Well, kind of. I will be annoying you all in order to get something cool for myself. But it won't be a normal fundraiser. Via Daniel Radosh comes a fully vetted site where, if I can just get eight of the 3,000 or so of you who read this blog to sign up for a cheap offer (where you actually get something!), I will get a free X-Box 360.
I'm not kidding. A free one. And if some of you who sign up have X-Box's as well, I promise to play you on Live at a time of your choosing. And how sweet would that be?
So, as the week goes on, I will offer more and more pathetic posts, ranging from entreaties to "pay" for this site you enjoy to guilt trips about the three or so hours a day, every day, that I put into creating content here. But -- if eight of you go sign up, say, tonight, you'll never see another post on this again!
The way it works is simple. You go and register, and then you must sign up for an offer. The offers range from credit cards to magazines to free trials of Real Player Live. If you're a gamer, you can get three years of the official X-Box magazine (with demo DVD's!), if you're a horndog you can get Maxim, and if you're a fitness buff you can get Shape. There's also a bunch of other stuff you can do. The offers range from free to cheap, and in every single one, you walk away with something tangible. And, at the end, as reward for writing this site where you all learn about health care and my weird ability to do flip-ups and all other manner of things, I get an X-Box to love and enjoy. Plus, as a new writer at a nonprofit, progressive magazine, I really can't afford one myself, so you will be subsidizing my ability to fight the good fight.
So c'mon, guys -- just eight of you. And no fallacy of compositions, either. If everybody waits for everybody else to do the offer, nobody will. And then I will be X-Box less and sad. So just do it yourself. It's the menschy thing to do.
I'll keep track of the numbers publicly and stop it when it gets to eight. And you lucky eight will own my thanks, friendship, and dignity -- especially my dignity -- forever. Now how awesome does that sound?
So go sign up! Please! Because then I'll stop bugging you about it!
