September 27, 2003

Little help, here?

If you look over there on the sidebar, you'll see a button which reads International Lyrics Playground. A couple of years ago some friends and I decided to put together the site, hoping to provide a resource for lyrics from the era in which most of us had grown up. It's been remarkably successful, currently listing nearly 19,000 songs. The site was designed and built by a guy named Ty Smith, who did the work pro bono, just as he's done the site for his local Arts Council.

Ty recently sent us a note giving us some really bad news. Here's an excerpt; the entire page can be read here.

On September 11 of this year I was diagnosed with cancer of the neck and tonsil. Medically it is known as squamous carcinoma and it is a very aggressive and devastating disease. It is treatable with radical surgery and direct beam radiation. If these are successful I should be free of the cancer in about five years. In the meantime I am going to have serious medical bills (despite insurance) and will be restricted to bed for about 10 weeks. It also means I will be unable to reach my desktop computer.

A laptop computer is the obvious answer but I had not planned on purchasing one for quite some time yet and I certainly had not planned on trying to acquire one this way or for these reasons. I have looked into borrowing and even renting one and have had no luck. I'm running out of resources and ideas. My surgery is expected to take place in the middle of October so I'm also working with a time limit. I spend an incredible amount of time with my pc and to be without one for that extended period of time will certainly not help my recovery.

So I sincerely ask you if you can help me out a little, it would be appreciated more than words could ever express. If you would feel more comfortable having any of this information verified I would be happy to point you in the right direction, feel free to email me. Please use one of the PayPal links on this page or click here if you would prefer to donate by check.

If any of you can find a few shekels to spare, please go to that page and read more, then donate whatever you can. Ty needs some help. You'd be doing all of his friends and all of the people who regularly use the lyrics site a favor.

Thanks.

Posted by Linkmeister at September 27, 2003 02:40 PM
Comments

Dammit! I've spent my allowance for this week already.

Could you be bothered to send me a email reminder next Thursday? Pretty please ...

Posted by: Lee at September 27, 2003 03:37 PM

You better be serious, because I will. ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at September 27, 2003 03:53 PM

Thank you so very very much Steve, for being a dear friend to Ty and all of us :)


Monique

Posted by: Monique at September 27, 2003 11:52 PM

I wanted to send a check, but the page reads:
"Sorry....Cant run from here!"
Huh??? I'll do this because I have used the International Lyrics, and because you know him, Steve :-)

Posted by: toxiclabrat at September 28, 2003 03:51 AM

Ms. Toxic, I had no trouble. You should get a blue screen with a form on it requesting a valid e-mail address; when that's filled out you get the mailing address by return mail. I wonder what went wrong? Hmm.

Posted by: Linkmeister at September 28, 2003 08:07 AM

Ms. Toxic,

First of all thanks for offering to make a donation (so kind).

As requested by Steve, I tested the "check" link and it worked fine, you should have gotten an email which reads as follows : (sincerely hope it works for you too)

Hi,

Thanks so much for visiting
and for offering to make a donation.

Your generosity is sincerely appreciated.

Simply mail a MONEY ORDER or BANK CHECK or cash (in USD) to :

T. Smith
+ ADDRESS INFO

We hope you find this method convenient and once again,

Thank You!

Sincerely,

The Crew

International Lyrics Playground

http://lyricsplayground.com/

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Comments? Requests? Club Info?

http://lyricsplayground.com/contact_us.html

Posted by: Monique at September 28, 2003 12:05 PM

I used the address you supplied.
Money Order in the mail...
Good Luck and God Bless!!

Posted by: toxiclabrat at September 29, 2003 07:51 AM

Glad it worked -- thank you :):)

Posted by: Monique at September 29, 2003 02:36 PM

Mr Meister,

I thank you and all your visitors for their help and good wishes. Things are going to be ok :)

Ty

Posted by: Ty at September 30, 2003 02:00 PM

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Posted by: Vazquez Teresa at January 21, 2004 03:57 PM