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Saturday, April 09, 2022

Obligatory Cartoon Mentioning "Self-Help" Presentation

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By the brilliant Tom Gauld .  If only my radio show were as clever!
Friday, April 08, 2022

Drowning In Films Featuring Drowning

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(image from the IMDb ) It will come as no surprise to you that, just as drownings happen in real life, they happen in the movies too.  Our r...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Self Help Radio 040522: Drowning

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(Original image here *.) This is true: a listener called me to tell me that, as a child, he lived in Germany & his father fished in the ...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Whither Drowning?

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(image from here .) A long time ago, back in Austin, when I first started this show, someone at KOOP, which aired the show, came to me &...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

Preface To Drowning: What A Bleak Subject!

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(no idea where I found this sorry) Drowning is a gruesome thing, & a horrible way to die.  & lots of people drown to death - the Wor...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

The Uncertain Fate Of Bojangles

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A year ago on this date, we were walking our dogs in the afternoon & a tiny animal - pictured above - wandered toward us.  He was not fr...
Friday, April 01, 2022

It Bit

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You won't believe I took this gorgeous picture of this terrifying creature - because why would you? I've shown no talent for photogr...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Self Help Radio 032922: The Saddest

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This was the saddest sunflower I ever met. Self Help Radio this week was in its own way two different shows.  The first featured artists tel...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Whither The Saddest Show?

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(I don't remember where I found this image but it was titled 'The Saddest Beer Ever.') In typical predictable Self Help Radio fa...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Preface To The Saddest Show: Requests

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(image from here .) My very first experience with radio - that is, communicating with a deejay who had a radio show - involved requesting a ...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Two Very Different March 26ths

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It may seem like a cheat, to use Saturdays on this blog to look back on pictures of this day, specifically ones I've taken, & aimles...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Antipathy For Self Help Radio Day

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From Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy no less! (Sorry - I forgot where I found this - but almost certainly on Tumblr.) Also can I remind you tha...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Self Help Radio 032222: Too Much

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The sign above, in a picture I took many moons ago in Texas, conveys what I think is too much information.  It has the unenviable task of te...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Whither Too Much?

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  (image from here ) When the world is too much with me, when I feel too little inspiration from things, I often retreat into a phrase or a ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Preface To Too Much: Isn't Three Hours Too Much

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(image & article answering that question here ) A long time ago, when I first starting doing Self Help Radio, I was oh so glad & gra...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Bo Live

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This is a terrible picture taken from quite far away at a Bo Burnham concert I attended in Atlanta on this day in 2015.  I had become famili...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Ginger(bread) Books

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(images from Good Reads ) If you listened to this past week's Self Help Radio, you heard our librarian friend Carole talk about books in...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Self Help Radio 031522: The Ginger Show

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Did Self Help Radio broadcast from this place this week? Alas, no! Whilst sipping ginger tea, & delicately nibbling on ginger snaps, hop...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Whither The Ginger Show?

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Majestic root. Ginger can mean or be many things.  It can be the delicious root pictured above.  It can mean (in UK slang mostly) a red-head...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Preface To The Ginger Show: I Cooked With Ginger Tonight!

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(No, not that Ginger! Image from here .) While Tina Louise is definitely the Ginger of my childhood, I wasn't cooking with her tonight, ...