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Saturday, July 02, 2011

Preface To America: Those Thirteen Colonies

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That's a dumb joke, isn't it. The "preface" to America is the colonies from which it rose. Har har. A long preface, thou...
Friday, July 01, 2011

Self Help Radio Extra June In July

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Oops, I forgot to mention yesterday (which was the last day of June) that I actually managed to put together a Self Help Radio Extra mix (wh...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

A Joke A Day A Week, Episode Two

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I've written a few times on this blog about the inane "A Joke A Day" email service (I'm sure there's more than one) wh...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Did You Remember To Listen?

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As alcohol & age dull my faulty memory, I take the time to go on the radio to play songs about remembering & also to remind you that...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Whither Remembering?

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Memories fade & are usually unreliable. Eyewitness accounts are often widely different. Yet we place a huge importance on the process ...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Preface To Remember...: You Remember Wrong

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It's touching how much humans rely upon their memories, but it's sad how memories betray us. I recently counseled my sister, who wa...
Friday, June 24, 2011

The Self Help Radio iPhone App

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Does not exist. But if it did, what would it do? I'd imagine it would be connected with some over-the-top database - requiring me to pay...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

A Joke A Day A Week, Episode One

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I've written a few times on this blog about the inane "A Joke A Day" email service (I'm sure there's more than one) wh...
Monday, June 20, 2011

A Trip To The Suburbs

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elf Help Radio left the big city to visit the suburbs this week, & got a little lost. All the houses look the same! I went to the same...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Whither The Suburbs?

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Suburbs may require their own haikus . Suburbs have their own ideas of cheese . Suburban living has its own special brand of angst . & o...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Preface To The Suburbs: Where You From?

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According to a Pew Research Center poll from 2008, "more than six-in-ten adults (63%) have moved to a new community at least once in th...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Being An Oblate Spheroid...

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I was reading about Hipparchus , an ancient Greek astronomer, on the Wikipedia just now (I know, I'm a nerd) (would it be cooler if I m...
Monday, June 13, 2011

The Age Of Self Help Radio Began This Morning!

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Then ended ninety minutes later. Oh well. That was the shortest recorded Age in the History Of The Ages. It was so short, in fact, that S...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Whither Ages?

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I wanted to do a show about ages a million moons ago when I was listening to Joy Division's song "Ice Age" on my iPod while wa...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Preface To Ages: Another Confusing Theme Needs To Be Elucidated

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Note to self: stop using the word "elucidate." This week's Self Help Radio theme, which is "ages," might best have b...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Parachesis

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"In rhetoric, parachesis is the repetition of the same sound in several words in close succession. Alliteration (initial rhyme) is a sp...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

The Show About Wondering Wanders Home

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In case you were wondering why it took over a day to get my Self Help Radio show about wondering up, I'll just say that in a twenty-one ...
Monday, June 06, 2011

Wondering About Today's Self Help Radio?

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I am going to be subbing another show on WRFL tonight, so I won't have the time today to post this morning's Self Help Radio, about...
Sunday, June 05, 2011

Whither The Wondering Show?

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Someone was telling me I should do a "wonderful" show since there "must be a lot of songs using the word 'wonderful' ...
Saturday, June 04, 2011

Preface To The Wondering Show: It's Going To Be One Of Those Shows Isn't It

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Fancy is struck. The passive voice is implemented. No one has any cause for alarm. I know people get in trouble for things everyone else i...