About 17 minutes before the deadline, Big Daddy's Kickstarter pledges went over $35,000, thereby funding their new project. Matter of fact, they're over $36,000 and climbing. I am delighted…and for that thrill, I thank all of you who went over there to become backers. I also thank my pal Neil Gaiman who backed and then rallied his own, formidable troops. Now I know how Jerry Lewis used to feel watching that tote board.
I saw many of you down in Long Beach today for Frank Ferrante's Groucho show, as well. It was a great afternoon. The Carpenter Center seats around 1200 and they must have had a thousand people there, which is a lot for any show that's just one performer and a piano player. It was a superb performance…probably the best of the eight-or-so times I've seen Frank at work. I thought at the end I'd try to lead a standing ovation but by the time I got up, everyone else in the place had beaten me to it.
I have to get back to battling a deadline. I'm finishing a cartoon script that records in about 15 hours and I'd like to be able to sleep for at least a small portion of that time. But having seen a great show today and watched people rally to support talented performers…it just kinda makes me feel like writing.