Starting off Week Number 3 and, sorry to say, it’s not looking very promising. No contributions or pledges in the last 24 hours, and that sinking feeling maybe it’s not going to have the happy ending I had hoped for. A little over a third of our goal with 17
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Studs Terkel Program – Christopher Isherwood Interview – April 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The prominent novelist Christopher Isherwood is probably best known for his novel Berlin Stories, cited by Time Magazine as one of the
Valentines Day is over – Presidents Day is hours away and your contributions are trickling in. I’m heading into the Third Week of this Past Daily Emergency Fundraiser a little apprehensive. Sure, yesterday was a holiday for a lot of people – dinners and reservations and flowers. The mass outpouring
The end of our second week of the Past Daily Emergency Fundraiser and we’re smack in the middle of Valentine’s Day. It would be a wonderful opportunity to slather phrases like “Spread the love and kick in a few bucks” or “Lookin’ for Fifty Shades of Green” all over, but
Okay – I’ll admit it; I’m shameless – I’m trying a little bit of everything to get your attention – here come the cute dog photos. I can’t begin to tell you how much your contributions have meant to keeping Past Daily up and running and the Archive safe from
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Blur In Session – Top Of The Pops – John Peel – 1990 – BBC Radio 1 Continuing 90s week with one of the bands who made the party complete. Blur was the game changer in 1990
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – The World Today – February 11, 2005 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Ten years ago today – Britain’s Prince Charles announced his engagement to longtime Mistress Camilla Parker Bowles, from then on to be
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – live at Finsbury Park – 1992 – BBC Radio 1 Continuing our week of 90s with a visit from Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, in concert from Finsbury Park in 1992, recorded by the venerable
We’re in Week Number 2 of our Save Us From The Wrecking Ball Emergency Fundraiser. It’s been slow and the pledges haven’t been coming in at all since yesterday. We desperately need your support and we’ve gotten only 13% of our goal. Our vault space rent has been raised and
As you all know by now, we’re in Emergency mode, trying to raise enough contributions to prevent a pending eviction and Past Daily passing into oblivion. It’s the end of our first week – and we’ve gotten a LOT of incredible responses from you. Everyone who has pitched in so
