{"id":300,"date":"2005-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2005-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T05:00:00","slug":"now-that-ive-blogged-its-time-for-you-to-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/09\/now-that-ive-blogged-its-time-for-you-to-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that I’ve blogged, it’s time for you to comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ella over at Occasionally Glamourous Results Of A Misused Youth<\/a> 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.
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\nFor 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<\/a>; $1 will go to assist The Montrose Clinic<\/a> in Houston which is busy coordinating resources and providing couseling<\/a> for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people displaced by the hurricane.<\/b><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

All the comments don’t have to be on this entry. Dig around the site. Read some quotes<\/a>. Learn about my whacked out experiences working<\/a> for a bunch of treehuggers and my time in cubicle hell. Check out my reading list<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So, what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n

Other participants in this “delurk for hurricane relief” day are: <\/p>\n

Ella M. at The Occasionally Glamourous Results Of A Misused Youth<\/a>
\nKay-Dee at The Life Of A Dreamer<\/a>
\nJon at metempsychosis rhetoric<\/a>
\nJim Carson<\/a>
\nMichael K. Willis at Bread And Roses<\/a>
\nJ. at Tastes Like Burning<\/a>
\nBarbara<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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