

Here’s how that worked.Ī further impressive musical instrument project and a nice demo of its use.Ĭhinese Hellboy. Whatever space you play it in becomes a cathedral.Īnother kind of reverb from the old days was done with a big metal plate. This man fits a much better one (three springs, long ones) inside a homemade violin, and it sounds great.

There was a sticker inside each one that said in Futura bold, “This part was manufactured by beautiful women under controlled atmospheric conditions.” They were the cheapest in the catalog (catalogs were all printed magazines in those days, that you mailed the company to request) and so only had two springs each. In 1984 at the Mendocino Community School one of the things /I/ made was a rack-mounted dual-tank stereo spring reverb unit, and the spring tanks came from a company with a sense of humor. I love /this/ guy and the things he makes. Rerun: “Someone needed a quote for the paper so I told them all men are rapists.

The parable of the ant men and the lobster men. (via NagOnTheLake)Įxplore abandoned America. The knowledge you need to be able to brag about furlongs per hogshead your jet-ski gets in Elizabethan Imperial economy mode.Īirplane boneyard. Scott Peterson – Razing Mendocino, see above. Pluto close up and personal after so many years distant, cold, standoffish even. Je n’ai pas beaucoup de vocabulaire, pour vous dire la vérité.Įmail me your work on any subject and I’ll read it on the radio this coming Friday night.īESIDES ALL THAT, here’s a fresh batch of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right: And so on and so forth, until: Scott Peterson in his own voice on the subject of razing Mendocino, including campaign literature pronoun-count analysis, over a bed of slide guitar faint and tinny in the background, as if from a transistor radio in the garage next door, adding a certain je ne sais quoi… au moins pour moi. In short: science, superstition, variously angry and goofy asides on Our Horrible World, our percussive, cordite-scented, ketchup-splashed world. A discussion of the problems of a religious organization running a modern hospital according to an interpretation of the Old Testament no more and no less bizarre than anyone else’s, with x-rays and labs and needles and sterile stainless-steel scalpels and things but messaging and records services apparently provided by a sort of clockwork landline Chinese whispers technology. Poetry both neurotypical and neuro-atypical. The latest installment of Kent Wallace’s adventures teaching New Jersey-accent English to beach-town Vietnamese children. Andrew Scully called to read his take on the race for Mendocino County sheriff.

And KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, CA, which can use your help, please, now.Īn extended science-fiction book review by David Herstle Jones of ThinkInTheMorning. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided or at least alerted me to well over an hour of the above show’s most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return. Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with not only the above MOTA show but also other ones going back quite a way. Marco here, offering you the recording of last night’s () Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready to re-enjoy: A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.” -Umberto Eco “Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic.
