Thanks to Naaman_Brown for compiling this list.
Most of these were set up within the past six months. The dollar total comes to $19,960, although at least one of them has expired. IIRC, there was roughly $500+ worth of goods on his Amazon Wish List the last time I looked. If you take Nicky at his word for what he gets per month in SSDI, before food stamps, he’s looking to fundraise roughly twice his annual income, and score another half grand’s worth of clothes and drawing supplies.
Crowdfunding projects:
https://pages.giveforward.com/other/page-1n85gy2/
The Living Expense Fund
4 Dec 2015, goal $1400
https://www.patreon.com/nickpacione?ty=h
“Suppport Nickolaus Pacione creating Short Story Anthologies”
Aug 2015, goal $1300
https://www.tilt.com/tilts/author-living-expense-fund
“Author Living Expense Fund”
4 Aug 2015 had 17 days left, $0 raised toward $1400.
http://www.gofundme.com/authorbillsfund
“Author Pacione’s Expense Fund”
Goal $1300 opened Sat 25 Jul 2015
4 Aug 2015 raised $0 in 10 days.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pacione/sinister-souls-project
“Sinister Souls Project by Nick Pacione”
Goal $4,300 “This project will only be funded if at least $4,300 is pledged by Wed, Aug 26 2015 12:26 PM EDT.”
4 Aug 2015 up for 3 weeks, $0 from 0 backers.
Amazon Gift List
(Pacione started this gift list 10 Jun 2015, then added to it for the Sinister Souls project booksugning tour)
http://www.gofundme.com/classmateimprint
“Classmate Imprint & Emergency Fund” has raised $0 dollars of $3,000 goal in 16 months (as of 4 Aug 2015) created 2 Apr 2014.
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/fvp6/the-fugate-literary-career-stimulus
“The Fugate Literary Career Stimulus” raised $0 of $3,600 0% 0 donations (ended 02/27/15 started about Nov 2014)
https://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/living-expenses-2
“Living Expenses by Nickolaus A. Pacione” had 0 contributors of $0 of a $660 goal (ended 2014-09-04)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pacione/lock-n-key-project
“Lock n Key Project by Nick Pacione”
Launched 4 Oct 2015 goal $3,000 by 23 Nov 2015 or NADA. Raised $34 at start, 2 donations, one at least $30.
Given that he can’t even collect the $43 donated to one of them because he never got anywhere near his goal, I have a suggestion. If Nicky really thinks he needs $30k/year to fund his, um, “expenses,” he ought to take his appeal to the SSA. I’m sure they’d be more than happy to triple his disability. 🙄
Mind boggling. In some ways I think he’s exaggerated his learning disability to exploit the welfare system but in others ways I think it’s legit. He genuinely seems incapable of learning by trial and error the way a normal person does. He really must have some kind of damage to the part of his brain that deals with this. Anyone else would have realized by now that trying to use fundraisers to beg strangers for money isn’t going to work. But not Nicky. He just keeps doing the same thing over and over again despite all evidence that it’s doomed to failure.
It’s interesting to note that in his earlier spiels the first thing he did was arrogantly deny that he was just begging for money when it was so obvious that he was. In his latest attempts he’s dropped the pretext of trying to raise money to produce more books and is just straight up asking people to give him money. The worst thing about Nicky’s pathetic begging is that there are people out there who really are in desperate need of assistance due to chronic illness, real disabilities, and other afflictions and circumstances beyond their control or ability to manage.
Nicky just expects random strangers to give him money for nothing. He is perfectly capable of getting a menial job and supporting himself but refuses to do so as he thinks it’s beneath him. What a warped sense of dignity he has. It’s beneath him to get a job like every other able bodied adult but it’s not beneath him to beg strangers for money online. He’s been voluntarily unemployed for most of his adult life yet never stops bitching about how little he has.
If he’s really that desperate for money then why doesn’t he beg for it on the streets of Chicago? I bet he considers that beneath him too, but only because he’s too damn lazy to do anything that requires him to get up off his fat ass and leave the house. God he makes me sick.
He doesn’t get that such funding only works if a) the person isn’t an obvious scammer b) they’re somewhat sympathetic. Nobody is going to give their hard earned money to a complete asshole even if he were lying on his deathbed.
Well, there is some good out of this. If you take the Amazon wish list and add a Chicago Sox ball cap (black white stitching), you have the wardrobe for a note perfect Pacione cosplayer at convention of your choice. Just grow a goatee and stop bathing and you got it.
or if you don’t want to give up bathing a squirt or two of something like this would work. my cousin walked in after a deer hunting night reeking of the stuff
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4345231
Oh, oh. Rather than that route, I have preferred to go the spring water and sodium bicarb clothes wash and personal bathe, neutral scent route: no soap, no odor, oh gawd, certainly not doe-in-rut scent. Stealth in hunting. No attractants. Especially cross-gender, cross-species! Ha ha ouch! Call me a chicken, I answer ruck-a-roo-roo.
That’s the route my brother goes. He doesn’t shave during the hunting seasons so he has no need for after shave, doesn’t wear cologne, etc. he’s always relieved when he gets his deer for the year and no longer has to go through all the trouble. My aunt learned the hard way not to pick up the phone if she’s visiting the area he lives in during deer season. She got roped into joining the group prowling the woods by flashlight looking for a deer he’d shot with a bow and arrow and thought hadn’t gone far. They never found it, and she still gives him a hard time over it.
Did anyone see Nicky’s brilliant plan to do a “science intervention” on Ken Ham? Or is it Bryn Riplinger or Elizabeth Dias? He says “her” but as usual with Nicky’s muddled scrawl, it’s hard to tell exactly who the target is.
In any case, Nicky’s said a lot of incredibly stupid things before but this one has to be right up there in the top ten.
http://www.godofevolution.com/the-only-news-story-worth-reading-about-pope-francis-views-on-evolution/
Nickolaus Pacione
a year ago
” I wonder if Eastern Europe is more open this than the Southern States — as you notice that Reasons.org has a chapter in Chicago now. There is something I am going to talk with a museum with in Chicago and will do a science intervention with Bryn Riplinger as we’re going to teach her Egyptology in a way as you have to imagine from an Edgar Allan Poe short story. I love to imagine Hammy is on the floor bitching his head off and punching the floor laying on his stomach going “nooooo, noooo noooo. My scam…..I am f**ked”
Follow up:
The GiveForward for The Living Expense Fund started 4 Dec 2015 with a goal of $1400 raised $0 by 13 Dec 2015.
The Tilt page for Author Living Expense Fund expired 22 Aug 2015, raising $0 of a goal of $1,400.
The GoFundMe for Author Pacione’s Expense Fund raised $0 of a goal $1,300 in 4 months, checked 13 Dec 2015.
The GoFundMe for Classmate Imprint & Emergency Fund raised $0 of a $3,000 goal by 4 Aug 2015; when checked 13 Dec 2105 the page was not found.
The Kickstarter for the Sinister Souls project ended with 0 backers pledging a total of $0.00 of the $4,300 goal by 26 August 2015 so it was unsuccessful.
The Kickstarter for the Lock’n’Key project ended with 3 backers pledging a total of $67.00 of the $3,000 goal by 23 Nov 2015 so it was unsuccessful.
Bah! Humbug!
The real mystery here is why Nicky doesn’t just teach Egyptology for a living instead of begging for money online