[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.
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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!]
Topics: "Radical" Russ Belville, Chicken, El Hefe, Fire on the Mountain, Hot Wings, NORML SHOW LIVE, Urb Age Designs
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Still time to get the word out stoners! Lets add some more sauce to the heat for Russ!
I’ve been sending out tweets and texts.. Hopefully some more people jumped onboard and we just haven’t saw their name here yet.
A youtube video of this would be awesome. I’d love to see your face before, during, and after. I don’t know if this was already part of the plan but, its an idea nonetheless.
Never mind, already in the plan. sorry so
I hope that you eat more than 20 Russ… I pledged to pay per wing, NOT that I will only pledge up to 20 wings. Eat 40; But can I give you some advise? Eat a shit load of ice cream after wards. You’ll need it in the morning! hehe. I go bye Fidget here but my donation shows up as Greg T. Damn secret is out… Peace be with you, my fire eatin’ brotha’ …
To All: Free Eddy Lepp! (White House comment line: 202-456-1111)
See you all in San Francisco!
Russ, I’ve wrote you about advertising. So when you get a chance to look back a few days in the email you’ll see an email from me. Unless it’s in your junk box?
Anyway, we are sponsoring you at $1.25 per wing. I sent the paypal payment over a few hours ago. But I forgot to label it “NORML LIVE SHOW”.
Anyway, best of wishes to you!
I’ll add you to the list, and Sunday I should be able to sift through the 500+ unread emails I’ve gotten. I never should have fired the secretary. What? Oh, I only was dreaming I had a secretary. That explains it!
My wife is thinking about hiring a college intern. We had a personal assistant a few years ago to help with domestic and office duties. College kids are happy to work for $9 per hour in Utah. Its probably a little different in Oregon though.
Either way, it beats the hell out of fast food.
Yeah man, I REALLY want to get some advertising in.
I know this show is gonna rock! Thanks for all you do!
Russ, I’m in for sure for 20 bucks! Looking forward to watching you heat up mj law reform…
I can’t believe my pitiful little $420 is still the high pledge…come on stashers! Call your rich buddies who’re too high to read these posts, and get ‘em to chip in some green for the best cause around.
Go “R” Russ! 
Thanks kindly! There are a few “rich” folks who are ponying up a couple grand on the back end of the show and some advertisers lived up, but that money doesn’t arrive until after the show is up and running… and in the first five weeks I have to do the live debut show followed by four weeks of live remote shows all across the country. There is some gear that needs to be purchased NOW.
As it is, I’m having my doubts about the ASCAP/BMI/Fox licensing, as Harry Fox and BMI haven’t gotten back to me all week. ASCAP called me right back, to their credit. I may have to debut the show with podsafe music and work on licensing later. Or perhaps we just screw the licensing and give this big platform for musical artistry to the dedicated independents who supply music to the Stash.
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I don’t see my name up there. I donated a couple weeks ago with the subj: for RR butt at el hefe wing contest
I found you. You’re in!
Whats the Paypal name or email to use, I would rather send it paypal than pay by snail-mail.
Thanks and good luck Russ!
I’ll post it on Monday.
i just pledged 50cent
I just e-mailed my pledge.
Now’s the time for everyone who’s down with the cause to put their money where there mouth is.
Quote: D’oh! See what happens when I work too much?
is more like it.
peace & activism,
Doc
I wish I could give 420, but I did what I could, I do have 4 kids to feed too. But Im happy to help when I can!
Go get em Russ! Go Norml Live, Im calling in for sure!
Don’t you worry about it. Everyone contributes what they can; I don’t focus only on the money. Write a letter to the editor and convince two friends to do so as well and the blessings of the Radical shall be upon you.
[...] August 1st, 2009 at 10:39 am | By: Radical Russ Thank you so much for your donations for the El Hefe Hot Wing Eating Contest that Urb Age Designs has entered me in to raise money for NORML SHOW [...]
oops, hit enter…
…every other NORML supporter who is able, to do the same.
I know someone’ll pledge 421 or more to win, I don’t care if I win, I want a lot of money to go towards this cause.
I can’t imagine a better cause at this critical time when we need to tip the balance towards sensible policies on cannabis.
I’m going to set the bar where it should be for those of us who can afford it…
I pledge $420, and challenge
Creo que jefe empiece con J.
Tambien, debe ser en Agosto en vez de Abril, no?
El coco arreversado.
Ay! No Abril, es Agosto, si.