The WFMU Marathon is Coming!

The harbingers are always the same. The leaves fall from the trees, the skies turn grey, the song of the beached whale and the drunk wino grows silent, and then, without warning... The Annual WFMU Marathon seizes your heart, mind, wallet, and bandwidth! Yes indeed, get ready to surrender your expectations of decency at the door for this tradition of unmitigated desperation and indignity! For two weeks, WFMU listeners and staffers alike magically transform the mundane idea of fundraising into the jewel in the crown of a year's worth of broadcasting. From February 27th through March 12th, WFMU will ask for your financial support in whatever amount you can muster so that we may continue to bring you exactly the sort of aural delirium that you've grown to expect from entities like this blog, our archives, our On The Download page, and most of all, our audio streams and FM signals -- all of which would come to a grinding halt without the support of the good-hearted citizens of the world. (You, I mean.)

And of course, we reward you substantially for your generosity. In the coming weeks, everyone on WFMU's mailing list will be receiving our pre-marathon brochure which outlines the various pledge levels and the outstanding amounts of unique swag that each level entitles you to. If you don't find one in your mailbox, don't sweat it -- You can still make an online or telephone pledge at any time during the 'thon, and be qualified to win zillions of prizes that our DJs will be offering as bait. Of course, that's inbetween all the stunts, desperate pleas, drunken monologues from volunteers, Yo La Tengo's annual live broadcast (slated for the evening of March 7th), unhealthy amounts of whitefish salad, webcam horseplay, MP3s from our fabled DJ premiums, and the icing on the broadcast cake -- drunken, singing DJs fronting the Hoof n' Mouth Sinfonia! (You can download and watch videos of all of last years intoxicating performances here.)

So get ready! It's gonna be a broadcast blast for the ages that touches the lives and soils the reputations of all who witness or participate!

Comments

[John L]

Oh boy! Marathon starts a day before Mardi Gras (parades start 2/10, check the bourbocam and paradecam/streetcarcam at nola.com)

I wonder if there will be any reference to FMU's heroics re: WWOZ.

Anyway, looking forward to it.

Cheers,

Lipwak