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Saturday, October 09, 2021

Our Fort Worth House

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Here are pictures of the house we purchased about five years ago this month in Fort Worth, Texas, before we moved in but after my wife had i...
Friday, October 08, 2021

RIP Jazz Butcher

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(image from Discogs ) It was sad to hear earlier this week of the death of Pat Fish, the jangle pop mastermind behind the Jazz Butcher recor...
Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Self Help Radio 100521: Sunlight (The 19th Anniversary Show)

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On Self Help Radio's anniversaries, we revisit an old theme.  Nearly nineteen years ago, on October 9, 2002, Self Help Radio premiered o...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Whither Sunlight?

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(I wish I could remember where I found this!) Tonight's Self Help Radio has kind of two themes - one of them, sunlight, is a theme I fir...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

Preface To Sunlight: Nineteen Years

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(Image from here .) October 9, 2002, was a Wednesday.  This is a story I've told before, on this blog, too, but I'll tell it again. ...
Saturday, October 02, 2021

Sunlight On Wall

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Sunlight is not an easy thing to photograph.  As this week's show is about sunlight, I looked into my own photos to see if I had tried t...
Friday, October 01, 2021

The Door To Movies

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(image from IMDb ) This week's Self Help Radio was about doors, & our resident cinephile Chuck stopped by to talk to us about some d...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Self Help Radio 092821: Doors

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One of the perils of a radio show about a subject like "doors" is that someone might think it's a show about The Doors.  It...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Whither Doors?

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This is something I just did: I counted the doors in my house.  I counted ten doors, including one garage, one sliding glass, & one pock...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Preface To Doors: A Reiteration Of Policy

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(I don't know where I found this but it's brilliant.) No one really calls & makes requests in Portland, so I haven't had to ...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Pictures Of Doors

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Please enjoy a bunch of pictures of doors I've taken over the past few years.  In various places, Kentucky, Texas, Oregon.  I'm sure...
Friday, September 24, 2021

Border Movies

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(image from the movie's IMDb page ) This week's Self Help Radio was about borders & as happens from time-to-time, our resident c...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Self Help Radio 092121: Borders

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(image of Portland neighborhoods with borders from here ) Okay, I spent a small amount of time on that image up there but I started thinking...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Whither Borders?

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(map of border walls from the Maps On The Web blog ) Borders, boundaries, perimeters, lines.  They define but confine.  & for some reaso...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Preface To Borders: The Shadows

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The image above, drawn by Hippolyte, is from an amazing comic I just read, coincidentally enough, this past week when borders were on my min...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Dude Motel

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This (as is obvious) is the Dude Motel.  It is in a town called Haltom City, which Wikipedia says is "an inner suburb of Fort Worth....
Friday, September 17, 2021

Bronte

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This is a story of a remarkable & beautiful little cat whom I had the incredible fortune to know & to live with for just over twelve...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Self Help Radio 091421: Dare

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(original image here *) Audacious, bold, courageous, fearless, foolhardy, gutsy, impulsive, reckless - daring?  Is that what Self Help Radio...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Whither Dare?

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(Original image is here .) This week's theme on Self Help Radio is but a single word: 'dare.' But what a word it is! It's a ...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

Preface To Dare: Dan Dare?

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(image from here .) The first time I ever heard of Dan Dare was in the David Bowie song "DJ," in which he sings, "Feels like ...