Children of all ages.

    “Okay! This is it! Don’t be nervous! Backs straight, boobs out, and don’t forget to smile!”

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:

This cold is the first time I’ve been sick since some time in 2019. There were a few times in the show where I didn’t get to the mic knob fast enough to not cough or sneeze right in your ear, but I listened a bit to the recording, after, and it’s not that bad. I had to quit early; the show was not even seven hours long, but it had all the regular announcements and features and local (and psychically local) writers. Early on, I played the Alex Bosworth mini-masterwork /Children Of All Ages/ read in his own voice. And at the end of it all, an episode of Captain Midnight from 1940, then Firesign Theater – Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him, from January, 1968.

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 to consider. Find KNYO’s callipygous donation heart and help the station out by boldly inserting something of your substance into it, why don’t you?

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.

Blade Runner 1929, by Fritz Lang. (via b3ta)
https://theawesomer.com/blade-runner-1929-ai-short-films/708813/

Rainbow Kitten Surprise – Freefall. Look around it and find more of this performer’s impressive work. (via Ezekiel Krahlin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2WDdccgaDY

Several videos showing the flow of carbon dioxide around the only planet we have so far. The problem is almost entirely from the fossil fuel burning economies of the Northern Hemisphere. But that’s mainly because Northern is the hemisphere where nine out of ten people are, because that’s where most of the habitable land is. (via Damn Interesting)
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/climate-change/news/2023-06-22-nasa-video-emission-of-carbon-dioxide-all-around-earth

20-speed truck transmission stick-shift pattern. People can get used to anything and have it become second nature, but imagine running competently and confidently through the gears here, without looking at the chart, as unconsciously as you might do a three-speed manual. Difficulty, though: no synchromesh. Now hear this: when you brake-check a giant truck that’s riding up on your back bumper, he doesn’t just tap a pedal and re-accelerate the way you do. It’s a problem for him, especially on a hill. I’m not excusing the logging truck driver who tailgates, or who passes you on an outside curve (!) and blasts his air-horn and shakes his fist in the air at you and swears loud enough for you to hear over the road noise because he’s /that pissed off/ that you’re not going fast enough to please him. Just, a little understanding. You’re on your way to or from the beach or the store or your stupid job. He’s losing his bonus because a car the size of one of his tires is in the way, a car with a /goddamn libtard pussy piece of shit/ driving it. A little sympathy. Imagine what it must be like for him. When he’s far enough ahead of you to see you in his side mirror, wave a happy wave and smile with all your teeth. Let him know you’re a brother of the road.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/06/20-speed-transmission-shift-pattern.html

Chinese bicycle graveyards. Unwanted bicycles on a huge scale, literally millions of them, often sorted by color. I remember a Robert Heinlein book about a family emigrating to Mars. The two boys developed a scheme to bring lots of bicycles with them –bicycles being cheap on Earth, especially old ones, but at a premium on Mars. They spent the whole trip there repairing them and painting them and fixing them up nice, and when they got to Mars they discovered they’d have to pay an import fee that ate up most of the profit they might have made. And there was kind of a bicycle renting mafia that you wouldn’t want to cross. What was the title of that book? Ah– The Rolling Stones. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDfLWFv3ixk

Art on glass. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.sevenfables.co.uk/tamsinabbott-1

Neat.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-totally-different-way-to-do-math.html

Liminal spaces of Looney Tunes. Are these landscapes dreamlike because seeing them informed our dreams? Or because they’re universal and the artists drew from their dreams? Why not both.
https://laughingsquid.com/looney-tunes-background-art/

Things and people who are woke, according to Fox News. It might save time to do it the other way around, name things that /aren’t/ woke, except that would probably be like Rule 34 and as soon as you thought of one you’d see how it’s woke too, if you’re the sort of person who sees wokeness in everything. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/200-things-fox-news-has-labeled-woke

Interview with young Tim Curry during filming of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This was at the end of seven years of playing Dr. Frankenfurter in live theater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvcjkqxp204

Human history, past and future, in selfies. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/this-is-very-cool-ai-generated-selfies-depicting-human-history/

How to animate water in stop-motion LEGO videos.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-to-animate-lego-water/

Faith and begorra.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-what-a-drag-in-chagrin-falls-usa.html

Klezmer Bad Romance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvb54ylO-vw

Klezmer Talk Dirty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvEWNlcefAw

Klezmer Dancin’ Queen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBFWETguaCs

1939, not the last time the future was really the future, but just about.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/06/1939-new-york-worlds-fair.html

Also 1952. This thing looks just like Tom Swift’s ultrasonic cycloplane (the book cover illustration of it, anyway, which doesn’t match the text description at all. The long cylinders on the sides are supposed to spin on their long axes. How could it work if they weren’t exposed to the air they’re supposed to be shoving downward?
https://www.vintag.es/2023/06/sigvard-berggren-future-car.html
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5741531

Experiments in slow-motion views of /very/ powerful magnets crashing into each other like illicit British lovers in Act 2 of a film. Like Fleischman and Maggie in two widely-separated episodes of /Northern Exposure/ (once under the psychic influence of impending spring and once in the barn. I don’t remember what precipitated the barn one, but it was cold –Alaska in the winter– and they had to frantically tear off like ten layers of coats and clothing and everything while passionately crashing into each other again and again.).
https://theawesomer.com/magnet-collisions-in-slow-motion/708412/

The reveal of one of Superman’s lesser-known magical powers. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c4dTKevOLE

Half an hour– Amalgamation Choir Road-trip. (via MyOneBeautifulThing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LYBi9PoR24

The Axolotl/Salamander Song. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxA0QVGVEJw

Wire knitting machine.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/19/tiny-handmade-knitting-machine-by-maartje-boer.html

Saber dance.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/06/kazachka-dance-of-sabers.html

NORAD slide show. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://archive.org/details/78-75_202306

An adventure in space and time.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/22/Should-She-Send-Her-Dog-to-the-Moon/

Rerun: Chicken Attack. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miomuSGoPzI

Roller coaster. Say what. Yow. Roller coaster.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/22/exhilarating-pov-ride-on-the-worlds-steepest-rollercoaster-5k-video.html

Last Saturday’s Saturday music matinee at Tacky Raccoons.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/06/17/saturday-matinee-cimafunk-raskahuele-seratones/

Puppet.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/19/watch-this-frighteningly-realistic-tiger-puppet-from-life-of-pi.html

Randy Rainbow for President.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/06/randy-rainbow-for-president.html

Donald in the john with boxes.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/06/donald-in-john-with-boxes.html

“Hello, Lady, whatchu want? You want look like princess angel?” (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s3jpi5e1go

That was the style then, and could be again. (via Fark)
https://www.iceman.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Schuhe-Otzi-Eva-Ijsveld-3_cut.jpg

One of our submarines. Live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3atTP6hqlg

Galleries of bitchin’ cars.
https://www.kindigit.com/gallery/

“We know now what Nazi promises are worth.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/06/hitlers-peace-pudding-1939.html

Rerun: Opening credits for Carnivale, almost my favorite teevee show ever. Indelible characters and moments. It sticks in the mind. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdkDwOY9fw

Half an hour of promos and trailers for Carnivale. “Can’t handle yer liquor, eh?” “Go ta hell.” “Where do you think we are, farm boy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvzsIEWcAi4

I’m a late-1958 model, just before the fins. These pictures and these people seem so familiar. The picture of the soon-removed-because-whiplash-crippling flying saucer Disneyland ride– the man and the boy on his lap could easily be my mother’s boyfriend Gino Pelli and me, except the boy’s hair is lighter than mine was and Gino would have been impeccably shaven; there wouldn’t be that five-o’clock shadow. He was studying to be a doctor. He once explained molecules to me, in a modern house, mostly glass and dark wood and Swedish furniture and , up in the hills above L.A. He must have had some money. I remember that the driveway was cut into the side of the hill and there was a tall flat-sided line of shrubs. The walkway concrete was studded with pebbles. There were wet plants everywhere outside, in, essentially, a desert. Anyway, that ride was a mix of thrilling fear and impatient waiting. The cars were passive hovercraft, driven by a powerful, loud flow of air upward from the surface. To accelerate, decelerate and turn you /leaned/ and gradually the control would be felt. It was a bumper-car ride, but with bumpercars you can turn away, here you couldn’t in time. Neck and back injury lawsuits galore. I found out much later that it only lasted a short time; I was lucky to experience it. They removed the equipment, dug out the site, and put the Submarine Voyage ride there.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/06/american-life-1960s.html

How we get $1,000 French shoes. Though who among us has spent a total of thousand dollars on all the shoes in his entire life? My shoes, Denali high-top hiking boots –great shoes, by the way, comfy, slip-safe, all-purpose, repairable with a drop of dollar-store Crazy glue when a nose flap starts to peel loose (that’s the fail point)– cost $25 three? four? years ago at Big-5 Sports. They’re like this but they’re all black, so they’re suitable for any occasion, or were, before I got paint on them… Anyway, sorry, nice French shoes, fine workmanship, here:
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/06/18/repost-in-a-leather-lather/

What. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://i0.wp.com/curiousrambler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Puss-and-Mew-Cat-Gin-sign.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1

The blanket octopus and its blanket.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-blanket-octopus-shows-its-web.html

Whooped If You Will. I do dig a yodel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS11SK-LZYE

She seems nice. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NFNLkza88

The wheel of time. (via Fark)
https://img-s2.onedio.com/id-62c5e3c6d62708ac6592b664/rev-0/w-1200/h-1500/f-jpg/s-30012fcbc0f94518b18ec44cda497000794f0501.jpg

The old church-house on the square.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=L5qzNT

The 27th Day. (full 75-min. film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMmUzchdAtk

The lost and now found Tonight Show music montage. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/thedaveabbitt/status/1651364988630761472

Rerun: Giraffe puppet.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2015/06/for-all-lonely-giraffes-out-there.html

“Okay, let’s roll up our sleeves and make some money with A.I.-generated Asian girls.” “This is like when people are making pasta, and they keep feeding the dough through the pasta thing until it looks more and more like pasta.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc9kq9ZkNV8

Photos that could all be paintings. Wes Anderson palette. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.behance.net/gallery/171174825/Coney-Island

Driving around L.A. in the 1940s and 1950s, colorized, stabilized, sharpened and sound added.
https://theawesomer.com/driving-through-los-angeles-in-the-1940s-and-1950s/708979/

I always like it when somebody has a thing he loves this much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqX70d3Uop0

It fades out too soon. I want to hear the whole rest of it.
https://theawesomer.com/sultans-of-swing-on-electric-harp/708272/

Dragon illusion.
https://laughingsquid.com/dragon-optical-illusion/

A heartwarming story. One day he caught a fish and he was sorry about it ever after. So he made a real fish out of grocery store food to replace it and put it back.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/06/hatching-fish-from-supermarket-caviar.html

I love everything Simone Giertz has ever done and will ever do. She sets an example for us.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/06/simone-and-mohammad.html

Scooter.
https://theawesomer.com/pipermoto-j-series-super-scooter/708829/

The minute that put Christopher Lloyd on the regular cast of /Taxi/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvmtbZzA40

Bob and Ray – Slow Talkers of America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2g_TCYuIAM

DMV scene in /Zootopia/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKwnUa3txo

And Timelapse of Space Colonization, 2052-2301.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUaaEsFW_M