```json
{
    "title": "Hey! Do we have a Pledge Week to remember for you!",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2007/02/21/hey-do-we-have-a-pledge-week-to-remember-for-you/",
    "datePublished": "2007-02-21",
    "dateModified": "2022-03-31",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "David Parmet pointed me to these Pledge Week extravaganzas. My fave: Surviving members of every 50s doo-wop band fight to the death with clubs -- shirtless and totally coked-up --…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Hey! Do we have a Pledge Week to remember for you!

[David Parmet](http://www.parmet.net/pr/) pointed me to [these](http://www.5ives.com/archives/2006/10/23/five-terrible-fake-pledge-week-specials-on-pbs/) Pledge Week extravaganzas.

My fave:

> Surviving members of *every* 50s doo-wop band fight to the death with clubs -- shirtless and totally coked-up -- in massive Thunderdome-like arena

Merlin Mann is a god. One of the minor deities, but a deity nonetheless.

Some additions:

STOP. THE. AWFUL. PLEDGE. DRIVES!

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