Save Our S00J!
Dec. 30th, 2008 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkstowolvesStorm, one of my favorite songs by S.J. Tucker, the Skinny White Chick (and 1/3rd of Tricky Pixie!) features the following lyrics:
They see a woman on a mission
with a song for anyone who'll listen,
and when the sun is rising, she is already gone.
By the time the dawn has broken, she's as good as gone.
I'm quoting those lines here and now because our dear lady musician has been hospitalized (and released, pending diagnosis). At last word, they were tending toward a diagnosis of appendicitis*. Our amazing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
s00j, who spends all of her time on the road bringing joy to our lives through voice and guitar, is uninsured. She's facing bills for two different hospital stays, daily tests, medication, an ambulance ride, CT scans... and possible surgery. If you haven't blanched by now, or shaken your head and murmured "My word!", you're not familiar with the high cost of medical attention in America.
So let's keep our lovely musician itinerant and able to do her job, eh? She sings for her supper and we pay for her lovely words, her music, her song. If she's too sick to sing for us, or too bound by debt, it's even more important for her wide network of patrons to grow itself, bind together, and offer up what support we can.
omnisti got the ball rolling: he explains her situation and some basic ways you can help her in this post. Buy her CDs at wholesale prices, donate money, do what you can!
More of us have taken up the call with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
saveours00j, a bazaar wherein you can find amazingly unique items up for sale or bid with a donation to s00j. There's awesome hand-crafted jewelry there, Jayne (of Firefly fame) hats, Tarot readings, editing services offered, etc.
I would be donating jewelry, except I'm light on some base supplies and don't have the funds to re-purchase at the moment. However, I whipped up the following banner:
Please feel free to use it to advertisesaveours00j! Spread it far and wide! All I ask is that you do not hotlink. (Save the banner and upload it to your own site, livejournal, whatever, please.)
The photo used in the banner was taken by the marvelous Ryan Nutick when he andcopperwise attended the last Tricky Pixie concert in Portland.
Also, Vixy (as in Tony &) has alerted us that she is donating money from CD sales and purchases at her Etsy shop to helps00j recover.
And that's all I got, folks. Spread the word, and bring in the love!
* Probably unlikely due to the amount of time that's elapsed (appendicitis is sort of a quick and dirty thing, you know), but there's still something wrong and she's definitely racked up the medical bills in caring for it.
with a song for anyone who'll listen,
and when the sun is rising, she is already gone.
By the time the dawn has broken, she's as good as gone.
I'm quoting those lines here and now because our dear lady musician has been hospitalized (and released, pending diagnosis). At last word, they were tending toward a diagnosis of appendicitis*. Our amazing
s00j, who spends all of her time on the road bringing joy to our lives through voice and guitar, is uninsured. She's facing bills for two different hospital stays, daily tests, medication, an ambulance ride, CT scans... and possible surgery. If you haven't blanched by now, or shaken your head and murmured "My word!", you're not familiar with the high cost of medical attention in America. So let's keep our lovely musician itinerant and able to do her job, eh? She sings for her supper and we pay for her lovely words, her music, her song. If she's too sick to sing for us, or too bound by debt, it's even more important for her wide network of patrons to grow itself, bind together, and offer up what support we can.
omnisti got the ball rolling: he explains her situation and some basic ways you can help her in this post. Buy her CDs at wholesale prices, donate money, do what you can! More of us have taken up the call with
saveours00j, a bazaar wherein you can find amazingly unique items up for sale or bid with a donation to s00j. There's awesome hand-crafted jewelry there, Jayne (of Firefly fame) hats, Tarot readings, editing services offered, etc.I would be donating jewelry, except I'm light on some base supplies and don't have the funds to re-purchase at the moment. However, I whipped up the following banner:
Please feel free to use it to advertise
saveours00j! Spread it far and wide! All I ask is that you do not hotlink. (Save the banner and upload it to your own site, livejournal, whatever, please.) The photo used in the banner was taken by the marvelous Ryan Nutick when he and
copperwise attended the last Tricky Pixie concert in Portland. Also, Vixy (as in Tony &) has alerted us that she is donating money from CD sales and purchases at her Etsy shop to help
s00j recover. And that's all I got, folks. Spread the word, and bring in the love!
* Probably unlikely due to the amount of time that's elapsed (appendicitis is sort of a quick and dirty thing, you know), but there's still something wrong and she's definitely racked up the medical bills in caring for it.