Saturday, March 27, 2010

Spring

Lovely Mediterranean weather. Heartbreakingly lovely. Light Santa Ana winds have swept the chronic particulate matter from the atmosphere. The middle distances are crisp, magnified, hyper-real. I think the hills to the east have browned between daybreak and noon.

Days like this used to mean bobbing on a fiberglass plank in the ocean, an ocean usually as torpid and greasy as the masses laying out up on the sand, making unanswered supplications to the gods of freak outside sets, surrounded by too many other people. Now it means to me mostly that I don't do that anymore.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

KCRW Subscription

I noted back in October that I had signed up for $10/monthly subscription to KCRW (as well as a slightly smaller one to the other Los Angeles-area NPR station, KPCC).

At the end of last year, my credit card expired. I was sent a new one and my account number didn't change, but that particular card was no longer usable. The KPCC subscription continued without interruption or any action on my part. The KCRW subscription, I noticed this week when I paid my latest credit card bill online, hasn't been paid since December.

I guess I could just re-subscribe. But I'd like to simply continue my current membership. So I sent an email to membership@kcrw.org:

I subscribed to KCRW at recurring $10/mo level last year. But I don't see any charges since the beginning of this year. My credit card expired last year -- old card was reissued so my cc number didn't change, just the expiration. Other subscriptions I have continued without interruption.

Can you check the status of my membership? My number is XXXXX84. If the subscription did get broken, what's the best (i.e. simplest) way to restart it?

Thanks,
Tom


A couple days and no reply. I thought KCRW was the tech-forward NPR station. How much money are they leaving on the table because of this issue?