by Leesa Schandel, Director of Development
It wasn’t the best weekend for Seattle sports. I know this because Facebook posts were rife with excitement each morning, and by evening sports fans were reporting on how they planned to drown their sorrows.
Lucky for us, the Seattle music community had a phenomenal weekend. Local artists showed their [...]
It’s the 2009 Summer Membership Drive, which means it’s a Hood to Hood Challenge, which means that my head immediately goes to Hood to Hood Days Past, kinda’ like Ebenezer Scrooge’s visits from the three spirits. I started working for KEXP the week of the first Hood to Hood, and then Ballard won, and I [...]
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by Leesa Schandel, Director of Development
I’m sad that everyone who participates in KEXP membership drives can’t be in the building with us. It’s just a really cool, sort of indescribable happy and supportive vibe. You just really really feel like you’re among YOUR peeps. So, here’s a bit about some of your peeps.
LOUIE: This morning’s [...]
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by Leesa Schandel, Director of Development
We just came off a super sassy weekend — it’s the KEXP 2009 Spring Membership Drive, so things are steroidal around here. I think I’ll have a pretty awesome week, if Friday and Sunday nights are any indication.
Friday, Leon gave me a tiny airplane bottle of Jack Daniels, so I [...]
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by Leesa Schandel, Director of Development
We’re counting down the Top 903 KEXP records of all time. There’s nothing like a radio countdown. A local station used to do “Beatles A to Z” when I was a kid. My siblings and I would try to stay up all night and record the songs off the [...]
Jesse Sykes in pledge room
by Leesa Schandel, Director of Development
Did I mention that I have a kidney transplant? Well, I do. My sister gave me a piece of her body nearly five years ago. If anything has taught me humility and gratitude, it’s that.
Before I had my transplant, I was [...]
by Leesa Schandel, Director of Development
I gotta tell you that Membership Drives are INTENSE.
Today, a guy came into the station and dropped of a manilla envelope that was 1/3rd full of change, topped with two match books. He told someone that he’d saved the change for six months. I never got to meet [...]
Today, I sat in a corner of the call room, typing typing typing. I didn’t really get to meet anyone. Early on, I somehow found myself in a meeting and I tried really hard to focus. I also tried really hard to listen to the concerns of loved ones who think I’m becoming myopic in [...]
Brains need stuff to keep them going. My brain has stopped receiving stuff from me. Except it keeps getting a lot of caffeine, alcohol, and cheese pizza. This is not a good thing. This is a bad thing. My brain does not live by coffee, beer and pizza pies, alone. [...]
The weekend of the Summer Membership Drive has been a blur of espresso drinks, t-shirts, and special encounters with new friends and old friends.
On Friday night, Jessica stopped by the station in response to Kevin and Rachel’s invite to come on down, make a gift, get some dinner and hang out. Jessica’s from Miami, where [...]
