The Wowtown News: Recent Episodes
The Wowtown News
Join tuba playing groundhog Al Camus and psychic reporter Thomas Truax for bite-size updates, strange weather and good fortune in the World's favorite floating expat city.
"It's as if Thornton Wilder and Dr. Seuss had conspired with David Lynch and Nick Cave to script The Waltons, their runtish progeny able to run wild and free in the spookiest of soap operas." - Neil Cooper, The Herald
Thomas, a former animator on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch and Cartoon Network's Robot Chicken, now makes his living as a touring singer/songwriter who invents his own unique and often bizarre musical instruments (such as the Hornicator).
Wowtown News episodes were originally recorded for - and broadcast by -Resonance FM Radio London in 2004 (though of course Wowtown itself has existed since before the beginning of time).
Our beloved town Mascot, tuba playing groundhog Al Camus, laying broken and bandaged with tiny intravenous needles in his tiny furry arms and his large tuba sitting as if in waiting by the bedside, granted me a rare interview this past Tuesday about his incredible brush with death.
Rough Wowtown Weather including meteor rain, a mass exodus of cockroaches, and the unfortunate loss of our beloved town mascot Al Camus on Groundhog Day are all featured.
Against strict city ordinances, Town Mascot Al pursues permission to expand the size of his dwelling so as to accommodate the size of his tuba.
On a traditional trick-or-treat visit to Old Lady Margory's house for Halloween dinner, Groundhog Al reveals why he avoids eating steamed mussels.
Groundhog Al Camus comes across gangster Dutch Schultz's legendary hidden treasure while working on expanding his underground lair in Dog Bark Park.