The
March 2015 Cocktail Talk on Crowd-funding ended like this:
"For
a brighter, cheerful, even zany read, try Kickstarter. Kickstarter is
crowdfunding too, but for entrepreneurs, inventors, indie
filmmakers, photographers, artists, dance troupes, magicians, and makers
of Goat Milk Soap.".
The
May 2015 Golf Digest, the one with topless Lexi Thompson
wearing a towel on the cover, also writes about Kickstarter.
Why?
It's
a real stretch but it seems "Chloe" is using Kickstarter to
raise money for her slasher horror movie called "Crazy
Golf". Since it has the word Golf in it the title .....
But
you were promised brighter, cheerful, and even zany. So let's go
down the rabbit hole.
One Kickstarter hopeful
wants to raise $10,000 to put together an AMA (Ask Me Anything)
documentary for Social Media whereby people can learn from his
selfless experiences at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada. Yes,
it's a whorehouse. He has not been funded.
What
has been funded is a project to "incite some fresh dialogue
and critical thought into two of the most defining social issues of
our time". Wow! That's heavy. This hopeful wanted $1,000 to
print up 100 t-shirts that read "Legalize Gay Marijuana",
and guess what? He got over $2,000.
Neither
of those, and none of the "10 Most Stupid Kickstarter
Fails" on youtube, and there are a bunch, come close to the
absurdity of my favorite, Exploding
Kittens.
Exploding
Kittens is a Russian-roulette style card game. You get a
hand of cards, and then you draw from a stack of cards, and if you
get an Exploding Kitten card you explode. Brilliant! Unless of
course you have a Laser Pointer or Catnip Sandwich card to defuse
the situation. There are also cards with magical powers that let
you screw with the other players in several ways. Millennials
should love it what with Pokemon and Dungeons and Dragons
backgrounds.
Hopefuls
Elan Lee (Xbox) and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel) and cartoonist
Matthew Inman, the mind behind popular web comic The
Oatmeal, wanted to raise $1,000. Did they make it? You're
probably sitting, except for Mike (not his real name) who stands,
but hold on to something solid, we're jumping on the Richter
Scale.
Lee,
Small, and Inman were funded. They raised $8,782,571, which leaves
them $8,781,571 to buy an island, or spend at the Moonlight Bunny
Ranch in Nevada. Plan B would require a lot of Chapstick, I bet.
Topless
Golfers, slasher flicks, hookers, exploding kittens, that's your
call, and that's Cocktail Talk.
