Neil Gaiman to
Read Cheesecake Factory Menu to Benefit Refugees
by Daniel Nussbaum 30 May 2017
Prolific film,
television, comic book and novel author Neil Gaiman will do a complete reading
of the menu at popular eatery The Cheesecake
Factory if his fans donate $500,000 to help benefit displaced refugees.
The American Gods author, a longtime supporter of
the United
Nations Refugee Agency, agreed to
participate in a fundraiser for the organization after being contacted by
writer Sara Benincasa on Twitter earlier this month, according
to the Wrap.
“If we hit $500K, Neil has kindly agreed to do a live
reading of the greatest restaurant menu of all time. It’s about 8000 pages,
last time I checked,” Benincasa wrote on the crowdfunding
page for the event. “Have you heard Neil’s voice? Mellifluous, I
tell you. There’s a reason he won an award for audiobooks along with all the
18,000 other things he’s won as an
author/screenwriter/producer/raconteur/hero.”
Donations to the campaign continued to roll in Tuesday,
with users contributing as little as $10 and as much as $150. The campaign had
raised more than $74,000, or 14 percent of its $500,000 goal, by Tuesday
morning. The deadline for the campaign is June 20, World Refugee Day.
Benincasa wrote that if the money is raised, she
will arrange for Gaiman to do the reading in a public setting and will make a
livestream of the event available online.
“You think you loved ‘American Gods’ or ‘Sandman’ or
‘Good Omens’ or his ‘Doctor Who’ episodes or the other 18,000 great things he’s
written? This will almost certainly be better or at least involve more Snickers
and Oreo references,” she wrote.
Gaiman has worked with the UNHCR since 2013, and was
named a goodwill ambassador to the agency this year, according
to its website. The British author visited a camp for Syrian refugees
in Jordan in 2014, and later wrote about the experience for the UK’s Guardian
newspaper.
The Cheesecake Factory is known for its extensive menu,
which includes everything from pizza to pasta to “Glamburgers” to
“Skinnylicious” options. In accordance with its name, the eatery also boasts a
formidable list of cheesecakes and desserts.
Cheesecake Factory
Alexander L.
Cappello is a director at the Cheesecake
Factory, and was a trustee at the Jordan
River Foundation.
Note: Rania Al Abdullah
is the chair for the Jordan River
Foundation, a director at the International
Rescue Committee, the Jordan
queen, and a director at the United
Nations Foundation.
Kathleen Newland
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a board member for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee,
the Refugees International, the
Aspen Institute (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the Human Rights Watch.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, is a director
emeritus at Refugees International,
and a friend of Michael Douglas.
Queen
Noor is a director at Refugees
International, the queen dowager of Jordan,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN, the
chairman for the United Nations
Foundation, a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Patricia E.
Mitchell was an executive in charge of original productions for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc, a
director at the Human Rights Watch,
and a trustee at the Jordan River
Foundation.
Alexander L.
Cappello was a trustee at the Jordan
River Foundation, and is a director at the Cheesecake Factory.
Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human
Rights Watch.
Bashar al-Assad
is supporting the Syrian Electronic Army
a hacker group, is the president of Syria,
and a friend of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov is a friend of Bashar
al-Assad, was a friend of Saddam
Hussein, and a friend of Muammar Abu
Minyar Al-Qadhafi
Saddam Hussein
was a friend of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,
and the president of Iraq.
Muammar
Abu Minyar Al-Qadhafi was a friend of Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov, and said he loved Condoleezza
Rice & kept scrapbook of her photos.
Condoleezza Rice is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), Muammar Abu Minyar Al-Qadhafi said he
loved her & kept scrapbook of her photos, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Kathleen Newland
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a board member for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Rania Al Abdullah
is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, the chair for the Jordan
River Foundation, the Jordan
queen, and a director at the United
Nations Foundation.
Alexander L.
Cappello was a trustee at the Jordan
River Foundation, and is a director at the Cheesecake Factory.
Queen
Noor is the queen dowager of Jordan,
a director at Refugees International,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN, the
chairman for the United Nations
Foundation, a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Patricia E.
Mitchell was an executive in charge of original productions for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc, a
director at the Human Rights Watch,
and a trustee at the Jordan River
Foundation.
Alexander L.
Cappello was a trustee at the Jordan
River Foundation, and is a director at the Cheesecake Factory.