- First Something amazing and Sweet – And Then What You Can Do For the Reality of Hurricane Victims
Beloveds,
I’m hoping that this post finds you alive and well – Particularly those of you that have been in the eye of the storm.
The Electric Snow Show was conceived in an East Coast storm.
Our electric snow show was not comparable to Hurricane Sandy – we had the sort of gothic and awesome combination of lightning and snow at the same time that could have inspired all sorts of tragedy, but it came and went in what was compared to Sandy, a divine instant.
We cannot neglect to include things for the victims and the heroes and all of those in between the Hurricane at what has now become theThe Electric Snow Show Collection of blogs. Over at http://www.AnimalCircusBezerkus.com, we have a link to an excellent post that includes many ways to help the animals of the storm…And now, here is more information on how to help all of the creatures – even those with two legs – that have been affected.
Please share this post with as many people as you can, in the hopes of helping even one individual make it a little more comfortably through these rough moments. You may save lives.
Be Warm, Be Dry, Be Well – I Love You,
Bunny Cord and The Electric Snow Show Collection
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Now, Here We Go:
~ Occupy Sandy / OccupySMS.org ~
A coordinated relief effort to help distribute resources and volunteers to help neighborhoods and people affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The genius name and idea – in my humble opinion, probably the most productive one to come out of the OCCUPY efforts in New York is on twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/OccupySandy. (@OccupySandy)
Make sure to hashtag appropriately, such as #OccupySandy
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySandy
They have a wedding registry at Amazon, like many non-profits these days, where the spoils go to Hurricane Sandy donations – So instead of gifting Bob and Judy with a punch bowl – You can give or chip in to donate, say – a cb radio to the relief efforts.
The registry can be found at http://www.amazon.com/registry/wedding/32TAA123PJR42
- the OccupySandy Storm Effort overview can be found at http://www.Interoccupy.net/HurricaneSandy
To request aid, text SANDY to 69866
To offer aid, text MUTUALAID to 69866 General inquiries : occupysandy@interoccupy.net
Volunteers: ~OccupySMS.org~
~ The CBS Local Guide for Various Relief Efforts ~ is at http://newyork.cbslocal.com/guide/where-to-donate-or-volunteer-to-sandy-relief-effort/
This list includes the general (Feeding America, the local – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Chapters of The Red Cross and The Salvation Army, etc…special New York City and New Jersey Sections and Thank Heavens, a little Pet section) These listings are comprised largely of the Big Go-To-Guys in times of crisis and you may have already have thought of them. Then again, the poo has hit the fan – they are worth mentioning and passing around again and again.
CBS also has a ~Disaster Relief Information and Resources Guide~ at : http://newyork.cbslocal.com/top-lists/disaster-relief-information-resources/
- Hurricane Sandy Victims Need Your, Too.
CBS’ Volunteer and Donation for The Hurricane Sandy Relief Effort :
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/guide/where-to-donate-or-volunteer-to-sandy-relief-effort/
~Speaking of The Big Ones: The Red Cross donations:
http://www.redcross.org//charitable-donations
Incidentally, have you seen the stipulations they have about using their logo? I have. I am slightly frightened! Brand Quality is being enforced, and rightfully so – But they sure do make it hard to include a button here – So, no button for you – Be a big kid and click on the links, yourself.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Red Cross, please be aware that you should be Over 16, Available to lift and carry 50 pounds, and “comfortable working with people in stressful situations,” Hello, New Yorkers with their backs intact! Surely, they must have positions for people that are not able to lift and haul a medium-sized dog – Let’s hope.
~Search for Open Red Cross Shelters by texting SHELTER and a ZIP CODE to 43362 (4FEMA) Ex. Shelter01234 (standard rates apply)~
~Your Pets! Your Pets! Someone’s Pets! The Animals! NEVER FORGET THE ANIMALS. WE ARE THEIR ONLY HOPE.
~I have a Facebook community that updates everyone that signs up on various animal issues, opportunities, and adoptions
PLEASE sign up! I don’t even have my URL from Facebook, yet – I would love to be able to count you among the people that made it possible -
Additionally, there is a wordpress site http://www.AnimalCircusBezerkus.com and a Tumblr http://AnimalCircusBeserkus.com - Yes, they are spelled differently.
Yes, the sites are different.Yes, I STILL want you to sign up for Facebook’s page on Animal Circus Bezerkus at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animal-Circus-Bezerkus/198154373633192~ Network with other animal lovers and discover all kinds of rescues and animal charities in the same place that you see animal art, humor and inspiration. You will NOT be bombarded with stomach-churning images. I know that you know that they are out there – I am your go-between. I understand that more people will be a part of the site if we do not rely on traumatic imagery – Now, where are those of you that want to be part of the site, by the way? Raise of paws, please. The latest hurricane Sandy pet posting is at http://animalcircusbezerkus.com/2012/11/06/help-the-lost-and-missing-pets-and-animals-of-the-east-coasts-hurricane-sandy-storm-right-now/
~Remember to simply reach out on Twitter, Facebook – even MySpace and LinkedIn and Tumblr- The Blogosphere is wonderful – Look up blogs on WordPress, since you might be here, anyway! The rescues and relief organizations that often get forgotten can be the very ones that can get to someone that has not received aid – This is the time to Network!
On Twitter, There are many leaders to Follow @SandyUpdatesNY for More http://Twitter.com/SandyUpdateNY
~Be a leader, yourself and post the short link to this article at : http://wp.me/p1Xq5N-cA
~Out and About and Safe? Lucky You! Share the love and volunteer – and don’t forget all of the wonderful events for Hurricane Sandy relief that are happening. Just make sure that you know how much is going where – and go there.
~Stuck indoors but have time and funds? Then, Vogue. Unique items and events are up for auction on Charity-buzz ~ A night with Anna Wintour is currently going for $16,000. Also, a signed copy of the Rodarte book is up for $100.
http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/fashionforsandyrelief/catalog_items
A Concert for Sandy Relief is being planned by those who planned the historic 9/11 benefit show, “The Concert for New York City,” It will be produced by James Dolan of Madison Square Garden, John Sykes of Clear Channel Entertainment and Harvey Weinstein. It will benefit the tri-state area’s victims of their latest Hurricane. (courtesy James Farber of the New York Daily News)
It is slated to be called 12-12-12:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/star-studded-show-planned-sandy-relief-article-1.1199570
Stay Safe, You are Loved.
Regarding the Video: “Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals. “Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.”
Hurricane Sandy Victims Need You, Too.
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My Blog Tried To Eat Me.
So I marked it up here and there . I found this little glitterbug of a post cowering in the draft bin, so I marked it up here and there – to make it a tad more in tune with today rather than the day that it was written (one that ironically preceded the KONY explosion). Feeling that the KONY issues were finally ping-ponging back and forth enough, I thought that my little-ish post didn’t have a spot. But it does, because it’s about more than KONY. Lots more. Little twiddly bits, perhaps, but it will tickle your fancy and more.
So here we go:
~
Dear Almost-Valentine,*
*(Yes, this is from the deadly point in time that I was convinced that you had to WRITE LONG THINGS to have a blog. Bear With Me, please. I promise to make it well-Worth-Your-While)
I’ve been saving up updates for you for a good reason….I’m recovering from The Bronchitis That’s Raged All Over NYC and LA and Miami and Underneath Toadstools and In-Between-Hidey-Holes-Everywhere-All-Winter-Flu*. *(Guess what! I lived. I know. I know. Better luck next time, you guys).
Perhaps you guessed this. In those exact words. Perhaps not. I don’t know because I’m recuperating in a hidey-hole, myself until I am a healthier camper. I’m not one of Those People that lends you all kinds of fun germs on the plane, train and automobile. (Yes, we exist.) This is why you’ve probably not seen me in the flesh for a little while. Lest you thrash with worry, Behold: Here I am at Dr. Dali’s*. He’s scribbling out a Cough Syrup prescription. From all that I’ve heard about the stuff, I’m thrilled.
*(Picture disappeared with entire blog, I shall find you a new one)
Now, I’ve finally come up with a new post for you. (I notice several of you scattering in abject fear for some unknown reason) Actually, This is about fun things (No, not cough syrup. BESIDES cough syrup.) Well, it’s about Fun Things that turn into Very Important Things. (Which are sort of the best things.)
By the way, in my lack-of-oxygen-induced-Netherworld-Haze (can’t breathe, was on strike from everything medicinal – I’m one of those Naturists…Wait, no, not the “nekkid” people – More of Naturalist. Or a Naturopath. Or none of those things; I just don’t like giving it up to The TheraFlu. But One-and-A-Half-Months-Into this mother, yes: I will give in. Now, kindly consider yourself warned).
Oh, If you enjoy this…Go ahead and hit me up on Tumblr and Twitter, to lessen the cabin fever, please. On Tumblr, I downloaded a brand new, completely ridiculous theme. It’s at http://BunnyCord.Tumblr.Com…I think. It’s fairly glorious. Someone made a Fairytale Background.
*Note : It was a total disaster, I have no idea what I was thinking, it’s different, now. And how.
I know, I know – I just realized that it may not actually be for grown-ups. However, this makes it more or less optimal for me right now as:
*(I’m going to make this as poetic as possible):
I plan to drink my Sizzurp, (?)
And Stare at the Turrets of my new Tumblr Castle,
Whilst, “Dance Moms,” on Lifetime,
Shrieks and Pirouettes,
Into the Kleenex-cluttered chaos that is,
My Malady Room.
Oh, Yes.
Yes.
Yes.Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I will sleep,
For The First Time,
(pelvic thrust to No One In Particular)
Since This Utterly Charming Cough,
That rivals the effervescent bark,
Of a strangling Sea-Lion-
(Sound the dramatic bark-cough)
Has made a wretched pilgrimage,
To My Bedside
Where…
(Wait for It):
Neither Dunny nor Munny,
And obviously not Mummy,
Can protect the Bunny.
My lungs shall remain inside of the fit-riddled Bunny tonight.
No more of their snarky disco-dancing across the room
As I disco-nap my way through the endless, ink-filled night
….With no forseeable disco
On
The
Other
Side.
(Sniffle)
EXIT
(Don’t weep…I realize how utterly moving that was…in fact, I see how far you’ve moved underneath the furniture).
No, let us celebrate, because we’re about to do something really, really good.
Now…Have you been to http://Sevenly.org ? They “sell” (pass your dimes along to someplace truly better and give you something in the meantime – kind of like Money Heaven) fantastic-fitting shirts for men, women and children for well, men, women and children who will benefit from a different cause every week…If you buy something on The Internet (I know you do it! I know you do it!! Internet Blackouts can only last so long!!!), you will be shocked, delighted and possibly stupefied when you find a cause that genuinely strikes a chord in you in a way that you thought wasn’t even possible. More on such magic after The Despicable Me / You Picture.
Despicable You – You’ve Fallen in Love with a New Cause, Who Knew?
One of my favorite things, particularly at a time when I can’t do much else, is to indulge in what I call…”Charity Therapy.” or better yet, “Chairity.” (Chirp it, by all means. Chirp, Chirp like you mean it). Chairity can be done from (a waiting room) chair…or anywhere at all and a nifty place to start is at Sevenly.Org. The site is a veritable variety-pack of charities – curated life-changers and sometimes life-savers to the recipients of your attention and/or “modest” donations (these donations are so modest that the word, cleavage -*Hello, Google, I said cleavage…wait, no, I said, Celebrity Cleavage! Read me!*- makes them gasp and drop) as possible.
Moral superiority aside, the innnnteresting part for you is that you’ll WEAR the shirt for a change (pun intended) outside of the house and not just on laundry day (i.e. yodeling otherwise naked in the basement. i.e. NOT ME). You’ll realize that you’ve done a little something to help every time you look at it…(which, in case you’re wondering…you will) and you help the cause(s) of your CHOICE all over again, every time that you wear it. (Again, there’s more than one size fits all, there’s actually choice in which charities to help, too).
People will ask you about your wonderful shirt.
You will tell them.
And they will tell someone else.
And you won’t just be JackAss-in-a-T-Shirt-Yodeling-in-their-Basement-on-Laundry-Day.
(Not ME!)
You will be a person who helps change the world.
Good, yes?
YES.
The featured charities are a little off-beat. The causes, themselves: War-Torn Africa, Sex-Slavery, and Poverty are well-known, yet the in-roads to helping out will be new to many.
Part II.
MY FAVORITE CAUSE THUS-FAR:
One of these Sevenly.Org charities that is sure to warble that yodeler in you (NOT in ME…why do you still think that I’m The Basement-Yodeler?):
VoiceProject.Org.
“Restore war-abducted children,” (i.e. GET THE KIDS SOMEPLACE SAFE) by sending mentally and physically tortured young people forced to fight against their wills and terrified into thinking that they cannot come home, messages FROM home via giant FM speakers in a partnership with, “AMPLIFY PEACE” and “The Voice Project,”
. If this project sounds at all odd to you, watch the video at the end of this blog, enjoy the gorgeous Folk song that accompanies it, and in under a minute, understand a lot more about how to mend their world and ours. By enabling their own families and ex-abductees to sing to them in Acholi, messages of hope, healing, forgiveness, strength and freedom are delivered over the radio – which is, many times the ONLY way that these child-warriors can be reached. The idea that they CAN “come home,” without being re-imprisoned or killed is often a revelation that breaks the cycle of brainwashing and terror that has resulted in war for 25 years.
AMPLIFY PEACE from The Voice Project on Vimeo.
The Voice Project * Amplify Peace
You can donate to this cause directly, or via Sevenly – Either way, you can get a t-shirt for that famous, modest donation. The Voice Project is an amazing site, in itself*,
BUT if you’d like to broadcast this message and have something besides the feel-good-bumps-all-over, scoring a $7 to $22 t-shirt or two via Sevenly.Org is one of the best ways.
Sevenly’s logo is,simply “One Tee. One Week. One Cause.” Even the packaging is cooler than all-get-out, as the pouch that your shirt arrives in proclaims in inspiring, grass-green font :
“Look At You, Changing the World and Stuff”
They should really make that into a t-shirt, as the message says it all.
Please be sure to read the footnote for info on Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros’ Alex and Chris’ song, “Home,” with “The Gulu Widows.”
Love and Best, You LoveBugs, And Happy-2012,
Elisabella
(The Bunny)
*Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros’ Alex and Chris were some of the first celebrities that this story was told – The “Up From Below” Documentary release party and money raised were combined to benefit Ugandan Women. (VoiceProject.Org) Chris and Alex did a remix of, “Home,” with The Gulu Choir / The Gulu Widows’ voices. It is available via The Hope Album on Itunes.
** To be fair, if you came here for celebrity-cleavage, I have to give it to you:
(sigh)
It’s after the jump:
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