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.

Whither Jellyfish?

(found on this Tumblr blog, artist unknown)

Before I decided to do a show about jellyfish I didn't really know anything about jellyfish. One thing I do know about jellyfish is, many decades ago, splashing around in the Gulf Of Mexico off the coast of Galveston, Texas, I suddenly felt this intense pain on my thigh & hurried out of the water. My leg looked to me like it had been a knife fight. A friend told me, "You've been stung by a jellyfish."

To this day I haven't gone swimming in the ocean. Fool me once!

Why am I years later doing a show about jellyfish? I haven't the slightest idea. Although now I appreciate them more than I did before. They can have the ocean. I don't need to be stung no more.

You can be stung by my jellyfish show tonight on KBOO - 90.7fm in Portland, kboo dot fm everywhere - from midnight to 2am. Insert crude joke about peeing on my show to make it stop hurting here.

Preface To Jellyfish: Twitter Days

(found a long time ago on Twitter)

Almost immediately after the 2024 election, I left Twitter & never went back. I was never very good at Twitter - I didn't really try to post "funny" things, just usually "live tweeted" my radio shows - but what I liked was that so many musical artists I played were on Twitter & I could tell them I was playing their music on the radio. I am guessing many of them are still there? I don't know. I know the vast majority of them never found their way to Bluesky, where I went after I left Twitter - & where I am in no way as engaged as I was on Twitter (which was, to be fair, not all that engaged beyond the "live tweeting" of shows).

As someone who was never "tagged" on Twitter very much, I didn't know that it would send you alerts when you were tagged - so when I "live tweeted" my first KBOO show, the social media person at KBOO complained to Twitter & my account was severely curtailed somehow. I never got the entire details - Twitter didn't tell me, no one at KBOO said anything, it's just that some people told me my Tweets were not going through - so I wrote to whomever to tell them I was real & not spamming - but stopped tagging the radio stations in my "live tweets." Things returned to a semblance of normal.

Though it added a layer of complication to my shows - having to tweet as well as fill out my playlists - I do miss doing that. I'd do it more on Bluesky if the artists were on Bluesky, maybe. Or maybe not. But looking for jellyfish graphics tonight had me discover this old tweet I had saved. & made me think about a time not-so-long ago when I did things I don't do anymore. Which I suspect is many things now & many more things to come the older I get.