Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Combustion of the Musician

This one was a complete misfire as in every cylinder.  I apologize for the mistake.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Father fights to keep disabled son. Sensory room for disabled child. Donors help shorten man's commute. High school basketball star recovering. Talented drummer fighting illness. Cancer fighter's final wish comes true. Support for quadruplets who lost mother. Woman helps man keep his dog. Abandoned puppy receives care.

Just a couple of entries on the success stories page of the GoFundMe website. Lots of sad stories there, and not a single one about a cool cultural (or subcultural, for that matter) project that took off thanks to crowdfunding.

So even though I got the impression that your project is meant to be a (sub)cultural thing and not a sob story, I have the feeling that you might wanna spice your GoFundMe-campaign up with some juicy tragedy if you want it to be succesfull.

Hence my earlier advice. And yes, I plead guilty to some implicit mockery: of GoFundMe, to be precise. The company is doing pretty well with the 10% they skim of the money donated to good causes. If all success stories actually happened, that is.

Unknown said...

I have no reason to argue. However, you may wish to review how GoFundMe works as my campaign is not in competition with the dad who kept the Down's baby when his wife ran off and dumped them. There is a category for entertainment and mine is placed appropriately for that.

I have further pushed the description but this is very distasteful stuff to me and I have trouble doing it. My situation is much worse than I describe but it's very hard to write about such things.

Anonymous said...

Didn't mean to say you were competing with the sob stories. Just have a feeling that GoFundMe might be the wrong ballpark for stuff like yours.

Anonymous said...

Even a compliment is taken badly, nice hook would mean great chorus.Treat it as you will I don't know why I bother. Your brother, no coward just not auto signing.

Unknown said...

I'm sorry as I took it to mean I was trying to play someone. Things are grim as no smokes, no nothin', and I'm on a hair trigger. Seems many regard this as a joke and I thought you were one of them. I apologize.