Subversive Christmas Cards

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Tuesday November 27, 2012 · 6:30 AM PST

2012/11/27 · 06:30

So I've been thinking that I wanted to do something creative, but couldn't come up with anything that really grabbed me.

Yesterday on the radio I caught the tail of a report in which a guy was saying they had done some sort of experiment where they sent christmas cards to random strangers, and ended up getting cards from these random strangers for up to 20 years later.

I have a friend who is a creative writer, whose christmas card always includes fanciful tales of things her family did over the past year, like save the world or the like.

I've been totally inspired by the idea of the Rolling Jubilee--take a problem and look at it in a completely new and different way, then do something.

Now I'm thinking what would happen if you wrote holiday cards to random strangers in some manner designed to inspire them to do something.

Is this brilliant? Crazy? Stupid? What would you write?

50 days. 10,000 meals.

Lusty

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Thursday January 12, 2012 · 12:56 PM PST

2012/01/12 · 12:56

In 50 days, I will turn 50. I know you were all planning to buy me fabulous and expensive gifts, but instead I ask that you donate to my fund drive at Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties (California). Can we raise $5000 in 50 days? $5000 will provide 10,000(!) meals to hungry people in our community.

Donate now! Diana's Birthday Fund Drive

Lusty

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Tuesday January 03, 2012 · 11:02 PM PST

2012/01/03 · 23:02

My 50th is coming up in a couple of months. It's still a shock whenever I say those words.

I've been trying to come up with gift ideas, and I'm a bit stuck. I know you wonderful people are chock full of excellent ideas, so I come to you for help.

I don't want gifts for me--I have an embarassment of riches compared to so many. My first thought was to request gifts to "someone who really needs something". Then I thought I could suggest donations to a cause I support, such as Partners In Health. But what I think I'd really like to do is organize some sort of service project. That's where I'm stuck. Ideas? I'm in the San Francisco Bay area.

Mojo Friday WC Slacker Edition --community

Lusty

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Friday July 09, 2010 · 9:13 AM PDT

2010/07/09 · 09:13

I think I've written about community in this diary before, but this morning I'm moved to write about it again based on my recent experiences with DK. If you lurk on this site, you find a lot of crucial and useful information about current world events, useful both for educating yourself and for taking action. If you take it a step further and write your own diaries you may find yourself drawn into the community by capturing the imagination or attention of others. By joining in Mojo Friday diaries like these you may begin to acquaint yourself with other participants on the site and start to develop ongoing relationships.

But it's when you throw yourself into the middle of one of the major group efforts that you start to really discover what DK is all about. Current examples in my mind are the Netroots for The Troops effort currently in progress, and the BP oil spill liveblog effort.

Join me over the fold for more. Yeah, and for mojo.

Lusty

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Friday July 02, 2010 · 9:00 AM PDT

2010/07/02 · 09:00

Three weeks from today, Netroots Nation will be in full swing. Three weeks from tomorrow, volunteers from all over the US will be joining together to pack the care packages we are funding today with your donations. Current total amount raised by Team Slacker is $488. It will be trivial for us to grab one sneck today in our fundraising total, so I'm starting us off with $12. If you guys can get it up to at least $550, I'll bump it up to $600. If you hit $650, I'll throw in another $50 to get us up to $700. How many of these can we hit today?

Lusty

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Friday June 25, 2010 · 8:56 AM PDT

2010/06/25 · 08:56

Good morning slackers! The time for slacking has ended! It's time to step up to the plate and drop in your coins for NFTT. The fundraising goal for this effort is $100,000 this year, and we're just over a quarter of the way there. TexDem has to start making some hard decisions about just how many care packages we can send if we don't step it up right away. That's right, WE includes YOU! Even if you can't make it to NN you are part of this effort and I know you don't want to fail our troops. I've seen people on this site raise $100,000 in a matter of minutes, so I know you can do it. Heck, I squeezed $70 out of friends and family with a single Facebook post yesterday. You're not going to let Facebook show you up, are you?

Poll

8 votes Show Results

Can you help beat donations from Facebook?

8 votes Vote Now!

Can you help beat donations from Facebook?

Wait a minute, I can post a call for donations on Facebook too!

3 votes

I never heard of this Facebook, but here's $5 for the cute kitty

1 vote

Here's $10 and I'm calling (or emailing) 2 friends

0 votes

One ATM unit for the troops, here's $20!

1 vote

I hate Facebook, I'm throwing in $75 right now

1 vote

I own Facebook, here's the whole $100,000

2 votes

Mojo Friday WC Slacker Edition --spanked

Lusty

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Friday June 18, 2010 · 8:56 AM PDT

2010/06/18 · 08:56

Hi guys, I'm gonna be a little scarce this morning because work has just exploded this week. We are embarrassingly late shipping a software release thanks to bad mid-management, and a couple of days ago upper management threw a fit and gave the entire engineering group a 25% pay cut. I feel like we've been spanked and sent to sit in the corner :-(

The "good" news is that if we ship by October 1 we get all that money retroactively. The bad news is I don't think anybody has any confidence we can do it. And one of the key guys left yesterday for a previously-planned two week vacation. The fun never ends.

So today I could really use the mojo :-) Follow me over the fold for some.

Lusty

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Friday June 11, 2010 · 8:58 AM PDT

2010/06/11 · 08:58

Nothing else is working so I'm reduced to begging. I know, it's not pretty. 3(!) people have joined Team Slacker in donating money for care packages for our troops. 0(!) people have sent letters to put in the care packages. Pretty please? What can I do or say to motivate you to help with this effort?

Lusty

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Saturday June 05, 2010 · 7:14 PM PDT

2010/06/05 · 19:14

You are in the current BP disaster ROV, number 61. Number 60 is here.

Please DO NOT Rec this diary, rather REC THE MOTHERSHIP instead. She needs your love to stay afloat.

Please be kind to kossacks with bandwidth issues. Please do not post images or videos. Again, many thanks for this.

PLEASE visit Crashing Vor's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor for working on this!

For a description of the mothership/ROV liveblogging process, check out this thread.

Lusty

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Friday June 04, 2010 · 8:59 AM PDT

2010/06/04 · 08:59

Still watching ROV cams non-stop. But today is all about your letters. We need them. You write them. You send them to me. I give them to TexDem. They go to lonely service member in Iraq. He jumps for joy.

Simple, no?

All you have to do is take a few minutes and you can spread joy to our lonely soldiers overseas. Now that's something worth pulling yourself away from ROV cams.

Oh yeah, we have mojo over the fold.

Lusty

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 3:57 PM PDT

2010/06/03 · 15:57

You are in the current BP disaster ROV, number 47. Number 46 is here.

Please DO NOT Rec this diary, rather rec the Mothership REC THE MOTHERSHIP instead. She needs your love to stay afloat.

Please be kind to kossacks with bandwidth issues. Please do not post images or videos. Again, many thanks for this.

PLEASE visit Crashing Vor's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor for working on this!

For a description of the mothership/ROV liveblogging process, check out this thread.

Lusty

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Friday May 28, 2010 · 8:59 AM PDT

2010/05/28 · 08:59

Please excuse my appearance this morning. I've been staring at ROV cams for the past two days and my right eye appears to be sort of glued shut. I could only find one bunny slipper so I just grabbed one of the red patent 4" spike heels for the other foot --what's that? toilet paper stuck to the heel? Oh, I'm mortified! I was up til 2am last night staring into the video feed. Did you see Dick Cheney's face floating in the plumes too? Yeah, I had nightmares about that. Sorry, let me take a minute to straighten my hair. Why didn't you tell me I had some of it stuck in the night-drool on my chin? Whoa! You okay there buddy? My breath? Here, let me just go take care of that right quick, and I'll meet you over the fold for some Mojo.

Poll

6 votes Show Results

How can you help this morning?

6 votes Vote Now!

How can you help this morning?

Here, sweetie, let me make you some breakfast, AND TURN OFF THAT ROV CAM!

3 votes

I've got a great plan for cleaning up that oil! We just need a bunch of tampons and all your empty milk cartons...

0 votes

Oh? You meant help with NFTT?

0 votes

I can write letters! Sure!

0 votes

I found a nickel in the couch last night, and 92 cents(!) in the bottom of the washing machine. I'll send it in!

1 vote

Will this issue of Mad Magazine from 1962 help?

0 votes

I have a cat I've been trying to get rid of. Can you use him? He only pees on the curtains every so often.

1 vote

Pie!

1 vote

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