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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 38: Know Your Own Fest!

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I have no time, I am going to the Know Your Own Festival which is sponsored by WRFL today from 3 pm to 10:30 pm.  It's on the UK campu...
Friday, August 24, 2012

"Single Widows"

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Overheard on WRFL this afternoon, in a litany of people possibly affected & offended by supporters of "traditional marriage":...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Barefoot Redneck Incest

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I was talking to a Kentuckian about Kentucky today & she asked me what words I thought about when I thought about "Kentucky." ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

For Shame!

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Perhaps I'm being shameless, but I felt no shame doing Self Help Radio's first regularly scheduled two hour show in almost six ye...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Whither Shame?

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Can you listen to Self Help Radio tomorrow?  It'll be the first two-hour Self Help Radio since - gosh! 2006!  When I went from Wednesday...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Preface To Shame: Shame Is Taught To The Young

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I grew up poor.  My father was literally a sharecropper's son, & my mother came from hardy German working-class stock.  My father sp...
Friday, August 17, 2012

I Spend Too Much Time On Tumblr Blogs

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It makes it sometimes difficult to write in this blog which has virtually no images at all.
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Good News! (Good News?)

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In honor of my lovely Bronte cat's birthday (oh, here's a picture of her; she turns five today:) Happy birthday to her! In ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

What A Joke!

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How many episodes of Self Help Radio does it take to play songs & talk about jokes?  One, it turns out.  Oh, wait, did you think that...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Whither Jokes?

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I am unfunny.  & unclever. Tomorrow!  From 7:30 to 9am!  On 88.1 fm WRFL in Lexington!  & online at wrfl.fm !  Self Help Radio wil...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Preface To Jokes: How To Tell A Joke

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I am not a comedian no matter how funny I think I am.  I certainly amuse myself.  But here's a link from a toastmaster (*) on how to tel...
Friday, August 10, 2012

A Day Off From Blogging

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What? I hear you not really say.   A day off from the Self Help Radio blog?  Don't you only blog five days a week?  Why do you need an...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

Calling All Dinosaurs

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Hey, this may be late notice, but I am subbing WRFL's classic rock show this afternoon.  It's called the Belfry & it's unifo...
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

The Subway Show!

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I adore subways.  I wish I lived someplace where I could take a subway regularly.  I know they're loud & polluted & smelly.  I...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Whither Subways?

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How dangerous are subways?  According to this article (which is just about the New York subway system), "most of the deaths that occur...
Saturday, August 04, 2012

Preface To Subways: The First Time I Ever Rode In A Subway

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I grew up in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, which didn't have much of a mass transit system during my childhood.  It probably had a trolley ...
Friday, August 03, 2012

I was going to say something about Boomslang...

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You know, Boomslang , the annual music festival WRFL puts on in September.  This year's headliners are the Jesus & Mary Chain. You...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

Summer Music Deals

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Says an email I just got.  What sort of deals are they?  Do they mean more money for people who don't have a lot?  Because it seems most...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012

No More Tears!

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Don't cry!  I've finally gotten around to putting this week's show, which is about weeping, on the Self Help Radio website.  ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

So This Is Really The 1400th Post

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As I explained in this post , I have been miscalculating my number of posts.  This is really the 1400th post on this blog.  I'm going to...