THANK YOU, Live Wire listeners, for helping us blow past our first goal of $10,000. Once we combine donations to our website with Give!Guide, we're pretty sure we met our NEW goal of $15,000! Your generosity is humbling and inspiring. Huge thanks for your faith in us, and a happy, healthy new year to all.

If you happen to see any of these donors who won fancy-pants gifts during the campaign, please give them a congratulatory pat on the back and resist the urge mug them for their winnings. We discourage mugging. 

Hotel DeLuxe "Best Date Ever" Package: Esther F.

Dinner on stage for 2: Kerri T. 

Underwood Typewriter from Vintage Pink: Linda M.

Velvet Painting by Juanita: Karen E.

Natalie Portman Painting by Scott Poole: Brian G.

Sean McGrath's VHS Collection: Stephanie S.

KISS Christmas Lights from Ryka: Tony F.

Mississippi Studios New Year's Eve Package: Karen D.

Toro Bravo Gift Card: Laura A.

Tasty n Sons Gift Card: Paul F.

Interurban Gift Card: Andrew B.

We'd also like to give a BIG THANK YOU to our Give!Guide business partner, Java Jacket, for matching $2000!

                Cold Turkey

Thanks to everyone who attended our last show of the season on Saturday! It was the perfect way to end a wonderful season. Our Flash Fiction prompt this show was "My New Year's Resolution," and as usual, our audience came through. Here are some of our favorite that didn't make the air:

I am giving up cold turkey.
- Sarah B.

I will choose my ruts carefully.
- Mike L.

I hereby resolve: no more resolutions.
- Marj R.

I resolve to stop eating vegetarians.
- Derek R.

I'd like to eat exotic meat. [Ed. note: at first glance, this looked like "erotic meat," which is...different.]
- Katie C.

Be less of an *sshole. Sometimes.
- Geoffrey C.

Be really really really really succinct.
- D. H.

More Live Wire, fewer restraining orders.
- Stephanie S.

Stop smelling my belly button fuzz.
- Amy P.

See places, learn more, occupy something.
- Stephanie H.

I will learn my times tables.
- Boon H., 8

I'll teach Boon his times tables.
- Allison M.

Expand our taxidermy. Add a deli.
- Jim R.

Make more art instead of worrying.
- Nicole A.

Build time machine, invest in Apple.
- Dan W.

Stop writing songs about Andrew Harris.
- Suzanne T.

This year; a Brazillian, no tears.
Stu S.

Test theory; walruses ticklish? Hire intern.
- Deborah G.

I will achieve honey-do list zero!
- Noah K.

F*ck it! Buy a larger size!
- Deb

Make a fuss. It's about time.
- Louise F.

Eat fruit. Scones are not fruit.
- Megan H.

Get full body holiday sweater tattoo.
- Simon J.

Eat all the gluten I can.
- Kelly A.

Improve on perfection? I think not.
- Teri F.

No more cake...well, starting tomorrow.
- Katie H.

Never tell anyone my age again.
- Ann

Ain't takin' guff from no one.
- Steven M.

To fit in these chairs next year.
- Taylor K.

Clean the gutters of my mind.
- Bob P.

Remember to get to Live Wire earlier.
- Ann W. (from the back row)

Stop funding library with overdue fines.
- Ingrid P.

...and the last one, well, it's not six words, but we liked it:
Make viral YouTube video, monkey riding pig, if not already done.
- Adam M.

Thanks again for SO much fun this season, and we'll see you in February!

Our friends at the Creative Advocacy Network (CAN) have a TREMENDOUS opportunity.  

If CAN gets 2500 twitter followers before the New Year, the City of Portland will award them with $75,000 of arts funding.  

As of today, CAN is less than 500 followers away. We are donating a pair of Live Wire tickets to be given away by CAN through Twitter on Saturday, December 17th. 

TO ENTER:
Follow @theartsCAN
Write a tweet using @theartsCAN and #CreativelyPDX

CAN will announce the winner via direct message on Twitter.

They've got a TON of other incentives throughout the month and NO LIMIT on how many times you can enter! 

Read more about the campaign.

About CAN:
The Creative Advocacy Network (CAN) is a 501(c)3 organization established to mobilize the Portland Metropolitan Region in support of a dedicated public fund for the arts, to increase access to arts and culture for every resident, make free arts and music experiences available to every school-age child in their classrooms and communities and strengthen our highest-quality arts and cultural institutions allowing Portland to finally reach our true creative and cultural capacity.

Live Wire House Poet Scott Poole is donating this Natalie Portman painting THAT HE PAINTED to one lucky winner who donates ANY AMOUNT to Live Wire in the Willamette Week Give!Guide this week (Dec 19-25).

This is what Scott has to say about his painting:

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