A program note from Hammertown Community Radio
How recent cuts to arts funding are impacting us
Recent cuts to arts and cultural funding are starting to be felt across our town. The Huffman administration’s plan to shutter the public library and convert its building into a Dave & Buster’s is proceeding. Out at the city zoo in Gunderson Park, the monkeys were released back into the wild sometime during the overnight hours last week. Apropos of that, here’s a public service announcement: The monkey house was home to several feral macaques and one gibbon who is known to be, at a minimum, extremely short-tempered. If you encounter any of these animals in your travels around town, please do not attempt to pet them, feed them or engage with them in any way. Do not make eye contact. Just keep walking. The city no longer carries liability insurance for animal-related mishaps and any unpleasantness with recently-freed animals will be considered an act of God.
Sadly, Hammertown Community Radio is not immune to these convulsions in our civic life. A reduction in funding amounting to 75% has forced us to trim our production schedule. Popular programs including What’s Up, Waukachuk and The Hand Tools Hour will, effective immediately, be available online only. Belgium Today has been cancelled outright. And News and Notes, the station’s flagship offering, is moving to an every-other-week-schedule. If you’re in the downtown area, please drop in at Wicker Hardware and say hello to staff announcer Barry Jeffers, who will be picking up some shifts as a stock boy to make ends meet.
The next installment of News and Notes will be released on Friday, November 21.
Hammertown Community Radio: the NPR-esque South Park of the air waves.
Do Trey Parker and Matt Stone realize they have such serious competition?
Those boys better step up their game if they don't want to end up as the 20-year-old irrelevancies that White House spokesman Taylor Rogers branded them not too long ago. Per Rogers:
“This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Someone should hack the White House and plug in an endless loop of Hammertown Community Radio and see what that fellow has to say then...