Anything for a Buck

For whatever reason, this guy cracks me up.

For $1, he will think about you for a minute and send you an email. Or he'll take a picture of the sky and email it to you. For $20, he'll send you a rock from the Hudson River.

Or you can put money down (along with others) to fund many of his larger ventures. He has raised just over $200 to get his MFA and he's raised $25 to go to Taketomi (an Okinawan island) and gather star sand. He's currently seeking money to travel to South America, Newfoundland, Perth, New Haven, Los Angeles and Iceland. (So am I, for that matter!)

Thanks to the generous donations of visitors to his site, he has visited a psychic, gone to West Saugerties to find the house where Bob Dylan recorded the Basement Tapes, fed the homeless, read the Little Prince on the steps of the NYSE, and sold some of his secrets to others.

To date, he hasn't become rich off this scheme (to the best of my knowledge) but I would venture to guess that his life has become more interesting.

With that said, if anyone wants to send me money, please don't hesitate. I will most definitely attribute the source and what it funded on this enormously popular blog of mine. Big fish/small pond notoriety at its finest.

(Note: Mom, unless you recommend otherwise, your generous donations will remain under the radar screen. There are already way too many to mention but I can easily change all of that with a quick tap-tap-tap on the keyboard. Just last week, new socks, another guitar for the boys to compete with one another on Guitar Hero, free babysitting, a book called "Fit for God," a bottle of Prosecco, etc. Yet that's just the tip of the iceberg . . . )

Speaking of funding, my boss recently offered to pay for a full back tattoo if I wanted one. She specifically indicated that she wanted it to be a giant, fire breathing dragon or maybe an eagle. Given that I still don't have pierced ears, I think she made a somewhat safe bet. Won't she be surprised when she gets the bill?!