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Saturday, January 04, 2020

Preface To Iron: Television Shows About Places Where You Used To Live

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Though I should be working on this week's Self Help Radio, I got sucked into a Louis Theroux documentary the wife was watching.  It...
Friday, January 03, 2020

The Trouble With Tribbles

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A long time ago, I had a different blog that wasn't really for a radio show.  It was instead a place where I tried to write funny things...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

But Who Counted?

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Before I marvel at the final tally of my radio shows (& non-radio shows, as the case my be), I want to remind you that you can listen to...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Self Help Radio 123019: Indiepop A To Z # 61

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(Almost all images found on Discogs .) The last Self Help Radio of 2019 almost undone by disaster! It's true.  The online stream ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 61

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(Image from  here .) Yes, it's that time again: I continue my probably never-to-be-finished Indiepop A To Z series.  We're at t...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 61: Will This Be Weird

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Something I don't presume to know is whether or not anyone is listening to this dumb show I do.  (I'm not even going to talk about t...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Twice (So Far) In Portland

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This is dumb.  But I want to mention this. If you've never heard me on the radio, there is something you need to know: I talk.  I talk...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

But Who's Counting?

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Oh shit, I guess I am. It's that time of the year when you take time to reflect on what happened in your life because an arbitrary, hu...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Self Help Radio 122319: A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2019

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(Original cover found on Discogs .) Ho ho ho!  It's a Christmas show!  Plus some Hanukkah songs!  & a Kwanzaa song thrown in fo...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Whither A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2019?

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(This is from an old RCA Christmas record I found on Discogs .) It's that time of the year again.  Christmas.  Yule.  Noel.  Christ...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Preface To A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2019: Dumpster Fire Holiday

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This is an image I found on the internet.  I don't know where I found it*, but I did find it in the past few weeks, & I put it in ...
Friday, December 20, 2019

The Dickenbock Report (The Lowdown)

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(I found this image on Kliph Nesteroff's Tumblr page .) It's official: I now do a third radio show in Portland, this one on KBO...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

The Dickenbock Report (The Teaser)

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This morning was the first episode of The Dickenbock Report, a third show I am doing here in Portland at a third radio station, KBOO .  I wa...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Self Help Radio 121619: Gary's Favorite Music 2019

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(Most covers from Discogs but a couple from Bandcamp .) Here it is.  It's so weird to lay out so definitively your favorites of a ...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Whither Gary's Favorite Music 2019?

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(Original image here .) All right, it's about to happen: the sort of list I hate to make because I know - I just fucking know - I a...
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...