Romeo and Juliet.

   “Rudeness is an expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved and they will open up like a flower… I am reminded of a verse:  The painter’s brush touched the inchoate face by ends of nimble bristles, and with that blush of earth color rendered her lifeless cheek livid…” -M. Gustave, of The Grand Budapest Hotel

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 often provides as much as an hour of each of these approximately 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 shiny red donation heart and help out if you can. Every dollar donated, whether in the jar on movie night or through the heart or by check (to KNYO, p.o. box 1651, Fort Bragg, CA 95437) goes directly to pay the station’s real-life expenses: rent, electricity, water, equipment, and music publisher and streaming fees. No-one at KNYO gets a cut of it, not even the manager.

This show has all the features, all the regular story writers and sections and departments and some new ones. Except for Eleanor and Del, and I’m assured that will be remedied next week. 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. That’s what I’m here for.

Besides all that, here’s an inviting tray of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mainly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

Raffaella Carra – Rumore. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXLeF_hpmk

Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco. The stage play, not the Gene Wilder/Zero Mostel/Karen Black movie. (2 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFmNG0lSQ2g

I often wake up from sleep with this or that song playing in my head. I woke up from a nap Wednesday night to the theme song of /Flipper/. Here’s the intro and outro, then the revised intro for the second year, sung in lounge lizard style by Bobby Darin (!), though two notes out of his mouth and I’ve suddenly got /Mack the Knife/ stuck on repeat instead. Whistle the Andy Griffith Show intro and that cures that. But then you’re really stuck, because after that where can you go. Black Sabbath? Buddy Guy? Vivaldi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMAVB6HMW38

Both /Lost In Space/ themes from the 1960s series. By John Williams. The movie they made in 1998 was pretty good, and the much more recent teevee series has a lot going for it, chiefly Parker Posey as Dr. Smith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBegeVsA48k

Part 2 of the Lost in Space Forever documentary begins with an arresting six-minute pitch of the original series, addressing advertisers and network affiliates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS_wX-PliKU

Elderly-but-still-got-it Cream in 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCc00pX_pFA

Hanina Ranina.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/hanina-ranina.html

Chopstick trick.
https://laughingsquid.com/playing-guitar-as-cello/

The making of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers album. (Full 90 min. film.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/tom-petty-somewhere-you-feel-free.html

Four seasons.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/26/forest-time-lapse-took-a-year-to-record.html

The United States has thousands of restless-leg nuclear weapons that just need to get out for some fresh air sometimes. Here’s how.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/how-us-government-transports-nuclear-weapons

Why legal immigration is nearly impossible now. (via Kottke.org)
https://www.cato.org/blog/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible

The white room.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-white-room.html

Shadow-enhanced art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/190cwm3/the_way_this_artist_uses_shadows_in_his_drawings/

Doinga-doing doing bnoing doing-ga doinga-doing. Doing bnoing doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22KCGUip2w

Boing.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/baby-goats-frolicking-in-slow-motion.html

The glassmaster.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/01/21/repost-grand-master-of-glass/

A cardboard Bernini.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/planned-obsolescence-cardboard-bernini.html

Crumbled and overgrown ancient cities in the vast Amazon region found by aerial LIDAR. If the canon of pulpish science-fiction is any guide, these, like Arctic mountains, desert sand, temperate-zone caves and the Hellmouth beneath Sunnydale High School, harbor alien tech and/or eldritch horrors better left alone.
https://kottke.org/24/01/massive-ancient-network-of-cities-found-in-the-amazon.

Life for the science fiction writer.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1750984079594418437

Infectious disease.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/26/The-Worst-Infectious-Diseases-in-History/

Tailgate.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/22/buffalo-bills-tailgate-party-gets-a-bit-too-lit-when-one-fan-catches-fire-video.html

Adventures in idiocracy. “…Fields and jungles of Vietnam, they delivered a swipped and swiffy and ya know that sweeping? It was swift and it was sweeping like nobody’s ever seen anything happen, a victory in Operation Desert Storm. A lot of you were involved in that. A lot of you were involved. That was a quick one.” (Video. You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1749519924559798755

“J. Edgar Hoover has said, sex-mad magazines are creating criminals faster than we can build jails to house them.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/pages-of-death.html

Romeo and Juliet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7XBh6Jkn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyxbbkoXdEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8S3wCJNeCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6S2x6KFPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65t_b6aXMn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAiaLQCEbVY

Somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlLNSWAXpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mp0A8kKk-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWvmS2LXevs

Free will does not exist.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1Bc5uF1ju/?img_index=1

Making a compact hunting arrow slingshot thing out of a block of wood, surgical tubing, and a ball-bearing pulley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ZDvCWLr4w

Pooky Park, where the magic of imagination meets the thrill of a lifetime.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/pooky-park.html

Rerun: The Midnight Parasites. (10 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_midnight_parasites

Movies in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlo0Vp5TU8Y

Who’s a good boy? You are. /You/ are.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/21/Very-Good-Dog-Saves-Owner-from-Ice/

Cat and Girl comix. No one can rescue us from history. (Note: water skier /whee!/ and rock DUH.)
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-16-cghistory.gif

How cats and birds work.
https://theawesomer.com/how-a-cat-really-works/728094/

The frenzied noir world of Gun Crazy.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/gun-crazy-1950.html

Mary Weiss, RIP. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqIfe03lXic

Living with lesbians. (The full record album, 40 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/living_with_lesbians

Nina Payne.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_far_out_costumes_of_dancer_nina_payne

Nina Paley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infyJGl_N0o

Further in the series of collections of photographs of women who, in a more enlightened timeline, would have had great side-careers being paid handsomely to be closely observed swallowing a whole egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/marie-therese-pouch-lemoine.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/01/maggy-rouff.html

Potter who looks very like Charlie Musselwhite back in the 1960s experiments with cream cheese.
https://theawesomer.com/throwing-cream-cheese-instead-of-clay/728499/

“Well, you know, honestly, things got a little crazy when the hive ship destroyed San Francisco.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuBm4imTcE

RIP Laurie Johnson, composer of British cop show waka-waka theme music. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRiiXRj9_C8

Just the motion you see here– when children move like this in the zero-G gym in their city in a hollowed-out asteroid in the future, it’s called ponging. It’s discouraged. The main young female character in a book I read once, whose title and author escapes me at the moment, says sadly to a boy she had liked before she caught him compulsively doing this, “I didn’t know you were a ponger.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/22/see-what-happens-when-a-spoon-of-liquid-nitrogen-is-dropped-into-a-bowl-of-gasoline.html

Bhutan’s penis monastery. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/03/14/a-pilgrimage-to-the-ancient-penis-monastery/

Rerun: “Have you noticed this instrument over here that looks like a frying pan on a big stick? Well…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6DS2bXYmk

“Oh, I can’t tell which is nicer, the biscuits or the shame.” -Dylan Moran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3i71_t-Rg

Family values.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/nazi-town-usa.html

This question was deeply emotionally explored in /Farscape/, in the story arc where John was copied and Aeryn and John finally really got together, or rather Aeryn and /one of the Johns/ got together when away on a mission, and John died horribly of radiation poisoning while Aeryn had to sit there and watch. Then Aeryn returned to Moya and the surviving John who knew nothing of all this, and it breaks your heart, but they can’t relate. Though the Johns are identical, this one isn’t the one she went through all that trauma with, and she can’t stand to look at him, so their relationship is back to square one.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/clone.html

Happy birthday, Tucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHiA-q9Yyu0

“Annnnd tracking chip installed. And memory wipe.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ug6gAO8n0s

Bees and moths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCptY6WgNDw

Bees and spiders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5x2xBa8p0A

Ants.
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e67a064bb8ed43b9fb55e97839b2c858-lq

“Whoa! Where’s Viv! Where’s Viv!”
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/23/massive-rogue-wave-crashes-through-restaurant-doors-in-marshall-islands-video.html

The deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg7jAnS78JA

It’s getting so a time traveler can’t get a reputation as a predictive genius anymore. But you can still stop a war on May 28, 585 BC by commanding the Sky Wolf to eat the sun.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/23/This-Map-Shows-You-When-Cicadas-Will-Appear-and-Where/

And a Guitar Hero winner’s copyright workaround.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/01/guitar-hero-bark-at-moon.html