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Friday, July 21, 2023

Self Help Radio 072023: 1987 (Continued)

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(images from Discogs ) Here ya go. Two more hours of my favorite music from 1987. (This is continued from a show earlier this year .) It can...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Whither 1987 (Continued)?

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Hey look. It's a picture of me. Up a tree. Probably in January 1987. I grew my first real beard that winter. & shaved it off sometim...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Preface To 1987 (Part Two): Another 1987 Anecdote

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This might be a story I've told before. I warn you, it has some hateful language in it. I apologize but it's kinda the punchline. So...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Plane

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Sometimes I take pictures in lieu of journal entries. I don't save all the photos I take but I save some. Like the one above. What is it...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Yes Buffet

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Here is a photo I took in Grand Prairie, Texas, in March. I titled it "My philosophy - the sign." It's this place . I didn...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Self Help Radio 071323: The Dumb Show

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(Original image here ) Dumb show? More like FUNmb show, amirite? Oh that was dumb. My week of computer hell continued yesterday with my lapt...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Whither The Dumb Show?

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(image from the Wikipedia ) First of all, I do know what a dumbshow is. Says the Wikipedia, Dumbshow, also dumb show or dumb-show, is defin...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Preface To Dumb: Bumper Stickers

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Isn't it fascinating what people will put on their cars? Imagine that one thought - Baby Boomers Are Dumb - so resonated with this drive...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Learning How To Be Supportive

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(Portland is supportive) Some people are kind. Some people are kind & clear-sighted. Some people are kind & pragmatic. I confess tha...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Goldilocks

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("Story of Golden Locks" by Seymour Joseph Guy from  here ) Last week's Self Help Radio - a show about locks - featured a visi...
Saturday, July 08, 2023

Self Help Radio 070623: Locks

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Apologies for the delay. I have been having issues with my web hosting company & what appears to be some change in their FTP protocol. T...
Thursday, July 06, 2023

Whither Locks?

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Though it's true there was a Self Help Radio episode about keys once upon a time, & that some of the songs (naturally) mentioned lo...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Preface To Locks: Locks On The Gates Of Empty Houses

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There's a street in my neighborhood that has at the very least three empty houses - I call them "ghost houses" although I don...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Fireworks

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As the day ends, jerks in our neighborhood, not caring about all the animals they might frighten nor the fires they may cause, explode firew...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Brötzmann

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(image from Wikipedia ) Free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann died on June 22 . I became an admire only after I was completely baffled by his wor...
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...