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Friday, June 30, 2023

Self Help Radio 062923: Howard Gently Year One

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Sorry for that terrible graphic. I have not a lot of time today. Anyway, my friend Russell would have chuckled at it. I hope. On the show I ...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Whither Howard Gently Year One?

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On the Self Help Radio website , the theme today is "Russell." That was very much the theme of this week's episode of Corporat...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Preface To Russell: The Road To Howard Gently

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Sometime in early 2014 I was looking to make a change. I had been doing Self Help Radio for twelve years & I could've kept doing it ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Corporate Standardized Programming Brother Russell Show

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(image of "Brother Russell" from the back of his second CD, found here ) Last night (or this morning - it's been a long day) I...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Radio Filled With Brother Russell

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Tonight on my show on KBOO, Corporate Standardized Programming, I'll play lots of pranks featuring the woman on the left up there, the v...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Self Help Radio 062223: Codes

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Tips for decoding this week's Self Help Radio: listen carefully. That's all. It's not very complex, this code. It's mainly j...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Whither Codes?

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Use code names! Sometimes shows begat shows. A few weeks ago there was a Self Help Radio episode about telegraphy - mainly telegrams & ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Preface To Codes: A Small Favor

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(image from here ) My wife told me recently that we've moved from the "marriages & births" part of our lives to the "...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Russell

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I have lost my oldest friend. I have lost a brother. Russell & I met when I was in seventh grade & he in eighth at Memorial Middle S...
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Monday, June 19, 2023

My Friend Russell & Me

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A picture from 1993. Thirty years ago. Probably taken by my friend Lauren. It was in this place .
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...