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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Preface To 1984: Cars & Other Things About My Sixteenth Year On Earth

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It's very weird thinking about the me I was over thirty years ago, but it's safe to say he wouldn't recognize me at all.  That G...
Friday, January 17, 2020

The Summer Of 1984

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Every time I hear a discussion about how children should remain in school longer, I get horrified, because I loved summer vacation so much. ...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

1984 Was If I Recall Correctly A Lonely Year

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The next Self Help Radio will explore the music that I love that was released in 1984. On my birthday week in 2003, the first birthday I h...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Self Help Radio 011320: Reflections

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Something happened on today's show that I'm not proud of, & it happened within the first twenty minutes.  To explain how it h...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Whither Reflections?

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(Image from here - where there are a lot of images of things reflecting!) This morning, avoiding my reflection in the mirror, I asked ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Preface To Reflections: Reflecting On Mirrors

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Not only have I already done a show about mirrors - in October of 2004 - & not only that, I revisited the theme of mirrors in October o...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Where I'm Going Tonight

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To see this guy: Interestingly, this is the second Kid In The Hall I've seen since moving to Portland.  I did once get to see the K...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Library Of Mirrors

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This week's show - not the one that happened last Monday but the one that will happen next Monday - which I know is technically next wee...
Monday, January 06, 2020

Self Help Radio 010620: Iron

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(Original image here .) Sometimes you think you're absurd, & the world is like,  ha ha ha no.  On today's ridiculous show, ...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

Whither Iron?

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(Art by Ross Andru & Mike Esposito - Iron is the big purple one.  Found this here .) This week's show is about "iron....
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...