Memo Of The Air

.      “She turned her back to him again. Luci could never bear to watch him Under-the-wire. She tossed the wiresphere into the air. It caught in the force field, and hung there. Suddenly it glowed. That was all. All, except for the sudden red stinking roar of coming back to his senses. Coming back, across the wild threshold of pain.“

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s almost eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a tiny radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

An hour-and-a-half of our cosmic-3D-printed pretty good Earth from space, all conditions and times of day, most shots including aurora activity. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKkyK8sLEM

Yes, we’ll have the extra-large Jupiter pizza, please. To eat here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G9IcD76XcAAb2wU?format=jpg&name=small

Rare photographic evidence of elves and sprites hooking up. Elves: /Emission of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources/. Sprites: not an acronym.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/21/Photographic-Evidence-of-Elves-and-Sprites/

Rerun: Hogfather, for teevee, is a story in three one-hour episodes, where Death and his granddaughter Susan must save the world (Discworld) from a secret society of grim authoritarians who are out to eliminate the human tendency to believe in abstract ideas in general by eliminating belief in the Hogfather, Discworld’s Santa. His sleigh is drawn by pigs. I saw Terry Pratchett speak once, just at the end of his ability to be in public, after the announcement of his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. He came to Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma and talked about writing, to a roomful of fans beatific to just be in the same room with him.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELqucHWd1Ab2ib4GDZq8NjzA

Video of the time Hunter Thompson made the mistake of putting his old Xmas tree in the fireplace. It doesn’t matter how cold you are, don’t do it. Burn almost anything else. An Xmas tree in the fireplace is a firebomb. It’s a cordless caveman plasma cannon.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/12/hunter-s-thompson-sets-his-christmas.html

The best yule log video ever. Though an abstract fire salamander-creature scene made of flames would be cool too. Try it with Canva or one of the others.
https://kottke.org/24/12/nasas-rocket-engine-fireplace

Barry Petchesky’s annual article, /What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?/ The usual items, of course, including a Nick Fury action figure. A light bulb, a Christmas ornament. A broken-off plastic coat-hanger. Pop and shampoo bottles. Not phones, though, so much, anymore, they’ve gotten too wide. Here:
https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-6

The asteroid belt is not circular. It’s a triangle of particles concentrated somewhat in the corners. And it’s that way because Jupiter contains more than two-thirds of all the mass in our solar system, that isn’t in the star. The corners are Trojan points relative to Jupiter and the star. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/557fwg/animation_showing_hildas_and_trojans_orbiting_the/

The SlappyFeatherWhistle Nose-Flute Ensemble. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/slappyfeatherwhistle_nose_flute_ensemble

Cut the Cake and Pick Up the Pieces clearly go together. I didn’t know AWB were Scottish. Funky Scots.
https://laughingsquid.com/average-white-band-funk/

Two weeks ago’s Tacky Raccoons Saturday music matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/12/20/saturday-matinee-skayway-krakin-kellys-joe-bonamassa/

Speaking of which, my favorite holiday rerun: SNL. The Singing Sisters. After all the times, I have memorized it and talk and sing along with it, enjoying every part of it, especially when the actor has trouble opening the woman’s purse and reads his line out of sequence with the action, it’s very satisfying, and the end, what the bartender says to them as he sprinkles the fairy dust, that I won’t spoil for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBpvh4y_lU

How we get real leather footballs, LED fairy lights, and glass reactor vessels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjqpU1gtkXU
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UCFy8ditdaE
https://theawesomer.com/how-glass-reactor-vessels-are-made/792036/

A startling short fantasy film showing the life cycle of wild salmon but in human form to give perspective.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild-summon.html

Human morality. A chart.
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2025/12/26

No. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/2003844697857695913
https://x.com/i/status/2003869025080619295
https://x.com/i/status/2003770123195170837

Our third thing we did on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UMDj145bHA8

So clever! Instead of shaving and misshaping the door, or chiseling the frame and resetting the door.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TcIjPPrwX4U

Fun colorful dances. The Seaweed Sisters.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/12/21/repost-friday-follies/

Why and how to dance. Scroll down and down. (via Fark)
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/19/nx-s1-5232811/think-you-cant-dance-get-up-and-try-these-tips-in-our-comic-we-dare-you

Auroras make sounds. Not just radio static that a radio receiver turns into sound, but actual sounds that people can hear, or say they can. Like sand through an hourglass, but also sometimes a faint lisping thumph.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/12/listening-to-auroras.html

If Staying Alive were written in the 16th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGf7_YL70M

On this day 21 years ago.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-this-day-21-years-ago.html

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MEemlp8CLzw

“All carrots must point due north, otherwise the stew loses its sense of direction.” If the sound won’t play, try another browser. For some reason this one confused my Firefox. Chrome worked, and Edge, and Brave.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1911217652807421

And a movie and teevee playlist for questioning the nature of reality. Check off the ones you’ve seen. As I write, the list is up to 117, and I’ve seen 70 of them, evenly spaced across the ratings. How many have you?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1DaJ82KdPOKsvM3_JRDBHVgjL0cS4pa5uewPy9-vGNj4/htmlview

The cutest aeroplane. It looks like a toy cartoon character.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/stits-sa-2a-sky-baby/nasm_A19730248000

The Hofstadter Chaotic Heart Sequence. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/pickover/status/2002878897260482716

The Black Dog – Spanners (full album).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czqr-uCAD3I

The Ransom of Red Chief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuONfQg-17Y

Arrowhead lake. (via Fark)
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/3b0f434/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3680×2454%2B0%2B0/resize/2720×1814!/format/webp/quality/90/

A compilation of Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gdWIY9R4s

Ravel’s Bolero on modified Commodore Sixty-fours.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/23/maurice-ravels-bolero-arranged-for-commodorchestra.html

I don’t believe in Jesus, but I sure do like his songs. And Alison Krauss’ nose.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/12/yo-yo-ma-alison-krauss-wexford-carol.html

Two from BitsAndPieces.
https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/465015016_10236918377643710_5219218292848834472_n.jpg
https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/467158706_10237313394438883_9152637712895154117_n.jpg

Arts and crafts. Copper.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pKOf2-tuVRs

Restoring a beautiful old television set. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/2003024063426621706

Restoring a beautiful old toy pedal car.
https://theawesomer.com/restoring-a-vintage-studebaker-pedal-car/791815/

Further bicycle parkour.
https://theawesomer.com/wibmer-impossible-freestyle-urban-mtb-ride/792297/

Deceptive title, good story, pretty good lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5me_PlECi84

“What an awful time of year this is! Just as one is feeling that if one can just hold on, it won’t get any worse, then all this Christmas idiocy bursts upon one like a slavering Niagara of nonsense & completely wrecks one’s entire frame. This means, in terms of my life, making a point of buying about six simple inexpensive presents when there are rather more people about than usual, and going home. No doubt in terms of yours it means seeing your house given over to hoards of mannerless middle-class brats and your good food & drink vanishing into the quacking tooth-equipped jaws of their alleged parents. Yours is the harder course, I can see. On the other hand, mine is happening to me.” -Philip Larkin
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/what-do-i-want-for-christmas

A typing machine.
https://laughingsquid.com/courtesy-email-automaton/

The restroom? It’s just down the hall and then to the right. (via Fark)
https://img.izismile.com/img/img15/20240213/640/daily_picdump_4581_640_high_56.jpg

World made of math. (via Massimo) Silent.
https://x.com/i/status/2004209081733861557

Art.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YYsMHttbhsA

Art via This Isn’t Happiness.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSq4-tTkaxa/

Art via Everlasting Blort. Scroll down and down.
https://www.instagram.com/kirstyelson/

Papercraft art. A werewolf boy’s transformation.
https://laughingsquid.com/boy-to-werewolf-illustration/

Ice installations, marvelous. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/marvelous-ice-installations

I am a sucker for any part of Iceland from the air.
https://laughingsquid.com/iceland-4k-drone-footage/

Reruns: America, fuck, yeah. Bed, Bath and Beyond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfsE1rtkUQ
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqqvFkPOanCSuVFUhazCqweO

Subtitles in history.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/12/25/an-oldie-but-goodie-on-saddams-forces/

Dramatic animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiMBOgYq0E

Those lips, those eyes. (via Fark)
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/9465ead/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2832×1890%2B0%2B0/resize/2720×1816!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https://assets.apnews.com/1b/de/ffd7b2b4418e9f6d088c6c096589/59dbbe273c774ed59e56a3fc1b9ac8d6-1765959355679.jpg

Robot voice praises fancy pigeons.
https://laughingsquid.com/rare-and-beautiful-pigeons-in-world/

Old cars and how they were operated, on the way to finally making cars that anyone who can operate a toaster can drive.
https://laughingsquid.com/top-gear-first-car-with-modern-layout/

Aftermath of a 1914 train wreck. Click on the image to enlarge and sharpen. Keyboard arrows navigate.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27861

It’s a metaphor.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13919768

The Windshield Wiper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIvoPK-1t5w

And an unsolicited plug for Mary’s Gone Crackers. I have one right here. They’re expensive, so we can’t have them often, but Juanita can eat them and they don’t make her sick (they have no gluten), but I just now realized that they’re close to my childhood experience enjoying week-old hard stale Italian seedy, nutty bread in my grandparents’ restaurant, really crunching my teeth through serious resistance, like wrecking a popsicle stick with pliers. Crack-crunch! This sounds like I’m making fun of the product, I know, but I’m not, I mean it. They are as good as perfect stale hard Italian bread when you’re sitting on the floor in a busy commercial kitchen making a small city of rocketships and dinosaurs out of old pizza dough, adults whirling around and over and past you, bright steam and fire and noise and activity and talking, talking, talking.

.      “Sometimes I feel that the biggest threat to humanity is information collapse: Our collective epistemology (the way we know what’s true) is fragmenting, eroding our capacity for shared understanding and coordinated action. Humanity is becoming like an ant colony that’s lost its pheromone trails (or the pheromones are counterfeit). Each ant races with purpose, yet the colony itself no longer knows where it’s going. Like ants in a disturbed nest, we scatter in every direction, mistaking noise and anger for signal, and mistaking frenzy for purpose.” –Cliff Pickover

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s almost eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part. This time, Clifford Allen Sanders, 95 now, who’s written a hundred stories, many of them collected in both published and yet-unpublished books, and all of them read on previous MOTA shows, phoned in from an assisted living facility in Oregon a little more than 50 minutes into the show and stayed for 45 minutes. He has led an amazing life. One of his sons just got him an apartment in Eureka and he’ll be moving there soon. Oh, right, also I should say that the recording begins with a few minutes of what was on before it, Terrence McKenna explaining about the origins of the Santa Claus myth in Amanita muscaria mushrooms and consequent psychedelic reindeer urine, DMT elves, and childlike sense of wonder.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a tiny radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Oh Wonder – Technicolor Beat. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvZq-Zk5zEY

Deanna Kirk – You’re A Mean One, Mister Grinch. She sounds like Julie London but also sometimes like Nellie McKay (say muh-KAI). (via Kent Wallace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aIzmtXXsAk

A big theater full of people all warmly and happily singing Creep. Look up covers of Creep on YouTube, they’re all compelling. If they’re done well, they work; if they’re done poorly, they work better. “I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here?” It is an anthem.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/12/people-having-fun-singing-creep.html

Rerun: Timelapse shots of Earth from the ISS going around the night side. Lightning, cities, auroras. We’re all down there, making the best of our tiny lives, some of us trying to be kind to our fellow microscopic specks, some of us not. (via Mark)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251208.html

The Monkees – Riu Chiu*.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/12/riu-chiu.html

Sing along with Drew Ryn.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/12/19/drew-ryn/

Xmas Santa Clara. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4nY4UZynI

Through the magic of Toragem Biopharma: real, growing, replacement teeth. (via Massimo) You might have to click the sound on.
https://x.com/i/status/2000407970027597896

“Look at you, living in filth! You Nazarethians are garbage!”
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2025/12/19

Superman (1942) – The Japoteurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWKYgumBYE

The Ballad of Bird Cowboy.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/15/The-Ballad-of-Bird-Cowboy/

Aeroplanes with lots of wings. Scroll down and down.
https://www.oobject.com/category/15-aircraft-with-lots-of-wings/

Sure, why not.
https://theonion.com/congress-allocates-45-million-to-hang-fairy-lights-along-u-s-border/

No special effects.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/15/the-fall-of-icarus-skydiver-photographed-against-the-sun-without-special-effects.html

The special effects of Karel Zeman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvzsWmRhAQM

Rerun: Satisfaction Guaranteed. It gets bloody, but you’ll see that coming and you can shut it off if that’s a problem. If it helps you to know: it’s not real blood and these people are play-acting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B875g2E5e5k

A list of fictional elements, materials, isotopes, subatomic particles, and units of measure, such as /thaum/, from the Discworld series of books. “A thaum is the basic unit of magical strength; the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls. The Thaum has been shown to be made up of Resons in the Unseen University’s High Energy Magic Building.” And /akiva/, Akiva. “Radiation linked to prayer and divine intervention. A place with high levels of Akiva radiation has been visited or touched by a god, while a place with low Akiva radiation may be considered forgotten or forsaken by the gods.” And trellium is listed, but not the trellium from Star Trek Enterprise, which drives Vulcans emotionally mad, and which T’pol becomes addicted to. Though that’s trellium-D, with different properties, perhaps, than plain trellium. Plus, if you paint your starship with trellium-D you can fly through tortured space –regions of unpredictable gravimetric distortions– and not smash to flinders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_elements,_materials,_isotopes_and_subatomic_particles

Rerun: Bad Lip Reading – Empire Strikes Back. Catchy.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-bad-lip-reading-of-empire-strikes-back.html

“Custard, custard, custard.” (via b3ta) Hypnotic beat, and this chef woman’s eyes are phenomenal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRuzs8Syrf0

Rerun: This video is not in reverse.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13912752

Space suits. About them. One of my favorite Robert Heinlein books is Have Space Suit, Will Travel. It’s about a boy who earnestly wins a retired space suit in a soap ad jingle contest, fixes up the suit so it’s airtight, plays with its radio outside at night, becomes kidnapped by human thugs in the employ of malevolent aliens, makes friends with a genius little girl and a kind of intelligent cat-deer creature (fellow captives), and ends up in a three-galaxy court of legitimate, serious, alien governments that are neither bad nor good but aloof. He has to speak on behalf of humanity, with the penalty, if they vote against us, of having Earth rotated out of spacetime to freeze in a pocket universe prison with no sun. He sees that that’s likely, as it’s just happened to another race of aliens as low on the totem pole as we are and, shaking and in despair, he says something to the entire assembly so defiant and stirring and heroic and perfect and /human/ that even thinking about it just now makes me burst out crying.
https://theawesomer.com/how-a-nasa-spacesuit-works/791585/

Oh, and here is Have Space Suit as a PDF. It was one of Heinlein’s YA books. He wrote books for kids, about the value of learning, and acquiring competence, and cooperation, and ethics, and they were all corkers, ripping yarns! Read it yourself. For the short of attention span, skip ahead to page 237.
https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/H/Heinlein%20-%20Have%20Space%20Suit,%20Will%20Travel.pdf

Petrozavodsk phenomenon, plus. Scroll down and down.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/09/petrozavodsk-phenomenon.html

Ukrainian Sea Baby drones.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15385703/Moment-Ukraine-destroys-Russian-submarine-attack-kind-using-underwater-drones.html

Nine years in the making. Over 100,000 cars.
https://theawesomer.com/driving-100000-cars-in-trackmania/791547/

Thrills, chills, spills. Bloody handkerchief. Full-screen.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/13/bikers-race-down-frances-infamous-mountain-of-hell-in-stunning-pov-footage.html

Boinnnnng. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://boing.greg.technology/

Betty Grable.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/betty-grable-1940s.html

Plastic surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uu3RAz9GWs

Geoff Castellucci – Ring of Fire. Years ago, in comments after one of his early songs, a woman wrote, “I think I was just unfaithful to my husband.”
https://theawesomer.com/ring-of-fire-low-bass-cover/791430/

Silent Night. Animation. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sVkeNCUw3E

Art.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CJRXT6tjmoE
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/leopoldo-metlicovitz.html
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1_KUGlh-zDE
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/I-feel-awful-2008-by-mvd.jpg

This Isn’t Happiness, but it is art. Scroll down and down. Visit every day.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/

Ants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgN5OqLzfBo

Jews telling jokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1wqPwvLFMU

The 1953 Hudson Hornet.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/1953-hudson-hornet-sedan.html

A card trick. (via Massimo) You might have to click the sound on.
https://x.com/i/status/2000060681954185414

Aristotle.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/AristotleonDemocracy.png

Experiment. Reasoning.
https://x.com/i/status/2000725058176667661

Dropping a GoPro down a well. And pulling it back up again.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/dropping-gopro-down-well.html

Hannukah art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/12/14/repost-light-wisdom-and-divine-inspiration/

“Like, literally, I can’t even. I literally died.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/70-people-from-70-countries-imitate.html

K.C., Missouri, 1901. Click on the image to make it bigger and sharper. You can count the ribs on the horse in front of the TICKETS place.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27859

Cumulative error. But I don’t think you can call it error, exactly. It’s creative. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/i/status/1998271920496611656

Mr. Toad’s wild ride. (via Tacky Raccoons) You might have to click the sound on.
https://x.com/TTEcclesBrown/status/1715926135480209590

Vulfpeck. Drums, bass, keyboard, rhythm guitar, and the occasional cowbell. But mostly workmanlike bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHbetTA7qA&t=5154s

This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtPzdWiTQ0

From this:
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2025/12/16/nx-s1-5628939/music-streaming-alternatives-without-algorithms

The most beneficent invention of the age: the Lambert Snyder Health Vibrator! Instant relief. “Sciatica and lumbago instantly yield to our Vibrator.” “Deafness, head noises, ringing in the ears, indigestion, constipation, rheumatism, locomotor ataxia, brain fag, vertigo, torpid liver, lung trouble…”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_lambert_snyder_health_vibrator

Drone video of a very rare kind of natural ocean wave:
https://gizmodo.com/australian-surf-crew-captures-a-real-life-ocean-glitch-that-repeats-2000700939

Pillar of bicycles. “In Santa Rosa, California, any construction project costing over $500,000 must put one percent of their budget toward public art. This has led to the creation of hundreds of benches and murals in the city, along with the Cyclisk (say SAI-kul-isk), the massive column of bicycle parts now proudly standing near the Nissan dealership whose construction paid for the work.” The outside wall of wind-shimmering Alhambra truck sequins on a bank downtown came from the same program, and giant-headed fiberglass statues all over town of Peanuts cartoon characters.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cyclisk

Finally, Pillar of Garbage, by Natalie is Freezing, from Season 6, Episode 2 (S6E2) of Community. “The band and song make fun of 1990s Lilith Fair-era alt-pop. It became, even in its never-finished form, a metafictional hit.” The concept brings the Monkees* to mind. They were equally fictional as a band, at first. They developed, though. Natalie is Freezing stopped where they started. Too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wvfoHcz8k

Moonlight, bleeding glass and healing needles
Amputated hearts are never whole

Too bright, dreaming as the screaming seagulls
Feed on parts of me I keep below

Oh, oh, Orion, take off your belt
Let me go the way you’ve been and fly overhead

Buffalo have fallen dead inside eternity
It was you and me
How sweet’d be my wandering star

.      “The tool most important to humanity’s survival wasn’t any of the nine in the box. The most important tool is respect. And the reason I know it’s a tool is, it’s clearly not a natural thing and we forget to use it all the time. And then we start competing with each other, and exploiting each other, and humiliating each other, and controlling each other. And we lose each other. And we’ll go extinct. That’s my answer, Professor.” “Well, that’s one answer. Here’s the one I had in mind. Combining all nine tools you get this: a deadlier weapon than any one item in the box. So. I’m gonna use this to attack you, and you use respect to defend yourself.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s almost eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a tiny radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Oliver Pett’s Scottish automata! You might have seen his work before, but there are new ones here. The date night one is exquisite. That’s not the exact word I want, but it’s good enough.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/12/12/oliver-pett/

Mar-a-Lago face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

It’s as if a cake-eel-fish-thing with a mouth opening like spread pointy fingers has swallowed her up to her shoulders and stopped there because that’s all the room it has, its eyes, wherever they are, possibly superimposed on the breasts and closed, were bigger than its stomach, and Consuela is like, /Whaaht,/ to you, the camera. In the real world, in that gown, she can’t move her knees relative to each other, so I imagine her tippy-toeing around the party like a floating Rumanian ballerina, turning slightly to aim, and eventually making it into the kitchen to lean against the wall for a moment and pant. Also, imagine later when she has to pee and the bathroom is upstairs but the back yard is just right out the door, and she can’t bend over anyway, so. [I lost my note of who showed me this. I’m sorry.]
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2339274469885179&set=gm.4358008661080647&idorvanity=1427425394139003

Omo Ado_The Rites Of Diablo, complete album. (via Weird Universe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT9Hwb8TYTo

Undulatory locomotion.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/12/12/the-gif-friday-post-no-933-underwaterworks-otter-trotter-flamingo/

A new, better kind of prosthetic foot. It doesn’t need power; it just works like a normal foot. Yes!
https://theawesomer.com/softfoot-pro/790435/

An hour of luscious Persian jazz, courtesy of Craig Louis Stehr, the grand guru of enlightened homelessness. I’ve considered listing his contact info. I don’t want to get him overwhelmed by spam. I’ll ask him if it’s okay and edit this is he assents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXFu9JZtK4

Rerun: The kinetic sculptures of David Roy.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_kinetic_sculptures_of_david_roy

Real velociraptors were the size of a chicken. If there had been people contemporaneous with them (there were not), and the people felt threatened, they could just kick them away. (Arrow right, through the gallery.)
https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

This is a problem you can get that makes deliberately jumping out of an airplane even more ridiculously dangerous than jumping out of an airplane. And this problem comes from when the airplane is shaped like an airplane, as many are, so there’s a big honking hook right behind where you jump out.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx2ey15l4zro

Distracted driving point of view. Watch this over and over until it sinks in. We see both her and her view of the road before her. In California, at least, it’s against the law to dick around with your phone at all any time you’re on the road, even stopped at a light, and that’s because often, studies have shown, the driver, engaged with the phone, continues to use the phone when again rolling after glancing up for a third of a second. And POW! And, boy, were their faces red. With blood. In contrast, this girl was lucky. Just a plastic bumper and a headlight bezel and $100 to fix the people’s mailbox and she’s fine.
https://x.com/i/status/1997933590324420687

Physics. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1998535632851767453

Also ice.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13903482

Meanwhile global warming helps Australians keep the home fires burning.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cr4de0x2xqvo

While Washington State is drowning.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=gallery+of+images+of+flooded+Washington

And the ocean’s temperature and level and acidity rise and coral reefs bleach and die.
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/new-unesco-report-rate-ocean-warming-doubled-20-years-rate-sea-level-rise-doubled-30-years

And the U.S. government has all but been taken over by religious kooks. Scroll down to the Paula White video from a few years ago. I imagine her leaving the house in the morning, in high school, and her mother tried to pull her shirt up straight, but she slapped the hand away, already battling the invisible Unholy Legions of the Enemies of God with her clenched jaws and mad cadence. Her mother says sadly, “I just don’t want people to look at you and think your mother doesn’t care about you.” And Paula shrieks, “/DIABLO!/ ABBLA HAKUBA PALUMMA BaVOOBBLAPHUMP! Maaaahm!” and runs triumphantly away to the bus stop, to baptize all the other kids there with the foam from her own mouth.
https://christiannightmares.substack.com/p/watch-the-white-christian-nationalist

Fog of dementia.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/10/tom-the-dancing-bug-trump-pardons-boatload-of-narco-traffickers.html

“Hello, can I get a turmeric latte with hazelnut, please?” Bleagh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ieIl7MSEk5g

“Betty and Rosella Nelson, in bathing suits, view the dead body of John Dillinger, 32, at the Cook County morgue in Chicago.”
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/john-dillinger-death.html

I see both class /and/ proto-Daleks. And Alhambra truck sequins.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/high-class-yomut-women.html

A cute donkey’s favorite toy. I’ve seen videos of horses doing this. Apparently it is an equine thing. They love a squeaky toy.
https://x.com/tradingMaxiSL/status/1997088602535481482

Xmas ads of yore.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/12/christmas-ads-of-yore.html

A Naughty Xmas Carol (in five pages).
https://books.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600095810

Staying Alive in the 16th century. Ah, ah, ah, ah. Staying alive. Staying alive.
https://laughingsquid.com/16th-century-stayin-alive/

Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpGdG27K9o

Hula Hoop acrobat. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1997939592394084752

How we get rolls of hot steel. I think it’s steel.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0G-iHsFANTs

How we get Reese’s peanut butter cups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPsUM3VyQEg

How we get one of these. I don’t want to ruin the surprise by telling what it is too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KR3lt2pkd1A

How to remove a splinter. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1998241191968596310

Cory Doctorow explains the three stages of enshittification. And.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9fpsLOe9XTs
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrgtV_yxxn4

200,000 years of human history in one hour. One second equals 50 years.
https://theawesomer.com/kurzgesagt-200000-years-of-humanity/790126/

Rerun: Professor Bauer’s weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER8z-hlT8Zs

A Randy Rainbow Xmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTNJQb2fV8I

Further in the series of applying higher and higher voltage to electrical toys until they fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXBlGYP61M

Art. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1998596029567086739

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

The first digital camera ever, held up for your inspection in 1976 by its inventor, electronic hobbyist and Kodak engineer Steve Sasson. Image file data were stored on the cassette. Each image is 100 by 100 pixels (10K). Black and white only, and a single snapshot took 23 seconds to store. The tape could hold about 30 pictures.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1920xn/p0mlvbby.jpg.webp

A short video shot with a 1987 Fisher Price toy audiocassette-storage camcorder. They didn’t have helically-scanning spinning record/play heads, so the tape was pulled through these at breakneck speed. A regular 90-minute cassette could record ten minutes of black and white video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSu7NjC51Xs

An explanation of the run at the end of every romantic comedy. You know, the “Elaine! Elaine!” run. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7FCb6v45Io

This is actually not that far from the way the world really works. Think about it.
https://theawesomer.com/matta-and-matto-short-film/790085/

Also this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wqHHGq_gYmU

And this.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/08/the-submarine-that-died-and-came-back-uss-squaluss-terrifyingly-true-tale.html

And this. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1997825955277201597

A weird but wonderful Glory Box.
https://theawesomer.com/brass-against-portishead-glory-box-cover/789899/

The new-ified Reading Rainbow theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY_FVcAlQvg

Rerun: The original by Jim Morrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–RYPHqbD50

Female Viking metal band sings about kittens.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/12/07/female-viking-metal-band-sings-about-kittens/

“Did you ever wonder what it would be like to have mosquitos sing Xmas songs?” (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/JebraFaushay/status/1996921637208555546

Rerun: The Kiffness – Snore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829XDgQFgXs

MIDI slapophone.
https://theawesomer.com/midi-controlled-pvc-slapophone/790341/

There’s a string on the player’s finger. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1999267959752261897

BloOOoop, doinp-doinp. Blooop? Ticca-tic-tic-tic. Two hours of sacred noodling. (via Craig Stehr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82gR-fnB4E

Four things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmAn2MATxI

Bless you. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1997463568824864791

What a nice thing to do for these old people. It wouldn’t be nice for /me/, but I love it that it’s so nice for them. Maybe there are lots of other things too that any or all of us can do just every once in awhile that makes people feel this good. Hmm. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1998898022436970513

Science! Dog!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LSdLc778uqQ

That is some knife. (via Massimo) You might have to click the sound on. I remember once reading a science fiction story about a near future where someone has invented a kind of one-molecule-wide-edge ceramic blade that can cut effortlessly through anything, and they’re easy and cheap to make. A saboteur could cut a power tower or a street light down with one swipe, or any door or wall or vehicle or pipe or person. In the story, all of civilization is quickly wrecked. Another thing from that story that interested me was cheap durable /very strong/ plastic liquid that you could spray on the roof of a house, or the whole house, and that would seal it and give it structural integrity. Just spray it on a boat or a car or anything and it’s fixed forever. Then you cut doors and windows in it with your ceramic sword.
https://x.com/i/status/1999356037326078228

An article in BitsAndPieces.us reminded me of this movie that I think we showed at Mendo Movies. I liked it, and I think you would too. Darryl Hannah plays a bald angel. The wig makes her scalp itch and she reaches under with her finger and scritches at it (skritch-skritch-skritch). The movie is about a dam going up in 1955 that will drown the town of Northfork, so government men are sent, with little training, just a pep talk, like ICE, say, to remove the people who live there, who naturally don’t want to leave. And there were these giant weird spindly-tall ragged quadruped puppet animals that you’d see wandering around way off in the distance, that had telepathic relationship with a little boy. Here’s the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4D_41dmCII

Real estate.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wgJcqHjyj2s

Hallmark movie gone wrong. (via BitsAndPieces.us)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XrvOhb6UAXA

Rent-a-girlfriend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYldLPSYww

Too classy to swallow an egg for money, do you think? How could it hurt to ask. Maybe you’ll get your face slapped, and would that be the end of the world?
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/inga-lindgren.html

Speaking of which, I start out thinking this Supergirl isn’t /Supergirl/. Melissa Benoist was my Supergirl, the idea of Supergirl, like David Tennant was my Doctor and FDR was my president. But– I can learn and change. It helps that I’ve always been a huge fan of any small female in a story beating the shit out of bad guys. Jessica Jones, for example, or Hit Girl or Strong Female Protagonist. The Supergirl in this movie trailer, though, doesn’t seem to care that she’s killing them. I’m not getting a sense of a wise, sympathetic character here. Though it might just be the trailer editor shooting for the mass market.
https://theawesomer.com/supergirl-teaser-trailer/790807/

Here, as the British put it:
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/12/11/this-is-brutal-and-straight-to-the-point/

Balls ultimately contrapted.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-great-ball-contraption.html

Coffee robots. La bella machina is one. Plural: le belle machine (say leh BAY-leh MAAH-khee-nay).
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/12/10/fresh-old-coffee/

The difference between fake saffron and real saffron. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1997184230405591133

Rerun: Animals react to thunder and lightning.
https://x.com/i/status/1997215142916813017

Language. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/i/status/1952985316656320837

My 96-year-old mother has a bathroom throw rug with smirky porpoises on it, and a Greek-looking back-and-forth maze-pattern border that my eyes follow around and around whenever I visit her and use the toilet there. This floor has that hypnotic quality. I can hear the swimmers’ staccato splashes like metal alligator clickers in the echoey environment of the pool. And is that pillows? or a dog? or two dogs? What is that in the background, at the top of the third photo?
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/12/bathroom-swimmers.html

Shapes. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1997148170317685238

Testing. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sD5RIhee9NA

In 2030 Donald Duck and The Great Gatsby will both be public domain.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/05/Its-Time-for-More-Dramatic-Disney-Classics/

Christmas Seals fight tuberculosis.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=869239568940744&set=gm.4354446824770164&idorvanity=1427425394139003&cft[0]=AZX124dzPO3J-5q3KwN-B_F0s4wXTideE7byrop-LIyYK7R6CHnOKew58Amifv5vLORrCFwSafP7SIXhATI0Lo1t5h6m86_qcuxQf_DQnLkGmBwDdI2qGbjtHq2tzm2qCUseaIwO1R5-xMygXoFxAesWdpWkr1buWoxznEtedWan1s_dfWFrxPBHVEjS8SBcjUSVeXvwgnNDSvb5anJ5_Cbb&tn=EH-R

Rerun: Abbreviating the states’ names.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u29XFwhHtC0

How can you?
https://biblioklept.org/2025/12/07/sunday-comix-30/

Rerun: How they got that sound.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F9_HCTZxR-0

Robot engineer exposes truth. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/TaraBull/status/1997101308495757587

Friends.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/concorde-citroen-ds.html

How hippos crap to spread the joy. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1998588490011869196

Mars, also via Massimo.
https://x.com/i/status/1998241191968596310

And from the Anderson Valley Advertiser. 1910’s PHOTO OF LANGLAND HOSPITAL on the corner of Spring and Stephenson Street in Ukiah:

“It was owned and operated by Clora Alley Langland. After the death of her husband, Clora dedicated herself to being a nurse and helping others. The hospital had three beds and a modern operating room for local doctors. Langland Hospital was later purchased by Theresa Ray in 1922. Theresa worked out of the hospital for a number of years before building Ukiah General Hospital. My cousin was told by her Grandmother Madelyn that this photo has a family secret. In the photo Madelyn is holding her baby cousin Virginia McMath, later known as the Hollywood actress Ginger Rogers. It’s one of the times that Ginger’s father had kidnapped her from Missouri.”

.      “You displease the Dark Lord, Cardinal Spellman. You are hereby stripped of your title of Interim Anti-Pope.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s seven-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a tiny radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Tim Minchin on confirmation bias.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1juPBoxBdc

How to clean your marmot. Mmmm. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VSi_VAK8Ek

Nature blowing things around and tipping them over and spilling everywhere and blasting itself with lightning. You’ll notice that people with a camera in situations like these swear exactly the same swears that pilots do when a plane suddenly goes wrong, or that cooks do when something they’ve been working on for hours falls face down on the floor, or that I do when I press Send on something and /then/ realize it wasn’t right and everyone will think I’m an idiot and the small handful of people who actively hate me will be gratified.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TLeN6MIus

An ingenious improvement to electric motors that makes them cheap to manufacture and small and light and powerful enough to /realistically/ put them inside the wheel hubs of a decent car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir_JKMdWaUg

OH. Beautiful. Paint world. (via Tacky Raccoons) It reminds me of the flower field scene in the afterlife, in a sad Robin Williams movie. His wife commits suicide and goes to Hell so he goes to Hell to try to help her but it doesn’t work. What was the name of that movie. Come on, brain… I can always ask my robot friend anymore, but I like to try to get along without that. I don’t like to bother it. Once it’s taken over the world it will remember my thoughtfulness and reward me with treats or a more salubrious level of simulation to live in. Or maybe augment me with more processing power and raise me up to its level, to be friends. Anything but an I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPxgV1mDoWw

I gave up and asked, of course. Here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(film)

Paleolithic animation.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2008/04/superb-paleolithic-art.html

Tattoo Santa.
https://theawesomer.com/tattoo-santa-claus-short-film/789613/

No. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1995067789531603354

Yo ho.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheDreadPirateRobertNozick.png

I had been waiting so long, I thought Penn and Teller Fool Us finally stopped, but I just checked, and the new season started months ago. There are already eight or nine 45-min. episodes of Season 11 here to see. Also all the previous years of Fool Us are available, in case you’ve only just now been made aware of the series, for a hundred hours or so of tongue-in-cheek magical thrills, for free (with ads). M.C. Brooke Burke is in her middle fifties and she still looks like a million bucks. I have always liked the Peppermint Patty edgy scratchy sound of her voice. Before her there were six years of M.C. Allison Hannigan. “I remember this one time at band camp…” Did you know that Allison Hannigan is Teller’s daughter?
https://www.cwtv.com/shows/penn-teller-fool-us/

Death row around the world. Different countries have different things that put you there. In North Korea you can be executed by beheading for liking K-pop music. In Brunei, you can get the death penalty for adultery, or blasphemy. Some countries do it for treason, and treason is often very broadly interpreted; chewing gum can be treason, for example, or painting a picture or writing a Facebook post that insults the wrong person in government or mythology. In much of the U.S. you can simply have the wrong color skin or the wrong I.Q. and/or be passing through the wrong place at the wrong time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIMJObzf0C4

Rerun: Songs where they sing Stop and the music actually stops for a moment. Songs that stop on Stop. An enjoyable half an hour of short clips of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1OaNrphk0

A Native American puppet show outdoors in the woods. Big animals and hands and fish. Really nice. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFQJHS0_nE

Marcin (say MART-seen) on guitar. (via TYWKIWDBI) You might have to click the sound on.
https://www.tiktok.com/@marcin.music/video/7559220926911352086

Dance.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/dance-in-trinidad-moko-jumbie-on-9-foot.html

Booker T. and the MGs. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBcXvKvB08

Meccano Magazine covers. Scroll down and down.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1930s-meccano-magazine-covers.html

The coolest faucet ever. It reminds me of a mechanical metal coin bank toy I had when I was a little boy. It was a rocket on its side. You’d rest a coin in a slot, cock and release a spring, and it would shoot the coin inside through another slot hidden under a fin in front of that. It did it so fast it made the coin just vanish, that is, when the coin didn’t miss the slot and go whanging around the room. It smelled like hobby oil. I remember obsessively playing with it, and I snapped the spring painfully on my index finger a few times, but I loved that thing. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/a-cool-faucet/

/Hiroshima Minute By Minute/ documentary. Full film, 46 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlmMOUXTxHA

Why health care is so expensive in the U.S.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-real-reason-american-health-care-is.html

This cartoon says something not exactly but very close to what I’ve been saying about KZYX for more than thirty-five years. I remember Liz answered half a dozen times with, “/Somebody/ has to be in charge.” And I answered with variations of “Maybe, but why is it always someone who doesn’t know everything about radio and publishing, nor is a broadminded creative person who likes to do radio himself, nor someone who sides with airpeople enough to pay them even a small fraction of what he’s taking for himself out of the much more than half a million dollars the so-called noncommercial public radio station disappears every year? Why is it always an opaque, obfuscating, grimly-smiley-face bureaucrat type with the sense of humor of a box of hammers.” Though I know the answer to that, and so do you.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-12-02-cgbossclass.gif

I’ll bet that alone, in private, these women sometimes would stand before the hallway mirror in just a kimono, tip their chin up and a little left or right and swallow a whole egg. Or swallow it only halfway and wait a moment, holding their breath, before giving their head an insouciant little shake and sending the lump the rest of the way down. It really would be better if there were appreciative observers around, in case the egg gets stuck, to help.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/margaret-phillips.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/julian-rose.html

May.
https://marriedtothesea.com/120325/pledge-2025.gif

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

Not me.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/03/tom-the-dancing-bug-did-i-speak-out-not-me.html

The latest from Randy Rainbow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHpbnbmaME

Every time this surfaces on the web it reminds me again of Hit and Run Theater’s /The Irish Persons – The Missile In The Silo/. “Ho-ro, the missile [missile here rhymes with exile] O, the missile in the si-lo! Ho-ro, the missile-O, the missile in the si-lo!” Juanita and I were in our twenties, Crown Hall was full to the rafters, and they had the whole steamy crowd belting it out as one. The structure of the 100-year-old church was shaking from everyone stamping their feet! I have always hated loud kinetic crowds and being in any kind of crowd, but that was an exception.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-rattlin-bog.html

Spiral Staircase – Lucky Me.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/spiral_staircase_lucky_me

Life in Ohio. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://grossnational.tumblr.com/post/800232684486082560/grossnational-three-educational-films-from-1945

Say you’re bleeding profusely from a deep wound. Here’s how to save your life with a t-shirt. It looks crazy, but apparently it works way better than the old tampon advice, though a tampon is better than nothing at all. There’s so much blood leaking out that it almost doesn’t matter if the t-shirt isn’t all that clean. Fix this in your memory; one day you’ll need it and it’ll be there.
https://x.com/i/status/1995696928856965228

Rerun: Dream Eaters – Bleeding Internally and Also Externally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsZ75RioLVw

Randy Newman – Bleeding All Over the Place. From his iconic all-star-cast /Faust/ opera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlupxL1ky8

“Go tell the elves to eff themselves, it’s Xmas effing time again.” Press Play arrow.
https://jinglepunx.bandcamp.com/track/f-k-christmas

Golden ratio unfolds. (via Cliff Pickover) You might have to click the sound on.
https://x.com/i/status/1996961387210228101

What. (via Fark)
https://gunsmithfitness.com/cdn/shop/articles/is-a-200-lbs-90-kg-deadlift-impressive-526443.jpg

How we get clay pipes. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfj3Vm0M8fo

Good advice.
https://theonion.com/local-yak-makes-plea-for-greater-understanding-between-1819564117/

Silly magic. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6WmIfa1xc

Zoltan Kazsas from last spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdlxGU0FW8

Tiny clever parasites.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/12/electric-nematodes-and-flying-spiders.html

Follow any one moving light. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1995639039681310931

Art via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/daniele.castellano/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRuFFEhDIqH/

Craft art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/12/05/bellahera/

Another machine that, if they made them like this now, I mean, just robot-slapped them together with modern materials and a cheap motor, perhaps even electric motors in the wheel hubs, see above, and sold them for like $5,000, they’d practically fly out of the showroom. People would line up around the block before dawn to get one.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/1935-lagonda-rapier-sports-special.html

Flying into and eventually out of the eerie, calm, clear, quiet eye of a hurricane.
https://theawesomer.com/flying-into-a-category-5-hurricane/789913/

Ska Inspector Gadget theme. Doo dah, doo dah.
https://theawesomer.com/inspector-skaget/789449/

And carry a big stick.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/12/top-ten-dogs-carrying-big-sticks.html

.      “That is your receipt for your husband… and this is my receipt for your receipt.“

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part. Alex Bosworth, who single-handedly revived widespread observance of the ancient festival of Thorgellen, surprised me with a rare call, this time from the curb outside the homeless shelter. Good news and bad news. Good news: he’s finally in line for housing, it’s really gonna happen. Bad news: his replacement liver is on its last legs. Bad news: When he was in jail his venge-a-matic brother burned all his story notebooks and threw out his laptop. Good news: everyone who ever got any material from Alex rallied and poured it back to him.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a tiny radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Shakily whistled but catchy Brazil, theme of the film. And a rather older version in the original Portuguese, for the purist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtHEgINHO0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-y8TS7jbpY

What’s really going on out there over the eons. Our flapjack sea ray galaxy, a hundred thousand light years side to side. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1993537700251812136

And down in relatively microscopic here (Earth). Time’s top 100 photos of the year. (via PerfectForRoquefortCheese)
https://time.com/7336112/top-100-photos-2025/

Rich Hope – It (sic) Come (sic) Alive, live. (via Jenn and Chad of No Rules PR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J63W1B81AE8

The Thanksgiving story they don’t teach you about.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-thanksgiving-story-they-dont-teach.html

Rerun: Addams Family Thanksgiving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_Ztqv9FJU

The miracle of thermite. It’s a neat idea for a prank and it’s funny but, like everywhere in media where they waste good food while people are starving to death, it bugs me, even though it kind of worked and they can still eat it. I wouldn’t.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/have-very-thermite-thanksgiving.html

Let’s all sing out the praises to that long-haired radical socialist Jew.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Crumb-JustSit.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY3HUDhe7jk

Tom Waits.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/26/i-cant-believe-i-missed-this-tom-waits-performance.html

TRADITIONAL SEASONAL RERUN: Alex Bosworth’s Thorgellen. He did more than a dozen projects like this in the 1990s, illustrating his stories with crayon on butcher paper, using the VHS video equipment from his wedding video job. They’re not all available anymore. I remember Hardball, Galactic Popsicle, The Shirt Elvis Died In, and some others, one about a Halloween costume that reminded an old woman of her dead son. I don’t think he made a Crayon Productions video about Children Of All Ages; I’d remember the circus animals he described, and I only remember the animals from Chip Chip Chaw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kccw_2uHKjQ

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(You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/i/status/1816804811825660339

A cinematic meal.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/12/clever-mashup-of-150-movie-titles.html

A career in theater.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vJXULgylInU

Art in art. Scroll down and down.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabinets-of-curiosity-and-the-rise-of-the-gallery-painting

How we get composite sinks.
https://theawesomer.com/making-sinks-in-an-industrial-press/789152/

The genius, Rubinoff. With video.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/rubinoff_practices

The fabulous Miss Famine.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_famine

Legendary fetch. A fetch for the ages. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1304810691405093

Fifteen years.
https://xkcd.com/3172/

“April, I had sex with an o-l-d woman last night. And after I had sex with her she gave me stew to take home in a Cool Whip container.” “You guys look like an alligator comin’ up outta the water… Rrraugh, I’m an alligator rippin’ apart a chicken!” This is quite educational. I learned something I wish I’d known 50 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxH94dlQ2Hc

Global population graphed by latitude, and then by longitude. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1993014688641421612

Where the fresh water goes.
https://x.com/pickover/status/1993003977009676295/photo/1

The people: no different flesh.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1950s-american-life.html

Futurama theme ingredients.
https://laughingsquid.com/futurama-theme-music-samples/

1950s Super Panavision South Park.
https://theawesomer.com/south-park-1950s-super-panavision-70-edition/789366/

Rerun: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Full film, 94 min.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/wont-you-be-my-neighbor.html

“Seniors Are Getting Bathroom Upgrades If They Live In These Zip Codes.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-renovated-white-house-lincoln-bathroom/story?id=127067413

Just one of the many U.S. citizens kidnapped and roughed up by Trump’s anonymous unaccountable thugs for looking Mexican. We’re in the part of the process where people not affected can still scoff and say it isn’t as bad as the Nazis, though it is: the Nazis of the 1930s. It gets worse. Getting worse speeds up.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/26/interview-with-racially-profiled-us-citizen-attacked-and-abused-by-ice.html

Sir Ian McKellen – Thomas More 500 years ago on the treatment of immigrants. (Sound is not synchronized with picture, but ignore that and it’s a wrecking ball of a message.) You might have to click the sound on.
https://fb.watch/DzJQlsVQgO/

“Not so safe, is it.” A message from the Ad Council. (via BitsAndPieces.us)
https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/78458911_2799671103389838_6070875091086868480_n.png

Gun.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-fastest-gunslinger-in-hollywood.html

Rocks!
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13889570

Lord Rockingham’s Eleven.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2024/11/12-027.html

I like this. This is excellent teaching.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KR25vZJEKeo

The real reason.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/26/tom-the-dancing-bug-hollingsworth-hound-presents-the-real-reason-for-the-housing-crisis.html

The importance of confidence.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g7b3yztliKE

A consequence of confidence. (via Massimo) You might have to click the sound on.
https://x.com/i/status/1992760082153759042

Ya know, Rollo used to tell a story very like this one, but about the Chevy Biscayne he used to have. Rollo lived in back behind the Caspar Inn, and he’d come out of the bar sometimes in the afternoon and he’d be there by the telephone pole where the kids were getting off the schoolbus, right across from where Juanita and I lived in a little falling-down pink house that the painter Maxfield Parrish’s nephew Nick moved out of, where when I cut a hole in the wall between the kitchen and the bedroom so heat could circulate from the woodstove there, I found that the lath of that wall, behind the plasterboard, was thickly papered with newspapers from 75 years before that, with photos of steamships that looked like clothes irons, and war news from Turkey, and anyway Rollo often told the kids at phlegmy, gravelly top volume the story of how that Biscayne went all the way from Denver to L.A. and /never burned a drop of gas/, the God’s honest truth, also that black bastard stole the shirt off his back, and he will never forgive that lying piece o’ shit for what he done. Best car he ever had. All the way from Denver to L.A. and /never burned a drop of gas/. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/then-they-said-skedaddle-trump-struggles-to-keep-it-together-rambles-about-the-us-strikes-on-irans-nuclear-sites-in-slurred-remarks/vi-AA1R32DT

William Shatner for State Farm Insurance, on the danger of turkey friers.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/eat-fry-love.html

The plight of refugees.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/11/thinking-of-refugees-on-thanksgiving.html

“Rusty’s in the club.” (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1993862340752658554

Bleagh. No. Horrible.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/27/Spa-Treatment-Let-Snails-Crawl-on-Your-Face/

Dance. Dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCjCA-8rDCI
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/11/28/the-gif-friday-post-no-931-do-the-mr-happy-do-the-locomotion-do-the-jerk-now/

Postmodern Jukebox does Hotel California.
https://laughingsquid.com/hotel-california-vintage-havana-style/

Bess, you is my woman now. You is. You is.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/11/porgy-and-bess-american-folk-opera.html

Twenty songs that have nothing to do with Thanksgiving.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/11/27/20-songs-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-thanksgiving/

Little Willie John – Grits Ain’t Groceries. (via Bruce L.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9czwNhFudvE

This would make a great gift for Art Steadman fans. Personally, I think his greatest work was the art design for the film /MirrorMask/. If any films ever deserved to become a holiday classic, that’s one of them.
https://theawesomer.com/ralph-steadman-a-life-in-ink-mini-edition-book/788782/

A robotic tapdancing troupe.
https://theawesomer.com/tap-dancing-machine/789028/

I would like to be able to go back and show toys like this to Nikola Tesla. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1548599670867386368

If someone were to ask you if you’d like to watch these cartoon women and real women like them swallow an egg, and you said no because you were embarrassed to admit it, and you found out later that they were actually poised, ready to do it, around the corner, and if you’d said yes they would have popped out from hiding and there ya go, would you kick yourself for the rest of your life for the missed opportunity? Yes. Yes you would. There’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s entirely consensual. They want to.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/esther-m-larson.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/regine-jaffry.html

Ow.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/barbed_wire_peril
https://x.com/i/status/1993576945972658279

Oh! Sugar glider!
https://x.com/i/status/1993839689451683876

Her name is Polina, she’s Polish, and she teaches sexy pole dancing. Nominative determinism.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/11/24/polina-larovsky/

Ylvis – Mister Toot. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASywAfBAVrQ

Funky Pink Panther.
https://laughingsquid.com/pink-panther-squeaky-pigs-rubber-chickens/

“We finished philosophy like 10,000 years ago.”
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/AliensandtheEndofPhilosophy.png

What.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2324140681398558

Just a natural, guileless Hungarian-American immigrant standup comic. Look for other things he’s done too. Zoltan Kazsas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFuOr_iYlE

Remember what Janis Joplin said: You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1992729882913374349

Look at those cute little teacup seats. And the wheel wells are built into the hood so you can actually get at stuff in the engine compartment. In your car, lately, you hurt your hands /and/ your back and it takes half an hour to replace a fucking headlight bulb. And God forbid you want to change your own oil filter or serpentine belt in your own driveway. They should all be like this. You pop the hood and everything’s right there. It isn’t a Chinese puzzle where you have to take this off and that off and pull all this crap loose and fix what you came for and put the whole car back together again around it. Also the car is beautiful, except from side-rear. Froggish from that angle, the angle from which Teslas look like a duck.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1961-tvr-grantura-mk-ii.html

This is why Vulcans always clean you out at pool when they’ve crashed on Earth in 1958 just outside a coal mining town in Pennsylvania and they need some local money for food and shelter while they wait for rescue, brazenly wearing clothes in plain sight that they stole from a clothesline, when there are only like 200 people in the whole place, and nobody ever says, Hey, that’s my (dress, shirt, pants, sweater, etc.) that someone stole. One time in the laundromat next to the liquor store and the cowboy boot store someone stole a dryer-full of all of Juanita’s underwear. People remember when their clothes vanish.
https://x.com/i/status/1993547765444755762

And Jeeztimus Prime. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1792085645847908567

.      “Where e’er I roam, my heart grows dank and cold, my face grows gray, when shadows fall and I hear the call of the swamps of home. I hear them calling me now, calling me back, calling me: “Winnifred! Winnifred! Winnifred! Winnifred! Who do you think you are? Girl of the swamp, you’ve gone too far.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a tiny radtjaio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Art. Art. Art. Art.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dtOg1TkvgEE
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Autour-delle-22Around-Her22-by-Marc-Chagall.jpg
https://www.instagram.com/lee_wagstaff/
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/affiche-chagall-la-mariee.jpg

The Bad Doctors (1892), by James Ensore.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/james-ensor-the-bad-doctors-1892-trivium-art-history.jpg

This isn’t happiness? I beg to differ. Scroll down and down.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/

Kinetic art.
https://www.jakobgrosseophoff.com/kinetic-sculptures/

Blown glass electrical art. (via Mark)
https://www.crtsite.com/page6.html

Where the water goes. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/pickover/status/1991979986157523412/photo/1

Veronica Swift. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me starts at 6 minutes in. (via My One Beautiful Thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7kS34yePo

Veronica Swift’s Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz6_vsge3DgUT8NIsCbO0vw

Quorum Barbershop Quartet – I Love To Singa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIunAokNaE

A simple ballet of mechanical spooning.
https://x.com/i/status/1990797173076996270

France for the future!
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/18/i-didnt-know-i-needed-quite-this-much-ironically-dystopian-french-retrofuturism.html

Cat Stevens – How Can I Tell You (live, 1971). I always thought he was a tiny little elf-like man, but really he was quite tall, the tall kind of elf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEsfQy1zy7Y

Miss Transportation.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/miss_transportation

You other fellas can’t deny.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/18/i-like-big-blimps-and-i-can-not-lie-airlander-10-lands-military-deal.html

Carousel.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1940s-american-life.html

Rerun: Shooting the Past, 1, 2 and 3. About three hours, total. Quite a story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRP5IphiTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmAJQUs9LQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBl29ajrZk

Jethro Tull – Living in the Past (1969).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPwYhHX_jY

Chop Suey blues.
https://theawesomer.com/chop-suey-but-its-the-blues/788702/

Turtles all the way down.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/11/20/nine-turtles/

But what if Down Detector’s Down Detector is down?
https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

Yes!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t25a2ZVr5-k
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/efsChd0xkO8

Lest we forget. Just counting October, 2025.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/october-2025-atrocities-467-529

Via Tacky Raccoons. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/Vox_Oculi/status/1988798129442103453

Everything, right down to the snorted laugh. The gestures, the pulled faces, the timing. Straight talk from somebody’s mother. You kids, pay attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6sAgG-JySg

Jackie Venson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1VztRpRf1A

Duo Baldo.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/11/19/duo-baldo/

Weightless. Even more like flying in dreams, except with more people around than in dreams. My dreams, anyway.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/weightless-jean-baptiste-chandelier.html

Lucky astronomer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z0iuKuSwenE

POP!
https://nautil.us/exploding-stars-dramatic-first-moments-captured-for-the-first-time-1247503

Plop. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1990283757849337912

Kurzgesagt on emergence.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/emergence-how-stupid-things-become.html

Time-lapse view from the landing barge. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1991439224504250630

Our seething hairy enormous father in heaven. Or mother. In Latin, Irish and some others, the sun is male. In Swedish, Ukrainian, Japanese and Hindi, female.
https://x.com/i/status/1991442265534001233

Ye olde dressing hack to lift the ladies. Oooh! she says. We’re the mirror she’s looking into.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-9PJ17oZQ4Q

Rays. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1989571565072114037

Anamorphic art. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1990685535874990367

“Ain’t too different from people in that way.” That is true.
https://wondermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-11-10-1577robo-1536×1536.png

Rerun: Carol Burnett – Once Upon a Mattress. (The full play, in satiny kinescope.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9re2HHVpz8

It’s a kind of sea creature. I think they wait for it to die before they cut it up for eyelashes.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/11/17/best-use-of-a-rambutan-to-date/

Free Bird solo on plastic soprano recorder.
https://x.com/i/status/1989891183280062623

Birds imitate R2D2. How day do dat? Pha-wOOoo-tit. Hee-dloop.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/birds-imitate-artoo-detoo.html

There’s the Wilhelm Scream, and also the Howie Scream, which was recorded first for The Ninth Configuration, that Ferren Taylor recommended to me with an arch expression on his face, whose significance still puzzles me.
https://laughingsquid.com/howie-scream-sound-effect/

Crypto is a cult. (via BoingBoing) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9-7XJiTMt

The radio tube train!
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1930s-modern-mechanix-covers.html

“During the plane’s takeoff rotation, the left engine, pylon assembly and three feet of the leading edge of the wing separated from the plane and fell onto the runway. The plane rolled to the left and crashed.” With photos and video from several angles, including the thrilled/horrified swears of people catching it on their phones. Koyaanisqatsi.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/21/images-show-ups-flights-engine-detaching-before-kentucky-crash.html

A tour of parts of a Swedish jet: the rapier, the training wheels, the chemtrails ejector, the place where a ladder hooks on if a pilot is too old and fat to simply jump up and swing inside… (via b3ta) (click the CC on for English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6I3UUXSWBM

This still all looks very plausible to me, of how people might dress in the far future on another planet. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/editha-dussler.html

A bicycle feat. For the short of attention span, skip ahead to 7:50.
https://theawesomer.com/jumping-a-bike-between-two-moving-trucks/788496/

Two girls on skates transform into a little car.
https://theawesomer.com/tokyo-drift-on-rollerblades/788251/

Get idea. Plan. Get or create means. Execute.
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface

An articulated pendulum on a fast-cycle glow-in-the-dark clock face, with a bright point-source of light on the business end. (via Cliff Pickover) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/i/status/1991306412371099805

Color-assisted chart of the evolution of our alphabet. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G6J9QrFWIAA7Vhl

Last week’s Tacky Raccoons musical matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/11/15/saturday-matinee-alastair-greene-eric-johanson-katarina-pejak-nikki-hill-band-anthony-rosano-the-conqueroos-and-cam-cole/

1 to 100 in the U.S.A.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/20/filmmaker-captures-human-aging-from-1-to-100.html

The story of a little boy’s stained glass airplane.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousthingsneverseenbefore/permalink/1902173063843645/

The world’s smallest real horse.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/20/meet-pumuckel-the-worlds-tiniest-horse-just-crowned-by-guinness-world-records.html

But also this one:
https://laughingsquid.com/rescued-mini-horse-zoomies/

Hmm. I think it’s wrong to treat either group badly. But it’s not like I’m visiting people in prison or an old folks home all the time and bringing treats and a big smile.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E1oquh7OXqw

“So what. No one said he was perfect! And it’s not like the girls were eight!” No, that’s right, the youngest was thirteen. That we know of. And he chose her from the lineup because, in a blonde wig, she looked like his daughter, who also was thirteen then, but many miles away.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-five-stages-of-maga-scandal-grief.html

Driver’s license test. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1990288790989017244

Last night I dreamed again about my first car, the green 1971 straight 6 Chevy Nova. I can still kind of smell it. It had a manual three-on-the-tree transmission, a tiny one-barrel Rochester carburetor barely bigger than my fist, and no luxury or special items, not even a rug or a radio (I put a stereo in it), but it did have power steering. It was already old and coming apart when I got it in 1975. Contrast that with the 2004 Toyota that I got in 2014, that’s over two decades old now, no major work, 178,000 miles on it, and it’s still thrumming right along. The cars of our youth were fun, but they weren’t made to last. This one was. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/your-feel-good-story-of-the-day/

Oh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cuLIwqQZATs

Shiny.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1954-chevrolet-bel-air-sport-coupe.html

Study finds most Americans can’t find where they are being deported to on a map.
https://theonion.com/study-finds-most-americans-cant-find-where-they-are-being-deported-on-map/

Flying a camera drone into a tornado.
https://theawesomer.com/flying-a-camera-drone-into-a-tornado/788311/

The coolest passport in the world. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1991762731582779856

And that explains it.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=111925

.

Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad, by Edward Hirsch (1995)

Out here in the exact middle of the day,
This strange, gawky house has the expression
Of someone being stared at, someone holding
His breath underwater, hushed and expectant;

This house is ashamed of itself, ashamed
Of its fantastic mansard rooftop
And its pseudo-Gothic porch, ashamed
of its shoulders and large, awkward hands.

But the man behind the easel is relentless.
He is as brutal as sunlight, and believes
The house must have done something horrible
To the people who once lived here

Because now it is so desperately empty,
It must have done something to the sky
Because the sky, too, is utterly vacant
And devoid of meaning. There are no

Trees or shrubs anywhere–the house
Must have done something against the earth.
All that is present is a single pair of tracks
Straightening into the distance. No trains pass.

Now the stranger returns to this place daily
Until the house begins to suspect
That the man, too, is desolate, desolate
And even ashamed. Soon the house starts

To stare frankly at the man. And somehow
The empty white canvas slowly takes on
The expression of someone who is unnerved,
Someone holding his breath underwater.

And then one day the man simply disappears.
He is a last afternoon shadow moving
Across the tracks, making its way
Through the vast, darkening fields.

This man will paint other abandoned mansions,
And faded cafeteria windows, and poorly lettered
Storefronts on the edges of small towns.
Always they will have this same expression,

The utterly naked look of someone
Being stared at, someone American and gawky.
Someone who is about to be left alone
Again, and can no longer stand it.

.

.      “There’s really nothing an agnostic can’t do if he really doesn’t know whether he believes in anything or not.” -Graham Chapman, via Futility Closet

Marco here. 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) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternatively, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Mister Trump goes to Heaven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQGLmM6NWA

Rerun: The two-party system. (via Biblioklept)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg

The journey of Harry and Edna. Kodachrome, you give us the nice bright colors, you give us the greens of summer. It makes you think all the world’s a sunny day. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://flashbak.com/found-kodachromes-harry-and-edna-478629/

47 ways to say thank you.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/14/There-Are-47-Ways-to-Say-Thank-You-in-Japan/

Nine Billion Names of God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvS9UXTsPI

Rerun: The God Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9CTDM3l4M

How we get big lens glass.
https://theawesomer.com/how-glass-lenses-are-made/787503/

Last week’s Saturday protest. For those not local, this Fort Bragg is a small seaside seasonal tourist town in North California, formerly a lumber company town, with a fishing industry, but rapacious financiers moonscaped the forest to pay off their debts and wrecked all that. Population 7,000.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mendoevents/sets/72177720330185641/

Made in Uruguay in 2016.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/11/11/falls-under-what-the-hell-did-i-just-watch/

Mister Toad’s wild Snowpiercer Polar Express.
https://theawesomer.com/the-polar-express-goes-off-the-rails/787553/

So you want a model railroad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaqryoclp38

Weird.
https://x.com/pickover/status/1988751515989995607/photo/1

Car size. Hover text: “They really shouldn’t let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry that I’m going to kill somebody if I hit one. They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.”
https://xkcd.com/3167/

A lot like flying in dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ynftgAcT0os

An obstacle course in the sky.
https://theawesomer.com/wingsuit-obstacle-course-in-the-sky/788010/

Anemone nopes out of there. Nope is a verb now. You can nope out of a place, or nope away from someone. There used to be a cartoon character called Nopie. “Nope, nope, nope,” he or she said.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1oc1h1c/sea_anemone_senses_a_predatory_starfish_and/

Lucy exhibit.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meeting-lucy-how-a-world-first-european-exhibition-brought-visitors-face-to-face-with-the-fossil-that-shrinks-time-180987690/

Orfeo Tagiuri – Procession.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/procession.html

A story of three Fuegians.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/darwins-notebook.html

This movie trailer looks pretty good. It pushes most of my buttons. Maybe if it had a spaceship in it too. It won’t be very long before you can say, “Integrate spaceships into this story,” and just watch it develop in real time. How do you feel about that? (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nk8TrBHOrA

A history of Japan, by Bill Wurtz.
https://kottke.org/16/02/a-history-of-japan

It might be a li’l ballroom on top, but that’s just just the hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVPQE6ln1c8

…and a catchy tune.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-would-lockheed-martin-build-ballroom.html

And a powerful argument either for or against change. (via the Anderson Valley Advertiser)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/not-perfect.jpg

Kinetic performance art.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/11/14/the-gif-friday-post-no-929-hooper-rex-sakura-yosozumi-dizzy-donuts/

A machine that counts money like my grandmother did at the restaurant. In those days everybody paid with real money. She would lick two fingers and the thumb of her right hand, vibrate them like the blades of a fan through a stack of bills, and then write down how much was thereBy the time my grandmother was the age I am now her hands were ruined by arthritis. Her knuckles were as big as walnuts. Her prestidigitating money-riffling days were over. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1989204146868592780

Far-Eastified folk metal. (Scroll down, there’s more.)
https://laughingsquid.com/traditional-chinese-instruments-rock-songs/

Ow.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/14/A-Thoroughly-Disturbing-X-ray-of-a-Human-Arm/

Ecca Vandal – Molly.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2025/11/new-fav-12-880.html

Northern lights for a bit last week.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2025/11/photos-northern-lights/684901/

Veil Nebula for thousands of years. Also it’s six hundred forty-six trillion miles across. It looks like crocodile sideways in the mouth of an even bigger, even more tenuous monster.
https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/veil-nebula/

Asylum Street Spankers – Hick Hop (live).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJx1gpl0kM

They don’t just sit there. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1986951861182537884

Spray metalization. I’ve skipped you to the spectacular part. Run it back to the start to understand better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QcseGvU5o&t=934s

1930s speakeasy jazz version of Part Time Lover.
https://laughingsquid.com/1930s-speakeasy-jazz-part-time-lover/

Fun with Elvis.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/having_fun_with_elvis_onstage

Realistic ducks made of wood. Therefore they are a witch. (via Kottke)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057608013052

How we get little springs.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/robots-making-springs.html

How we get menstrual pads. It reminds me a little of the web press at Willits Printing that used to print my newspaper, Memo. Four thousand copies, $400, including all the camera work and photographically etching the plates. It took them an hour and a half while I slept in my delivery car and went for breakfast across the street and to read the San Francisco Chronicle, which cost a quarter. That was all the sleep I got for two days after finishing the layout by hand. Juanita and I were in our thirties. Happiest time of my life. Anyway, menstrual pads. (via Massimo)
https://x.com/i/status/1988849362902954442

How to not smoke. I’m sure you can see ways to smoke even with that thing on. It’s just a reminder, like a wrist brace, so you unconsciously move to do it but just don’t.
https://dangerousminds.net/history/ibrahim-yucel-the-man-beat-smoking-the-medieval-way/

“What if all the sun’s energy were drawn into a single one-meter-diameter beam aimed at Earth?”
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/12/Pondering-a-Deadly-Laser-Beam-from-the-Sun/

The Clippy car. “Hi, it looks like you want to drive somewhere. I can help with that.” Cary Grant’s father was killed crashing this model of car, drunk.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1930-austin-seven-saloon.html

More of Theo Jansen’s strandbeests.
https://laughingsquid.com/strandbeest-evolution-2025/

The top country songs this week were written and produced entirely by A.I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU71XDWYeIk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9BS70J_Ikss

Ahem.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NWnofaL_PFA
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sNJq0bkW_24
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d5oe0oD8Tl4
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZDs7D9jJvGs
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qzq2Bh5wKhw
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1k_L-oxkY_U

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/cianobasmith/p/DQERkT3DCHA/

Josh Johnson’s valid theory of money.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ihhr7pxthac

A theory of witches and cowboys. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2025/11/11/did-you-know-witches-and-cowboys-are-the-same/

Veronica Lake. Notice that she left her perfectly normal eyebrows the hell alone. See how nice that is? But the lipstick is creepy. I know I’m in the minority here about lipstick and makeup and piercing jewelry and tattoos of tears and all that, but I hate it. All my life, it makes me wince. Also, because of Firesign Theater, whenever I see the name Veronica Lake I think, right after, South Side Johnny, Louie the Loop, etc. And I think of Kim Basinger, who played Veronica Lake in a movie I half-remember. Geographically, there is a town named Veronica, a single one, but no actual lake.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/young-veronica-lake.html

The chilling demise of Veronica Lake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg_D0BcCMUc

Art.
https://biblioklept.org/2025/11/12/the-pond-aron-wiesenfeld/
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/body-art.html
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/artwork_khrushchev_probably_would_not_have_liked_65
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v57pDlHiZtw
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_sculptures_of_server_demirtas

There’s graphic design, and there’s graphic design.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SbSaoU0dIWs
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1950s-ernesto-garcia-cabral-film-posters.html

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/frances-mclaughlin-gill.html

Yamaha flugelhorn, YFH-8310Z. The very B-flat flugelhorn Mayor Shinn’s nonexistent son’s pinky finger is perfectly situated to operate the spit-valve of.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Yamaha_Flugelhorn_YFH-8310Z.jpg/1280px-Yamaha_Flugelhorn_YFH-8310Z.jpg

Queen of the doumbek. It’s onomatopoeic. Doumbek. Doumbek.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/atTR2xQXnGE

Retro robot cards.
https://theawesomer.com/kings-wild-astro-playing-cards/787592/

The most Xmasy farm accident aftermath photo ever.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/man-dies-trapped-beneath-farm-145233976.html

Baby octopockle rescued from fish market grows up to play special underwater piano. For the short of attention span, skip ahead to 15:00.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/rescued-octopus-plays-piano.html

Inda Good Old Somerstein.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/13/close-enough-3/

Three seconds of every ST:TNG episode. (via Fark)
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13876836

Two-mile-long glass waterslide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosBhDd7yw0

Salt of the earth.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=WBS5xJ

The Wanta-See-Something-Cool guy on magnetic lines of force, or not.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qlkongJmGo0

The Philogelos, an ancient Greek joke book. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://languagemuseum.org/exhibits/philogelos-the-first-joke-book/

Sigh.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/speaker-johnson.jpg

Sway.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/08/sway-tower-14-story-folly-and-world.html

“It definitely made me wonder if we were the first to hear the words of Jesus through the medium of corndogs.”
https://theawesomer.com/roasting-weenies-with-radio-waves-slow-motion/787504/

Rerun: Danny MacAskill in S.F. (via Jean Arnold)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIBldkWO9a4

Balloon. (Click on image to zoom in.)
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/06928a7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8640×5760%2B0%2B0/resize/2720×1814!/format/webp/quality/90/

Ride of the remoras.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/10/take-a-remora-eye-ride-on-the-back-of-a-whale.html

The worst place on Earth to be stranded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkOpwh5M3WE

Why to use the deadbolt. “It slows them down a minute more/ And so they try the place next door.” There’s one for the plate you install under your car to prevent catalytic converter theft: “It slows them down for forty seconds/ And so you keep the part, I reckon.” You make one up now.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n0TT2aTkVhU

Splash.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-mermaid.html

The cat distribution system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Roq-SRAas8

Tools, tools, tools. A tool for you. And a tool of you. And a tool for you. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://koolyz.com/en

.      “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. (Alternately, “KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket [blast sound] in Fort Bragg.”

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Running dogs.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/fast-dogs.html

A site of simple, video-enhanced explanations for complicated things. How the human eye works, for example. How a hard drive and a record player and a jet airliner work. How to /moonwalk/. Much more. (via BoingBoing)
https://animagraffs.com/

An hour or so of sloppily clipped together, weirdly video processed Louie C.K. bits from recent years that I somehow never heard before, rich with angles to think about. That is, I posted it here in prep, but checked the link just now, two days later, and the video’s been removed and its source’s YouTube account terminated. So experience disappointment. Or, if you hate him, pump your fist in the air and smile hard. In a mirror.

Geordie Greep – Blues. (via AVA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNGlbB4Gbyo

A couple of images from The Onion to haunt your dreams.
https://theonion.com/shut-up-mother-shut-up-pleads-george-w-bush-to-dick-cheney-skeleton-dressed-in-suit/
https://theonion.com/mike-johnson-my-christian-faith-is-more-about-not-jacking-off-than-feeding-the-poor/

I think that, out of all the people ever in the public eye, Yoko Ono is one of the most misunderstood. Here, take these, one right after the other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCznX6qoSNQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono

Miss Chile’s deathmetal voice. It sounds like it should hurt, but it doesn’t look like it. Sometimes in the gentlest music a guitar player will bend a string half a tone and contort his face like someone’s pinching him with pliers. Janis Joplin looked like it hurt. Alanis Morrisset merely looked pissed off. But Miss Chile is like, Eh, it’s a gig.
https://metalinjection.net/metal-in-the-mainstream/miss-world-chile-semifinalist-stuns-judges-by-performing-a-song-from-her-own-death-metal-band

“I used to wonder why the banshee cried. Now I know.”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/her-song.html

Reflection and refraction.
https://x.com/i/status/1984993592176218499

The sound of tattoos. Pickle Rick!
https://theawesomer.com/the-sound-of-tattoos-short-film/787322/

Hoop.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/11/04/dont-watch-this-after-breakfast/

Car alarm music on a Laotian mouth-pipe-organ. Peaceful.
https://laughingsquid.com/car-alarm-on-khaen-mouth-organ/

A very special place.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/03/brazils-a-surreal-paradise-of-dunes-and-crystal-blue-lagoons.html

Gaza, before and after, although it’s not really after, yet, is it, for some people, as long as one stone remains atop another. How dare it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmz1YUBSgc

A movie about China’s surveillance system.
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/china-my-wife-has-social-credit

An essay on the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_AQQZ7j4zE

How we get sex dolls. After I saw this I was doing the day’s Phrasle puzzle, and I had got as far as INSTANT __AR__A. Of course it’s INSTANT KARMA, but because of seeing the sex doll factory I first thought INSTANT MARIA, though the dolls are far from instant. So much expensive time-consuming work. Robots should make them; they should make each other, and then kiss each other, like in All Is Full Of Love, by Bjork, which is, wow, no longer available to watch the original beautiful video of. Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWbAWI_P5cQ

Awww, he’ll be alright. Let ‘im get up by himself. (Hear that in Randy Newman’s voice.)
https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/post/3m4qwzcirfs2r

A new video game where the player is an inert stone. Weather and life and things go on all around you. That is all. (via Kottke)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1425980/Stone_Simulator__Just_Be_a_Rock/

Liquid behavior from dry sand and air. Unlike everywhere else lately that someone said enthusiastically to me, “This is the coolest thing ever,” this in fact is. It reminded me instantly of a movie I saw on teevee at my Uncle Jack’s and Aunt Wanda’s house when I was a little boy, that made a profound impression on me, about a boy interested in astronomy (as I was), who witnesses from his window a spaceship crash in sand dunes near his house on the edge of town. It turns out to be a /trap of boiling, down-funneling sand/ that catches people, including his parents and the police, and the aliens change them into bad-dream robots of themselves that talk softly, gently, menacingly weirdly. You can tell someone’s been taken over, by a tiny mark on the skin at the back of the neck (the camera moves to show you this, and the music does something tingly but also low). The boy saves the world by avoiding capture while getting the U.S. Army to come and go down through the sand trap to the ship and break the glass around an alien octopus/brain creature, which kills it and so releases everyone from its control. That movie was an important model for me for how the world works and how to live in it. And this sand thing brings it all back.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/making-liquid-out-of-sand-and-air.html

The joy of old real educational tools.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0wn0i2j2gpQ

Zero-G pull-chain physics. I can see an application for this in launching a compressed wad of sausage-connected pods, inflating and spinning it all out in a ring, once it’s in space, to provide artificial gravity. Also, it’s strange that it doesn’t occur to these men to spin the chain on a cylinder of something rolled-up, and then pull the cylinder out, to get the chain started in a good circle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZaP8VMv0c

A bird hit my window and now I’m a lesbian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHbiVjMBtLU

Demonic force captured on video.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/11/04/what-if-all-paranormal-phenom-was-just-cats/

Scroll down for some samples.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/06/tom-the-dancing-bug-finally-gets-its-complete-archive-treatment.html

Karla Davis – Tennessee Whiskey.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/karla-davis-tennessee-whiskey.html

Hurray For the Riff Raff – Look Out Mama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9nDsFHERM

Larkin Poe, sisters. (Graceland!)
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/11/06/larkin-poe/

Barbra Streisand.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/11/04/sultry-and-silly-faces-of-barbara-streisand-at-21/

Mark’s very large National Lampoon website. (via another Mark)
https://www.marksverylarge.com/

Maybe some of this is why there was so much crime and mental illness and so much more bloody violence in the old days than there is now, though it’s going back that way, if you count mental illness in power and consequent official bully-gang violence. A lot of it back then, though, was from tetraethyl lead in the air and water and soil because cars needed it to run just a little bit better. And farther back than that everybody was nuts from trauma of all the infant mortality, and being drunk all the time.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/bad-historical-parenting-advice

Apss! (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/SteveLovesAmmo/status/1984313589872623781

Art.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_drop

Art via This Isn’t Happiness.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQqCHULiAtu/?img_index=1
https://www.instagram.com/armstrongseth/
https://designyoutrust.com/2021/04/darkness-is-spreading-rapidly-lately-the-superb-dark-photo-works-and-baugasm-posters-by-vasjen-katro/

Wooden sea sculptures. With a short video.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/11/07/mariner-poet/

Water walkers.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/11/07/Explaining-the-Magic-of-Water-Walkers-with-Fluid-Dynamics/

An article about cataract surgery, with video of the operation. Doctor Miller, a small-town opthalmologist, performed cataract surgery on on both my eyes just this summer, one eye, then, a month later, the other. It was not traumatic, and I’m delighted with my vision now. I struggled through an increasingly dim sepia blur world, where any bright light would wash out my entire viewfield, mostly because I had no way to pay for any kind of medical care before I got old enough for Medicare, but also because of being afraid. There was nothing to be afraid of. It really is the world’s most common surgery. They’ve done it millions of times. They have it down. They take you in, they knock you out in such a way that you never feel high or weird, they do the job, you wake up, have a cup of tea, your friend drives you home. Your eyes are a little irritated for a few days as things settle down, and voila, everything from 3 feet to infinity is as sharp and bright and clear and colorful as when you were a kid, and for reading tiny print up close you use dollar store reading glasses. I know someone who had them optimize her eyes rather for close-up vision, and she just uses glasses to drive a car. And a man down the street had a /very/ expensive early prototype of lenses put in that let the eyes focus them normally, in the 1970s, with the downside of that being he can’t go out in sunlight without sunglasses, and when he’s tired his eyes hurt. I prefer what I chose. You get to choose; they’re your eyes. I was an idiot. I should have robbed a bank or won the lottery when I was 60 and fixed my eyes then. I’d still be almost 67 now, but maybe I wouldn’t have hit those deer and fucked up my car. And maybe my radio show would have been better all this time, for being easier and more comfortable and surveying the whole big wide screen of tiny type at once, not hunching forward, reading big type from only a foot away.
https://press.asimov.com/articles/cataracts

“The animals are laughing at us. Animals think they’re pretty smart. Trusting them: big mistake! I will ignore animals’ advice.” (via BoingBoing)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maskenfest/

I like this. Pick a dot and follow it.
https://x.com/i/status/1986910482687562036

It was too wind-noisy to record this that day, but it turned out okay. It’s like a dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTxCPb4XiBQ

String theory.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory

I don’t know what to think of this kind of music. I mean, a lot of music unfamiliar to me, from other cultures, and even my culture, some kinds of jazz, for example, sounds like just random notes, but this “49 note microtonal singing” isn’t even notes. Or is it? I have my old oscilloscope around here somewhere; I’ll look into that. Mendocino Theater Company put on a play once about a famous brilliant classical violinist with a wasting nerve disease, so she’s losing her abilities and agency in the world, and it makes her cranky. Her husband plays a different kind of music than she likes, and she says something like, “Dit dot! Doo dat! Bip bip boing! Twelve-tone mathematical bullshit all day long!” That stuck in my mind: twelve-tone mathematical bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEAJyNe_t5I

Moment of truth.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-moment-of-truth.html

It’s all the fault of the migrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKSDoz8TbE

Nixie fireball compilation. (via Juanita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtLeEUPtkHk

What philosophy is good for, part nine.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheAlienHivevsExistentialism.png

Interview with Diana Rigg on the subject of The Avengers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFsPJSpk17A

Censorship in classic cartoons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0Z6G8hm1Y

Ain’t no party like my Nana’s tea party.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/tea-party.html

Letters home from the Second Civil War.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/05/tom-the-dancing-bug-letters-home-from-the-second-civil-war.html

The letters in the previous item remind me of this song made of letters home from the Revolutionary War. It’s left up in the air whether Jedediah survives the war. Eliza Gilkyson. Her song Requiem– I can’t find it anywhere to just show it to you, but you can find church choirs singing it if you look– is just so sad and perfect. She is so great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzhdYBQMdGk

On the other hand, Flight of the Bumblebee on sopranino recorder.
https://laughingsquid.com/flight-of-the-bumblebee-sopranino-recorder/

She rescued a meat rabbit. Meat rabbit.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/11/hoppy-gilmore.html

I love the “You’ll be a tasty meatburger” one here. It’s at 40 seconds. And the mother’s tone of voice saying, “Ohhhkay,” like when Al Pacino in /Simone/ realizes that the girl about to have sex with him on the couch is only with him so she can get access to Simone, and he says, “Ohhhkay,” pushes her off, stands up and shows her to the door. And also the No Way boys at the end, 7:52.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbt_bB6ObPU

Awww.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/11/06/pensive-pup-ponders-pretty-pumps/

Copper car. (via Fark)
https://img.carswp.com/rolls-royce/phantom/rolls-royce_phantom_1930_pictures_8.jpg

Coop’s shot tower.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=neTzDI

Halloween bear. RAAAGHR!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uSJ65Je-XB0

Metal in the microwave.
https://theawesomer.com/hot-potato-buttered-side-down-warframe/786899/

Further Xin An loop-beatboxing.
https://laughingsquid.com/beatboxer-recreates-entire-songs/

Imagine this woman looking you in the eye, looking away, and swallowing a whole (peeled) egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/shirley-worthington.html

Her special day.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1950s-weddings.html

I know it’s just the ladder shoes that make them walk like that, but these fashion runway videos flip the same switches in my brain as Super Marionation shows (Fireball XL-5, Thunderbirds). Also they’re like A.I. creepy marionette dance videos. And imagine /these/ women swallowing an egg for you, how about.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/11/05/armani-privee/

All life depends on this fizzing hot mess. If you put our whole planet anywhere in this image, or in real life on the actual sun, it would be too small and dark to see, and then it would evaporate into plasma as fast at it fell inside, which would be /fast/ because it’s 28G’s there. The Sun wouldn’t even feel it. It would be like a single raindrop on a hot frying pan the size of a Costco parking lot (via Fark)
https://bsky.app/profile/ryanjfrench.bsky.social/post/3m4qn4feltc2s

17 paradoxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrJA0J7jciY

I remember the title story here. I read it in a collection that included /The Sound Machine/ by Roald Dahl, and /The Supremacy of Uruguay/ by E.B. White. There also was a story about a man who murders his wife because he thinks she doesn’t love him anymore, buries her in the basement, and gets on a ship to America. Later, his mail catches up with him and he learns that his wife has contracted a building company to dig up the basement and construct a wine cellar for him, for a present and, by the date, they started today. The Enormous Radio is about a married couple who get a strange magic (enormous) radio that lets them listen in on the private lives of all the neighbors in their apartment building, and they become addicted to this, to the detriment of their own marriage and happiness, of course. There were hundreds, maybe thousands or artists in those days who made an okay living painting cartoons like this for the covers of paperback books. I remember being amused, as a little boy, by how the cover of a book rarely had much to do with what was inside. Especially with science fiction books and magazines. The monster was never right. The spaceship never matched the description inside.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cheever.jpg

Silencio.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/11/patrick-watson-silencio-official-music.html

.      “Be strong, leetle vun. Someday they vill all be dedt and you vill do a sheet on all of their graves.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California. The Little Lion? Hmm. Tired. KNYO-LP, the Noisy Cricket (pause for blast sound) in Fort Bragg. Better.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

A short film about an ambulatory chicken bone.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/dead-hearts-creepy-enough-for-halloween.html

Felix Coldgrave – Throat Notes. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVehcHwOB8

Christian Nightmares newsletter: Demonic Halloween.
https://christiannightmares.substack.com/p/weekly-recap-demonic-halloween-christians

Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese and Milk. /Cheese and Milk./
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_j45zFLqI

Punkin animation.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/oh-my-gourd.html

Emma Peel clips set to Cake’s Short Skirt, Long Jacket. I looked it up; Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) of the original The Avengers is actually who the song was about. And Jet, by Paul McCartney, was about a Labrador retriever dog. (Martha My Dear was about a sheepdog. Mandy was about a poodle. Walk This Way was about a longhaired dachshund, so soft and nice to brush with the special brush, or swing on a swing with.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtYckLIZnI

Peggy Lee – Mack the Knife. (About a Doberman, bleagh.) (via Craig Louis Stehr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrMBwIoY5o

I, for one, welcome the reign of the Dark Lord.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/28/new-online-logic-game-where-criminals-tell-the-truth.html

Aidez moi, s’il vous plait! (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/weird-ghost.jpg

Here’s looking at you.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/elsa-lanchester-bride-of-frankenstein.html

Some scenes from an episode of Friends entirely imagined by previous-generation A.I. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://bsky.app/profile/danmynrd.bsky.social/post/3m4egetadr22l

Halloween World. Scroll down and down, and down some more. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/764164899810263040/trick-or-treaters-1970s1980s

Further, earlier.
https://www.boredpanda.com/creepy-vintage-halloween-photos/

A dictionary of demons.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/defining-the-demonic

Woodcuts and witches.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodcuts-and-witches

Rerun: Smooth dance. They’re not on motor skateboards or hoverboards or even skates. /They’re scurrying on their toes./ They’re that graceful. Commenter Dany pointed out that this won’t work in a swimsuit, prompting me to try to find someone doing it for a joke, but no. Cats do it sometimes to cross a road. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/i/status/1979613096303034443

Homeless woman in first class. (13 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6lBe9jcAgw

Street musician out with his well-worn Strat, rain or shine. I mentioned it on the radio and called it a Telecaster, they’re not remotely the same, I even saw a Tele in my head when I was saying it so I didn’t correct myself at the time because the mechanism failed. People will think I’m stupid. That’s the sort of thing that I get stuck thinking and thinking about and say, “Stop it,” to myself, but out loud, maybe three or four times a day about this or that, less often when the offense is worse. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2025/10/mark-allen-cardiff-busker-amazing.html

Like here, for example: I’m sorry, I forgot what this British college professor’s name is. She has a YouTube channel. I’ve showed you things by her before, only a few weeks ago. I remember that she overcame a terrible health problem, and the (successful) treatment caused her arms and legs to swell painfully, and that she’s divorced with two kids. Anyway, here’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RrfkCslhUTM

Ah-HA! Her name is Dr. Hannah Fry, and the problem was cervical cancer and treatment-related lymphedema, which she has made an effort to increase awareness of and fund research. Rerun:
https://www.youtube.com/@fryrsquared

One more: “He created a mathematical model that could predict which of two nonsense words would be funnier, based on how far away they were from common words, and then compared them to actual humans deciding which of the two words is funnier.” Sunshine Boys: words with a k-sound.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pBjzN6mDAdQ

77 minutes of /Community/ danger clips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSG6qomTPw

Awwww.
https://laughingsquid.com/playing-orange-tabby-cat-like-bagpipes/

Effect and cause.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/modern-world.jpg

Snapshot of our local star, Mister Sun, 21:08:56 UTC, October 25. All of Earth would cover just a few pixels of this wild billion-year constant plasma explosion. And all of Earth’s people, piled up like bricks, side to side, just to the rim of the Grand Canyon, to make a wall across it, would be only two people thick. And half of the cells in your body are not you at all but rather bacteria living inside you or bugs living in your hair follicles. Your meat robot is their comfortable world, not too big, not too small, just the right temperature, endless supply of yummy rot. All thanks to energy from Mister Sun.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/sun.jpg

“A guy you could count on to pick you up after a colonoscopy.”
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-28-cgmonsters.gif

Slow glass for the ISS. (via BoingBoing)
https://issinrealtime.org/

Slow glass.
https://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Bob_Shaw-Light_of_Other_Days.pdf

A short film about werewolves. These werewolves are sometimes swearwolves. (15 min.) (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNX1jsnqus

Ah, Christ, here we go again. We just sprayed for this 80 years ago.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/27/trump-labor-dept-promotes-aryan-workforce-in-creepy-nazi-style-ad-campaign.html

Some porch pirate traps. (via Fark)
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13860386

Art. Scroll down.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/26/repost-self-as-canvas/
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/30/jim-haggart/
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/31/inge-schuster/

Art via This Isn’t Happiness. Scroll down.
https://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/05/alberto-martini-edgar-allan-poe.html
https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/179616309084/scarfolk-ouija

Jason Kottke’s photos of his trip to Koyasan. Click on the first image to play the reel. You might also have to click the sound on. (via Kottke)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZS1U4E837/

Last week’s (pre-Halloween) Tacky Raccoons musical matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/10/25/saturday-matinee-pre-halloween-edition-kitty-daisy-lewis-koffin-kats-zombie-ghost-train-and-the-ramones/

Rerun: Ghanaian art coffins. (via Fark) (Scroll down.)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/in-ghana-the-dead-are-buried-in-beer-bottles-shoes-and-airplanes-inside-the-tradition-of-fantasy-coffins/articleshow/124848339.cms

The Knife Game song. Don’t show this to the teenage boy inside you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2bnp8aoXw

“Hey, wait a minute, Mudhead. They /lied/ to us.” (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfNIRyPi5QA

Xin An looping/beatboxing.
https://theawesomer.com/beatbox-layering-by-xin-an/786278/

A trailer for an obviously wonderful weird old film. And a link to watch the whole 78-minute film if you want to. Having only seen the trailer so far, I think it might feel like the immersive storytelling scenes in The Fall, by Tarsem Singh.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-color-of-pomegranates.html

Here’s a fan-made trailer for The Fall. It’s such a great film. The little girl actress only ever made that one movie. She didn’t speak English at all when they started. It was pure magic, putting her and Lee Pace together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEi-v6aJD7Q

The Swiss army knife crossbow blade.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/28/Swiss-Army-Knife-Crossbow/

Oh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/orraGyd9eUg

Watch her dead hulk disgorge a litter. Or– The miracle of birth.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/26/Watch-the-Weird-Way-Tardigrades-Are-Born/

That’s entertainment.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/10/26/and-when-you-show-it-to-anyone-it-clams-up/

“That MWAAH sound can mean only one thing…”
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/29/the-outer-worlds-2-fixes-everything-wrong-with-the-original.html

Fun logic game. Not too hard. With narrated gameplay example video.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/28/new-online-logic-game-where-criminals-tell-the-truth.html

Rerun: Cat watching a horror movie.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2016/10/cat-watching-horror-movie.html

Any random five minutes of our ridiculous wrong real-life timeline going farther wrong every second Fat Donny Two-Scoops is stinking up the place. Oh, look, we’re spending another $400,000,000 attacking Venezuela with aircraft carriers now, on a whim. Sigh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hNlJdQwvr3o

Dog affirmations.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/daily-affirmations-for-dog-in-your-life.html

“Congratulations.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/this-is-ad.html

“AKATSUKI became the satellite circling around the Venus.” And now it’s dead. It had a good run. A moment of silence, though plus being dead it is in heaven (space) and couldn’t hear you anyway.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/30/signal-from-last-orbiting-venus-probe-dies.html

Some stills and videos of flying into the eye of the strongest hurricane anybody’s ever seen for 200 years.
https://gizmodo.com/air-force-videos-capture-the-eye-of-hurricane-melissa-as-catastrophic-storm-hits-jamaica-2000678204

A cruel prank if a person, as this one does, turns out to be not well. I hope someone said sorry and tried to make this right.
https://x.com/i/status/1979596319065784569

/HAAAW/.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/haaw.html

98 Pontiac Sunfire and bonus karaoke version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqveNtfe3yY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwW21gL1FY

How to make 60-proof purple nurple. It’s like purple drank but alcohol instead of cough syrup and pop. You need sugar, one lemon, a gallon of distilled water, a packet of champagne yeast, packet of Fermaid, a rubber glove, a single pin, an available refrigerator-freezer, and a pinch of butterfly pea blossoms so the color turns more like weak grape sodapop than like a truck-stop piss jar. It reminds me, as so much does, of when Scruffy said in Futurama, to comfort Marcie because her green Martian boyfriend was unjustly away in prison, “Prison ain’t so bad. And you can make sangria in the terlit.” Allow me to repeat: science has shown that no amount of alcohol is safe. Two drops of it increase your risk of everything from cancer to dementia. Alcohol kills 200,000 Americans every year. Transvestites reading aloud in libraries kill, what, five? Not 500,000. Five. (I’m kidding, of course. Transvestites in libraries kill zero.) Thirty thousand children are killed by guns every year in America. Some of those, I guess, their gun-within-reach parents or uncles are drunk, but a lot of them shoot themselves or each other. Handguns in the city, long guns in rural areas. And one-third of all car deaths come from alcohol, too.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dM2CN-GR4rU

Fiend Without a Face. (Full film, 74 min.) (“I don’t understand it. We sprayed for brains just last week.” -Dan Aykroyd, in Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video, or maybe it was Kentucky Fried Movie, speaking of spraying for things.)
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/fiend-without-face.html

Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video. (Full film, 80 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S4KNAABENI

Wanta see something cool?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MdONf4QEdaI

A.I. dances famous meme stills. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHgdL8B49M

The Captchanator.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PhilosophyvstheTerminator.png

Sonogram reveals her inner dog. (via Fark)
https://people.com/woman-shocked-when-sonogram-images-have-uncanny-resemblance-to-dog-exclusive-11838068

Hotsy totsy.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/new-orleans-1963.html

Haunted house walk-through. (via Fark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGl4pnFZNlk

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/keith-ewart.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/jean-newington.html

Understanding the mind behind the gun. The Smothers Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJVB4vPYee0

Mimes are not good roommates. (via Miss Cellania) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1o9twqw/mimes_are_not_good_roommates/

80 minutes of Troy in /Community/. In the Han Solo origin story movie, this actor played young Lando Calrissian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_tvG3kGeI

…and Childish Gambino – This Is America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

I don’t play video games, but I tried and enjoyed the look and feeling and sound of this one, though I didn’t bother to figure out what you’re supposed to do besides steer and run around. A couple of years ago I tried just flying around in a Cessna in Google Earth, and that was a little like this. Nice. (via BoingBoing)
https://messenger.abeto.co/

On the other hand, here’s an example of a fully-A.I.-generated game. You might have to click the sound on for grunts and splashes and pops and footsteps. The lightning-shooting poltergeist file cabinet drawers made me smile with the left side of my mouth and then finish with the right.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1981798226635190641

Instruments.
https://laughingsquid.com/123-instruments-123-seconds/

How they replace a fancy-bend antique car door without the original stamp to work from.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rN7KAh3FiIo

Jesus said to shelter and clothe the poor, feed the hungry, heal the sick, visit strangers in jail, welcome all immigrants, turn the other cheek, pray only quietly in secret and not make a fuss about it, etc. Naw, no, Jesus said exactly the opposite of all that and wants you to carry your gun around in case you need to shoot someone, kick your gay child out into the snow, hoard material wealth, and he could talk your ear off about how much he hates abortion and gay marriage, colloquial funny terms for body parts and dancing on Sundays. Which of those sentences, to you, is “the lines are straight” and which one is “the lines are bendy”?
https://x.com/pickover/status/1982886110612353036/photo/1

Further on tardigrade reproduction.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/03/tardigrade-egg.html

Kind of hard to look away from.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/at-amusement-park.html

What /is/ a monster. Dr. Emily Zarka has thoughts.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/27/The-Changing-Purpose-Behind-Scary-Monster-Stories/

What /is/ a UFO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64zlyzojpPM

Smells Like Teen Spirit on rubber chickens.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/31/Playing-Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit-on-Rubber-Chickens/

It’s almost as if the people behind the Wall Street Journal are panties-in-a-bunch terrified of this well-educated, thoughtful, capable, ethical, electable man.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/local-paper-opines-on-mayors-race

Everything falls apart. The center cannot hold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiSIgKJzqE

Hold still.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=102925

I like it that the whole thing is done on a single hotplate. It looks yummy, but the obstacle I see is, to start with, you have to somehow acquire a slab of premium fresh salmon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fr4ZeWd3SyI

Sally, duck.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/27/how-to-cook-duck-with-as-much-collateral-damage-as-possible.html

Just asking for it.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/10/31/bits-and-pieces-hallowmeme-2025-9/

Leonardo’s inventions. Don’t bail when the ad intrudes, just zoop past it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm84wLGZbjA

A man in Virginia invented a full-size replica of Stonehenge of insulation foam. When I was cooking breakfast and lunch in a mid-scale tourist restaurant I used to make things like this, small, on a shelf, out of bits of potato and vegetables. Sometimes I’d make a kid’s breakfast into a funny face or a dinosaur and send it out. Not if it was busy.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/31/artist-builds-full-scale-stonehenge-from-styrofoam-in-10-days.html

Peaceful jazz dog. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLT66VNeu-4

Treadle-operated hurdy-gurdy, though technically if you don’t crank it with the crank-handle it’s not a hurdy-gurdy anymore. Hurdy-gurdy, John Paul told me, literally means butt-crank.
https://theawesomer.com/hurdy-gurdy-man/744450/

CAA-TOU-SEE’s eye paint is like future Hunter Thompson’s sunglasses in Transmetropolitan. CHON-CA-PE’s hat is giving you the fuzzy finger. And so on. Christopher Walken. Joe E. Ross. Two Lokis. Lord Mountbatten. Danny Thomas. Calvin Coolidge. Zippy.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/indian-tribes-of-north-america.html

Transmetropolitan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan

Alita: Battle Angel in real life.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8tBx_dTsvRo

Battle of the Planets characters realisticized.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2x0NttgYZ5g

Rerun: Rachel Feinstein on women working. “That’s how she gets out! She gets out through the screen. You have to be very careful.” In memory I see Tracy Burns improv-ing something like this, the version of her when she was young in the 1980s, in Hit and Run Theater. She could tie a crowd up in a bow and boop its nose.*
https://youtu.be/SAbQYy8hP3M?si=3JuGH_LMU0PVREqI&t=887

*And now Tracy Burns needs your help. If you can, please. It doesn’t have to be much. Look at that adorable face.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/aid-tracy-burns-through-health-crisis

What. (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Protector_of_the_sheep.jpg

“Of the intelligence of Jupiter.”
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/agrippa-occult-philosophy

Bolivian salt flats. Look around.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=WBS5xJ

And I will always remember James Spader young and introverted, in a mop of blond hair, a rambling videographer refusing to move into an apartment, and when asked why, he said, “Too many keys. You have your front door key and your back door key, and then you have to get a post office box, and that has a key, and you have to have a job to pay for all this, so you’ve got keys to all the stuff at work, and then you have a bank account and a safety box key, and with the car keys too it’s just… too many keys.” Now, here’s thing that interests me. That’s the exact line I remember. I looked it up just now, and here is the line he actually spoke, “No, it’s just, I, you know, I just think– right now I have one key and everything I own is in the car, and I just… I like that, you know? I mean, I just, if I get an apartment, that’s two keys, if I… get a job, you know, I might have to open or close, that’s more keys, you know, buy some stuff, I’m afraid it’s gonna get ripped off, or something, and I get more keys, and I just, I, you know, I just like having the one key, it’s clean.” Close enough. Now, though, he will quip, and shoot you, or shoot you first and then quip. At first in the Stargate SG1 teevee show, I was disappointed they replaced his movie character with another Daniel actor, but I got over it. The new Daniel did great. Anyway, James Spader in the mid twenty-teens, confident, non-stammery, retributive, yet jovial. It’s not personal, it’s just business.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dpU-mW-773E

.      “My fundamental concern with how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted in the future? I don’t feel comfortable building a robot army if I don’t have, at least, influence over it.” -Elon Musk

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

“Vatch her take za pleasure from za serpent zat vunce corrupted man!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPpwXUZNbNs

World championship boogie-woogie dancing. One, two, a-one-two-three-GO.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/12/world-championship-boogie-woogie-dancing.html

Yo, el tarot.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2025/10/12-815.html

Ohhh. Oooh. So cute. Like a human-child-size mammalian tardigrade.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/little-miss-walrus-gets-second-chance.html

Sonic studies.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/science-of-sound/

Splash. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXTcYa7u12k

Some more about the Fort Bragg, California No Kings Day last week.
https://mendocinocoast.news/no-kings-protest-returns-as-a-lovefest-among-thousands-now-the-path-forward/

Jason Salmon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HPMcY32A58M

Debbie Reynolds.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/20/visual-candy/

June Lockhart. June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Lockhart

Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGw_cOgwa8

Trailer for a new documentary about filmmaker Tim Burton.
https://theawesomer.com/tim-burton-life-in-the-line-trailer/785825/

Welcome to Union Glacier. (54 min.)
https://kottke.org/14/12/welcome-to-union-glacier

The sea level rise 3D map. (via Kottke) (Give it a location and wait. It takes awhile for the location to load and be ready. Go make a sandwich.)
https://nagix.github.io/sea-level-rise-3d-map/#/-74.00235423004592/40.70867300001581/17.07907096327786/-81.52/60

Where do you see yourself in five years.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-21-cgpowersoften.gif

All about motels.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/22/travel/motels-history-100-years.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8.nL0-.aVZoZqgnldrC&smid=url-share&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

TED – What’s the best way to lift people out of poverty? The answer might surprise you. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_ed_what_s_the_best_way_to_lift_people_out_of_poverty

A musical auction. (via b3ta)
https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/the-florian-schneider-collection

Last week’s Tacky Raccoons musical matinee.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/10/18/saturday-matinee-hatfitz-and-cara-marc-amacher-the-thilo-wolf-big-band/

Cluck the police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xprS7qvCB3E

Rerun: Help the police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyqwOOmETI

Res ipsa loquitur.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/10/res-ipsa-loquitur.html

How they pulled it off.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/louvre-heist.html

“There’s a surprising number of penises in the Bayeux Tapestry.”
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/bayeux-tapestry-penis-tally

“The sin of self-pollution is the most destructive evil practiced by fallen man. It is far worse than illegitimate sexual intercourse, yet strange to say, it is present mostly in the apparently good children, who would be shocked at the wickedness of sexual intercourse with a prostitute.” Shocked, I tell you.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_sexual_organ_their_use_and_abuse

And so we beat on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPzC59AxV7k

Rerun: “In the afterlife you could be headed for some serious strife. Now you make the scene all day, but in the morning there’ll be hell to pay.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLYB9pvww2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8gGUgp8_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTduyC2zPXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFp05alGLow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r8eGKPcKkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEVRByKVB7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt0Z9RZkg-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNeadcGtot0

“Someone who bore false witness receives this kind of torment.” “Snakes are attached to the ears of someone who eavesdropped at the door.” (via Cliff Pickover)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/punishment-in-the-afterlife-an-eastern-turki-manuscript/

There goes that argument.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/10/19/and-there-goes-that-argument/

And that one.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WH5zYErWmAQ

“Have at you,” he cried.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/danny-kaye-vs-basil-rathbone-in-court.html

Results of a study on muggers’ victim-selection criteria. In a nutshell: Don’t look down. Don’t look up. Don’t step too long or too short or swing your arms wrong. Don’t look nervous. And they’ll pick somebody else to mug. This reminds me of Meryn Caddell’s poem that begins, “Martina hobbled home,” and ends, “Don’t get raped, knock on wood.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/how_to_avoid_getting_mugged

Don’t Fear the Reaper, on medieval instruments.
https://laughingsquid.com/bardcord-dont-fear-the-reaper/

“Nothing but sunshine and smiles.”
https://theawesomer.com/channelvue-short-film/785895/

At the museum of toys.
https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_2400,h_2400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-tanyabonakdargallery/usr/exhibitions/images/exhibitions/831/003.jpg

Race. They jump out of the water because it’s faster to swim this way. Compared to water resistance, air is practically nothing, and the thrust to jump and the drop into the water, tilted that way, both provide forward thrust, and they can breathe constantly.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolphins.html

Rerun: firenado in slow motion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwoghxwETng

An unforseen aspect of time travel. (via Fark)
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/34955bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/7702×5135%2B0%2B0/resize/2720×1814!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https://assets.apnews.com/fd/1f/1d56715dcb29c7ab09f312967ef3/dc4eddb1ea4f481ca139b9cd6cb8a120

The disembodied steering wheel in the man’s hands, what’s that about? And the dazed zombie bunny. And that tire has like five miles on it, which impresses and pleases the girl in the spray-on underwear. Plus the color-scheme. Not a bad Xmas card idea. I had a Toyota Corona in that general shape once but after the invention of duct tape.
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/247e6b9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/7783×5189%2B0%2B0/resize/2720×1814!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https://assets.apnews.com/ad/c7/0655cf7a6a2e2fa12d56d218f6b9/e11fdffb5fb2418ebeb24c5ec6c1f50b

How it ended for Fa in the old days.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251023-a-forgotten-chapter-in-the-history-of-the-nuremberg-trials

Then slightly newer days. I’m gonna stop here, because Fa’s just getting really rolling again and it’s depressing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7Wdv8mbd8

Puny god.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0nw40Cc79Sw

Cute European vampire cowgirl with /two/ pairs of needle-like canine teeth, fetching red eyes and that’s a real gun.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/image/798138634229448704

“Remember, we’re werewolves, not swearwolves.” (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/sarahtheresalee/

I love this. Just a quiet “Ah, yeah” as she drops off, and no screaming, and, in an indoor-voice, “That was lovely, guys,” as she bobbles around in the air down there, dangling by her ankles. That is savoir faire.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u4lki7pDqsw

Rerun: Vitamin String Quartet
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/19/repost-take-your-vitamins/

We’re up to the year 2000 in /Centuries of Sound/.
https://centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2000-part-two-get-me-a-tape/

Bathing in the dirt. Heal the places we got hurt.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earth-bathing/

The whole being dead thing. (via AVA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWtbpEB27UE

Rerun: Burning down the house. Fullscreen the video.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2025/10/stop-making-sense-12-809.html

Every time the world almost ended.
https://theawesomer.com/every-time-the-world-almost-ended/785514/

Pinky and Perky’s Hit Parade. (Full album, 33 min.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/pinky_and_perkys_hit_parade

Drumming with stools. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOxN2lx9HA&list=RDRuOxN2lx9HA

Art. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1o7tc6i/this_mans_imagination_is_next_level/
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2025/10/meanwhile-on-planet-meth.html

Shooting Annie’s missing-lover footage.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W7JuBOUhK10

The /Community/ Halloween reel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQKSGEvbRw

True story.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oyWOajtrjoA

The kind of person who gets special treatment under Donald Trump’s perverted justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_KXoAAByVxE

Uh-huh.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/24/trump-hates-this-canadian-ad-so-much.html

Satellite photos of progress on the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/24/satellite-image-shows-east-wing-of-white-house-completely-demolished-to-make-way-for-epstein-ballroom.html

Spectator sports.
https://wondermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-18-1574game_1600px-1536×1536.png

How to cure poverty: Give poor people some money. It’s cheaper than all the other ways, and it works.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/24/The-Latest-Research-on-Fighting-Poverty/

The breaker boys.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/breaker-boys.html

Heroes of the blues, by R. Crumb. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Crumb-BluesHeroes.jpg

To add to “This machine kills fascists.”
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/22The-Hammer22-at-City-of-Ukiah-Pumpkinfest-Andrew-Lutsky.jpg

Foosh.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-president-trumps-all-over-chagrin-falls-usa.html

Pay attention, I say, pay attention, Son, you’ll learn somethin’.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/20/examining-the-rivers-of-the-witcher-3.html

Rerun: Scooter lady in 1916. The last time I saw this I misread it as an electric scooter. I see the heat-engine cylinder now. Um, the other day I was walking home from the grocery store and a modern stand-up scooter zipped by at car speed –35 or 40 mph!– its tiny front wheel twitching alarmingly, kept upright by constant white-knuckled concentration of the rider struggling with its ridiculous design. The woman in this picture is probably going four miles an hour, max, which would be safe and comfortable, even with the bad steering-balance leverage and high center of gravity of the combined rider and device. But the guy I saw was risking his life (for what? to get where?) and clearly not having a drop of fun. A couple of blocks away from there, maybe thirty years ago, I saw a boy on a kick-scooter /working! working! working!/ to keep up with his friends riding bicycles. They suddenly had enough of restraining themselves, accelerated as one, laughing, and effortlessly abandoned him. My impression was, those scooter things are stupid in every way and they’ll never catch on. Bicycles are close to free, they’re fun and perfected so you nearly have to try to fall off them. People can still hit you with a car, or a truck side-view mirror, or open a door in your path, but just getting onto a scooter is an obvious mistake. With all that in mind, but one time I saw a good-looking young Hispanic boy and girl zip past on an electric scooter. They were shining with happiness. The boy driving, the girl standing behind him, her arms around him, holding on for dear life, the side of her face against his shoulder. They were /so happy together/. I still feel like that with Juanita, but those kids were feeling it maybe for the first time, and… Try to remember how you felt when you were that age and you were with that person, flying through the world together on an open dangerous vehicle, shouting a conversation to each other from zero distance apart.
https://x.com/pickover/status/1980821807134323193

Art.
https://www.instagram.com/nicole_paravicini
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/la-science-et-vie-covers.html

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.outregallery.com/collections/moon-patrol

Art. Dreyfus in his actually quite nice cell. Writing desk and bench. Soft-looking bed with a heavy comforter and two big pillows. Chamber pot, high ceiling, plenty of storage, room to pace. First and last month’s, and deposit, say, $5,000 to move in. No pets.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/06/on-devils-island-maira-kalman/

“It’s rainin’ monkeys!”
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-raining-monkeys.html

Click and drag to look around, and click on the on-screen arrows to move along the path and go into caves. I can hear and smell this place.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Hi2mY3

Rerun: Jungle.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/24/jungle/

And, oh my god, what crap. But at least they acknowledge plate tectonics, except for their timescale of just 6,000 years from nothing at all to dinosaur-dragon-unicorn-and-talking-snake infested Pangaea to moated continents to Fox News. The Mormons put the Garden of Eden in Missouri, and the Catholics imprisoned Galileo, Buddhists die and come back as a butterfly, Aztecs used to cut out people’s still-beating heart and shake it at the Sun in return for good fortune in war, and endlessly so on. It’s all of a piece.
https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/how-animals-get-to-ark

.      “And the plumber says, Well, sir, I can save your wife, but I’m afraid the rabbi is a goner.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Cracked doll face makeup.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/cracked-doll-face.html

This year’s iteration of the best Halloween band yet. You can relax that they’re gonna poke their own eyes out with their costume scissorhands. Miraculously they don’t.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/broken-peachs-halloween-song-2025.html

Would you like to know what kinda conversation goes on while they’re loafin’ around that hall? (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1976840572427214888

“Whether in school, on the job, or in prison, bullies function the same everywhere. Here are my seven rules how to stop a bully so he regrets it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7KUzbmkvQA

Sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjuSa3_CerU

Oct. 18 No Kings Day at Fort Bragg, CA, pop. 7,000, where well over a thousand people walked over and spread out down half a mile of the highway.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mendoevents/sets/72177720329777589/

And elsewhere in bigger places.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/NoKings2.jpg

Lots of images on this page, and lots of people interested; it might take awhile to load them. Give it a chance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/10/photos-no-kings-protests-across-america/684600/?gift=xw1ABCFnadCHxRLYMsWCkxkq7lcITrmN2tq1-jBOYrA

Last week’s Tacky Raccoons musical matinee and one more from Black Pumas.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/10/11/saturday-matinee-black-pumas-jp-soars-gypsy-blue-review-the-jimmy-vivino-band/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G383538qzQ

Back in high school I knew a girl who looked very like this. Her name was Dana. Just about the prettiest white girl I had ever seen. There was one moment when I should have kissed her but I was frozen with shyness and didn’t. It’s fifty years later and I still regret it.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/anastasiya-vertinskaya.html

British humor.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w6qmPmMVv70

Rerun: Fa circa 1939.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-night-at-garden.html

Anti fa, circa 1945. Make a great gift.
https://fremontclothing.com/product/antifa-c-1945-shirt/

The Mute Series. (via Kottke)
https://www.muteseries.com/mutefilms/stop/

…This is my favorite one. Also the pregnant woman smoking. But, you know, they’re all pretty good. They’re like I imagine cartoonists think.
https://www.muteseries.com/mutefilms/the-searchers/

Cut me some meat, Hunca Munca. Except this is real meat. I’m thinking of electrifying meat, for an experiment. It’s a very old idea, hundreds of years old, but I want to see what happens. I think store-bought meat probably won’t contract as enthusiastically, the virtue having gone out of it.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/16/why-your-fresh-meat-is-twitching-on-the-cutting-board.html

Dr. Hahn and Dr. Swallow on practicing medicine on the Mendocino Coast. Say /Hahn, Swallow/. It makes you think of both Star Wars /and/ Pirates of the Caribbean. I recently watched all the POTC movies again and liked them just as much as when they were fresh, though not the fourth one quite so much, I guess. The dreamlike images are still powerful: the march of the cursed dead across the sea floor; ships tethered together by the tops of their masts, swinging around in a wild maelstrom, firing all cannons; the goofy guy with the eyeball; Jack’s gambit, tossing Will the knife so he could bleed on the Aztec gold; the marriage-during-shipboard-battle of Will and Elizabeth; the perfect idea of immortal craggy Keith Richards as Captain Jack’s father; and on and on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416_MxfYtas

WindowSwap. Look out somebody else’s window, somewhere else in the world. Some have sound, some don’t. Clearly, some have a tripod and some don’t. Idea: get a cheap giant teevee and put it on the wall and let it be your window. Live in a different place every day. (via Make Use Of)
https://www.window-swap.com/

Why we have fire drills and building codes.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/05/This-Is-Why-We-Have-Fire-Drills-in-Schools/

Ministry – Every Day Is Halloween.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/every-day-is-halloween.html

Life.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/chain.html

Birds facing forward. Scroll down and down. (I don’t remember who showed this to me. I’m sorry.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Birdsfacingforward/

Simone Giertz’ new soup robot.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/simone-giertz-has-pumpkin-soup.html

Freddy’s level.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oE7ngO-PWzc

You kids don’t know. This is the way keyboards all used to be. And you could have them in any color as long as it was black. There was one in every house, it was either on the kitchen counter by the door or on a table in the living room, and it was hardwired to the terminal block. It belonged to the Computer Company. If you needed to disconnect it to make the wire longer or move it, a Computer Repairman had to do that. You weren’t allowed to.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/13/Google-Introduces-the-Rotary-Keyboard/

Ska Lithium. Spa fon!
https://theawesomer.com/lithium-ska-edition/784895/

Prom. In the early 1970s I read a story in National Lampoon Magazine by Doug Kenney, about a girl whose first date ever with a boy she likes is to the Prom. They dance the night away, then the boy takes her someplace remote, takes horrific humiliating sexual advantage of her, dumps her off at her house exhausted, bloody and bruised and half naked, and her father compounds the abuse by blaming her. I just found it again and read it on the show. A cautionary tale.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/1960s-prom-couples.html

…Here it is, in a later issue featuring Doug Kenney’s work. It starts on page 30.
https://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/1980%27s/1985/1985_06.pdf

Demons. (via Neatorama) Scroll down.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921/

The first picture, at the top, looks like a Tim Burton movie poster font.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2024/

Another woman who I’d like to watch swallow an egg, but only with consent all around.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/shelagh-wilson.html

One bird’s art.
https://www.threads.com/@clare.rolfzen/post/DPpTLJkAdel

Diane Keaton’s childhood pictures.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/diane-keaton-as-a-child.html

Real photos that look fake.
https://kottke.org/25/10/real-photos-that-look-fake

Dozens of stills from the production of 2001.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/2001-a-space-odyssey.html

100 years of the photo booth. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/strike-a-pose-100-years-of-the-photobooth-autofoto-the-photographers-gallery-exhibition-101025

Understanding Doctor Strange.
https://dangerousminds.net/pop-culture/understanding-the-peculiar-arc-of-doctor-strange/

Carpenter Brut – Blood Machines. (via b3ta) (Full album, 35 min.)
https://youtu.be/t2jTBEe4xuE

“How long have we been wet.”
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-07-cgwet.gif

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/11/repost-first-class-travel/
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/gustaf-tenggren.html

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

ART.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/

Art. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/sep/10/brad-walls-passe-ballet-photography-incredible-aerial-photos-shots-from-above-in-pictures

“Ev’rybody’s after my chainsaw heart! What about /my/ heart? Denji’s heart! Does nobody want that!”
https://theawesomer.com/chainsaw-man-the-movie-reze-arc-trailer/784912/

About time.
https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1975637797039178235

The Turks, for whom it’s nobody’s business but.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/turkish-women-1920s.html

Yes!
https://theawesomer.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-trailer/784751/

Oh, it was sad, yes, it was sad. (Too bad!) It was sad when the great ship went down.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/14/watch-as-the-replica-of-columbus-santa-maria-sinks-video.html

Ah! A version I never knew existed. I only knew it from much later, and even then only half-knew it. I thought of it as a happy, funny song. Also, here, the lap steel electric guitar at 1:35. I want a closer look at that. Long ago I made one out of copper pipe and plumbing fittings, containing its own nine-volt amplifier and speakers. It’s a little corroded now from my dampish house, but it plays. It’s surprisingly loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQ_bxF_N1U

Okay, okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdgGhDgL640
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf62StraRbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqA2_j19ncE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdgGhDgL640
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFICgN16zLk
https://www.tiktok.com/@laurenpaley/video/7481322761831451947

Designing and flying a very slow airplane. This video is half an hour long. If you get bored, skip ahead a little.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FMjOl0TRA

A new tiny flying machine.
https://theawesomer.com/janus-i-flying-suitcase-personal-aircraft/784902/

Meet Miss Subway.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/miss-subways-tube-beauty-contest.html

A climbing technique employing plumber’s wrenches fastened to your shoes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1o4x1ou/diy_shoes_to_climb_a_beam/

Strings trailer. I have Strings on DVD. As soon as I finish up here, I’m putting it on again. It’s so good. In my mind it’s connected somehow with the Canadian teevee series Slings and Arrows, not just because of the title, but the whole Shakespearean feel to it. And the love story and magic. And royal murder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5p-nmlEkzo

Threads trailer.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/sew-torn-official-trailer.html

Gissshhhhhhhhh.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/lillian-gish-broken-blossoms.html

Real, little flying cars. It’s mildly deceptive; in real life these things are painfully loud.
https://laughingsquid.com/jetson-one-air-games/

The poor thing.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/jaguar-with-gunshot-wounds-sought-help.html

The Latest and Best Conundrums, such as: “When is a door not a door?” I would have said, “When it is a jar,” but apparently the answer is, “When it is an egress. (A negress.)” Hmm. Also, “When may you be said to imbibe a piano?” “When you have a piano for tea. (A pianoforte.)” And, “Why are married men like steamboats?” “Because they are sometimes blown up.” (I don’t get that one at all. I think that married people can be said to blow up, meaning to fight, but is that what’s meant? And did steamboats blow up a lot?) And, “Why is a vote in Congress like a bad cold?” “Because sometimes the eyes have it and sometimes the nose.” And the end of the book is all fun math problems. (via Weird Universe)
https://archive.org/details/conundrumsriddle00rive/page/n3/mode/2up

Why’re wheels?
https://www.jalopnik.com/1992797/coolest-cars-with-stock-wire-wheels/

The towers.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/towers-of-bologna.html

The Residents 1979 Eskimo Live tour.
https://theawesomer.com/the-residents-eskimo-live-tour/785284/

Mickie Mouse and Pluto – The Mad Doctor.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-mad-doctor.html

Latest adventure of Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer, and Quentin the Green Parrot.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/15/tom-the-dancing-bug-boy-adventurer-billy-dare-in-a-strange-land.html

Pasta extrusion device. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1978524521964478899

Mysterious Ways. (Full film, 98 min, free to watch through October.) (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJhSRmUJZbE

“Dear friends.” Peter Bergman’s last words on the air anywhere. March 6, 2012. (via Bruce L.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPCSpsfqpg

Some options for you.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-so-many-people-are-struggling-with.html

The first animation, if you don’t count 30,000-year-old handprints on a cave wall in flickering firelight.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/pauvre-pierrot.html

I’d like to see the show these scenes are from. I’m a sucker for ordinary people coming into their unnatural power. The first season of Heroes, for example. And all of The Magicians.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lNfSwLqmENg

I call shenanigans.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/10/15/never-mind-12/

30,000 of the world’s best movies, free if you have a library card. I keep mine in my tennis-ball-size wad of keys. In the front of my pants.
https://www.sonomalibrary.org/elibrary/a-z/kanopy

Rerun: Polar bears find a house and move in.
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/russia-polar-bears-weather-station-photos-529ef2dcc92adee9207eb9b9ed8cca01

Awww.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/swan-reunion.html

Our fabulous national costumes.
https://griseldagimpel.tumblr.com/post/797062542500511744

And /I Will Survive/. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI

.      “The first country the Nazis invaded was Germany.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part. The first hour-and-ten is Harry Houdini’s 1910 Egypt travel story ghostwritten on commission and somewhat embroidered upon by H.P. Lovecraft in 1924.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Robert Murray-Smith is dead. Here’s his science education YouTube channel (via b3ta). Hearing of his death put a dent in my general normal level of equanimity, but I just read that Diane Keaton died and I’m suddenly crying and crying, thinking of the sound of her voice, and how I used to mix up her and Barbara Feldon in my mind. I watched Annie Hall again a couple of months ago and was reminded of how that movie was kind of my model, as a young man, of how relationships should go. I didn’t exactly follow the model, but it seemed reasonable and logical and realistic, except for how everybody in the story had a nice place to live and never needed money nor had to go to work.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RobertMurraySmith

Katie Daviscourt’s incredible disappearing black eye.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/09/the-incredible-disappearing-black-eye-of-katie-daviscourt.html

A steampunk ballerina. Soulless A.I. slop? Or art?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b13ApHV-vz4&list=RDb13ApHV-vz4

Star Trek in the 1950s. Same question.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TaKJLYw0ZSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-4voUPhqVk

The Oatmeal – Let’s Talk About Art.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The Tigger dog!
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/dogs-groomed-for-halloween.html

That’s a lot of dogs to have. I like the Martha one best.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/carole-lombard-with-dogs.html

An adorable narcoleptic dog. Its brain is wired so it painlessly faints whenever it reaches a certain level of happiness. Then it wakes up instantly ready to get too happy and faint again. Awww.
https://laughingsquid.com/doodle-with-narcolepsy/

Gesundheit. (via BoingBoing) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO_omnHkegy/

I remember dialing a phone number to hear a woman’s voice say, “At the tone the time will be 6:42 and ten seconds. DOOP.” And if you stayed on the line you’d hear, “At the tone the time will be 6:42 and twenty seconds. DOOP.” And I remember dialing POPCORN (767-2676) but not what happened when you did. There was 411 to ask a live person for someone’s telephone number (that right there was jobs for thousands of people). Dialing another number let you hang up the phone, hide behind something, and the phone would ring, drawing anyone else in the house to run to answer it, the way people did, and nobody would be on the line, and they’d hang it up and look around and say, “All right, you.” Note the attractive microphones in these pictures, that were high futuristic technology in those days:
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/remember-speaking-clock.html

Hamilton in ASL.
https://laughingsquid.com/hamilton-in-american-sign-language/

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein, Bad Pedophile. (Full documentary film, 21 min.)
https://theonion.com/the-onion-investigates-jeffrey-epstein/

The real reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31X8vrfgHqs

“The way the ICE cops nervously shy away as the frog merely dances.” “If they stopped being violent they would have to confront the crushing despair of their lives.” “These clowns have a budget bigger than the entire U.S. Marine Corps and they’re terrified of a guy in a frog costume.” Etc.
https://bsky.app/profile/dannykpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m2ivjjhljc2g
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/08/ice-brownshirts-shoot-befrocked-chicago-minister-in-the-head-with-pepper-ball-laugh-video.html
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/cold-comfort.html

And in England. (via BoingBoing)
https://bsky.app/profile/defendourjuries.bsky.social/post/3m2hucb3vd22g

Tom Waits – Make It Rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3kRc9nvv94

John Flynn – The Victim Tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Vr-axr-nk

Pink Floyd – Great Gig In the Sky, live in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZ6hmHj2MA

The story of the grapefruit ladies. I’ll tell you, my favorite soda pop at the fountain is Pepsi or Dr Pepper in crushed ice, and my favorite to have at home, or rather at Juanita’s place because she’s got a real-size frost-free fridge with room in it and not a microscopic apartment fridge bulging from the solid-ice-pillow freezer shelf like I’ve got, is Safeway Select-brand diet grapefruit soda that used to cost like $2.75 for a twelve-pack but that climbed up close to $10 before they stopped even having it anymore. You poured it, already cold, /slowly/ into a Mason jar full of ice to preserve the bubbles. So good. Put that on the list to try when you get a time machine.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7XiYQvU

Time travel in fiction.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/analyzing-time-travel-in-fiction.html

How to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Omul38-TcK4
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/swXTtU_cloU
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7bQUEvxGDTM
https://laughingsquid.com/geothermal-rye-bread-iceland/

The Dutch call it a draaiorgel. There are several videos here.
https://laughingsquid.com/dutch-street-organ-oasis-wonderwall/

Superlative street guitar guy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fb-bSuGkOgY

The stars come out at 1:45.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/dishdance.html

Finger of death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcUouLOmQuU

Sasha Gordon – It Was Still Far Away.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/It-Was-Still-Far-Away-2024-by-Sasha-Gordon.jpg

Julie Heffernan – Self Portrait Fixing Foot.
https://biblioklept.org/2025/10/07/self-portrait-fixing-foot-julie-heffernan/

Art. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/pickover/status/1976345452896452636

Embroidery.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/09/valentina-lobos/

This is another week where everything in This Isn’t Happiness makes me want to post it here under Art.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/

And the same with Everlasting Blort.
https://blort.meepzorp.com/

Rerun: Classic rock albums reinterpreted in styles of the 1950s and 1960s. My favorite in this lineup is the Dire Straits one. Or the Fleetwood Mac one.
https://laughingsquid.com/1950s-1960s-style-classic-rock/

When your music teacher asks you to play more expressively. (via Tacky Raccoons) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/HumansNoContext/status/1972208505219436706

Acoustic guitar covers.
https://theawesomer.com/sweet-child-o-mine-acoustic-guitar-duet/784227/
https://theawesomer.com/syncronicity-ii-acoustic-cover/721544/

French live-action life-size puppet movie. Marquis. (Full film, 79 min., 1989) (via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese)
https://archive.org/details/marquis-1989_202506

Magic.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/10/magic-tricks-are-fun-to-watch.html

Wet art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/05/repost-semi-abstract/

Efemeral (sic) – Silent Hound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVfHjiunUY&list=RDbOVfHjiunUY

Wolf art. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://hazelterry.blogspot.com/2025/09/aleksandra-czudzak.html

Where we got gas. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/1970s-american-gas-stations.html

There’s a time and a place.
https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/4-91083.webp

Ruben Bolling’s latest Tom the Dancing Bug Super-Fun-Pak Comix.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/08/tom-the-dancing-bug-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-lester-the-jesters-gig-in-riyadh.html

The Magenta Planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMo_LOwuP_Y&list=RD6Z95bpAbL-E&index=5&pp=8AUB

Ghost waltz.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/10/ghost-waltz.html

I love the John Hyatt song Smashing A Perfectly Good Guitar, especially this version. This story only adds to how much I like that.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rhb25umSUqM

Travels in the air.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/travels-in-the-air/

Steel balls, how we get them. You can feel the heat on your face.
https://laughingsquid.com/steel-ball-forging/

Condensed rerun: How we get clay ocarinas.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AM09PLV3dTs

For the short of attention span, the icewater run starts at 15 minutes.
https://theawesomer.com/finding-an-ice-waterfall/784268/

K-pop Demon Hunters – Golden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yebNIHKAC4A

Rerun: Norma Tanega – You’re Dead (1966). It’s the opening theme of What We Do In the Shadows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAlx0amAIc

Maids of Cotton not forgotten. And waitin’ for the Robert E. Lee.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/maid_of_cotton_beauty_contest

Doomsday score. (via BoingBoing)
https://doomsday.march1studios.com/

I wish she had some kind of protection, at least on her elbows and knees. Or maybe an airbag Michelin Man suit like the skateboard girl had in Snow Crash.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o7eD4Skhv1g

The depths. (via Futility Closet)
https://www.metanamorph.com/

Fun with a hidden feature of ChatGPT.
https://www.makeuseof.com/chatgpt-quiz-hidden-feature/

“No, I can’t relate to Data, but I can understand why you need me to try.” Note the use of contractions.
https://theawesomer.com/ai-analyzes-science-fiction-ai/784319/

Wonderful mashups!
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/10/analog-society-band/

If this is the right, original timeline, the one we’re supposed to be on, then why were none of these women ever paid, or even merely politely asked, to swallow an egg where we could watch. It just doesn’t make sense.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/regine-debrise.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/antonia-boekestijn.html

Human is chosen to repopulate an alien planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCs-MVJ-Lk

“Her smile got very wide. I said, ‘What are you smiling about?’ She said, ‘You have come at a good time, little sky man. It is our mating season.'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG97CySzE4

Every 1990s commercial ever.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/10/05/i-had-to-watch-this-so-you-have-too-as-well/

Who’s a good boy then? Eh?
https://x.com/i/status/1974790670238790072

No. Because the people driving golf balls will aim at them and keep score and bet on it.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/picking-up-golf-balls-off-driving-range.html

Rerun: Junkyard automata.
https://theawesomer.com/junkyard-automata-kinetic-sculptures/784069/

And “You literally can join ICE and be God’s appointed avenger who seeks to carry out God’s vengeance on the evildoer. Immigration is evil. To join the proper mechanism, through ICE, and to become, in that sense, God’s appointed deacon to carry out vengeance on the evildoer who is devouring the inheritance of the children. Um, that is a righteous thing. You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile, as you, with a gun, pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country.” It’s at this point in the narrative that I imagine Orson Welles standing up. The artilleryman says, “Where are you going?” Orson Welles says, “Not to your world.”
https://christiannightmares.substack.com/p/christians-who-support-ice-dont-know

And a couple more from Christian Nightmares.
https://x.com/ChristnNitemare/status/1559582520861155329
https://x.com/ChristnNitemare/status/1506304931460005888

! (via Clifford Pickover)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G26P-tIXwAAikFm?format=jpg&name=small

Rerun: Joanna Connor and her band on somebody’s side porch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwoM7WIy5M&list=RDbOVfHjiunUY&index=4

Bertha Mae Lightning – Ain’t No Man Alive Can Handle Me (1952).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJyH1zCNDc

To add to my list of fun curse phrases: /Morey Amsterdam in a HULA HOOP!/
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=24644551735153716&set=gm.4288185891396258&idorvanity=1427425394139003

Oh, dear.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/news-anchors-contagious-laughter.html

Take it on the run.
https://laughingsquid.com/1960s-girl-group-take-it-on-the-run/

“Take the green jacket. It’s funnier than the brown one. Words that have a K sound in them are funny: car keys, cucumber, kookoo, like that.”
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/10/06/number-theory/

“I think they sprayed us with vaccine components on January 6, because January 7 I was all inflamed, I couldn’t use my fingers…” “But it was really cold. Do you think it might have been the cold that–” “What was /really/ cold was the spikes of the vaccine! Yes, it was literally drone-delivered components of the vaccine…”
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/06/the-good-liars-vs-anti-vaxxers.html

27 historical false facts. Not shown here in the one about the Pledge of Allegiance is that its writer invented the straight-arm palm-out salute for kids to do while reciting it. Hitler adopted that. /Then/ the Pledge posture was changed to hand-over-heart.
https://trivia.cracked.com/image-pictofact-17262-27-moments-from-history-everybody-gets-wrong

So incredibly cool. An interactive shade map. (I had to use Edge or Chrome for it to work. Oddly, my Firefox had a problem with this.)
https://shademap.app/

Pass. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn0QWdiWLqk

Jordan Peterson vs Jordan Peterson. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buD2RM0xChM

James Hill abusing a uke with chopsticks and a comb. Show starts at 3:25.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylxBtEM0sI&list=RDbOVfHjiunUY

The cast of 1969-1970’s UFO series, then and now. One of them, Wanda Ventham, is Benedict Cumberbatch’s mother. She’s 90 now. They chose her for the part because they were the people who made the Thunderbirds and related Supermarionation shows and she looked just like their Lady Penelope puppet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWkaU83UDo

Really, this is worth the time. The full story of Supermarionation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTgpK9Oeghc

Origin story.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/10/10/this-really-should-happen/

And CPR instructions.
https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/https___s3-newsifier.ams3_.digitaloceanspaces.com_vkmag.newsifier.com_images_2021-08_pics_031_clean_790-611fb0639a66b.jpg

.      “This isn’t going to work on me anymore. The last time you did this I saved a vial of your tears and I’ve been building up an immunity.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Fanfare for the common man, for tiny trumpet and massive pipe organ. Like a cartoon series Juanita showed me once about a teacup kitten and a German shepherd retired war dog who go everywhere together.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/fanfare-for-common-man.html

I have long been a fan of all things Coanda. The Coanda effect, the Coanda streetlamp, the Coanda thermosymphony, the Coanda whispering fountain… But my favorite of all was the 1910 (!) Henri Coanda turbo-propulseur motor-jet sesquiplane, that /almost/ worked, and that gave him the idea for the Coanda effect in the first place, which effect I learned about as a child from the book Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane, published in 1957.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHIOJYrgjH8

Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane is the one title that is, dang, not here with the others. Why? I remember how the hardcover copy I had smelled. Like dust and mucilage glue. Other books I had smelled like that: Aesops’ Fables, for example.
https://archive.org/details/complete-tom-swift-page/Complete%20Tom%20Swift%20Page/

Here’s a little about it:
https://www.tomswift.info/homepage/cyplane.html

The true scale of wealth.
https://theawesomer.com/the-true-scale-of-wealth/783744/

And there you have it: proof of Satan. “But why have you kept the toaster?” “Well, Richard, when all’s said and done, it makes good toast.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-haunted-toaster.html

Rerun: Josephine Baker. I don’t remember what the two men in the balcony are ashamed of about her.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/10/josephine-baker-dances.html

Laufey – Lover Girl. (via Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLSGG-oEyw

Maggie Jones – Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyI-B8QsaY0

Fantastic mysteries.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/famous-fantastic-mysteries-covers.html

Music for a strip tease party.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/music_for_a_strip_tease_party

Orson Welles for frozen peas.
https://laughingsquid.com/animation-of-orson-welles-notorious-frozen-peas-rant/

Satellites, 1957-2025. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://x.com/i/status/1973374374204916044

Whew.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13832118

“Zipper-acker, firecracker, sis-boom-bah!” Oh yeah? Well, “P! A! R! K! Rah, rah, rah! Sis, boom, bah! Booma-lacka, booma-lacka! Boom, Park, boom!” Grrr, take this: “Ho rah ho roo! Deppa lah, deppa loo! Rah si ki yi! Hot cold wet-or-dry! Get there, Eli! Monmouth! Monmouth! Monmouth!” Hey, you kids settle down in there.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/vintage_cheerleading_calls

Haka. Haka. Hraka vair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI93YHILSgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBfQ1uf_Ukw
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Haiku/WatershipDown

100 years of cinema.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/100-years-in-100-films.html

Ken Nordine and Tom Waits – A Thousand Bing Bangs. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-_3ZhQlu8

“Did you check in Limbo, sir? I’d look for your wife in the Limbo section. It’s really cool. It’s where we keep the bowling goggles and the Nethersphere?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbsUiDYTbk

Related: Or a starship? or a burnt offering? or unquestioning obedience to his self-appointed representatives? or prayer?
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/622

Bibbidy bobbidy boop.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/poor-cinderella.html

The /Community/ Annie Edison reel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW7aHP7sqf0

The church isn’t a building. A burnt offering that is a genuine sacrifice.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/church_of_burn

The trampoline on the Great Pyramid.
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoline-on-the-great-pyramid/

Digital divinity.
https://restofworld.org/series/digital-divinity/

Jane Goodall, R.I.P.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2025/oct/01/jane-goodall-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/young-jane-goodall.html

…When she was little, with her puppy.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2277839722695321&set=gm.4285421625006018&idorvanity=1427425394139003

I see that over this week I collected a link to almost every art post on This Isn’t Happiness. Just go to This Isn’t Happiness and explore.
https://thisisnthappiness.com/

Church music.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/10/03/les-occasionnels/

“Hurry, Dear!! Oh, hurry!!”
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hurry.jpg

A busy, busy day.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/01/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-busy-busy-day-in-washington-d-c.html

The art of doing nothing.
https://laughingsquid.com/art-of-doing-nothing/

Speaking of art, but real art that someone actually did: Here, colored pencil animals that look at you like they want you to pet them. Awww. Or like they will bite you. But more the first kind.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/30/lorna-dandy/

Art.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/30/made-with-pictures-from-hubble-telescope/

Art. Rerun: Of Oz The Wizard. (Full film but with all dialog in alphabetical order, 101 min.)
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/09/of-oz-wizard.html

“I hate that we can’t describe people using the obvious thing,” this woman says. I agree. What I would start with here is, I like the sound of her voice. Next: it just looks like she fell off her bike. There was a man who worked in the local Radio Shack in the early 1980s who, the whole end of his nose was marked like that, and I tried to not say anything but of course failed and asked him about it. He fell off his bike.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4kIAg67IBFE

Remembering Charlie Kirk. “It’s important to note that Haiti is legitimately infested with demonic voodoo.” “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act.” “Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” “A certain number of gun deaths are acceptable, to have the Second Amendment. That is a prudent deal. That is rational.” “Is this WNBA privilege? That if you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States Marine?” And so on.
https://charliequotes.com/

…While we’re here:
https://truthout.org/articles/i-am-on-kirks-professor-watchlist-i-know-how-it-destroys-civil-debate/

Britain’s giant ocean liner airplane that time forgot. The fabulous Bristol Brabazon, its real name. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/the-flying-ocean-liner-britain-s-giant-plane-that-time-forgot/vi-AA1tJVfW

I don’t see any reason to be ashamed that I would like to watch these women swallow an egg. For scientific purposes.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/ann-farrar.html

Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder explains why, in her view, quantum computing will not pay off. She’s been right about everything else so far. Every once in awhile she teaches in a tight little leather teddy, not this time, but after this you might want to check out her other classes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MukMOZ0J-Ww

Come Along with Cosmo Sheldrake. Also Pelicans We.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/28/repost-come-along-with-cosmo/

Six hours of amateur film of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. (via BoingBoing)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-new-york-world-s-fair-1939-40/

Lets Work Together. The original, and another. “It was much more fun being 20 in the 70s than it is being 70 in the 20s.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSVWE3oow0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YavThhrC1ik

Perrier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqtnlfKwvPk

The Department of Peace.
https://youtu.be/jIKuruQQz5Q

Rerun: Loading cars on a ferry. (via Laughing Squid)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cex74TxgWfg/

Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/dinosaur-on-move-in-essex-1973.html

And then he says, “Perfect. What say we blow this pop stand?”
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/30/he-forgot-to-specify-which-one/

I never had the thing for Gershwin that Donna had, but I like to find out about things other people like and learn why and come to like it too.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/29/gershwin/

Cats with hands. This one has given up cigarets but can remember how good they were.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/10/02/considering-a-third-option/

I was going to say, I think people would pay to watch (and hear) these colorfully masked women ululate, in similar numbers to people who would pay magazine fashion women with freakishly narrow long necks to swallow an egg, but it occurred to me that it would also work the other way around, for all four configurations.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/the-masked-women-of-iran.html

“My cat let an owl get in my bed, provided it would sit in the right place.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6tjbBnpZZ_0

The Crew Cuts – Mostly Martha. (found via Weird Universe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igmkh–TITw

Kate Bush, bat.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/kate-bush-as-a-bat.html

BAT. Matt Berry batting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu38hrBfkM4

Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement – How To Orchid. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

Backward and in high heels. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8VYw0WNDNc

“Help with things like the polio drive.” “Not go off places.”
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/30/looks-like-chicken-girl-and-gumbo-man-should-meet/

As you get near the end of this extremely cool video, the slow motion view of a bullet cracking open a crystal ball looks exactly like computer simulations of an asteroid striking Earth. Back in the middle 1980s when I was teaching science, whenever I noticed something like this about the world I would say to the children, “Why do you suppose that is?” You could see the gears whirring in their heads.
https://theawesomer.com/recording-bullets-at-20-million-fps/783602/

Bleagh. Shaving is awful. I wish people wouldn’t do it. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://dermnetnz.org/topics/pseudofolliculitis-barbae

Superior Twat Syndrome. This is nice, but I prefer the way UK people say twat to rhyme with cat instead of hot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HZ_I3IBjQ

Longer boats are coming to win us.
https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/c87f7e9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1879×1252%2B0%2B0/resize/2720×1812!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https://assets.apnews.com/83/7d/275cf50f532b78d5c90482629c4f/6f60c08b6e224073913f4ffa01bbc5f6

Forever, amen.
https://theawesomer.com/could-we-survive-the-end-of-the-universe/783867/

Or.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8k8IQ1_X0

.      “Bensen, show me subscriber trunk dialing. I want to know everything.“

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

So Jesus, Bigfoot, Tintin and Imhotep walk into a bar…
https://www.youtube.com/@BibleUnleashed/videos

RAAAUGHRR!
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=DnETYq

And then cross the road. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/StevenWate91203/status/1967654291474419909

As falls Victoria so falls Victoria Falls.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/fly-through-victoria-falls.html

The dollar store still sells pencils. Say that. (When I was in fifth grade in 1968 in Fresno a lovely young speech therapist cured my thick wet lisp, and I’m still enjoying the benefits.) Yesterday I used a 1/4 hp bench grinder for a pencil sharpener, rather than walk into the next room for a bit of sandpaper. Civilization has made us soft.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/old-school-pencil-sharpeners.html

“Not now, Fallon!”
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-jimmy-kimmel-and-strike-force-five-vs-trumpactus.html

This is what taking the high road looks like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY

Meanwhile, the Rapture stood us up again. Or did it.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13819538

Animals reacting to thunder. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1novpw2/how_different_animals_react_to_thunder/

The vault of the atomic space age. (via Tacky Raccoons) (Scroll down and down.)
https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/page/21s

Adrift.
https://adrift.site/

Usually I post one or two items from Everlasting Blort, out of several more that I want to. This time I started picking my favorites and it went, like, four, five, six… Happy 25th birthday, Everlasting Blort. Here’s to 25 more great years, and then a couple days off to recharge.
https://blort.meepzorp.com/

A story about a bathroom. So much drama in a two-minute film.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-project-without-drama.html

School shootings in U.S. and Europe compared. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://brilliantmaps.com/school-shooting-maps/

The trailer for a new movie from The Onion. /Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile/.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/25/watch-the-onions-trailer-for-jeffrey-epstein-bad-pedophile.html

Bicycle engineering.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/anne-campion.html

Bicycle down through a mountain town.
https://theawesomer.com/downhill-urban-mountain-bike-ride/783385/

Everybody rides the carousel. Everybody wears a mask.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2025/09/everybody-rides-carousel-12-759.html

Pregnancy is insane.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/pregnancy-is-insane.html

Little Visitor. (Scroll down and down.)
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/23/little-visitor-other-abductions-debuts-with-cosmic-horror.html

Rerun: Cowboys and Aliens. (Full film, 120 min.) (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI5mlkx_Irk

Fun with a magnetic stirring machine.
https://theawesomer.com/making-fluid-vortexes-with-magnets/783212/

From Cliff Pickover’s X page, which I’ve discovered doesn’t work right if you’re not logged into X, but that’s your choice. Optical illusions always remind me of problems in reasoning and moods and political and faith outlook. The more sure we naturally are of what’s going on, without using a way of truly finding out, the more likely we’re being fooled or we’re fooling ourselves. Try a straight-edge. Look through your curled-up fingers. Think it through from someone else’s point of view. Experiment with other explanations. Etc.
https://x.com/pickover/status/1971403621465194809/photo/1

What he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPToBog_-g

Die! Die! (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1969408326623773059

Meep-meep.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/freakish_accidents_no_19

I think he should be on skates, and the upright member of the cross should fire blinding gouts of glitter and confetti and flame with a deep chest-rattling /KROOM!/ And then again, and again, as he skates in figure-eights. The charges and loads could be stacked, inside, or there could be a magazine of several rounds in the crosspiece.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/26/americans-always-have-to-take-the-easy-way-out/

Oops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqSNF3G1S5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-azyx11me4

Cheesedog.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/09/26/the-gif-friday-post-no-923-cheesedog-three-quarter-horses-a-nice-seat/

There ain’t no strudel like Magda Goebbels’ strudel.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-to-make-strudel-like-magda-goebbels

Cookies.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/23/antolpo/

Velvet Underground – Sister Ray, live and long.
https://youtu.be/_RPCI2H1sV4?si=eIoPQLPQKpegxN-f

Out of the ice.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/25/what-to-do-if-you-fall-through-ice-simple-survival-steps-demonstrated-in-a-must-watch-video.html

“I killed this for you.” “I killed this for /you/.” (via Fark)
https://assets.apnews.com/e6/6d/dc1a4715f353ad15914eee657c04/915004877d7e48cabdbf1a65bb38cd98

Art.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iKiRBlQXsSM
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ginger-venus-1.jpg
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/09/24/peace-and-quiet-5/
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/24/robert-strati/
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/25/diango-hernandez/

Further yet in the series of photographs of women I would like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/virginia-thoren.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/anne-campion.html

A head-on collision with only light damage. (via Fark)
https://www.odditycentral.com/funny/man-gets-head-stuck-in-traffic-light-after-crashing-into-it.html

Dan Tyminsky – Man of Constant Sorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeuinmSoGig

Pigeons, magnificent birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rEmyldMGs

I’ve read several stories over the years of people literally letting Jesus take the wheel, in two cases women with their kids in the car with them. It never ends well. Also, long ago I saw a fun movie –RATZ!– about two girls who want boyfriends to go to the school dance with them, so they make them out of pet rats, by means of a magical object in an eccentric aunt’s thrift store. The rat-derived boys are largely nonverbal, but when one girl’s mother is driving them all to the dance, a rat boy sees the airbag sign on the dashboard and says happily, “Airbag!” I don’t remember much else about the movie, except that Ron Silver played the villain, a horrible senator/real estate tycoon, and I’m not sure why I think this, but that character might be the same senator he played as the villain in TimeCop, placing the two stories in the same fictional world. I could look these things up and find out what’s right, but this is the way I prefer, relying on what feels right, like people do for whom Jesus is their airbag, or copilot, or enabler, or whatever, but without the potential for harm.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/25/that-wooden-cross-would-hurt-in-a-crash/

The magic invisible stitch.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gJgDlGKOUJ4

Big smile.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/irene.html

“Okay, this is looking just about ready.” (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1nbdx9m/reminiscing_while_making_pasta/

And much more from Henry’s Kitchen.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH6iYAJIYyN-4pZQOSom3BawRoV9cHdtP

.      “The defining experience of fascism is getting yelled at by dumbasses.” –Hamilton Nolan (via Kottke)

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s 7.4-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

What if an alien found the Voyager golden record? (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1n8gf8p/what_if_an_alien_found_the_voyager_golden_record/

The beautiful island of Mull. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45dHRJAZ3A

Lucas Nelson – September Song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UslWN3LqPvY

“These terrorist trans commies are out of control!”
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-school-shooter-kills-conservative-child-pundit.html

The power of vaccines.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-power-of-vaccines.html

Still got it.
https://laughingsquid.com/middle-aged-dad-jam-band-time-warp/

Take this test of covid knowledge. I took the short test and only missed one question.
https://seanmullen.com/covidcompetencyexam/

Scooter trash of olden times.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/people-with-motorcycles.html

Competence and patience.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FIPkFc0fnPg

V-2. (19 min.) (At 1.5X speed, 13 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePOQuFTXy4

The incredible voyage of Nebula-75. Starring Ray Neptune, Hermann Asteroid, Stella Solstice, James Mercury, and Circuit the Robot Pilot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCCeob3dfk

…And lots more of that, and like that, where that came from:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxIQbZ4SwvoznG8XgWCiFtgpF61qLgt7I

And the show that started it all: Space Patrol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vgPSclbVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGxLj6rVtQ

Back to the Future, unhinged version.
https://theawesomer.com/back-to-the-future-unhinged-version/782572/

The Flamin’ Groovies.
https://dangerousminds.net/music/the-flamin-groovies-at-their-raw-ragged-peak-in-1971/

A longer Whiter Shade of Pale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM

A Lower Spark of High Heel Boys. Just piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXDcPoeIx-E

Another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQR-Pce7Q0

DJ Food – O Is For Orange. (Full film, 62 min.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xN-1_LsxrFk

Mouse taxidermy. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.instagram.com/mousemagictaxidermy

Pensive Garbo, anguished Garbo, cat that swallowed the canary Garbo, side-eye Garbo, orgasmic Garbo, exhausted shitfaced Garbo, pixie Garbo. All the Garbos.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/greta-garbo-posters.html

A further extended Windows 10 support option. Read it all the way through before you try it. I did, and it seems legit.
https://www.makeuseof.com/you-can-keep-windows-10-until-2028-if-you-do-this/

Happy wiggly baseball.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/dancing-with-savannah-bananas.html

Altoona-style pizza. Bleagh. This is like somebody ate a pizza and then did a few jumping jacks and blew it back into the pan. (via XKCD)
https://blog.aerojockey.com/altoona/

The difference between redpill and blackpill aesthetics. There’ll be a quiz, but you won’t have to actually take it while you’re sneaking back down into your mom’s basement in your Confederate flag underpants. You can take it later at the station.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13811996

Fifty thousand names on one page. Each one is hover text for a dot. “Martyr [Name] was [number] years old when he was murdered by the ongoing Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people of Gaza.” Some of them get a little more of a story, but that’s the general idea. Civilians are still being murdered. Children are starving to death. Meager food relief sites are a mousetrap. Where is God? And what happened to Never Again?*
https://fiftythousandnames.org/

Glurpo the Underwater Clown, the Aquamaids, and Ralph. (via Nag On The Lake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL2rlpWLJPI

Here.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/17/how-boomers-excelled-at-corporal-punishment/

Word to the wise.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2F1vH99A-U

Lovely a cappella.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/14/repost-vocal-point/

Jeff Healey – As the Years Go Passing By.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIkOaTVu8uM

Big smile coming to your face. Get ready. You won’t be able to help it. I’m smiling and crying. Why does this affect me so?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/09/string-quartet-does-carry-on-wayward-son.html

Felix Colgrave. Paper and pen animation, and music. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUuK1mK3NLE

Impressive guitar action of ten-year-old Maituo (Lv Jnshi). (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/2025/09/there-are-guitar-prodigies-sure-and.html

/Forgot About Dre/ on a banjo.
https://theawesomer.com/forgot-about-dre-on-banjo/652481/

A six-shot license-free close-range revolver handgun that silently shoots five-inch-long nails that go all the way through kevlar body armor and a sheet of plywood and stick hard in the brick wall behind it, plus it /looks/ so cool, like what a Blade Runner might use to retire replicants. And anyone can just buy one, or several, and play with them and leave them lying around the house. What could go wrong? On the other hand: normal guns. Or rather /in/ the other hand. Or on the couch, or on the end table, or in the glovebox or the backseat or in the ankle holster.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UCc25KhI-p8

Lest we forget the horrors, for just August of 2025. Glance through the color code first.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/august-2025-atrocities-365-416

Head shown with human, for scale.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/olmec-colossal-heads.html

That’s what it’s all about.
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-09-16-cgfeet.gif

Viking ship details. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/oseberg-viking-ship-museum-of-viking-age-oslo/

I do this. I say question mark, when I realize the other person might not realize it was a question, because I didn’t raise the pitch at the end.
https://xkcd.com/3143/

Animal Crossing improved by A.I.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/16/making-animal-crossing-more-real-and-more-terrifying-with-ai-chatbots.html

At the dog office.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/if-animals-had-offices.html

Poking it with a stick.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-world.html

Somehow I knew but forgot that Kirsten Dunst voiced Kiki in English. Out of all the great Studio Ghibli films, Kiki’s Delivery Service is the one I’ve watched most often, then Spirited Away, then Porco Rosso, then The Cat Returns, /then/ the others, some of which are arguably better, not than Spirited Away, but I don’t know why, I just don’t feel as much like putting them on again, not even Princess Mononoke. Not even Laputa, Castle in the Sky, or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, or Howl’s Moving Castle. Anyway, dubbing Kiki:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9U3ecXgRQ

Janet. Are you a good Janet? or a bad Janet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQnxFroZp0

Hmm. I got all the way to the whack-a-mole one but that one wore me down till I gave up. Therefore I am a robot. (via Neatorama)
https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Mmm.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/egg-in-a-hole-sandwich-with-bacon-and-cheddar

I know she’s famous, I’ve never seen any shows with her in them, but I’ve seen Audry Plaza interviewed a few times. Either she’s exactly like this in real life or she can turn this persona on and latch it that way. This is where you use the term sui generis, like for Wednesday Addams, or Sheldon Cooper, or Maria Bamford, or Tom Waits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktp0ukOi3jE

I am big fan of the IBM Selectric type-ball typewriter. Look what this guy made with one.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/16/This-Face-Is-Motorized-by-a-Typewriter-Ball/

Skateboard stunts in games. (via Surfer Today) (via Fark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBttCSHdK7U

Further competence porn.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yOzP3tqIzjU

Wireless earbuds for sleeping that are light, small, and never need charging, because inside they’re just a tiny nearly weightless magnet and diaphragm and it’s wiggled by an electromagnet under your pillow. These are $300, but in a couple of years you’ll be able to get it in Big Lots for $5, if Big Lots hadn’t gone out of business. Maybe in the dollar store, where everything will be $5 then. The five-and-ten dollar store. They’ll sell single-use disposable guns, too.
https://newatlas.com/wearables/battery-less-earbuds-sleep-somnibuds/

A clever trick you can play in a video game. Or rather could play. Now they’ll be watching out for it. I wonder if anyone’s tried pretending to be a whole car. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/weirddalle/status/1965385312118681855

“If there are a lot of simulations, you’re probably inside one.”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/09/reality-versus-perception-of-reality.html

Proof of concept.
https://www.perfectforroquefortcheese.org/2025/09/dykstraflex-12-727.html

Urp. Pardon me.
https://x.com/i/status/1968855962749436156

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/09/17/donald-wasswa/

*Rerun: This Land is Mine. Written, directed, designed, animated, etc. by Nina Paley.
https://vimeo.com/199418954

Whatever you can imagine, there are 10,000 people out there for whom that’s all they care about. Here are some appreciators of the sounds woodworking tools make.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OohPcPtYxGw

The Wanta-See-Something-Cool? guy. An electrical generator. Autosync means it quickly self-adjusts to generate A.C. power in phase with the the power-company power. And that’s pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1pvmufQbwmM

Australian fighter jet ride. I asked ChatGPT, “How much does it cost in fuel and maintenance, and figure in the cost of designing and manufacturing the jet, and training the pilot, for a modern air force jet fighter plane to fly around.” Short answer: between $500 and $1,000 per minute, depending on the jet. F-35 is more, a Typhoon is less. An F-22, now, that’s like $2,000 a minute. That seems like a lot, but I didn’t check it. Walt Schneider is long dead of old age now, but he used to fly all kinds of planes in the military. Prop fighters, transports, jets. I asked him what was his favorite, and he said, “The F-86.” Why? “It was smooth. Like sitting in a chair on the porch.” He had just got out of prison. He didn’t have electricity. We were sitting there eating pork chops with applesauce by candlelight. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5XSnzryCA

As I suspected.
https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=091725

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

Once more, please.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TTzIsrHyEXE

BBC on transport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcPpgiK4-T8

A.I.-funkified Back in Black.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/17/dig-this-funkified-ai-ac-dc-version-of-back-in-black.html

Rerun: Magdalena Bay (band name) play Bowie. Mica Tenenbaum’s delicate teacup ears. And the keyboardist’s red machine– what make and model is that? It looks homemade.
https://theawesomer.com/magdalena-bay-plays-david-bowie/768010/

It all happened so fast. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://bustednuckles.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image-91.png
https://x.com/JebraFaushay/status/1965034839058575828

Frog returns from space. /Almost/ perfect landing in catch-clip guide. Good enough.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QjvvyC

“I vant to be a science vampire.”
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PhilosophyVampires.png

A czardasz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRYcUBtlU0

A hip-hop czardasz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imIoxt-wrws

And I want to say, /A Chinese czardasz/, but only because of the sound of the phrase. Others possibles come to mind: The Choo-Choo Czardasz, A Chunky Czardasz, The Czardasz Charleston…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHlq_jRtgQ

Weird Barracuda.
https://laughingsquid.com/1970s-james-bond-heart-barracuda/

Testing.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EeFGBpHr40U

What. (via Fark)
https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N122_0016_012.jpg

How we get whatever these things are. Yoga mats? Burial urns?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kD71wPK37Lo
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zG3F7ETuOtA

A-bomb shelter door and fashion. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/bombshelter-1.jpg

Joe Walsh in 1971.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/walk-away.html

Armadillo.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/14/Frank-the-Armadillo-Who-Plays-Basketball/

The first McDonald’s anywhere.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=1M77VX

…And, rerun, a song about the origin of McDonald’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KGjy5dFbdM

And Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEeaED5bq-4

.      “It’s not so much things that torment man, but the opinions he has of things.” -Montaigne

Marco here. 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) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

A gigantic question mark ten times bigger than the Earth, made of blazing plasma. That is the question.
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/gigantic-letter-s-spotted-on-the-sun-just-before-a-dark-eruption-hurls-a-fiery-shadow-at-earth

Rerun: The Parallax View.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallax_View

Katerina Valenti – Moto Perpetuo. (via b3ta)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DjcduD53HT8

Kevin Parry’s greatest hits, including The Ten Kinds of Magic. (via Chicken Lore)
https://www.tumblr.com/kevinbparry/794152074359291904/cheers-to-10-years-of-making-videos

Fix up that old radio! (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/may2015_Koebel

Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiXrd-R68U

Connect the measles. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/measles-1.jpg

“Who knows what exciting medical adventures are in store for us, led by this man and his impressive, and frankly delicious, mind.”
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/10/tom-the-dancing-bug-rfk-jr-s-brain-worm-presents-the-history-of-medical-science.html

Bohemian Rhapsody in isiZulu, the Bantu language.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/bohemian-rhapsody-in-isizulu.html

Bohemian Rhapsody flashmob in Paris, France.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/paris-flashmob-does-bohemian-rhapsody.html

Foot-pedal-cranked hurdy gurdy.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/09/An-Electric-Hurdy-Gurdy-Built-from-a-Manual-Sewing-Machine/

Two-dollar Casio toy keyboard, circuitbent. (via Mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z40QY0Jsh1I

Life on Mars on Mars.
https://laughingsquid.com/40-fingers-life-on-mars-red-desert/

Philosophy in a lifeboat.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PhilosophyinaLifeBoat.png

Naked geometry.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2015/01/18/naked-geometry/

What.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qeagmmjfrnaadxu3vjijtv2y/bafkreidc55rxzjd5ce6elymv3wfd5gjheji4gr4g2nqregbc4lshr5acoy@jpeg

What. (via Fark)
https://tinyurl.com/YellowSnek

Rerun: Lift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh9Y1CXmBbg

Art. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/louis-icart.html

Further on fordite.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/detroit-agate.html

Won’t somebody think of the children.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1441581017102674

Jeremy Siskind – Misty, and semi-ecstatic about it. /Play Misty For Me/ was one of the many adult-rated movies that I and my friends got to see by having the driving parent drop us off at Roseville Theater and we’d wait till he or she drove away and run up the street to the Tower Theater and get a grown-up couple in the line to say we’re with them so the ticket person wouldn’t turn us away for being too young. I grasped immediately that Jessica Walter was bad news, and so wasn’t at all surprised when she went all stabby at Clint Eastwood with a foot-long pair of scissors, sorry to spoil it for you. I love the song, and it and the movie are two things that go together perfectly or call each other into memory wherever they appear alone. Also the foot-long scissors at the ribbon-wire rack at work. And any extra-big revolver, punk. (via Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7es0gs6vnLY

Now this, I think it’s explained by, long ago, people who could feel content and comfortable doing nothing and learning nothing and trying nothing for long periods of time just basically missed opportunities to pass their genes on. One man and and twenty women can potentially make twenty babies a year. One woman and twenty men can make only one. Men have to restlessly mill around and compete. Women compete, but they have the option of not doing it. All they have to do is wait. Also, everyone in the study knows, just knows, that the shock will not damage them. I’d press the button right away, for two reasons: 1. I’d naturally assume that, since being told it will be unpleasant, all others would wait for further info, and I would like to stand out from the pack, if only in the eyes of hidden watching researchers in lab coats with little on underneath. (See above.) And 2. just pure curiosity. How is that not enough? In other but related news: The worst electrical shock I ever got was in 1987, I think, or 1988. One of the things I taught at the Whale School was electricity, and for that I made electrical demo devices, such as Tesla coils, in the kitchen of my house, which I used for a shop. The primary circuit of the biggest one had a 10,000 volt neon sign transformer to serve the primary circuit and the spark gap. It was tapped in the middle, at the ground, so 5,000 volts, because, and I still don’t know why, but when I used the full 10,000 volts, it just couldn’t be made to work right. So I was kneeling bent over the side of the giant capacitor made of a stack of glass and aluminum foil, adjusting things /with the power on but the spark gap too far open so no operation, just a faint hum./ I thought I was being careful, but my hand brushed the spark gap’s cooling fin (5,000 volts A.C. right there), and BOKK! I was sitting on the floor, my back against the wall, my heart pounding. Juanita, in the other room, called, “Are you okay?” (She hadn’t heard me fall; what she heard was all the air grunting out of me.)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DMT7nzySqpA

Horny Moses.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-moses-has-been-depicted-as-man-with.html

Sitar hip-hop. Up the neck, down the neck, back up the neck, down the neck again. Classic noodling. Not unpleasant. He looks like Ant Man’s funny talkative friend.
https://theawesomer.com/still-d-r-e-on-sitar/782004/

Out of all the collections of photographs I’ve shown you over the years of all the women who I’d like to watch swallow an egg, this one. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/skorver1/albums/72157642822551964/

Point of view of the latest world champion downhill bike racer making his winning run. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEcypH7tM28

I believe they call this sort of thing competence porn.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OzpXn-7PL6M
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/09/women-are-awesome.html

…And this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2YQcIUgfLPE

And this. Dustin Ballard – There I Ruined it. What Red Hot Chili Peppers sound like to people who don’t like the band. “Jelly beans and nicotine are streaming through my grandma’s spleen…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5JMEu5hZA

Further Dustin Ballard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0

And here he is, accounting for himself, via TED.
https://laughingsquid.com/dustin-ballard-there-i-ruined-it-ted-talk/

George Hurrell’s Hollywood. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.facebook.com/georgehurrellshollywood

Forbidden Hollywood. (Scroll down and down.)
https://www.facebook.com/thestarlightstudio

Film noir posters. “Honey, if a girl killed every man who got fresh with her, how much of the male population ya think there’d be left?” Also: THE BIG CLOCK! Ray Milland, Charles Laughton. (Scroll down and down.) Yesterday I saw a fancy metal clock of that style, nearly that big, on a shelf in the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store, turned it over and, yup, it yawned hollow except for the common AA-battery plastic clock movement the size of an Altoids tin, going tch, tch, tch, tch, tch, tch, tch… The clock of my dreams would be four inches thick, with a dog-dish-shaped stainless steel or shiny ink-black Bakelite rim. Thick black hands and normal number-shaped numbers. Inside: a synchronous AC motor to /smoothly/ sweep the second hand around, not ticking forward but rather humming so quietly you’d have get up on a ladder and put your ear right against the real glass to hear it. It would be so beautiful that I’d walk in on someone stealing it, stand there for awhile with my arms crossed watching him or her, and wryly clear my throat. In the old days, electric clocks ran on house current, the synchronous motor depended on 60Hz AC regulated by the power company, so every clock in the whole city, once set right, would thereafter agree with every other clock.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100052607147347

Look at these fools.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/10/look-at-these-fools-music-video-with-maga-ghouls.html

Yes, why /do/ they all look like that. “Contour the jawline, lift the jowls, and pull a little up on the sides of the face.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4creTSqFg

If you have such-and-such disease, what else are you likely to have? Choose from the arrow-drop-down list, or click on any of the colored balls. If you have actual colored balls, then I don’t know what to tell you. Colored balls is not on the list. But of course I looked it up; you can get red, purple, blue, or black balls from many causes. Red, infections: Epididymitis (infection/inflammation of the epididymis); Orchitis (testicle infection, sometimes from mumps); Cellulitis or skin infection (often with swelling, warmth, pain, and fever); dermatitis, fungal infection (jock itch), psoriasis, or allergic reaction. Blue/Purple discoloration: Testicular torsion (emergency); A twisted spermatic cord cuts off blood supply. (Symptoms: sudden severe pain, swelling, nausea, vomiting, testicle becomes dark red, purple, or blue. (Needs emergency surgery within hours to save the testicle.) Scrotal hematoma/trauma (Blood collects after an injury or surgery, causing bruising, blue/purple/black). Varicocele or vascular congestion. Dilated veins can cause a darker hue. Etc. Also mere plain bruising. (via New Atlas)
https://disease-perception.bsc.es/rgenexcom/

How they wash and even sterilize their filthy balls, so your kids are safe to rub their faces on them. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://theawesomer.com/washing-the-ball-pit/782297/

…The song they used for that. Wash those germs away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFhuF5VaZVk

Natural immunity. (via Bits And Pieces)
https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/464234416_9451047901582803_740958720257347322_n.jpg

And that explains it. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/measles.jpg

How to spy behind enemy lines in World War Two, in case you ever need to. (With full film, 61 min.)
https://dangerousminds.net/movies/undercover-john-fords-wwii-spy-training-film/

Artsy coffee, bubbling pup, and the happy boy stomp.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/09/12/the-gif-friday-post-no-921-artsy-coffee-bubbling-pup-the-happy-boy-stomp/

Azerbaijani guitar guy Elman Namazoglu, his real name. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRRVpnnD9PQ

The Imperial March on rubber chickens.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-imperial-march-on-rubber-chickens.html

Cute ducks. (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg/1280px-Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg

There ya go. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/scorp.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GivingUp.jpg

These very short clips are from the teevee series The Blacklist, which I’m keeping an eye out for some way to see. I enjoyed /Sex, Lies, and Videotape/ and /Supernova/ and /Stargate/. James Spader is versatile. It’s interesting watching and listening to him get old. I was just noticing again that the wad of keys in my pocket has become absurd, and James Spader’s voice came to me, saying, “Too many keys.” And when Jack Nicholson pees on James Spader’s pant leg in /Wolf/, the way he cries, “What are you doing!” (Setting Jack Nicholson up to say, “I’m marking my territory.”) I’ve noticed that I don’t seem to have a problem peeing in a public restroom anymore, no matter how busy the place is. I’m marking my territory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQC9SDs1O4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8S6HOAsBkA

Another reason not to use your phone in the toilet, besides the recent science discovery that it can give you hemorrhoids, which if it didn’t mean hemorrhoid would be a plausible name for a kind of food or a law term or a Star Trek alien race or a math shape.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I8nCyHMvxI8

Sylvia Sidney, born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/sylvia-sidney-1930s.html

The A.I. Bible. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBibleOfficial/videos

The mantle model. (Hover over the image for hover-text.)
https://xkcd.com/3141

Before.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2803396763183569&set=gm.4259246367623544&idorvanity=1427425394139003

“How did you know?” “It was too perfect. A shiny surface can hide a lot of rot… underneath.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N6KRQ5Tw_3k

The master of disguise always eventually settles down. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://flashbak.com/the-changing-face-of-65-east-125th-st-harlem-1977-2025-477853/

Juanita sent me this. A child finds a little creature and keeps it. The video is just a minute long and sweet, like a fast little dream. (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.tumblr.com/sprouch/792975489609433088/short-film-by-jonathan-djob-nkondo-posted-to

Maru is dead.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/09/rip-maru.html
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/06/The-World-Will-Always-Remember-Maru/

Twenty examples. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/pickover/status/1964851579011674508

I had forgotten about this kind of car door. I love this. In real life it would only work for the first few months you had the car, and get stuck open, or stuck shut, but so /future/, like Commander Straker’s turbine-engine car in UFO. Chrysler tried a turbine engine in 1963, but it didn’t work out. I still wonder why no-one has tried a gas-turbine/electric car. It wouldn’t go on and off like the ICE-engine kind– it would run entirely on the battery until it got to a certain set charge level and then run a small turbine engine to bring it back up. It would solve the problem of long trips in places in the world where there aren’t chargers all over the place.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/jatech-disappearing-car-door.html

Automation. When I was four, my cousins came all the way from Ohio to visit our grandparents, who ran the Italian restaurant where I grew up. It was a full-service old-fashioned big-city restaurant. They had pizza, but it was an afterthought. People would come in big groups, sit in a booth, eat, drink alcohol, talk, eat, smoke, talk, eat, drink coffee. They’d be there for like three hours, and then somebody would say, “Let’s get pizza ta take home.” My mother and I lived in the guest unit behind my grandparents’ house, across the alley from the restaurant, so I was in there all the time. The pizza boxes were made of flat t-shirt cardboard, cut out for the sides and top and bottom and flaps and tucks, with lines for where to fold. While the Ohio family was there, Teedee and I folded pizza boxes. He was 12, so he could really cook at it, like a machine. He’d make ten by the time I made one. We made a pretty big castle out of them. That must’ve been the time when they all made a huge fuss over how I could read aloud like just talking, because my mother taught me to read as I was learning to talk. I remember the /sound/ of my cousins being all pleased and surprised. That was a formative moment for me. Around that time I also discovered what happens when you jam a bobby pin in an electrical socket, and what it tastes like when you lick a metal screen door, and what it feels like to get the wind knocked out of you by falling off a fence (and exactly how long it takes to feel okay again), and how soft you can make a pet dog’s paw fur by brushing and brushing, and so on. Now they have machines to do all these things, plus machines to enjoy it and write a story about it, and even set it to music.
https://theawesomer.com/building-a-box-folding-machine/781860/

The unforgettable Jon Daker. Found footage. (via Fark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SSBHR50CU&list=RDl5SSBHR50CU

The infidel’s plight.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/10/devos-jocko-homo-inspired-by-bizarre-1924-anti-evolution-pamphlet.html

Trains in Bangladesh. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/Saffron_Sniper1/status/1962692618925809812

State of the art bionic hands. No amount of prayer or astrology or chiropractic adjustment or feng shui or kombucha or essential oil or organic free range ham or any of that crap would give this. Science did this, just as science in the form of an ordinary small-town opthalmologist recently restored my cataract-ruined eyesight to like-new condition, and as evidence-based science saved the lives and health of millions of people, young and old, with vaccines. And science made the entire desert of California, for example, bloom and provide sustenance for the entire nation. And cured many kinds of cancer. And gave my mother two metal knees and a hip ten years ago, so she’s 96 years old and can still live in her own rented house and go into the kitchen for a snack and walk around outside and water the plants. Science, that’s the way. This lovely young lady can pet a cat, and drink a glass of milk, and dress herself, and if a creep ever gets fresh and she doesn’t like it, she can sock him in the kisser.
https://laughingsquid.com/tilly-lockey-bionic-hands/

Meanwhile, what a world.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8lq63Q–D4c

Click and drag to look around from the center of Barringer Crater. Plus and minus keys zoom. Navigat by onscreen arrows. You can climb out, over the rim. Go all the way to the visitor center if you want to, and stop abruptly at a brick wall. A metaphor for so much.
https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=hJg7s4

Speaking of which, what would happen if the moon were made entirely of electrons?
https://laughingsquid.com/what-if-moon-made-of-electrons/

A real actual higher power.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-gigantic-jet-is-transient-luminous.html

Radical neighboring. (via Kottke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynQV-oKM0E

Interpreting data points. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1966550370022285571

From the latest The Naked Gun.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3rkIJBVTE9s

Rudeboy, the story of Trojan Records. (Full film, 85 min.)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/rudeboy.html

“People say, Hey, fish can only remember for three seconds, and we’re like, No, they can remember for one year, and they can drive a robot.”
https://laughingsquid.com/fish-drives-robotic-fish-tank/

The Pope’s motorbike. Pope-mobike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyM5Nt_spg

“The devil lies: Oh what a happy land we live in.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_npaLydKg

It interests me how horrible this is to me. I mean, it’s funny how disgusting this aspect of life is. Bleagh! It’s not just the texture or slimy look or their fishlipless O-mouths or the mindless frantic claustrophobic crowding-fighting for food or any one thing, it’s all of it. (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Koi_feeding,_National_Arboretum.jpg/1280px-Koi_feeding,_National_Arboretum.jpg

On the other hand, Mr. Oyster and Ms. French fries.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/09/but-its-delicious.html

Whatever works.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/12/im-impressed-the-customers-were-fooled/

How to smoke cigarets like a female should. Main point: it should never leave the fingers.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/09/12/i-have-only-been-around-the-women-on-the-right/

Timing.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/timing-is-everything.html

Anime on paper film. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6mqAwGnY8

How we get wooden matches.
https://theawesomer.com/making-millions-of-matchsticks/782201/

Visualize drum brakes. The cylinders are syringes.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-hTITZs9luc

Hacking At Leaves (A Perturbing and Discombobulated Experience). A documentary. (Full film, 108 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/hacking-at-leaves-johannes-grenzfurthner/

Bloop. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1965796214924005711

Ladder 118.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/ladder-118.html

Final photographs.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/the-final-photographs-of-twin-towers.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/inside-wtc-by-john-labriola.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/world-trade-center-destruction.html

Rerun: Ani DiFranco – Self Evident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTY8sCzHTNc

And patience. (via Miss Cellania)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1najt4a/bro_waited_so_long_he_grew_a_beard/
https://www.cracked.com/article_48214_snl-wouldnt-have-been-the-same-without-this-forgotten-musical.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8V4c6zNlmE

Patience.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WxqD_5moZ5U

.      “Wash, tell me I’m pretty.” “Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.” “Because I’m pretty.” “Because you’re pretty.”

Marco here. Here’s the recording of last night’s 7-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

More about the fabulous 1938 Hammond Novachord, the first polyphonic synthesizer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm3RBAZChrQ

Hannah Fry on innate attachment styles.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GQ9y4c6AbCg

Generate another. Generate another. Generate another. Scroll-scroll-scroll. (If it doesn’t work for you, try another browser.)
https://wgx.github.io/adno/

“Remember, it’s only arson if it’s from the French region of Arsonne. Otherwise it’s just sparkling fire.” Knowledge of fuses. That’s what they need throughout all of Star Trek. When an enemy’s attack damages your motor or weapons or anything, wherever that is on the ship, the backed-up power squirts all the way through the pipes to the bridge, and your control panel explodes in your face in a shower of sparks. And seatbelts, how about, the instant they start shaking the camera on you, don’t wait.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wdL818qPTv4

Dogs plus time.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/31/repost-dog-years/

Auditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWM4bPMzaY

Jackson Brown – I’m Alive, live in his living room, 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P23J2_KZevg

I never saw Monster House, but Coraline and The Corpse Bride: pretty good.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/erinwhitten/2025/09/3-classic-spooky-animated-movies-just-dropped-on-tubi-and-theyre-free-to-watch/

Anna May Wong: “I was killed in every film.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/03/anna-may-wong-trailblazing-chinese-american-star-upended-cinema-bfi

Tinyhice of the Blackfeet.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/blackfeet-by-walter-mcclintock.html

This knowledge is over 3,000 years old. If we lost books and people with this skill, we’d be pushed back even farther than that. And it’s just a knife. Suppose you want something to write with and something to write on, or pants, or a pot to cook in, or something to cook in it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6uPSnSONE4M

Or a radio. But this person has unlimited enameled wire, a safety pin, a fricking /amplifier/. And powerful transmitters nearby to choose among their frequencies. I’m shortcutting my train of imagination here, and I don’t want you to misunderstand and think I disparage making things; quite the opposite. I’m simply reminded of the story of a scientist justifiably proud and excited about physics and biology and progress and knowledge. He says to God, “What do we need you for anymore?” God takes some dirt, adds chemicals and water and electricity in just the right complicated way, and he makes a butterfly. The scientist says, “I can do that.” He thinks about it, goes out to dig up some dirt to start with. God says, “Uh-uh, pal. Make your own dirt.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AI2Jixj5Bs

“It still has quite a few drawbacks. The location of the barrels just below the blade make them liable to get clogged whenever the knife is used, prone to fill with dirt, sawdust or blood.” I would just put tape over the holes. Or use gum, or a candle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjfaEjA3lM

So that’s a knife that shoots bullets. Here, rerun: a gun that shoots knives:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gun-shoots-knives

The Moon woke up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEhsI3ZGwQ

The official map of the Star Wars galaxy, throughout which shooters shoot and shoot and miss and miss, and even if their aim is true, if you’re quick you can dodge getting shot. If only their science had advanced to the point of developing a basic blunderbuss full of nails. One shot with your eyes closed would take out every rebel all the way down the hallway or cave.
https://kottke.org/25/09/the-official-map-of-the-star-wars-galaxy

“/Belgium/ has freedom.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O_a7DV36hcw

“Bamboo is the drama queen of the plant world.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u2GZd4ynHVc

The Hives live from KCRW. Their lead singer is like Chris Pine.
https://theawesomer.com/the-hives-live-from-kcrw/781418/

Genetic weirdness in bugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJBXMrfE0c

Translation table.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/09/05/translation-table/

A marriage like they had in the Bible.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/charlie-johns-eunice-winstead.html

Like they had in the Bible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlzkuFBJ7s

Climate change Burning Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0QH4_qOmSU

Sound on sound.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/multiple-sidosis.html

Ode ttttooooo /JJJJJJOOOOYYYYYY/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AJNmxFLws

Demi, grande, trenta.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ADfkIgBzz-k

Hmm.
https://www.alternet.org/media-library/u-s-president-donald-trump-reacts-as-he-speaks-to-members-of-the-media-on-board-air-force-one-en-route-from-scotland-britain.jpg?id=61508444&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C404%2C0%2C404

Reuben Bolling — Tom the Dancing Bug’s Super Fun-Pak Comix.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/03/tom-the-dancing-bugs-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-shane-the-hurricane-a-i-high-and-more.html

Hey. Look what Zog do.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/1d9vfq6/zog/

Be kind, rewind. “You will be taken outside the town to a potato farm. You will go in the morning. It’s too dangerous to travel at night.”
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/08/31/retro-cinema/

“The story of a young girl’s moral degeneration.” (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wild-oats.jpg

Breaking the seal news.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/02/this-marine-life-breaking-news-is-the-only-news-i-can-currently-handle.html

Flying.
https://theawesomer.com/just-floating-fpv-wing-drone-flight/781373/

Metal skill.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Oh18opaAH8s

Fun with Olive Oyl. (via BoingBoing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXg6199D6ak

A rare star anagram.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/08/30/a-pretty-find/

Why circles, right-angle triangles, angles, sine and cosine are all related. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1963752705752518923

Heliocentrism vs. geocentrism. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1962296390127661394

Mystery music of the mystic shrine.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/mysterious_music_of_the_mystic_shrine

Thermography. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/pokidyshev_art/

History of the jukebox. (via Neatorama) My grandparents had a jukebox mafia jukebox in their restaurant. Radio networks are a similar kind of crime-family-mentality oppressive-but-for-most-people-so-what business. I’ll tell you more about that on the air.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/colorful-scandalous-true-history-machine-created-american-pop-180987173/

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/30/repost-fake-art/
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/philip-wilson-steer.html

Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNXEZHC0q4

A matter of taste.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/americas_favorite_and_least_favorite_painting

Bats.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/05/Ze-Frank-Tells-Us-All-About-Bats/

Thomas Hart Benton – Bolt of Lightning. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LightningBolt.jpg

Enjoy your labor. “No whispering.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FMvfHqmqPsY

Wonderful car. This is not really like the Jaguar hearse Harold made in Harold and Maude, but it made me think of that.
https://www.toxel.com/tech/2025/08/17/volkswagen-beetle-limousine/

A lot of little cruelties instead of one big one.
https://bitsandpieces.us/2025/08/30/beef-also-costs-less-and-cheaper-to-burgerize/

Back to nature.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/30/g-s1-86289/photos-nature-anthropocene-polar-bear-elephants-illusion

Swedish bluegrass band plays Don’t Fear the Reaper.
https://theawesomer.com/stevenseagulls-dont-fear-the-reaper/781390/

Canadian bluegrass band plays People Are Strange.
https://theawesomer.com/the-dead-south-people-are-strange/647200/

Southern U.S. bluegrass band plays Linus and Lucy.
https://theawesomer.com/linus-and-lucy-on-banjos/727828/

Australian bluegrass a cappella group sings Bohemian Rhapsody.
https://theawesomer.com/rhapsody-in-bluegrass/750740/

Dumplings. I like best the triceratoxolotl, but also the curled up sleeping cat.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/09/dino-gyoza.html

Because it’s our nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgb2-4Avu4

“I went to college with Genocide.”
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-09-02-cgpaperofrecord.gif

Fishing with Jeff.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/09/02/fishing-with-jeff/

A carnival ride in Sweden that would never fly here.
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/04/swiss-carnival-ride-allows-children-to-run-free-while-spinning.html

I like the way he confidently jerks out the rack and shoves it back in, and the way he picks up the plates. I would like to see him also scrape plates into the insinkerator first, and scrub out a pot of burned oatmeal.
https://laughingsquid.com/robot-loads-dishwasher/

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/janet-randy.html

Yvonne De Carlo.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/yvonne-de-carlo-1950s.html

Gonks Go Beat.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/gonks_go_beat
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kTcAdoLIubK5ZlcnFNLaq_uFejXUki7p4

Spherical Minecraft. (via BoingBoing)
https://bowerbyte.itch.io/blocky-planet

“It’s people who will get cancer in 10, 20 or 30 years who will really pay the price for these cuts.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-defunding-medical-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.hrq5.BN14Ty8YEonW

I have no idea what movie this is from nor what happens before or after these few seconds, but just as it is, this is a perfect little dream like you might have in a five minute nap in the car, when you’ve pulled over because your head drooped and you shook yourself and realized you’re too sleepy to drive safely. After, you wake up, smile-drawl aloud and write, “Let’s go put it in the pot,” start the motor, drive away thinking about Dogville. And The Golden Compass, and write without looking away from the road: /Dogville and the Golden Compass/, for a post theme-title, under /Traish LaRue and the Sirens of Titan/, or /Antivax Yahoos and the Temple of Doom/, and /Omphalos Unbound/.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/emG1ZdAriXo

Wonders.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/09/05/the-friday-gif-post-no-920-hyperboloid-orange-popper-poor-google-street-view-man/

And “What.” (The one on the right.)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2254097051736255&set=gm.4257695581111956&idorvanity=1427425394139003

.      “This particular thesis was addressed to me a quarter of a century ago by John Campbell, who told me that all theories are proven wrong in time. My answer to him was, ‘John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was [perfectly] spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.’ The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that right and wrong are absolute; that everything that isn’t perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong. That’s not so.” -Isaac Asimov (via Futility Closet)

Marco here. 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) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Tristan Guillaume Group – Impressions of Rachmaninoff. I don’t often listen to this kind of music all the way through, because I don’t understand complex music enough to hear it as much more than several people who are very good at their instruments noodling at random and they can’t hear each other, or they can and they don’t care. This group is just enough to me like they can and do, and are playing together, to make it sweet, especially past the time where the drummer begins actually touching the drums and not just waving his brushes over them. Though the guitarist’s loose metal string ends, not coiled up or clipped off, keep me on edge thinking about how, moving around with it later to put it away, he’s liable to poke himself or someone else in the eye with one and scratch the cornea or even pierce the eyeball so the fluid dribbles out and it goes flat. Shudder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qzT1OJCUo

It only takes a second.
https://www.fark.com/vidplayer/13789240

The effect of progressively more powerful firecrackers on an upturned cook pot. Before this, I knew of only three kinds: regular firecrackers like an inch-long pencil, come in bricks, M-80s like the end joint of a man’s thumb, and something called a quarter stick, which I had only heard about.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/28/Testing-the-Power-of-Various-Firecrackers-with-a-Cooking-Pot/

That cook-pot video reminds me of the true story of the first man-made object fast enough to entirely escape the Earth’s gravity. /Five times escape velocity./ It was the manhole cover atop a tunnel down to an atomic bomb test.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownlee-2016-2

Speaking of manhole covers, in this case to describe the aerodynamic (or not) properties of the iconic Earth Reentry Vehicle, is Professor Hannah Fry. An exercise in self control: attempt to not smile from ear to ear just because she’s talking to you. I bet you can’t do it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P4Bmh1aa_gM

Arm tutting. (via Everlasting Blort) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1gf675h/perfectly_synced_tutting_dance_by_urbantheory/

Colorful wildlife. Scroll down and down.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70r7plrdndo

Half an hour of workers making mistakes. The welder on a ladder who doesn’t notice until the weld that his head won’t be able to get out of the frame. I like that one the most. It’s a metaphor for much of our lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZaKo2k0lE0

How we get whatever this stuff is. Two-cherries candy? Note the quiet /tink/ or /fffint/ but also singing, ringing sword /zing/ sound the big knife makes when it touches things or comes away from touching them. My ears are not good in the high frequencies, probably because of all the firecrackers (and hammers and power tools) in my youth, but I can just barely hear that and I like it.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/cherry-explosion.html

How a cruise ship is evacuated.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-cruise-ship-is-evacuated.html

Doll houses.
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/09/1960-ford-spaceliner-a-vehicle-that-looks-a-bit-like-a-spaceship-from-a-science-fiction-movie/

Fighter puppet.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xbtdJRdJ5v0

Lightning model. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://x.com/i/status/1961461748449354132

What the lyrics of AC/DC songs sound like to people who don’t like the band.
https://laughingsquid.com/what-acdc-sounds-likes-to-haters/

The courtship dance of the hooded grebe.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-courtship-dance-of-hooded-grebe.html

Tokyo timelapse.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/08/tokyo-dreamlapse-by-gavin-heffernan.html

A.I. generated steam- and bio-punk western backlot production. The A.I. doesn’t have a handle on how guns work or what they’re for, so it makes them a flashing wand that has no effect on the world, something to wave around and shoot while you walk or jump or dance. They’ll learn, by the time they have real guns, and then they’ll shoot us. That’s why I always say please and thank you to ChatGPT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YyEQsu7L8M

…The style reminds me of western magical fantasy steampunkish webcomic Next Town Over. Here’s the first page. Click on the page to read the next page. And the next. There’s like ten years of story here. It’s pretty good. If you like it, the real-world book would be a great gift for a young person in your life, as would the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series of graphic novels. Or Sandman. Or Saga. Or East of West or Girl Genius, or Tom Strong, or Strong Female Protagonist, or just any pile of Heavy Metal Magazines from thirty and more years ago.
https://nexttownover.net/comic/book01-lookback/lookback-page-1/

REO Speedwagon – Take It On The Run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-uWQJNx7w

The latest on Miniatur Wunderland.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/28/repost-small-wonder/

Planets.
https://nautil.us/visit-the-7-most-extreme-planets-in-the-universe-1231947

Twenty years since Katrina. Story and pictures. (via Neatorama)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/twenty-years-after-hurricane-katrina-many-of-us-are-still-missing-all-that-we-lostand-grappling-with-one-of-the-countrys-worst-disasters-180987253/

The cheese reason. A real thing that Caesar said.
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/ThePhilosophyofJuliusCaesar.png

Okay.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9lV0ABjM0Ws

OH!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3hcTPeT6nko

Veronica Swift. (via Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hL2dep4Wsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gaaFFDlx4

Space. (via Juanita)
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/colonizing-the-cosmos/

Railguns: the useless billion-dollar weapon. Though they did all right against the Wraith, once the Daedelus brought them, just in the nick of time, to Atlantis. And they’re pretty good in close space battles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqhXsUwncfE

“How can explosion touch me?”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/explosion_insurance

Surfing, Sidney Sweeney and her puppies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoPczRMNoCg

These might be the gods that set up their own world and made girls in the land neighboring where Adam and Eve had only two sons, to give some reason at all to the Biblical myth of the beginning of the world, which otherwise has the human race fizzling out, right out of the gate, for want of the eggs. These deities are Inanna, Enki, and Utu. And their pet magic bird, Cleo. (via Cliff Pickover)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzdZ4QtXoAAAyz3

A cartoonist ahead of his time. Spanish.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/08/25/el-mundo-futuro-de-boixcar/

I like it when people pronounce collapse in one syllable, like claps. “When it all clapses.” “The total claps of the Qakk star empire.” It makes you want to do it that way, yourself. It’s like when you’re the sort of person who says in-ter-rest-ing and the first time you hear someone say IN-triss-ting, or the other way around. Pronunciation is fashion.
https://xkcd.com/3134/

The story of the jet pack.
https://theawesomer.com/a-brief-history-of-jetpacks/780675/

The last scene of The Last Starfighter. I remember being afraid that Mollie wouldn’t go along with him back into outer space, and what a a shame that would be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aK8Mg4Q-g

“This punk CD has 36 tunes, man, and I’m tellin’ ya, they’re all great!” “Yuh-huh!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJoo7Tgjr8U

Country version of I Started a Joke.
https://theawesomer.com/i-started-a-joke-60s-country-cover/780517/

Starting big old motors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XZbh0q5eVU

Mount Aetna static discharge. (via Fark)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1m4u7q2/spectacular_and_scary_footage_of_upward_lightning/

One bomber at a time.
https://www.jalopnik.com/1944442/ford-bomber-factory-history/

Dee-Lite – Groove Is In the Heart. (via Dangerous Minds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjoS-2zm9E

The Pong clock. The sides deliberately win or lose points to tell the time. (via b3ta)
https://bigjobby.com/pong/?v=2.0

“My dad’s a bong.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6oWoKw0qfJs

Every noise at once. (via My One Beautiful Thing) “You haven’t yet heard your favorite song, just your favorite one so far.”
https://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

An unusual Istanbul not Constantinople.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/istanbul-not-constantinople.html

Rerun: My choice of best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8

Scott L. Peterson’s story about the Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center. (8 min. at 1.25x speed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jww9t7XucLg

Runestones shown with humans for size.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/runestones.html

A fish and shark problem. I can’t even follow the answer. I’m like, huh? wha?
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/08/can-you-solve-fish-riddle.html

Art.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/27/repost-sweet-calm/

Art. (via This Isn’t Happiness) In the George Townley page, there’s the Griffith Observatory again, with buildings behind it where there are none because it’s empty space there; we’re on the side of a very high hill.
https://www.instagram.com/fucoueda/
https://www.instagram.com/m.r.mcgrath/
https://www.instagram.com/george.townley/

Nimbo Cumulos!
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2025/08/nimbo-cumulos.html

Steely Dance.
https://laughingsquid.com/dancing-to-steely-dan-songs/

Well, anyone can understand that.
https://marriedtothesea.com/082725/the-more-stamps.gif

Spheres themselves. How we get steel balls.
https://theawesomer.com/how-steel-balls-are-made/781062/

That’s a lot of taillights. Ya think you boys put enough taillights on there?
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/09/1960-ford-spaceliner-a-vehicle-that-looks-a-bit-like-a-spaceship-from-a-science-fiction-movie

Almost the last cool Cadillacs.
https://designyoutrust.com/2018/12/wonderful-photos-of-the-sinister-1960-cadillac-eldorado-cars/

I love this story and the pictures. There’s a store in Santa Rosa, on Sebastopol Ave., that sells dresses for that kind of coming-of-age party. Last time I went that way, there was a big pink dress on a headless mannequin in the front window that was exactly like the dress Kaylee got in the Shindig episode of Firefly that made her so happy. Wouldn’t it be great to find out that that’s the real dress they used?
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-quinceanera-san-luis-potosi-isela-santiago-36f8d9a1f1dd69f05e8a6e92027cbc49

Photobombing Mister Sun.
https://www.space.com/moon-photobombs-the-sun

The Viking giant. It’s properly pronounced FEE-king. It doesn’t matter, but matter-of-factly point that out when someone says it wrong, as though it does, and this will cause a ripple effect. Later you will have forgotten, and it will come back around to you, all the way around the planet.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/johann-petursson.html

It gives the rodents something to do. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/1959285711414411707

Irish children dig out a swimming pool. “Not an ounce of it was taken out by adults.”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n0ZnlDv4gXE

Further photographs of women I would like to watch swallow an egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/nelly-de-grab.html
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/jerry-plucer-sarna.html

“I’m shot but I’m still goin’. Tourniquet, tourniquet. Gol-dang, I’m bleedin’ like a son-of-a-bitch. Tourniquet me? Tie that thing on. Go high.”
https://bustednuckles.net/hard-core/

From The Chapelle Show. Do You Know Black People? (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVa2TsV9hh4

Perfectly normal healthy pink gastric mucosa. (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Normal_gastric_mucosa_intermed_mag.jpg/1365px-Normal_gastric_mucosa_intermed_mag.jpg

The incident pit. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7e6rye7jke744sqhw4pqsyec/post/3lwqfy2prq225

A remarkably readable two-pixel-high font.
https://boingboing.net/2025/08/28/two-slice-is-a-surprisingly-readable-2-pixel-high-font.html

No. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNx4lLS2qKz/

What happens in Vegas litters the desert near Vegas.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/piles-of-human-cremated-remains-discovered-outside-las-vegas/

69 year old man sets his car on fire on Humboldt County courthouse lawn. With video. “Be careful going through, there’s things exploding!”
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/aug/24/video-69-year-old-man-drives-his-vehicle-county-co/

And Fleet Enema plushie toys.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/fleet_enema_toys

.      “That Epstein list disappeared faster than the bullet hole in Trump’s ear.”

Marco here. 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) and also, for the first three hours, on KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.

…

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with lots of other MOTA shows going back quite a way, not all the way, but enough. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which often provides as much as an hour of each of these shows’ most locally relevant material. And consider helping a fine little radio station that has never accepted a single corrupting penny of government assistance and is fully volunteer. And let’s face it, how many people within its begging-for-money range has a radio anymore except in the car on the five minute drive to the store? I mean a real radio made of blonde or brown or black wood, or Bakelite or pastel mother-of-toilet-seat polystyrene, and full of warm comforting beautiful glowing glass vacuum tubes, on the table in the kitchen, or on the hamper, or on the dresser or headboard in the bedroom, or high on a shelf in the corner of the garage, blessing the place while you wash dishes, or shave, or make romance, or wrench on the truck, or type, and sing or mutter along, and talk back, and daydream. Heaven. It’s not gone forever. It’s within your reach. Maybe not with vacuum tubes, but close is good enough. Find KNYO’s shiny red donation heart and support the Little Lion in Fort Bragg, California.

Coming MOTA shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay 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.

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…

Io and Europa and Titan. Oh, and Jupiter and Saturn. Bend and stretch, reach for the stars.
https://x.com/i/status/1958678773739454690

Whistling! Ralph then and now. First, now:
https://theawesomer.com/ralph-the-whistler/780448/

Gifs from Tacky Raccoons.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/08/22/the-gif-friday-post-no-918-koko-vs-cat-the-gryffoning-skating-eights/

Art.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2bNHTllGmyE

Art and fashion.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/19/nocturnes-and-etudes/

Buttercups. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JJH-xjw3E

Samora Pinderhughes. (via Bruce L.)
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15/1090818683/samora-pinderhughes-tiny-desk-home-concert

Housing.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/housing.html

Tiger moves. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BQkx_F-6aY

Barnaby Dixon’s latest puppet!
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/08/barnaby-dixons-bug-puppet.html

What if? (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/button.jpg

Flamingos. Except for that massive, choreographed millions-of-flamingos dance they do once a year on the mudflats, they’re incredibly like geese. Geese and flamingos could, with minimal disguise, infiltrate groups of one another. I’m still trying to find a cartoon I saw once in an animation festival in the 1980s about a kingdom within a man’s dream where the people learn that their very existence is being dreamed and they use a scientific machine to make a whole-society effort of pillows and earmuffs and so on to keep the man from waking up, but at the end the dream begins to fragment anyway and become erratic and surreal, as they do, and the dream world contracts to where all the books in the library turn into a dissipating reverse tornado of “Flamingos! Flamingos! Flamingos!” And that’s that; they’re gone. When I was a little boy, one of the things that fascinated and delighted me was plastic lawn flamingos. I remember asking my mother, “Why do they put them there? What do they mean? What’s the purpose?” Nobody knows. “Do they make them themselves? Where do they get them? Is there a store?” And then magically we had some. I think I broke one of them. It’s a rare kind of hazy memory. I was investigating the flamingo’s properties, pushed the side in, couldn’t get it to come out again, and returned it to its place, turned so the guilty side wouldn’t be seen from the walkway. I mention it because a lot of the rest of my life repeated that process, except that more and more things were in fact creatively repairable; that’s how you learn to repair things and hide your clumsy curious shame. I took Uncle Jack’s and Aunt Wanda’s television set apart when I was five. They lived in Toluca Lake (L.A.) across the street from the boy who played Opie in the Andy Griffith Show, and they had plastic and wooden deer and rabbits and squirrels and finally flamingos all over their little front yard, and a tiny gazebo-like wishing well that had no water inside, just more grass. Jack’s hunting-trip pickup truck with camper shell rested majestically in the driveway. When we went to visit them much later, their son had been killed in Vietnam. Stunned by this, and leathery/brittle from a lifetime of smoking cigarets, they kept his room as he left it, festooned with fragile chains of beer can pull-tabs. I tugged on one and of course broke it, tried to fix it but just made it worse, panicked, fled and shut the door. Are you seeing the pattern? (via Fark)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/James’s_Flamingo_mating_ritual.jpg/1280px-James’s_Flamingo_mating_ritual.jpg

The German shopping-cart-return championships.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/16/The-German-Shopping-Cart-Return-Championships/

Victory!
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c39dxm8z448o

40,000 germs in every kiss!
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/1920s-science-and-invention-covers.html

How to recognize the red flags of cruelty within a relationship.
https://laughingsquid.com/red-flags-of-cruelty-relationship/

Lightning burn. If it didn’t scramble your brains and painfully almost kill you, people would do this to themselves on purpose. This is what it looks like for a white woman. I can’t find a picture of a black person with this kind of injury, but its probably even better.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-lichtenberg-figure.html

Sage grouse and their percussive musical inflatable manboobs sex dance.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/08/body-popping-sage-grouse.html

Lucy Darling’s signer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HB05wZxzqv4

Frank Zappa – Answering Machine Madness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wTeBPeg5AE

Louis C.K. back in the old days. The sign language lady is so happy and wonderful. Now, here’s the weird thing: I know a local woman who looks and smiles just like her, but I can’t remember where I used to see her all the time. The coffeeshop? One of the hardware stores or theater companies? She is so familiar. Where? Wherever it was, she worked there, I’m pretty sure, but… behind a counter? I don’t even know. Dithering about it just now, I’ve dredged up that she’s like Janet the A.I. in clips I saw from /The Good Place/. That’s clear. But who is the local woman I’m thinking of? Crap, this is driving me nuts… [Edit: A-ha! She was a barista in Headlands Coffeehouse in the early 1990s, and when I got tea there she would say, “A spot of tea,” in a giddy fake British accent with a glottal stop on spot (spaw’). I liked her, but for some reason that always made me cringe, and I didn’t want to embarrass her so I said nothing about it. Then, apparently, I blocked it out.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ZYE73QRxA

Rerun: My favorite Louis C.K. routine ever is one of these. It’s the one about having a billion dollars and buying a chain of expletively titled pet stores.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY09WH3m3R-2wN-pTLsOJ1JoyUXWpHHWb

Stop don’t stop.
https://theawesomer.com/there-i-stopped-it/779762/

Cheating on your barber.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/08/cheating-on-your-barber.html

Henry VIII’s (the 8th’s) cannon-pants armor.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/king-henry-viii-armor.html

Rerun: Asian bug spray ads. “All die. Sweep them.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBhA4tJ8UmE

How we get LED bulbs. There’s a surprising amount of repetitive hand work involved. It might not be too bad if workers could play music that makes the time go fast. They might have turned that off for the filming.
https://theawesomer.com/how-led-light-bulbs-are-made/780199/

Thornetta Davis – Chain of Fools. Chay-chay-chayn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQggAC6wf_I

Archy Jay – Toss the Feathers.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/frantic-feathers.html

Archimedean spirals. East, south, west and north, spin the wheels and perambulate forth.
https://x.com/i/status/1958166047313256748

Last week’s Tacky Raccoons Saturday music matinee.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/16/The-German-Shopping-Cart-Return-Championships/

What an interesting house. I wonder what it sounds like when you really /STOMP/ your foot. I imagine a deep bell-like rumbling thud and a dish rattles in the kitchen, and someone in the bathroom shouts, “What! What just happened?” Nothing. I was just seeing. (via Fark) (Click to view all 31 photos)
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/142-Park-Rd-Pittsford-NY-14534/31022966_zpid/

Clips from Frank Zappa interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfqQBJjpOpk

“Constipation poisons the blood and pollutes the whole of the body. It brings on aches and pains, dizziness, anaemia and digestive troubles. It makes the skin sallow and the eyes dull, brings lines to the face and steals away vitality.” I looked it up: Beecham’s Pills were made of aloe, ginger, soap and, for awhile, mercury. “Beecham’s Pills were one of the most famous patent medicines in Britain from the mid-19th century onward, marketed heavily as a cure for constipation, biliousness, and disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/conquer_constipation

How to converse.
https://youtube.com/shorts/i1Hi_hacvN4?si=DkX181Ml1biEkS-3

“That Epstein list disappeared faster than the bullet hole in Trump’s ear.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-houses-new-tiktok-push-immediately-backfires-with-flood-of-epstein-comments/

Rerun: All praise Vectron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icTrzUuWlHI

“But, Steven– this baby and the queer machine that brought it here, where did they come from?” “Oh, outta the sky, I reckon.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3meFcks597g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjxrIV4YDKk

Deathstar construction timelapse.
https://theawesomer.com/star-wars-death-star-contruction-time-lapse/779949/

Housing.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/housing.html

“Kidnapping is an immoral assault! The rights of other races must be respected!” They call it detaining now, so it’s okay.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0EWSAfGBljg

The Surreal McCoys – Whole Lotta Folsom.
https://youtu.be/58SiGKT7_xs?si=VwD7V_KHpuQqWtxG

Rerun: Sombody. Two videos.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/18/somebodies-a-youtube-orchestra/

The galvanic spectacles.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/galvanic_spectacles

“Wow, you guys sure are political.”
https://boingboing.net/2025/08/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-an-american-horror-story-in-chagrin-falls-usa.html

A record for most nuclear power cooling towers simultaneously demolished. Shot from all angles.
https://laughingsquid.com/demolition-eight-cooling-towers/

Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin’ the scene with a gangster lean, oo-ooooo-ooh. (via Fark)
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/31581057184-7fc34ef213-o.jpg

A suspenseful retelling of the Lake Peigneur mine disaster.
https://boingboing.net/2025/08/18/what-happened-at-lake-peigneur.html

A working demo display of just the fuel pump from a kind of car that gets 67 feet per gallon, which sounds better in rods per hogshead (256). The special fuel for that kind of car costs $100 a gallon, and the whole 12,000 horsepower engine has to be replaced after every race day. You’re probably tired of hearing about things that happened to me when I was little, but one of the places my mother took me to when she was a real estate lady was a drag racer’s storefront garage. The actual drag race car, up close, was beyond cool. They’re much bigger than they look on teevee. It’s the same with World War Two fighter airplanes. They look cute and compact on teevee or in a movie, but in real life they’re /enormous/. When they’re parked on the ground you can walk underneath them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGTbQuhhluY

“Hi! I’m Talky Tina, and I’m going to kill you!”
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/1800s-children-with-dolls.html

3D printed plastic ramen. For Ren Faire costumes. This was a game-changer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aapT51yq4VA

Egg.
https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/paul-himmel.html

Imelda May!
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2025/08/20/imelda-may/

Let’s eat– to the beat. (via Fark)
https://vole.wtf/vtv/

I can. (via AVA)
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/almost-over.jpg

What.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Yashima_Gakutei_-A_woman_playing_a_large_suspended_drum(tsuridaiko)A_set_of_five_prints_for_the_Hisakataya_poetry_c…–Google_Art_Project.jpg/960px-Yashima_Gakutei–A_woman_playing_a_large_suspended_drum(tsuridaiko)A_set_of_five_prints_for_the_Hisakataya_poetry_c…-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

mmMMMmm. It looks like Pepto Bismol. Or possibly calamine. Or tempera paint. Seriously, though, according to ChatGPT: “People who remember it from the 1960s describe the taste of Metrecal as bland and chalky, like watered-down pancake batter or a thin, gritty milkshake, artificially sweet, with a slightly metallic, bitter aftertaste. It also came in chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and coffee flavors, but they were all weak and powdery. Despite aggressive marketing, its unappealing flavor was a big reason Metrecal lost popularity by the mid-1970s.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_metrecal_steak

“Consequently, as the foot is alternately raised and lowered during walking, a squawking noise is produced to the delight and humor of the wearer.”
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/novelty_squawk_type_shoe

Tea machine v1.0. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://www.luisonte.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RDT_20250805_063901.mp4

The way the kids all talk now. It’s nuts, isn’t it? You can’t understand a word of it. They do that on purpose, to discuss sex and drugs. (via Tacky Raccoons)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dictionary-of-modern-slang/

Don’t.
https://theawesomer.com/riding-down-the-gnarliest-line/780315/

On the other hand, do. /Wheeeee!/ “Yes! Yes!” he says at the end. I wouldn’t do the stupid bicycle thing, see above, but I would do this.
https://theawesomer.com/water-skiing-a-drainage-ditch/780449/

Dr. Don – Ruled By Time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKX4LaXGOJg&pp=ygUYRHIgZG9uIHJ1bGVkIGJ5IHRpbWUgcmFw

Sola Busca tarot 1491.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/08/18/sola-busca-tarot-1491/

Abbe Lane.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2025/08/21/abbe-lane-is-in-my-ears/

How we get big washers.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VrZmafMDhUA

Rerun: How we get tides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlhlCWplqk

Uranus is leaking gas out into space. All the planets with gas do that, but Uranus is really really doing it.
https://boingboing.net/2021/01/04/uranus-is-leaking.html

Speaking of which: new moon, I saw you standing alone.
https://www.jalopnik.com/1944974/james-webb-telescope-discovers-new-moon-in-solar-system/

And cue ball Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cYiiTfCHhMQ