I’m scramming for a few days for a short break that after any Presidential election year, much less this one, is more needed than I’d have time or ability to adequately describe. We’ll have guest hosts on the show for the duration (thanks in advance for help making it possible, Nicole and Angie!), so please scroll down to listen to their BradCasts while Desi and I try to stand down for a bit.
One other thing I need to quickly mention…
I’ve failed to ask here specifically here for a while, for a number of reasons, but if you’re able to help out with a donation at years end for all that we do here — particular after this year, and with what is heading our way next year — the support would be tremendously appreciated. One of the reasons we are all in this mess right now, one of the main reasons, I’d argue, is thanks to the extraordinary failures, yet again, of our mainstream corporate media in almost every way imaginable (and predicted).
Those failures and their unspeakable costs to the nation and the planet, I am hoping, are obscenely obvious at this point to any and all BRAD BLOG readers. But, if not, go back and review our last year and half or more of coverage. (Yes, we warned of this mess damned near every day during that period, while almost the entirety of the corporate media were happily and profitably whistling past all of our graveyards.) Then go back and review our decade of coverage before that, for still more warnings and hair-on-fire predictive journalism. As of the end of January, we will have been at this now for twelve long, difficult years. But we are improbably still here and at it because of you and your support over those years. Thank you!
But support of rare, independent outlets like this one will now be more important than ever. Please consider a donation to help support our work now and in the years ahead. A one-time donation is greatly appreciated, but a monthly sustaining pledge even more so. Whatever you can do to help is welcome and appreciated.
And, if you’d prefer to support a different independent media outlet rather than (or in addition to) this one, please rest assured it will be most welcome and much needed, as we all attempt to move forward together. If the institutions you have counted on have failed you, please consider supporting the ones that did not. Hopefully that includes us. But there are many others who will also be fighting for their lives in the days ahead and will need your help. Thanks in advance!
Until we return, my best (and Desi’s as well!) to all of you for safe, happy and somehow peaceful holidays! — Brad (and Des by proxy)
(Snail mail support to “Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028” always welcome too!)
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OH, my beloved Brad and Des. How I miss seeing you in real life. Unable to contribute, as DEC is a VERY slow time for tourism in New Orleans…but when Mardi Gras begins? When I’m back in cash? YOU GET THE MONEY. I still listen / tune-in when I’m putting on m’ make-up for a tour…and I can not tell you how much (more) your work means to me, now. No one can tell fact from fiction…a REALITY TV PREZ? WELL…this was the “tick, tick, tick” we have all been hearing for years on this tricky issue. And now, KABOOOM! Mad love to you both during this weird Holiday season…money coming to you as soon as I have some. xoxo!
…and I still work on this issue (tho’ off the grid) – more and more folks aware, now. Thanks to YOU. Thanks to US. (Yea, us.) When they ask me where to go to get real news? I tell them BRADBLOG.COM…hoping that gives you two some love and comfort, and MONEY. (And when you two are back in the south? Consider a visit to NOLA. FREE TOURS from an expert. xoxo!
I’m just writing this note so I can have it next to Jeannie Dean’s note cuz Jeannie Dean is my virtual sister from beyond the ethers and I met her here. And because Brad and Desi and Ernie and all the rest here are my virtual family in certain vital, essential ways. Thanks everybody for helping me keep my head on straight(well, as straight as it is anyway) and thanks for the company during these very strange and challenging times. I still live in hope that we can pull off a miracle or three and get this wild and wacky group consciousness moving in a more sustainable and love-oriented direction. Tremendous thanks and appreciation to all the group here at BradBlog. I love us.
love,
Dave
Lasangna – you are the best. Adore you. Happy Holidays (or Merry X-mas or whatevs)…and wishing the same to all BB followers. We did good, even tho’ the country failed itself.