Whither Avenues?

(This is Park Avenue.  Image from here.)

Here's a good one.  What did one street say to the other street?  "What's avenue?"  What did the other street say back to the first street?  "I dunno.  What's ave-new with you?"

That's an example of some of the sophisticated humor prepared & ultimately thrown away for this week's Self Help Radio.  It's a show about avenues so we're "taking it on the road."  Which is of course not a thing a radio show can do, especially one made at home because no one's allowed in the studios thanks to a pandemic which, if we're being honest, is another reason why it would be a terrible idea to travel as well.

Does the show miss wandering up & down avenues without a mask?  Perhaps.  Maybe a show about avenues was conceived to recapture a normal that now seems farther away than ever.  Or maybe it was arbitrary, & looking for a reason for this or any other theme is to give too much credit to anyone responsible for Self Help Radio.  Which is Gary, of course.  It's all his fault.

Listen therefore from the comfort of your own car or home or car-home from 8-10am Monday morning on 90.3&98.3fm Freeform Portland, online at freeformportland.org.  It will be like taking a lazy drive down a tree-lined avenue in car with the top down & the wind blowing through your hair.  Or.  Or wait.  No, no, it will actually more probably be the opposite of that.  So sorry.