Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Mother Ocean Day

May 10 is Mother Ocean Day. On his last show before a two-week vacation, Dick Dickenbock will discuss the ocean & play many musical reports about the ocean. Also, he may boast how many oceans he's crossed & how many times. & if we're really unlucky, he'll tell us about that time he fell in love with a dolphin. We'll have to get him off the mic very quickly. The way he tells it is unnecessarily graphic.

That's tomorrow, Sunday, May 10, from 12-1pm on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere. Bring sunscreen & a beach towel.

This Week In Self Help: May 3 + 5

It was a regular ol' week with my regular ol' shows.

May 3 (Sunday) The Dickenbock Report on XRAY:
"Motorcycle Mass & The Blessing Of The Bikes Day."
Lotsa songs about motorcycles.
Listen at XRAY FM.

May 5 (Tuesday) Self Help Radio on KBOO.

A show about hives.
Listen at KBOO. Listen at Self Help Radio dot net.

May 5 (Tuesday). Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO.

Lotsa new stuff.

Listen at KBOO (after Self Help Radio). Listen at Self Help Radio dot net.

That's it. I'll buzz off now.

Self Help Radio 050526: Hives

Yes Self Help Radio was in the hive this week. Luckily I didn't get stung! Well, not by a bee anyway.

Unsurprisingly, though the word "hives" can also mean the skin ailment, we only had one song about that kind of hives. Though I did manage to talk to two dermatologists. Not sure if we actually talked about hives, tho... & a fellow who keeps beehives in his house. He gets stung!

It's time for you to decide if you want to visit the hive or not. You can do it on the KBOO web site or on the Self Help Radio web site. All the busy things that happened on the show are listed below.

(Save some honey for the rest of us.)

Self Help Radio Hives Show

"The Hive" Richard Harris _The Yard Went On Forever_

"Exploiting The Hive" Honeyheads _Live At Wimbledon_

"Children Of The Beehive" Sonny & The Sunsets _Longtime Companion_

introduction & definitions

"When The Bees Are In The Hive" Edith Frost _Japanese Rumba_

"Into Your Beehive" Few Border _In The Twilight_

"Pajama Party In A Haunted Hive" Beat Happening _Black Candy_

"Beehive" Boss Hog _Boss Hog_

"Bee Hive, Pt. 1" Roy Roberts Experience _Roy Roberts Experience_

interview with Frank Redford, who keeps beehives in his house

"Just Like Honey" The Jesus & Mary Chain _Psychocandy_

"In My Hive" A Place To Bury Strangers _Hologram_

"Futureless Hives Of Bel Air" Locate S,1 _Personalia_

"Hive Mind" Corey Flood _Hanging Garden_

"Hive" Idle Bloom _Little Deaths_

interview with dermatologists Dr. Sue Clinton & Dr. Ben Gladstone

"Hives" Those Darlins _Screws Get Loose_

"A Fruitfly In The Beehive" Gang Of Four _Content_

"Hive" Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 _Mother Of All Saints_

"The Winter Hive" No Museums _There's Always An End (The Refraction Loop)_

"Beehive" Chicago Afrobeat Project _What Goes Up_

interview with Roger, who wants to join the Portland Hive Mind

"The Beehive Kid" Wan Light _Carmaline

"The Honey Is In The Hive" Sleuth _Out Of The Blue Period_

"The Hive Pt. 1" The Gametes _The Astronomical Calamities Of Comet Jones_

"The Hive" Bitw _Rehearse_

"The Hive Of Bees" Ed McCurdy _When Dalliance Was In Flower & Maidens Lost Their Heads - Volume III_

conclusion & goodbye

"Hive Mind" Blanck Mass _World Eater_

"Spirit Of The Beehive" Lack Of Knowledge _Americanized_

Whither Hives?

(image found here)

Tonight's show has the theme "hives." I have actually done lots of shows related to bees - bees themselves (three times!), honey, buzz, sting. It's not that I have a particular fondness for bees, though I suppose I do - but many of those were related to a membership drive theme on KBOO a few years back. Surprisingly, I never settled on hives. Though doubtless there were hive songs in one or most of the bee-related shows back then.

It being spring, I have noticed the bees coming back, & have loved to have them in my backyard. So I thought about doing another bee-related show & realized hives were an aspect of bees I hadn't explored. & yes, I know, bees aren't the only insects that have hives, & hives can mean other things - a skin condition, or a hive-mind - so the show wouldn't necessarily be all about bees. But I settled on the theme early in the spring & now it's time for a show about hives.

Which you can listen to tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm. There might be honey! But also you might get stung.

Preface To Hives: That Is Not A Picture Of A Beehive

It's not. My guess is it's a close-up of a rock face. My computer found this in my raw unedited photos when I asked it to look for pictures of a hive. & by asked it (I use a Mac) I mean I typed it into the search bar. I don't want to talk to my computer. I don't want my computer to talk back to me.

Okay, I just checked. It's actually a close-up of a tree. I took the picture on March 31, 2021, at Tryon State Forest. It's nice that I keep records. How cool would it have been if I had taken a picture of a beehive while I was there?

But I don't even know if I've ever seen a beehive in the wild. & my little brother is allergic to bees & I've never been stung by a bee but I fear that I might be allergic so I would probably freak out around a real live beehive. Though to be honest I would probably still try to take a picture.

Interestingly, I did take some pictures today of beehives but not real beehives. I saw them on a fence as I cycled past. You'll see them shortly.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Motorcycle Mass & Blessing Of The Bikes Day

Yeah, that guy's probably going to need some divine protection.

May 3 is Motorcycle Mass & Blessing Of The Bikes Day. It's one of the more - um - spiritual holidays around. On this day, motorcyclists (& apparently bicyclists too) assemble for a special mass to have their bikes blessed. Dick Dickenbock isn't allowed on a motorcycle anymore (he's going to be commuting to work on his recumbent bicycle) but he thinks the day is newsworthy, so we'll most probably enjoy musical reports about motorcycles as well as the regular reporting you are used to.

That's tomorrow, Sunday, from noon to 1pm, on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere - especially the open road. Just please, wear your helmet.

This Week In Self Help: April 24 26 + 28

Look, I have a lot of pictures of garages okay? Far more pictures than I have of "indiepop."

This week (it goes back to a Friday ago) I did this:

Friday April 24 on XRAY. I subbed a show & played songs about the radio & asked for money for XRAY's Spring Fund Drive. & we made the goal! Huzzah! If you wanna, listen to the show here.

Sunday April 26 on XRAY, there was an episode of The Dickenbock Report for National Garage Day. You can listen to that show here.

Tuesday April 28 on KBOO, I continued my Indiepop A To Z series - the eightieth episode! - in the letter. You can listen to that show here or you can listen to that show here.

Also Tuesday April 28 on KBOO, I had an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming in which I finished playing musicians who died in 2025 & started playing those who died this year. You can listen to that show here (after Self Help Radio) or you can listen to that show here.

& that's what I did on the radio the last week of April!

Self Help Radio 042826: Indiepop A To Z # 80

It's hard to believe that I have done eighty of these episodes. & even harder to believe I might do eighty more! I will obviously not live to see the end of this series. Which is an attempt (as the name suggests) to play lots of indiepop artists in alphabetical order. I explain on the show.

Yes, we're still in the letter S, traveling during this show from Slumber to Snippet. The biggest, most influential group this time around is The Smiths, & it was tough picking a representative song. At least one listener thought I did a decent job tho!

In any event. If you like indiepop &/or artists played in alphabetical order, this show is for you. You can listen now or whenever either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. It was just songs & a little me talking in-between so the list below is everything on the show.

The series returns in August. & then every three months until I die. & I am not joking.

Self Help Radio Indiepop A To Z # 80 Show

"Sleepy Avenue" Slumber _Sleep EP_

"Everyone Else I Know" Slumber Party _Psychedelicate_

"Day Dream On A Sunny Day" Slumbook _Day Dream On A Sunny Day_

"Knee Deep" Kelly Slusher _Rocks & Tears_

"Digging My Feet In The Ground" Smack Dab _Majestic Root_

"Pretending It's Sunny" Small Factory _I Do Not Love You_

"In A Room Full Of Flowers" Jason Smart _The King Of Penguins, The Queen Of Bees_

"Tarts & Vicars" The Smashing Times _Mrs Ladyships & The Cleanerhouse Boys_

"The Boy I Wish I Never Met" A Smile & A Ribbon _The Boy I Wish I Never Met_

"My City" Smiling Marianne _Smiling Marianne EP_

"The Surveyor" Smiling Strangers _Smiling Strangers_

"All I Got From Lovin' You Was A Broken Heart" The Smith Garrett Band _All I Got From Lovin' You Was A Broken Heart_

"Fast Net" Brix Smith _Valley Of The Dolls_

"The Heat" Graham Smith _Final Battle_

"Your Work?" Karl Smith _The Sky Is Beginning To Bruise_

"In Your Head" Kendra Smith _Five Ways Of Disappearing_

"The Real Miss Charlotte" Linda Smith _Why Popstars Can't Dance_

"Daisy Fields" Nell Smith _Anxious_

"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" The Smiths _The Queen Is Dead_

"Jefferson Lives!" Smitten Kitten _Jefferson Lives!_

"Half My Heart Beats" The Smittens _The Coolest Thing About Love_

"It's Over" Smudge _Hot Smoke & Sassafras_

"Southern Cross" The Snakes Of Shake _Southern Cross_

"The Things You Want" The Snapdragons _The Things You Want_

"Buddy" Snapper _Snapper_

"Coming True" Sneaky Feelings _Positively George Street_

"...And I'm Thinking" The Sneetches _Blow Out The Sun_

"Lovely Ugly People" Snippet _The T-Shirt EP_

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 80?

Tonight's Self Help Radio continues my Indiepop A To Z series, featuring lots of twee music, so, I thought, what is twee-er than a window full of elaborate cat figurines? Hence the photo above.

Let's see - we're still in the letter S. We'll start with Slumber & we'll end with - I don't know! What I do know is that we won't be finishing the letter S any time soon. It's the most popular letter in the English language! & not just because of plurals!

Alphabetize with me tonight from midnight to 2am on KBOO - 90.7fm in town, kboo dot fm everywhere.

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 80: Texting Another Radio Show

Blah blah I'm playing more indiepop in alphabetical order this week blah blah.

What I wanted to say is that I got a funny text from a listener of The Dickenbock Report today. The whole schtick of the show is that there's this very old, somewhat famous news anchor, Dick Dickenbock, who has a show based on his fame but who never shows up & I'm the host. People text me at XRAY & call me "Dick," as do my guests, although I'm obviously not him, as he is fictional & I am not (I hope). But it's super fun when people play along. I got this text today:

Can you pass on a message to Dick. Tell him that this month's snort and bubbles party is at Bob and Mildred's. Jack and Emma are on vacation. (Dick calls them the Jackhammers! He's such a card!)

It's also very flattering when people step into the dumb world I've created. It delights me.

For the record, I texted back:

I'll pass along the message, thank you. Dick Dickenbock will be very grateful - he thought he might not be welcome since last time he brought that llama - he was afraid it was too show-offish.

Or something like that.

Now all I need to do is find someone who can impersonate Dick Dickenbock when he finally appears on the show...

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Garage Day

April 26 is National Garage Day. Although we can't broadcast from the garage, which where Dick Dickenbock's wife makes him go when he wants to smoke his pipe, we can report on garages - why they're important, what they're used for, why I need a pinball machine in mine.

That's Sunday, from noon to 1pm, on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, online everywhere at xray dot fm. Wait. The garage door opener is out of batteries? How're we going to get the show out of there?

This Week In Self Help: April 17 19 + 21

(image from here)

Sadly my show about idols didn't have any songs about the god Ganesh, pictured above. There probably are plenty, I blame myself for not searching deep enough.

Oh yeah what did I do on the radio this week? I'll tell ya.

Friday 4/17 The Songcircle on KBOO. Lots of new stuff. Listen to that show here.

Sunday 4/19 The Dickenbock Report on XRAY. National Garlic Day. Listen to that show here.

Tuesday 4/21 Self Help Radio on KBOO. A show about idols. Listen to that show here. Or listen to that show here.

Tuesday 4/21 Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO. I play more new releases. Listen to that show here (after Self Help Radio). Or listen to that show here.

Still can't believe I confused icons & idols. A listener texted me a long explanation which was better than the one I shared on the air. Maybe I should be giving my radio show to them.

Self Help Radio 042126: Idols

Despite having a tendency to confuse the words idol & icon, I somehow managed to make my way through this week's episode of Self Help Radio, which was in fact about idols (not icons). I played so many songs about idols that I suppose now I am officially an idolater. Or was, for two hours. I don't know if my radio show can really make anything official.

Howsoever you feel about idols - whether your religion uses them or forbids them - or if like me you have no religion so can feel about idols the way you wish - you'll be pleased I think to enjoy many songs about many different kinds of idols - as well as a few about idolizing, which is maybe more innocuous & less religiously charged than the average idol.

You can listen this show either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. Most everything that happened on the show is listed below. Including a few times where I somehow say "icon" when I mean "idol." Sheesh!

Self Help Radio Idols Show

"Idol With The Golden Head" The Coasters _The Very Best Of The Coasters_

"My Singing Idol" Petite Teens _Teen Town U.S.A. Vol. 7_

"I Idolize You" Boss Hog _Boss Hog_

introduction & definitions (feat. the Definition-O-Tron 3000)

"Bone Idol (Original Single Version)" The Drones _Further Temptations_

"Idolization" Hagar The Womb _The Word Of The Womb_

"Kill Yr. Idols" Sonic Youth _Confusion Is Sex (Plus Kill Yr. Idols)_

"Teenage Idol" Vandals _Fear Of A Punk Planet_

"The Gods, Distressed, Revoke Idolatry..." Bongo Fury _Lord Mongrel Is Dying_

"Voodoo Idol" The Cramps _Psychedelic Jungle_

listeners Anna & Alex call in to complain

"Idols" Altered Images _Happy Birthday_

"I Got No Idols" The Juliana Hatfield Three _Become What You Are_

"Leather Idol" Tuscadero _The Pink Album_

"My Favorite Idol" Boy Wonder _Wonder Wear_

"American Idol" Wanda Sykes _Sick & Tired_

"New Idols" The Long Blondes _Singles_

interview with promoter Carl Reese

"Idoleyes" This Poison! _Magazine 1986-1988_

"Das Idol" Die Blizelbeeren _Frische Beeren EP_

"Favourite Fallen Idol" Adorable _Against Perfection_

"Something I Idolise" The Pristines _"Teen Fraud, Pop Whore" (Part-One)_

"Sonnet 105" Eli Wallach _The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets_

"Dress Like Your Idols" Boat _Dress Like Your Idols_

a discussion about the difference between an icon & an idol

"Wooden Idols" Jarboe _Thirteen Masks_

"Idol Worship! Idol Worship!" Love As Laughter _Laughter's Fifth_

"The Bones Of An Idol" The New Pornographers _Twin Cinema_

"The Idolness Of Gods" Echo & The Bunnymen _The Fountain_

"American Idol" Marc Maron _Final Engagement_

"Idol" Cleaners From Venus _The Late District_

conclusion & goodbye

"Barren Idol" Romantic States _Corduroy In Italy_

"My Idol" Stereo Total _Ah! Quel Cinéma!_

"Idols" Like A Motorcycle _Dead Broke_

"You're The One I Idolise" Wild Billy Childish & CTMF _Last Punk Standing... & Other Hits!_

"Irrational Idol Thinking" Psychic Markers _Psychic Markers_

"Ídolo (Feat. Angelica Garcia)" Adrian Quesada _Boleros Psicodélicos_

Whither Idols?

That picture above is something I found on a internets over ten years ago, so I can't tell you where it's from. Trying to find it using a search engine's reverse-lookup feature shows me it was a joke replicated many times - but I suspect I found the original image on Tumblr at some point.

& yes, the picture shows icons but the show tonight is about idols - from the religious ones to the ones we admire for being figures in popular culture. I just liked the picture about icons.

There is a very dumb roundabout way I came to the theme. I was driving somewhere in Portland - probably in my hood - when I passed a Dollar Tree. (It must've been in my hood as there is one nearby on Foster.) For the longest time when I would see the name of that discount store, I would try to come up with some joke that will allow me to use the punchline, "I, Dollar Tree" - which would sound like "idolatry." It might even be something I could work into a radio show - but I suppose the theme would have to be "idolatry."

The thing is, there weren't all that many songs about idolatry, but there were lots about idols. So I decided to do a show about idols. I never did figure out a way to use the "I, Dollar Tree" pun. & I probably won't. So I share it with you now.

Told you it was dumb.

Preface To Idols: A Felt Record

(image from Discogs)

This is a record of which I am fond, Felt's 1984 release The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories. Curiously, there's not a song on the record called "The Strange Idols Pattern" & idols are not referenced in any of the songs so nothing from the record will show up on this week's program. It is Felt's third record & contains three songs of theirs I would consider excellent examples of their excellence: "Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow," "Dismantled King Is Off The Throne," & "Crystal Ball."

Though I suspect a later deep-dive in the Creation label would have led me to discover Felt eventually, I was introduced to the band when I won one of their records on the radio. I was listening to KNON in Dallas in the summer of 1987 & I was the caller who won The Pictorial Jackson Review. The deejay asked me if I knew about the band, I said no, he said, "Oh you're gonna like them." & he was right!

One thing you'll never really see on this blog is music criticism from me because, one, I'm not a critic, & two, I don't think my opinions, such as they are, are valuable enough to anyone but me to have any desire to share them. As I have said before, I am lucky - I get to play the music I like on the radio. Critics use their own standards to try to persuade their audiences what is "good" or "bad" or "important." None of that makes any difference to me vis-a-vis your opinion. If you don't like something I like, that affects me not at all (although I guess it means you won't want to listen to my radio show). I'd much rather share things I like with you than explaining to you why I don't like things. & even when I don't like things, it doesn't bother me that someone else might like it. It's all subjective.

But if you asked me if I'd recommend this record, I'd say, sure! Though I'd tell you my favorite Felt record is Poem Of The River. There's a couple of (probably out-of-print) singles collections called Absolute Classic Masterpieces which give a thorough overview of the band. I don't rank my favorite bands but I can tell you Felt are one of my favorite bands.

& they're a band I thought of when I knew I was going to do a show about idols. A shame that they don't have a song I can play on the show.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Garlic Day

April 19 is National Garlic Day. The Dickenbock Report is already a pungent program, but this week it'll be pretty garlicky. Musical reports, a report on Portland's Garlic Days, & more.

It's happening during XRAY's Spring Fund Drive, so please support the station if you can! Visit this address to give to XRAY. Visit this address to support The Report (which of course all goes to XRAY).

& make sure to listen tomorrow, Sunday, from noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in town, & online everywhere at xray dot fm. & sorry about the breath.

This Week In Self Help: April 12 + 14

For whatever reason, I don't have a lot of pictures of palaces on my computer. I think I already said I've never visited a palace. So that's why. My computer found this picture - taken in Puerto Rico in 2013 - where you can see the word palace. That's about as good as it gets with pictures of palaces for me.

This week was another week when I just did my regular shows. Those were:

The Dickenbock Report Sunday April 12. National Licorice Day. Listen here.
Self Help Radio Tuesday April 14. A show about palaces. Listen here. Or listen here.

Corporate Standardized Programming Tuesday April 14. A show featuring artists we lost in late 2025. Listen here (after Self Help Radio). Or listen here.

That's all. You may go now.

Self Help Radio 041426: Palaces

It's usual practice isn't it for a palace to have a sign or marquee outside to let everyone know it's a palace, right? That's so cool.

Here's a show about palaces. I don't think I've ever been in a palace. But I talked to people who live in a palace. & a home improvement dude who makes "little palaces." & played lots of songs about palaces. That seems almost as good? Okay I know it isn't but let me have my illusions!

You can listen to the show at the Self Help Radio website & at the KBOO website. Lots of stuff happened on the show, most of which is noted below.

Hey! Now we can say with spent two hours in palaces together! Okay maybe not.

Self Help Radio Palaces Show

"Palaces" Bart Davenport _Palaces_

"Palace" The Gay _You Know The Rules_

"Palace" Electric Sunset _Electric Sunset_

introduction & definitions

"Palaces Of Gold" Leon Rosselson _Palaces Of Gold_

"Haunted Palace" Renee Maskin _Is It Real_

"Trouble In The Palace" Elizabeth Harper _Elizabeth Harper_

"Little Palaces" Elvis Costello _King Of America_

"Buckingham Palace" Ann Stephens _Hello Children Everywhere_

interview with Princess Petra & Prince Peter (Part I)

"Crackerbox Palace" George Harrison _Thirty Three & 1/3_

"Princess Of The Pearl Palace" Luke Sweeney _Rishi_

"The Haunted Palace" Basil Rathbone _The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection_

"Caesar's Palace" The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band _Hot Heat & Sweet Groove_

"Palace Of The King" Freddie King _Getting Ready..._

interview with Princess Petra & Prince Peter (Part II)

"The Palace Roses" Todd Andrews _The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood & Brush?_

"The Wicked Palace Revolution" McCarthy _I Am A Wallet_

"Dream Palace" Galore _Dirt_

"Moon Palace" Ladytron _Gravity The Seducer_

"Great Palaces Of Immortal Splendour" Single Gun Theory _Millions, Like Stars In My Hands, Daggers In My Heart, Wage War_

interview with home improvement television show host Bert Laird

"Palace Of The Brine" Pixies _Trompe Le Monde_

"Ghost Palace" The Burning Hell _Ghost Palace_

"Echo Palace" Iguana Death Cult _Echo Palace_

"Palace Doctor" Thee Oh Sees _Mutilator Defeated At Last_

"The Palace Of Versailles" Al Stewart _Time Passages_

conclusion & goodbye

"Palace Of Mirrors" Crushed Stars _Displaced Sleepers_

"No Peace In The Palace" Grant McLennan _Horsebreaker Star_

Whither Palaces?

That's the sign outside what used to be the Palace Barber Shop in Grand Prairie, Texas. I took that picture when I was in the metroplex in March, 2023, but according to Yelp, it was already closed by then - I must've looked in to see, mustn't I have? I sure did like the sign, though.

Yes, the theme this week is palaces. I'm not normally inclined to think of such things - I suppose I'd go on a tour through a palace if the opportunity arose, but I'd rather go to an art museum. Still, one late night in the dark of winter, getting ready to go to bed but looking up some information about a book I was reading, I stumbled upon a short documentary about the palace at Versailles. & I said to myself, Self - should we do a show about palaces? & usually that's all it takes.

You might ask me about the book I was reading & surprisingly it wasn't about anything French or royal or even historical. I do my best to frustrate the algorithm every chance I get.

Join me in the mind palace that is my radio show tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in town & online at kboo dot fm. It's very big & spooky & lonesome in a mind palace at night. I'll need the company.

Preface To Palaces: The Donut Palace Mystery

That is a picture I took somewhere in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex millions of years ago. Okay, it was August of 2017, probably in Fort Worth, but it appears I took the picture on my way back from Dallas, so who knows.

Here's the thing: I know for a fact there's a Donut Palace here in Portland, Oregon. So I thought to myself, "How many businesses called Donut Palace can there be?" Donut places mostly seem self-owned - little business run by families. Can the interwebs help me?

This website informs me: "There are 289 Donut Palace locations in United States as of March, 2026. The highest number of Donut Palace locations of United States are in Texas & Oklahoma with 168 businesses & 25 businesses, respectively. Texas makes up approximately 58.1% of all Donut Palace locations in the United States."

This website - which is for the Donut Palace & Equipment Co. tells me: "Donut Palace & Equipment Company, Inc., a Texas C Corporation*, is owned & operated by Mr. Alton Blair, it’s [sic] president. Mr. Blair has been in the business of constructing, operating, & equipping, sub-leasing, & supplying bakery ingredients (i.e. sugar, shortening, flour, etc.) to donut stores for more than 40 years. Beginning in 1967 & continuing to 1979, Mr. Blair started 140 independent donut stores. He initiated the Donut Palace name brand in 1979. Since then Mr. Blair has started over 450 Donut Palace stores scattered throughout communities located in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma & many other places."

There's a bunch of photos of Donut Palaces here - they seem to have a regular sign, which does not resemble the one above - & that sign is not on display as one of the businesses in the photos.

As far as I can tell, Donut Palace isn't quite a franchise - but perhaps to use the name you need to have a relationship with the Texas company. I can't quite figure out how that would work tho.

Here is a picture of the one in Oregon:

Again, no clue if it's related to the Texas company or not. I'm not that good of a detective. I can tell you that they have vegan donuts on Saturdays, & the wife would go get them during the pandemic. It's about a forty-five minute drive round trip, so she eventually decided it wasn't entirely worth it. But they were good!

Any insight into this Donut Palace mystery? I could use your better understanding of the economics of franchising!

* Defined by this website, "A C-corporation (C-corp) is a legal business entity that provides its owners – commonly known as shareholders – with limited liability protection. This entity type is separately from its owners. A corporation itself is taxed on its profits, & shareholders are taxed again when they receive dividends – not as a general matter of course on their personal tax returns, as is the case with most partnerships & LLCs."

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Licorice Day

(image found here)

April 12 is National Licorice Day. We the Dickenbock Report are always hungry & we're glad to report on food, unless all they have at the studio is black licorice. Then maybe we'll regret it.

Hey! This show is happening during XRAY's Spring Fund Drive. If you appreciate musical reports about topical new in general, or licorice in particular, or just wanna support XRAY, please donate now! We promise, Dick Dickenbock no longer calls you to thank you.

Tune in tomorrow, Sunday, April 12, from noon to 1pm for a Dickenbock Report report about National Licorice Day on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere.

This Week In Self Help (Apr 5 + 7)

It's not easy to find pictures of "bad boys & bad girls" for a radio show with that theme but here's a picture of two former bad boys (or girls, who can say) enjoying the front yard on a pretty Portland day despite, you know, being dead & all. Meanwhile here's what I was doing on the radio this week:

The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM:

April 5 was National Dandelion Day. I played songs about dandelions. Listen to the show at XRAY FM.

Self Help Radio on KBOO:
April 7 the theme was (as I said) "bad boys & bad girls." Listen to the show at KBOO FM. Or listen to the show here.

Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO:

April 7 I played a buncha new releases. Listen to the show at KBOO FM (after Self Help Radio). Or listen to the show here.

& that's all I have for the bad girls & boys.

Self Help Radio 050726: Bad Boys & Bad Girls

It is a testament to what a good boy I am that I only know two bad boys & one bad girl - & they are in the picture above - from the left, bad boy Stuart, bad girl Pauline, & bad boy Pete. Fascinatingly, they are also the best boys & girls I know - Pauline is a very good girl & Pete & Stuart are very good boys. I guess it's because they are beagles that there's that difficult dichotomy.

As you can see on the playlist below, the show is evenly divided between bad boys & bad girls. & sometimes a girl is singing about a bad boy or boys & a boy is singing about a bad girl or girls. This radio program attempts to present as many possible viewpoints as it can.

You can listen to the show now at the Self Help Radio website. Or if you want at the KBOO website. The playlist below shows all that happened on the show.

At this point, I might admonish you to be good but I know you won't be.

Self Help Radio Bad Boys & Bad Girls show

"Bad Boy" Barefoot Bill _Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order 1927-1930_

"I'm A Bad, Bad Girl" Little Esther Phillips _The Chronological Little Esther: 1951-1952_

"Bad Boy" Falcon Jane _Legacy_

introduction & definitions

"Bad Girl" The Miracles _The Chess Story 1957-1964_

"Bad Boy" Larry Williams _The Specialty Story_

"Bad Girl" She _She Wants A Piece Of You_

"Bad Boys Get Spanked" The Pretenders _The Pretenders II_

"Bad Girl" New York Dolls _New York Dolls_

interview with Bad Boys Of Portland member Zach

"Good Girl, Bad Boy" Junior Senior _D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat_

"Bad Girls" Donna Summer _The Disco Years (Boogie Fever) Volume Three_

"Even The Good Boys Are Bad" Locate S, 1 _Personalia_

"Bad Bad Girls" Pushtwangers _Pushtwangers_

"Bad Bad Boy" David Candy _Play Power_

interview with former bad boy Rufus

"Bad Girls" Tennis _Ritual In Repeat_ 

"Bad Boys" Hunx & His Punx _Walk Out On This World_

"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" Jonathan Richman _Jonathan Goes Country_

"Bad Boy" John Prine _German Afternoons_

"Bad Girl" Cherry Vanilla _Bad Girl_

interview with bad boy & bad girl researcher Cliff Rupp

"Sensitive Bad Boys" The Dead Sailor Girls _Rolling Sea_

"Bad Girl" The Zakary Thaks _Face To Face_

"Bad Boy" The Adicts _The Complete Adicts Singles Collection_

"Bad Girl" Kitbuilders _This Is Not The 80s - A Nu-Wave Electro Compilation_

"Bad Boy" Hand Habits _Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void)_

conclusion & goodbye

"This Bad Girl" The Golden Cups _Complete Best Blues Of Life_

"Bad Boy" King Khan & The Shrines _Idle No More_

"Bad Girl" Sun June _Somewhere_

"Bad Boys" Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside _Untamed Beast_

Whither Bad Boys & Bad Girls?

(Image from Wikipedia)

Just so you know - I've been writing in this dumb blog about my radio show(s) since 2006. Almost 20 years. It was on September 13, 2006, I explained why I was making a radio show about the theme sugar. (You can read it here if you want.) I really thought that I would know why I picked every theme & even supposed - quite naively - that there might be an interesting story about it, too. If you have spent any time on this blog, you will know that that supposition was wrong, wrong, wrong.

My memory is not what it is, if it ever was. I will forget things that happened this morning as a matter of course. & I have made a radio show a week, usually based on a unique theme, for nearly 24 years now. How in the world am I supposed to remember why I did something, chose something, planned something?

Now you might be thinking - oh this is where Gary turns the tables on us & says "But not this time!" Because he's always making excuses about how he doesn't know where his ideas come from. But alas! That's giving me too much credit.

About three months ago, I wrote down "bad boys" on a list. Then added "bad girls." Then wrote "boys singing about bad girls/girls singing about bad boys?" It appears it was some kind of exercise. Why? Who knows. Maybe I heard a song. Maybe I thought about the show "Cops."

All that I can say is that the theme of Self Help Radio tonight on KBOO is "bad boys & bad girls." Howsoever it found its way into my head & soon out into the Portland airwaves. You can listen to it from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm here in Portland or online at kboo dot fm.

Be a good boy &/or good girl & tune in, would you please?

Preface To Bad Boys & Bad Girls: Of Course I Wasn't A Bad Boy

There's a very good reason I was never a bad boy tho I could have turned out worse. I shoplifted. I wasn't always truthful. I recently confessed on this blog to having a short-lived infatuation with setting things on fire. & I was never really watched as a kid. I knew some boys who almost certainly had run-ins with the law & possibly even ended up with criminal records. I certainly knew people my age who were doing drugs & drinking & who may well have developed lifelong problems with that. I grew up very poor, mostly unsupervised, with lots of time on my hands & much of it alone. Why didn't I fall in with a bad crowd? Why didn't I take the step into the world of the "bad boy"?

One word: fear.

Now I can't tell you if I am naturally fearful. What I can tell you is that my mother almost certainly was. She was terrified of the world. Like she lived in the Australian outback where everything is poisonous. & she imparted that fear onto me & my siblings. Two of my older brothers were far more interested in drugs than I was, & I have heard some interesting stories of drug use & big parties that I would never have taken part in - but for some reason, they never ended up in jail, never had a criminal record. I think it was my mother's fear transferred to them.

Listen: I grew up with kids that happily left the apartment complexes we lived in & wandered far & wide, getting into all sort of mischief. Why didn't I do that - or my little brother, who was often my companion in my childhood? Because our mother told us there were dangers out there - you know, across the street. A block over. Where terrible shit happens.

She wouldn't let us go into public restrooms alone until we were probably ten or eleven years old. We had to go with her in the women's restroom which was embarrassing. Why? Because, she said, there was a man in the men's restroom with a knife who would cut your thing off. & I would think - why are they letting that guy do that? It seemed even to a seven-year-old to be bad for business.

How she imparted that fear seems to me to be through repetition. My mother would talk all the time. & as a little boy, sitting with her, I must've heard the same horror stories told in different variations over & over all through my childhood. To this day I hear her voice in situations where I might be alone or I might be experiencing something stressful & unfamiliar. I have to talk her down or I won't do the thing that I really, really want to do.

A few years ago, during the pandemic, my wife was jazzercising in the garage, & the song she was playing repeated the phrase "shake what your momma gave you" or something like that. & all I could think was, "I wish I could shake the crippling fear of the world my momma gave me."

& that's why I was never a bad boy.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Dandelion Day

April 5 is National Dandelion Day. Dick Dickenbock loves dandelions, & secretly believes in their wish-granting powers. Too many of the Report's staff & crew have discovered him in a field of flowers wishing to be back on network news shows. One wish he made - "If I can't be back on CBS News then CBS News shouldn't be allowed to exist!" - seems to be coming true. Dandelion wishes may be granted over a longer period of time than previous thought. In any event, Dick Dickenbock loves dandelions, so that's what we're reporting on tomorrow.

Yes, tomorrow! Sunday April 5. From noon to 1pm. On XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm in town, xray dot fm everywhere. Dick Dickenbock has a dandelion & he is now wishing you would tune in. So maybe you better?

This Week In Self Help: March 29 + 31 (plus a bonus show)

Sorry I don't have a better picture for this week's recap of my radio blunders. It's a doorway with an ornate - would you call it a gate? it's not a screen - that I liked that I saw in San Francisco back in October. It has nothing to do with the radio I made this week, which went like this:

Sunday March 29. The Dickenbock Report on XRAY. It was Mermaid Day. You can listen to the show on the XRAY website. Listeners sent me images of mermaids!

Tuesday March 31. Self Help Radio on KBOO. A continuation of the celebration of The Rev Dr Howard Gently. You can listen to the show on the KBOO website. Or you can listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Tuesday March 31. Corporate Standardized Progamming on KBOO. Music by artists we lost in November 2025. You can listen to the show on the KBOO website (after Self Help Radio). Or you can listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Finally, I made an "evergreen" for Freeform Portland (to be played randomly whenever there was nothing scheduled) called The Freeform Alphabet. You can see the playlist when it played Friday morning on Spinitron. You can listen to it there for the next couple of week or you can listen to it here. I'll put the playlist up on the Self Help Radio website next week.

That's it. Whew.

Self Help Radio 033126: Howard Gently Forever

Very nice to spend another two hours with an old friend. I'm not so old that I've lost too many people but I do sometimes wish I had hours of recorded conversations with them to revisit. Memory is too faulty.

The good news is that this isn't the last of the series! So please enjoy my friend Russell being funny as my spiritual mentor The Rev Dr Howard Gently. Most of these I haven't listened to since the show aired - I laughed out loud so many times hearing them again.

You can listen to Howard Gently Forever either at the KBOO web page or at the Self Help Radio web page. The show is mostly improvised silliness. But the details are below.

As someone texted me during the show: Long live Dr Howard Gently!

Self Help Radio Howard Gently Forever

"Sad Brown Eyes" Russell Miles _Sad Brown Eyes_

Howard Gently on the theme "Christmas 2018"

"50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" Paul Simon _Still Crazy After All These Years_

Howard Gently on the theme "Fifty"

"In Doubt" Peter Gabriel _Passion (Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ)_

"Sense Of Doubt" David Bowie _Heroes_

Howard Gently on the theme "Doubt"

"Voices Inside My Head" The Police _Zenyatta Mondatta_

Howard Gently on the theme "Voices"

"She Floated Away" Hüsker Dü _Warehouse: Songs & Stories_

Howard Gently on the theme "Floating"

"I'll Begin Again" Sammy Davis Jr. _Now_

Howard Gently on the theme "Start Anew"

"Wishing The Days Away" Billy Bragg _Talking With The Taxman About Poetry_

Howard Gently on the theme "Wishes"

"The Thunder, Perfect Mind" Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer, & Nancy Lesniewksi _The Gnostic Bible_

Howard Gently on the theme "Thunder"

"I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map" Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers Quartet _The Grand Old Gospel_

Howard Gently on the theme "Maps"

"Personal Jesus" Johnny Cash _American IV: The Man Comes Around_

Howard Gently on the theme "Personal"

"Can't Keep It In" Cat Stevens _Catch Bull At Four_

Howard Gently on the theme "Keep It"

"An Empty Cup" Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings _Orbison 1955-1965_

Howard Gently on the theme "Cups"

Whither Howard Gently Forever?

That picture there is from a retirement community in east Portland which has nothing to do with this show but the show this week is about my friend Russell & almost certainly I took that picture to send to him. It was in May 2020. I don't recall if I ever did. I hope I did. I hope he was amused & sent a very funny response.

This week's show continues my celebration of Russell as The Rev Dr Howard Gently, a character he played on my show from 2014 until 2022. Russell died three years ago & I miss him terribly. I am so frickin grateful I have hours of him improvising hilarious & ridiculous bits for the show, & have been sharing them in chronological order. We have come to the pandemic era, when Self Help Radio started to air in Portland.

It's two hours of Dr Gently tonight midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland, kboo dot fm everywhere. Prepare to be blessed.

Preface To Howard Gently Forever: Fear Of A Second End

That picture was taken on a trip to Chicago in May 2018. My friend Russell was alive & well then & I probably meant to share it with him. I have no idea if I did.

My friend Russell died almost three years ago. Since his death I have been playing in chronological order his appearances as Howard Gently on Self Help Radio. He improvised the role of my spiritual mentor. Lucky for me, he did it over a hundred times. Unlucky for me, eventually I will arrive at his last appearance on the show.

Probably I don't need to tell you I am dreading that. I thought we were coming close. Russell did not appear as Howard Gently on many episodes of Self Help Radio in 2018. Since I do my dumb radio show weekly, I don't really remember lots of the details of the shows I've done. But I have glanced ahead - & luckily this week's show won't be the last Howard Gently show. I am relieved by that.

Because as grateful as I am that he left us - he left me - with so many hours of his brilliance, when I come to the end of that, it may feel like I am losing him all over again. & I don't want to feel that way.

But like I said! That won't be this week! But having his voice in my head makes me miss him so much. Such a smart, funny person. You really don't get so many of those personally in your life, do you.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Mermaid Day

(image found here)

March 29 is Mermaid Day. Dick Dickenbock thinks mermaids are real. He claims to have dated one in college. But he's probably thinking about the mermaid Superman dated in college. Anyway, he's excited there's a Mermaid Day. He hopes she might be listening. He's been pining for her.

We hope you'll listen to. Tomorrow, Sunday, from noon to 1pm, on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere.

Everywhere? Even under the sea? Dick Dickenbock sure hopes so!

This Week In Self Help: March 20 22 + 24

This is what the past seven days (not counting today) looked like if you looked at me on the radio:

March 20 on The Songcircle on KBOO, I celebrated Women's History Month with lots of women making history - all new releases by women artists! You can listen to the show on the KBOO website.

March 22 on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY, I reported on Daffodil Day. You can listen to the show on the XRAY website.

March 24 on Self Help Radio on KBOO, I explored the theme embers. You can listen to the show on the KBOO website. Or you can listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

March 24 on Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO, I played a lot of new releases. You can listen to the show on the KBOO website (after Self Help Radio). Or you can listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

The picture above is a sunset I took in Kentucky in 2014. But it kinda looks like embers, doesn't it? If you squint, maybe? Maybe?

Self Help Radio 032426: Embers

Because I was "on vacation" last week - I followed my wife to a conference & bummed around while she did work - I knew I'd have no guests for this week's show. So there are no guests on this week's Self Help Radio. In this way, the show resembles Self Help Radio as it existed pre-2014: just me talking about the theme in-between the songs.

Of course then as now the songs are the important part of the show. So listen for the songs, but stay if you must to hear whether the theme is in the bible or to hear me read a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem.

Where can you listen? At the KBOO website, & at the Self Help Radio website. What happens on the show is listed below.

Hopefully I can relight the program next week!

Self Help Radio Embers Show

"Burning Embers" Lou Reed _The Raven_

"Ember" Alastair Galbraith _Mirrorwork_

"Embers" Skinny Lister _A Matter Of Life & Love_

introduction & definitions

"Dying Embers" The Dream Syndicate _Out Of The Grey_

"City Of Embers" Mercyland _Mercyland_

"Burning Embers" The Manhattan Love Suicides _More Heat! More Panic!_

"Embers" The Orielles _Only You Left_

"Ashes & Embers" The Casket Girls _True Love Kills The Fairy Tale_

more about embers

"Embers Glow" Jane Fielding with The Kenny Drew Quintet _Embers Glow_

"Dying Ember" Sarah Jarosz _Polaroid Lovers_

"Embers" Lily & Madeleine _Nite Swim_

"Ember Age" Sound Of Ceres _Nostalgia For Infinity_

"Garden Of Embers" Karavan Sarai _Torn In Love_

is the theme in the bible?

"Staring At The Embers" Tim Finn _Escapade_

"Ember Days" The Proctors _Everlasting Light_

"Embers" The Orange Peels _Begin The Begone_

"Embers" Tunng _Turbines_

"Ember" Lubec _PDX Pop Now! 2017_

poetry!

"Ember In The Ash" Blank Range _Marooned With The Treasure_

"The Embers" Vagabon _Infinite Worlds_

"Blue Embers" The Head & The Heart _Aperture_

"Ember Days" The Lemon Twigs _A Dream Is All We Know_

"Head Embers" Thundertree _Thundertree_

conclusion & goodbye

"Ember" Dirty Three _Cinder_

"English Embers" Contrastate _Recorded Evidence II_

"The Re-Entry Of Embers" Venusian Motel Guests _All Was Carbon_

Whither Embers?

(image found here)

Fire is kinda weird, isn't it? I remember just staring at it as a kid, thinking, this shit is weird. & it was unsafe - it burned you! But it was everywhere! People would use it to light their cigarettes. We didn't have a gas stove but if you turned the elements on on the electric stove & just touched a piece of paper to one of them, wow! the paper would catch fire.

& yes, I too had a fling with fire when I was a kid. I would steal matches & take things to burn & hide behind the bushes of a nearby church & set them on fire. There was space between the bushes & the brick walls of the church. It was very private. I can't remember all I burned but I did ruin a couple of my Star Wars action figures. I never wanted the fire to get too big - I liked the feeling of control - so I never wanted to expand my actions to larger venues. Like most other things, I wasn't very good at pyromania. & it passed soon enough - though I never got caught, I thought my mother would be very mad at me if I was caught burning things near a church.

This happened sometime around my ninth, tenth, or eleventh year. It's a testimony to how often I was left alone - & what I might have been able to get up to if I'd had a more destructive imagination. As it stood, some flammable things went missing, along with a lighter & some matches, & no one knew I had done it. Not even my little brother, who was often hanging around in my childhood. Again, it never developed into an obsession & once I was satisfied I had reached the limits of what I could set on fire in my little world, I never spent much time burning things after that. I think I knew if I invited other people shit could get out of control!

This story of my dull childhood must suffice for today's post because I have no idea why I chose the theme "embers" for this week's show. I knew I'd be doing a show after a week of vacation & I knew I wouldn't have time for interviews, so maybe I thought I couldn't find "experts" to talk about embers. I couldn't say. What I could say is that I had a brief fling with a moderate pyromania at a young age & I must have felt some mild satisfaction as the fires burned down to their embers.

Hey! Self Help Radio has the theme "embers"! Tonight on KBOO! 90.7fm in town kboo dot fm everywhere! Be careful! It's still hot!

Preface To Embers: My Computer Tells Me

That photo was taken in March, 2019, on our visit to Portland to look for somewhere to live once we knew my wife had gotten the job here. Tonight - almost exactly seven years later - I was looking for images of "embers" to share & maybe write something dumb about them - since they're this week's theme - & my computer gave me this picture when I searched the term.

Which confused me. Does the weird hood of that weird car look like embers? Is there some fire damage or something in the photo? What the hell does that picture have to do with embers? Then I noticed:

The old car's owners supported Oregon Public Broadcasting. I guess the computer confused "member" for "ember."

Oh damn it just occurred to me, I had so much fun trying to figure out why the computer thought the image had anything to do with embers that I forgot you might have enjoyed it, too. A kind of Where's Waldo? sort of thing. But I ruined it. Dang.

It has become impressive tho hasn't it that our computers find words in our images? I am almost as impressed as I am frightened!

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Daffodil Day

Sunday, March 22 is Daffodil Day. Yes, we at the Dickenbock Report know that it's using the flower as a symbol to raise funds & awareness for cancer treatment & research, but Portland has daffodils wherever one looks at the moment & Dick Dickenbock wants us to play musical reports about daffodils & talk about daffodils & by god it's his show so it will be a show about daffodils (though we will of course talk about the day).

Tomorrow. From noon to 1pm. On XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm in town, xray dot fm everywhere.

This Week In Self Help: March 15 + 17

Get it? It's a jar of jelly with a can of fish! Jellyfish! What a hilarious person I am.

This week's shows were somewhat rushed because I left for a short vacation on Tuesday. Now I'm back. Here's what happened before I left.

Sunday March 15 The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. True Confessions Day. I say it is true that you can listen to the show on the XRAY website.

Tuesday March 17 Self Help Radio on KBOO was about jellyfish. Listen on the KBOO website or on the Self Help Radio website.

Tuesday March 17 Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO I played more artists we lost last year, this time in October & December. Listen on the KBOO website (after Self Help Radio) or on the Self Help Radio website. (The last song cuts off on the KBOO website; I include all of it on the Self Help Radio website.) (Just FYI.)

That was that. Sorry you didn't appreciate my photo rebus!

Self Help Radio 031726: Jellyfish

(original image by Marek Ślusarczyk found here*)

Hey! Here's the jellyfish show! I am taking some time off so I have nothing to add except I had too much fun finding all the songs & talking to my goofball collaborators about jellyfish nonsense.

Listen to the show either at the Self Help Radio web page or at the KBOO web page. The stuff that happened on the show is below.

Holy moley did you know some people keep jellyfish as pets? That's more weird to me than eating them! Which some people totally do. Because people are screwed up!

Self Help Radio Jellyfish Show

"Jellyfish" Catbath _Nervous Breakthroughs_

"The Jellyfish Song" Neil Sedaka _Oh Carol: The Complete Recordings 1956-1966_

"Jellyfish Jones" Caspar Babypants _Away We Go!_

introduction & definitions

"Jellyfish" Carrie Higgins _Life Circles_

"Jellyfish" Punishment Of Luxury _Laughing Academy_

"Jellyfish" Red Go-Cart _Jellyfish_

"Jellyfish" Andrea Gibson _Flower Boy_

"Jellyfish Population" Soup Review _Beneath The Big White Moon_

interview with chef Thomas Mare

"The Jellyfish" The Sippy Cups _Electric Storyland_

"Jellyfish" Vashti Bunyan _Heartleap_

"The Jellyfish" Trauma Cat _Prepare To Apologize_

"Jellyfish Genes" Sprites _Starling, Spiders, Tiger, & Sprites_

"Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)" Gorillaz _Plastic Beach_

interview with audio ecologist Pierre O'Connor

"Monster Jellyfish" Shonen Knife _Free Time_

"Attack Of The Giant Jellyfish" Del Mar _After The Quake_

"Parachutes & Jellyfish" Robyn Hitchcock _I Wanna Go Backwards_

"A Smack Of Jellyfish" Christine Lavin _Drum School Dropout_

"Jellyfish" Om Shanti _We Are Home_

interview with sociologist Dr. Sidney Kennedy

"Jellyfish" JJ Burnell _Euroman Cometh_

"3 Blind Jellyfish" Scaffold _Thank U Very Much_ 

"Jellyfish Plays Jenga" Bunny Clogs _Whales Can't Whistle_

"Jellyfish" Paws _Cokefloat!_

"Southern Jellyfish" One Man 100% Bluez _Southern Jellyfish_

conclusion & goodbye

"Little Jellyfish" Chuck & Danny _Chuck & Danny_

"Peanut Butter & Jellyfish" James Kochalka Superstar _Monkey Vs. Robot_

"Jellyfish" Julian Smith _Jellyfish_

"Jellyfish (feat. Dither Craf)" Mushroom's Patience _Jellyfish_

"Jellyfish" Stereociti _Dialog_

* The image was modified by me to add the Self Help Radio logo. It's licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.