This is a lovely little campaign looking for very tactile support (pledges include support for mugs, pot plants and bean bags).ĭisclaimer - I’m a huge supporter of the work that our Rape Crisis centres do, always on the smell of an oily rag. This is the beauty of crowdfunding - enabling wider communities to support services that they value. Wellington Rape Crisis is shifting offices and - while they’ve had some of the associated costs covered - they’re looking for support to help them establish a warm and welcoming space. On PledgeMe now: NZ$1,935 pledged against a target of NZ$5K. Stuart has responded to literally every comment that I can see (200+), building and fostering the engagement.īasically, their Kickstarter page left me wanting to become an artist so I had a reason to purchase super-flat, ultra-matte black paint that absorbs almost all visible light. It’s fun, well written and tells the story of Stuart Semple taking on his arch nemesis, “the colour hoarder”.Īs you’d expect, it’s got great imagery supporting what is - clearly - quite an epic product. The paint fills a clear need (judging by the crowd’s response!) and the rewards are well set out. These guys are clearly experts and know their shit. Unfortunately for the reader, Pepper's story gets lost between the jokes and the overstuffed plot (including a romance with the Chief Justice, the investigation of a leak inside the Supreme Court and a nuclear threat from China), and the satire is oddly detached from the zeitgeist.Image of paint comparisons taken from the campaign’s Kickstarter Page Our take. He faces off against Mitchell, who ditches his role as television president to run for real president, and before you can say "Whizzer White," it is left up to newbie Pepper and the rest of the Supremes to decide the fate of the election. Vanderdamp, meanwhile, mounts a re-election bid to protest Congress's approval of an absurd term limits amendment. Once Pepper is confirmed and leaves her show, her producer (and soon-to-be ex-husband), Buddy Bixby, persuades Mitchell to leave the Senate and try his hand at acting as the star of the political drama POTUS. Dexter "Hang 'em High" Mitchell torpedoes his first two contenders. Vanderdamp nominates Pepper Cartwright after Sen. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.įrom the indefatigable Buckley comes a flabby satire about a television judge who ends up on the Supreme Court. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her - Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court.
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