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cleolindaOh, by the way, because someone asked about the Peter Pan thing--it's very simple and probably won't happen until early 2005 because I want to finish the book this calendar year, dammit, and avoid Christmas charity fatigue as well. But basically, now that I apparently have a marketable skill, I wanted to do something... well, charitable. Give something back. So it occurred to me: enough people read "Movies in Fifteen Minutes," based on the comments I get, that people could give just a dollar, and we could still do a lot of good. (There were something like 6000 m15m members last time I checked.)
I don't know which charity exactly to do, which is probably a dangerous thing to admit, but I'm really interested in education, of course. I'm not sure what, but it needs to involve education in Alabama, because we're basically #49 on the national list unless Mississippi has a particularly good year, and, let's face it, we need all the help we can get. (I remember an educator coming to my high school and showing us what the kids out in some rural areas have--encyclopedias from 1942. Yikes.) So we're looking at children and education and Alabama.
So that was the theory behind choosing the Peter Pan that came out earlier this year/last year for the parody--it's got the children theme, it's got a Harry Potter connection to bring in a large number of readers, and I think I could do something with it.
The hardest part would be setting it up with the charity and clearing everything--I don't know if this is considered making money off someone else's property, even as a parody, so it may be a no-go and I'll have to think of something else. But after that it could run very simply--I gets yer pieces of eight dollar through PayPal or whatever, and I put you on a special friends filter or members-only community or whatever, and you get to read "Peter Pan in Fifteen Minutes." I mean, that is, if you don't mind helping some Alabama kids get their learn on.
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Date: 2004-09-22 11:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 12:14 pm (UTC)There's a list (I believe it was an e-mail forward, so it's on teh internet SOMEWHERE) that had "unofficial" state mottoes. I think for Mississippi the motto was, "Hey, at least we're not Alabama!"
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Date: 2004-09-22 11:59 am (UTC)So is there an alternative payment plan?
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Date: 2004-09-22 12:04 pm (UTC)And good luck getting that PayPal thing straightened out, too.
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Date: 2004-09-22 12:06 pm (UTC)Heh. Give me an address, and it's there =D
I still haven't sent the paperwork off to pay pal, so that may have something to do with it. At any rate, I won't be using that service for quite awhile.
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Date: 2004-09-22 12:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 12:41 pm (UTC)Btw, sorry to hear about your internet woes. I wouldn't know how to cope. You are stronger than I.
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Date: 2004-09-22 12:10 pm (UTC)Like I said, nothing personal. Just paranoia.
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Date: 2004-09-22 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-22 01:49 pm (UTC)Yarha, Whose Heart is Warmed and Yea the Cockles Thereof
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Date: 2004-09-22 02:08 pm (UTC)Yarha, Merchant Payment Clearing Made Semi-Sorta Easy!
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Date: 2004-09-22 02:20 pm (UTC)charging for m15m? Wah!
Date: 2004-09-22 02:22 pm (UTC)Still basking in the sparkles reflecting from your continually scintillating wit,
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Date: 2004-09-22 03:46 pm (UTC)And I think that you could do this without getting in trouble. They always give a cease and desist warning before suing someone's ass anyway, right?
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Date: 2004-09-22 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 06:05 pm (UTC)And oooohhh. I didn't know Jason Isaacs was in Peter Pan. Rah!
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Date: 2004-09-22 07:53 pm (UTC)But mainly I guess it's just that I've known he was hot since I first encountered him (Lucius Malfoy in HP (what can I say, I have a thing for villians with long pale hair XD)) but so many of my friends have just gone 'ick!'. In particular they tend to point out the 'old' factor, which just makes me double take every time.
*coughs* This DOES have a point. XD
Basically, it was only at a recent group viewing of Pan that they've actually suddenly gone 'WOW! He's hot.' To which I can do nothing but sit there smugly and be like; I'm way ahead of you guys. XD Laff. *thinks* Interestingly though, a number of them actually thought he was hotter as Mr Darling. Hmmm. I guess I just prefer the whole 'dark angst' thing.
OH! And I've recently gone on a Van Helsing doll obsession, and have to keep resisting buying them. I think of you everytime the issue comes up. XP
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Date: 2004-09-22 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-23 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 11:41 pm (UTC)*waves debit card* Gimme gimme gimme!
When, uh, it's up, and I have
existingconsistent fundage. But yes, very, thank you.no subject
Date: 2004-09-23 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-24 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-24 04:07 pm (UTC)Copyright crapola
Date: 2004-09-26 05:17 pm (UTC)Mind, "should" is the operative term.
Since you have a publisher now, you could always run it by their legal dept. You could also have some adoring fan do the legal footwork for you as well. I'm sure many would volunteer. *cough ME! cough*
Re: Copyright crapola
Date: 2004-09-26 05:25 pm (UTC)(Hee. You may get taken up on that offer.)