Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Badger Day

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October 6 is National Badger Day (as if you need to be told). We'll talk about the badger tomorrow on the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. Information, musical reports, even the sound of the badger. To make your National Badger Day tomorrow as wonderful as all your previous National Badger Days have been.

That's Sunday, October 6, from noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland & online everywhere at xray dot fm.

* American badger photo by Heather Paul is licensed under the Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This Week In Self Help (Sept 29 +30 & Oct 1 + 3)

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For some reason, altho I had a radio show about oysters, Otto The Outcast Oyster never came up. Like, at all. Maybe because he was lost in the many radio shows I did this week? Let's recap.

The Dickenbock Report was on the penultimate day of September, & featured coffee songs for National Coffee Day. The show is available to be enjoyed at the XRAY website & also at the Self Help Radio website. Pro tip: use the username SHR & password selfhelp to access the file at the Self Help Radio website.

On Monday night I spent a couple of hours on KBOO playing new experimental, jazz, & electronica music. Sadly, KBOO doesn't archive its sub shows, but you can listen if you want at the Self Help Radio website. Pro tip again: use the username SHR & password selfhelp to access the file at the Self Help Radio website.

Self Help Radio was, as I've said, about oysters this week. The show is available to be enjoyed at the KBOO website & also at the Self Help Radio website. The same pro tip: use the username SHR & password selfhelp to access the file at the Self Help Radio website.

The show after Self Help Radio, Corporate Standardized Programming, played lots & lots of new releases. It's the last hour of the show on the KBOO website linked above, but you can also listen at the Self Help Radio website. One last mention of the pro tip: use the username SHR & password selfhelp to access the file at the Self Help Radio website.

Finally, I sat in the XRAY show Welcome To Your Good Day on Thursday afternoon & played lots of new releases. I haven't put it on the Self Help Radio website but you can listen to it on the XRAY website.

What happens to Otto The Outcast Oyster you may ask? If you visit the link here, you can read the entire story!

Self Help Radio 100124: Oysters

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Hey that was fun! Fun to find songs about oysters, fun to talk about oysters. I'm very sure I wouldn't have fun eating oysters - even when I did eat dead animals, I didn't much like seafood - plus I watched a lot of Youtube videos about oysters & I don't think I could even touch such slimy things. They remind me of the slimy brussel sprouts they tried to make me eat as a kid (I'm from the South). But oysters are fascinating creatures & humans have eaten them for a long time & so they have found their way into art & song & this show I hope demonstrated a small hint of that.

Also you know there were silly interviews.

Listen to show when you want at either the KBOO website or the Self Help Radio website. For the latter please remember username SHR & password selfhelp. Lots of things happened on the show, they are listed below.

It starts with the poor oysters in the Lewis Carroll poem!

Self Help Radio Oysters Show

"The Walrus & The Carpenter" Donovan _HMS Donovan_

introduction & definitions - featuring the Encyclopedia-A-Tron 9000

"Oysters & Wine At 2 A.M." Old South Quartette _The Early Negro Vocal Quartets Vol. 1 (1902-1928)_

"You're Not The Only Oyster In The Stew" Fats Waller & His Rhythm _Fats Waller 1934-1935_

"What Noise Annoys An Oyster" Max Bygraves _The Decca Years 1957–1962_

"The Oyster & The Flying Fish" Kevin Ayers & The Whole World _Shooting At The Moon_

"Oyster Thins" Mayo Thompson _Corky's Debt To His Father_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by

"Oyster" The Shy Tots _Logical Steps_

"Oysters" Delay Tactics _Any Questions?_

"Oyster" Bel Canto _Birds Of Passage_

"Oyster" Jawbreaker _Dear You_

"(Do Not Feed The) Oyster" Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks _Pig Lib_

interview with humorist Olivia Majors

"Oyster" Rick Altizer _Surfonic Water Revival_

"Oyster" Sweet Apple Pie _Between The Lines_

"Oysters" Magic Trick _Other Man's Blues_

"Oysters In My Pocket" Royel Otis _Bar N Grill_

"Oysters" Meshell Ngedeocello _Weather_

interview with the Rev Oscar Mann

"Tale Of The Oyster" Amy Burton, Patrick Mason, & John Musto _Got A Little Rhythm_

"Oyster" D.D Dumbo _Utopia Defeated_

"Oyster Girl" Kim Lowings & The Greenwood _Wild & Wicked Youth_

"Oyster Cuts" Quivers _Oyster Cuts_

conclusion & goodbye

"The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" King Crimson _The ConstruKction Of Light_

"Duck For The Oyster" Malcolm McLaren _Duck Rock_

* The original image is by Stephane Pouvreau, & it's licensed under the Attribution 4.0 International Deed.

Whither Oysters?

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Just to get it out of the way - I did a show about pearls a long time ago. In the fourth year of this show! The playlist is here. Pearls seem like a good theme, yes? Oysters not so much. But was that what attracted me to the idea of a radio show about oysters?

Dang I wish I could tell you. I myself don't eat seafood & back when I was forced to by my mother I never had an oyster. Until this show I believe most of what I knew about oysters was from cartoons. But at some point in the past I thought the theme of oysters might be a good idea. I created a folder on my computer which is how most ideas for shows start. & I began to fill it with songs about oysters. Suddenly there were enough for a show!

That's not very satisfying which is sad because some people think oysters are very important when it comes to a certain kind of satisfaction. My sister tells me she's allergic to seafood. I will assume by the transitive genetic property that that's true for me, too. So I guess I'll never know about the power of oysters.

Unless I do a radio show about them? Tune it tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland & online everywhere at kboo dot fm to find out with me. Not in a creepy sexual way! That sounded like I was hitting on you I totally wasn't. Oh my gosh.

Preface To Oysters: Oyster Cartoon

From at Skeleton Claw dot com. Yes, this week's show is about oysters. Not necessarily pearls. More tomorrow.