Important Blogging. For A Cure.
I love writing about music. You love reading about music. We’re a match made in heaven. But the most fun part of blogging, for me, is in the relationships we create with each other. Some of those relationships are virtual, some are real-life relationships, and some have morphed into an interesting combination of both. We spend a lot of time, in these relationships, snarking and discussing music – which is fun as all hell, but at the end of the day, doesn’t change much in the world.
I think we have a chance to do something real. And I want to take a second to tell you about it.
One of my favorite bloggers is Scott Malchus. If you don’t read his blog, you should. Malchus writes about music with as much heart behind it as I’ve ever seen. My favorite part of his blog is "Basement Songs," where he reminisces about some of his favorite tunes so vividly that you’d swear you grew up next to him. I don’t know Scott personally – we’ve barely ever e-mailed each other – and yet I feel like I know him.
Scott’s 5 year-old son, Jake, has cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive systems of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States. Read this post – an article about the Malchus family – to get a feel for what it’s like to live with this disease, day-by-day.
The Malchus clan – Scott, Julie, Jake and Sophie – aren’t taking this disease sitting down. They’re facing it with positive attitudes, and working towards a cure.
As are we!
Jeff Giles came up with a brilliant idea.
http://www.bloggersforacure.com
Here’s the deal: we want to help the Malchus family reach – and hopefully exceed – their goal of raising $2500 for the Great Strides walk for Cystic Fibrosis in Valencia, CA on June 2, 2007. If you make a donation, you’ll not only be showing that the blogging community can make a difference, but you’ll also be entered in the running for some fantastic prizes (including a 250GB hard drive full of music from the Jefito Collection, which is music nerd porn if ever there were such a thing).
So what are you waiting for? Let’s help the Malchus family – and all those who have been affected – beat cystic fibrosis!
Bloggers For A Cure is a joint effort, led by Jeff Giles, and comprised of:
T-Sides | Py Korry | The Lovely Mrs. Davis Tells You What to Think | Mulberry Panda 96 | Lost in the ’80s | Jeff Vrabel | I Like Your Crappy Band | Jason Hare | Down With Snark! | You Must Be From Away | Kurt’s Krap | Jefitoblog
April 10th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Cystic Fibrosis is a nasty, nasty disease. In total seriousness, have you ever woken up one morning so clotted up with phlegm in your throat and lungs, and no matter how hard you try to cough it up it doesn’t move? Now try to think of doing that multiple times a day, and not simply for the benefit of relieving discomfort but for the sake of life itself. These coughing exercises are necessary because the lungs cannot expel the mucous in a normal fashion and the body produces the stuff at an excelerated rate. That is just a part of it. It also affects the pancreas and digestive system, causes issues with growth, and worst of all, kids who have it do not have a long future to dream about (to put it tactfully). I’m thinking about ways of contributing (although I don’t have much money to offer), but regardless of how I’m able to do so, I will throw my support behind this effort. I hope others out there will as well.