Spooky action at a distance.

   “An armed society is a BLAM BLAM BLAM society.” -Drew, of Fark

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*. Also the first hour of each MOTA show now is also on KAKX Mendocino, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech program at the high school there.

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch, too. 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 and read it on the air.

Some news: Bob Young (KNYO’s founder and manager) informs me that worries about losing the downtown studio and performance space have been popped like a balloon. The sale happened. KNYO has new landlords. They turn out to be radio people previously working with KVMR in Grass Valley and very sympatico, so that’s welcome. I think this also means that the project to move the transmitter down into town from out in the sticks and put the antenna atop the studio is back on, and it might be done by summer. Better signal, real-time transmission with no internet buffer lag, closer to the ideal of real radio. Win-win-win.

Besides all that, here’s a fresh bouquet of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set out for you, mostly found in the fine websites listed to your right:

“We know for sure that we need to do whatever we can to avoid nuclear war.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-happens-after-nuclear-war.html

Happenstantial art. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243854850474250

Roswell. And the mysterio-chord at the end. If the only thing anybody ever needed a whammy bar for was to make that sound, it would still be worth it. (via Juanita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6ZZG3NVMs

“Long before you were crawlin’. Not an aught-three, though. Didn’t have the extenders. Tended to shake.”
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FakeStrat.jpg?resize=555%2C618&ssl=1

Aren’t they great? I want all their music now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlLdqNxTrJM

Speaking of great, all these people, and no danger of superlative creep in calling them so. “If a hamburger is great then what’s the Sistine Chapel?” said Biff Rose. Can the Sistine Chapel do any of these steps?  “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” said Laurie Anderson. But now you can instruct an A.I. to make the painted Chapel ceiling people dance. If somebody hasn’t already tried that, I would be surprised…
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/19/ed-people/

…This isn’t what I mean by that but it’s close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cZIdlqRBCg

Dances of the 1960s. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZdvihA7Y1A

Looking sideways from the Parker Solar Probe.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240219.html

Space. I’m not sure bimbos is the right term. They’re all professionals worthy of respect. The moon babes from UFO, for example, saved the world from invasion more times than you know. A little respect, how about.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/02/19/space-bimbos

Slow chase.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/02/18/slowest-chase-ever/

Pas de deux with a tractor.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/02/deere-john.html

“That night in Hawaii when I turned into a panther and started making these low-register purring tones that I couldn’t control, shit was wild.” (via Juanita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9X_UTqWYHM

Puderschnee.
https://theawesomer.com/epic-snowboarding-pov/731090/

Webcam tears. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://webcamtears.tumblr.com/

Weird slit-scan photography. (via Kottke)
https://www.instagram.com/francois.vogel/reel/C2PxtBqPq5Q/

Montage of clips from Tim Burton films.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2008/06/films-of-tim-burton-impressive-montage.html

Stevie Wonder without his sunglasses. We’re told. It could be anybody. Not Ray Charles; the chin is different.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/stevie-wonder-without-glasses.html

Florette Regina Ottenheimer.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/margaret-hayes.html

Couches, couches, let me go with you, I would like to sail the ocean blue.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/02/1960s-couches.html

Amendments, amendments.
https://laughingsquid.com/27-united-states-constitution-amendments/

Julia’s dream. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://laughingsquid.com/julia-dream-mashup-music-video/

Parrot charmingly sings backup on Creep. Juanita’s little parrot of 23 years died during the Dickens Faire prep three months ago and she’s still fragile about it. I have to watch myself about reminding her with things I say. But this is cute. I’m sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_O5VWIOZE

Borzoi not buying it.
https://twitter.com/HeckinGoodDogs/status/1570684225434652673

Nobody buying it.
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/19/cringe-at-this-montage-of-donald-trump-peddling-his-many-failed-products-video.html

Hundreds of Gannet-owned newspapers removed this strip from publication to avoid offending their racist lunatic readership.
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/18

About Steven Broken-Nose Murphy. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://crimereads.com/the-most-iconic-nose-injuries-in-the-history-of-crime-film/

Chess trick. This seems cruel to me. How many people laughing at that man would have a hope in hell of lasting even eight moves against him?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/02/grandmaster-maurice-ashley-vs-trash.html

Sibling step dancing and roller skating.
https://kottke.org/24/02/siblings-step-dancing-and-roller-skating

Plenty of Dracula ballets. (via Miss Cellania)
https://spookydaily.com/p/if-you-ever-get-a-chance-to-see-dracula-the-ballet

Super Mario theme in six classical composers’ styles. I enjoy this even more by saying aloud the text that appears on the screen and imagining her exclaiming it as she plays.
https://laughingsquid.com/super-mario-theme-six-classical-composers/

Art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1757597727939047812

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/thor_shimmer/

Further art.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_0990667059.html
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/20/watch-as-tiny-characters-perform-a-mysterious-looping-dance.html
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/06/judith-beheading-holofernes.html
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/02/22/cardboard-and-concern/

Polyhedra. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/max-bruckners-polyhedra-1900

Since I’ve lost the ability to hear very well, I am often this dog. But then I hear part of what the person says, respond to that, and they flip out because it’s inappropriate, because everything is inappropriate anymore, whether or not it’s on-point.
https://laughingsquid.com/cockatoo-tells-dog-about-his-day/

Demolition Man knitted for somewhat the same reasons.
https://laughingsquid.com/visibile-mending/

Mister Fantastic of the mollusc world.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/02/tweet-of-day_0786232242.html

Miss Frozen Rabbit Meat. Her name was Lola. L-O-L-A.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_frozen_rabbit_meat

Exercise.
https://theawesomer.com/face-to-face-with-newer-samples/731113/

Pulse-jet skateboard.
https://theawesomer.com/rocket-powered-skateboard/730978/

3-motor pulse-jet go-kart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAKekhmTRaY

A collection of Bob’s Big Boys removed from service and imprisoned. They’re much bigger than they look here; that’s a tall fence. (You might have to login to Instagram to view this.) Bob’s Big Boy was a big part of my life. There was one near one of the places in L.A. where my mother worked when I was small, and she often took me there. The best day ever would be a trip to Fern Dell, then the Griffith Observatory, then Bob’s Big Boy. The waitresses at BBB wore little pleated skirts and rollerskated out to your Oldsmobile to hang a tray on the open window and bring you icewater and menus. You’d blink your lights or honk the horn, they’d come back to take your order, and they’d go get it and bring it to you, they were real waitresses; but gliding and angelic. In my memory the hamburgers were perfect, also the fries and a chocolate shake, and they had a free in-house comic book about Big Boy and his friend Dolly. When Juanita and I went back to L.A. to get married in 1988 on the roof of the Griffith Observatory, we swung by that very Bob’s Big Boy, took pictures of each other next to his shiny fiberglass presence, and bought a can of Bob’s Big Boy coffee that I still have, unopened, more than 35 years later. It’s rusty, surely ruined inside, but there it is. If I ever win the lottery, I am getting one of those full-size original Big Boys. And a Doggie Diner nose-dog head. And a Sinclair Oil dinosaur. But first I’d buy KUNK, de-automate it, turn it back into bustling live KMFB, put the studio back out by the transmitter where it belongs, find Bob Woelfel, who must be in his eighties by now, and hand it to him to run it right. Then put the statues there. Put the Doggie Diner head on top of the tower, red aircraft-warning light pulsing from its noseball on quiet misty nights. [triumphant mysterio-chord here, to go with the image in your head]
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3D5pz4vIY0/

“I understand your concern, but world domination is not going to fund itself.” This reminds me of a series of books about a little girl, the daughter of two superheroes, who comes into her power and it’s not what she expected. The first book is /Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Supervillain/, but there’s a prequel –pre-book-1– about a giant superintelligent spider. Fun books for all ages.
https://theawesomer.com/villains-inc-trailer/730825/

Here, the books. Buy them, help the writer out. He went through a horror story with his earlier books, of being screwed royally by his publisher who took all the money, went out of business and vanished. It’s all Richard Roberts’ show now. Get one, see for yourself; you’ll want all the rest.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/143031-please-don-t-tell-my-parents

Mouse P.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/538

“It’s not lying if you’re so narcissistic that you kinda believe it.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-crime-and-punishment.html

Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, will you be my Valentine, do you still look forty-five? And the rest of last week’s Tacky Raccoons hot links.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/02/18/cebocephalic-hot-links/

Ballerina on the boat. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-MQTx1CMM4

A long slow zoom at the brightest object in the universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8E4spViHE

The article explaining all that, including that at its center is a black hole with the mass of 17 billion suns, swallowing the equivalent of another sun every day, or rather it was doing that when the light we now see from it started on its way here. Imagine what it might be eating today, 12 billion years later.
https://newatlas.com/space/brightest-object-universe-swallows-sun-every-day/

Dashcam view of the driver of a truck as it’s bashed in half by a train. He’s fine because of inertia. I miss there being sound on this.
https://laughingsquid.com/train-cuts-amazon-delivery-van-in-half/

“I’m engaged to be married, you fiends from Hell! …So I won’t tell if you don’t tell.”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/19/If-Gilbert-and-Sullivan-Staged-iDraculai/

And the Vintage Photo Booth. Scroll down and down. Forever.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/