a serious call for help

imagine your life shattered by a natural disaster...

i satirise i lot of shit here, i criticise a lot of countries and their people here, i make jokes and write stories about funny things here, i talk a lot about drugs or drinking and getting high or getting drunk, but this is one time when i'm as serious as an earthquake rumbling through your town or village or county or state or province or country and rendering all you or your family or your friends know obsolete, destroyed, fucked up beyond all belief, extinct, irretrievable, extinguished, consumed, or swallowed up...
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i am humbly spearheading an effort to collect things to send to the needy citizens in northern pakistan who so unfortunately lost everything known to them in last month's huge earthquake.
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i do this on behalf of no organization, no relief agency, no human rights or human aid group; i do this of my own volition, in partnership with only a single contact in pakistan, a man who lives in rawalpindi, not too far south of the tragic zone of annihilation.
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i urge you to collect and save all that you can that can help the desperate people left languishing in the pakistani highlands without homes, clothes, jobs, families, shelter, or other minimum amenities as the harsh himalayan winter begins to set in. clothes of all kind--and for all sorts of people, women, men, and children--are welcome: shirts, pants, socks, shoes, sweaters, blankets, hats, scarves, vests, coats, jackets, gloves, boots, whatever you can buy or spare or don't want anymore, it doesn't matter, as long as it's something to keep someone warm in the onsetting harsh cold climate.
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i've joked in the past about how many or how few people read this aetherspace; if you do read it, or you know people who have at least once in the past, pass this info on, pass this web site on to others to as many people as you can. urge them to pay heed to this call, that i'm as serious as you know i can be about things. it's important that you pay attention to this and commit something, ANYTHING, to this...
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if you are willing to commit something, or to at least pass this message on, please click on the "comments" section and let me know. i won't hold you to any promises you do or don't make, but i'll at least know you're reading this and passing it along.
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i'll be back again on this site with relevant information on where, when, and how to send anything to me so i can send to pakistan, whether you live in the u.s., hungary, russia, sudan, argentina, japan, or here in korea--or, more specifically, here in gangneung: there will be places to which the generous people i know can send the things that these unfortunate people can use.
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and, those of you in america or who are americans, please don't use "disaster fatigue", brought on upon by the horrible damage wrought by hurricane katrina two months ago on new orleans, prevent you from doing SOMETHING to help. as bad off as the people of southern and coastal louisiana and mississippi are who were affected by hurricane katrina, i can't even begin to describe not only how devastated this region of pakistan is, but how much poorer they were, to begin with, than were (are) the people of the gulf region. now, THAT'S a scary proposition, isn't it? and only a small contribution will help...
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i'll be back again soon with information on donating...
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thanks for at least listening or reading this....