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"With great power comes great embarrassment!"
A mystical moment from Manbites Dog's Great Human Race video.

The Great Human Race is an annual event here in Durham, organized to allow local non-profit groups to raise some money. This year's Race is Saturday March 21. Once again, I'm "participating"* to benefit my theater company, Manbites Dog and our Great Human Race partner, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern.

Together we're known as Team PigDog, and we are unstoppable.

Don't believe me? Check out our promo video, featuring Jeff in full superhero costume, plus a cameo of me simultaneously channeling Alec Guinness and Ernie Kovacs.

Anybody want to sponsor me?

Last year, thanks to support from friends including several LJers, I raised over $800; and the total raised by ALL participants for Manbites Dog and our partner Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern was over $10,000. We'd love to beat that this year. Like many arts organizations, Manbites Dog does great work with abysmally low funding, so you can be sure every dollar donated truly goes a long way.

There are two ways you can make a tax-deductible sponsorship donation:

-- Go to my personal Great Human Race donation page, and make a secure online donation with a credit card.
-- Mail a check to me. (if you need my mailing address, email me at tycho_anomaly@livejournal.com). Checks should be made out to "Volunteer Center/Great Human Race". I need to have it (or know it's on the way) NO LATER than Monday, March 16.

Here's information about Manbites Dog at the Great Human Race, including photos from several different years. (You'll have to click around to find a snap of your's truly.)

(* "Participate" = me being there representing. I will NOT be doing the 5k fun walk, and running in the 5k race is right out.)