SFist Tonight / SFist Cares: Help Hollis Heal Herself. Holler Horribly Here.
Photo via friendsofhollis.blogspot.com
Local bicycle dancer and Burning Man veteran Hollis Hawthorne fell off a motorcycle while traveling in India. She hit her head and went into a coma.
More coverage:
* Hollis' friends' blog = http://friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/
* Hollis' family's blog = http://helpholligethome.blogspot.com/
* Chicken John has her story covered over at Laughing Squid.
Hollis needed to get home to the Bay Area to get specific medical treatment at the Stanford Medical Center. She's at the medical center right now (, the widget content there to the right is a bit behind-the-news). The price tag for the med-evac flight was about $150,000. That's where you come in -- with a karaoke mic!
There've been benefits popping up left and right -- your chance to kick-in whilst torturing your friends via horrific karaoke is tonight at Il Pirata over by Potrero Hill!
All pertinent info for tonight's benefit follows after the jump.
Via Black Rock City's Department Of Public Works mailing list:
And if that's not enough, Eli "10-9" Rosseter reports this:
Oh lawd. That's a lot of American Pie.
Someone... anyone... stop him. Please.
And remember, it's for a good cause!
So dig it, tonight's the night. The night where instead of booing or grimacing in the corner, blubbering about when it's your turn next, talking s--t about the s----y singing, you can DO something about it! Shut 'em the f--k up by giving 2 bucks. That's it. Like 'em, or just want to piss other people off? Give 2 bucks to start it up again. Dick.
So let's do this, s---heads:
Il Pirata
2007 16th Street (near Potrero)
San Francisco, CA
Bar 'til bar time, so get that firewater boiling!
So to reiterate:
Hate the person on stage? Now you have the sweet, sweet control of getting them the f--k OFF the stage! Hate the crowd? Pick the most annoying song to sing and keep the intensity rising by upping the ante and seeing if anyone will match you. Hate yourself? Well, good luck with all that, maybe singing a sweet little lullaby will put your woes at ease -- HA, 'til you get shut down, bitch! 10 bucks severs (or continues?) the ties completely! This is a fight on all accounts. Hollis is fighting to come out of this, so we're (literally) fighting for her!
Luchador masks encouraged ::cough:: Logan ::cough:: Talking s--t, being annoying, punching, well, we all know how punching ends, right Weldboy?
So get your asshole on, and come out!!
Can't wait to see you... asshole.
[Miranda Rugburn]
And if that's not enough, Eli "10-9" Rosseter reports this:
Dark Angel, the leader of the playa restoration team, has been threatening people that he'll sing the song that was #1 on the date of his birth ("American Pie" by Don McLean, 8 1/2 minutes long, bound to piss people off). Somebody donated $20 to DA, to make him do it. Possibly in a bumblebee costume.
Oh lawd. That's a lot of American Pie.
Someone... anyone... stop him. Please.
And remember, it's for a good cause!
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