You heard me right...I just got off the phone with Bill in Portland Maine and now I find myself in tense hostage negotiations! His demand is pretty simple really but only YOU can make it happen:
Sign up for the Blog Workers Industrial Union by following the instructions below or else THE DOG GETS IT if they don't have 100 members by midnight tonight THE DOG GETS IT!
(UPDATE: Bill's got the dog, which he is denying below, and Babs' computer is holding her without internet access. I heard this got like 42 milliseconds on the recommend list, too. Strange days, people, strange days. The Blog Workers Industrial Union Twitter account only has 48 followers but the Facebook group picked up a couple dozen today.)
8:29 AM Thursday morning: I am happy to report that even though we did not meet Bill's demand, we did well enough that Bill relented and no harm came to lovable Molly. But it's NOT too late to join us in our efforts. Last night Stranded Wind tested the tool for the first time (sorry if you got spammed accidentally- won't happen again!) and now it's going to be a matter of once we are outta beta NUMBERS...the more, the better. Please, even if you never plan to actively tweet- create an account and follow the 3 of us as mentinoned below. Thanks for all of your support!
UPDATE: 2:47 PM EST We are halfway to meeting Bill's demand- if everyone in this diary goes and recruits just ONE friend....
Molly- pre hostage trauma-
Now I, for one, absolutely adore Molly and I'm pretty sure all of you do too ...so here's what you need to do to save her:
1- Follow us on Twitter! Follow Spedwybabs, Stranded Wind, and most importantly the Blog Workers Industrial Union. If you are new to Twitter...check out our Union Hall Diary from Sunday night for some beginner's tips on getting started on Twitter. Once you are following us, you will be assigned a Union Member # and are thus eligible for upcoming schwag giveaways!
2-Join Facebook and then join our Facebook group
- Tweet to all of YOUR followers that should join us...Post a link to THIS diary in your status update on Facebook...email all of your friends....they do NOT have to be Kossacks to join us...they just have to want to fight alongside us!
3- Join us every Sunday night at 9 pm EST for our weekly Union Hall Diary meeting! Bring your pooties, your ideas and YOUR FRIENDS! The more the merrier....we have a lot of plans in the works but we need numbers to make them effective!
This morning in Cheers and Jeers, Bill in Portland Maine had this to say:
CHEERS to tweeting the revolution. Kossacks Spedwybabs and Stranded Wind, along with the new "Blog Workers Industrial Union and Benevolent Society," are working on a project that will allow the netroots to use Twitter as a rapid-response sledgehammer to amplify progressive messages on health care reform, climate change reform, you name it. Right now they need a few more folks to join so they can perfect the system with a base of 1,000 members. All the links you need are right here---it takes about two seconds. Keep in mind that this is the kind of under-the-radar tactic that the teabaggers use quite effectively to generate awareness, enthusiasm, publicity and action. We can do it even better than they can. Like, for starters, we don’t drool and we know how to spell. Chaaaaarge!!!
And now the poor man has gone over the edge and is threatening harm to Molly. Please, I BEG of you...help me save Molly!
Even the pootie union members are doing their part!
Remember only YOU can save Molly so sign up today!