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MILWAUKEE - More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.

"If the public didn't care, I as an entertainer wouldn't have been a success," he said. Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts — at $15 or $20 (autographed) each — to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn't have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee. The T-shirt has a photo of Diamond holding a sign that says, "Save My House." The back of the shirt reads, "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house." The third "e" was added to get around copyright laws, he said. He's selling the shirts on his Web site: http://www.getdshirts.com. The foreclosure order was filed last month in Ozaukee County Circuit Court. Diamond appeared on Howard Stern's satellite radio show Tuesday to plead his case. "I'm doing great with my comedy, but this is definitely a low point," he said. "Real life comes in and affects you."

Diamond doesn't have a listed phone number, and e-mails to the address on his Web site and at an alternative address were not immediately returned Thursday. Link.


I guess I should also mention something about Baltimore. Without getting too mushy, it was a great great time, I saw some great bands, had a ton of fun with the people I arrived with, as well as the new people I met. My shitty pictures are up here, and of course they don't do it justice. Long/short, I felt a connection with a ton of strangers and it was all through some silly music. I kinda gave up on that feeling a long time ago, and I'm not so sure I ever even felt it, but this weekend was really rad in that respect. I also got real drunk and took naked pictures of Jen, I felt a connection there too. Also, what the fruck is up with Baltimore? What a fucked city. I saw a sad, poor, lazy underfed town.