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Friday, February 02, 2024

Self Help Radio 020124: Telescopes

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(original image here ) Look up in the sky! Can't you see? It's a radio show! It's very far away so use the telescope! It's i...
Thursday, February 01, 2024

Whither Telescopes?

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(image from here ) Are you're asking me why there will be a radio show about telescopes today? Um, because telescopes are awesome! I sho...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Preface To Telescopes: A Cartoon By Tom Gauld

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Tom Gauld is a very funny & inventive cartoonist & illustrator whose work mixes science & reading & all the fun things in li...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Becoming Friends

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This is a picture from one year ago. We had lost our cat Bolan earlier in the month. You can read about him here . Our cat Boone had been on...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Kazoo

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(image from here ) Yesterday (January 28) was National Kazoo Day. On the show that I do on XRAY, The Dickenbock Report, I played lots of son...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Self Help Radio 012524: Suitcases

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Hooray! This week's Self Help Radio fit into one suitcase! I'll admit I had to force it a bit. It was not easy. & frankly I don...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Whither Suitcases?

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Do you believe in magic? Because I don't. Not really. It has never however stopped me from attempting to cast spells. By spells I mean t...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Preface To Suitcases: Unwanted Luggage

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A picture taken at D/FW Airport in 2018. The leftover suitcases huddling together for warmth. Are they lost luggage from a different flight?...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

I Just Adore A Courthouse View

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A year ago today I was called to jury duty. Jury duty! It was a case of a family suing three corporations for the shit corporations do - a c...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Some Films From 1988

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(image from the IMDb ) Last week on Self Help Radio I played some of my favorite music from 1988. During the show, our resident cinephile Ch...
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...