Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Irving Berlin's Birthday

(image from the Wikipedia)

Please note: Dick Dickenbock & his staff & crew are on a two-week vacation. They have prepared an episode for you, however, & we hope it plays at its appointed time.

Irving Berlin was born on May 11, 1888. On May 11, 2025, a special all-musical episode of The Dickenbock Report will feature many of his tunes.

That's Sunday, May 11, on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, online at xray dot fm.

Postscript:
It really isn't safe to assume that, as May 11 is also Mother's Day, Dick Dickenbock did not love his mother. It's well-known, however, that she was not all that fond of him.

This Week In Self Help (May 4 + 6)

Technically I'm on vacation though the road trip didn't quite turn out the way it was supposed to. That's a story for another day. Since I'm around - altho there will be shows in the regular timeslots they will be prerecorded so I'm not going to make any live radio for two weeks - I'll do my regular summary. I would've preferred to be on my way to Santa Fe but - that's a story for another day.

Sunday May 4 was National Fallen Firefighters Day. So we a firefighter thing on The Dickenbock Report. Show on XRAY. Show on Self Help Radio Website.

Tuesday May 6 was the day I was supposed to head out on a motorway for vacation fun. So Self Help Radio's theme was motorways. Show on KBOO. Show on Self Help Radio website.

Corporate Standardized Programming followed that show. It's with SHR on the KBOO website. If you want to listen to it by itself: Show on Self Help Radio website.

Pro tip: on the SHR website, use SHR & selfhelp as username & password to access files.

Back to my "vacation" now.

Self Help Radio 050625: Motorways

At the beginning of a two-week vacation, Self Help Radio has a show about motorways. One suspects there will be much time spent on them in the next fortnight!

No time to waste! Gotta pack! Listen to the show either at the KBOO web site or at the Self Help Radio website. If you go to the latter, you might need the username SHR & the password selfhelp.

Most everything that happened on the show is below. See you in two weeks!

Self Help Radio Motorways Show

"Motorway" Blue Orchids _The Once & Future Thing_

"Motorway" Monterey _The Motorway EP_

"The English Motorway System" Black Box Recorder _The Facts Of Life_

introduction & definitions

"Motorway" The Kinks _Everybody's In Show-Biz - Everybody's A Star_

"Motorway City" John Gaughan with The Hermits _You Gotta Love Me Baby_

"Motorway Madness" Horslips _More Than You Can Chew_

"2-4-6-8 Motorway" Tom Robinson Band _Tom Robinson Band_

"Billy & The Motorway Police" Fischer-Z _Word Salad_

interview with author Larry Thomas

"Music 4 Travelling (Motorway Amber Time)" Spöön Fazer _Music 2 Dance 2_

"Like A Motorway" Saint Etienne _Tiger Bay_

"Motorway" Little Boots _Nocturnes_

"Back On The Motorway" Metronomy _Nights Out_

"They're Going To Build A Motorway" Leon Rosselson _Perspectives_

interview with motorway painter Theo Landis

"Motorway To Roswell" Pixies _Trompe Le Monde_

"Separated By Motorways" The Long Blondes _Someone To Drive You Home_

"Motorway" Ikara Colt _Modern Apprentice_

"Motorway" Useless Eaters _Relaxing Death_

"Motorway" Slave _New Plateau_

interview with private motorway owner Todd Lessner

"Our Favourite Motorway" Darren Hayman & Secondary Modern _Pram Town_

"Motorway" California Snow Story _Some Other Places_

"Motorway" Joan As Police Woman & Benjamin Lazer Davis _Let It Be You_

"On The Motorway" Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat _The Most Important Place In The World_

"Motorway A. Revlis B. Lessen C." Audionom _Retrospektiv_

conclusion & bon voyage

"Motorway" Anni B Sweet _Start Restart Undo_

"New Motorway" Kevin Coyne _Sanity Stomp_

Whither Motorways?

(Some Portland motorways)

After tonight's show, there won't be a new Self Help Radio for two weeks. I will have something prepared to air in the timeslot so you don't have to face the indignity of a rerun. But for Self Help Radio, it will be a two-week vacation.

You might know we have a dog with separation anxiety. So we have to take him along. So we thought we'd go on a road trip. Just the Missus & me & our three hounds. What takes you from place to place on road trips? A car. Driving on roads. Freeways. Highways. Motorways.

Something about the word "motorway" made me want to look for songs that specifically mention them. & so I have. & I'll share them with you tonight. Right before the show takes a little vacation.

Tonight! Midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland, online at kboo dot fm.

Preface To Motorways: Vacation

It occurred to me very recently that I hadn't left Portland - or hadn't been outside of the Greater Portland Metropolitan Area - in almost two years*. That would not have seemed too surprising to my mother who, though she was born in Germany, married a GI & lived the vast majority of her life in Texas. Indeed, in her last twenty years, I only think she left the Dallas area a handful of times, usually for weddings - like mine, in 2008. My sister Pat was the same - she had lived in California & Georgia for a few years but ended up living most of her life in a house very close to the house she had lived in as a child.

Basically I don't come from a long line of wanderers. I come from homebodies, mostly unadventurous people who would admire the Thoreau quote "I have traveled a good deal in Concord," if they knew Thoreau existed.

But I felt like I needed a vacation & so after this week's episode, I'll be disappearing for a couple of weeks. I have prepared radio shows to run in the place of Self Help Radio - & also episodes of The Dickenbock Report that will air in its space on Sundays. It'll be a road trip, since we have a dog with severe separation anxiety. But the plans have been made.

So. What could possibly go wrong?

* Okay, I forgot I went to San Francisco last summer. It just feels like I haven't left Portland in two years.