The Let's Buy Dave A Bunch of Comedy CDs Project

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After much discussion and thinking and private messages and emails and phone calls...

Folks, we truly have ourselves a little community going here, which is just so cool. Not just because it's running on my system, but because it's a community! I like you people and I like hanging out with you. You always have interesting and cool and funny things to say.

And after a while we care about each other. But this is where we fall down as a community. We care, but we can't always be there to support.

When Dave posted his pictures I had this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach like, DAMN, one of our own has been hit a week and a half before Xmas. And there's nothing I can do about it. If I was in the area I could offer a guest bed and I could offer some hands sorting through stuff, and make sure that everyone had what they needed, etc.

When people posted to Dave's thread it was clear they were feeling the same way. Warch hit me in email saying DAMN this sucks and is there anything we can do? And then I called Sycamore, which I was down to do for other business, and it was all we could talk about.

At first we figured that maybe the iPod was lost and the music was all lost, and Dave loves music so much, so maybe getting a cd-based mp3 player and a bunch of burned disks would be a nice thing to do. After PMing with Dave this morning, it turns out that the music may be OK after all, saved on disk, and the iPod definitely is OK. So he probably doesn't need music.

But Dave picked up on something I wrote: he would love to get a bunch of comedy CDs. He loves to laugh. And clearly, this is a time in his life when maybe getting a few laughs would give him the energy to power through the next bit of life. It just makes sense.

Browsing through the Amazon bins, I can see a lot of stuff that I think would appeal to him: Brian Regan, Lewis Black, Jimmy Fallon, Jim Breuer, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard and a bunch of others. I have his work address so here's the plan.

If you want to give to The Let's Buy Dave A Bunch of Comedy CDs Project, click on one of the Paypal links which lead to the Cellar Tip Jar. Donate as much as you would if you were buying a present for Dave in person.

After you've given, write a private message to Sycamore telling him what you gave. That way there is third-party verification and you know that I won't just be taking your money to buy comedy CDs for myself.

We're pressed for time here so give now. This project ends Saturday at midnight. On Sunday I place the order which will be delivered to Dave directly at his place of work.

The giving will be entirely anonymous except that Sycamore and I will know who gave what. We are sworn to secrecy. We won't judge anybody by what they gave or didn't give.

The Paypal button is at the bottom of your screen. Think about it won't you? Thank you.