See Hy-Brasil on $5 a day.

    “Angels wrestle over control of their own shining hands, each crying out to the other, Stop hitting yourself. I’m not. Yes you are. Stop it! Shut up. You shut up. God gets back from business and says, Is there a problem here? No, sir. That’s good, because I have a job for you. I have a bet going with The Other Guy. I want you to go down there and blight someone, almost enough but not quite. You think you can do that? Oh, yes, sir. Get going, then.”

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 lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which always provides about an hour of each of these Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Seek out KNYO’s hidden donation heart and help the station out with some metaphorical blood from your own metaphorical heart. That would be swell.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I add to at random every week or so, usually by Sunday or Monday, in case you’d like to look at that. I want to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always offer to. Just email me. Or include them in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your dream journal and I’ll make a note to go there and check for updates. Or send me a link to your writing project on any subject. I’m mainly here to read your work on the radio and I don’t care what it’s about nor even if you can’t control yourself from swearing like a sailor; 87-percent of the show is during Safe Harbor hours when that’s okay. See About and Contact and do what you do.

BESIDES ALL THAT, here are some not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering MOTA together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right.

Gabriel’s Oboe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTVjvrVPms

Artisanal IUDs. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.instagram.com/williambroidery/

Baby changing station.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/changing-station.html

Rerun: a marvelous startling animation technique.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/12/the-distortion-of-time-and-a-moving-crowd-come-together-in-hiroshi-kondos-multiverse.html

Cult cinema classics for free. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/@CultCinemaClassics/videos

More from Earl Okin. “Bessie, Bessie, Bessie, get your fat arm offa me.” With Dutch subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0hLCkPDFE

Meat logs with a magic cross-section picture along the logs’ entire length, colored by slightly different meat, by a technique used also for clay jewelry and Japanese candy.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/13/novelty-meat-logs-you-know-for-kids.html

About 3-D comic books. (via Fark) You can get two-color 3D glasses and enjoy all sorts of things like this; for example, the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels that sometimes flew into two-color 3D, like in the acid-in-the-park scenes, and the characters’ journey through The Blazing World (Alan Moore’s concept of Hy-Brasil). You can even make your own with colored felt pens.
http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/images-from-the-archive/comic-books

There can be only one.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/03/09/this-girl/

“In the village of unspeakable secrets: corruption, murders, zombie [sic], forbidden love… the warrior meets his worthy opponent.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/ninja-vs-shark.html

The Popeil Pocket Surgeon. Fits in the briefcase, the glovebox, even in your pocket, hence the term, so you’re always ready to remove an appendix or gangrenous thumb or assist a difficult birth in a barn-fort surrounded by zombies (speaking of zombies).
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-02/16/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-03/sub-buzz-23842-1487265448-11.jpg

Rowr-bazzle, Zardoz Aslan Vaal.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=tpXZIg

Will Wheaton’s /William Fucking Shatner/ story accompanied by Paul and Storm on guitar and hose-melodica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cwz7DJ4N8

Rerun: Imagine one of these with electric assist in it, tearing along at 50 mph on an elevated lane through rainforest canopy. That’s the future we gave up but could have now. Any company making these beauties would rule the bicycle world. And then, a few years later, like the innovative toy drone we saw last year, but life-size, you’d press a button, the wheels would split down the middle, flap up into rotors to the sides and you’d zizzz up into the sky for real –easily possible with ever-better batteries and motors. Just /try/ to tear your eyes away from the aqua-turquoise one. In the early 1980s I had a ’63 Rambler Classic that I had bought whole for something between $50 and $200, that I gave Earl Scheib on Arden Way the extra $20 to paint it that best of all colors for a vehicle, the color of a glorious future. Rockets and robots and swimming pool tiles and front doors and doughnut glazing and shiny-toe tap-shoes, reading glass frames, ceramic teeth, aerodynamic washing machines and toasters. What a color! When I win the lottery, tch, a plug-in hybrid Fiat 500 that color inside and out.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-spacelander.html

And a lovely little record player to go with it. People spent $1.2 billion on records last year. You still have all your old records. That’s not going out of style. I’ve been following the price of these particular boxes for awhile now. It can go as high as $85 to as low as $45 in a week and then go back up again. It’s plastic, mostly, and probably not built to last, but it’s got Bluetooth, so you can connect it directly to the speakers inside your Bluetooth-ready electric toothbrush. You’ve been wondering why your toothbrush has Bluetooth, well…
https://www.amazon.com/Victrola-Bluetooth-Suitcase-Turntable-Turquoise/dp/B01MQ2RBTZ

Past to future. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmuDIjwAswc/

Classic film special effects, how de do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5p8VIbt0Y

Rerun: Rotating sandwiches. Though technically an open-face pita roll is not a sandwich. Nor is a meat pie. Nor hash-on-a-couch.
https://rotatingsandwiches.com/

Pies.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/14/karin-pfeiff-boschek/

Michelle Yeoh /forty years ago/. She’s still got it. She’ll be fighting like a banshee in a blender until they carry her off to Penglai, the Chinese Tir Na Nog.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/12/to-celebrate-the-oscars-lets-watch-michelle-yeoh-battle-a-guy-with-a-chainsaw.html

When worlds kaleid.
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/12/danse-exquise-is-an-animation-that-evokes-the-feeling-of-being-inside-a-kaleidoscope.html

Rock models of future cities.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/03/12/repost-rocks-and-leaves-and-obsessive-behavior/

Fireflies at dusk.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/fireflies-at-dusk.html

My favorite is 3. The healing grid.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514964/10-award-winning-optical-illusions-and-brain-puzzles

Backwards.
https://theawesomer.com/performing-songs-backward/700247/

You can buy the current version of this for $25 or use an old version for free to see if you like it. My best computer is not good enough even for the old ones, alas, but yours might be.
https://lifehacker.com/spaceengine-is-your-ticket-to-exploring-the-universe-1850228567

…Which reminds me: twenty years ago, or even more, I used to play with a free program called Celestia, that also let you download detailed textures for planets and objects in space. You could fly around and go to any of  hundreds of nearby stars, many with planets, turn orbit rings on or off, turn atmospheres and clouds for planets on or off. In /verbose/ mode the screen was filled with text about whatever you were looking at. You could look at things from any angle, speed up or slow down time. You could change the light level to see shadowed places better.  It was a thrilling 3D orrery. And it worked fine on a computer and version of Windows that was old /then/. Amazingly it still exists. I just found it again (by using ChatGPT to figure out what it was called because I’d forgotten even that), downloaded it, installed it, and wow. When you get it and start it, click on Help then Demo for a survey of what’s available, Help then Controls opens a window of keyboard and mouse controls. Just flail at it and try things until you learn what’s cool to do. You can’t break it. Here:
https://celestia.space/

The perfect face for a sheriff robot. Like if Robert Preston was a catcher’s mitt.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/rod-taylor.html

Speed. (Via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/215365254336268/

The Hispano-Suiza H6B Dubonnet Xenia. The one with the built-in luggage cut to fit like a puzzle in the triangular trunk.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/hispano-suiza-h6b-dubonnet-xenia.html

“It’s approaching the main hangar. Activate the zeebocons!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqP7Ln_WrCw

Shake your dude thang.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/03/shake-your-dude-thing.html

How we got Trajan’s column. And how the Roman Catholic Church waltzed in later, appropriated and rebranded it, the way they did everything else.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/03/time-travel-to-ancient-rome.html

Landlord-tenant disputes in the 1970s. (28 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/16/sideburns-handlebar-mustaches-and-tiny-trunks-the-wild-world-of-landlord-tenant-disputes-in-the-1970s.html

Ze Frank’s latest.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/15/Ze-Frank-has-More-True-Facts-Animal-Awards/

The whole true story of Amelie. Now it can be told.
https://youtu.be/IB_lTTxYSsg

For Ireland: Victor Borge at the Kennedy White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei9VVDNxCc8

Epilogue.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/2001-space-odyssey-epilogue-with-frank.html

We’re on a beach, we’re on a beach – stompin’ on the avenue by Radio City with a transistor and a large sum of money to spend… I collect a list of paired songs that pour back and forth into each other. It’s pages long by now. Some of my favorites: Blue Moon – You Send Me. I Ain’t Got Nobody – Eric the Half A Bee. Aaaaa-men, Aaaa-men – You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. I Am the Walrus – The End of the World As We Know It. Somebody That I Used To Know – Hey ho, nobody home, meat nor drink nor money have I none. And there are some that are not pairs but quads or quints or more, like: Oh That Gorgonzola Cheese – Mud Mud Glorious Mud – Have Some Madeira My Dear – Abdul Abulbul Amir.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/music-for-sunday-morning_12.html

I know it’s a lot of ifs, but if cigarets weren’t stupid and horrible but rather pleasant and good for you, and if they still made this kind, this is the kind. Also: a pack of 20, enough for a whole month of illicit schoolday bathroom trips, was 15 cents. (Granted, you could buy a piano for $7.50 in those days.) “Rich in flavor and aroma, full of snap and sparkle, yet deliciously smooth and mild.” “And lately, by the tavern door agape, came shining through the dusk an angel shape.” Attracted to the stench of your cigarets, no doubt.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/omar-cigarette-ads.html

Lymphocytes.
https://xkcd.com/2749/

Beachheads.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/mardi-gras-giant-masks.html

British wildlife photo awards.
https://gizmodo.com/british-wildlife-photography-awards-winners-2023-nature-1850221341

He’s rollin’. I remember a video where a famous woman singer let a very high young woman float up out of the audience onto the stage with her and the girl leaned in and licked her face (!). The singer said sarcastically but gently, motherly, to 20,000 people at the venue, “Yeah, she’s rollin’,” and all 20,000 people murmured at the genuine kindness of this. I don’t remember who that was, though. It might have been Ani DiFranco. It might have been Pink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfEMONJj5Vw

A compressed lesson. Learn all of them. Play the hard ones at half-speed until you get it down.
https://theawesomer.com/the-history-of-rock-music-one-riff-per-year/700045/

A sampler of Martha Mears’ voice in films. She was the singing voice of dozens of actresses who might have looked like a million dollars and might have been able to sing –Lucille Ball, for example– but they couldn’t sing like Martha Mears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxUrn8kRKk

Trampsta – Chunky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGd4fmGrTE

A whole documentary film about music from Greenwich Village 1961-1973.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/greenwich-village-music-that-defined.html

How we get steel.
https://www.rferl.org/a/technology-industry-photographs/28457003.html

Equilibrium. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg

Borscht-belt Roman noir: Rinse the blood off my toga.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/03/rinse-blood-off-my-toga.html

An hour of Star Wars knockoffs, funny and sympathetic. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aeyUWLPLAs

“Girl’s a mind-readin’ genius, can’t even figure out how ta eat a Ice Planet.” (via Fark)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/046a1a89bc5ae12bbcb26056b1e5bd88/e92892e2b302723a-e8/s1280x1920/59bb85920aeb5c0865a5207ec41c23756540a134.jpg

Action Delivery Force. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YenrZQbj5ss

“If there is a problem, yo, I’ll solve it. Check out the hook while my deejay revolves it.”
https://boingboing.net/2023/03/17/auralnauts-version-of-ice-ice-baby-features-wilford-brimley-and-the-cast-of-the-matrix.html

And Joe Namath’s Hanes Beautymist pantyhose drag ad. He was a famous sportsball guy back when we were burning and strafing and murdering and bombing Southeast Asia back to the Stone Age so a handful of rich criminal war-bucks motherfuckers could stay rich for just a little bit longer. Sportsball and sportsball people took our mind of that. A lot has changed since then. Now he could be arrested in a Florida library for dressing like a girl and smiling about it. He still can. He’s still alive. He’s only like 80.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/03/joe-namaths-iconic-1974-pantyhose.html