An open letter to TMV readers, the mainstream media and new media:
Yesterday’s national tea parties reportedly started with a single blogger and a blog – so it’s time for us to launch a new idea here:
Starting with this post, I am calling on Americans of all ages, and the new and old media, to pick a date for a National Pizza Party Day because the United States really needs the dough.
Some may consider a National Pizza Party Day a cheesy idea, but just consider:
1. The federal deficit is at a record high and clearly America needs more dough.
2. Home foreclosures are at a high and news reports suggest they will get worse. The average citizen needs more dough.
3. Teachers are being laid off since schools need more dough.
4. This website and others have held fundraisers from time to time to finance upgrades. Despite what someone said in comments suggesting that TMV is a big cash cow, this site’s coffers needs some dough.
On a date to be announced — to symbolize the need for more dough and our desire to have a government with more dough, homeowners with more dough and teachers with more dough — we call on American citizens throughout the country to hold pizza party rallies throughout the nation. (TMV wants more dough but kindly asks you to send us “lettuce” via Paypal instead.)
Why Pizza Parties?
National pizza parties would have a Domino’s effect on the economy.
Pizza parties are good for the nation, no matter how you slice it.
Pizza is as American as kreplach.
Fox News may not cover it, but National Pizza Party Day parties would get terrific coverage on The Food Channel and many young people – especially teenagers — would come to these vital demonstrations. Rush Limbaugh loves pizza so he’d show up, too.
If Tea Parties got great coverage and provided stimulus to tea companies everywhere, just think of what a National Pizza Party Day would do to Luigi’s in your community…
Calling for a National Pizza Party Day is no pie in the sky idea. It is truly thinking outside the box.
It’s time to take out the recession. A National Pizza Party Day will help our economy flour.
Together we can carb out a new economy.
UPDATE: The idea is already picking up support.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.