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Saturday, December 05, 2020

Photographs Of Places I've Lived # 13: Chateau Depew

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(image from Google Maps ) It's really a shame to see that this delightful four-plex on the eastern edge of Hyde Park in Austin (it never...
Friday, December 04, 2020

December 1st On The 4th

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Self Help Radio's resident cinephile Chuck appeared on this week's show with recommendations for movies that were released on Decemb...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Self Help Radio 120120: Magda's Birthday Show 2020

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(Original image here .) Wow, three hours of birthday songs.  Holy moley.  I honestly didn't think I could pull it off.  I'm runnin...
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Monday, November 30, 2020

Whither Magda's Birthday Show 2020

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(Image from here .) Every year, on or near (before, not after) my wife's birthday, I make a birthday show for her.  Mostly it's song...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Preface To Magda's Birthday Show 2020: Three Hours Of Birthday Songs

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This year, because Self Help Radio is now three hours long (what have I done to deserve this) I had to find lots more birthday songs than u...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Drinking From A Deep Welles

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The other day I found this cleverly animated YouTube video an associate of Stan Lee made featuring the comic icon saying bad words.  I susp...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Photographs Of Places I've Lived # 12: Avenue A

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(image from Google Maps ) This little efficiency is where I lived from early 1992 till the end of 1993.  It was a very long two years, in wh...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Self Help Radio 112420: Glam & Glamour

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(Hair & stripe from the album cover for Aladdin Sane of course.) Yes, last night's Self Help Radio featured little - if any - actua...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Whither Glam & Glamour?

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(image from here .) The question is: will there be actual glam on the show where the theme is (at least one-half) glam?  This is the show, a...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Preface To Glam & Glamour: A Shameful Confession

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(Aren't all confessions a bit shameful?  Or can you imagine a shameless confession?) The reason the show this week has a two part theme ...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Photographs Of Places I've Lived # 11: 40th Street

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(image from Google Maps ) If you had asked me in 1991, when I lived in this house in Hyde Park in Austin, Texas, I would have told you it wa...
Friday, November 20, 2020

One Last Look Back At The Unknown

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You might have missed it, but Self Help Radio's resident cinephile Chuck, whose segment Chuck's Happily Unsophisticated Cinema Korne...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Self Help Radio 111720: Unknown

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Look.  I get it.  This was a terrible idea for a theme.  On the show last night I kinda leaned into "the unknown," but that's ...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Whither Unknown?

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(Image from here .) Just to make it clear, the theme of the show is "unknown."  I know for a fact the theme is "unknown....
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Sunday, November 15, 2020

Preface To Unknown: I Was Remembering Really Sad Stuff

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Tonight I was remembering really sad stuff.  For example.  My father died in 1991.  He wasn't around a lot when I was a kid, he was an a...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Recently Seen In The Storm

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Fist-fight in the downpour.  Mostly feints, rain gets in the eyes. Who challenged whom? Was it the sort of thing that happened because of a ...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Photographs Of Places I've Lived # 10: This Corner House

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(image from Google maps ) This is a cheat, but there's a (hopefully) good story here.  I actually never lived in this house, although I ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Self Help Radio 111020: Floods

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(Who says it doesn't flood in Portland?  Original image here .) As someone who's still pretty anxious about the state of my country ...
Monday, November 09, 2020

Whither Floods?

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(A picture I took in Lexington when the creek in front of our house flooded, 2014.) Here's a dumb personal anecdote: a few days before w...
Sunday, November 08, 2020

Preface To Floods: Expecting Apocalypse

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Were you expecting apocalypse?  Yes, I was expecting apocalypse. What sort of apocalypse were you expecting?  More of the same.  Only worse....