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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Food Blogtown Flash Food Drive, Final Day: A Love Letter

Posted by Patrick Alan Coleman on Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:24 AM

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Today is the last day of the Blogtown Flash Food Drive to benefit Oregon Food Bank. I'll be collecting your non-perishable food items at the Mercury office (601 NE 21st, right behind Club 21 on Sandy) until the absolute last minute of our business hours at 5:30pm.

After I was hired last March, I really didn't realize what a huge role Blogtown would play in my work at the Mercury. Since then, I've realized Blogtown is one of the most vital and energetic ways that we connect with readers: we vet the interweb detritus to bring you the most hilarious memes; we provide you with up to the minute news and a forum to kvetch about the portrayal of said news; we provide information on Portland arts, food, and music; we supply you with pictures of cats, and we allow you a forum to vent your vitriol (sometimes about cats). I, personally, love your vitriol. No joke.

But I was wondering... If Blogtown is such a dynamic force of fun and communication, can it also be used as a force of good and charity? The Flash Food Drive is my little experiment to see if it's possible. So far, a small number of you have stepped up to donate (in some cases very generously). But I'm wondering if there are more of you creative, funny, thoughtful, pretty, handsome and bemused Blogtownies out there who can chip in.

So I make this call: If you've ever written a critical comment on a Matt Davis or Amy Ruiz post--donate! If you've ever thrilled to the whimsical blog stylings of Wm. Steven Humphrey--donate! If you've ever made a boozy goodness cocktail--donate! If you've ever bopped around your cubicle to an End Hits mp3 stream--donate! If you've ever said "awww" to one of Alison's cat posts--donate! If you've ever geeked out with Earnest "Nex" Cavalli, or Erik Henriksen--donate! If you've ever coveted a belt on MOD--donate!

If you all came in with three cans, we could feed quite a lot of folks!

Okay, by Friday I will be done with the Sally Struthers shtick and back to writing posts about testicle cookbooks and woolly mammoth regeneration. But I hope you'll stop in today and help fill our office with goodness. We'll give you all kinds of ridiculous shchwag in return. Hell, I'm throwing in some awesome coupons for Cinnabon! Cinnabon fer chrissakes!

Come on Blogtown, let's feed some people!

 

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Don't forget the pie :)
Posted by Michelle on November 26, 2008 at 11:56 AM · Report
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Oh wow. I was mentioned in a post urging people to help the less fortunate! Hear that Jesus? Hear that? Remember this when you're weighing my heart against that damn feather of yours!

But seriously, donate! You've got the other 364 days of the year to express our generation's apathetic, self-centered egotism. Plus, chicks dig guys who care about stuff. Maybe even more than rad scars!
Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on November 26, 2008 at 1:34 PM · Report
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I live in Pendleton and even though I donate food to local food banks here in town (rural food banks are really hurting too!) I read your blog too often to ignore this guilt trip.

give me a pay pal link and I'll donate $20 if Steve wouldn't mind walking to Freddie's and spending it on some cans...
Posted by PRWalters on November 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM · Report
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I write about theater too...! Sigh.

Fine. Donate for the kittenz.
Posted by Alison Hallett on November 26, 2008 at 3:09 PM · Report

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