Monday 13 August 2012

A Father's Love



As someone who has had several babies come into my life this year, more than any year since 1977, this tugs at my heartstrings with a vengeance. If you decide you want a copy of this, please buy it from his link rather than iTunes, so more of it goes to Noah's care.

Be sure to have two hankies before you watch this.

From the YouTube page:

http://www.letitbefornoah.com
Dear Friends and Supporters, on July 5th, 2012, my 11-month-old son, Noah, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Please consider making a donation of support, as well as helping spread this link. The proceeds from your donation will go towards getting Noah the best care possible, as well as helping keep our family afloat while we focus on little Noah's treatment and comfort. Anyone who donates will receive a downloadable mp3 version of this rendition. Here is the link:

http://www.letitbefornoah.com
On Twitter, please include the hashtag #letitbefornoah.

A special thanks to Jesse, and everyone else at Cover Cows, for suggesting I record a charity song for Noah, as well as offering to waive any of their proceeds from the donations received. Thanks also to Cover Cows for handling the licensing with the Beatles' publisher, securing permission for us to make my rendition available on their site and iTunes. And thanks to Jeff Hall for letting me borrow his video camera (identical to mine), so I could shoot the performance from two angles at once.

My rendition of this song was recently the #1 single on iTunes in the Netherlands. Thank you SO MUCH, Holland!

And thanks to all of you so much for your friendship, generosity, support and efforts to help spread Noah's story.

Here are some links to some of the local, national and international media coverage of Noah and this video:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176888/Father-Mike-Masse-posts-touch...

http://now.msn.com/dad-sings-to-raise-money-for-his-son-battling-brain-cancer...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/mike-masse-father-release_n_1693457....

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/slc/story/West-Jordan-father-singing-to-save...

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/links_numbers/story/Update-on-Noahs-cancer-b...

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=21404565

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsburger/54542782-53/mass%C3%A9-hall-mike-lak...

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_21168104/fairview-grad-mike-mass-t...

Love,

-Mike

P.S. If you prefer, you can also buy this song from iTunes (with Apple taking 30% of the purchase price, as is their policy). Here's the iTunes link:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-it-be-single/id546401724

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Monday 6 August 2012


This morning I posted the following to my Facebook page. I hadn't had my coffee yet, lol... It got quite a lot of comments from my British friends, most of whom I know "in real life". Enjoy. Comment if you like!

The "Trending Ariticle" I get to see first thing this morning is titled "Boring Olympic Opening Ceremony Should Bar London From Hosting For 68 More Years" from the Washington Post Social Reader. I'm sorry, no I'm not, but I won't dignify it with a click to read how some snooty DC reporter who is too young to know about, let alone remember, our over 400 year history with Great Britain. The ceremo
nies were thoughtful, colorful (or colourful, lol), educational and above all, showed the diversity of the four countries which make Great Britain... great.

Just because YOU, dear reporter, didn't know who all the people were, as I didn't, there is this great invention called GOOGLE and WIKIPEDIA where you can be educated without leaving the comfort of your cubicle for this other place called a LIBRARY.

I watched the ceremonies not on NBC, but the BBC, so I got it without commercial interruption, without sections cut out "for time allowances", and without the inane comments by "professional" hosts getting paid more for their coverage than I make in a year.

Please excuse the air quotes.

Oh, and I haven't had my coffee yet, can you tell?? Will you even read this far?? Bwuaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!!!