Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: True Confessions Day

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Sunday, March 15, is True Confessions Day. Unlike the previous time the Report has aired on March 15th, wherein Dick Dickenbock was on the mic the full length of the show confessing all his transgressions in chronological order & only made it until his college years, this year on the Report will talk about confessing & confessions & we will play musical reports about confessions.

We confess the show is on at the regular time, Sunday, 12 to 1pm. & in the regular place - 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm online. We do hope you'll tune in.

This Week In Self Help: March 10

That's right! I was only on the radio once this week! Hopefully one day we'll get it down to none & be done with all this nonsense!

Self Help Radio on KBOO had the theme "small talk." You can listen at the KBOO website. Or you can listen at the Self Help Radio website.

Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO played lots of new releases - from Gorillaz to Morrissey! You can listen at the KBOO website (after Self Help Radio). Or you can listen at the Self Help Radio website.

But enough of this small talk - we have work to do!

Self Help Radio 031026: Small Talk

Seeing as how I don't think I am any good at small talk, here is a show all about small talk & featuring me practicing small talk with guests. How did I do? I guess to tell me we'd have to have a conversation featuring more than small talk - & frankly that's not in the spirit of the show!

Luckily for me there were many excellent songs about small talk so I didn't have to stumble from awkward interaction to awkward interaction. There was respite! But I suspect I am no better at small talk then I was before the show. Maybe I should listen to it again.

You can listen to it again or for the first time whenever at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. Most everything that happened is listed below.

But it looks like it'll be raining most of the week you know but hey! we live in Portland what do we expect ha ha ha.

Self Help Radio Small Talk Show

"Don't Make Small Talk Baby" Danny Winchell _Teen Scene! Rock & Roll Stars & Vocal Groups From Long Island's Golden Crest & Shelley Records_

"Small Talk (Doesn't Bother Me)" The Dolletts _Free From The Chains Of Love_

"Small Talk" Claudine Longet _The Very Best Of Claudine Longet_

"Small Talk" The Dave Clark Five _The History Of The Dave Clark Five_

introduction & definitions

"Small Talk" Sly & The Family Stone _Small Talk_

"Small Talk At 125th & Lenox" Gil Scott-Heron _Small Talk At 125th & Lenox_

"Small Talk" The Commuters _Restaurant Buffet & Bar E.P._

"Small Talk Stinks" Bauhaus _In The Flat Field_

"Small Talk Death" Peace Corpse _Quincy's Lament_

"Small Talk" Feedtime _Go & Do It: The Aberrant Compilations_

small talk with my neighbors Amy & Jeff

"Small Talk" The Shirts _Inner Sleeve_

"Small Talk" Tall Dwarfs _Fork Songs_

"Short Exchanges" George Carlin _When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?_

"Small Talk" A House _I Want Too Much_

"Small Talk" The Pansies _Solace_

"Small Talk" Immaculate Machine _Fables_

small talk with KBOO volunteer Jarvis

"Small Talk Relations" Tift Merritt _Traveling Alone_

"Small Talk" Jenny O. _New Truth_

"Small Talk" Lily & Madeleine _Keep It Together_

"Small Talk" Joe Zimmerman _Smiling At Wolves_

"Small Talk" Hanging Up The Moon _It's All Here Somewhere_

"Small Talk" Eric Bachmann _Eric Bachmann_

small talk with my former co-worker Eric

"Small Talk" Go Fever _Go Fever_

"Small Talk" Feels _Feels_

"Small Talk" Tom Segura _Mostly Stories_

"Small Talk" Faded Paper Figures _New Medium_

"Enough Of The Small Talk, Where's My Money" Spray _Ambiguous Poems About Death_

conclusion & goodbye

"Small Talk" Courtney Barnett _Small Talk_

"Small Talk" Maria Bamford _The Burning Bridges Tour_

"Small Talk" Julia Jacklin _Don't Let The Kids Win_

Whither Small Talk?

comic by David Sipress, found here

Hm, a radio show about small talk. Why did I think of a radio show about small talk? Was there some function I had to go to where I had to be social & pleasant & just stood there occasionally smiling & saying hello to people I will probably never see again & sometimes even engaging with them on the most mundane of subjects? Did my mind wander, as it sometimes does, to my radio show where I thought hey are there lots of songs about people talking small talk? & if there are, would that make a good radio show?

Could that have been where the idea for the show came from? I wonder.

Self Help Radio's small talk show is on tonight, Monday March 9th (technically the 10th) at midnight, from midnight to 2am, on 90.7fm in town, on kboo dot fm everywhere. Maybe if you're bad at small talk it may help you get better? If that's something you want?

Preface To Small Talk: Sunday Off

cartoon by Ellis Rosen, found here

Hey. You might have noticed. I wasn't on the radio today. I'm usually on the radio on Sundays. Yeah, I do a radio show called The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. No, really, I do. But today was International Women's Day so they preempted my show. I mean, I could've done a show, but you know. Not a woman. I've known lots of dudes who think they know women's music better than women & nope. That's not me. What I should've done is work on my KBOO show, which is on tomorrow night. What I did instead was play a game on my phone. I don't know why I procrastinate so except that so far - really for all my life - I've never been sufficiently punished for doing that. Procrastinating. I used to write papers in college not the night before they were due, but sometimes hours before they were due. & I got decent grades. I can pull a radio show together pretty well - not to say it'll be a good radio show. But I'll be there ready to be on air with two hours of songs about small talk! At least tomorrow night. Truth be told I kinda liked having a Sunday off. There are folks at Freeform Portland - & at KBOO - & some at XRAY - who do their show every other week. I think it might be hard to find an audience for your show in that situation but I kinda envy them their week off. There hasn't been a repeat of The Dickenbock Report since it's been on Sundays on XRAY. When I'm out of town, I prerecord an episode. Having a day off - wow. That's a cool idea. Oh hang on. Is this post like small talk? I might not be very good at small talk. I'm not very good at lots of stuff. But it might be fine to not be very good at small talk. I once had someone at a radio station ask me, Do you only talk about radio? I guess it was what we had in common so I talked to them about it. Like here with you. I talk about my dumb radio shows. That's probably small talk. Which is appropriate because that's what the show is about this week!