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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Swing Of Things

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Oh shit! It's Saturday! I have to write in my blog! Think think think! I saw Trainwreck this week at my wife's favorite movie t...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Self Help Radio 072115: The Heavy Show

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(Original image here .) Here's yesterday's Self Help Radio, with the oddball theme "the heavy show," which, because I...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Whither The Heavy Show?

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It was a couple of months ago.  I was listening to some 70s Soul.  Specifically, I was listening to this record: (image courtesy of dis...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Preface To The Heavy Show: It Ain't Heavy, It's My Radio Show

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A song I'm not going to play tomorrow is a song that I had to listen to a lot when I was a kid, because my mother loved Neil Diamond, ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Sunday Gone

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Bear with me, please, as I get a handle on this "blogging during the weekend" process.  It's not something I usually do.  Usua...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

I Made Mistake

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So, do you remember, way back when, when I was talking about scheduling stuff for this blog ?  That was so long ago.  That was like two days...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Friday I'm In Lieu

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Guess what?  I haven't started working on Tuesday's show yet.  I am taking my time.  Please don't make fun of me Monday when I a...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Reorganization Time Again

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Perhaps it's well-known to anyone who well-knows me that I am of an obsessive nature.  I like a certain amount of structure in my life, ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Self Help Radio 071415: The Blues

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(original image here Well, here it is, the first Self Help Radio on a Tuesday afternoon.  Two hours of songs about "the blues,...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Whither The Blues?

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Man, am I nervous.  In less than two hours, I'll start my new timeslot - who knows if it'll be permanent? - for the summer, four to ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Sugar Substitute # 164

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Well, here it is, the last Sugar Substitute for a while - since I'm now doing Self Help Radio on Tuesdays, I have one less hour, &...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Self Help Radio 071115: Sense & Nonsense

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(original image here ) A show about sense + nonsense doesn't make any sense!  Should it?  Make sense I mean?  Or not? I dunno.  H...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Whither Sense & Nonsense?

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There are a few things to say about this show, which I will enumerate in Roman numerals because I am reading a book about Romans right now. ...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

Preface To Sense & Nonsense: Homecoming

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My wife has been in Spain for the past three weeks. Ooo, you might say to yourself.  Ooo, Spain.  Well!  What a terrible wife, not to take...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Whenever It Rains A Lot I Think Of The Novel "One Hundred Years Of Solitude"

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It's been raining a lot here.  It reminds me of a story.  A long time ago, maybe even ten years ago now, I was fortunate enough to see T...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Sugar Substitute # 163

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Here's another episode of the one-hour "free-form" radio show I do before my regular show, Self Help Radio, on Saturday mor...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Self Help Radio 070415: Flags

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(Original image here .) Hooray for Independence Day!  Hooray for flags!  But oh!  I'm exhausted.  All that flag waving this morning...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Whither Flags?

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I kinda explained yesterday * why I am doing a show about flags.  I mean, Fourth Of July!  Flags!  Hurrah! Now, to dispel some rumors my c...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Preface To Flags: I'm Not Used To Being So Topical

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Sometime in the last month, or maybe in May, when I realized I was going to be doing a show on Saturdays, I had a look at the calendar.  I l...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Things Change More

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I guess I can announce this… You know there's this excellent radio show on WRFL called Black N Blues .  It describes itself (quite cor...