A Gypsy melody.

   “Gazing into the flames as the Red Indian took form, I felt the same devil move in me as I had on that day at the river when Dieter had emerged naked and streaming from the water. I could practically smell the aroma of leather and horse-sweat emanating from bronze skin. My breathing grew heavy and harsh as I squeezed my eyes shut and the stars of a huge night sky over a vast, desolate and craggy place called New Mexico or Arizona rushed and raced, swirled and dipped while I clenched my teeth and my heart pumped like a fist. The next day, I crept into Dieter’s room when he was out and found the book he had been reading from the night before: Winnetou, The Apache Knight. I absorbed the strange words. Frau Gunter, when she was not taking us to the cemetery or forcing us to make lace, had taught us to read the Bible. Because of this, I could read any book I opened. If I didn’t understand a particular word, I deduced its meaning by the other words around it.” —Eleanor Cooney

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:

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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 fast-paced nearly-eight-hour Friday night shows’ most locally relevant material, going back decades. And consider KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. Find KNYO‘s hidden shiny red donation heart and help the station out. No-one at KNYO, not even the manager, is paid even a penny of that. There are real things that need to be paid for –electricity, city water, rent on the storefront studio and performance space, music publisher fees, other fees, replacing equipment, yadda yadda– and you can help.

I’d like 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. Just, if it has swears I have to wait till 10pm local time to read it, so not to agitate the swear weasels.

As usual, here’s a bunch of fresh not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right. This is a byproduct of gathering the show together:

Pull My Daisy, a beat film. Gently narrated (and seamlessly dubbed) by Jack Kerouac. (26 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/11/pull-my-daisy-1959.html

Oh! Incroyable!
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/11/13/sadeck-mega-unity/

rAAAAR.
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/13/watch-sweet-hungry-kitten-morph-into-ferocious-beast-video.html

Motorcycle-cop chase. I’ll tell you right off that by both skill and incomprehensible miracle nobody gets hurt here, so you can enjoy it without stress. Imagine you’re the young couple on the bike being chased. What’s their story, I wonder. Note the demonstration of inertia when the chasee’s passenger’s feet and shapely butt fly up off the pegs and seat, respectively, on speed-bumps, and automatically reacquire their purchase.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/11/tweet-of-day_0711225337.html

An orchestral thrill ride. The Tom and Jerry Overture.
https://laughingsquid.com/tom-and-jerry-theme-danish-orchestra/

Doctors replaced an eye, connected the optic nerve, and made it work, not just look like an eye nor shrivel and fall out. Compare this real science to 100,000 years of prayer and rattling rattles and making magic soup out of frogs and mushrooms and reindeer urine, and astrology, and nailing people up on sticks, and removing still-beating hearts not to fix them and put them back working but to eat them to acquire the virtues of the sacrifice. The choice is obvious. That other stuff is compelling theater, okay, but [jump back to start of item].
https://newatlas.com/medical/world-first-whole-eye-and-partial-face-transplant

When life gives you lemmings.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/lemmings.jpg

Helium. It gets right on his top note.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/11/how-to-hit-high-note.html

How we get individually addressable RGB LEDs.
https://theawesomer.com/how-rgb-leds-are-made/722295/

Posers.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/11/16/rob-woodcox/

Sideways.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/11/hilarious-sideways-scene.html

But how?
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8717c7707f2cec1de92fabc1915393fb-lq

Floetenkreis. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtW1xjNkFTo

Cheerful deaf people teach us swears to convey through motions of the hands and face.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/11/not-safe-for-work.html

The last repair shop of its kind. (40 min. and worth every second)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-last-repair-shop.html

A present you can buy for your family for Thanksgiving, which is the day before Thorgellen.
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/14/the-daily-show-recommends-leslie-jones-as-the-solution-to-annoying-family-at-thanksgiving-dinner.html

Speed. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/Alex_Verbeek/status/1721973113087238333

Knots. Q: What did the tie say to the hat? A: You go on ahead. I’m gonna hang around here.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-man-who-invented-fifteen-hundred-necktie-knots

Vintage Photo Booth. Visit and revisit. Scroll down and down.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/

Ten years of 35mm photo time-lapse projects in four minutes.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/11/timelapse-made-from-35m-photos-shot.html

Ritz crackers of ancient Sumer. (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/PhaistosDiskLarge.jpg

Suspense musical accents. My favorites are 6 and 7. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://vlcnr.rknight.me/

This is what happens when you ride a train in the Alps, Larry.
https://theawesomer.com/swiss-alps-train-ride-pov/700623/

Useful advice for time travelers to the Middle Ages. (60 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/11/advice-for-time-traveling-to-medieval.html

On the set. (via The Vintage Photo Booth) “Have you ever read David Copperfield? It’s a wonderful book. There’s this poor little fella, and his father has passed away. And his mother has married this miserable man called Murdstone. Isn’t that a villainous name? MUUURD-stone… Well, this Murdstone has a sister called Jane…” I saw the Time Enough At Last episode of Twilight Zone when I’d just turned five years old in 1963, lying on the couch in my grandmother’s house while she and my grandfather and my mother were all at work in the Italian restaurant across the alley, and it made a way bigger impression on my life than the assassination of JFK a few days later. At 65 now I feel like I’m much more Burgess Meredith in that story than I am Walter Mitty, though Juanita is nothing like either of their horrible wives, so I lucked out in that respect, as well as I can still read without glasses, though not pilot a dirigible in the fog. And we haven’t had a nuclear war yet, so we’re all lucky, because our books are all in our phones now, and the EMP from an atomic bomb can brick them all at once better than hitting them with an actual brick.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211099968051680&id=1730721761&set=gm.3695863930628460&eav=AfYB7yzUhRulqKX5XmnpphHsH1MMtJOU7sLB0QmPI6Led3_JiK09wGj1jD_k86bh3Z0&paipv=0&source=48

Villains falling to their death. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkpvfd3IhdOccc8ybisPqLW-Phi68HqN1

Space, the final frontier.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/11/hair-salons.html

Master of Puppets on piano.
https://theawesomer.com/master-of-piano/646926/

Of heffalumps and elephees. (via Mental Floss)
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/secret-world-elephants

“Oh, dear! I’m running! Oh, dear! Oh! Okay!”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/11/playing-video-games-with-your-mind.html

Lear of Far Centaurus. (say ken-TAH-ris)
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/retrospective/from-the-archives-a-defense-of-isamu-noguchis-controversial-sets-for-king-lear-in-1955-8804/

Further theater art from that planet.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken/

Lucky you.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-11-07-cg90conspiracy.gif

This suave weightlifter’s cool home nuclear fusion project that almost but not quite works. He’ll keep trying. I recommend subscribing to be notified of developments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTBZ0VwIgs8

Complete me.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/11/complete-me.html

Both a metphor and analogy for so many things and people. Also, one can be both the hand and the dog at once. And/or the wall. Or the sun.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/11/tweet-of-day_01210897678.html

She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine pogen. “Divan, divan, weiss du wer ich bin.”
https://hyperallergic.com/855683/stunning-florentine-codex-documenting-aztec-culture-now-fully-digitized/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszJ9sM3bbk

Women seemingly designed to entertain the world by swallowing an egg. But we only see this in hindsight. In their era no-one suggested it. If someone had, we’d have a record of it. The cloner-planet aliens in Star Wars also. We never see them eating anything at all, a whole egg or whatever.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/11/bonnie-cashin.html

Feed me.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-2023-john-lewis-christmas-ad.html

A complex, incendiary situation.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-tragicomic-account-of-how-los-angeles.html

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2023/11/10/repost-excellent-birds/#more-92278

That’s why the lady is Miss Tramp Steamer.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_tramp_steamer

The sheriff of Tardigrade County.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/11/16/the-sheriff-of-tardigrade/

And he heard their mournful cry.
https://theawesomer.com/ghost-riders-in-the-sky-cyberpunk-edition/722515/

Seasoning. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/17bikf5/switzerland_during_summer_and_winter

Pressure.
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/14/Things-Get-Weird-Under-Extreme-Pressure/

Bobby Fingers creates art, makes musical films about the art, buries the art somewhere in the world and gives clues to find it. This is his latest film, wherein he builds and launches a rowing-boat in the shape of Jeff Bezos’ giant face.
https://kottke.org/23/11/bobby-fingers-makes-a-jeff-bezos-rowboat

And rerun: Bobby Fingers’ previous film about making the Michael Jackson On Fire diorama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHi479xN_po