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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Self Help Radio 011117: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen

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(Original image here .) There's a famous story I'm going to screw up.  Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen are sharing a cab or a l...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Whither A Tribute To Leonard Cohen?

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(This image found there .) If it hasn't been made perfectly clear by what I wrote after I found out about his death , Leonard Cohen...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Preface To A Tribute To Leonard Cohen: Another Poet Entirely

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Because of Leonard Cohen, I found my way to Federico García Lorca.  Leonard Cohen has a song on I'm Your Man  called "Take This Wal...
Monday, January 09, 2017

NextDoor

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Do you know about this?   nextdoor.com ?  It's an invitation-only (they send invitations through the snailmails with activation codes on...
Sunday, January 08, 2017

Writer's Writing, or, Writers Writing

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Excuse me while I meander with no real destination in mind. Back in the day when I wanted to be a writer, I read a lot of books & stor...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

Self Help Radio 010417: Cafés

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(Original image here .) The first Self Help Radio of 2017 took place at a rundown café.  There was too much coffee & no one liked w...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Whither Cafés?

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(image from here ) Some cafés play radio stations, often quietly, for their patrons, especially when the employees are bored with the s...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Preface To Cafés: Accent Aigu

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Here's something I probably knew before but wouldn't have known if you just asked me: in French, the accent aigu (the little accent ...
Monday, January 02, 2017

The Lake Across The House

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So. Many. Ducks This weekend the wife & I moved into our new house.  It is an old house, built in 1957, & we purchased it about...
Sunday, January 01, 2017

Happy New Year!

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(This image found here .) Happy new year!  As we begin another three-hundred-sixty-five days around the calendar, the poorly-paid emplo...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Self Help Radio 122816: Indiepop A To Z # 52

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(Most if not all of these record sleeve images came from Discogs .) Well, here it is.  The last Self Help Radio of 2016.  It didn't ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 52

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(This image has nothing to do with the show, I just liked it.  I found it here .) On last week's show, when I was announcing this w...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 52: Two Thousand Five Hundred

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Yep.  This is the two-thousandth, five-hundred discrete "page" or "post" of junk I have placed on this blog.  Twenty-fiv...
Monday, December 26, 2016

A Close Look Down At The Mouth

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Let us take a moment at year's end to consider cold sores .  "Note the blisters in a group marked by an arrow," that article a...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

Happy Every Holiday!!

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But today it's Thanks to all who listen or stop by, I hope you have a good day with plenty of fine food & festive fellowship wi...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Self Help Radio 122116: A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2016

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Here it is, from the freaky Self Help Radio family to your own group of weirdoes, A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2016! In addition to...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Whither A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2016?

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It's that time of year again!  You know because every damn radio show is playing Christmas music!  & frankly, it's the same C...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Preface To A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2016: I Feel Much Better Now, Thank You

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Except my wife is sick now. She's actually glad she caught the bug after me - as she told me, "Watching you, I knew exactly what ...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Health!

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Sorry for that previous post.  Or is it sorry not sorry? Not having lived in Texas for so long, & not having visited my family so regu...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sickness!

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for immediate release: Radio deejay & long-time "Self Help Radio" host Gary laid low by a stomach virus that's "goi...