The fall.

    “Months later as I sat in a juvenile detention center re-reading those poems that had opened up the artist in me, I was blindsided by the raging fist of my incarcerator, who informed me that Walt Whitman’s unnatural homoerotic pornographic sentiments were unacceptable and would not be allowed in an institution dedicated to reforming the ill-formed. That Whitman, that great bear of a man, enjoyed the pleasures of other men came as a great surprise to me and made me reconsider the queers that I had previously kicked around.” -Chris Stevens

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 if you can.

Quinn, a little boy at the Albion Whale School in the late 1980s, got to be 38 and fell to his death off a Mendocino Headlands ocean cliff last week. Some of the many people who loved him wrote to say something about that, and those letters are near the start of the show. (I hope the link to Quinn’s picture works. I’m not sure if you have to be logged in to Facebook to see it.)

I’m happy to read your writing on the radio. Just email it to me. Or include it in a reply to this post. Or  send me a link to your writing project and I’ll take it from there.

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.

Duet for Ukrainian air raid siren and guitar.
https://laughingsquid.com/jamming-with-air-raid-siren/

The sockerooni opening dance number at the Tony Awards. If you’re eating dinner, put the fork down, so you don’t reflexively clear the table and stab yourself in the eye when she /flings herself backward down the stairs./ Trust falls baffle me. I could never.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oQeYx5INE

Yma Sumac the Peruvian Princess (Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo) performs Chuncho in Moscow in 1960.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHCro9NYccs

Rising Appalachia – Catalyst (LIVE from Preservation Hall) (via Notty Bumbo) (then over to NagOnTheLake, and back here, like a roller coaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Der-EVRiSfE

Rerun: Pomplamoose (Natalie Dawn) does Jacques Brel. (Click the closed captions on.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvrBWn0KxEc

Rosinha de Valença‬ – Consolação‬ (1966).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxi_qliU3DE

Trailer for a languid Wes-Anderson-tone movie about Icelandic swimming pool culture.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/06/swimming-pool-stories-trailer.html

Fate Magazine covers. My first idea for these: restaurant wallpaper for the hallway to the bathrooms, for when there’s a line.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/06/fate-magazine-covers.html

A modern ancient thing.
https://www.facebook.com/juanita.watkins.714/posts/pfbid0TrHTqdiJVjKvdG9bU2r5WG3PEgdRD956RYCk7Lbsc11DvYXKKCSyKCw2vufaKDZpl

Whiteboard turntable art employing video frame-rate as the strobe.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/11/stroboscopic-animation-emerges-from-whiteboard-drawing-on-spinning-pottery-wheel.html

Ferrofluid music toy. But keep your debit card, wristwatch and personal electronics away from the magnetic tank.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/11/This-Is-a-Ferrofluid-Synthesizer/

Skydancers. They should have things like this available for places where you see those wind-dancing inflated-tube puppet things. I like the wind-dancers –keep those too– but using skydancers on poles like this would provide jobs.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/10/these-skydancers-look-like-giant-angelic-scarecrows.html

Another category of pole dancers.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/06/12/pollsters/

How to land.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/15/watch-the-most-successful-skateboarding-fail-ever-video.html

Cats in zero-G.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/06/weightless-cats-i-can-has-gravity.html

The Kiffness’ latest.
https://theawesomer.com/the-kiffness-x-lonely-cat-sometimes-im-alone/707706/

Yo, let’s A.I. up the debate in this bitch. For four hours.
https://www.facebook.com/rick.small.54/posts/pfbid0A8qdtpHR7Po9qdJTygC7bTRrWxAnEd8rPFUDc73GfQJdsZWHpvykK88vx6hWX4zhl

Rerun: Bulgarian monster furries.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/06/15/kukeri/

Treat Williams is dead at 71. Motorcycle accident.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-flesh-failures.html

So incredibly cool!
https://theawesomer.com/quantum-levitating-solar-system/707597/

How we get tubby little metal toy airplanes. At the end there’s a catalog shot of all the different models this company makes. They skip showing how the underside halves of the planes get made. I’d like to see the friction-engine factory. I’ve always been fascinated with friction engines, even more so than clockworks, but not quite as much as the regulator fan mechanism in a music box. I remember having trouble keeping from sticking my finger in it.
https://theawesomer.com/toy-airplane-factory/707892/

Crocodile mother. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bVZeOt7bCw

Crocodile Man. Dale Carter and Tracy Chapman. Then Chris Smither.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF0dt3r_TM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8EcwMNoNM0

Secret Agent Man on gayageum.
https://laughingsquid.com/luna-lee-secret-agent-man/

I recognized her instantly. They don’t mention it here, and I don’t know why they don’t, but she was most famous for playing Vina (say VEEN-uh) in the pilot episode of the original Star Trek show.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/06/susan-oliver.html

She was also, it turns out, in a /ton/ of other productions. Here, look:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647010/fullcredits

The Dukes of Mimban.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/11/The-Dukes-of-Mimban/

Cut li’l tilt-shift Rotterdam.
https://theawesomer.com/little-big-rotterdam/707744/

How a snake quickly climbs a smooth straight tree.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/06/tweet-of-day_01363488692.html

“They’ll be tryin’ out Bevo, tryin’ out Cubebs, tryin’ out tailor-mades like cigaret /fiends/! And braggin’ all about how they’re gonna cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen…”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/bevo

“Peter Pan is actually a demon.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRIxelcIb2c

Period drama. A horror film.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/13/Period-Drama-A-Horror-Film/

Rerun: The story of menstruation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9o9m0LsbI

“In today’s video, with the help of the cadavers here in the lab, we’re gonna take a look inside a human eyeball.”
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/12/look-inside-your-eyeball-video.html

Oh, thank God.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/GEMooresNightmare.png

Trombone-enhanced reality. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on. Top-right.)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2108808485991036

Timing. The meat of this is at 22:00. But the prep is fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQVrD7RnNI

Clock art.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/11/rick-stanley-makes-wildly-inventive-clocks.html

“Oh! Oh my God, Louie! Ahh! Oh! Ahh!”
https://theawesomer.com/riding-a-side-by-side-mountain-bike/707938/

The surrealists. (via Everlasting Blort)
http://www.thesurrealists.org/

The double Hoberman mechanism. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1668355627196792832

Willy Nelson – Hands On The Wheel (Live, 1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzZWpBQQvU

Ingrid – Tennesee Waltz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_3Z_XpfRs

What ancient languages sounded like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc22W3bos64

“But the dykes are too strong for her and eventually she is overpowered.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUQEJbmxi4

Girls beware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxV53sYvS80

For the boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QuSCZUoC8

Youth sportsball choreography. Every time you watch, focus on a different kid.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2023/06/09/chaos-kids/

Not to scale.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/11/miniature-train-set-vs-cat.html

Fingernails of the silky anteater.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/12/this-silky-anteater-looks-like-a-felted-plush-toy.html

How we get real sugar. It’s more complicated than I knew. I love the giant rusty machines everything passes through.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-sugar-is-made/

Actually, coffee mocha is most efficacious in a situation like this. And a splorp of French vanilla ice cream on top. Better-funded sheriff’s offices have facilities on hand.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/06/mocha.html

“Why is everybody on the internet so mean?”
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/12/singer-songwriter-corook-spreads-positivity-in-a-difficult-world.html

Rerun: Trevor Moore (R.I.P.) – Ballad of Billy John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMbLImbrjgQ

How we get fountain pens.
https://theawesomer.com/inside-a-fountain-pen-factory/707517/

I used to get the Archie McPhee toy catalog in the mail when it was a thick magazine printed on pulp newsprint paper in a pulp cover. I’d forgotten all about that. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://mcphee.com/blogs/news

Slow-motion clockwork-toy dance. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://zibaldoni-elzapoppin.tumblr.com/post/718581745758371840

And a clockwork/steampunk game.
https://theawesomer.com/clockwork-revolution-trailer/707730/