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[MurmursAdministrator]

What should we get him?

[Leilani]

A cake full of go-go dancing girls - just his cup of tea, I'm sure!

[Aardwolves Lower]

when is it? what day exactly?

[Martine]

A good electric razor?

[Aardwolves Lower]

I suppose we should get him a Porsche so he can have a proper mid-life crisis...

[Aardwolves Lower]

50 is the new 40... I'm certain I saw a piece on CNN about it a week ago...

[Hezalin]

New gloves so he can get rid of those silver astronaut ones. * shudder*

[MurmursAdministrator]

I am actually serious

[Kelly A]

thorn plucker said:

i suppose he could have two mid-life crises if he'd like.

My whole life has been a mid-life crisis.

ethank said:

I am actually serious

I'm not sure.. we only have a week or so, right?

[zveozdi]

ethank said:

I am actually serious

A cyber-scrapbook with little notes and pictures from murmusians or is it too cliche(d)?

[ilona0925]

ethank said:

I am actually serious

ok, seriously... could we as his fans could actually give something to him which would really mean something to him?

[ilona0925]

thorn plucker said:

[..]if i were michael stipe i would be overjoyed, if on my birthday, my fans honored me by doing something for someone in need; to know that my words, my music, and my work had had true meaning for people and had made a positive difference in the lives of others.

I cannot imagine any words which would describe the essence better than yours do :)

[ilona0925]

thorn plucker said:

[..]if i were michael stipe i would be overjoyed, if on my birthday, my fans honored me by doing something for someone in need; to know that my words, my music, and my work had had true meaning for people and had made a positive difference in the lives of others.

I cannot imagine any words which would describe the essence better than yours :)

[lorabeth]

thorn plucker said:

if i were michael stipe i would be overjoyed, if on my birthday, my fans honored me by doing something for someone in need; to know that my words, my music, and my work had had true meaning for people and had made a positive difference in the lives of others.

:)

That is a lovely idea.  Maybe a contribution to an Athens charity that the band has supported, or how about the fund set up for Vic Chesnutt?

[MurmursAdministrator]

Charity drive it is.

[blueshades87]

Lemme know what's going on with this. We're wanting to write something up for his birthday in Flagpole's blog and it'd be great if I could include the charity...

[ilona0925]

..or maybe something which would support the health of our earth, crowned by a line of one of his wonderful lyrics?

[ilona0925]

..it's certainly too little time now and most probably a bit silly... I just had an idea of creating an appropriate message to address to him, then each of us who'd dare would create a short film snippet of himself, speaking just one word of that message so that we could afterwards put all pieces together and end up with a nice little video message, accomplished probably with some donation for some of the mentioned purposes above...

Could at least be a very funny result :)

[MurmursAdministrator]

blueshades87 said:

Lemme know what's going on with this. We're wanting to write something up for his birthday in Flagpole's blog and it'd be great if I could include the charity...

I'll do this for Nuci's Space. I'm seeing about setting up a form for it to track donations from here.

[MurmursAdministrator]

Update, working out with Nuci's Space to track the donations.