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Turning Cancer into Lucre

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15:54 / 24.02.05

So, yeah, as posted about in another thread, I have cancer and all that shit. It has spread a bit, but they're putting me on a new chemo drug which will most likely kick the shit outta the sarcoma (the type of cancer I have). I have decided that the cancer inside of me is the Alamo and I am Santa Anna's Mexican army, who will wipe out those fuckers. And in an attempt to get support for all this I have made t-shirts that I am selling for 10 USD. These shirts say "Fuck the Alamo" in one of those cool broken fonts around a picture of the Alamo. The shirts are either white with black ink or black with green, yellow, or blue ink (the green, yellow, adn blue inks glow in the dark, for real!) in sizes Small through XL; XXL and XXXL will run $13 instead of $10. I don't have an image of the shirts just yet, but they are real shirts that I silk screened, and I take a good deal of pride in my shirts turning out well, ie, these don't look homemade. I set up an email account just for the shirts:
fckthealamo@yahoo.com
and will primarily be doing business through that. My father has set up a PayPal account for this too, and I'll get that info over here as well.

16:07 / 24.02.05

I'll buy one, just get the paypal details up.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, kick the fucker's arse.

16:10 / 24.02.05

Awesome, and I am planning on wiping this fucking cancer out like a bunch of land-stealing white guys who wanna own slaves.

16:21 / 24.02.05

God, you Americans have it bad. Getting really sick and then having to find the money for treatment - well, it's just a shitty state of affairs.

16:22 / 24.02.05

It gets me really angry.

Whisky Priestess

21:00 / 24.02.05

Can you post a pic of the shirts? Cos I really want to buy one ...

Brigade du jour

21:19 / 24.02.05

I'll buy a couple. Their political potency will be somewhat diminished here in London, but hey, good cause and all that. Good luck, man.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:19 / 24.02.05

Likewise.

21:34 / 24.02.05

yep im well up for buying one

23:55 / 24.02.05

You can count me in. Please post the paypal info when you get it.

04:01 / 25.02.05

God, you Americans have it bad. Getting really sick and then having to find the money for treatment - well, it's just a shitty state of affairs.
It gets me really angry.

Try living here... although, as Bill Maher put it, it's at least partially 'our' fault since we didn't want to pay the extra taxes it'd require.

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:38 / 25.02.05

Indeed, count me in too. What an inspiring person you are. All best wishes!

06:28 / 25.02.05

I'm in too. You're very brave.

15:46 / 25.02.05

Awesome, thank you all, you lovely people. I'll get the paypal info up really soon; I'll be speaking with my father and he's the one that set the PayPal thing, so I'll get that. Right now I'm still in the hospital, so once I get out I'll have a much easier time with putting a picture of the design, or, hell pictures of the shirts themselves.
People that want a shirt, please email me what type of shirt(s) you want and where you live, so that I will be able to tell you how much to pay and stuff for shipping and what have you.
Thanks again, this has made my day.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

17:31 / 25.02.05

Will be emailing shortly, but count me in too. Fucking great idea.

I remember seeing some knitted hats around for sale a while ago, hand-made by a girl who was undergoing chemo at the time. They were very pretty pink, red and white affairs, with "FUCK CANCER" chain-stitched around the side.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

07:50 / 27.02.05

I am down for a shirt or 3.

email for me is elijah@industrialprophet.com

i will drop you a line at the above email also, but my system is strange.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:43 / 27.02.05

This is a great idea... I have money issues at the mo which make buying shit online hard, but I wish you the best of luck with this.

16:21 / 28.02.05

Did you know that Santa Anna was one of the people who brought chewing gum to the masses? (I just found that out today, so it seemed apropos)

You should see if you can manufacture "Fuck the Alamo" chewing gum. And send some to Mordant so she's no longer all out of bubblegum... I'd buy it. Cos I don't wear sloganised t-shirts (but good luck with this anyway).

23:47 / 28.02.05

The PayPal thing is all figured out now and can be done through aafcolumbia@msn.com, which, according to my wife is all that you need to know. T-shirts will be sent out after my current hospital stay, which I don't know how long will be.

00:15 / 01.03.05

I'd like to buy a shirt, but I should probably see an image first. After all, I live in Texas, and could actually come to physical harm for wearing a shirt that says "fuck the alamo". Perhaps I can write "The Alamo = Cancer" on the back of mine, but then that could be interpreted in the wrong direction...

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:46 / 01.03.05

ummm, this addy is not doing anything for me but sending me to the msn homepage. Am I being a nonce? Is there a secret? I even got a prompt from my trusty laptop saying this was a trick? Perhaps there's more info needed?

02:33 / 02.03.05

I will get an image up soon, I'm stuck in the hospital again right now with a blood clot in my right lung, and the computers here...well, they're okay, I just can't do anything with them. I was only out of the hospital for 8 hours before having to head back after coughing up blood a few times. Fun stuff.

16:18 / 02.03.05

It worked fine for me. The way I did it was:

Went to paypal.com
Registered for paypal account (free)
Entered my bank account info
Clicked 'make a payment'
Entered copkiller's email address
Confirmed the payment

Voila

Takes about 5 minutes

No rush on the shirts. Not much of a tshirt wearer myself, so if somebody else would like one and hasn't got the money at hand, I'd be happy to donate one.

Hope you're feeling good today.

15:31 / 20.03.05

Alrite, I was in a coma for about a week and am still in the hospital from the bloodclot in my lung thing (because they put me in a coma, which means that now I have the strength of about a kitten). I will probably be here for another week or so, which means that this stay will have been for a month about; including a week and half that I have absolutely no memory of (the coma thing, which should actually be "coma" because they knocked me out with tons of drugs so they could put a breathing tube down my throat; while in the "coma" it was predicted that I wouldn't make it, but I showed those bastards!), and a bunch of time spent entirely bored. So, yeah, once outta here I'll be sending out the shirts and stuff, so yeah, I can't do anything until then anyways.

18:07 / 22.03.05

You ARE hard.

15:10 / 23.03.05

Glad to hear you're not in a "coma" anymore! Do you find your dreams have changed in any way? I wonder what the effect of being medicated like that is, and how it alters your sleeping and dreaming cycles. If you're bored, is there anything you'd like? Books, videos?

17:10 / 23.03.05

Hey CK, PM me your address, and I'll send you a CD comp. Hopefully that'll ease the boredom a bit?

02:16 / 27.03.05

I haven't really been remembering too many of my dreams, which is probably because it's damn near impossible to get any sort of deep sleep in the hospital, what with their constant checking of blood pressure and temperature, their love of taking x-rays godawful early in the morning and their need to take blood out of me at 4 in the morning; hell, it feels like every time I start to doze off they have to come in for some reason or another.

13:34 / 30.03.05

It's terrible. When my grandfather was in the hospital we had to keep a family member in the room at all times to make sure they did everything they needed at once whenever possible. I don't fault the nurses, really, the do havea tremendous workload and it's tough to be sensitive to something like that which might be seen as less important than making sure all the meds are in order. We're very fortunate to have numerous relatives with varying schedules. It would be very difficult for most families to find the kind of time and availability we had.

Nice to see you're feeling up to reading & typing a bit at least

21:08 / 22.05.06

Guys I had a look round to see if I could find out how Cop Killer was doing these days and I am sad to report that he passed away last July, 2005. I was going to say "lost his battle with cancer" but I think that would really annoy CK, because from what I can see he fought 'til the bitter end.

So if anyone wants to say goodbye to him, maybe here's the place to do it.

21:09 / 22.05.06

I personally will always remember fondly a few nights I hung out with Cop Killer and friends in the spring of 2001. One thing about him, he always had spirit.

And so I leave a tribute that I know he would appreciate:

\m/

21:23 / 22.05.06

Was wondering about him in the pub the other day...

I don't have much useful to say. I never met him, but I still want him to turn up and post something about these reports being exaggerated. But he'd never say that sort of thing, he'd be more into rocking and fucking shit up.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:40 / 22.05.06

How bloody stupid the universe can be.

I never really connected much with Cop Killer because he was posting a bit before my time, but his attitude impressed the hell out of me.

This must be a terrible blow to the people that knew him.

Regrettable Juvenilia

21:51 / 22.05.06

Fuck. I don't know what to say. Cop Killer is such a part of Barbelith history for me, he and DJ Oi were sort of proto-Jack Denfelds (not to suggest Jack's anything other than an original...), and I always had a lot of time for them even when we used to disagree. The real life Fight Club thread, the thread about hating or not cops which was sort of a classic early Barbelith political thread, lots of Music stuff... This is so... fucked.

22:21 / 22.05.06

I'd seen Cop Killer post here and there around the board, but this thread was the only one that I really knew him for. The attitude he put forward here impressed the hell out of me and I'd been wondering on and off for a while what had happened to him. Frankly, expecting this.

Thanks for having a look round and announcing this to the board Cherielabombe, I think it was important that he didn't just dissappear from posting without a proper notice for what he went through and who he was here on Barbelith.

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