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Saturday, March 19, 2011

A Little Memphis At Night

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The title is horribly misleading. I am in Memphis, but I am very tired, having driven from Dallas today (the wife did not drive, unless you...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Hi Hiatus!

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A hiatus is defined as "a gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break." Normally the phrase is used (at least in m...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

A Bagful Of Radio

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Self Help Radio had this week many bags on it. So many, in fact, that people felt compelled to come by & either put things in them or l...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The Show Is In The Bag

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That's a strange expression. Do you know where it comes from? Here's what they say on phrase dot org dot uk : "An old superst...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Whither Bags?

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Of all the bags one might hear on Self Help Radio this week, one will not hear about, nor actually hear the sound of, bagpipes. Here is a pi...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Preface To Bags: Are You Using Your Own Bags?

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Here in the - er - I guess it would be "north-east" of Kentucky - Wikipedia just says it's "located in the heart of Kentu...
Saturday, March 05, 2011

One Hit Wanderer

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This week's Self Help Radio will be the last one for a couple of weeks - a fortnight - as I take a brief weeklong break to travel to Dal...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

All The Answers In Ninety Minutes

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You are of course familiar with "the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, & Everything," from The H...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Plenty Of Answers - Tonight!

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Plenty of answers! Or at least one! What answer? The answer to this question: "How many songs about answers can you fit into a ninet...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Whither Answers?

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Q: Whom are you imitating now? A: Why do you always assume I am imitating someone? Q: Because you don't really have a style of your own....
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Preface To Answers: There Are No Answers Here

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If there are no answers, are there only questions? What if I wrote an entire blog entry about questions? Wouldn't that be ironic, while...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Help The Bearsuit Invade The United States!

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One of my favorite bands ever is a rag-tag group of fab-fab kids from Norwich, England, called Bearsuit. ( This is their website. This is...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

With Bells On?

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I resisted using the idiom "with bells on" - which means, in case you don't know, "eagerly, ready to participate" as...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Bells Are Ringing!

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To prepare you for tonight's Self Help Radio, which is about bells, please enjoy this odd YouTube video of famous bells in Europe: Thoug...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Whither Bells?

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Wow, there are a lot of songs about bells. Do you know which genre has the most songs about bells? You might guess something like electron...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Preface To Bells: For Whom Do They Toll?

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For me? You know the John Donne poem, right? No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Slightly Odd Return Of Self Help Radio Extra!

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I listen to a lot of music, but at times I don't get to do a lot of radio shows, mostly getting one a week during my entire time on the ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Can You Hear Me Now? Oooomph!

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As loud as Self Help Radio was last night, it was nowhere near loud enough to get everyone's attention, & as such, I am going to hav...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Loudest Radio Show Ever

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I forgot to mention, with it being Valentine's Day & all, that you can still download the songs from the Self Help Radio Valentine...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Whither Loudness?

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A decibel is a complicated thing (just read the wikipedia definition ) but for our purposes here it is a measure of loudness. It measures p...