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Good things can spring from drama . . .
Mar. 17th, 2005 09:50 pmBack when Duran was scheduled to play Atlanta for a Christmas show in December, there was a gal on the Duranie boards who pissed and moaned about how poor she was after her grandmother's funeral and gosh, she so wished she could go. (I personally found it a bit disturbing that she seemed to do more venting about the financial inconvenience of the funeral than she did about the fact that her grandmother was dead.) A bunch of Duranies banded together to buy her a ticket to shut her up. She went to Atlanta and apparently managed to piss off the people who hosted her with her self-centered behavior. Much she-said-she-saiding on the boards ensued, and various people who she'd managed to annoy over the years could not resist climbing in to make a few digs here and there. If it had been in LJ, it would definitely make LJDrama.
Things eventually died down, but resentment, it seems, still simmered.
So same Drama Queen who shall remain nameless sent out a mass email to everybody in her address book asking for donations so her kid could go to some kind of camp thing with her church. Somebody she sent it to posted it on the dd.com board with a "can you believe this shit?"
Unlike the last time, when many people argued that good deeds should not have gratitude as a requirement, people were pretty much in agreement that this was a pretty tacky thing to do. People started up joking "Well, gosh, I'D like some money so I can get a manicure. Who wants to donate to ME?" type threads in response.
I started this:
Say, if you DO have some spare money lying about . . .
CyanideFish
registered: 10/20/2000 11:40
posts: 656
Why not donate it HERE?
Wes Wehmiller’s family and Berklee College of Music have established The Wes Wehmiller Memorial Scholarship. Donations can be sent to Berklee College of Music (Office of Institutional Advancement), 1140 Boylston St., Boston MA 02215. Checks should be made out to Berklee College of Music, with a memo for the Wes Wehmiller Memorial Scholarship.
This way, we can send people to SCHOOL. Kinda like a rock 'n' roll camp, if you think about it.
-=CyFi=-
And just to put my money where my mouth was, I wrote a check for $50 and it's ready to be mailed in the morning. Somebody else has put up $25. That might be the beginning and the end of it, but, hey. So even silly internet drama can lead to a little something useful.
Things eventually died down, but resentment, it seems, still simmered.
So same Drama Queen who shall remain nameless sent out a mass email to everybody in her address book asking for donations so her kid could go to some kind of camp thing with her church. Somebody she sent it to posted it on the dd.com board with a "can you believe this shit?"
Unlike the last time, when many people argued that good deeds should not have gratitude as a requirement, people were pretty much in agreement that this was a pretty tacky thing to do. People started up joking "Well, gosh, I'D like some money so I can get a manicure. Who wants to donate to ME?" type threads in response.
I started this:
Say, if you DO have some spare money lying about . . .
CyanideFish
registered: 10/20/2000 11:40
posts: 656
Why not donate it HERE?
Wes Wehmiller’s family and Berklee College of Music have established The Wes Wehmiller Memorial Scholarship. Donations can be sent to Berklee College of Music (Office of Institutional Advancement), 1140 Boylston St., Boston MA 02215. Checks should be made out to Berklee College of Music, with a memo for the Wes Wehmiller Memorial Scholarship.
This way, we can send people to SCHOOL. Kinda like a rock 'n' roll camp, if you think about it.
-=CyFi=-
And just to put my money where my mouth was, I wrote a check for $50 and it's ready to be mailed in the morning. Somebody else has put up $25. That might be the beginning and the end of it, but, hey. So even silly internet drama can lead to a little something useful.
