{"id":526,"date":"2007-04-06T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T05:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=526"},"modified":"2007-04-06T00:31:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T05:31:44","slug":"you-folks-are-super-generous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/06\/you-folks-are-super-generous\/","title":{"rendered":"You folks are super generous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/424408999\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/150\/424408999_135c2025cd_m.jpg?resize=160%2C240\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Mutant Variety Show poster\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nOK, now I&#8217;m <em>officially<\/em> exhausted.  <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/music\/mutant-variety-show\/\">The Mutant Variety Show<\/a> is done, and all the wonderful folks that came were amazingly generous!  I just finished counting out the donation jars, and we raised nearly $450 tonight which, along with the (currently) $253 donated on-line at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.org\/grassroots\/mutantvarietyshow\">Lance Armstrong Foundation site<\/a>, makes a total just a hair short of <strong>$700<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<h3 align='center'>You all rock!!!<\/h3>\n<p>It was a <em>whole<\/em> lot of fun.  Our many guest performers were really wonderful, and the audience was <em>splendid<\/em>, singing along, dancing, and generous with their support and applause.  We had a bit over a 100 folks in attendance, mostly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/\">UMM<\/a> students, along with staff, faculty, and members of the Morris community.  We should have audio and video recordings of the event soon, so those of you who missed it <em>may<\/em> have an opportunity to check it out later.  Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/SubEvilBoy\/\">Sub-Evil Boy<\/a> did a great job, and I was totally proud of him.  Well done sir!  His great &#8220;Taco Man&#8221; was a well deserved hit.  (There are rumors of another performance of &#8220;Taco Man&#8221; at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/events\/View.php?itemID=1370\">Pride Week Drag Show<\/a>&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>A final reminder that you can still donate on-line at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.org\/grassroots\/mutantvarietyshow\">LAF site<\/a>.  Thanks a ton to everyone!<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/18\/wonderful-little-film-about-paul-rand\/\" title=\"Wonderful little film about Paul Rand (18 Nov 07)\">Wonderful little film about Paul Rand<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, now I&#8217;m officially exhausted. The Mutant Variety Show is done, and all the wonderful folks that came were amazingly generous! I just finished counting out the donation jars, and we raised nearly $450 tonight which, along with the (currently) $253 donated on-line at our Lance Armstrong Foundation site, makes a total just a hair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/06\/you-folks-are-super-generous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You folks are super generous!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17,11,2,26],"tags":[876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-8u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":532,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/08\/mutant-variety-show-accounting\/","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":0},"title":"Mutant Variety Show accounting","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 Apr 07","format":false,"excerpt":"For the bored among you, I've posted the accounting or the Mutant Variety Show as a Google Doc. I'm writing the checks to the two organizations as we speak, and we've raised (to date) a total of $748, or $374 for each organization (the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":518,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/03\/17\/mutant-variety-show-poster\/","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":1},"title":"Mutant Variety Show poster","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"17 Mar 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Mutant Variety Show poster, originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent. As mentioned earlier, In a little less than three weeks, Sub-Evil Boy and I will be hosting a strange evening of music and fun, with donations going to cancer-related charities. And so here we have our advertising poster :-). 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