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More from Marco, the Great Radio Reader

From: Marco_McClean@RedwoodFN.org
To: greenmac@pacific.net
Subject: Mendocino Co. Media Directory
Date: 04 Mar 1998

To Media Directory,

I'd like to be listed in your directory for what I'm actually doing, which is a weekly two-hour radio show, 10 pm to midnight every Friday night on KMFB fm (92.7 coast-96.7 inland). I read material from my snailmail box (Memo, Box 1497, Mendocino CA 95460, the same address as my defunct tabloid publication Memo), from Redwood Free Net's The Cafe and from my email box: Marco_McClean@RedwoodFN.org (don't send an attached file: insert text in body of email).

Everything sent to me I read aloud as-is on the air. Sometimes, not often, I make arrangements with someone far away to read his story over the phone. I invite people to come to KMFB and read their material or tell their stories live. I don't use cassettes. Sometimes a musician will come and play a little. Once in awhile several people show up and we chat.

Most of the time I'm there alone reading aloud from the above sources and padding the show out with stories cut from papers and magazines, from the Anderson Valley Advertiser and from old science-fiction books. Sometimes I even read from the Weekly World News -- my favorite part would be a toss-up between Dear Dotty, the Page Five Girl and Serena Sabak, the World's Sexiest Psychic.

Because the volume of mail I get for the radio show is so much smaller than I used to get for my paper, a great chunk of what I read is material I write myself, including my dream journal. All advertisement is read live. No CDs. Sometimes I stay after the show and play records for a bit before turning the station back to the satellite oldies. And once in a blue moon I stop what I'm doing, answer the phone and humiliate some sad, lonely person who thinks he's hearing a call-in show. People who call call-in shows are illiterate morons and I want nothing to do with them.

Written-word radio is a pretty fun creative outlet. Anyone can play- just send me mail or email, and remember you're not submitting your story, class ad or letter for editorial consideration and consultation, you're sending it to be read cold on the air. I don't want to have to discuss your story or why you want to be anonymous (if you do). Edit yourself, and if you want to be anonymous and don't care that it makes you look like a paranoid coward, leave your name off your letter. Again, I'll read your work on the air; I don't want to discuss it beforehand; I don't have an agenda; and don't call me. If you send your work by email, I'll reply saying I got it, and thanks. Do not send a great story and then tell me not to share it. I'm sharing it.

My radio show is called Memo of the Air. The intro theme music is Pigner's Ride of the Peccaries. I've been doing the show since mid-February 1997 when I took my hippie name, Three-Way Rug Nozzle, which I'll thank you to respect my wishes and drop immoderately in conversation.

Send your story right away before you forget. You want to do this.

P.S. I haven't put any new material into the so-called Memo web page for over a year. I just can't pay any attention to it. If it still exists, it has no function or purpose. I've never looked at it. I have an email box but I don't have web access. I was given three months of web access last year and tried it out, discovering it isn't a medium that interests me. It's not ready yet.