Official friend-of-Registan.net Sean-Paul Kelley, of The Agonist fame, has set forth an offer I simply cannot refuse: He is willing to pitch in $1000, if I can raise the remainder of my costs for going to Afghanistan August 22. That would mean that, in order to buy my plane tickets without their cost rising into unaffordability, I would need to raise $3000 by August 7, or I won’t be able to go.
I have received some support from some pretty incredible people so far. The meter below is about $70 short of my actual total raised representative of what remains, so I need more help to be able to head off to the country I love and cover so much here.
This represents an extraordinary show of support on his part. So let’s call this pushing into official blegging territory: pass this link around to whomever you can think of, link from your blogs, email with gleeful abandon.
Help send me to Afghanistan! Help support citizen’s media!
UPDATE: Another friend-of-Registan.net, who wishes to remain anonymous, has pledged an additional $1000 to the cause of sending me to Afghanistan. In addition, I see in the last 12 hours several people have contributed significant sums of money as well. I am, in a word, stunned by your generosity. Thank you! And keep on spreading the word!