Okay, jokes about alligators taking over New Orleans aside, what's happening down south is really fucked up. The lack of planning and incompetence of our so-called government has left a whole lot of people in a shit storm that they can't get out of on their own. It's up to us to help.
Don't get me wrong - I usually never give to charity. Ever. But this situation just feels different, doesn't it? It wasn't just a natural disaster - these people have basically just been left to fend for themselves with no food, no water and no security. The fact that this is happening in the United States, the richest country in the world with near unlimited resources, is beyond disgraceful.
I know that we're a small band and that this is a small website, but I look at the numbers of visitors to this page every day - there are enough of us that if we get together we can make a difference.
So I'm urging you to click the banner on the left of this journal and donate anything you can afford to the American Red Cross. I'm not going to guilt you into anything, but try to give all you can. Think about all the money we throw away on nothing. If you're a social butterfly such as myself, it's probably not uncommon for you to spend between $50 and $100 just on beer, food and rock shows for a weekend. Take the money you would spend on just ONE of those nights and give it to the Red Cross.
As a matter of fact, this is what I'm going to do: Scamper is playing the New England Popfest at the Abbey Lounge on Thursday September 15. The two people that donate the most to the Red Cross between now and then will get in free to that show and the first round of drinks are on me.
Just send me an email telling me how much you donated. The honor system is in full effect - if I find out you used this tragedy to scam me out of a free drink, I'll have Keith bite your balls off. So I guess this isn't so much the "honor system" as the "avoid Keith biting my balls off" system.
Thank you for your time. Please give. Tomorrow, we will return to our regularly scheduled dick jokes.
Don't get me wrong - I usually never give to charity. Ever. But this situation just feels different, doesn't it? It wasn't just a natural disaster - these people have basically just been left to fend for themselves with no food, no water and no security. The fact that this is happening in the United States, the richest country in the world with near unlimited resources, is beyond disgraceful.
I know that we're a small band and that this is a small website, but I look at the numbers of visitors to this page every day - there are enough of us that if we get together we can make a difference.
So I'm urging you to click the banner on the left of this journal and donate anything you can afford to the American Red Cross. I'm not going to guilt you into anything, but try to give all you can. Think about all the money we throw away on nothing. If you're a social butterfly such as myself, it's probably not uncommon for you to spend between $50 and $100 just on beer, food and rock shows for a weekend. Take the money you would spend on just ONE of those nights and give it to the Red Cross.
As a matter of fact, this is what I'm going to do: Scamper is playing the New England Popfest at the Abbey Lounge on Thursday September 15. The two people that donate the most to the Red Cross between now and then will get in free to that show and the first round of drinks are on me.
Just send me an email telling me how much you donated. The honor system is in full effect - if I find out you used this tragedy to scam me out of a free drink, I'll have Keith bite your balls off. So I guess this isn't so much the "honor system" as the "avoid Keith biting my balls off" system.
Thank you for your time. Please give. Tomorrow, we will return to our regularly scheduled dick jokes.
7 Comments:
If the world could just stop getting its ass kicked for like...two fucking months, I could afford those new golf clubs I've been coveting. Donations to disaster relief are like a fifth utility bill at this point.
Do you need receipts?
Your word is good here, my man.
Not to undermine your efforts to donate via the Scamper website, Brendan, but people should check with their workplaces before donating, too. A lot of companies are matching employee donations dollar-for-dollar or up to a certain percentage, which is pretty cool.
Steph, if you undermine me, the alligators win!
No seriously, good point - if someone donates through their work, they're still eligible for my prize pack. You don't have to click on it through our site.
Just email me at brendan@scamper.net and let me know.
If I get IBM to match my donation, do I submit my donation, or the total combined donation? Or do I just give the guy at the door $9 next Thursday?
The window for alligator domination of the Southeastern oil corridor is closing...
I don't know - just tell me what you donated. Fuck IBM.
I disagree with this punishment system. Why don't you do all the balls biting yourself, and leave my husband out of it?
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