WFMU fundraising marathon 2010

So it begins again Monday! Mailed my check yesterday -- for less than I would like cuz I owe some eyeteeth to Uncle Sam.

http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/schedule.shtml

i still owe some $$$ to ... wfmu from last time
but i'll still be phoning in a pledge!

haven't really digested the schedule yet but i look forward to ill advised co-host pairings nonetheless

i might do the $180 donation ($15 per month). i've been a bad fmu supporter these past few years.

anyone here a Best Show listener?
I just quit listening religously after 2 years, and I feel like a dark cloud has lifted from my life.

I've given a little more each year, last year sacrificing my donation to my local NPR affiliate to do it. Am considering a Mouse pledge this year, but that's a big jump.

Definitely doing $75 again esp. since /rupture mixes sound great. Not super excited about having to listen to the fundraising for two weeks though.

i mainly dig the fundraising programming but even if you don't, i feel like the music content usually improves; shows like sinner's crossroads feeding some of the premium into the setlist increases the hit ratio.

some of my fave shows are for the on-mic banter anyway

it begins!

highlights thus far?

the banter yesterday between irene trudel and another wfmu host was hilarious. will donate.

hearing ilx's brian/mackro's name mentioned as one of the pledgers during the best show!

crucifying Andy Breckman could be ...interesting

anyone here a Best Show listener?
I just quit listening religously after 2 years, and I feel like a dark cloud has lifted from my life.

i listen sometimes, but less now. i'd like to know why you stopped. did you ever call in?

an acquaintance called in a few weeks ago and got pwnd.

I just got home... what did YLT play before "TV Eye"?

nah, i never called... I can't really describe why I got tired of Best Show without sounding like a fucking hippy but it just started to feel really relentlessly negative and almost culty to me, with constant griping about perceived slights and and a kind of ugly pecking order among the callers.

but I think Sharpling and Wurster are fucking brilliant and hilarious and next-level shit at their best and the show is worthy of its name, which says a lot

Scharpling hates the last few Tarantino films btw

I saw the Violent Femmes at Folk City in '82... Ira booked 'em.

ugly pecking order among the callers = roffles when callers get convinced of their place in the pecking order though, right? at least scharpling is proving himself to be way more vicious to show regulars than i thought at first. quantity's what's done it for me wrt the best show the last couple years; it's just harder to give a three-hour show like that the attention it deserves, and i wind up tuning out the wurster calls especially.

still worth it for the juggalo episode alone though

ugly pecking order among the callers = roffles when callers get convinced of their place in the pecking order though, right?
― trip goin' hammer (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, March 6, 2010 1:06 AM (53 minutes ago)

OTM

i think one of my favorite calls of the past few years, and one that i've revisited on multiple occasions, is the first call from hugman. the fact that the initial minute or two seems to be scharpling stringing this guy "hugman" along just to GOMP him gives way to this fantastic story from hugman which i don't even want to spoil. it's a great episode all around featuring fine turns from patton oswalt and wurster with an airhorn. iirc it's the 12/30/08 episode.

An idea that popped into my head this morning, which I posted on the Talk's Cheap comments section a few minutes ago: a free version of the iPhone app with the 32k live stream only, and a paid version with the 128k stream, the other three streams, the archives and podcasts. Station needs to start getting paid.

Major excitement in the phone room last night w/ exposure of Andy Breckman's cell number. Best of all, his more personable cardboard-cutout self was there.

"WHAT'S SEXTING?"

have not had a chance to hear John Hodgman-Patton Oswalt sci-fi trivia faceoff from Scharpling the other night.

I'm listening to it right this moment. Funny as expected.

WIBJ?!

wau, DJ Icepack!

That was pretty cool.

have not had a chance to hear John Hodgman-Patton Oswalt sci-fi trivia faceoff from Scharpling the other night.

loved this. esp the part where they both shouted "TIME AND RELATIVE DISTANCE IN SPACE!" in unison. and when hodgman said, "TOS or TNG?"

Wish I'd brought some gladiolas to toss at Mlle Braun.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35055