It's very proper that the very male-centric Self Help Radio not have a show on International Women's Day, especially when I hadn't prepared for such a thing should I have done a show today. Instead, as you know, I am in Portland enjoying myself. In honor of the day, I'm going to see Captain Marvel at a beautiful old local place called the Bagdad Theater.
As for the fake theme up here: I play a dumb online game that I can't say I enjoy but I've been doing it for years & can't really stop & there's something that happens when you're playing & there's a time-based adventure & it's over but you'd have to log out for the links to disappear. If you click the links, it'll say "You gaze out into space" with a black screen in front of you. Today felt like that, had one gone to the website.
By the way, "gazing out into space" might be a terrible theme for a show. But in a sense, it's today's theme.
Nobody of course is missing Self Help Radio today but if you are might I recommend visiting the archive page & listening to an old episode? That sounds like torture to me but maybe you'd enjoy it.
Meanwhile: a new show next week! Hooray!
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Friday, March 08, 2019
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Enjoying Portland
Sorry if there's not been much action on the blog this week. Portland has been delightful. When we drove in, it snowed. Today, just walking, it hailed, but in the afternoon the sun came out. We're doing too much & eating too much & I'm not bothered that it's cold - the sun came out, after all.
This place is not at all like Fort Worth. People walk, people bike, people seem to be out past eight pm. We're going to a theater tomorrow. I miss my animals but I'm glad to have uninterrupted sleep.
& yeah, I got to see the Monochrome Set last night. I was dead tired from a day of traveling but it was super fun.
Here's the song "Portland" by Andrea Van Kampen I played on the Blend Tuesday. She'd be happy to know it's been stuck in my head most of the day.
This place is not at all like Fort Worth. People walk, people bike, people seem to be out past eight pm. We're going to a theater tomorrow. I miss my animals but I'm glad to have uninterrupted sleep.
& yeah, I got to see the Monochrome Set last night. I was dead tired from a day of traveling but it was super fun.
Here's the song "Portland" by Andrea Van Kampen I played on the Blend Tuesday. She'd be happy to know it's been stuck in my head most of the day.
Wednesday, March 06, 2019
Portland
It's snowing. I never thought I'd drive through snow again. This is a lovely little town.
All right. No time to dally. Going to get pizza now at Virtuous Pie!
All right. No time to dally. Going to get pizza now at Virtuous Pie!
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Being Coy? Moi?
It occurred to me that my last post, which mentioned there won't be a new Self Help Radio this week, didn't say what might be the reason for that. Am I just taking a week off to be lazy? Is there some sort of obligation? Or might I be going somewhere?
Certainly I did not mean to be coy. As I said on the radio this morning, I am visiting Portland. The reason is sort of complicated. It goes like this:
First, I haven't had a vacation for a while. I honestly can't remember - maybe when we went to Pittsburgh this past summer was the last time I was separated from my animals. But my wife is always traveling. Granted, she did spend a lot of time with family in the past few months, & many people would refuse to call that vacation, but the point is, she was away from home. I wanted to be away from home!
Second, thanks to Twitter, I noticed a few weeks ago that the legendary Monochrome Set were touring but, of course, not coming anywhere near here. They were, however, going to be in the northwest in early March, specifically Portland, a town that I visited in November of 2017 & which I wanted to visit again.
It took a bit of cajoling (the wife is famously cheap) but she relented when she was able to get time off work, & we're leaving tomorrow for the Rose City & we'll get to see a band that I never imagined I'd ever see. Plus, we'll eat like vegan kings - the town is the most vegan place I've ever been.
Naturally, my instincts failed me - it'll snow while we're there. I've been told that Portland has some unbearably lovely days, but they don't happen in March. It hasn't been too great in Dallas - it's been frightfully cold - but the sun visits more often than not. I will probably not see much sunlight for the next four or five days.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention where I'm going. Now I need to snuggle with my animals for a while. I spend most of every day with them, & I feel separation anxiety when we're not together. You'd think I'd feel relief, but nope. Anxiety.
Know what? I'll manage. I need a week off!
Certainly I did not mean to be coy. As I said on the radio this morning, I am visiting Portland. The reason is sort of complicated. It goes like this:
First, I haven't had a vacation for a while. I honestly can't remember - maybe when we went to Pittsburgh this past summer was the last time I was separated from my animals. But my wife is always traveling. Granted, she did spend a lot of time with family in the past few months, & many people would refuse to call that vacation, but the point is, she was away from home. I wanted to be away from home!
Second, thanks to Twitter, I noticed a few weeks ago that the legendary Monochrome Set were touring but, of course, not coming anywhere near here. They were, however, going to be in the northwest in early March, specifically Portland, a town that I visited in November of 2017 & which I wanted to visit again.
It took a bit of cajoling (the wife is famously cheap) but she relented when she was able to get time off work, & we're leaving tomorrow for the Rose City & we'll get to see a band that I never imagined I'd ever see. Plus, we'll eat like vegan kings - the town is the most vegan place I've ever been.
Naturally, my instincts failed me - it'll snow while we're there. I've been told that Portland has some unbearably lovely days, but they don't happen in March. It hasn't been too great in Dallas - it's been frightfully cold - but the sun visits more often than not. I will probably not see much sunlight for the next four or five days.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention where I'm going. Now I need to snuggle with my animals for a while. I spend most of every day with them, & I feel separation anxiety when we're not together. You'd think I'd feel relief, but nope. Anxiety.
Know what? I'll manage. I need a week off!
Monday, March 04, 2019
A Week Off
Sort of. I mean, I still have to do the Tuesday Morning Blend tomorrow, & I am always listening to stuff for Self Help Radio. But yeah, I'm going out of town this week so there'll be limited action here & on the Facebook page. Do you follow the show on its Facebook page? You really should.
Not that anything exciting happens there, but then, nothing exciting happens here, & you're reading this. Or are you? I'm sorry, you were looking for what? Some conspiracy page that claims that Luke Perry & the Prodigy guy were the same person? What the hell?
Who would start a rumor like that? & why? To get people to their stupid blog? It's disrespectful & it's dumb. Don't blame me! I though I had made it up & it wasn't even conceivable because it's so stupid! Now I find out it's a thing! Because everything is a thing!
That's just great. Damn, I need a week off.
Wait.
Not that anything exciting happens there, but then, nothing exciting happens here, & you're reading this. Or are you? I'm sorry, you were looking for what? Some conspiracy page that claims that Luke Perry & the Prodigy guy were the same person? What the hell?
Who would start a rumor like that? & why? To get people to their stupid blog? It's disrespectful & it's dumb. Don't blame me! I though I had made it up & it wasn't even conceivable because it's so stupid! Now I find out it's a thing! Because everything is a thing!
That's just great. Damn, I need a week off.
Wait.