Ella over at Occasionally Glamourous Results Of A Misused Youth decided to coordinate a bunch of folks in a “delurk for hurricane relief” day. The way this works is pretty simple: Most of us know there are folks who read our blogs who never comment. Well, now is your chance to come out of hiding and support a good cause: relief for survivors of hurricane Katrina.
For every comment (at least three words people, please; how hard is it to type “way to go!”?), left today I pledge $3 in donations. $2 will go to the relief fund set up by The Humane Society; $1 will go to assist The Montrose Clinic in Houston which is busy coordinating resources and providing couseling for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people displaced by the hurricane.
Update: After speaking with The Girlfriend, bless her goofy , generous heart, she’s drawn on her own experience working on DC’s glbt switchboard and has agreed to match my donation to the Montrose Clinic 1-for-1. Every comment (including the ones already left), is now worth $4.
Given that I’m not made of money, you may be wondering how I’m managing this. Simple: the $1 is my own money. The $2 will be split between money The Girlfriend and I donate and the dollar for dollar matching program her employer has set up.
All the comments don’t have to be on this entry. Dig around the site. Read some quotes. Learn about my whacked out experiences working for a bunch of treehuggers and my time in cubicle hell. Check out my reading list and tell me what you’re reading. I get notified of comments even if your message doesn’t post right away (don’t take it personally; comment moderation makes spammers quake).
Now, the good thing is that all you have to do to make this happen is follow that little link at the bottom of this entry that says Comments. The really good news is that any monies generated by this pledge are in addition to the $50 I’ve already decided to give the Humane Society.
It would be really nice if your comment included something substantive (such as why you keep coming around but never stop and say hello), but it certainly doesn’t have to. Just say something.
And to prove that I also walk the walk, on Monday afternoon I’ll make my donation and follow up with a screen shot of my thank you page from the HSUS web site, my thank you page from the Montrose clinic, and, when it comes through, the letter verifying our matching contribution from The Girlfriend’s employer.
So, what are you waiting for?
Other participants in this “delurk for hurricane relief” day are:
Ella M. at The Occasionally Glamourous Results Of A Misused Youth
Kay-Dee at The Life Of A Dreamer
Jon at metempsychosis rhetoric
Jim Carson
Michael K. Willis at Bread And Roses
J. at Tastes Like Burning
Barbara
Woodstock,
First time visiting this blog, but commenting for a good cause. Thank you for doing this, the victims appreciate the donations, I’m sure.
|Daniel
I’m going to do the screenshot post after this is all over as well, just so people know it’s not a scam 🙂
What a great idea. I love also that you’ve pledged to the Humane Society. Thanks for the great work that you do!
Wow — $4. And what interesting causes, sounds awesome. How can people NOT comment today, for such a good cause…Good luck and hope you get lots of comments.
“Learn about my whacked out experiences working for a bunch of treehuggers and my time in cubicle hell.”
So I’m guessing you work at the hippy commune?
*Cracks up laughing*
Happy delurking. I think I’ll come back here sometime to read more, this seems really interesting.
Can I be a de-lurker on my first ever visit? Please, let me 🙂 Well done on doing this towards helping different communities. May it be a busy day today 🙂
Hey thats awsome that ppl are willing to help us in the south. my city wasn’t hit to bad but some ppl about 50-70 miles south of me still have no power. Thanks everyone for your help.
Happy De Lurking Day!
I’ll have to give your site a read.
cheers,
Jon
I hope you weren’t one of the “Flying Spaghetti Monsterism” people who I ended up closing the door on this morning. I mean, I know you folks are well intentioned, but your continual internal squabbles about the heresy of meatballs and the militantism of the Alfredo sect just turns people off.
(oh, and the pamphlets had tomato sauce on them)
whoa–sorry, this comment thing is odd–I posted, it asked for my email and then I posted. Now I see it’s printed my post as by “jon”, the page I was at last, and then listed me as a blank post. You don’t have to count all three of these–just don’t want jon to think I’m running around posting under his name.
Now I’ll hit post and hope for the best.
way to go. i’ll check back for your thanks you pages…:)
Congratulations on standing up. Your site aounds interesting and I’ll be back.
You are amazing and such an inspiration.
Thank you and thank the GF….
STB
I’m not a lurker, but of course I’m going to comment anyway. Thank you for doing this.
way to go! what a great idea — cat on lap inhibiting my typing but ccol to know this is still worth $4 🙂
WOW! What a really amazing thing to do.
So want me to publicize it? or might you go broke?
Mike
just found your blog this morning, complements of sttropezbutler. Great blog, I posted it in “Promote a blog” on the Dark Wraith message board
Come on over & check it out!