Earlier this month, my friend, Darren Burgfeld, was combing through Craigslist (not sure what he was actually looking for) when he came across this post:
“Grandson just got out of Cardinal Glennon for cancer treatment/ They want him to be in a toddler bed due to all of his chemo and worried of him falling out of a regular bed. Money is tight due to all expenses of being in hospital for 3 months. All he is asking for is a cars lighting mcqueen bed. He has been a trooper during the whole thing.
free or low cost would be great.”
Without questioning the authenticity of the ad, Darren took to Facebook and posted this as his status. He placed a simple paypal donate button on his wall and within 24 hours there was more than $400 raised. It unfortunately took nearly a month for Toys R Us to fulfill the order.
On Feb 28th, 2010, Darren delivered the bed, mattress, mattress pad, sheets and curtains to the family. He assembled the bed with the help of the kid’s brother and gave the remaining $150 to the family.
I am grateful that I was able to be a part of this and I want to thank everyone that contributed. This was one of the coolest things I have witnessed someone do for a complete stranger. D, I’m pretty sure you can take the rest of the year off; you’ve earned your karma points.
The best part about my boy flowing about Kobe on the radio is that my boy B just happened to be listening. Here’s the podcast. I chopped it down to the right part.
The new video for vampire weekend is pretty cool. It features RZA as the ref and lil jon as the tennis coach. OK, I think pretty much anything featuring RZA is cool. This video also has Jake Gyllenhaal and Joe Jonas. The latter tends to detract from the “coolness.”
But here’s the thing about this video. I watched it twice and I don’t get it.
I promise not to turn this site into a HDuff wedding blog. However, during my morning HDuff picture search, I noticed a tattoo on (who I assume is) her bodyguard’s leg. It seriously appears to be a portrait of her fiancé, Mike Comrie.
At first I thought, wow, Mike is pretty tat’d up. And then I realized it’s not Mike. It’s her bodyguard, assistant dude. Now that’s phuking loyalty. I need a bodyguard that is not only down to fight and take a bullet for me, but is so committed to his job, he will not only tattoo a pic of me, but a pic of Mike Comrie on his leg.
