Friday, June 29, 2018
Self Help Radio 062918: There Is No Self Help Radio 062918
Get it?
Oh crap I ruined it.
Damn it all.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Whither - Oh There's No Show This Week, Sorry
It's true, I'm not anywhere I can put a show together but I'm elsewhere at the moment. Well, I'm here, because where else would I be but it's not the here that I'm usually at. "Where you are is where you're at," right? Or something like that? I'm not really where I generally am, is the point I'm trying to make. So, no show.
Also, no "whither" entry for the blog. Except this is... I mean, this would be... Well, poops.
There are some things I'd like to get off my chest while you're here. Like, air travel. What a mess. Wait! Where are you going? I have some solutions! Wait! Wait!
Poops!
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Stop, Plug A Minute
In a few minutes, I'll going somewhere else for a couple of days (it's why there's no show this week) so I thought that I'd spend a second with a short list of links that you may use to occupy your time if you regularly expect a Self Help Radio once a week. I know no one like that exists but if it's all right with you, I'll just pretend.
You can listen to the radio station where I deejay in Dallas, KNON. It's a great community radio station with a lot of different shows, which you can see on the schedule.
If something there strikes your fancy, you can sample any show at Radio Free America. (That's also where you can sample the last two weeks of the show I do.)
You may also enjoy the two stations that aired Self Help Radio in Kentucky, the student-run WRFL & the community-based WLXU. It seems like it was only yesterday there'd be a new Self Help Radio on Wednesday nights in Lexington - but it's been like two months.
Of course, there are well over fifty old episodes of Self Help Radio (all of the shows from the past year, for instance) on the Self Help Radio website. Remember the username SHR & the password selfhelp to listen. Most of the shows are from the WLXU days but some shows go back way into the WRFL & even KOOP past.
It would be swell if you'd follow the show on Twitter & like the show on Facebook, & look at dumb pictures I took on Tumblr. I imagine there would be some diverting moments there. Or not?
That's all. I'll miss you this week. But I'll be back next week with a show about sorrow. Because I feel the need to be cheery in your presence.
You can listen to the radio station where I deejay in Dallas, KNON. It's a great community radio station with a lot of different shows, which you can see on the schedule.
If something there strikes your fancy, you can sample any show at Radio Free America. (That's also where you can sample the last two weeks of the show I do.)
You may also enjoy the two stations that aired Self Help Radio in Kentucky, the student-run WRFL & the community-based WLXU. It seems like it was only yesterday there'd be a new Self Help Radio on Wednesday nights in Lexington - but it's been like two months.
Of course, there are well over fifty old episodes of Self Help Radio (all of the shows from the past year, for instance) on the Self Help Radio website. Remember the username SHR & the password selfhelp to listen. Most of the shows are from the WLXU days but some shows go back way into the WRFL & even KOOP past.
It would be swell if you'd follow the show on Twitter & like the show on Facebook, & look at dumb pictures I took on Tumblr. I imagine there would be some diverting moments there. Or not?
That's all. I'll miss you this week. But I'll be back next week with a show about sorrow. Because I feel the need to be cheery in your presence.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Monday, June 25, 2018
Emails I Delete & Never Open
Just now - I suppose it happens every Monday about this time - I got an email from Tumblr that spotlights like five different Tumblr blogs. It says something like "The Five Blogs Of Your Future," or "Your Blog Cravings, Satisfied." I never read it, I just delete it. I mean, maybe I can unsubscribe from it if I open & read it? But naw. I just delete it.
My brain just asked me, what if your blog were on that list? The chances that the Self Help Radio Tumblr Blog would end up on a list like that are vanishingly small, what with its 29 followers who never like any of my photos. Maybe a Tumblr blog for a radio show shouldn't be putting up photos like it's a fucking Instagram account but anyway.
Or wait, what if it had been on that list previously, & anyone who saw it was like, "Oh shit, worst Tumblr blog ever"? That would be an appropriate response, but again, it's so very unlikely.
It's not just Tumblr notifications I delete. I delete stuff from Paypal, from charities I've given to (or the ones that I took surveys for that were designed to just get on their mailing lists), from newspapers I've created accounts for. I'm certain all those have unsubscribe buttons, & occasionally I do unsubscribe, but mostly I just delete without reading.
It's funny, I don't pay attention to those emails but I do like to read the emails from my spam mailbox. There's one spam I get regularly which says "subscribe from all our lists here." Maybe that's why I think it doesn't matter if I unsubscribe from any lists - it's all a scam.
But confidentially, I suspect the reason that I don't mind getting the emails is that I don't really get any emails anymore. It's nice to know my inbox is getting some action. It makes me feel bad for all those folks I never bothered to write back to twenty years ago or more. I thought I'd always have correspondents! What hubris!
My brain just asked me, what if your blog were on that list? The chances that the Self Help Radio Tumblr Blog would end up on a list like that are vanishingly small, what with its 29 followers who never like any of my photos. Maybe a Tumblr blog for a radio show shouldn't be putting up photos like it's a fucking Instagram account but anyway.
Or wait, what if it had been on that list previously, & anyone who saw it was like, "Oh shit, worst Tumblr blog ever"? That would be an appropriate response, but again, it's so very unlikely.
It's not just Tumblr notifications I delete. I delete stuff from Paypal, from charities I've given to (or the ones that I took surveys for that were designed to just get on their mailing lists), from newspapers I've created accounts for. I'm certain all those have unsubscribe buttons, & occasionally I do unsubscribe, but mostly I just delete without reading.
It's funny, I don't pay attention to those emails but I do like to read the emails from my spam mailbox. There's one spam I get regularly which says "subscribe from all our lists here." Maybe that's why I think it doesn't matter if I unsubscribe from any lists - it's all a scam.
But confidentially, I suspect the reason that I don't mind getting the emails is that I don't really get any emails anymore. It's nice to know my inbox is getting some action. It makes me feel bad for all those folks I never bothered to write back to twenty years ago or more. I thought I'd always have correspondents! What hubris!