SOLD!! Sick Humor Postcards

Sick Humor Postcards, Double Multipack

Two of each of Sharon Wachsler's "Sick Humor" series postcards that take a twisted look at life with disability and chronic illness!

Tired of hearing, "Have you tried...?" Get yourself "Clip n' Copy!"

Have a friend who has lost weight due to illness and needs a laugh? Send her The CFIDS Diet!

Wanna connect with your inner "EI Avenger"? This explosive poem is Dr. Seuss meets Hothead Paisan meets MCS!

Two twelve-card multipacks, each in cellophane envelope, 24 cards in all. From smoke-free, fragrance-free, cat-free environment. See some sample 'toons at Sick Humor Postcards.

Cards all hand-signed by the artist for this auction.

(Two additional humorous Barnum-the-Bouvier service-puppy-in-training photocards included. Book not included.)

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Retail price: $20. Minimum starting bid: $10.

This item can be shipped within North America (US and Canada) only.

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SOLD!! The Help Audio Book

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Audio book of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel, The Help.

Unabridged CDs • 14 CDs, 17 hours

Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: "Four peerless actors render an array of sharply defined black and white characters in the nascent years of the civil rights movement. They each handle a variety of Southern accents with aplomb and draw out the daily humiliation and pain the maids are subject to, as well as their abiding affection for their white charges. The actors handle the narration and dialogue so well that no character is ever stereotyped, the humor is always delightful, and the listener is led through the multilayered stories of maids and mistresses. The novel is a superb intertwining of personal and political history in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s, but this reading gives it a deeper and fuller power."

Condition: Used, very good. This item comes from a smoke-free, fragrance-free, pet-free environment.

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Retail price: $39.95. Minimum starting bid: $18.

This item can be shipped within the United States only.

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SOLD!! Taking on the System

Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Founder of the Daily Kos.

Hardcover. 275 pages. Condition: New, never opened, from smoke-free, fragrance-free, cat-free environment.

Publisher's Weekly: Starred Review. In this primer for activists in the digital age, Zúniga, founder of the influential lefty blog DailyKos, argues that if activists harness new technology such as blogs, podcasting and YouTube, they can bypass the old-world gatekeepers to communicate to the masses in order to bring about political change. Tidily organized into pithy directives, including mobilizing, reinventing the street protest and feeding the backlash, this informative and entertaining book—inspired by Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals—moves easily among the current campaign cycle, pop culture phenomena such as Stephen Colbert and the successes and failures of the progressive movement in America. Zúniga's pragmatic, inclusive tone takes the edge off his sometimes didactic insistence that there's no reason anyone should whine or complain that they are being shut out of the system. It should be noted, however, that the book is targeted directly to other liberals and wastes no time with conciliatory measures toward the right. Anyone in his camp, however, will be rewarded by the read.

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Retail price: $23.95. Minimum starting bid: $15. Now $9.99!

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SOLD!! Marina Smerling Empathy Session

One-hour session with Marina Smerling

Marina Smerling is generously offering one hour of empathic listening, enemy image work, or other support for emotional healing.

Marina Smerling is an attorney, mediator, and conflict coach for couples and individuals, and is committed to tapping into the power of self-love and self-compassion to move us beyond war in our everyday inner and global worlds, and to nurture ways of being that care for, honor, and include all life. She is also a dancer, yogi, and advocate for social justice who infuses love with needs for equality and inclusion.

She is the founder of a Bay Area NVC & Social Change network, and co-founder of the Connection Project, whose purpose is to bring empathy and NVC discourse to public protests, disputes, and dialogues. She is a longtime devotee of NVC as both a relationship and spiritual practice.

Conditions: Marina can call anyone in the US and will accept incoming calls from anywhere. International bidders are responsible for their long-distance charges. By telephone from anywhere, or in person in the Bay area. One hour. (Marina's other terms and conditions are explained here.)

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Retail value: $80. Minimum starting bid: $35.

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Skype Serenade!

Boundless Gratitude

Personal Performance for You by Musician/Storyteller Boundless Gratitude - via Skype.

Enjoy a musical serenade in your own home from musician and storyteller, Boundless Gratitude. From Boundless's website:

Whether Boundless and his guitar are crooning a mellow ballad, rocking an up-tempo foot-tapper, or laying down a spiritual or political folk song, they still just sing the truths of life in healing, empowering and entertaining ways that listeners describe as "warm" and "calming." For Boundless, music is religion, vocation, and therapy, because of its heavenly harmonies, earthy rhythms and divinely earthy metaphors.

Boundless's earlier CDs include the mellow "Acoustic Nectar," the political, "Homeland Security," and "Acoustic Light," which features songs for kids, among others.

As a special gift to this fundraiser for Marlena, Boundless is generously offering a 30-minute serenade via Skype to the highest bidder. You can read his lyrics and/or listen to his music and stories on his website (with both low-speed and high-speed internet options) in case you would like to make requests!

Value: $50. NO LONGER AVAILABLE. AUCTION HAS CONCLUDED.

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