Match it for Pratchett

[wellinghall]

Science fiction and fantasy fans were shocked by Terry Pratchett's announcement recently that he's suffering from a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's.

Many of us have been touched personally by this disease. As we age, more and more of us will have to face it ourselves, or watch as people we love become strangers.

Wonderfully, Pratchett announced recently that he is donating half a million pounds, or about a million dollars, to Alzheimer's research, and now we have a chance to help, too. Terry Pratchett's fans have launched a challenge to, "Match it for Pratchett," and word is sweeping the blogosphere.

Help spread the word! Link back here, create your own message, donate to the organization in your country.



http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/

(Icon from tregenza; slogan from akicif; picture from gillo; ETA, text from intertext).

ETA: As muuranker points out - if you are able and happy to donate in a tax-efficient manner, please do so.

Comments

[intertext.livejournal.com]

... and text from intertext ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Whoops! - duly credited :-)

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

may I use your text?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Of course! Thanks for asking :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Please do! (Most of it isn't mine, but came from intertext.)

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Actually, I wasn't shocked.

What would have shocked me? That Terry was a card-carrying member of the BNP. That his books were ghost-written by a team based in Yonkers. That he enjoyed sitting with the TS on a wall outside a pub in Wales, while we tried to find its telephone number to call it and plead with it to open.

A nudge to the UK taxpayers who Match it for Pratchett: do this tax-efficiently. I won't be shocked if you don't.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Bewgrie! I meant I won't be shocked if you-all don't donate tax-efficiently!

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

I bet he did enjoy sitting with the TS. I don't think he's actually satirised that incident - or fangroups generally - in any of his books (yet!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping he has plenty more books in which to do so!

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I do hope so! Isn't that perverse!

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

A collection is being organised at Eastercon, I believe.

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

There is even a website (http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/) now!