We were talking yesterday about the online fundraising entity “Kickstarter.” There are many sites out there these days for the suddenly popular practice of “crowdfunding.” It isn’t so different from old-fashion panhandling, except you do it on the Web. I chose Kickstarter for our experiment, because it has been around; it’s a pioneer. Plus, they have real people in a real office somewhere in San Francisco. Several other things make Kickstarter different. It primarily serves creative projects, projects that supposedly have an appeal and a benefit to more than the supplicant. The biggest difference, however, is that fund raisers set a goal for a Kickstarter campaign at the outset, and if that goal is not met, no money is collected. I’m not sure why that’s a good thing, but it seems reasonable to me. Potential donors don’t get nickeled and dimed to death, I suppose. If the goal is exceeded, that is,well… exceedingly good.
It will work something like this. Readers, hereafter referred to as “you,” will not be buying anything. You will be contributing money to the project. More about that later. However, if you contribute at certain levels, you will receive a “reward.” Much more about that later, too. For example, you might choose to receive an Arlo & Janis back scratcher as a reward for pledging $25. Or more. (Did you catch that last part?) But don’t get excited; the back scratcher is just an example. More tomorrow.
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Debbe 😉 Sock hop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSF2SoNaZSc
The next person I plan to meet is Lhee and see more of her art. I hope to get there this next week. I have to to Joplin, MO to pick up a boat from a friend..
Old Bear tell me again, aren’t you in North Dakota? I would enjoy meeting any of the Village to be honest. I had hoped to go to Australia this winter to meet Rusty but Rusty. Is off having adventures right now.
Any of us close to Mackinac Island?
I am going back to Marks to trap a few more cats in early July so that will be hotter than blue blaze. When Mark used to invite me to come take a few cats home I thought it was a joke.
Anyone between Oklahoma and Alabama enroute?
emb & I are MN though some distance apart
I am getting 100,000 mile service and paint and dings removed on my mimi van next week, then pro detailed, CAMERA AND GPS IN TRUCK IT IS MISSING. I CAN’T GO ANYWHERE UNTIL I DO THOSE.
plus I have two tests and two doctors. I hate being responsible.
This weekend is our community 10. Ile garage sale, already begun. I am putting on a strapless shorts romper, one of those sheer jacket thingies, a big brim hat and some walking sneaks and go check out at least the neighbors sales.
Mark, this is the one you’d like, a ten mile flea market and sales off into every neighborhood.
Good morning Villagers…
HELP ME, I’M MELTING……it’s so hot (how hot is it?)….it’s so hot that when I get an urge for a SIN baked chicken leg, I just go out into the hen house and get one 🙂 ok, I hear the groans!
At least we got our ‘scrubs’ which are much cooler…and no I will not wear shorts into the hen house. Don’t like flies, I hate flies and I wanna know who let them on Noah’s Ark.
Got new tires and feel so secure, these gravel roads know how to tear a tire up.
GM Old Bear, (good joke) I looked up the collision and they were chicken parts…your joke was funny though. B’hugs.
Mark, I too had read about Eric Clapton….sad.
Going in early…a bottom shaft broke and it pulls the belt. That side of the unit faces the wall so there’s only three other lines to place eggs. So Ian and I are going in to move yesterday’s eggs off the (aarrgghh) bottom belt onto the top three. Too hot to do it yesterday, some 91 degrees at 1ish yesterday out there.
Sorry GR 😉 , Firefox keeps crashing on me….need Ian to clean ‘er out.
Morning, everybody. Like Jackie, I am trying to get back to being responsible. Two weeks ago I went in to the VA for a thorough check up (hadn’t been since 2011). Today they give me an eye exam so I can get new glasses, and next week i get a hearing screen. Sometime soon they will get me into a weight management program and help me figure out better eating habits. Jackie has also volunteered to send me diet suggestions. Thank you Jackie. Mom is doing better since getting her foot ulcers healed. No more pain complaints, but she has returned to smoking. Everybody have a great day and a good weekend.
Areas where I saw snow a month ago will have temps of 100 degrees today. Well maybe just a few miles from where it was snowing. I just noticed that used copies of JJ’s last book now start at $75.00. JJ, I hope that you saved back a few copies. Please hurry with the next book and I will buy a truckload. Maybe.
I just read about the tragic life (and death) of Arlo Guthrie’s dad, Woody. Very, very sad. My wife and I knew someone who recently died of Huntington’s.
I’m 4 hours south of Mackinac Island. It is usually pleasant there in June, July & August, but often storms off the lake come up in the afternoon. They are not immune to hot weather, but they don’t get 100° and 90% humidity. I stay at a B&B usually and get a nice rate on a bicycle, so I often just bike around the island.
Had to take my car in for service and as I was leaving the dealership, I realized that i left stuff in the car. I waited in the garage and they were taking too long. Just I was stepping to look out the garage door, the kid zipped my car in missing my foot by inches. No apologies.
This morning my wife and I shared a ride to work. I left about 10-15 minutes later than usual. As I was getting off the highway there was a backup and I could not understand why cars were going off intermittently. As I approached the scene I could see why as a car was crumpled like an accordion. Minutes later they closed the road as there had been a fatality. Praying for the soul that lost their life and for the family that they left behind.
I’ll be glad to see you, Jackie! Anyone else want to come? 🙂
Being driven nutter by page dropping messages. Mark wants to come meet you when we relocate the next refugee cats. Beware of Alabama bearing possible foreign cats.
Promised Mark an entire day at both Gilcrease and philbrook museums. He doesn’t know about Woody Guthrie and Air and Space.
Or Will Rogers, Davis gun museum, Woolaroc or Harbour Village. And that is only in eastern corner. Oklahoma City has as many amazing museums.
We are not all about eating fried okra and chicken fried steak, but that is good eats.
Darn it, now my favorite resort in Rockport, Texas is offering unbelievable rates to celebrate finishing big construction project. Water front suites at unheard of prices and freebies as add ons.
This is getting to my wanderlust nerve.
I would kill for some good chicken fried steak with white gravy.
LLee, I would like to meet you when possible. I think your artwork is great and would greatly enjoy seeing the originals, full-size.
I can assure you that good chicken fried steak is available in both Texas, Oklahoma and my kitchen. Along with fresh mashed potatoes just out of dirt in garden , mashed with real cream and butter. I on other hand am bunching on honeydew melon, turkey ham, low fat cottage cheese and sprouted ancient grains bread.
Far better than it sounds. Dessert is key lime Greek yogurt. Ate the kale the cottage cheese sat on and got ALL food groups including two dairy or two proteins and one dairy, depending on your count.
Come on over, Mark 🙂
Dearest Ghostly One, please describe those two food for me, the chicken fried steak and the white gravy … they don’t sound all that appetizing to me. They must be good or you wouldn’t be craving them.
Charlotte in NH, Don’t feel bad about not knowing this dish. We have to mport maple syrup and the candy down here.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/chicken-fried-steak-with-white-gravy-recipe.html
Chicken friend simply means you batter the steak in the kind of batter you would use to coat fried chicken.
Chicken fried, not friend. They dilated my eyes at the optometrist and everything is blurry.
Chicken friend would be Debbe.
So, Jackie, you’re saying that if I drove to your house in OK, I *wouldn’t* have to kill anyone to get some homemade chicken fried steak? BTW, I’m impressed that you can dig mashed potatoes out of the dirt. 🙂
Charlotte, come to think of it, I’m not surprise you aren’t familiar with that dish. I once met a sales rep from Boston who had been transferred to Dallas. I asked her how she was making the transition, and she said pretty well, except for the food. She had ordered that dish and when it came, she asked, “What is this white stuff? Gravy? No, gravy is supposed to be brown.”
I just re-read Jimmy’s back scratcher comment. Heck, I dated a woman over over a year primarily because she was a good back scratcher.
Just kidding. Or am I?
GR6, good chicken fried steak and gravy are easily found in the Houston area. One of the best, my opinion, is served in La Grange, Texas. You may recall that La Grangerl had a famous Texas institution located nearby, the Chicken Ranch.