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Friday, January 19, 2024

Self Help Radio 011824: 1988

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(images all from Discogs ) Here it is, a selection of some of my favorite music from 1988. Actually it's a selection of some of my favor...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Whither 1988?

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(image from here ) In October 2002, I started Self Help Radio. In January 2003, around the time of my birthday, I thought, "Why don...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Preface To 1988: My Twentieth Year On Earth

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What a sleeping beauty I was. Good lord. My sister Pat probably took that picture. Was I not wearing socks? There are so many things to say ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The Age Of Twenty

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There are not a lot of flattering pictures of me from 1988. The one above - probably taken in the autumn of 1988 - is as close as one might ...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Busy Snow Day

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It's been cold & snowy in Portland for days now. My schedule is kinda out of whack - I haven't taken the dogs on a proper walk i...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Self Help Radio 011124: Hitchhiking

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"One of the more tiring aspects of hitchhiking is a need to be sociable & make conversation with whoever is driving you. It would b...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Whither Hitchhiking?

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(image from here ) There's a quote on the  Wikipedia page about hitchhiking  from someone named Julian Portis about the supposed decline...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Preface To Hitchhiking: Never Hitchhiked

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(image from here ) The sign above is (was?) (probably still is) in Arizona, but I could swear there are similar signs on I-45 in Texas. Lots...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Oh Deer

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Bad weather's coming. Or it's already here. Winter storm: Tornadoes, flooding rain threaten east coast , says an ABC News headline. ...
Monday, January 08, 2024

Living Room Set

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Over the course of maybe eight years I've been taking random pictures on dogwalks, drives, etc. The phrase "living room set" h...
Friday, January 05, 2024

Self Help Radio 010424: Dandelions

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The first Self Help Radio of 2024 was a bit flowery. Just one flower, actually. The dandelion. Oh did you not think there'd be enough da...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Whither Dandelions?

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One thing I know is true: you don't need a reason to do anything if it involved flowers. You don't need a reason to give someone flo...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Preface To Dandelions: Wishes

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Though I have taken many more pictures of flowers in Portland than anywhere else - people here love their gardens - I snapped that little fe...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Welcome 2024

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It's been a bit damp so far. But I spend a lot of time making radio shows, so I stay dry. Hope for the best. Know the worst is yet to co...
Monday, January 01, 2024

The Yearly Tally

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It's time for me to reveal to anyone who cares (& it's not that many people) how many radio shows I made in 2023. It is somethin...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Self Help Radio 122823: Indiepop A To Z # 73

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(most images found at Discogs ) It was the last Self Help Radio of 2023. It was the seventy-third installment of the Indiepop A To Z series....
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 73?

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(A twee kitty named Bluto) In February of 2003, during the first year of Self Help Radio, I thought of an occasional series of radio shows i...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 73: Goodbye Letter R

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(taken from this YouTube clip ) At this point I'm going to stop drawing attention to how weird & OCD it is to spend over seventy epi...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Two Years Ago On This Day It Snowed

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Proof. The wife said, "People are telling me it's been very unusually warm here this year & that we should have had snow by now...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Christmas

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Boy, Christmas used to be exciting for me. Not for any of the religious stuff - that was never emphasized in our home & I was never forc...