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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Oops, read Debbie and didn’t say hello. Off to Tulsa with van to put in shop.
Probably not that many eggs, Debbe…I’m not “cheap”, but I am economical. 🙂
This past weekend was not only Father’s Day, but would have been my parent’s 66th wedding anniversary and Daddy’s 94th birthday. Daddy died in March of 1986, and I still miss him every day. My son was born in January 1987, and he is so like Daddy in a lot of ways that I’m pretty sure he and Daddy must have had some interesting conversations while Son was waiting to be born. 🙂
You know, we have a bunch of really nice folks here in The Village.
I point that out in case no one had noticed.
Glad to hear all the good Dad stories here. Wish I could add my own, but I can’t because I don’t have any. My grandfather, now, is the dad I wish I had. He took the family places, took my brother and I for haircuts, out to ballgames and lots of good times. I sure do miss him.
It is friendly and comforting to read the Villagers’ stories of their fathers. Yes, dear Ghost, there are lots of good people here, who have made their way into our hearts. Bless you all.
We do have a lot of good people at A&J.com. There were a couple of weird ones (one even got exposed as a weird one) but we are civil for the most part.
I went back through the history as I had forgotten the most notorious impostor er poster (initials LB) and had to go back to the summer of 2014. However the first place that I went was a year ago. My brother’s wife lost her fight after a Liver/Kidney transplant. A few days later my daughter had to go to a funeral for a friend that had OD’d. I had forgotten how I had heard her panicked voice on the phone and had distracted her enough to make it home safely. I guess that was something that I had learned from my parents, who knew that sometimes it is easier for the child to figure out things on their own rather than Mom and Dad ordering them. Of course they were always close by guiding me to the right decision. Smart parents.
This song is for Debbe AND Ghost so go figure how I found one to cover both of them. Dixie Chicken by Little Feat. Lyrics totally correct if not politically so.
https://youtu.be/LFlUj1mv4Ws
Steve, She Who Shall Not Be Named is still posting On The Dark Side from time to time, using as her avatar a cropped picture of a t-shirt model she found on the InterWebNet, and still flogging her “Sex Is Icky” meme. There is also a commenter over there that seems to me to be mostly if not entirely a troll, and the hilarious thing is that the two of them often appear to be trolling each other.
Jackie ::Tag::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxiLoXntRMU
A certain TV show used the phrase: She Who Must Be Obeyed. Name the show and if possible the actor who spoke it. Jackie already knows so she is excluded.
Is it Elvira? I kind of know who she is but I never watched her show.
I’ve never commented on The Dark Side. I usually do not view the daily comic there as I go to the Seattle Times to view it. Sometimes I will wander over their when someone here mentions it.
I just wish that it was easier to navigate to old posts here.
Ok, I looked it up and it’s geek to me.
Jerry in Fl, ever watch the Mystery Theater on public broadcasting channel there. Show was a British import that ran for quite a while, about a die-hard defense attorney.
I always enjoyed watching Elvira’s cleavage.
The character of Elvira, played by Cassandra Peterson, was actually pretty funny in a campy sort of way. And did I mention the cleavage? 🙂
Mark: And the answer is… Rumpole of the Bailey! Loved that show! The lead was Leo McKern.
Galliglo, you’ve got it. Did you know that they released the entire series on DVD? The Leo McKern ones, that is. Until today, i didn’t know they had done more with different actors.
Ghost, she was pretty open about her assets, wasn’t she?
Here’s my weird Rumpole of the Bailey oddity. I have a teapot that looks exactly like Rumpole (a Toby jug, one of those character jugs, steins, teapots) This wouldn’t be unusual but it is about 90 years old at least and WAY predates the TV show or even television. It belonged to a family member so I know it isn’t a modern piece.
Isn’t that odd?
Yes it is.
Everyone:
Thank you.
I wasn’t even thinking about responses, and your kind words mean much.
Jackie:
I wish I had the ability to ease your pain and fill the emptiness.
Thank you for sharing that deep part of yourself with us. I will never forget it, and I now know ever more keenly how luck I was to have my dad with me in this world.
Ghost, I’ve seen the pilot for a sitcom Elvira made. She and her mother were earning their livings as mediums and clairvoyants, trying to hide the fact that they were witches and that what they were seeing was real and the potions they sold really worked. (They were careful not to be too specific or too accurate, of course.) Today, there’d be no problem getting the show on the air (it was hilarious) but back then it was way, way too raunchy. It’s a shame, really, because if they’d just have put it on after the kids were in bed it would have been a real hit.
Never watched the Rumpole series but I do have a friend who referred to his (now former) sister-in-law as “She who must be catered to”.
Ruth Anne, a nice clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCaF0ULJX5E
Rumpole was a very literary sort, frequently reciting poetry appropriate to the action onscreen.