Foreclosure equals charity?

I found this article interesting.

I like the idea that the houses are going to a charitible cause.

By the same token, it brings up the question: Is this just another form of gentrification?

Hmn...

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I'm probably not getting this, but...

Somehow, these guys here seem to be missing the point; or else I am.

After all, without your fanbase, aren't you just another unpaid person with a cool artistic hobby? If your fans won't vote for you, who will?

Or...I dunno. Are the opinions of your peers more important than the people giving you their money?

What? I don't get it, but it seems kinda...disrespectful (if we're going to throw that word around) to turn your nose up at the people who put you on the map in the first place by being the ones that bought your music and are now 'standing up' for you by voting for you. I mean, really, are the people that listened to the stuff you put out that much less educated than a room full of older peers who have their own unfair rules in place for these sort of things?

...Or am I just too stupid to understand this one? (which is possible)

Looking for advice

From anyone who has tried to sell their art.

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The yearly Browning of the Celt has begun. :)

The pool at my place is officially open. And, since I started yesterday when kidnappeded by THOSE PEOPLE, OMG! it just made it easier to come home, throw on the suit, and go (the 93 f degrees outside helped convince me too).

And I was smart and got goggles this year, so that I could wear my contacts, have 'sunglasses' on to cut down water-glare, and therefore, you know, see. :)

So, YAY!!!!

Let's see if swimming works as well now as it did last year with the whole 'begone foul fat!' thing.