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Saturday, December 14, 2019

Preface To Gary's Favorite Releases 2019: Apologies In Advance

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Why apologies in advance?  Am I going to apologize about my opinions now? No, no.  I like what I like & you can ask me why I like it ...
Friday, December 13, 2019

No One Listens To Artists

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Like a lot of people, I am really bummed about the UK elections.  It seems so obvious that Boris Johnson is a hateful clown; it's unthin...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Kill All "Best Of" Lists Dead Forever

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This is something I wrote for the blog three years ago, I believe, yes, I checked, the original post is here .  I argued there why I think i...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Self Help Radio 120919: Chill

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(Original image here .) Oh, hey. 'Sup. Just chillin'? Yeah, I'm just chillin' too. That's chill. We'll chill ou...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

Whither Chill?

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(Image from here .) This is a true story: when I first met with someone (I guess the volunteer coordinator) at one of the Portland radi...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Preface To Chill: My Strange Love Of Fevers

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Okay, I don't really love fevers.  What I love is when a fever breaks. When I get sick, & when I get chills, I have the sense a fe...
Friday, December 06, 2019

Electronic Music Show

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There's computer magic with this post.  It's dated 10pm Friday night, but it's being written early Saturday morning.  The post h...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

Uninterrupted Ambiguity

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Two things happened to me today which have nothing to do with radio. One, I met my first Jehovah's Witnesses.  I enjoy talking to reli...
Monday, December 02, 2019

Self Help Radio 120219: Pulse

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(Self Help Radio is a star!  Well, a neutron star.  Spinning very fast.  Original image here .) You already knew what a pulse was.  May...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

Whither Pulse?

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(Image from here .) Why, anyone who's got a pulse will want to listen to this week's episode of Self Help Radio, which is about...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Preface To Pulse: Not Really Much About Lentils, Sorry

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To be fair, there will be some lentil content, but far more about the "beat" meaning of pulse. Oh wait, you didn't know abou...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Helpful Fellow

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Someone just offered me bread.  "I work at a bakery," he said, wielding a large loaf of what I saw on the label was called Grand C...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Thanksgiving Morning

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This morning I was on the air on Freeform Portland from 2 to 6am.  When I arrived, there was no deejay - I guess he (it was a he, I think) ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Self Help Radio 112519: Magda's Birthday Show 2019

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(Original image from here .) My wife's birthday week begins now!  Her birthday is on the first of December, but I felt it would be ...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Whither Magda's Birthday Show 2019?

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(I can't remember where I found this, sorry.) Every year Self Help Radio has been on - well, almost every year - fifteen of the e...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Preface To Magda's Birthday Show 2019: Do-Over

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Yesterday I wrote about my disdain for radio shows that basically program the same show every year for holidays or whatever, playing the sam...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Reruns

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As a rule, I'm opposed to doing the same thing on Self Help Radio.  I don't repeat themes unless they're holiday-related (includ...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Pandaemonium

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If you'd like to hear the sub show I did last night - which was of a heavy metal show, but I am not a heavy metal guy - so I play lots o...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Self Help Radio 111819: Number One Radio Show

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(foam finger from here ) Imagine if anyone actually listened to Self Help Radio & they thought I was really calling the show the ...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Whither Number One Radio Show?

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(I honestly could have made this myself but I am lazy so I took the above image from this website .) Let me clear up a misconception.  ...