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Friday, June 16, 2023

Self Help Radio 061523: Haze

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If it seemed like this week's Self Help Radio was in a haze - well, it was. Honestly during the show I couldn't see a damn thing. We...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Whither Haze?

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You might think, "Whoa! Is Self Help Radio actually doing an episode that's more or less timely? After all the haze that blanketed ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Preface To Haze: It Happens Here Too

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Here's a picture from September 2020, when wildfires made the skies in Portland pink then red. That's the sun up there. The sun. It...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

My Life With Academics

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In 2002, a young grad student moved in with me. Around 2006 or so I found myself living with a doctoral candidate. In 2008 I married a PhD. ...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Martin Duffy

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(Image from here , where one can read a sad tale.) When Martin Duffy died in December of last year, I mourned him on Facebook but didn't...
Friday, June 09, 2023

Self Help Radio 060823: Perfume

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(Original image here .) What started out as something kinda stinky this week got a whole lot worse. I mean, perfumes can smell nice & al...
Thursday, June 08, 2023

Whither Perfume?

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(my home's most common fragrance - image from here ) My earliest memories of a perfume involve either the ridiculous atomizers that appe...
Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Preface To Perfume: Have I Seen This Movie?

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(image from the IMDb ) It will probably not surprise you if, during the course of tomorrow's episode of Self Help Radio, there are sampl...
Tuesday, June 06, 2023

A Brief History Of Awkward Exits

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The image above is almost certainly not a place I've ever been. But this is a story about a place much like that one, in Garland, Texas,...
Monday, June 05, 2023

Tree Overshadows House

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Is that what I called this picture? Was I attempting a pun? Tonight is my show Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO. It's the firs...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Self Help Radio 060123: Meteors

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Oh no! Coming crashing into your radio atmosphere completely unwanted is Self Help Radio's show about meteors! It spent so long in the e...
Thursday, June 01, 2023

Whither Meteors?

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(image from Wikipedia ) In a story I might have told before on this blog, I was driving through Nevada in the summer of 1995 when I stopped ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Preface To Meteors: An Embarrassing Confession

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(image from here ) Self Help Radio has been on the air for over twenty years now. Mostly it's not paid attention to, so I am the one who...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Meteor Shower Story

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(image from here ) This week's show's theme is "meteors." I always thought it would be romantic to take someone out to see...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Waiting For A Sign

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A picture I recently posted on Facebook. I'll later post it on Tumblr. It's not all that clever but it makes me feel a little clever...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Self Help Radio 052523: Trembling

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Things you can tremble with: fear, excitement, anticipation, indignation, anger, cold. Will you tremble with any of these on this show about...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Whither Trembling?

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(from here ) Trembling is such a delicate thing - shaking seems downright vulgar compared to it. Trembling also seems to indicate a vulnerab...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Preface To Trembling: A Haiku

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(a trembling icon found here ) Here goes: You can't say trembling Is something that's resembling Plain old dissembling First of all,...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

High Above The Clouds

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Two years ago today, I was flying up in the air away from the Dallas area & back to Portland. I had given the eulogy at my mother's ...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Andy Rourke

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(image from Johnny Marr's Twitter account ) When I first starting listening to the Smiths, I was listening to the words that Morrissey s...