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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Benji & Odie

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This is a picture I took seven year ago on this day, May 15, 2014.  The dogs are named Benji & Odie.  They lived a couple of blocks from...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Plans I Had

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Do not believe the Venusians who assert that there were different plans for this blog from what you are seeing at this moment. After all, th...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Self Help Radio 051121: Mom

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(Look! I lightly desecrated my mom & dad's wedding photo!) This week's show was about moms - I talked a bit about mine, but it r...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Whither Mom?

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(image from here ) Tonight's Self Help Radio - which has the theme "mom" - would seem to be a response to Mother's Day, wh...
Sunday, May 09, 2021

Preface To Mom: Mother's Day

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(this is from here ) A while ago I was having a conversation with my sister Pat, who died in 2015, about our father, who died in 1991.  I to...
Saturday, May 08, 2021

Utah

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This is a photo I took on the high on the way to Moab, Utah, on this day two years ago.  The wife & I were in two cars, we were in the p...
Friday, May 07, 2021

Blanketed By Film

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(image from the IMDb ) This week's Self Help Radio was about blankets (you can listen here & here , if you are so inclined) & t...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Self Help Radio 050421: Blankets

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(original image here .*) What a comforting show that was.  No, really!  As one listener texted, "thanks for the very cozy show."  ...
Monday, May 03, 2021

Whither Blankets?

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(from the Sunday Peanuts strip, April 3, 1955. taken from The Complete Peanuts Vol. 3 ) This is something I reflect on a little too often: I...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

Preface To Blankets: Blankets In My Childhood

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(Here are some blankets.  I found them at this site .) Thinking about blankets, I remember two blankets I had - not as a child, but maybe as...
Saturday, May 01, 2021

Oakland

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When I began to carry a digital camera around with me to take pictures of stuff, I didn't know I was also creating a kind of diary for m...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Aren't These Lovely

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That image above is from this website , which tells us: Illustrations by Kawakami Shiro ( 川上四郎 絵) for the legendary illustrated magazine Kod...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Self Help Radio 042721: Indiepop A To Z # 65

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(almost all images found at Discogs .) As I said several times during this week's show, the Indiepop A To Z series was started many year...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 65?

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(The Perfect Disaster, one of the bands you'll hear tonight. Image from here .) My computer's still being rescued, I'm still stu...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 65: This Is Taking Forever

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There's a picture of my dog Winston, relaxing in the afternoon.  He had a lovely day.  I did not.  Holy hell in a hired hansom my day su...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Dead Computer Blues

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(image from here .) My computer died on Tuesday morning.  It appeared to be working fine as I did Self Help Radio on Tuesday night.  But whe...
Friday, April 23, 2021

The Films Of Paris

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(image from the IMDb ) This week's Self Help Radio was about Paris, & had lots of interviews with experts on Paris, & if there h...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Self Help Radio 042021: Paris

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  (Me in front of the Eiffel Tower, January 2007) Self Help Radio visited Paris earlier today but at some point in the morning my computer d...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Whither Paris?

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Yes, that is a picture of me kissing Oscar Wilde's grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.  No, I didn't have lipstick on at t...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Preface To Paris: The Name Of The City

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(Paris was a jerk.  From here . ) There wasn't a lot of research done for this week's show because it's mainly interviews - good...