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Friday, March 08, 2024

Self Help Radio 030724: The Alphabet

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You have before you a radio show about the alphabet. It's the Latin alphabet. With a very short interlude into Hebrew. Very short. Mostl...
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Thursday, March 07, 2024

Whither The Alphabet?

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(image by Matt Baker at usefulcharts.com ) Here's a funny thing. I was absolutely convinced that the idea for a radio show about the alp...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Preface To The Alphabet: Just Letters

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(image from here ) This is something I've always asserted but I don't think I've ever actually researched. Or maybe I heard abou...
Tuesday, March 05, 2024

A Story About Sleep Problems

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(Ooo, gabapentin. Image from here .) For as long as I can remember, I've had a bit of a hard time getting to sleep. Even when I abstain ...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Tired

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(Don't know where the shirt is from, but you can buy it here .) After I left Austin in 2009, I wasn't sure I would be able to do rad...
Friday, March 01, 2024

Self Help Radio 022924: One More

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(original calendar image  here ) Ooo, I keep feeling like I have to explain the theme of the show when it's kinda self-explanatory. Ther...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Whither One More?

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(image from here ) That image above is a bit inscrutable if you don't click the link to learn "What Is A Leap Year?" The only ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Preface To One More: Not A Lot To Say About This Theme

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(from here , probably) You probably have guessed - I said it on last week's show - that the theme of this week's show is "one m...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Clockface(s)

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Two pictures of a clock's face. This photo was taken in the summer of 2016 when we were house-hunting in Fort Worth. It's probably r...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Damo

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(image from here ) Someone I know who does radio refuses to devote shows to musicians who've just passed - they refer to such programs a...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Self Help Radio 022224: Small Town

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(original image here ) When I went to college in 1986, I had decided too late to get into any dorms. The biggest dorm on campus was (& s...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Whither Small Town?

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(image from here ) That's a picture of my home town, Garland, Texas, actually not very far from where I was born. I was born at a clinic...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Preface To Small Town: Why Not Small Towns?

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(no idea where I found this, sorry) There are two possible reasons why the theme this week is "small town" & not "small t...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Only Lovers Left Alive

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That's the name of a Jim Jarmusch film . It's a film I enjoyed. It's also what I called this picture taken on this day in 2017. ...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Ghost Of Bloggins Past

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Could this really have been a thing? Could I have written nonsense for several years in a blog called "The War On Sailing"? The an...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Self Help Radio 021524: Purpose

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(Argh! It's purpose not porpoise - never mind - original image here .) Purpose is a loaded term. People desperately want to find purpo...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Whither Purpose?

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(photo by Daniel Arnold, found here ) The main definition of the noun "purpose" is "the reason for which something is done or...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Preface To Purpose - On Valentine's Day?!?

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Happy Valentine's Day! I don't want to beat you over the head with a link to last week's Valentine's Day show (you know wher...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

World Radio Day

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February 13 is World Radio Day . To celebrate the day, this morning I played a lot of songs about the radio on my KBOO show Corporate Standa...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Falling In Love In Film

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(image from the IMDb ) It's Valentine' Day week so you are free to romantically listen to a romantical episode of Self Help Radio - ...