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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Hiking Day

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Usually when someone tells you to "take a hike," it's insulting. But it's a fine suggestion on November 17, which is Natio...
Friday, November 15, 2024

This Week In Self Help (November 10 12 + 13)

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That picture above is from 2022. I don't print out lots of stuff to read on the air anymore, I read from an iPad. I think our printer we...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Self Help Radio 111224: Shotgun

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(Original image here *) Bang goes the shotgun show. A mostly silly affair with only occasional references to violence. I say this utterly un...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Whither Shotgun?

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(image from the comic Regarding The Matter Of Oswald's Body by Christopher Cantwell & Luca Casalanguida) This is something maybe imp...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Preface To Shotgun: A Ramble

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(Did I ever think I was going to link on this blog to an article about shotguns? Nope.) One of the things that I try to avoid with my dumb s...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Ennio Morricone's Birthday

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(image from here ) Most of the news is bleak. Bleak & ugly. & it ain't getting any better soon. So we thought we'd celebrate...
Friday, November 08, 2024

This Week In Self Help (Nov 3 + 5)

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It was a terrible week for 99% of this country, even those who thought they won. They are not smart & they are horribly racist & sex...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Self Help Radio 110524: A Mental Health Day

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(original image here *) This isn't an episode of Self Help Radio but I'm in the habit of letting you know what I am doing on Tuesday...
Monday, November 04, 2024

Whither A Mental Health Day?

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(Image from the Wikipedia ) Like lots of folks, this election has caused me a great deal of anxiety. Not the candidates I support - but the ...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

Preface To This Week's Show: What's A Mental Health Day?

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(Original image here ) Here's what very well mind dot com says a "mental health day" is: "A mental health day is a day y...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Sandwich Day

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Never before has it felt more fortuitous for a program to be on during the noontime hour! November 3 is National Sandwich Day & that...
Friday, November 01, 2024

This Week In Self Help (Oct 25 27 29 + 31)

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On Friday last week I caught a cold. It happens. It wasn't covid thankfully! But I was laid out for most of Saturday having sudafed lunc...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Scarecrow Movies

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(image from Letterboxd ) Our resident cinephile Chuck came to the show this week to talk all about films tagged with "scarecrow" o...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Self Help Radio 102924: Halloween 2024 - Scarecrows!

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As far as I know, no scarecrows sneaked out of the fields last night to murder unsuspecting families on their isolated farms. Could it be th...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Whither Scarecrows (Halloween 2024)?

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That image above - is it a scarecrow? - from a display in the window of a neighborhood salon, Dye Dye My Darling . My wife insisted I take a...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Preface To Scarecrows: Halloween Theme Dilemma

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Self Help Radio has been on the air for over 22 years now. Every Halloween (except one) there's been a Halloween show. It's not that...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Black Cat Day

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How maligned are our dear friends, the black cats? How they fear Halloween & the constant insults, affronts, & calumnies thrown thei...
Friday, October 25, 2024

This Week In Self Help (Oct 18 20 + 22)

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It was a busy week. Let's see what happened. Oh yeah. I subbed a show last Friday night. It's called Youth Randomonium & they le...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Self Help Radio 10224: Kaleidoscopes

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It's true, yesterday I bought a kaleidoscope. I bought if from here . It's a D-I-Y device, it has a little plastic end that's re...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Whither Kaleidoscopes?

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It seems like I used to have a few kaleidoscopes. In the 1990s, there was a toy store near campus, & at least three times someone gifted...