We interrupt this breaking news to ask you for some money.
Manuel Noriega got Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile." Saddam supporters got the theme from Barney the Dinosaur. And this week, KUOW listeners get Guy Nelson and Marcie Sillman riffing on the phrase "call now and give us money, please."
Maybe it's not that bad -- Noriega couldn't change the station, after all -- but fall pledge drive season is upon us, and no one likes the pledge drive.
But you will cough up some dough if you ever want to hear a regular slate of public radio programming again. For whatever reason -- tradition, apathy, guilt's supremacy as a moneymaking emotion -- we seem to be stuck with it as a fundraising tool.
As a responsible public radio listener, Seattlest has of course been there, done that, and selected the KUOW long-sleeved t-shirt as our thank-you gift. (In fact, we think we've got at least one day sponsorship that we should figure out what to do with.)
We're just grateful that KEXP and KPLU don't hold their pledge drives at the same time. Our morning commute can continue more or less as usual -- just with a different voice giving us our local news.
