Who day week.

    “On the fifteenth of May in the Jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, he was splashing, enjoying the jungle’s great joys, when Horton the Elephant heard… a small noise.”

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.

 

Meanwhile, 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 there’s tiny bravely struggling KNYO itself. Find KNYO’s donation heart and help the station out, why don’t you? That would be swell.

Here’s a link to my dream journal project that I add to at random every week or so.. 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. In fact, 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 blaspheming nor fulminating in indelicate terms. Is nothing sacred? Yes, nothing is. That’s the first right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Use it or lose it. See About and Contact and figure out how.

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.

Flying in dreams.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/05/i-love-drone-videos.html

What retro-futurism is. This explainer is the actual man who wrote the headline, “Giant Radio Robots Play Ice Hockey at 300 Miles An Hour!” and also drew all the rest of the art for National Lampoon’s retro-future /Popular Mechanics/ parody fifty years ago. He designed the aerodynamic (and hydrodynamic*) Bulgemobile. He’s in excellent health for a 145-year-old. Good genes, a dry sense of humor, and mastery of Powerpoint will stand you in good stead.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_mccall_what_is_retro_futurism

A new method (patent no. 1,143,233) for destroying submarines, employing a giant magnet.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/device_for_attracting_submarines_and_the_like

So beautiful and so dangerous. (via Fark)
https://img.maxisciences.com/article/nature/leopard_28d464def4e13c59033475d24c1f6f6ebfe2cbc8.jpg

A real public service ad from the real FBI, meant entirely unironically. Because this is the country we live in now, which includes Texas, where they just passed a law to require /bleeding-control stations/ in schools, as well as training for third-graders in staunching shooting trauma blood in the classroom, in case the bleeding-control station in the hallway is too far to get to, or the shooter is still out there shooting. (via Alternet)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1655869602549694464

For fans of Jessica Jones, a strong female protagonist.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/10/krysten-ritter-talks-about-the-impact-of-jessica-jones.html

The hungry hungry pothole.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/08/watch-pothole-grow-in-size-then-grab-car-that-tries-to-drive-over-it.html

How private equity works.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/10/tom-the-dancing-bug-lucky-ducky-gets-private-equitied.html

The controls to zoom and swoop around are in the lower right corner. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~226099~5505934:-Composite-of–Adams–Synchronologi

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/05/atlantic-city-1970s.html

The complete catalog of Starship Enterprise bridges, whose keyboards and control panels, from the first bridge to the latest one, explode in shards and sparks in the operators’ faces whenever another ship points a streak of red or blue or green light at any part of your ship. It’s like voodoo, or foot reflexology. In the future, apparently, they’ve lost all knowledge of fuse technology, not to mention seatbelts.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/08/tour-every-star-trek-enterprise-bridge-in-new-interactive-web-portal-from-roddenberry-archive.html

Trailer for Wes Anderson’s /Lord of the Rings/.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/10/fan-made-trailed-for-wes-andersons-the-lord-of-the-rings.html

What. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a-whitemooseomen-.jpg

Pinstriper.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_mad_martian_pinstriper

Finger tutting. Students used this art to weave the forces of magic to their will in /The Magicians/, or try to.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/05/master-tutter.html

Do not taunt Happy Fun Dance. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://zibaldoni-elzapoppin.tumblr.com/post/716010853595561984

The Shangri-Las. (say SHANG-gruh-LAHZ)
https://www.vintag.es/2023/05/sahngri-las.html

The Japanese Bjork.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/05/mie-hama.html

A belly dancing guy.
https://www.facebook.com/rick.small.54/posts/pfbid031r5AfEX3kAFB7wTbQDHFBXJDJMBhKRN4GXEiQ1CAPbcsNMHPsQwSqVdqiNcJHB49l

Romeo and Juliet in Bwahsten. “Did he just bite his thumb at me? Joo see dat? Umbalievable.” (via BoingBoing)
https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/10000000_184050687388704_6698635503046380586_n.mp4

Yulya! sings songs of Russian street urchins.
https://archive.org/details/lp_songs-of-the-russian-street-urchins_julie-whitney/disc1/01.02.+From+Jailhouse+In+Odessa.mp3

Bulgarian evil spirit cosplay.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/10/short-moody-doc-explores-the-bulgarian-ritual-of-scaring-off-evil-spirits.html

Your houseplants are screaming.
https://theawesomer.com/your-houseplants-are-screaming/705186/

Speaking of which, read The Sound Machine, by Roald Dahl.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx5d3dmaWN0aW9ud2l0aGdyZWd8Z3g6NWZiNjNiMDk5NWU4NjMyZA

Slow-motion, sound too, of a bird. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/136tp85/amazing_bird_singing/

Columbia, gem of the ocean. She’s spent enough time around the docks to learn a thing or two. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/Figensport/status/1651649913514782720

From dogs we learned patience and loyalty.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-man-and-his-dog.html

Sagan automatons make an ultimatum to you.
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/08/carl-sagan-a-lovely-and-powerful-new-short-film-about-the-urgency-of-environmental-action-video.html

A.I.-generated-1993-style ad for Pizza Nuggets. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrg4t3_PdLM

“The compulsory labor of child patriots like you keeps our society functioning.”
https://thenib.com/teacherbot/

Five cents. That’s how it starts. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=141788

Cancer.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/03/a-brief-cultural-history-of-sun-tanning/

A baby sea lion says hi, or asks if you’re its mother, or something. It’s so cute and sweet. But no matter how cute and sweet, never pick them up or pet them. Leave them alone. Also: this could easily be confused for the small noise that Horton heard.
https://twitter.com/jennineak/status/1617846032687300608

Baby goats frolicking in slow motion.
https://laughingsquid.com/baby-goats-hopping-in-slow-motion/

A picture worth a thousand words but which doesn’t really need them.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/05/08/nothing-much-happened-today-88/

Hamsterdam.
https://theawesomer.com/amsterdam-ahoy-a-tilt-shift-travel-video/705099/

And a missed opportunity.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/05/anaheim-stadium.html