You guys are so sweet!
Basically, the project was doomed from the start, because it takes about 50-60 hours of labor to produce an hour of radio theater (this is why what Clay Pigeon does is even more impressive than it seems). We thought we could fill the gap with listener submissions, live in-studios with our friends in the experimental theater world, and archival stuff from the WFMU library, PennSound, and Ubu.com. It wound up being mostly archival stuff, because most of the listener submissions were terrible (and not even fun-terrible in that Irwin/Kenny G way) and even when our friends made radio-friendly work it was really difficult to wrangle them. Ultimately this reliance on archival material made our show redundant with the 24/7 Ubu stream, and there are only a few one-hour slots on the schedule. There is still lots of love between WFMU and me, and we have an open invitation to come back, or reinvent the show as a podcast or webstream, but it was an incredible amount of work, and Karinne moved away anyway.
Here's what she's doing now, incidentally:
http://hilobrow.com/2011/06/02/linda-1/I might try and do a music show someday. Every WFMU DJ works hard, even if their thing is not your (or my) thing, but the idea of showing up an hour or two early and sifting through the New Bin seems preferable to spending 20 hours a week trawling for radio plays.
