All,
Just a quick note to tell you that our annual hosting bill has just posted. It came to $81, plus whatever the tiny amount is that I pay for the rights to freekraut.net (I think we are talking like $5/year, but it is through a different company and I’m too lazy to check).
So that we are all on the same page (and new people know), I am paying this bill no matter what and will not ever make/post/keep a list of who did or didn’t pay for part of it. It isn’t a charge to use the website, and no one should feel the least bit guilty about simply ignoring this thread.
That said, changing to our more powerful host put us over my “refuse all offers to help with costs” threshold, and you FKers have been slacking on your use of my keystroke monitoring malware. So if you would like to contribute feel free to paypal me (my screenname at gmail).
How come paypal won’t accept negative payments?
Someone’s got to put in the money before we can start taking it out.
Not yet merged with ticketmaster
They’re one step ahead of your clever schemes.
how much do I have to pledge to get a tote?
Is em gonna break into game threads to remind us of what a wonderfu; platform this is?
LOL
what the?
ASVD
I just hope we don’t have to sit through the Ken Burns 10 part miniseries: Email Me and Bring Me a Shrubbery-when good blogs go bad.
Nah, that would be too controversial. He could only do it if he gave equal time to Rev’s musings about successful blog administration.
Those two things combined would only warrant a few seconds to say “When delusional idiots get a bit of power, it usually ends poorly,” and Burns could move on to the next topic.
I think you mistake the difference between warranted and what we can showcase. Heck, one full episode is devoted to an ill fated lounge where a new mod goes wild and a former FP writer and supporter of the administration valiantly chooses to change sides and leaves the hive forever.
(Is Seth Rogan ok for the reading of your posts?)
I don’t know. Can I say bad things about James Franco and get Danny McBride to act like Danny McBride?
Alternately, in pro wrestling vernacular (say THAT one, Seth!) I did a face turn.
“And Flashfire has got a chair….wait..wait a minute…OH MY GOD HE IS GOING AFTER THE ADMINS!!! WHAT HAS HAPPENED!!!!! This is as shocking as Hogan joining the NWO!!!”
Dear GOD…that’s the Rev’s music!!
Now that you mention it, a chairshot on You-Know-Who would’ve felt pretty good.
Well that would be the entire documentary then.
Sorry I’m so behind in reading threads! However, I’m here now, and it’s a good thing that I am, because we have a dollar-for-dollar matching grant from an anonymous friend of Free Kraut. Let’s just call him B.B.. If you call in your pledge in the next ten minutes, this generous donor will match your contribution up to the $162 level. Everyone joining at the $45 level and above will receive our FK bumper sticker and a complementary roll of
And if you’re joining us at the $120 level or above, we have this special gift for you. 
But you know, friends, the reason to pledge is not because of our matching grants and special gifts, but because you have come to depend on this blog and its unique programming every day, which has been made possible through the years because people just like you chose to contribute. You can search up and down the internet and not find coverage of the issues that you care about on any other blog. If you put a jar next to your computer, and every time you read something on FK that made you snort diet Coke up your nose, you emptied out all the change in your pockets and put it in that jar, at the end of the season you’d probably have a lot more than $120 in that jar, wouldn’t you? But don’t wait until next year, call now while we still have some room left on this challenge grant from B.B. We have two people on the line right now, but lots of volunteers are in the phone room, so we’ll have you on your way in just a few minutes. By the way, speaking of our volunteers, we’d like to thank Otter Pops, Chickie’s Cookies, and Zevia, the all-natural soda that doubles as a colonoscopy preparation, for feeding our volunteers today.
Now that’s some professional pledge drivin, right there.
i am lucky I am not currently wearing pants, otherwise all my change would have been put in the jar
Too many taglines to even know where to begin.
Tagline.
asvd
Hee!!!
Just like that you guys have already taken care of all of this.
Please don’t send any more.
[takes credit for doing nothing]
Feel free to refund the extra to me. I don’t use FK, FK uses me. (Also: tagline.)
This isn’t just a charity for them. This is a mission.