Bajor for Bajorans.

   “Kirchhoff used five cans of Rustoleum Tub and Tile epoxy paint (they were working on two bathrooms at the same time), which cost around $250 total. Even though there’s paint in the name, it’s not like the version you’d apply to your walls. Kirchhoff says to follow the instructions very carefully and, ideally, use it during warmer months so you can open a window and clear little ones out of the house as it stinks really, really bad, they say.”

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. All of your help, 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 that money, 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. Another project Marshall Brown makes possible is SnapSessions.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch. 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. That’s what I’m here for.

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

Walking on the Moon on banjos. A regular banjo, a snare banjo and a great honking bass banjo.
https://laughingsquid.com/walking-on-the-moon-banjo-cover/

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle in her natural habitat.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/irish-mccalla-erin-go-brag.html

Unused geisha footage shot for the sides of giant blimps in the original Blade Runner film. “Let’s go to that colony!”
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/14/unseen-blade-runner-footage-of-the-geisha-on-the-offworld-blimp-video.html

“Its okay, Brian. Don’t get any ideas.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqamZJ0_3g

Pete and Bas. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBuTTz1-IQU

Busby Berkeley, 1943. Didn’t Carmen Miranda have Jadzia Dax eyes. I just noticed that. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0

“And a Mr. Sennet. And a Mr. Oh!, Oh!, he wouldn’t leave his name.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5MLohUPXZw

The tension engine. (21 min.) Watch the build, or skip ahead to see it in use at 18:24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmX_JcGvtG0

There’s fairy art, and there’s fairy art.
https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2015/06/enchanting-victorian-fairy-tale-art.html
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/14/ziwu-artemis/

Sharpest tool in the shed: lower right. As seen in /U-Turn/, starring Sean Penn. Whenever I use that kind of pipe cutter for PVC pipe I have the –I’m not sure it’s the right term for it, but the instrusive thought of putting a thumb or a finger in it. Of course I never do it, but I imagine it and flinch. I remember being little, five, maybe, and playing with regular pliers, squeezing my hand or the skin of my arm until it hurt, then backing off a little and wondering about how hurt works. One time not long after that I was playing with pliers and the faucet outside the kitchen wall in the driveway, really bearing down on the pliers, and they slipped, so the back of the handle pinched my belly hard. My reaction was to look all around and make sure nobody had seen it happen. I never yelped or cried out in pain when I was a child. Things hurt and surprised me, but I would way more rather be physically hurt than have someone think I was stupid for doing whatever it was that hurt me. People were always telling me how smart I was, but I never felt smart, nor particularly solid, compared to others. It took my entire long life to grow out of that. You should hear me now when I hurt myself. (via Fark)
https://live.staticflickr.com/8167/7696682190_b13b14405a_b.jpg

A new ancient kind of shark made of papier mache. Or perhaps parched liver.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/mar/13/new-shark-just-dropped-cal-poly-humboldt-instructo/

2024 Sony world photography awards.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/03/winners-2024-sony-world-photography-awards-open-competition/677724/

The legendary Carol 3D ViewMaster disk.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2024/03/14/view-master-carol-1977-78/

Visit the UK. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRoYvFTE3c

World archeology atlas. Experiment to navigate. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://vici.org/

Wild ice skating.
https://kottke.org/24/03/wild-ice-skating

Indoor skydiving ballet competition.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/09/repost-wind-games/

The smoke fairy (1909).
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/10/princess-nicotine-an-enchanting-short-film-from-1909.html

The valence of husky voices. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese) (I think. Actually I lost where I got this from.)
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=62837

Zombie on harp and guitar.
https://theawesomer.com/zombie-on-harp-guitar/732666/

Pixel dancers. The people and their clothes are pixels. Each one is a pixel. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIBwARHyXc

A.I.-generated burrito restaurant ad. Mmm.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13186770

The Rootworks lesbian commune.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/rootworks-lesbian-commune.html

You might remember this from way back in 2010. Tight pants, body rolls. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1c2KzJbcGA

The 1936 Stout Scarab. It had a regular Ford engine in it, back to front, in the rear. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVaBXkYges&t=358s

A.I.-generated cover songs. (via Xeno)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZh4E13yaivJMkNyglFCOpv75yaaQft7B

Hater’s Anthem.
https://theawesomer.com/infinity-song-slow-burn/733379/

Lyrics: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=lyrics+infinity+song+hater%27s+anthem

Rerun: The Ballad of Billy John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMbLImbrjgQ

Ceramic art. When there were hippie stores all over the place that sold copper weed pipes, blacklight posters and sand candles, this sort of design was comical, but now, when it’s made of real ceramics, it feels serious. My favorite is the black ball one with the pink punk-hair hat. Or maybe the mountain/water waves one. Or the volcano barnacle. Or the wiggly sleeve-dress. Or the watercolor Tiffany lampshade. Or the bandage-bikini thong.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/10/repost-zenji-master/

Art.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/classic-japanese-science-fiction-art.html
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/03/kaci-smith-weaving/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4geLuEOHWz/?img_index=3 (via This Is Not Happiness)
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/15/thomas-vorwerg/

Hip-Os
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/hula-hoop.html

The 16 (or 12, or 9, or 23) Best Air Purifiers For Pet Hair. I’m not gonna read this on the air, but you might learn something about the way the web works now by at least skimming it.
https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

Soft flesh. That’s the problem.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/13/tom-the-dancing-bug-one-day-in-january-2025-in-the-new-york-times-newsroom.html

A nested catalog of /catalogs/ of wonders. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese, itself a catalog of wonders) That’s a lot of wonders.
https://satyrs.eu/linkroll/

The most populous cities through history. Double-speed works fine. You can keep up.
https://kottke.org/24/03/the-most-populous-cities-in-the-world-from-3000-bce-to-today

Pluvior. (via BoingBoing)
https://pluvior.com/index.html

Translation.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/711853880730877952/beware-the-ides-of-march

The Conqueroo.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_conqueroo

Amazing pictures of small things.
https://jainarayanshistoryhelthspace.quora.com/What-scientific-photos-are-hard-to-believe-but-are-indeed-real-8

Another Thing Coming and Billie Jean mashup.
https://laughingsquid.com/billie-jean-youve-got-another-thing-coming/

This makes me think of Cordwainer Smith’s stories, that are populated by a servant underclass of people constructed of different animals’ genes to suit them for the various tasks they perform. And also the animal people in the Wachowski siblings’ film /Jupiter Ascending/, which got terrible ratings, though I liked it enough to watch it over and over. Cut it into sections and release it as a teevee mini-series and it would have triumphed. It still can. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA2V3TRRK3A

A dog.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/ollie.html

Bugs’ life.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/10/bugs-after-dark-short-film-reveals-the-night-life-of-insects-in-the-city.html

Read the article and watch the video. This is where we are now. Imagine where we’ll be in just a couple of years. The materials needed to make and power and repair robots aren’t really any more expensive than those needed to make and power and repair humans. And people who complain that machines take human’s jobs clearly have never had to dig up a septic line in the cold rain or clean up after spoiled rich people. I hate the robotic phone trees that replaced humans to answer phones and help with phone company and internet and medical and social billing and problem solving and related subjects, but that’s because these things were rolled out too soon. Like robot vehicle drivers, they just keep getting better at it, where people don’t. Human drivers are as good as we’ll ever get, and we’re terrible at it, based on road rage and tiredness and drug and alcohol related –and merely distraction-related– crash figures. Plus we can only look in one direction at a time, and every time we blink our eyes are closed. Robot drivers are already better, and as problems appear they’re solved. Also I like the new robot voices.
https://newatlas.com/robotics/figure-01-openai-humanoid-robot-real-time-conversations/

(Just the video:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw

The lunatic is on the grass.
https://laughingsquid.com/pink-floyd-brain-damage-dulcimer/

Alas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UyU42TuGe0

WHAT.
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2023/03/01/USAT/34c709ec-78c5-4723-936e-ce43c7b0d0b3-Screenshot_97.png

Why?
https://laughingsquid.com/descending-kalavantin-durg-steep-stairs-india/

If no now, Venn? If not you, who?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/terrible-maps.html

Miss Electric Blanket.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_electric_bedding

The meat magnet.
https://newatlas.com/materials/electroadhesion-bond-soft-hard-materials

“I’ll bet every man on the station would like to give her a raktajino.” “Ah, but I’m the one with a raktajino /machine/.”
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/13/Raktajino-the-Klingon-Coffee/

Allison Young.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/03/11/allison-young/

The national distressed community index. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://eig.org/distressed-communities/?regions%5B0%5D=06&geo=states&lat=37.42&lon=-119.27&z=5.33

Pi in song.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/09/Sing-Along-with-200-Digits-of-Pi/

The anthem of the United Federation of Planets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8-OkKZqlrE

Maps.These are all ten or more years out of date but probably still close.
https://www.kueez.com/en/interesting-maps-found-any

Shoes. (via Fark)
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/03/05/USAT/72855003007-ap-aptopix-texas-baylor-basketball.jpg

Time. (via Kottke)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4FnfQbsqy8/

Further photographs of the sort of women I’d like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/larry-aldrich.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/dorian-leigh.html

Yeah, that’s it. That’s the way. Ahhh, yeah. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1759837050155536740

Piano Police.
https://theawesomer.com/every-breath-you-take-grand-piano-cover/733173/

Colorized Civil War-era photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKN03_BvbWY

The shrimp tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180_xij5Kgg

“Leave a voicemail and I might make a song out of it.” (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.instagram.com/mightdeletelatermusic/

Çifteli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTeSv0SKlGc

A futuristic hurdy-gurdy that seems to owe its design to a Klingon disruptor rifle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl4FhfHV6WM

Images of Havana, Cuba.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/03/habana-vieja-repost.html

/UNGFH!/ (via The Vintage Photo Booth)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7721157101237279

“You have to wear shoes anyway.”
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/electricura_shoes

How to light-paint.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-two-minute-light-painting-tutorial.html

Speaking of The Vintage Photo Booth… Scroll down and down forever. Every item is a gem, every time I go there. It’s like the basket of pictures there used to always be in the back corner of thrift stores. They were like a quarter apiece. I’d like to have all of them, but I’d settle on one. Sometimes I used them for cover photos for the /Memo/ newspaper. “Delia love Glady” springs to mind. It was a beautiful young woman in the 1920s, smiling but sad, and it said that diagonally across the back.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintagePhotoBooth/