Gimme, Gimme

Richard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:01:29 +0000

No, I’m not talking about that fabulous band of punk all stars, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. I’m actually trying to be cute while talking about something serious.

With the economy cratering, finding shovels and continuing to dig down, charitable donations are reaching lows unheard of even 15 or 20 years ago. And, of course, right now is when they need more and more donations to help the people hurt by the economy.

All of which brings me to DonorsChoose.org, which is, as they so eloquently put it on their website a charity “connecting you to classrooms in need.” This is an exceedingly cool site. Actual teachers from actual classrooms in high-poverty schools have specific projects they think would benefit their students and you can see how much is needed to purchase those items for which the teachers are asking.

For instance, as of last night, Mr. D. of New York, only needed a little over $650 more to purchase science lab netbooks for the critically ill students he teaches. To help, all you’d have to do is go there and make with a little clicky, clicky. It’s actually quite easy.

There are also a number of projects going that need only a couple of hundred dollars, in total, to do a lot of good. There are projects you could finish off with something as small as a $25 donation. It’s all up to you.

To sweeten the deal, I’ll match whatever any of you donate to donorschoose.org. In the comments, show me some proof that you’ve donated to the charity and I’ll go there and match it. Whaddya say? See you there?

– Richard

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Boomtown Rats

Richard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:01:33 +0000

I’m not just talking about a seminal punk-ish band. No, I’m using that as a pun so I can talk about blowin’ stuff up. What can I say? I’m a dude. We like to blow stuff up. It’s in our genes.

Which might go a long way toward explaining why it’s on the list of top holidays for my three little dudes. Just yesterday, Speed Racer was perusing the newspaper (searching for the comics. I can’t get him interested in the actual news of a newspaper. Yet.) when he ran across a story about fireworks being sold and sold a lot. He was, to say the least, a bit excited.

“Can we go there? To this place? They’ve got two for one. We can get a lot of fireworks. Can we go today? Right now?”

I had to calm him down a little. For one thing, it’s difficult to talk to someone when they’re clawing into the ceiling and running about like a hyperactive spider. For another, I knew I’d have to wait for his brother, Sarcasmo, to get home from his leadership camp. It would not be good if we were to go buy fireworks and leave Sarcasmo behind. I’d never hear the end of it.

Still, this is an event to which we all look forward. Me because it’s fun to watch all three little dudes pick out stuff to blow up. Them because, well, they’re picking out stuff to blow up.

Our favorites are mortars. Just because we love the thump as they launch and they really do look fantastic when they explode all the way up there in the air.

– Richard

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