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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Preface To I Don't Know: I Don't Know Why I'm So Tired

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Could it be because over the past six days I've travelled nearly two thousand miles? In addition to listening to a lot of music on the d...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Several case studies involving drivers in the deepish South

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As older I get & grumpier I tend, driving seems more wearisome & drivers more douchebaggerish. Can you please point me to important...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

I have so many things I could say about Dallas

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It's bigger than I always remember. It has a lot more vegetarian/vegan restaurants than I remember. I ate way too many much food &...
Monday, March 12, 2012

What's not so groovy...

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I have been listening to lots of podcasts today because I was on the road. Which means, I wasn't sitting at home all day editing this m...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Whither The Groovy Show?

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What am I, some kind of hippie? I once had a boss who used the word "groovy" a lot. He had long hair. He was always giving the p...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Preface To The Groovy Show: Groovy Little Time Change

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Everyone keeps saying, "Remember to set your clocks head tonight! It's spring forward time again!" But every clock I use reg...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Happy Birthday John Cale!

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A week after Lou Reed turned 70, so does John Davies Cale. Here he is at some unspecified time probably in recent history performing one of...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Thursday Picture Of A Pet

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We have now come to the last of my pets. This fuzzy cat is named Bronte. She came to us from one of my wife's colleagues, who found he...
Monday, March 05, 2012

A Rainbow Connection

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Somewhere, under the rainbow, near the pot of gold, I found a radio show about rainbows. I frankly would have preferred the pot of gold. B...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Whither Rainbows?

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What kind of hippie am I anyway? There sure are a lot of songs about rainbows - something a certain frog wondered about some thirty years ag...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Preface To Rainbows: Omigolly! This Is The 1,300th Post!

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It's hard to imagine, I know, that I have written one thousand three hundred entries in this blog (counting this one) & in general h...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Holy Crap Lou Reed Is 70 Today!

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He doesn't look a day over 100. Happy birthday Lou! Click for a live version of "Heroin" performed with John Cale in 1972!
Thursday, March 01, 2012

Thursday Picture Of A Pet

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I know parents are not supposed to have favorites, but of all our animals - with the exception of Beatrice , whose relationship with me goes...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Don't Take Our Advice

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I know, it seems absurd for Self Help Radio to be giving out advice. Almost no one expects to hear advice from a Self Help Radio show! But...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Whither Advice?

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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it." Benjamin Franklin said that. I hope that means this show is for the s...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Preface To Advice: Some People Can't Help But Give Advice

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So you probably know someone who can't help but give advice. Sometimes it's someone who's perfectly handy, & maybe you'...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Happy Birthday Mitch Hedberg!

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He would have been 44 today - my age. It was - & remains - a terrible loss. Luckily there's a lot of media that documents his awes...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Thursday Picture Of A Pet

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This magnificent bastard is named Bolan, a cat brought into our household by the woman I would soon marry, who wanted a cat all her own, ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

In Between This Show & The Next One

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Self Help Radio learned this week that grammarians & aesthetes everywhere dislike the putting of a dash between "in" & ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Whither In-Between?

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I'm not a "tween," which is defined by Wikipedia as "that is, preadolescence, the stage between middle childhood & ad...