Good-bye to the fruits.

   “I met a guy online and we saw a movie on our first date. At the end of the night when acting like he was going in for a kiss he put his whole mouth over my nose and blew into it. Laughing, he said he does this to his dogs and calls it a puppy trumpet.” -Danielle Snook

Here’s the recording of last night’s 8-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready for you to re-enjoy. Playing some of the recording at random while working on this post I heard two instances of it burbling and skipping a second or two of the sound, so there are probably some more of those– I’m guessing it’s because of overburdening my streaming/recording computer with other things to do. And I read the continuing stories all in different times of the show than they’d naturally fallen into over the weeks and months. But it’s mostly there, mostly okay, and pretty good, I think, thanks to a hundred writers, many of them local. Try it:

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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 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 on KAKX Mendocino too, thanks to Marshall Brown who runs the media tech department 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:

Trailer for Antigone. Could do with an umlaut or two in the title, to suit the metal parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0QK-YixdcA

The Dust catalog. 100 short new science-fiction films, free. Five minutes to forty minutes each.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2X2odndvaIc145J7IBL2T-rN1y-gl9-_

A.I.-generated singer, song, venue, audience, apocalypse. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFYshYWo-sk

A.I.-generated voice sadly, sweetly sings MIT software license permission text. (via BoingBoing)
https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1775713487529922702

“She likes kielbasa, naturlich (naturally). She likes kielbasa better than fish.”
https://27thstreet.me/2024/04/03/she-likes-kielbasa-better-than-fish-2/

NASA eclipse posters. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nasa-eclipse-art

John Barth died this week. Here are three of his stories, including Good-bye to the Fruits. Click on the text and scroll down.
https://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/john-barth-c22

Two delightful new-to-me versions of The Palace of the Tsar (Shootin’ With Rasputin).
https://soundcloud.com/cypress-choral-music/risky-encores-shootin-with-rasputin
https://brivele.bandcamp.com/track/shootin-with-ra-ra-rasputin

A tiny pony’s happy dance. Or freakout. You decide. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/syiGQJIFXec

Cookie.
https://laughingsquid.com/stove-mouse-steals-cookie/

Doooooom, DONK-DONK-DONK! Bambi, the Reckoning.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/04/The-Public-Domain-Carnage-Continues-with-iBambi-The-Reckoningi/

Counterintuitive, I know, but it’s perfectly safe to swim naked in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool, as long as you don’t dive to the bottom, and as long as none of the containers on the bottom are leaking. In fact, if you’re just under the surface, you’re protected from natural cosmic rays that blast us all everywhere we go in the open all the time anyway. You might add significantly to your life expectancy by swimming there twice a week. If you’re really worried about radiation: avoid food, earth, sunlight…
https://theawesomer.com/swimming-with-nuclear-waste/735990/

Is Mr. Coffee Nerves wrecking your marriage? Postum can solve that, except you can’t buy it anymore, since they stopped selling it in 2007. It tasted like tea made of breadcrumbs, with a drop of molasses. I use green tea from the dollar store; it’s like a penny per teabag, and it’s not great but it’s not bad. Green tea has some caffeine in it, but even less than other kinds of tea. Unlike coffee, it doesn’t make me nervous or cranky, or keep me awake, nor does it give me a headache if I forget to have it one day, or ever. There’s an old saying, “The elf in tea is gentler than the elf in coffee.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/mr_coffee_nerves

“In his final days Christ is haunted by grotesqueries. Cherubs and putti ogle the last supper’s lamb. Hybrid creatures sprout up in the Garden of Gethsemane. And during his descent into Limbo, demonic bodies roar and hiss at the Son of God.” Gheeraerts’s grotesques. (Scroll down.)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/passio-verbigenae/

Here’s why it is a federal felony to bring even the tiniest quantity of mercury anywhere near an airplane. Eventually in any space opera the main characters’ ship will fly through a nebula of something with this effect on its hull. Reversing the polarity, rerouting the EPS plasma conduit through the deflector array, producing a tachyon/graviton burst, vibrating the ship like an electric toothbrush, all the obvious first-year-cadet-quiz fixes, will turn out to be useless. It’s alive; communicate with it; give it what it /really/ wants, and next time, go around.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/tweet-of-day.html

Last week I mentioned the dirigible mooring mast on the Empire State Building. I can’t get info on what’s in it now –probably equipment to serve the antennas on the outside of it. If you know or have pictures, please share. Here’s a cutaway diagram of the inside of it back in the day:
https://www.onverticality.com/blog/empire-state-mooring-mast

Who’s in this guy’s mouth, Captain Kirk and Mister Spock? or Sean Connery and Roddy McDowall? Tell me that, and I’ll tell you your political party, math ability, secret fear, and favorite color.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=tpXZIg

Ashley Campbell – 50 Ways. I like the scene layout and historical singing poses as much as the music. Especially the art-deco/high-frontier sideways-Egyptian /ta-dah!/ one at the end. Dinner dishes with this sort of thing printed on them would sell in any era when people have money to buy dishes anywhere but the dollar store, speaking of the dollar store.
https://laughingsquid.com/new-orleans-50-ways-to-leave-your-lover/

For the 50th Anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon, some contest-winning animations to cuts from the album. There was no easy digital way to make music like this in those days. It was all done with inspiration and musicianship and loops of tape cut and spliced together running between a line of reel-to-reel tape decks six feet apart. Great then, great now. (via TheAwesomer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9a8LwAPEvI
https://theawesomer.com/dark-side-of-the-moon-animation-winners/735944/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZgGI_QJcY

Fluid art made in the kitchen with alcohol inks, gold powder, magic candles, an electric screwdriver, paper clips, and a laboratory shaker.
https://theawesomer.com/trinity-short-macro-film-thomas-blanchard/735739/

Fluidic space.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2024/04/fluid-dynamics.html

Abigail and Shaun Bengson. A well-matched musical couple.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/03/the-bengsons/

Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about solar eclipses.
https://laughingsquid.com/history-of-solar-eclipses/

The solar eclipse story from someone who was home-schooled. In Bizarro World.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1773749782055399728

Speaking of which.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-eclipse-a-sign-god-wants-america-to-repent.html

A catalog of hoaxes. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoaxes

The sound of knitting.
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-sound-of-knitting

The smell of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bcubvgBMfk

The lesson seems to be: Be the guy who talks to the person and gives him a scarf. But what if they mean that the happy-seeming engaged-in-the-world man is the one in trouble, and the man on the left is sad because he knows all about it, and now the seemingly happy man is dead? It could be both at the same time.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13208086

The razors.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/01/philosophical-razors-cutting-through-lifes-complexities.html

/BLATZ! kra-KOOM!/ (Krakoom, or rather KRAKOOM! is the default word splashed across comic book art for lightning and thunder. Search for krakoom images. ZOKK! or BLATZ! or KWATZ!* equally appeal to me, but I’m not the boss of art. (*Not to be confused with the novella Air KWATZ, by Ronald Anthony Cross, 1981,) Pleasant coincidence: Just before I saw this photo I was thinking of when Storm blasts Nightcrawler with lightning in the Statue of Liberty battle, where she asks him if he knows what happens when lightning strikes a frog, he says, “No, what,” and she says, “The same thing that happens when it strikes anything else!” /BLATZ! kra-KOOM!/ (via Fark)
https://twitter.com/DanTVusa/status/1775670977831071799/photo/1

“If your ancestry looks like this, maybe give it a rest on immigration.”
https://www.facebook.com/PiperforMissouri/photos/if-your-ancestry-looks-like-this-maybe-give-it-a-rest-on-immigration/816719517135639/

They can cross thousands of light-years of trackless space and they can’t figure out an electric fence. Sure.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=61uvfR

Evidence.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1775291772165329024

Ka duh ba? /Hah bah dah!/ Dog of Wisdom version 3 (doo-dah, doo-dah).
https://theawesomer.com/dog-of-wisdom-iii/735792/

Rhubarb Bahbara, ahbracadahbra. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkBf0dbs5I

Build Me Up, Buttercup. The Foundations, live in Germany in 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klNean7JJdA

“Emo kid is throwing slo-mo dove at my face. I guess that means that he just flipped me the bird.” Literal Total Eclipse of the Heart.
https://kottke.org/24/04/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-literal-video-version

“Wake up outta your sleep, I command you in the name of Jesus. Wake up, wake up, wake up.”
https://laughingsquid.com/wake-up-preacher-heavy-metal-alarm/

“Hey, you should try our new prescription medication.” Side effects, with bass.
https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.cordova/video/7353113045897350446

Polyrhythms.
https://theawesomer.com/polyrhythms-visualized-in-a-circle/735312/

Surf music.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/currents.html

Yet another covet-car.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/1963-daimler-sp250-dart-convertible.html

On the beginning of /Hey Jude/. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-recording-of-hey-jude.html

The influences of /Ark of the Fun God/ and other similar filmic enjoyments, such as En Busca del IDOLO PERDIDO. (60 min.) (via b3ta) (This gets more and more interesting as you watch.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdozOvPgHzo

Rerun: Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/01/3d-talents/

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5TGSrqic3G/

Northern lights plus volcano. Volcano. Volcano. Volcano. Iceland.
https://theawesomer.com/volcano-northern-lights/735611/

Video art. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://francisalys.com/

Computer-Lego-art-designing toy.
https://laughingsquid.com/brickit-app-leftover-lego-bricks/

Painting the shark.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/symphony-no-42.html

Farm animal family photos.
https://kottke.org/24/04/farm-animal-family-photos

More animal photos here. (via Kottke) Right-arrow through gallery.
https://robmacinnis.com/15ab18a0xis4vccqjldrfplq4yafvz

MIDI-controlled slide whistles.
https://theawesomer.com/robot-slide-whistle-machine/735630/

Art. Non-Player Characters and what they work at all day in Red Dead Redemption 2. Peaceful.
https://laughingsquid.com/non-player-characters-working-dead-redemption-2/

A cool new space game. “Alternatively, you can just point the ship in any random direction you like, spin up the FTL drive and…”
https://theawesomer.com/starship-simulator-game-trailer/735694/

The official demo for it. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332100/Starship_Simulator/

That reminds me of Celestia, that I used to play with 20 years ago. It’s still there, and it still works. It doesn’t have a ship for you to putter around in and take apart and press buttons, but you can fly to planets and other stars, speed up and slow down time, accessorize with add-on texture maps, customize views. And they’re the real-world planets and stars. It’s a digital orrery.
https://celestiaproject.space/

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

Dance. (via BitsAndPieces) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4k04LTSB7M/

Hula Joe. (You might have to click the sound on.)https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/04/01/mesmerizing-moves/

What happens if we do nothing?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-happens-if-we-do-nothing.html

Daredevil gets careless. (via BitsAndPieces) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4gSWJ_yNjB/

Some understated covers of Green Day’s /Boulevard of Broken Dreams/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilLTcTXTI0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3IT2i5W1V4

And an alternately understated and overstated one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZHhttoaAg

Be honest. Would you not stand in line for, say, twenty minutes to watch any of these women swallow an egg? Of course you would.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/03/gigi-terwagne.html
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/abe-schrader.html

The evolution of Mozart’s (moht-ZART‘s) music (from 5 to 35 years old, which is all the older he got).
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-evolution-of-mozarts-music-from-5-to-35-years-old

Baby. Doll-face. I can explain.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/tweet-of-day_0981530310.html

Counting the swears on the newfangled medium. (via Fark)
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1hSyf0.img

Uuhai there.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/04/The-Band-Uuhai-Rocks-on-Khar-Khulz/