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Saturday, July 03, 2010

Tags & Tricks, Episode One

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The first episode of my all-new jazz show (the show is all new; the jazz I played isn't) is now available for your listening pleasure (i...
Friday, July 02, 2010

What Is "Tags & Tricks"?

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My desire to express as many elements as possible of my music collection can be wearying. It was hard enough, oh those many years ago, to c...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

Pretend Moral

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A cautionary tale of two men who couldn't play guitar, written by little Dickie Dickenbock. One man who couldn't play guitar was Dav...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The Day Of The Remains

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I've already mentioned that this week's episode of Self Help Radio is available for listening at selfhelpradio.net , didn't I? ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Whither Tunnels?

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I feel like I've been in a tunnel for a couple of days & have only now emerged. My apologies for not being as disciplined with this...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Preface To Tunnels: The Many Tunnels I've Been In

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I guess I've been in a lot of tunnels. The longest tunnel - & possibly the scariest - was the tunnel under the English Channel. Th...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Hurrah! Dickenbock Electronics!

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Yes, hooray! The first Saturday episode of Dickenbock Electronics went off without any complaints by the Robot Board Of Trustees. I don...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Dream-Ending Dreams

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I just woke up from a nap, & what woke me up was what I call a "dream-ending dream." These dreams are both impossibly familia...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hey Choosers!

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See, I know you're not beggars. Since beggars can't be choosers. Ergo, through the transitive property of fol de rol, with only a ...
Monday, June 21, 2010

"Mendicancy"

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Three more things to say about begging: 1) I have a story about something sort of like begging I did when I was in middle school, but it is ...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Whither Begging?

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Oh, you know, there's a wikipedia article about begging , which contains the hilarious line: "Beggars rarely recorded their techniq...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Preface To Begging: What Shall I Put On My Sign Today?

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A while back, the wife & I were driving through rural Ohio & we noticed some mildly creative - mostly groanworthy - church marquee s...
Friday, June 18, 2010

What's Coming Next

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I am saying my goodbyes to WMUL this week, & have done my last show there, but of course Self Help Radio will continue as it has, with o...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Told you!

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I told you I could do an entire show with songs entitled "Tell Me"! Didn't I tell you? Don't tell me I didn't! I re...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

I Shouldn't Twitter

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No. No, I shouldn't. No matter what Roger Ebert says. What I am going to do is do Self Help Radio tonight (the theme is "tell me...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Whither Tell Me?

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I'm very excited by this show. I believe that, for the very first time ever (for me), every song I play on Self Help Radio will have th...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Preface To Tell Me: You Don't Have To Tell Me After All

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I never really did understand iambic pentameter. I think people believe that playwrights in the olden days that used iambic pentameter didn...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

A Punishment Of Lindas

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Surely, thought Carl with alarm, they don't expect me to memorize all this! There had to be at least five pages of rules & regulati...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

The High Cost Of Afternoon Napping

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I'm up now! Why do you have to be so loud? YES I did my radio shows last night. Self Help Radio at 9pm, Dickenbock Electronics at 10:3...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Fifteen Days Later

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Self Help Radio returns! A new night! A new time! Same old radio show, though. Starting tonight at 9pm on WMUL (that's 88.1 on your ...