Send WFMU's station manager aloft with party balloons tied to a lawn chair

Benjamen Walker is the host and producer of WFMU's Too Much Information, an appealingly bizarre and exquisitely produced hour-long show that combines the sensibilities of Paul Krassner, The Church of the SubGenius, This American Life, Art Bell, and Joe Frank. You can subscribe to the podcast here.

Benjamen just told me that WFMU's station manager is raising funds for the station today by launching into the air with a lawnchair attached to helium party balloons. For every $1000 in donations, staffers will tie one balloon to the chair. There's a live video stream here.

(If you aren't familiar with WFMU, you are missing out. It's the best radio station ever. Here's the free iPhone app that streams archives and live broadcasts of the show.)

• [erg79]

  Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything was also great:

  http://wfmu.org/playlists/BR
  http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510061

• [Anonymous]

  Stop wasting precious helium as has been reported on your very own BB: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/23/have-we-reached-peak.html

• [dr.psilo]

  What a colossal waste of helium.

• [jeffasselin]

  Considering we are going to run out of helium within 30 years:

  http://www.physorg.com/news201853523.html

  I think this is a waste of helium…

  BTW Mythbusters actually tested and confirmed this one see:

  http://mythbustersresults.com/pilot3

• [Haroun]

  If you aren’t familiar w/WFMU you’ve already missed out. They used to be a truly great piece of radio art, now it’s a bunch of dweebs who think they’re cool ’cause they have a show on FMU. Too much preening about how great they are & precious little great music anymore.

  • [Anonymous]

    The spirit of freeform radio is very much alive in WFMU. It’s as great as it ever was, and it needs the support its listeners.

    So shame on you, haroun, for discouraging new people from giving it a chance. You’re the pretentious preening critic here. Besides, WFMU has an extensive archive of its shows, so nobody would have to miss out regardless.

• [lectroid]

  if the Mythbusters’ past experiment holds up, they’re going to need a LOT of balloons to get a 180lb man plus lawnchair aloft. IIRC, they needed ~3500 balloons to lift a 50 lb girl.

• [StRevAlex]

  I’m envious of this lucky station manager! And, yeah, WFMU is phenomenal, one of the best.

• [Swizzlebat]

  Best station after KALX Berkeley, you mean.