Movember: donate and I’ll write you a ditty

Freddie Mercury's Mustache

During the month of November, vanity will take a backseat while I grow a moustache for Movember to raise awareness and and a few bucks to fight prostate cancer. And I’m offering you a once-in-a-lifetime deal.

Donate to my moustachioed campaign and I will write a song for you, and post a video of the performance on your Facebook profile.

Give $50 or more and the song will be all about you (or a topic of your choice). Give $5–$49 and you’ll be included in a song along with other donors. (E.g. a couple giving $25 each will get one song about the two of them, or I’ll lump five $10 donors into a group ditty.) It’s proportional: the more you give, the more the tune is about you.

Click here to donate on my Mo Space page. Just so we’re clear about expectations, my mandolin and singing skills are lousy. (Don’t be misled by the above photo of Freddie Mercury.) But this is an exercise in humility, and you’ll get a good laugh at my expense — and for a good cause. So please give, and I’ll dust off the archtop and my vocal chords.



Update: Movember 9
Not quite up to Freddie Mercury standards, but it’s getting there. I also designed and produced 100 of these beautiful, moustachioed buttons. I’ll mail one to you with any donation over $10 (in case being immortalized in song isn’t quite your thing).

Movember 9

November 5, 2011