Rendezvous with entropy.

   “Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.” -Lewis Carroll

Here’s the recording of last night’s 7.5-hour-long 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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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:

Onboard the Nautilus things were not as they seemed. “I knew Nemo. Nemo was my friend. You’re no Captain Nemo.”
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-1931-voyage-of-the-submarine-nautilus

You can read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen online free, including some of Nemo’s history, here (scroll down to Issues). Register, to use the bookmark feature.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-League-of-Extraordinary-Gentlemen-1999

90 women photographers exhibit for Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday. (via Kottke)
https://vitalimpacts.org/collections/celebrate-jane-90`

The exaltation of Inanna.*
https://laughingsquid.com/exaltation-of-inanna-replica-gold-lyre-of-ur/

How we get candles. This is a very quiet factory, compared to the ball-bearing factory, the concrete factory, the recycling factory… The protective-film-wrapping machine that the finished candles ride through at the end is the loudest thing there, and it just gently whispers /shfloop, shfloop, shfloop…/
https://kottke.org/24/04/how-candles-are-made

How we get ceramic ocarinas. Equally calm. A lot of it is skilled hand-and-eye work. And there’s one man in a small room off to the side, fine-tuning them. And one woman putting a pattern on some of them “for a higher price”. In the middle-late 1970s my girlfriend Julie shared an apartment for awhile with a big pretty red-haired civil engineer who was all about Star Wars. She liked to play the Star Wars theme, and the Cantina song, and other elements from the soundtrack, on a red plastic ocarina, even while she was watching television. You’d think that would get on your nerves after awhile, but it never did. She was nice and never got upset about anything and it was fine. I think there’s something about an ocarina that promotes peace. Ocarinas For Peace. How does that sound, for a project? There’s already the Ocarina of Time. (Play this and this simultaneously.) Ocarina (little goose in Italian), was so named because, they say, it looks like a goose, but it rather more looks like a sweet potato, and in fact another, slightly less popular, name for it is potato flute. It’s one of the oldest instruments found. People were making and playing them 12,000 years ago.  That’s four or five times farther back than the gold lyre of Ur (*see above).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k8X5ye5Fc

Celestial phenomena in 16th century Germany.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/

One comet, different moods. (via Fark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/Comet12pTails_ShengyuLi_3000.jpg

“Fuzzy Wuzzy bath soap. It grows its own fur.” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAepqr6pDe8

Gangsta tigers in the muhfukken zoo. (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNak-6O8lFQ

The Henry Girls.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/17/the-henry-girls/

The Vivian girls (The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.) In the Realms of the Unreal, Jessica Yu’s full film about unsung author/artist Henry Darger and the 18,000-page graphic novel he produced in secret, that they only found out about after he died and didn’t show up for work mopping floors in a hospital. 120 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlvDKcDvsI

Shirley Horn – Consequences of a Drug Addict Role. (via The New York Times)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdmOnhx697w

You’re not peeing right. (After you learn about how to pee right, continue down the page to a wrenching video of vigorous orthopedic surgery. WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!… I didn’t count all the whacks, but if that’s a U.S. hospital it’s probably two or three grand per whack.
https://www.unilad.com/news/health/peeing-sitting-down-as-a-man-better-806567-20240415

I have this and I watched it again this week: The Man Who Killed HItler And Then The Bigfoot. (Sam Elliott.) I think there are two movies this would go well with. 1. Lucky. (Harry Dean Stanton’s last movie before he died), and 2. The Natural. (Robert Redford.) Redford’s character in the movie is named Roy Hobbs, but it’s about real-life baseball player Eddie Waitkus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTeBlbdLyiU

I read about how the dairy industry wants everyone to shut up about cows getting bird flu now, because the bad publicity and measures to mitigate it before it becomes the next pandemic will cost them so much money. Pigs too are getting it. And, naturally, chickens get it because they’re birds. Before, we didn’t have to worry about people getting it, because it didn’t affect mammals, but that was then. This reminded me that a long time ago I saw something about cows eating chickens. Here’s an example of that from 13 years ago, though it’s an odd East Indian deer-like sort of cow. And I don’t think it meant to eat the chicken. The chicken was so small it might have seemed like a tuft of grass wiggling in the breeze. Meanwhile, from an article about the composition of livestock feed: “In farming communities, a variety of protein sources were readily available, from soybeans or peanuts or cottonseed. Or from chicken feces, poultry feathers, cow blood or other parts of pigs, horses, fish, cattle and just about any animal part unfit for human consumption.” I forget about this kind of thing until I get a bag of frozen mystery-meatballs that taste bad enough for even me to notice. Even so, they cost more than the consistently good kind (Johnsonville) used to cost just a year or two ago. Do they cost more because they aren’t allowed to feed cattle pulverized chickens and feathers and other factory-farm waste anymore? Is that it? And I don’t see Johnsonville meatballs anywhere I go for groceries anymore. They always tasted good, and they were red all the way through, like real meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhSyzWxmjc

100 charming Medieval dog names, including Mustarde, Hosewife, Charlemayne, and Bonere.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/medieval-dog-names

Someone having a laugh, and an editor asleep at the switch, resulted in this newspaper article. (via Fark) (You might have to fullscreen the image and click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/970606353080184832

Jonathan Richman – You’re Crazy For Taking The Bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5NkEkaXHQ

“Surely they can’t be thinking of going off there.”
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/14/watch-these-penguins-belly-flop-off-a-50-foot-cliff.html

Galactic real estate.
https://laughingsquid.com/aliens-oceania-temporary-terraform/

A Thousand Suns. A new science-fiction series in short cigaret-break bursts.
https://theawesomer.com/a-thousand-suns/737104/

Charles Berthoud’s latest.
https://laughingsquid.com/take-on-me-played-on-three-basses/

Classic contemporary dance. When she suddenly without warning dropped like a cross between a mousetrap and a cut-strings marionette into a a full sideways split I shrieked like a little girl and nearly stuck a thumb in my eye throwing my hands up in the air.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2024/04/19/meghan-sanett/

It’s like where the Nicholas Brothers jump down the giant stairs into the splits on each step. They’re brilliant, superhuman, and it’s amazing, but it’s too much for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

Evolution of Iron Man.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-evolution-of-iron-man-in-television.html

Evolution of A.I.
https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-index-report-global-impact

A.I. fighter jet pilot goes up against a human pilot and does all right its first time out. We don’t get to watch. We have to take their word for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yjtaZfNCw

A.I. visualizations of a typical night at KFC. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://designyoutrust.com/2024/04/typical-friday-night-at-kfc-according-to-ai/

Ways to use ChatGPT for your music.
https://blog.discmakers.com/2023/06/ways-to-use-chatgpt-for-music

Rerun: I go meow. I go meow. I don’t know who I am. Look away, away.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/i-go-meow.html

Postmodern Jukebox, Heart of Glass.
https://laughingsquid.com/postmodern-jukebox-and-addie-hamilton-perform-a-vintage-1940s-cover-of-heart-of-glass-by-blondie/

“Drama achieves a new frenzy of suspense!”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/crack-up.html

The shapes of different atoms as revealed in the clairvoyant visions of Annie Besant, P.T.S. and Charles W. Leadbeater in 1908. “Based on a Yoga principle that one can reduce one’s self-conception to minute proportions so that very small objects appear large. The observer then simply draws what he sees and his commentary may be taken down by a stenographer.” “The atoms were duly grouped according to overall shapes: spikes, dumbbell, tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, crossed bases, and star. Thus, boron, nitrogen, and vanadium, for example – elements with little in common chemically – all “have six funnels opening on the six faces of a cube.” Six! That’s a lot of funnels.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/occult-chemistry/

Periodic orbits for the Newtonian planar three-body problem. (via Cliff Pickover) (Scroll down and down.) (Some of these gifs play way too fast. It’s not you; it’s the way the gif was made.)
https://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm

Art.
https://biblioklept.org/2024/04/16/evening-song-franz-sedlacek/

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.behance.net/russellgray

Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing (Live, 1976). And Every 1’s A Winner (1978). (via Alan Haack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3fX2_bxEkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTcQB_4AFw

Rerun: Backward and in high heels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmut0FMoK9E

Rerun: Media outlets’ talking heads all saying the same thing. There are examples of several different subjects; don’t get hung up on the first one. You’ll see they all do it, not just Sinclair Network stations, though that’s the poster child for this sort of enforced scripting. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshJn7lgVsY

Real unreal places. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://twitter.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1777026561947963709

Realish places. This is the future. This is how it starts.
https://theawesomer.com/adobe-premiere-pro-ai-demo/737018/

Hobo nickels. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.hobonickels.org/quick_id.php

Musical postage stamps of Bhutan.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/16/Bhutan-Produced-Stamps-That-Were-Functional-Records/

Looping pendulum long exposures.
https://theawesomer.com/looping-pendulum-long-exposures/737476/

Go, go, ghazaal!
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1c1yre6/this_is_a_gazelle/

“If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he’d be President today.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/153504u/if_ted_kennedy_drove_a_volkswagen_hed_be/

Here’s the real ad they were referring to.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/1972-volkswagen-beetle-commercial.html

Don’t say you weren’t warned. Video. (7 min.)
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/18/video-lays-out-what-trumps-first-100-horrific-days-as-dictator-would-look-like.html

Speed. A wolf can run faster than a leopard. I didn’t know that, but it makes sense; leopards don’t run after prey, they leap down on it from a tree. In part 2, beginning at the 7-minute mark, we see the same race from a point of view just above and behind each animal, one after the other. Imagine what it must feel like to be a cheetah, running flat out at 80 mph. It must be the best feeling in the world.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-great-critter-race.html

The sidewalk and its correct operation.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/19/How-To-Use-a-Sidewalk-The-Instructional-Film/

Every dance-off determines the fate of the universe, not just that one in the movie.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/blackpool-holidaymakers-1950s.html

“I often walk this path to the Hoehn, the little songbirds singing. If I am far away, Thuringer Forest, I only long for you.”
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2024/04/das-rennsteiglied.html

A leap of faith.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/emperor-penguin-chicks-jump-off-50-foot.html

The Pyramids – Penetration. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USfMeResE1c

Bliggity bliggity boo.
https://wondermark.com/c/1546/

They could all make a fortune swallowing an egg. Not the same egg. Each one would get an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/mademoiselle-covers-1950s.html

Practice your moves on Angry A.I. Girlfriend. Get some skills, then apply them in the real world.
https://angrygf.ai/

Size.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/04/tweet-of-day_01318599566.html

Cigaret cards. Trade ’em. Collect them all.
https://www.vintag.es/2024/04/film-star-cigarette-cards.html

Call for Philip Maah-riss. “Because you inhale, you’re better off, /much/ better off, smoking Philip Morris,” says the Philip Morris guy, ignoring entirely that four out of five doctors, as well as the entire family of Ronald Reagan, famous actor and HUAC rat, smoke Chesterfields, even the baby. Whereas Camel cigarets suit your T-zone to a T: “T for Taste. T for Throat.” The T-zone is a T-shaped outline superimposed on your smiling face and neck that the delicious healthy smoke pours in through.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/follies_of_the_madmen_592

The knowledgeable fan.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/04/3-year-old-zep-fan-plays-name-that-tune.html

Rerun: Duncan Hatch-animated /Cosmohedron/. (7 min.) (via b3ta)
https://theawesomer.com/cosmohedron-animated-short-film/737358/

Elements of designing and constructing an electromechanical arcade car-driving game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3RdD2qwdg

I like how the clouds make a bushy eyebrow. Also I hope there’s a door in the back where you can go in, go up some steps, and stand in the window, like the scene in /Mirrormask/ where the top floor of the library is a art-deco hood-ornament eye and the window is the pupil, from which you can see the borderland between the Queendoms of Light and Darkness. Here, though, it’s Wisconsin, with an assortment of public art: giant eyeball (check), lifter/loader (check), hippodog-thing (check), homeless Santa Claus (check), quarter-ton prehistoric pheasant (check), storage lockers for amateur time-travel (check).
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=U29JFi

The Pineapple Song, from a small-town-NY production of Cabaret. “But there is no-one… no-one in all of Berlin who is more deserving than you. If I could, I would fill your entire room with pineapples!” The boom seems to be over, but for a good long while you could get 20-ounce cans of pineapple chunks in sugar juice at the dollar store. Those were the days. And you knew who you were then. Girls were girls and men were men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiSDpQXylo

Weird islands. Distortions and grimaces.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/weird-islands/

Philip Glass Solo. (via Kottke)
https://philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip-glass-solo

And further murmuration.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/04/murmuration.html