Batman Fans for Colorado Shooting Victim...

We'll be hosting Batman: White Knights at A Comic Shop in Winter Park from 7pm-1am on August 11th. Come on out!

For those who donate $10 or more, my friend Linda will be sending out beautiful support ribbons. Feel free to message me your address if you've donated and we'll send you one ASAP!

I don't think I can accurately explain how much I love Nolan's Batman trilogy. Batman Begins came out at the time in my life when I was losing my mother---and exactly four months later she passed away.

I didn't see Batman Begins in theatres. I didn't see Dark Knight opening weekend. But I have such love in my heart for the superhero without the superpowers. The ordinary man who struggles to appear uncaring in his daily life and has to wear a mask to truly be himself.

I have a tattoo on my right wrist that reads, "Why do we fall?" It's a quote from Batman Begins and the answer is "To Learn How to Pick Ourselves Up." Anytime I'm sad or lonely or scared---all I have to do is ask myself "Why Do We Fall?" and I make it through another day.

I can't begin to tell you how broken hearted I am over the Aurora Colorado shooting. The fact that someone would take something so important to me and thousands of other people across the globe and use it to destroy innocence, take lives, and wound innocent people is just--it's beyond me.

If I had a 'redo' button, I wouldn't use it to see my Mom again. I'd use it to save the people of Aurora, Colorado.

Since I read my first article about the trajedy on Friday morning, I've been scrambling to try and make a difference. I started a fundraiser through gofundme.com/WeAreBatman.

I reached out to my friends and they put me in contact with the Red Cross, they donated their artwork, their time, their skill set.

I finally have a location interested in a physical fundraiser and I'm going to spend some time this week making Batman themes crafts to raffle off to raise donations. I'm going to try and see if the Big Red Bus can come out and we can get some more blood over to Colorado.

Someone told me I was amazing this week. I don't feel amazing. I've raised what feels like a tiny sum of $130 and I hit roadblocks every time I try to get more help to make this a truly spectacular fundraiser.

All I want is to make a difference in one life.

I want to remind people that Batman isn't about murders in movie theaters. He's about integrity and doing your best to better the city and the world around you. He's about learning to stand up again each time you fall. He's about inner strength.

Most importantly, Batman is about being extraordinary when you're only just ordinary.

So, please help me make a difference--even if it's just one life.

Please.