{"id":24550,"date":"2014-08-20T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=24550"},"modified":"2014-08-20T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:42:39","slug":"the-als-ice-bucket-challenge-the-wendigo-abides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/08\/20\/the-als-ice-bucket-challenge-the-wendigo-abides\/","title":{"rendered":"The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: The Wendigo Abides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DMWEXGuZnIc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(Direct link to the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMWEXGuZnIc&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I was challenged yesterday by the inimitable Ben LeRoy (his video and accompanying post <a href=\"http:\/\/benjaminleroy.com\/2014\/08\/19\/throwing-the-baby-out-with-the-ice-water\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) to either give some money or dump some ice water on my head (and give a smaller amount of money in the process). I figured, fuck it, let&#8217;s do both, and because YAY CHARITY I&#8217;m also going to give money to fight another disease: prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p>ALS Ice Bucket challenge and donate button: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsa.org\/fight-als\/ice-bucket-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prostate cancer charity: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcf.org\/site\/c.leJRIROrEpH\/b.5699537\/k.BEF4\/Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, because I am presently a cold, wet jerk (not coincidentally the name of my homemade porn flick), I have issues this challenge to the entire <a title=\"HOLY TACO CHURCH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.holytacochurch.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Holy Taco Church<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, with particular note for members: Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson, and Wesley Chu.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you feel like this is a good time to rant about slacktivisms and how this is bad or something, please remember that this challenge has resulted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2014\/08\/19\/ice-bucket-challenge-donations-reach-22-9-million-to-als-association\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>major uptick in donations<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to fight Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease, and is supported by those who suffer from the condition as well as those who have friends and loved ones who suffer.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, charity is good, and this is not slacktivism because it demands action. Not just changing your Twitter icon or flinging up some hashtag somewhere. Even\u00a0<em>more<\/em> to the point: keep your negative thoughts placed firmly inside your cakeholes. OKAY THANK YOU.<\/p>\n<p>Further: if you&#8217;re a reader of\u00a0<strong>terribleminds<\/strong> who has done the challenge? Feel free to drop a link to your video in the comments so we can all point and laugh at your soggy, ice-slick bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Direct link to the video here.) I was challenged yesterday by the inimitable Ben LeRoy (his video and accompanying post here) to either give some money or dump some ice water on my head (and give a smaller amount of money in the process). I figured, fuck it, let&#8217;s do both, and because YAY CHARITY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6nY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24555,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions\/24555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}