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Opportunity Knocks: NOW.

17:40 / 12.03.04

Culled from a friend in the Cacophony Society:

Subject.............: Need YOUR HELP Hello!!

I am currently working on a new show for Discovery Channel, called "NOW - No Opportunity Wasted" and know your members would be great for the show. The concept is great...72 hours, $3000 to make your dream come true!!

I'm currently looking for BIG DREAMERS.

We dare people to live out the dreams. No more woulda, coulda, shoulda, NOW takes away all the excuses by clearing personal calendars and giving dreamers the time (72 hours) and seed money ($3000) to make their dreams real. I would love to know what any of your big dreams are? Or the dreams of your members and fellow leaders!! This could be a great way to showcase your mission and/or pull off a HUGE stunt!!

The key to this show, however, is the dream is ultimately in the hands of the dream and it is up to them and they must think up the ideas, create the action plan, and make it all happen!! And from my research, it sounds like you all know how to make things HAPPEN!!

Cameras will obviously follow the action as the dreamers let go of their handrails, face their fears, and swerve off the road they've been following for years.

Some examples of dreams are: enjoy a 5- star dinner on an edge of volcano, 72 roller coasters in 72 hours, building a bridge from one village to another in Peru, going to Vera's finishing school in NY and hosting a drag queen fund-raiser, to whatever your mind can think of!!

PLEASE consider sending me your dream!! Also, please feel free to send this to all your friends, family, strangers who you think have dreams they need to stop talking about and just do!

You can check out more on line at http://media.dsc.discovery.com/fansites/now/now.html.

I hope to hear from you soon!
Big Smiles!
Lisa Riehn

So -- what should we do?

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

17:58 / 12.03.04

I have been considering this for the last few weeks. It would be a really great way to get my skydiving A license. Other than that, I have not come up with anything.

18:04 / 12.03.04

We buy and outfit an old soviet nuclear submarine, crew it with Barbeloids selected by random draw, and then embark on a tour of the world!

18:11 / 12.03.04

Naw, it shouldn't be random, it should be alphabetical. Just give em a sec to change my name to AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ho ho ho. I'd love 3 grand to publish a comic or seed a comic store, but I bet that's not "crazy" enough. Frankly, I find this pitch a little annoying.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

18:15 / 12.03.04

You can grow comic stores from seeds?

18:17 / 12.03.04

Of course the pitch is annoying, and you'd have to put up with TV people wanting to see some dedicated "wackiness" -- but that'd be a hoop I'd be willing to jump through for a good enough project.

I wonder if building a giant squid in the Everglades out of ice/spun sugar/whatever and turning firehoses on it in a climax of meltingness would blow the budget.

18:19 / 12.03.04

Swede: No.

grant: Art car! Remember the "forklift soccer league" we talked about once?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

18:22 / 12.03.04

18:26 / 12.03.04

grant: Art car! Remember the "forklift soccer league" we talked about once?

Oh. Yes.

YES.

Where was that discussion, again?

18:26 / 12.03.04

PM somewhere, I think.

21:13 / 12.03.04

Damn damn damn. You have to be american for it. But I like this bit:
* original, multi-layered and unique. Think of something that has never been done before and things that money can't buy.
* achievable in 72 hours or less and with $3,000 or less.

01:38 / 13.03.04

Steal a big sailboat out of, oh, say, Boston Harbour, outfit it with cannons that shoot only semi-rotten heads of cabbage, get a crew of disgruntled bike couriers and head for Palm Beach. Oh, and we must all wear eye patches.
Alas, I am Canadian, and they will never let me be on the show. And I stole half the idea from a conversation I had with my better half, so it's not really original.

02:34 / 13.03.04

I've been thinking about a concrete boat lately.

Hmm.

The cannons -- that's a nice idea.

The art car demolition soccer, though.....

Whisky Priestess

12:30 / 13.03.04

What's the point of giving you $3000 if money can't buy your dream?

18:53 / 14.03.04

Hmm.. I think 72 hours and $3000 is perhaps a little limited for me to play rockin' electric guitar on the mountains of Mars, so back to the drawing board I guess..

23:50 / 14.03.04

Everest? Mt. Washington, maybe? Kilimanjaro?

15:00 / 15.03.04

No, it's got to be in space, otherwise it's just not the same.

15:53 / 15.03.04

Would the "Vomit Comet" be good enough?

16:26 / 15.03.04

We could use the three grand to kidnap Rizla and stuff him with peyote and convince him he's on Mars.

16:48 / 15.03.04

...and you can't say that wouldn't get good ratings. well... I would watch...

20:15 / 15.03.04

We could use the three grand to kidnap Rizla and stuff him with peyote and convince him he's on Mars.

I hereby give you my permission to go ahead with this scheme.

15:33 / 22.03.04

Does anybody know how much it costs to build a hot air balloon?

Because I'm thinking we might need giant floating caricatures of Bush and Kerry floating over Palm Beach County on Election Day 2004....