Comments on: Iverson Park Literary Festival: Awesome Birthday Party for a Young Philanthropist

By: Ida Beth

Ida Beth — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:36 +0000

Maybe Matilda would like to come help us decorate the Christmas tree this year and we could get a picture of her to thank her once again.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:30:38 +0000

What an amazing story and I’m so glad the WN appealed to this awesome professional non-profit fundraiser birthday gal. Should we hire her now??

If ever any kid deserves to be a guest on Ellen it’s Matilda.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:45:14 +0000

Marisa, as we said perhaps too many times, it really was our pleasure. We mostly like to do neat things, and boy howdy did the Iverson Park Literary Festival qualify.

Also, I’m glad that, for the first time ever, the blog may serve as an actual helpful tool for someone, rather than its usual role as a medium for extensive mockery. Legitimized!

By: Marisa

Marisa — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:44:31 +0000

Lain and Amelia, you’re really downplaying the role your attendance and judging of the kids’ storytelling contest — not to mention Curtis who was amazing and kept everyone riveted – played in making the day super special for Matilda and all of us. Even though I’ll admit we didn’t even try to invite the directors of the Red Cross or the Humane Society to previous parties, I doubt highly they would’ve come. Perhaps it was the literary tie-in that hooked you (because, really, what does shoe-kicking have to do with the Red Cross’ mission?) but, at any rate, it was so incredibly cool to have you come. Many, many thanks for being there, taking the judging so seriously and for writing up a play-by-play with pictures so that we have something to share with family and friends who couldn’t be there.

By: lain

lain — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:09:35 +0000

Kirk, I am ashamed to say that we did not capture the elusive Birthday Girl on film! I lost our camera charger and — in using the camera sparingly — I totally neglected to snap a shot of her. Boo.

But yeah your accolades are not exaggerated. It was a wonderful afternoon, and hopefully an inspiration to others for awesome birthday parties.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:49:32 +0000

You should post a picture of the Birthday Girl, whose profound level of awesomeness is unmatched by anyone in the history of the universe.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:03:12 +0000

Awesome.