Paul and Storm

UPDATE: FudgieThon Flickr gallery gallery and video by attendee Joshua now available for those who missed it! (original Ustream is probably lost to the ages 🙁

What started out as a cheap stunt to gain 200 Twitter followers turned into a great party at ThinkGeek, a Ustream broadcast, Storm successfully eating an entire Fudgie the Whale ice cream cake, and so far over $3,000 being raised for a food bank (donations gratefully accepted through April 11.)

So thank you to ThinkGeek for helping pull together what amounted t0 a full-blown telethon within 36 hours, Carvel and Carvel Arlington (VA) for playing along and providing ice cream, GeekDad Matt Blum for helping out and live-tweeting the event, everyone who came out to witness the spectacle, all of our cool famous friends who spread the word much, much wider, and everyone who cheered and jeered along the way.

And last but very importantly, a HUGE thank you to everyone who was able to contribute to the charitable cause. As promised, 100% of the proceeds will go to AFAC under a 2-for-1 Feinstein Foundation matching grant, which will be put to immediate use to help feed families and individuals in need. We’re completely blown by the collective and individual generosity shown in beating the arbitrary $2,000 goal–thank you.

After the break: Paul and Storm answer some of the common questions that came up about the event.

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Well, we didn’t think we were allowed to talk about it yet; but apparently, thanks to an accidental leak, it seems we’re allowed to acknowledge the following:

Felicia Day, creator of The Guild web series, recently signed a deal (we’re still can’t say with whom yet until we receive official word we can do so) to create an animated spinoff, called Lil’ Guildies. She was kind enough to ask us to create an opening credits theme song for it.

We went over various ideas back and forth for a bit, and demo’d up a theme song for her. We signed a couple non-disclosure agreements, and that was actually the last we had heard about the project until this morning, when a few people started forwarding us links to the leaked opening credits video, and then we saw Felicia’s Twitter post and this article short while ago.

So to officially answer to several folks’ questions:

• Yes, that’s us singing and playing the Lil’ Guildies theme song.
• No, we don’t really know any more about the series than what is reported in the article; we were basically just hired guns on this.
• Yes, they are adorable.

I guess we’ll all be finding out more about the project soon enough…

Yes, you read that right.

So, funny story…late last night (Monday), Storm noticed that our Twitter feed was just a couple hundred followers shy of 10,000. So he did what any normal person would do: challenged Twitter that, if we passed the 10k follower mark before 12 noon EST today, he would attempt to eat an entire Fudgie the Whale ice cream cake.

Twitter knows a good thing when they see it, and so we passed the 10k mark before 8:30 am. And since Storm is a man of his word, he is following through with his promise, and shall attempt to eat an entire Fudgie the Whale this Thursday, April 1st. (We thought the date most appropriate.)

And now, the fine folks at ThinkGeek have agreed to host the entire event, which will be streamed live on our Ustream account. And YOU COULD WIN A TICKET TO SEE THE WHOLE THING LIVE. [UPDATE: sorry–tix have all been assigned!]

There will be a tweetup audience of 35 lucky geeks cheering Storm on at  ThinkGeek HQ in Fairfax, VA, and he’ll commence eating at 8 p.m.  EST. The event will be broadcast live on our Ustream channel, MC’d by Paul himself starting at 7:45 p.m. EST, and it will be live-tweeted by Geek Dad‘s Matt Blum on a special @FudgieThon feed.

UPDATE: follow all of the Battle Fudgie / FudgieThon Twitter feeds from one handy Twitter list!

As if watching Storm attempt to devour a 12-serving chocolate ice cream cake weren’t enough, there will be contests for viewers and live attendees alike throughout the event, with prizes provided by ThinkGeek, Carvel and Storm’s local Arlington Carvel Ice Cream & Bakery. Follow ThinkGeek’s Twitter feed during the event to participate (Ustream viewing is not required.) So EVERYBODY WINS! (Except Storm’s tummy, of course; may the spirit of Adam Richman be with him.)

Many thanks to Carrie and everyone at ThinkGeek for helping put this all together so quickly. Together we can unite to DESTROY FUDGIE THE WHALE*!

*You’ve been generous and a great sport, but sorry, Fudgie–you’re still gonna get all eated up.

DOUBLE-SECRET UPDATE: because we feel guilty about one of us gobbling up a whole cake when many of our neighbors can’t afford to feed themselves properly (especially now), we’ve decided to harness this Awesome to raise money for a food bank. Please click this link to find out more, and how to donate!