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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Preface To Confusion: Humid Pub Diagram

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Humid Pub Diagram is a natural science presentation prepared by the children of P.S. 4 To The 8th Power from downtown You-Know-Where. While...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Guru

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Have I talked about Sam Harris before? I think the guy's amazing. Here he is answering questions in the second installment of the seri...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

A Joke A Day A Week, Episode Seven

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I confess I didn't read many of the A Joke A Day jokes this week. I may be experiencing a kind of burnout. A couple of them were a lit...
Monday, August 08, 2011

Signs Of Following

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Self Help Radio today featured the theme "follow me" in which a lowly deejay made a desperate attempt to rally a group of like-min...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Whither Follow Me?

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There are three kinds of people: The leader leads. The follower follows. The loner is alone. There are maybe more kinds of people: The ...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

Preface To Follow Me: Don't Follow Me To Cincinnati

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Do you remember trying to learn how to spell stupid English words that didn't sound like they were spelled? If you didn't, ignore t...
Friday, August 05, 2011

Building Up A New Home

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(The title is a Shriekback reference.) I am going to be busy today because yesterday the wife & I signed papers to buy a house here in ...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

A Joke A Day A Week, Episode Six

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It was not a loquacious week for the A Joke A Day crowd. The shortest "joke" was only twenty-three words long, while the longest ...
Monday, August 01, 2011

How The Other Half A Show Lives

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"Half a show is better than none" - proverb uttered by someone who never heard Self Help Radio. Look, don't go off half-cocked...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Whither Half A Show?

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Important questions asked about tomorrow's show! 1) Will the show only be half as long? 2) Were you ever a halfling when you played Dung...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Preface To Half A Show: A Story About Drugs & Drool

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The boy was going to try salvia for the first time. Specifically, Salvia divinorum , often called "diviner's sage." He had n...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Bill Finger's Last Days

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If you're at all a fan of The Batman, you should probably know who Bill Finger is. He basically co-created the character & many of...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

A Joke A Day A Week, Episode Five

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I could talk, & have talked, & will talk a lot about the A Joke A Day jokes which are so monstrously unfunny that you're genuine...
Monday, July 25, 2011

You May Already Have Won!

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Or, you may already be winning! What have you won, you ask. What are you winning? This week's Self Help Radio! A show entirely about...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Whither Winning?

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Because Charlie Sheen kept saying the word, & I kept hearing it on The Soup, & it entered my brain & I thought, "That'...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Preface To Winning: I've Actually Never Seen That Show

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This funny thing happened in the Onion AV Club this past week: a new ad for the old Charlie Sheen show (now starring Kelso from That 70...
Friday, July 22, 2011

I Almost Forgot: The Rain!

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It's such nice rain, even in the summer. Did I talk once upon a time about the rain also in West Virginia? Such rain you've never ...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

A Joke A Day A Week, Episode Four

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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, July 18, 2011

Not A Show About Nothing

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But a show about zero. That's the number zero. The one that's the average of -1 & 1. Not nothing. A show about nothing would...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Whither Zero?

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Yes, I am back from my brief visit to Dallas, in which I got to see many members of my family, I got to meet my niece's new sprog (a gre...