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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Coming Up On The Dickenbock Report: Mae Boren Axton's Birthday

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(image from here ) On September 14, 1914, Mae Boren Axton was born. A Texas-born, Oklahoma-raised songwriter, she would come to greatest fam...
Friday, September 12, 2025

This Week In Self Help: September 5 7 9 + 11

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One last not very good picture of the moon. This one you can almost make out its features. I need to get a real camera. Here is this week: F...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Self Help Radio 090925: Moonlight

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Last night - though I think it got cloudy during the show - I drove to KBOO under the light of a waning gibbous moon - I missed the full moo...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Whither Moonlight?

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Yesterday I mentioned that I've tried unsuccessfully for years now to take a decent picture of the moon. Almost always I try to take pic...
Sunday, September 07, 2025

Preface To Moonlight: Prepare For Some Terrible Photos Of The Moon!

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At some point in time, around 2014, I noticed my wife had a digital camera she wasn't using. I asked if I could use it. She replied - sh...
Saturday, September 06, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Beer Lovers Day

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September 7 is National Beer Lovers Day. While noon may be a little early in the day to be enjoying a beer, The Dickenbock Report hopes you ...
Friday, September 05, 2025

This Week In Self Help: August 29 + 31 & September 2

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Above is a picture of the walls of Edinburgh Castle taken when I visited Scotland in 2016. It's pretty much the only picture of a castle...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Self Help Radio 090225: Avalon

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Self Help Radio traveled to Avalon for this show. Figuratively, of course. Avalon is a legendary place. It most probably never really existe...
Monday, September 01, 2025

Whither Avalon?

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(illustration of Avalon from here ) When it comes to these themes I explore, I sometimes have straightforward ways of deciding on them &...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Preface To Avalon: King Arthur & Me

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(The cover of Camelot 3000 # 1 found here ) As a child, I loved fantasy & sci-fi more or less equally, though when it came to old storie...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Zoo Awareness Day

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(sign at the Dublin Zoo, found here ) Are you not aware that we still keep animals in zoos for our own amusement? Also that zoos often emplo...
Friday, August 29, 2025

This Week In Self Help: August 24 & 26

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It was one of the first regular weeks I've had in a while - I just did my three shows. One show of which follows immediately another sho...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Self Help Radio 082625: Indiepop A To Z # 78

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(images in collage found at Discogs & Bandcamp ) This show was a show of two firsts, one trivial, one alarming. The trivial first is th...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 78?

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Every four months I try to get closer to the end of my Indiepop A To Z series. Begun with the letter A in 2004, I am now in the letter S, wh...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 78: Cute Animals

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One defining feature of me is that I am wholly incapable of successfully making any sort of mark on social media. It's not that I wouldn...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Knife Day

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August 24 is National Knife Day. We will be reporting on knives on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. We have spent the whole week reminding ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

This Week In Self Help August 15 17 19 + 21

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Another busy week damn. Friday the 15th: The Songcircle on KBOO. All new releases. Listen at KBOO . Listen at Self Help Radio . Sunday the 1...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Self Help Radio 081925: Eternity

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Driving to do the show last night, I reflected on how many late-night radio shows I've driven to, in all kinds of weather, in the darkes...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Whither Eternity?

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One day recently eternity was on my mind. Not in any supernatural sense - I don't have any supernatural beliefs - but in the sense of ...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Preface To Eternity: My First Glimpse Of Eternity

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That's it. That's Steve Ditko's drawing of Eternity from the Dr. Strange comic. I don't know if when I was a kid I had an id...