Kickstarter

Wow, we made more than 10 percent of our goal! On the first day!

THANK-YOU SO MUCH early-adopting supporters. (MairZDoatz, I believe you were the earliest. Can we make you "Emeritus," or "Sergeant-at-arms?" You are true-blue for The Brew!)

I wish I could report that we were popping champagne corks and watching the ka-ching-ing but, um, no, we weren't. The goal's still a long way off.  Meanwhile we have a site to put out (Those Board of Estimates agendas aren't going to analyze themselves!) and other demands to deal with.

Really it was a typical Brew day, with all of us keeping the plates spinning …

Ben - in the midst of getting the Kickstarter links placed on the site and e-blasted - had to duck out to teach a class at MICA.

Mark was trying to make sense of those Kickstarter rewards, copy edit the text, get a Brew intern launched and push the ball on his own reporting.

When she wasn’t working in the bike shop, Meredith was trying to map out the whole 45-day promotion schedule in hopes of keeping Fern and Mark from getting lost in the reporting and editing and posting.

And Fern was emailing everybody, it seemed, about everything – from fellow Brewers to  generous backers to the man behind Pork ‘n Pine, a one-man operation in which a guy dressed as Santa delivers, by giant tricycle, a Christmas tree to your door and also give you a pulled-pork sandwich. (Watch your favorite Kickstarting news website for more on this operation.)

There was an exciting moment when we saw on Twitter that @baltimorebrew was “trending now” in Baltimore. The we checked the Twitter trendsma and saw what meme we came in second to:

#thingsstonerswantforchristmas