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Friday, May 11, 2018

Self Help Radio 051118: Natural Radio

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(Self Help Radio logo by Suloni Robertson ; sticker from here .) Yes, finally!  One hundred percent natural radio!  No additives, no ch...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Whither Natural Radio?

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(This image, from here , is from a "natural burial" website.  Use your imagination!) What the hell is "natural radio...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Preface To Natural Radio: Last Minute Shopping

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One thing I have always disliked is when one becomes familiar with people who work at a place that one visits regularly.  My sister Pat used...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

Well Yeah This Morning

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This morning I did tolerably better on the Tuesday Morning Blend for the KNON Pledge Drive.  I actually more than doubled last week's ta...
Monday, May 07, 2018

Going Back In

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Last week, you may recall , I discussed raising money for KNON on the first day of the station's Spring Pledge Drive. I was not sanguine...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Self Help Radio 050418: Buttons

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(Original image from a button-making company .) It's here!  The first Self Help Radio on a Friday since - well, since I moved back ...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Whither Buttons?

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(Image from here .) The first new day/new time Self Help Radio will be about buttons!  But why?  Was it simply too confining on radio t...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

New Intro Time Again Again Again Again Again Again!

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Every year, at the first of May, with an exception or two, I make a new intro for the show.  It felt appropriate since this week will be the...
Tuesday, May 01, 2018

That Was Brutal

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The wife & I headed up to KNON this morning with a bunch of songs about monkeys in the hopes of raising some money for the station on th...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Raising Dough

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Yikes!  Tomorrow is the first day of the Spring Pledge Drive on KNON !  & who has the third show of the Pledge Drive?  This guy!  I repe...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Change Is Gonna Come

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(I found this image here .) This past week's Self Help Radio was the last one which will air in Kentucky on WLXU .  It would be fin...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Self Help Radio 042518: Indiepop A To Z # 56

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(Almost all the images found on Discogs .) From the Melons to the Milltown brothers, from the UK to the US, up to Germany, down to Spai...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 56?

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(I found this image over there .) Many years ago, on my deathbed, I took my as-yet-unborn children by the hand & I said to them, ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Bob Dorough

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The great Bob Dorough died today (you can read his New York Times obituary here ) & I was lucky I was on the radio this morning so I ...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Placeholder

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Hold this. Where? In place. What place? Any place. Any place? Any place.  But here. Then where? When where? Maybe now where? Maybe...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Often Forgotten

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This is a thing I do: I go the usual way to get from place to place & then, if I have a little time, I turn, right or left, & go in ...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Self Help Radio 041818: Markets

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(Original image here .) Hooray!  It's market day!  Make sure you have cash!  Get those reusable bags!  Don't make a list - we...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Whither Markets?

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That picture above is one I took of the Fort Worth Public Market , an urban ruin which once, the Wikipedia says, "housed various bus...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Preface To Markets: This Little Piggy

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There used to be - there still is? - a flea market in Garland where I would buy CDs very cheap & someone said to me when I was walking a...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Judge Harry

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Harry Anderson was a funny guy but he wasn't the funniest guy on his own television show.  That didn't seem to bother him one bit...