121024: Hobos

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Nope, didn't see any hobos on the way to the show this morning. Nor did any come by - despite the show being like a siren song for any hobos nearby. But it was a chilly night. & foggy. & some hobo songs are sad!

But golly there are lots. & I also talked to some folks about hobos. But mainly there were lots of songs about hobos. Now there are probably more of them than there are hobos.

Hobo or nobo, you can listen now at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. For the latter you will need the username SHR & the password selfhelp. Lots of stuff happened on the show - most of what happened is noted below.

Be safe out there!

Self Help Radio Hobo Show

"Hobo Blues" Peg Leg Howell _Atlanta Blues (Big City Blues From The Heartland)_

"Georgia Hobo" The Cofer Brothers _Hard Times Come Again No More Vol. 1 (Early American Rural Songs Of Hard Times & Hardships)_

"Big Rock Candy Mountain" Harry McClintock _Folk Song America: A 20th Century Revival_

introduction & history

"Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra _1931-1932_

"Hobo's Meditation" Jimmie Rodgers _The Singing Brakeman_

"The Hobo's Dream Of Heaven" Wilf Carter _Cowboy Songs_

"Hobo Blues" Yank Rachell _When The Sun Goes Down: The Secret History Of Rock & Roll_

"Hobo Blues" John Lee Hooker _The Ultimate Collection: 1948-1990_

interview with sociologist Dr. Bert Hendrix

"King Of The Road" Roger Miller _King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller_

"My Heart Is A Hobo" Lena Horne _Songs By Burke & Van Heusen_

"Millionaire Hobo" The Fantastics _Fabulous Memories_

"Hobo" The Catalinas _Doo-Bop-Jivers Vol. II_

"Two Hoboes" The Journeymen _New Directions In Folk Music_

"Only A Hobo" Bob Dylan _The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991)_

interview with local business owner Henry Beard

"The Dying Hobo (American)" Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger _The Long Harvest (Record Seven)_

"Hobo Bill's Last Ride" Merle Haggard _Same Train, Different Time_

"The Hobo Song" John Prine _Bruised Orange_

"Hobo Girl" Quartette _Quartette_

"I Am A Lonesome Hobo" Thea Gilmore _John Wesley Harding_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by

"Hobo Blues" Seasick Steve _Dog House Music_

"Last Of The Hobo Kings" Mary Gauthier _Between Daylight & Dark_

"Hobos In The Roundhouse" Bill Isles _Early Risers_

"Hobo's Lullaby" Billy Bragg & Joe Henry _Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad_

"The Last Hobo" Tom Paxton _Boat In The Water_

conclusion & goodbye

"King Of The Hobos" Country Dick Montana _The Devil Lied To Me_

"Hobo's Dream" The Dead Sailor Girls _Rolling Sea_

"The Hobo Girl" Fruit Bats _The Ruminant Band_

* "Bakersfield, California. On The Freights. Helping A Newcomer Hop A Freight" is licensed under Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal.

Whither Hobos?

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Do hobos still exist? The National Hobo Museum in Iowa says they don't. But articles like this one - The Life Of A Modern Hobo - would beg to differ. & asking the question online leads to lots of personal anecdotes - one person even said they recently met one at a party! I've always known I don't get invited to the best parties but now there's proof.

When did I decide to make a show about hobos, tho? It might have been while listening to a stand-up comedian using the word "hobo" as a punchline. (If only I could remember the comedian or the joke.) Or it could have been seeing a hobo in a movie or a television show. (If only I could pinpoint which movie or which television show.) Or it could've been listening to Jimmie Rodgers last summer when I went down a rabbit hole full of songs featuring yodeling. It was one of those. It was all of those. Something or many things hinted to me that it might be fun doing a radio show about hobos. & so I shall.

Tonight! From midnight to 2am! On KBOO! 90.7fm + kboo.fm. I'll be leaving hobo glyphs all over the city so you can find it!

Preface To Hobos: God Rides With The Hobos

(image by Alyssa Schukar from here)

This is my confession: I've never been terribly obsessed with hobos. When I was somewhat young, I was familiar with the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain." Not being aware the song was something of a joke - not quite a parody, but maybe a little of a satire - it seemed very odd to me that in the perfect world of the hobo, there would be jails & railroad bulls & mean dogs, etc. Again - I wasn't a terribly perceptive kid.

Mostly though I never dreamed of running away, hitchhiking, riding the rails, etc. I found all that incredibly terrifying. & I felt that way because my mother was terrified of the world so she warned me & all my siblings about every possible danger all the time, & every disaster was a "told you so" moment. In fact, she would make things up just to terrify us. Listen:

When my little brother & I were kids, she refused to let us go to the men's room alone in places like movie theaters. She said, "There's a man in there waiting to cut your go-go off!" (My mother called penises "go-gos." I don't know why. It's something my sister & I laugh about all the time.) Despite being unable to understand not just why someone would want to do that, but also why that would be allowed, I dutifully followed my mother into the ladies' room with her. Deeply embarrassing for everyone except my mom.

The best thing about this week has been listening to lots of songs & reading about hobos. Am I more into them now? A little. Would I consider riding the rails one day? No way. My mother still lives in my head. & I suspect her voice will get even more insistent the older I get.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: John Lennon Tribute

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On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. On the forty-fourth anniversary of that awful day, the Dickenbock Report will play an hour of John Lennon songs are interpreted by musicians he inspired & influenced.

Sunday, December 8, noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere.

This Week In Self Help (December 1 2 + 3)

Life can be a blur. Not that it goes by so fast, altho it does - it's just that the eyes of my life are failing with age. I need some kind of corrective lenses to look back through time. But I do try to keep up & here are the dumb radio shows I happened to make this week. (When you listen on the Self Help Radio website, you may need the username SHR & password selfhelp. FYI.)

The Dickenbock Report reported on Wear A Dress Day. Listen: XRAY website. Self Help Radio website.

True story: I got a nice text for a listener after that show that was good for my self-esteem.

Before Self Help Radio on Monday night, I played two hours of jazz/electronica/experimental music. It's not archived on the KBOO website, alas, but you can listen on the Self Help Radio website.

True story: that show was prerecorded, but as I came in do Self Help Radio, the phone was flashing, & I answered it, & a gruff voice said, "I am a longtime supporter & I want you to get that fake-ass deejay off the air!" Then they hung up. That was bad for my self-esteem.

Self Help Radio was "a steady show." Listen: KBOO website. Self Help Radio website.

Included with the KBOO link is this week's Corporate Standardized Programming. It was a show in which I played artists we lost this year, from August. You can listen above or at the Self Help Radio website as a stand-alone one hour show.

& that was it for the week. Yep, a blur.

Self Help Radio 120324: A Steady Show

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Yeah, it's kind of a dumb theme. Someone did text me during the second hour & told me it was a "Very Steady 2nd Hour!" Which is a contrast to the first call I got, which said, "I'm a longtime supporter & I want you to get this fake-ass deejay off the air!" The person then hung up, & I took it quite personally.

Steadiness is really the best one can hope for at this point.

Listen to this show at the KBOO website. Or at the Self Help Radio website - where you may need the username SHR & the password selfhelp. Lots of stuff happened on the show. Most of it is noted below.

Steady as she goes!

A Steady Self Help Radio Show

"I'm A Steady Rollin' Man" Robert Johnson _The Complete Recordings_

"I'm Steady Holding On" Rufus Thomas _Tiger Man: Earliest Recordings 1950-1957_

"A Steady Hand" Big Harp _White Hat_

introduction & definitions

"Ready Steady Go" Generation X _Generation X_

"Steady As She Goes" CJ Ramone _American Beauty_

"Steady As She Goes" Shellac _Excellent Italian Greyhound_

"A Steady Mind" Loma _How Will I Live Without A Body?_

"Steady State" Teenage Fanclub _Here_

interview with author Gloria Stubing

"Let's Go Steady" The Davis Sisters _Memories_

"Steady Johnny" Noeleen Batley _Little Treasure_

"Going Steady" Jilted John _True Love Stories_

"Go Steady" The Lambrettas _The Best Of The Lambrettas: The Singles Collection_

"Goin' Steady" The Producers _The Producers_

"Going Steady" Bearsuit _Cat Spectacular!_

interview with weapons master Stuart Glower

"My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) (vocals Frankie Jaxon)" Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band _The Copulatin' Blues Compact Disc_

"Rock Steady" Alton Ellis & The Flames _First Class Rock Steady_

"Rock Steady Gone" Dandy _Dawning Of A New Era: The Roots Of Skinhead Reggae_

"Rock Steady" Ruby Delicious _Golden State Funk: Impossibly Rare Funk From The Bay Area_

"(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew" The Rock Steady Crew _Electro Breakdance (The Real Old School Revival)_

idioms!

"Easy There, Steady Now" Richard Thompson _Mirror Blue_

"The Steady Slowing Down Of The Heart" Lloyd Cole _Cleaning Out The Ashtrays (Collected B-Sides & Rarities 1989-2006)_

"Keep Some Steady Friends Around" Smog _Rain On Lens_

"The Steady Pace" Cats On Fire _Our Temperance Movement_

"Steady" Cold Specks _I Predict A Graceful Expulsion_

conclusion & goodbye

"Let's Keep Steady Company" Billy Worth _M-G-M Hillbilly Vol. 3_

"My Steady Dream" Tommy Wood _The Complete D Singles Collection, Volume 1_

*This image, which has been manipulated by me, is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license.

Whither A Steady Show?

The image above is from the Wikipedia. Its description says, "Space-time diagram in the steady state theory. Though stars (white) expand exponentially & quickly disappear over the event horizon (green), the theory assumes that new matter would be continuously created. The observer would see infinite red-shifted ancient stars on the light cone (yellow). This view failed to explain almost homogeneous microwave background radiation."

Imagine how cool it would have been if the inspiration for this show was something cosmological! Like, whoa, Gary was ready lots of books about theories of the universe & thought yeah "steady" would be a cool theme as it relates to brilliant minds trying to figure things out!

But no, I just noticed lots of songs using the word "steady." So you know. I put a show together with lots of songs prominently featuring the word "steady." I'm a pretty unsteady fellow who steadily puts out dumb radio shows so it kinda reflects on me too. Ah well.

Tonight! On KBOO! A steady Self Help Radio show. Midnight to 2am. 90.7fm in town. kboo dot fm everywhere.

Preface To A Steady Show: Perspective

Google Images tells me that image above is from Pep Comics # 174, from 1964. (You can read it here.) I found the image probably somewhere on Tumblr many moons ago. It's been a while since I've read an Archie comic. But I read lots when I was a kid.

The word "steady" shows up in lots of songs in the phrase "going steady," which the internet tells me is "when two romantic partners agree to an exclusive relationship." So, "dating." Although maybe dating isn't necessarily exclusive.

For me, I never "went steady." I briefly had a girlfriend at the end of high school, & then met someone over two years later whom I courted for a long time & then suddenly we lived together. Maybe "going steady" only works if you're a teenager living at home & going to school.

Looking back, I feel like I wasted lots of time - & put myself in many embarrassing & humiliating situations - trying to start relationships with girls. I had no one giving me advice or information & none of those embarrassing or humiliating experiences ever really helped. It happened when it happened. I needed to be a certain kind of person for it to happen. Not that I would've believed it if someone gave me that advice - but looking back I could've had more fun if I'd known that.

Since I am a pretty regretful person I think a lot about the mistakes I've made in my life. If I could do it all over again - & I am dumb enough to waste time thinking about such things - I almost certainly would forego all the pining & swooning I did in high school & focus on things I should've been focused on - which is, making a life. Life happened to me, I had very little hand in how it turned out. I would focus on being more of an author of my own life.

But I'll never get the chance to do it over so I just look back & sigh. Oh the stories I could tell about my stupidities. They were the steady thing in my life then!

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Wear A Dress Day

December 1 is not just the first day of the last month of the year. It's also (apparently) Wear A Dress Day. That's news, right? Interesting, correct? Not incredibly discouraging, disheartening, & downright depressing like most of the news, yes? We think so. Please we like to wear dresses.

Tune in tomorrow (December 1) from noon to 1pm for a Dickenbock Report special report on dresses on Wear A Dress Day. That's on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland & online everywhere at xray dot fm.

If you'd like to wear a dress too, that's fine. But not required. We are not a radio show with a dress code.

This Week In Self Help (November 24 + 26)

Above is an image I found on the internet more than ten years ago. I have no idea where I found it so I can't credit it. Forgive me. I am sharing it though because this week I made a radio show for my wife's birthday. Here are the shows I did this past week in chronological order.

Reminder: any show you listen to/download from the Self Help Radio website will probably required (at least the first time) a username & password. One is SHR, the other is selfhelp.

On the Dickenbock Report on XRAY, it was the anniversary of the discovery of the fossil of Lucy, an ancestor of ours. Listen on the XRAY website. Or listen on the Self Help Radio website. It's all songs about people named Lucy. Not fossils.

On Self Help Radio on KBOO I played lots of songs about birthdays for my wife's birthday. Listen on the KBOO website. Or listen on the Self Help Radio website. I found a lot of songs about birthdays from this past year. I am little proud of that.

Included with the KBOO link above is this week's episode of Corporate Standardized Programming, which featured lots of new releases. If you'd like to listen to that show all by itself, listen on the Self Help Radio website.

& that's all for this week!

Self Help Radio 112624: Magda's Birthday Show 2024

Hey look I got Magda to pose for a birthday picture. She told me it was fine as long as I "manipulated it." She's one of those irritatingly beautiful women who never think they look good in photographs. So I made her into a clown. That'll show her!

Damn, she still looks beautiful.

Lots of birthday tunes including many I found that were released this year. I hope it's enjoyable especially if you have a birthday any time. This show is for you! Listen at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website & everything that happens is listed below.

& if you can, support KBOO during our end-of-the-year drive!

Magda's Birthday Show 2024

"Happy Birthday Polka" The Sons Of The Pioneers _Wagons West_

"Mama's Birthday" Red Sovine _Greatest Grand Ole Opry_

"Honky Tonk Birthday" Reverend Horton Heat, Dale Watson, & Jason D. Williams _The Stars Align_

introduction & FAQ

"Happy Birthday" Me First & The Gimme Gimmes _¡Blow It…At Madison's Quinceañera!_

"Birthday" Wavers _Wavers_

"My Mum's Birthday" Blush Always _An Ode To ?_

"(A Bit Of A) Birthday" Heavy Lungs _Live At The BBC_

"Birthday Girl" Sun Kil Moon _Birthday Girl_

interview with birthday song songwriter Kevin Bishop

"23rd Birthday" The Softies _The Bed I Made_

"Birthday" Sinai Vessel _I Sing_

"The Emperor, The Dealer, & The Birthday Boy" Pete Astor _Tall Stories & New Religions_

"Birthday" Castlebeat _Stereo_

"Birthday" Sleave _How To Get Over_

interview with scientist birthday party organizer Clyde King

"Happy Birthday" The Heck _Happy Birthday_

"Happy Birthday, Baby!" Micah Schnabel _The Clown Watches The Clock_

"Birthday Party" Metro Verlaine _Pop Sauvage_ 

"Happy Birthday" Kula Shaker _Natural Magick_

"Happy Birthday Songs" James Ellis _The Party Might Be Over_

interview with birthday gift rater Archie Lerner

"I Want My Birthday Back" Jee Jee Band _Glass Fish_

"I'm Having A Party" Jonathan Coulton _Smoking Monkey_

"Birthday Song" Moes Anthill _A Birthday Cage_

"Birthday Slice" Bodega _Build Yourself Up_

"Birthday Song" Kendra Morris _I Am What I'm Waiting For_

conclusion & goodbye

"Happy Birthday" The Washington Independent Players & Orchestra _A Trip To Washington, D.C. & Other Musical Stories_

"Happy Birthday Wanda June" Strange Boutique _Charm_

"Birthday Boy" Versus You _Birthday Boy_

"Birthday" Late Bloomer _Another One Again_

Whither Magda's Birthday Show 2024?

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Every year around the time of her birthday, my wife gets a radio show featuring - not songs she likes, not songs she's picked out, not songs that make me think of her - but a show featuring songs about birthdays. I have made her a birthday show for twenty of the twenty-two years the show has been in existence. Please don't ask me what I was thinking in 2003 & 2005.

The thing is, I could play the Beatles song & the Altered Images song & the Sugarcubes song & all the birthday songs you're familiar with every year. But I don't. I don't repeat songs - or should I say, I don't repeat recordings - I have played covers of the Beatles song & the Altered Images song & the Sugarcubes song previously. What this means is I have to find mostly new birthday songs each year.

But that's fine! People write lots of birthday songs. But there's a problem! I don't like most of them. The coolest thing about having a radio show on a community radio station is that I get to play music I like. So I have to spend some time every year sifting through lots of birthday songs to find the ones I like.

How did that turn out? You can listen to find out tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm here in Portland or online everywhere at kboo dot fm. Yes there'll be guests. Yes there'll be cake. But only for me. The cake is for me tonight.

Preface To Magda's Birthday Show 2024: Fourteen Years Ago

That youngster was my girlfriend on her birthday in 2007. I don't have a memory of that night but I'm in the pictures so I must've been there. In a little over a year, she would get her PhD & get married to me. & then in less than two years, we'd leave Austin, where we met, where we married, where we began our life together.

She had a birthday show that year, too. The day before on KOOP. The playlist is here. It's funny, I remember the phone calls I got on that show more vividly than her birthday party. My memory is screwy.

But perhaps that means this birthday show will be just as memorable... on the radio.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Lucy's Show

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On November 24, 1974 - fifty years ago - in Ethiopia, a team of paleontologists & anthropologists in a fossil expedition in Ethiopia found the remains of the Australopithecus afarensis whom they would name "Lucy."

Fifty years later - more or less - on the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM, we'll talk about that famous discovery & play musical reports about all kinds of Lucys. Lucies? "Lucys" looks better.

That's Sunday November 24, 2024, from noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland & online at xray dot fm. A special note to any other Lucy listening - tho that Lucy existed millions of years before you did, she doesn't mind sharing the day with you.

This Week In Self Help (November 17 19 + 21)

Sad balloon above says "yay" to lots of Gary on the radio this week. Whee.

A reminder: all the links to shows on the Self Help Radio website may ask for a username & password. Those are SHR & selfhelp. Just in case you need them.

Here was the week that I was on the radio most recently:

November 17. The Dickenbock Report. A show about hiking on National Hiking Day. Here are the places you can listen: the XRAY website | the Self Help Radio website.

November 19. Self Help Radio. A show with the theme parasites. Here are the places you can listen: the KBOO website | the Self Help Radio website.

Also November 19. Corporate Standardized Programming. A show featuring artists who died this year. Available on the KBOO link above but also on the Self Help Radio website as a separate show.

November 21. A sub show on KBOO. I played lots of reggae music from 1984. It was in the Shocks Of Sheba timeslot so you can listen to it on the KBOO website. But also you can listen on the Self Help Radio website too.

That's enough for this week, yes?

Parasitic Movies

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Our resident cinephile Chuck came to the show this week to talk all about films tagged with "parasites" on the IMDb. You can listen to that show at selfhelpradio dot net or at kboo.fm if you haven't already & once you've heard Chuck's segment, check out these handy links which will enhance the experience:

YouTube playlists of films and trailers.

Here is Chuck's Letterboxd list. Here are his Letterboxd reviews. Here's the IMDb list of films available to stream elsewhere.

Here is the IMDb keyword search list.

Chuck has a Bluesky account where he has posted about some of the films. If you like what you see, follow him! He usually follows you back.

& enjoy!

Self Help Radio 111924: Parasites

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That was a show not for the squeamish. By which I mean me! I am the squeamish.

There was lice, tapeworms, bedbugs, even some mosquitos bringing along malaria. Parasites are so loathed that calling someone a parasite is quite an insult. & there are so many of them. They probably don't deserve their own radio show. But I'd rather give parasites a radio show than a place to thrive!

Listen to the show if you dare. It's not only at the KBOO website. It's also at the Self Help Radio website. Make sure you remember the username SHR & password selfhelp if you listen there. It was a lot of songs & other stuff. The details are below.

Wow I think I need a good scrubbing after that show.

Self Help Radio Parasites Show

"Mean Old Bedbug Blues" Lonnie Johnson _Steppin' On The Blues_

"Me & My Tapeworm" Sylvester Weaver _Songs Of Humor & Hilarity_

"Be Nice To People With Lice" Alan Sparhawk _See You On The Moon - Songs For Kids Of All Ages_

introduction & definitions

"Parasite" Teenage Head _Trouble In The Jungle_

"Parasite" Fields _Everything Last Winter_

"Parasite" Momus _Vivid_

"Parasite" Robyn Hitchcock _Way To Blue (The Songs Of Nick Drake)_

interview with Craig Edwards, who had a tapeworm

"Tapeworm Of Love" I, Brute Force _Confections Of Love_

"Moonglow Tapeworm" Birds Of Chicago _Birds Of Chicago_

"Tapeworm" Honeybunch _Project: Echo_

"Love Parasite" Fad Gadget _Under The Flag_

interview with Debby Carter, who has lice

"Here Come The Fleas" White Noise _An Electric Storm_

"Parasite" The Mr. T Experience _Making Things With Light_

"Like A Parasite" The Queers _Punk Rock Confidential_

"Parasites" Itchy & The Nits _The Worst Of Itchy & The Nits_

interview with Edgar Dean, who has scabies

"The Flea" Gus Englehorn _Dungeon Master_

"The Naughty Little Flea" Miriam Makeba _Miriam Makeba_

"Kuna Kunguni (The Bedbugs Bite)" Zawose & Brook _Assembly_

"Parasite" Obongjayar _Some Nights I Dream Of Doors_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by

"Bedbug Town" Quasi _Mole City_

"Parasite" Baby In Vain _Afterlife_

"Bedbugs & Ballyhoo" Echo & The Bunnymen _Echo & The Bunnymen_

"Parasite Inside" Aquarian Blood _Last Nite In Paradise_

conclusion & goodbye

"Parasite" The A's _The A's_

"For Jacob With Malaria" Boca Chica _For Jacob With Malaria_

* Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Whither Parasites?

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You might think, as a parasitical invasion seems to be descending upon the capital of our nation, that the theme for this show is surprisingly timely. But it's not! This is Self Help Radio, after all. The very few times we're timely are either because we like the holidays - Valentine's Day, Halloween - or entirely by accident.

The reason this show is about parasites has to do with a discussion I overheard not too long ago between my wife & a friend of hers about our cat Bluto. Our cat Bluto was adopted in early 2023 & he was a beautiful kitten but he brought with him ringworm. It mainly affected our other cat, Boone, but I did have a little ring on my arm once & my wife told me that was ringworm. Everyone is better now & no-one had that terrifying thing where giant swollen red rings appear on your face - it never got that nightmarish. But it was a concern & we had to deal with it. Like you do.

Anyway, my wife was talking about this with a friend not too long ago & the friend asked, "Is ringworm a parasite?" & my wife said, "No, it's a fungus." But to me, it sure seemed like a parasite. & why call it a worm if it's not a worm? I went down a rabbit hole about ringworm & then parasites. & I learned a lot. & I thought hey this might be a good theme for a show.

Not ringworm! Parasites!

So it shall be. Tonight on KBOO - which is on 90.7fm in town & online at kboo dot fm. But when? From midnight to 2am like always.

Is there are chance of infection?!? Always.

Preface To Parasites: Human Parasite In Feces

Oh shit! "Human Parasite In Feces!" That's what that image is called! It's from the Wikipedia & it says "Microscopic examination of feces, also known as a fecal microscopy or stool microscopy, can reveal the presence of various human parasites, which are often responsible for gastrointestinal infections & diseases."

Recently I was reading a book - a sci-fi book - in which it was discussed how hard it was in English (in the book English is an ancient language) to figure out when nouns modify nouns. For example, you can call something a "house cat" but a "cat house" is a different thing entirely. & so it is with "human parasite." Like, I've met those people. They're unpleasant. But they look a lot like you & me - often much better - & nothing at all like that frankly nondescript worm up there.

Maybe "parasite in human feces" would be better. But of course the important thing is that it is parasitic to humans. On humans? In humans? I'm not sure which is the proper use. Sadly it doesn't tell us the name of this parasite (tho if I were to guess it's probably Todd).

But what could it be? Lots! According to this website. It helpfully asks & answers this question:

What is the most common intestinal parasite?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 25% of the world’s population has an infection related to an intestinal parasite. In tropical & subtropical areas with limited access to clean water & sanitation, that number is as high as 50%. The most common intestinal parasite infection globally is ascariasis. It affects about one billion people worldwide.

In the U.S., the most common infections are from protozoa, especially the giardia parasite. Pinworms are the most common intestinal worm in the U.S.

But it isn't giardia, because the web describes them as "pear-shaped & measure 10-20 micrometers in length." More likely that's ascariasis, which the web tells me are "typically pink or white with tapered ends." So now you know.

Oh damn this week's show is going to be awful & informative!

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Hiking Day

Usually when someone tells you to "take a hike," it's insulting. But it's a fine suggestion on November 17, which is National Hiking Day. It's the only day that people say that to Dick Dickenbock & it doesn't hurt his feelings! Tune in to listen to musical reports about hiking as well as an interview with an "extreme hiker."

That's tomorrow, Sunday, November 17, on 91.1+107.1fm in town & online everywhere at xray dot fm. There are just so many places to hike to on the air!

This Week In Self Help (November 10 12 + 13)

That picture above is from 2022. I don't print out lots of stuff to read on the air anymore, I read from an iPad. I think our printer went kablooey during the pandemic. I suspect I wasted lots of paper. This is the radio I radioed this radio week.

Still in the dumps about you-know-what, I celebrated Ennio Morricone's birthday on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM Sunday. Here's the link for the show on the XRAY website. Here's the link for the show on the Self Help Radio website. Hint: username SHR password selfhelp.

Self Help Radio on KBOO was a show with the theme "shotgun." I know, I know. Here's the link for the show on the KBOO website. Here's the link for the show on the Self Help Radio website. Hint: username SHR password selfhelp.

Included with the KBOO link is this week's episode of Corporate Standardized Programming, which featured a lot of new releases. Here's the link to listen to that show alone on the Self Help Radio website. Hint: username SHR password selfhelp.

Finally - & the playlist for this show isn't current available because it was a sub show on KBOO Wednesday morning & I haven't added it to the Self Help Radio page yet but I completed the third installment of the 1969 Project & it aired in the wee hours. Here's the link for the show on the Self Help Radio website. Hint: username SHR password selfhelp.

That's all. Until it starts all over again.

Self Help Radio 111224: Shotgun

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Bang goes the shotgun show. A mostly silly affair with only occasional references to violence. I say this utterly unaware if a shotgun can shoot blanks but - the show shot mostly blanks.

So rarely do guns enter into my life that I have no images of shotguns on my computer. Luckily there are cool ones online like the one above - weird to see how a shotgun actually works! That image is more informative than my entire show.

Which you can listen to now & whenever should you choose. Where? I can think of two places:
the KBOO web page + the Self Help Radio web page. Should you choose the latter, please use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access. But you can download the show! Everything that happens on the show is listed below.

Be safe with this show!

Self Help Radio Shotgun Show

"(You'll Be Just) Another Notch On Father's Shotgun (Effen You Don't Marry Me)" Dorothy Shay _Another Notch On Father's Shotgun_

"Shotgun Blues" Lightnin' Hopkins _The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins_

"Shotgun Boogie" Tennessee Ernie Ford _The Tennessee Ernie Ford Collection_

introduction & definitions

"Go Get The Shotgun Grandpa" Ann Castle _Rock-A-Billy Dynamite_

"Shotgun Wedding" Dub Dickerson _Boppin' In The Dark_

"Shotgun Talking Blues" The Highwaymen _Homecoming_

"Shotgun" Jr. Walker & The All Stars _The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 5: 1965_

"The Shotgun & The Duck" Jackie Lee _The Duck_

interview with Ferris Humboldt, who renovates & repairs shotgun houses

"Act Like A Shotgun" G.C. Cameron _Love Songs & Other Tragedies_

"Shotguns" Tee-Set _The Golden Years Of Dutch Pop Music (A&B Sides)_

"Shotgun" Big Black _Racer-X_

"Shotgun Dream" Attrition _Recollection 84-89_

interview with Frank Harold, gun safety expert for Portland schools

"Shotgun" Colourbox _Colourbox_

"Hemingway Shotgun" Geek _The Machines 1990-1993_

"Shotgun Wedding" Gore Gore Girls _Up All Night_

"Shotgun Dedication" Beulah _Handsome Western States_

interview with my friend Floyd

"Shotgun Blues" Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan _Sunday At Devil Dirt_

"Shotgun" Ida _Will You Find Me_

"Shotgun Betty" Sarah Shook & The Devil _Seven_

"Shotgun" Atmosphere _To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EPs_

interview with gun club member Felicity Hope

"Shotgun Funeral" Party Of One _Shotgun Funeral_

"Shotgun" The Jane Shermans _The Jane Shermans_

"Shotgun Vision" Islands _Ski Mask_

"Shotgun" Soccer Mommy _Sometimes, Forever_

conclusion & goodbye

"Shotgun" Kristin Hersh _Wyatt At The Coyote Palace_

*the image is by Andrew Davidhazy & is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Whither Shotgun?

(image from the comic Regarding The Matter Of Oswald's Body
by Christopher Cantwell & Luca Casalanguida)

This is something maybe important to know - I plan my show's in advance. I find a theme (or a theme is presented to me), I start gathering material for the theme, & when I feel like I can make a radio show, I assign a date to it. The date like the theme is arbitrary. It's usually only around holidays that I am scheduling a theme for a time of year, for a date on a calendar.

It's the same in my "real life." I scheduled a dental appointment for 8am the day after the election. Granted, I made the appointment six months earlier, but most people might have thought, hm, maybe not the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday in November when the world might be falling apart. Not me!

So please don't read into this week's theme, which is kinda dumb: shotgun. It's the result of a kind of negotiation with someone who really, really wanted me to do a show about guns. As I explained yesterday, I am loathe to make radio shows about very general themes. Finally I asked this person what their favorite kind of gun was, & the response was, "I don't like any kind of gun at all!!" So I asked what kind of gun did this person like least. & the answer was shotguns. & I said, is it okay if I do a show about shotguns, to which the person said, "If you can find enough songs about shotguns!"

There were plenty of songs about shotguns. But mainly I hope you don't think the theme has anything to do with recent events, because it doesn't. It was set into motion before I was even thinking about what a terrible time the first week of November would be.

Which brings me to: tonight from midnight to 2am Self Help Radio has a show with the theme "Shotgun." You can listen in Portland at 90.7fm & online at kboo dot fm. If you're listening in someone else's car, make sure you call shotgun! It will annoy them.

Preface To Shotgun: A Ramble

(Did I ever think I was going to link on this blog to an article about shotguns? Nope.)

One of the things that I try to avoid with my dumb show is (you've probably heard me talking about this before) overly general themes. I would not want to do a show with the theme cars, or drinks, or weather. I have nothing against those kinds of themes or shows but they weigh me down. How many songs about cars must I listen to to decide what to play on a two hour show?

It's true I did that early in this show's life but also back then I tended to put the show together the night before I did it. That would be hard to do nowadays. What happens now is I gather songs over a longer period of time & I come up with themes weeks before I explore them. I have some themes I came up with years ago that I still don't feel I'm ready to make a show with. None of those shows have themes like stars. Or the moon.

One of those themes that people have suggested to me before is guns. Wow that would be like nine hundred songs to listen to. I'm not sure I'd know where to start. & can I say something else? One of the reasons I like to find challenging themes is because it takes me out of my comfort zone - makes me find & listen to songs that I otherwise wouldn't necessarily play if I only had a few hours to put a show together.

If "shotgun" feels like a compromise because recently someone asked me to do a show about guns - well, you've anticipated tomorrow's blog post.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Ennio Morricone's Birthday

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Most of the news is bleak. Bleak & ugly. & it ain't getting any better soon. So we thought we'd celebrate a great musician composer & artist on The Dickenbock Report this week.

The great Ennio Morricone was born on November 10, 1928. On what would've been his 96th birthday, we'll talk about him & play his music as interpreted by the artists he influenced & who admired him.

That's noon to 1pm tomorrow, November 10, on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm in town, xray dot fm everywhere.

This Week In Self Help (Nov 3 + 5)

It was a terrible week for 99% of this country, even those who thought they won. They are not smart & they are horribly racist & sexist & when it goes bad for them - as it almost assuredly will - maybe they can find in their despair the ability to change & forgive themselves. Ha ha! No, they'll keep blaming people they fear! We are doomed.

It seems I was right to not work on a Self Help Radio episode this week. My anxiety was entirely justified. But there was radio from me anyway & it went like this:

On the Dickenbock Report, I had a fun show about sandwiches on National Sandwich Day. Listen at the XRAY web page. Or listen at the Self Help Radio web page. For the latter, remember the username SHR & the password selfhelp.

Where & when Self Help Radio should've been, I played a bunch of jazz, electronica, & experimental music. I called it a "Mental Health Day." I hope it prepared me for the shitshow that was election day. Maybe I'd be feeling worse if I hadn't done that. Listen at the KBOO web page. Or listen at the Self Help Radio web page. For the latter, remember the username SHR & the password selfhelp.

The last hour on the KBOO recording is an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming. It was an episode dedicated to artists we've lost recently, mainly July of this year. If you'd like to listen to that episode alone, you can listen at the Self Help Radio web page. Please remember the username SHR & the password selfhelp.

& also remember the famous adage: it's always darkest before it goes completely black.

Self Help Radio 110524: A Mental Health Day

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This isn't an episode of Self Help Radio but I'm in the habit of letting you know what I am doing on Tuesdays so what the hell. Here's one of those blog potsts.

As I've explained, I was too preoccupied with the impending death of my country to focus on making an episode of Self Help Radio this week. I just couldn't get my act together. My brain kept telling me to "take a mental health day" - something I've never done. Instead of an episode of Self Help Radio, I just played a lot of music that I might not ever really play on Self Help Radio - electronica, jazz, experimental. All taken from new releases I've listened to over the past few months. As I played them, I do think I was distracted a bit from the coming shitstorm.

Maybe it'll help you too. You can listen at the KBOO web page. Or you can listen at the Self Help Radio web page. (If the latter, username SHR + password selfhelp.) It's very little me, very much lots of I think interesting toons. See you on the other side.

Self Help Radio Mental Health Day Playlist

"A Problem With The Stars" Eldritch Priest _Dormitive Virtue_ (Halocline Trance, 2024)

"Melt All The Guns II" Devin Gray _Melt All The Guns II_ (Rataplan, 2024)

"What Nature Does" BK-One _A Blackbox Recovery_ (Self-Released, 2024)

"Vocoder (Club Mix)" Floating Points _Cascade_ (Ninja Tune, 2024)

"Reverie" Airflow _Head In The Clouds_ (Self-Released, 2024)

"Morsure Profonde" Soft Violet _Sterner Stuff_ (Alien Transistor, 2024)

"Sorrowful Bouquet" Alex Henry Foster _A Measure Of Shape & Sounds_ (Hopeful Tragedy, 2024)

"Destitute For Dreaming (Single Version)" Lisa Cuthbert _Destitute For Dreaming EP_ (Self-Released, 2024)

"It Should Have Happened A Long Time Ago" Woody Jackson _Cowboy Yoga_ (ElectroVox, 2024)

"The Droopy" Max Jaffe _Reduction Of Man_ (Whited Sepuchre, 2024)

"Broken (Alternate Version)" Hidden Orchestra _Broken EP_ (Lone Figures, 2024)

"Clemency" Uniform _Nightmare City_ (Sacred Bones, 2024)

"Slow, Simple" Tim Brady / Instruments Of Happiness _Imagine Many Guitars_ (Redshift, 2024)

"Dylar" Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr _Breezy_ (Sonic Transmissions, 2024)

"Erase" Umberto _Black Bile: Variations_ (Thrill Jockey, 2024)

"Soft/Focus" Mark Templeton _Two Verses_ (Faitiche, 2024)

"Une Nuit Devant Soi" Orson Claeys _Odyssey To Self_ (Sdban Ultra, 2024)

"Calm Shores" Carl Lord _Sacred_

* A note about the image manipulated: the license is Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic. It has been manipulated by adding the Self Help Radio logo.

Whither A Mental Health Day?

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Like lots of folks, this election has caused me a great deal of anxiety. Not the candidates I support - but the fact that so many in our country seem to support the candidate that will do the most destruction. It hasn't been a healthy time for me & I found myself this week unable to put my all into Self Help Radio. So. I decided it was best to take a mental health day.

But I couldn't leave you with a repeat or some other programming, so tonight at midnight, in place of Self Help Radio, I'll just play some music. I listen to a lot of music. Some of it would never find its way onto an episode of Self Help Radio because it wouldn't fit one of my dumb themes. So I'll shall some of that tonight.

& hopefully next week, when the dust clears, if we're all okay, if the country isn't on fire, we can return to whatever dumb theme I was going to explore - oh yeah, shotgun. That's the theme! Maybe because we'll need one next week to fight in the second Civil War.

A radio show. Just not Self Help Radio. On KBOO tonight midnight to 2am. 90.7fm kboo dot fm.

Preface To This Week's Show: What's A Mental Health Day?

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Here's what very well mind dot com says a "mental health day" is: "A mental health day is a day you take off from work or school, & minimize any commitments or responsibilities. You can use this time to focus on relieving stress, relaxing, having fun, & preventing burnout."

In my case, the relieving stress part seems paramount. I am incredibly stressed out by the upcoming election. I think I had a panic attack on Election Night 2020. It has made the past few days difficult for me. I am finding it hard to concentrate. I get genuinely anxious when I see anything on the news.

Usually Sundays & Mondays are days I work on Self Help Radio. I hope you don't think the interviews on the show are real - they are really improvised, but I usually do that with the funny people who act as the interviewees during the previous week. I managed to scrape together an episode of The Dickenbock Report today but have not done any work for SHR today. & I can't imagine tomorrow will be any better.

Last night I was up late looking over the mayoral & city council candidates for Portland. It was pretty taxing & stressful. Voting for President was not but it's not my vote I'm worried about - it's the rest of this country.

So I believe I'll take a mental health day tomorrow & forego an episode of Self Help Radio. I'll have some music programmed & there'll be a new episode of Corporate Standardized Programming but no theme, no interviews, no lame attempts at me being funny. I just don't have it in me.

& yeah, I stole the above image for World Mental Health Day & removed the World. Sue me.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Sandwich Day

Never before has it felt more fortuitous for a program to be on during the noontime hour!

November 3 is National Sandwich Day & that's what we'll do doing - not just eating lots of sandwiches - which we always do during our show - it's lunchtime! - we'll also be reporting on & playing musical reports about sandwiches.

That's tomorrow - Sunday - from 12-1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, & online everywhere at xray dot fm. Bring the chips, will ya?

This Week In Self Help (Oct 25 27 29 + 31)

On Friday last week I caught a cold. It happens. It wasn't covid thankfully! But I was laid out for most of Saturday having sudafed lunches with nyquil chasers.

However I got the cold, I was not sick when I subbed KBOO's The Songcircle last Friday. It was a lot of new releases. For some reason the show did not end up on the KBOO website. Luckily I recorded it & put it on the Self Help Radio website. Remember: you might need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

Sunday morning I was convinced the worst was behind me. It wasn't true but I foolishly made my way up to XRAY for this week's The Dickenbock Report. That show was sort of a Halloween show because it was National Black Cat Day. You can listen to that show on the XRAY website. Or you can listen on the Self Help Radio website. Remember: you might need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

My wife made me promise to rest & get better & not go up to KBOO on Monday night & infect everyone there. So I made the Halloween show - about scarecrows - from home. You can listen to that show on the KBOO website. Or you can listen on the Self Help Radio website. Remember: you might need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

The KBOO show contains an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming but it's a repeat of last week's episode. I just wasn't well enough to make another show. My apologies.

& Halloween is over, but I did manage to make a one-hour Halloween special - it's about zombies - for KBOO on Halloween night. You can listen to all five hours - 7pm to midnight - on the KBOO website. My hour aired from 9-10pm, & tho I haven't added the playlist to my website yet, you can can still download the show from there if you'd like. Remember: you might need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

That was fun to make. & I'm feeling a lot better now!

Scarecrow Movies

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Our resident cinephile Chuck came to the show this week to talk all about films tagged with "scarecrow" on the IMDb. You can listen to that show at selfhelpradio dot net if you haven't already & once you've heard Chuck's segment, check out these handy links which will enhance the experience:

YouTube playlists of films and trailers.

Here is Chuck's Letterboxd list. Here are his Letterboxd reviews.

(Chuck puts the links to available videos in the notes for the films plus where they are available to stream for free.)

Here is the IMDb keyword search list.

Chuck has a Twitter account & a Bluesky account where he has posted about some of the films. If you like what you see, follow him! He usually follows you back.

Keep an eye on those scarecrows in the field or decorating people's lawns on Halloween night - I wouldn't trust them.

Self Help Radio 102924: Halloween 2024 - Scarecrows!

As far as I know, no scarecrows sneaked out of the fields last night to murder unsuspecting families on their isolated farms. Could it be they were enchanted by an entire radio show about them? You're welcome!

Some believe the average scarecrow is mostly good & helpful, & that's what we explored in music & in interviews on this show early this morning. Perhaps it might be good to listen to the show on Halloween night when the kids have finished trick or treating & it's time for some shut-eye - after all, don't you have a little scarecrow decoration in your front yard? Maybe in the house? & it sometimes makes you feel uncomfortable? Hm?

You can listen to this show now or any time at either the KBOO web page or the Self Help Radio web page. If you choose the latter, you may need the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access. In any event - be careful!

Everything that happened on the show is below. Happy Halloween!

Self Help Radio 241029 Halloween 2024 - Scarecrows!

"Scarecrow" Paul Robeson _The Complete EMI Sessions (1928-1939)_

"Scarecrow" Lazy Smoke _Corridor Of Faces_

"Scarecrow" Pink Floyd _The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn_

introduction & definitions

"Scarecrow's Love Affair" Blues Magoos _Basic Blues Magoos_

"Scarecrow" Blakewood Castle _The Best Of Franklin Records_

"The Scarecrow" June Tabor _Abyssinians_

"Scarecrow" James _Stutter_

interview with Scarecrow Killer survivor Leona Quinn

"Scarecrow" Siouxsie & The Banshees _Peepshow_

"Scarecrow" Eddi Reader _Eddi Reader_

"Rather Be A Scarecrow" Marbles _Pyramid Landing & Other Favorites_

"Scarecrow" Jumprope _From The Bullpen (...A Hey Buddy Compilation)_

"Scarecrow People" XTC _Oranges & Lemons_

interview with human scarecrow Liam Quarterman

"Scarecrow Man" Misfits _Famous Monsters_

"The Scarecrow" Circulus _The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent_

"Scarecrow" Hello, Blue Roses _The Portrait Is Finished & I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty_

"Life Of The Fields" Momus _Otto Spooky_

interview with phobias specialist Dr. Louis Quayles

"Scarecrow" Emi Sunshine & The Rain _Family Wars_

"Scarecrow" The Scarecrows _The Scarecrows_

"I'm Building A Scarecrow" Hollow Horse _Leave Without Saying Goodbye_

"Scared Scare Crow" Caspar Babypants _Hot Dog!_

interview with activist Larry Queen, who seeks to ban scarecrows

"Scarecrow" Firehorse _Pills From Strangers_

"The Scarecrow" The Residents _Intruders_

"Scarecrow Hair & Saucer-Eyed" Martin Newell _Martin Newell's Jumble Sale_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by +
conclusion & goodbye

"Scarecrow Man" David Olney _When The Deal Goes Down_

Whither Scarecrows (Halloween 2024)?

That image above - is it a scarecrow? - from a display in the window of a neighborhood salon, Dye Dye My Darling. My wife insisted I take a picture to share with you for this show. I guess it's a scarecrow. It seems a mixture of alien & scarecrow. Which is a movie I'd like to see!

Yes, tonight is Self Help Radio's annual Halloween show & this year it's about scarecrows. I've tried to pick the spookier songs about scarecrows I can find but the subject matter lends itself often more toward the sad - a scarecrow is a pathetic figure, wearing cast-off clothes, standing forever alone in a field. Its one job to keep living things away from itself. Until it climbs down & murder everyone! & who can blame it?

That's tonight, midnight to 2am, on 90.7fm in Portland, online everywhere at kboo dot fm. That's right, it starts at the witching hour! I hope you're safe in your homes....

Preface To Scarecrows: Halloween Theme Dilemma

Self Help Radio has been on the air for over 22 years now. Every Halloween (except one) there's been a Halloween show. It's not that I love Halloween - I'm not really the "dressing up" kind - but I know you love Halloween. & there are lots of songs that fit into the Halloween framework. But because this is Self Help Radio & I'm me, I can't just do a general Halloween show every year. It has to be about something specific. & after two decades, I am probably running out of ideas. Yes, I've complained about this before.

To recap:
The first Self Help Radio in 2002 was a general Halloween show. I wasn't sure how long I'd be doing the show at that point & it hadn't quite come together anyway.

The next six shows (2003-2009, excluding 2004) were pretty straightforward Halloween subjects: ghosts, vampires, monsters, zombies, witches, & werewolves.
What happened in 2004? I think there was a band in town & I wanted to play them instead of doing a Halloween show.

I had to get a little creative from then on out.

2010-2013 was haunted houses, graveyards, nightmares, & hell.

2014 was mummies. I kinda saved that theme until I had run out of ideas. But had I?

No!

2015-2018 was clowns, death, black cats, & voodoo.

2019 was an entire show about Frankenstein's monster there was some related content in the monsters show from 2006.

2020 was called "attack of the self help radio" & featured lots of creatures as from science fiction movies using the phrase "attack of the..."
2021 I had a show about pumpkins. Not very scary, but Halloween-ish.

2022 I revisited a theme that should've been a Halloween show but now was: spiders.

& last year I came up with ghost towns but also not very scary.

This year it's scarecrows. I think it's a good idea. But I thought that about ghost towns. So. We'll see.

The lesson is, it always feels like I'm running out of ideas, until such time as I actually will.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Black Cat Day

How maligned are our dear friends, the black cats? How they fear Halloween & the constant insults, affronts, & calumnies thrown their way! It turns out that these wonderful creatures have their own national day, & while that is a small stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of returning them to the god-like status they enjoyed in ancient Egypt, it's ain't nothing!

Tune in tomorrow to the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM for a celebration of the black cat. It'll also double as a Halloween show! 12-1pm on 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm.

If you feel at all like supporting the station that airs the Dickenbock Report while also showing your appreciation for hard-hitting news team, you can do so on this XRAY Pledge Drive Page!

This Week In Self Help (Oct 18 20 + 22)

It was a busy week. Let's see what happened.

Oh yeah. I subbed a show last Friday night. It's called Youth Randomonium & they let me even tho I am not a youth. Luckily I am random. You can listen to that show on the KBOO website. It's also available on the Self Help Radio website. You'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

The Dickenbock Report reported on International Chef Day. You can listen to that show on the XRAY website. It's also available on the Self Help Radio website. You'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

Self Help Radio this week was about kaleidoscopes. You can listen to that show on the KBOO website. It's also available on the Self Help Radio website. You'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

The last hour of the show was an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming. I played lots of new releases. It's included in the KBOO link above, but if you'd like to listen to the show on it's on, you can do so on the Self Help Radio website. One last time I tell you that you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access.

& that was it? & it was too much? Oh dear.