How to Survive the KEXP Fund Drive

Don't get us wrong. We love love love the station. We are members. We give them money. We encourage you to support them. But we can't take the fund drive.

Our alarm clock wakes us at 7 weekdays to John in the Morning. That's okay when he's playing the Jam, or Love, or, as lately, it's Black History Month Spotlight. What we can't take is waking up to spazzy pleas for money, especially as the pleas escalate towards each hourly goal. We get that they have to do it; that doesn't mean we have to listen to it.

Some possible solutions we'll be experimenting with this week:

1. Waking up to NPR
2. Waking up to Howard Stern
3. Setting the alarm to "buzz"
4. Sleeping in and waking up whenever

Good luck on your pledge drive, KEXP. We'll see you next week.

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By susan in Arts & Events on February 28, 2005 9:05 AM

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Ozzy Osmond

They'd be a lot easier to open a wallet for had they not been in bed with Paul Allen since their call letters changed. However, I'll buy a double-americano for whoever at the station is responsible for the elimination of Amanda Milde. And a quad-americano for a dj who takes a nod from jersey's wfmu and delves from the safe and sane indie pop formula and plays something scary and adventurous and unsafe.