is overdue.
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/10/18/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-a-Supervolcano-Eruption/
Artist’s conception of an ancient proto-crab. Yum.
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1580785621840236545/BVwbp8Zb
The health-jolting chair. “A conservator of nervous energy.”
https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/health-jolting-chair.html
And Olga Valentinovna Korbut 50 years ago. This routine is now against the law. That’s just one of the reasons why I refuse to do it, myself, even in private.
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1583123400129929218
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