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August fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts below; THURSDAY UPDATE; final Monday update]

I envision small but comfy changes to Middle Earth, beginning with a nice wetbar and maybe a poker table, with a rubber-coated seat for the shelled panzer rat (who has a tendency toward incontinence when he’s holding three of a kind or better; makes him an easy mark, but trust me, with a diet of tequila and grub worms leaking out of his urethra, I’d just rather he keep the fifty bucks).

So, what say you all? Help a hairyfooted brother get his mancave on?

For my part, I promise not to splurge and get a pool table. Because, well, shared sacrifice and all.

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update: Halfway home. And we shouldn’t have any problems making it the rest of the way, either, being smack dab in the middle of the Summer of Recovery and all…

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Monday update: Last day today. Thanks to all who’ve contributed. Close to my target goal, but it could go either way, honestly.

67 Replies to “August fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts below; THURSDAY UPDATE; final Monday update]”

  1. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 10:49 am

    Thanks, Blake! And thanks, Doug E!

  2. sdferr says:
    August 1, 2011 at 10:53 am

    Don’t you Hobbits have to cut the legs off the pool tables before you can use them? I gotta Stihl saw for that, if’n you need it.

  3. mojo says:
    August 1, 2011 at 10:56 am

    “Proudfeets!”

  4. bh says:
    August 1, 2011 at 10:58 am

    A better way to cut the cost of that pool table would be to initially budget for two of them.

    That way you could both get a pool table and reduce spending by a pool table.

  5. sdferr says:
    August 1, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Pool on the moon! Think of the possibilities!

  6. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 11:28 am

    Thanks, bh!

  7. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 11:31 am

    Thanks, Sarah R!

  8. Pablo says:
    August 1, 2011 at 11:37 am

    You can come over and shoot pool anytime, Frodo.

  9. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 11:42 am

    Thanks, cranky-d!

  10. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 11:55 am

    Thanks, Charles W!

  11. mezzrow says:
    August 1, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    Zoot Sims was standing out in the alley back of a club between sets where he was playing when a bum came up and said, “I only need seventy five cents more to buy a drink.”

    Zoot reached in his pocket and gave him the money. After the bum walked away up the alley, Zoot ran after him, stopped him and said,

    “Wait a minute. How do I know you’re not going to go around the corner and buy a bowl of soup?”

  12. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    Thanks, Lillian! And thanks, Deborah!

  13. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    @mezzrow

    Heh.

  14. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    Thanks, Thom!

  15. Silver Whistle says:
    August 1, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    Sorry it isn’t more. Don’t get divorced.

  16. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Thanks, John H!

  17. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Thanks, DarthRove!

  18. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    Thanks, John B!

  19. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Thanks, geoffB!

  20. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    Thanks, TerryH!

  21. Jeff G. says:
    August 1, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Thanks, di!

  22. Jeff G. says:
    August 2, 2011 at 8:46 am

    Thanks, Patrick C! And thanks, serr8d!

  23. Mueller says:
    August 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    sdferr posted on 8/1 @ 11:00 am
    Pool on the moon! Think of the possibilities!

    Can’t. It is now covered with yogurt.

  24. Jeff G. says:
    August 2, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Thanks, Mueller!

  25. Mueller says:
    August 2, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Fuck you! Gold-whatever your name is.

  26. Mueller says:
    August 2, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    You know I’m jokin’. Right?
    ’cause I don’t want my head squeezed like an overripe avacado.

  27. Blake says:
    August 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    bh, if only the wife would buy that kind of accounting for the M1-A I want to buy.

    The lovely wife has laid down the law when it comes to further firearms purchases: No more guns until I purchase a gun safe.

    Somehow, I’m okay with that.

  28. Joe says:
    August 2, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    Blake, I just got the wife a Rem. 870 Express for our aniversary, with a dove/duck barrel and a short one for deer and any unwelcomed home visitors. Because I care.

  29. Jeff G. says:
    August 2, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Thanks, Joe!

  30. Jeff G. says:
    August 2, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    Thanks, William!

  31. Blake says:
    August 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    Joe, my wife isn’t much for shooting firearms. But she’s more than happy to let me indulge myself.

    I toss my wife the pretty bauble now and again. She likes sparkly carbon mixed with a silvery white version of a precious element.

  32. Joe says:
    August 2, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    Blake, it took a burglary and my wife’s interests suddenly shifted from 79 to 82 on the periodic table.

  33. Blake says:
    August 3, 2011 at 10:31 am

    I like the idea of an 870. It’s now on my list of future firearms purchases.

  34. Jeff G. says:
    August 3, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Thanks, Bill S!

  35. Jeff G. says:
    August 3, 2011 at 11:32 pm

    Thanks, Evan!

  36. Jeff G. says:
    August 4, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Thanks, Greg B!

  37. Jeff G. says:
    August 4, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    Thanks, Thomas! Thanks, Jennifer!

  38. Jeff G. says:
    August 4, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    Thanks, SDN! Sorry I missed you in SD!

  39. sterlinggray says:
    August 4, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    But if you want money for people with minds that hate, all I can tell you is brother you have to wait, because you know it’s going to be all right.

  40. bh says:
    August 4, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Think one of you guys must have hurt his feelings.

    Apologize to the troll, haters.

  41. sdferr says:
    August 4, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    Apologize to the troll, haters.

    Allow me?

    Fuck off, troll.

  42. bh says:
    August 4, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    All this hatred welling up in your chest, sdferr. Don’t you know that’s what keeps our troubled artist here unfulfilled in his day-to-day life?

    You should really stop that. It’s just mean.

  43. sdferr says:
    August 4, 2011 at 9:39 pm

    ‘Struth, it is. It’s an unfortunate but unavoidable concomitant of geezerage, and disgust with punks.

  44. Jeff G. says:
    August 5, 2011 at 12:38 am

    I’m hoping it was the gay wizard robot thing.

  45. geoffb says:
    August 5, 2011 at 4:59 am

    The word in the lyrics is “when” not “if” and the song ends with:

    You tell me it’s the institution
    Well, you know
    You better free you mind instead
    But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
    You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow

    Fucking little twerp. I was his age when “The White Album” was released. Stupid is a s stupid does and stupid sterling don’t know shit about the 60’s except the twaddle that is pushed for “history” in the academe by graying New Lefties who never grew up.

  46. Jeff G. says:
    August 5, 2011 at 9:57 am

    Thanks, Thomas D!

  47. Jeff G. says:
    August 5, 2011 at 10:41 am

    Thanks, Mr Muir!

  48. Jeff G. says:
    August 5, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Thanks, Roger H!

  49. guinsPen says:
    August 6, 2011 at 6:36 am

    Sir Winston, re: sterlinggray.

  50. Jeff G. says:
    August 7, 2011 at 6:27 pm

    Thanks, Pablo! And thanks, guins!

  51. guinsPen says:
    August 7, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    bite me,
    mr. jack.

  52. guinsPen says:
    August 7, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    al gore
    stole all the good
    pomes.

  53. Jeff G. says:
    August 7, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    Thanks to “the little people!”

  54. Jeff G. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 8:59 am

    Thanks, Stephanie!

  55. Joe says:
    August 8, 2011 at 9:27 am

    Monday update: Last day today. Thanks to all who’ve contributed. Close to my target goal, but it could go either way, honestly.

    Apparently you dodged a S&P downgrade, so you have that going for you!

  56. Mueller says:
    August 8, 2011 at 10:15 am

    The sad thing is, due to my financial situation, there may not be a September through just about forever contribution.

  57. Jeff G. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 10:20 am

    Thanks, LMC!

  58. Jeff G. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 10:23 am

    Thanks, Weslee!

  59. Jeff G. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 11:35 am

    Thanks, OI!

  60. Obstreperous Infidel says:
    August 8, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    Again, I just wish it could be more.

  61. Patrick Jr. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    Plink!

  62. Jeff G. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    Thanks, Patrick C!

  63. Patrick Jr. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    The least I could do…

  64. Jeff G. says:
    August 8, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    Thanks, Adriane!

  65. guinsPen says:
    August 9, 2011 at 3:45 am

    a darby o’gill joke
    has gone missing.
    nonetheless,
    god bless
    you, mr. jack.

  66. Jeff G. says:
    August 9, 2011 at 8:41 am

    Thanks, RTO! And thanks, Donald!

  67. Squid says:
    August 10, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    I’m a day late and a dollar short. ‘Cuz that’s the kind of reader that Jeff deserves.

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