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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Pharmacist Day

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(image by Mohamed Hassan from PxHere ) January 12 is National Pharmacist Day. If you're unlucky enough to have a pharmacist in your fam...
Friday, January 10, 2025

This Week In Self Help January 3 5 + 7

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Do you know why I picked that picture for this post? Me neither! I took it in 2017. So. There's that. A week ago - January 3 - I was on ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Self Help Radio 010725: A Peculiar Show

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(original image from Gooble Maps ) Let it be known I'm not terribly happy with my terrible Photoshop job above. It's just that I don...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Whither A Peculiar Show?

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(This seems mean. Image from here .) From nearly the very beginning of Self Help Radio I have not been entirely content having shows about t...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

Preface To Peculiar: Is This Show Peculiar?

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The image above is the Peanuts  strip from January 9, 1963. It was scanned by me from the Fantagraphics collection. I chose it because, well...
Saturday, January 04, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: George Reeves' Birthday

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(image from the Wikipedia ) George Reeves - the most famous actor to play Superman until the movie in 1978 - was born on January 5, 1914 - o...
Friday, January 03, 2025

This Week In Self Help December 29 + 31

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(from Poorly Drawn Lines , of course) Boy, 2024 ended poorly. One of the worst endings of any year since 2016-2019. & to make matters wo...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

End-Of-The-Year Accounting

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(original image here ) This is a boring & self-serving blog entry so feel free to stop reading right here. I actually took the time this...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Self Help Radio 123124: Indiepop A To Z # 76

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(all images from Discogs ) For the last Self Help Radio episode of 2024 - happening on the last day of 2024 - I present the 76th installment...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 76?

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(image of The Sedgemorons from here ) Many years ago - seventy five episodes ago, at least - I began a series called "Indiepop A To Z....
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 76: Three Times A Year

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Here's a picture of my cat Bluto, with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Ziggy Bowie. Bluto is often twee but on this day was feeling a ...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: International Cello Day

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(image from the Wikipedia ) December 29 is International Cello Day. Dick Dickenbock, being a big fan of music, loves to showcase musical ins...
Friday, December 27, 2024

This Week In Self Help (December 22 + 24)

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(found somewhere on Tumblr ) This was a week when I only did two radio shows but three of my shows aired. & two of those shows are back-...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Self Help Radio 122424: Gary's Favorite Music 2024

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(images from Discogs & Bandcamp ) Here it is! A collection of two hours of some - but not all - of my favorite music of the year. I kno...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Whither Gary's Favorite Music 2024

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(original logo here ) It's that time of year when you see "best of" lists everywhere. I've expressed my dislikes for such ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Preface To Gary's Favorite Music 2024: Criticism

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(Norman Rockwell, The Art Critic {1955} found here ) Critics in general have terrible reputation. In my opinion (which by the way is not a p...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Mark's Show

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(photo of Mark unavailable at press time) Tonight is the Dickenbock Report staff & crew's holiday party. If it's like our other ...
Friday, December 20, 2024

This Week In Self Help (December 15 17 + 19)

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(image from here ) It was a regular ol' week for me as I just did my three shows. One of my three shows immediately follows another of m...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Self Help Radio 121724: Howard Gently Year Three, Concluded

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Maybe not entirely  concluded. We made it to January 2017. The show contained lots of Howard Gently bits - improvised with my late friend Ru...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Whither Howard Gently Year Three, Concluded?

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That image up there is the one my friend Russell chose as the "press photo" of his "alter ego" Brother Russell. It appea...