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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Movies About Bees

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(image from the IMDb ) Bees are a big part of life & naturally they show up in many movies - only some of which are documentaries!  Our ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Books About Bees

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(All images from Goodreads ) This week on the show - which was about bees - our favorite librarian Carole came by to talk about books featur...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Self Help Radio 041922: Bees (The Third Time)

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Third time's the charm? This week's episode of Self Help Radio is the third time I've explored the theme "bees," but t...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Whither Bees (Again & Again)?

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Why is the show today about bees?  Bee-cause it's KBOO's Spring Membership Drive & there's a theme this time around: the hiv...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Preface To Bees: What, Again?

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For the purposes of this particular post, I'm going to pretend you pay attention to my shabby radio show.  Because the mythical person w...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Scary!

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Here's a picture from a year ago.  A bubble designed to let the dog in the yard look out turns into something terrifying when the dog ba...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Janey

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Today I had to say goodbye to a friend I usually saw on our walks.  Her name was Janey & she was a very sweet girl, with a friendly ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Self Help Radio 041222: Outlaws

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(original image here *) Everyone's a little bit of an outlaw, in their own heads at least.  Here's a show for the little bitty outla...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Whither Outlaws?

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(image from here. ) Outlaws have an enduring popularity - from Robin Hood down to the "outlaw country" stars of the 1970s, many pe...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Preface To Outlaws: Goody Two Shoes

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(image from here - the story too!) This blog post was supposed to feature a mild confession from me that - unless you count shoplifting whe...
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 ...