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Friday, January 30, 2026

This Week In Self Help January 23 25 + 27

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Really, I was hanging upside down off one of the buildings in downtown Portland when I took that picture. It's totally not a picture I t...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Self Help Radio 012726: Upside

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The downside of this upside show is that there are three upside down songs to each upside song. That affects you not at all but I was hoping...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Whither Upside?

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That is a picture of my grey tabby cat Bluto upside down. He was all of maybe five months old in that picture. But to this day he still enjo...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Preface To Upside: Upside Down Nation

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That picture was taken in Fort Worth, Texas, a lifetime ago. Or maybe just eight years. It seems too long ago. Every day we walked with the ...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Nellie Bly Around The World

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(image from Wikipedia ) On January 25, 1890 - almost 136 years go - journalist Nellie Bly complete her journey around the world - in just ov...
Friday, January 23, 2026

This Week In Self Help: January 16 18 + 20

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(image found here ) Yeah that Time Magazine cover is weird isn't it. I lived through George HW Bush's presidency & could not car...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Self Help Radio 012026: 1990

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(images found at Discogs ) The time in that book when Proust ate a cookie & it made him remember his life? If that book were about me, i...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Whither 1990?

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a self-portrait from 1990 On my birthdays I play my favorite music from a year in my life. On the first episode of Self Help Radio that aire...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Preface To 1990: My Twenty-Second Year

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what I looked like in 1990 On January 20, 1990, I turned 22 years old. I should have been right about to graduate college*, but because of v...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: X-Rays

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(x-ray of a radio found here ) On January 18, 1896, a professor in North Carolina, HL Smith, displayed the x-ray machine for the first time....
Friday, January 16, 2026

This Week In Self Help January 11 + 13

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Though lemonade is technically a juice, I didn't play songs about lemonade on my juice show. So I couldn't use this awesome pic I to...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Self Help Radio 011326: Juice

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(image manipulated see note*) Yikes the juice show was fraught with error! The internet seemed to go out at some point during the show &...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Whither Juice?

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(image from here ) To explain why the theme of this week's show is fruit, I need to tell you a bit about how awkward I can be when it co...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Preface To Juice: A Photo I Took

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Taken in my neighborhood sometime last year. Nothing to do with juice. Just seemed appropriate for the right now.
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Step In A Puddle & Splash Your Friends Day

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January 11 is Step In A Puddle & Splash Your Friends Day. That's what we're reporting on on The Dickenbock Report. Though the we...