Priscilla Presley's son is crowdfunding $5,500 for a pizza oven and telling critics to stop bringing up his mom

Navarone Garibaldi Garcia wants to sell organic pizza out of his driveway in Los Angeles. He needs an industrial oven to do it. He is $5,500 short, so he did what a lot of people short $5,500 do: he started a GoFundMe.

Then the internet noticed his last name, or rather, his mother's.

Garibaldi, 37, is the son of Priscilla Presley and Brazilian producer Marco Garibaldi. That makes him the half-brother of the late Lisa Marie Presley. It also, in the eyes of a certain kind of commenter, makes him a man who should never be allowed within 100 feet of a donate button.

The oven math

The fundraiser went up July 10 and it is not vague about where the money goes. From the campaign page:

"I have found a large industrial pizza oven and negotiated it from $14,000 down to $8,500. I have 3,000 saved up for this… and the pizza dough and sauces already sourced. It's just buying the oven that I need to get me started."

So: an $8,500 secondhand oven, $3,000 of his own cash, $5,500 asked of the public. He told TMZ the plan is affordable organic pies sold straight from the driveway to the foot traffic in his neighborhood, with a brick and mortar shop later if the thing works. Donors get free pizza when they come by.

As of Monday morning the campaign sits at $3,600 raised from 75 donations, roughly two thirds of the way there.

The part where he gets tired of the question

The comments filled up with the obvious one. Ask your mom. Garibaldi answered it on Instagram, at length, in a caption that reads like a man typing with one thumb and rising blood pressure:

"Haters gonna hate… and I'm sure I'll have to explain this many more times to ignorant people who think I should 'ask my mom' or that I have money….. YEAH, I also have a lot of bills, I also have a budget, I also donate to other causes… I also give to the homeless… I just don't film and put it on YouTube."

He also told TMZ that Priscilla is on board with the pizza, just not on the hook for it: "She loves the idea but I can't ask for money for every whimsical idea I have or we both would be broke!" He said he is confident she will come by for a slice.

He is a musician by trade, the frontman of the alt-rock band Them Guns, and he has said he stepped back from touring, which is how he has the time to chase this.

The actual argument here

Nobody is arguing about pizza. The argument is whether a famous surname is a line of credit, and whether a guy attached to one has any business passing the hat for $5,500 in donations that come with a free pie attached. Garibaldi's position is that the surname is not a bank, and his budget is his budget.

The GoFundMe is going to settle it either way. Right now, 75 people have decided a driveway pizza oven is worth funding.