Make your pledge for NORML SHOW LIVE in the Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings “El Hefe Hot Wings Contest”

[UPDATED with latest pledges below] So I’m at the Oregon NORML meeting trying to raise the funds for promotion of the upcoming NORML SHOW LIVE when Scott, an Oregon NORML Board Member and owner of Urb Age Designs, a Stash sponsor, comes up to me and says, “Dude, there is this hot wings contest at Fire on the Mountain and I would pay your entry fee and sponsor you if you’d put on an Urb Age shirt and enter! Remember how you said you love flaming hot foods, how nothing was too hot for you? Dude, I want to see you eat those wings so bad!”

“Dude,” I replied, “you had me at ‘hot wings contest’. I’m in!”

As we discussed it, he said we ought to make it some sort of fundraiser for the NORML SHOW LIVE. Then I remembered when I was a kid and we used to collect pledge sheets for the March of Dimes Walkathon, and people would pledge a certain amount per mile you walked.

And a promotion was born.

Urb Age is sponsoring me in this contest and I’m asking you to sponsor NORML SHOW LIVE! Our forthcoming two-hour live talk radio show for Marijuana Nation needs flyers, stickers, cards, banners and all sorts of promotional material on top of the production costs. By sponsoring me on a “per wing” basis (my goal is twenty), I can raise funds for the show and you can laugh at me trying to down the hottest wings in Portland on the video we post to the Stash that weekend.

The contest is Saturday, August 29th at 3pm, just a week before the debut of NORML SHOW LIVE.   If you’re in the Portland area and want to see the fun live, the contest is at Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings, 1708 E Burnside, Portland, Oregon.

We’re also giving you a chance to win! Urb Age Designs has donated two prize packs or gift certificates and I’m donating two of my Starfish Designs glass art pieces, which will be awarded to the person who pledges the most and to a randomly selected pledger.  My goal is twenty wings and the pledges start at 25¢ per wing.

To pledge, just send an email to stash ‘at’ norml.org with the Subject: Hot Wings Contest.  Tell us your name, city and state, and age.  After the contest, I’ll give you the pledge total based on wings eaten and ask you to pay that online via  PayPal, or by mailing your check to Russ Belville, % NORML SHOW LIVE, 4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd. #161, Portland, OR 97214.

Contest only open to those eighteen and older and United States (and territories) residents.  Starfish Designs prizes will not be shipped to Idaho, Indiana, or Pennsylvania.  NORML Daily Audio Stash is sole judge and arbiter of the contest.

[UPDATE: Thanks to all of you who have generously pledged to support my gastrointestinal discomfort!  We've raised $800 $914.20 in pledges, which will pay for the cost of our quarterly ASCAP/BMI licensing, so I can play recognizable hit songs for our intros, bumpers, and backgrounds.  So when you hear Barack Obama talking about his frequent inhaling as a young man over the strains of "One Toke Over The Line", you can say "I helped make that cool little sound clip!"]

[UPDATED UPDATE:  You people blow my mind!  25 Stashers have donated a total of $1,116 in pledges!  That's not including people who just went ahead and donated straight through the Tip Jar or NORML PayPal, which is another nice sum (I don't know how much, because those are NORML's accounts).  I may not be using the funds for licensing but instead for a mobile production system (a.k.a. a decent laptop with media capabilities).  Thank you so much!  I promise to bring you the best pictures and audio from the front lines of the war on marijuana!]