Here in Canada, where bloggers are so blessed, where simple basics like connectivity and a healthy hard drive are taken for granted, there is a tendency to forget that others are not so fortunate as we.
Miles to the south, in a remote urban jungle, a CITIZEN JOURNALIST sits facing a darkened screen. The hard drive has fallen silent. The electrons vital to blogging that are so often wasted meaninglessly, have been cruelly denied him.
Look into those sad, dark eyes, the pain only partly concealed behind bloodspattered *, yellow-tinted glasses*.
Help end the suffering. Only you can bring back the Martha Stewart Chronicles. Only you can restore Ted Rall's Internal Monologue. Only you can grow the facial hair he so longs for.
Give. So the rest of us can go back to ripping off his best stuff.
Ok, the trashing of Mr. Helpful made me donate... had no choice, it was worth every penny .. ;-)
I told you about the facial hair, huh?
Stupid hard alcohol.
Oh, and thanks for your email, which I promptly and inadvertantly deleted. Working on a different system, and I'm utterly confused by the sheer newness of it all.
Incidentally, I hope I said goodbye, have a nice trip, all that kind of stuff. Because I simply don't remember anything after the first shot -- including whether or not there was a second shot.
No memory of Aspen, eh?
In re: Goldstein's adolescent moaning about his computer soiling the sheets and panhandling others to finance the replacement thereof ...
... would you like some cheese with that whine?
Though not familiar with the teaching profession in Colorado, teachers here in Connecticut are paid well enough that a call to FEMA isn't necessary if their computer dies.
Jeff B.
I believe that at the moment, Jeff is employed as a 'stay at home' dad. That said, I don't see how it matters whether or not a blogger is destitute or a millionaire when asking readers for a few bucks to support quality work. It's voluntary, after all.
Wow Jeff B -
You're an ungrateful dick.
EOM
"Adolescent moaning"?
Uh, okay.
It's ok. I hacked his paypal account and he's giving till it hurts.