A bake sale for Cary & King

The auction closes Wednesday, February 17 at 10 am PST with this item / SOLD (auction is now closed)

Item: Extremely rare white vinyl version of Pearl Jam's latest release, Backspacer. This was a very limited pressing. Album cover can be signed by cover artist Tom Tomorrow, or not, as winning bidder prefers.

Website: www.thismodernworld.com

Tom Tomorrow is a cartoonist and long-time contributor to Salon.

Item: 50 giraffe drawing / SOLD

8.5 x 11 original drawing, signed in pencil on the reverse

http://www.jasonpolan.com/

Jason Polan is an artist living in New York.  He has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia.  His drawings and projects have appeared in ARTnews, The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, McSweeney’s, and The New Yorker.  He has made over 72 books.  Polan is a member of The 53rd Street Biological Society and Taco Bell Drawing Club.  He is currently drawing every person in New York.  Polan is from Michigan.

Item: Joan Walsh, editor-in-chief of Salon.com, will debate your relative who most reminds you of Pat Buchanan, for 30  minutes*
(*Or give you tips on how to do it yourself over coffee at the Ferry Building on Market Street in San Francisco)  / SOLD

Website: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/

About the editor:
Joan Walsh honed her debate skills arguing with King Kaufman, and learned the patience to put up with Pat Buchanan from Cary Tennis.

Illustration of Joan by Zach Trenholm, photo of Pat by Bbsrock

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Vynce_Montgomery.zip (423 KB)

Item: Deluxe juggling lessons / SOLD

Vynce Montgomery, a big geek who juggles Salon's bugs by day, is a big clown by night.  A genuine fool, he has juggled with professionals and champions¹, and has to date taught 495,237² people to juggle, including at least one person who had no depth perception.  He also rides a unicycle just about exactly as well as necessary to get back from the local tiki bar after two specials.

Your deluxe juggling lesson begins with your choice of standard juggling balls, hackey sacs, or balled up dirty socks. Topics will include up, down, left, right, and the locations of important and relevant body parts like your hand(s) and nose. You will need to supply all such body parts.  It is preferable that you be able to count the number of hands you bring and have at least a passing familiarity with some other temporal glide reflection symmetrical activity, such as walking, though this can be included in the lesson. You will be permitted to keep the dirty socks³. Please allow 5 to 30 minutes for the lesson, with a 15 minute break while I digress onto some terrible elaborate pun (or you practice). Lesson to take place in Salon's SF office or other mutually agreeable location.

¹ This statement has not been evaluated for accuracy by any professional or champion jugglers.
² Estimated. I lost count at 5.
³ Or whatever was your choice of juggling equipment.

(Photos: Vynce teaches Richard Gingras, Salon's CEO, how to juggle. Richard still doesn't know how.)

Item: 8x10 archival print on glossy photo paper in a simple frame. This image was originally shown at the Foto2 show, a collaborative Flickr experiment / SOLD

Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gail/

About the photographer:
Gail Ann Williams is an obsessive amateur photographer who is also a proud co-worker of King & Cary.

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Item: Original drawing of Chris Isaak, ink on paper, 11 x 14 inches. Also, 2nd (separate) item of a digital print of the drawing, in full glorious color. Both signed by the artist /  SOLD

Website: http://www.camorris.com

Chris Morris is a freelance illustrator living in Dallas, Texas. For over 20 years he worked in newspaper art departments, executing graphics and illustrations. His freelance clients range from print media to online, and when not illustrating he does his best to keep the four year olds from tormenting the dogs.

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Dave_Eggers.zip (1.17 MB)

Item: 2 sets of McSweeney's books signed by the author -- ZEITOUN and THE WILD THINGS / SOLD

Website: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/

About the author:
Dave Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

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Item: Two signed iconic caricatures of King Kaufman and Cary Tennis by the artist* / SOLD

(8 x 10 inch archival prints, produced by iolabs)
*Bonus! Prints come with a personal sketch of the purchaser (or someone else of their choosing) done via photo

Websites:
http://www.zachtrenholm.com/
http://www.illoz.com/zachtrenholm/

About the artist:
Salon's resident house caricaturist since the magazine's inaugural issue, San Francisco-based Zach Trenholm's celebrity caricatures have appeared as well in such varied and valued publications as San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Reader's Digest among others.

Present on-going assignments include artwork for the celebrity quote columns of Time, Barrons as well as the Washington Post's Sunday Outlook section.

Item: Signed copy of Sandman Slim / SOLD

 
Website: http://www.richardkadrey.com/sandman.html

Details: Hardback, first edition, brand new

About the author:
Richard Kadrey is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. He is the author of dozens of stories, plus five novels, including Sandman Slim, Metrophage and Butcher Bird. His Wired magazine cover story, Carbon Copy, was made into one of the worst movies of 2001. It starred Bridget Fonda. Sorry, Bridget.
Kadrey created and wrote the Vertigo comics mini-series ACCELERATE, which was illustrated by the Pander Brothers. He plans to do more comic work in the near future.
He has written and spoken about art, culture and technology for Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Online, The Site, SXSW and Wired For Sex on the G4 cable network.
He is also a fetish photographer and digital artist. His work can be seen at KaosBeautyKlinik.com (Warning: Adult Content; 18+ only!).
Richard has no qualifications for anything he does.

Item: One signed galley copy of "Disaster Preparedness," a harrowing childhood memoir by Heather Havrilesky, due out in Fall of 2010 from Riverhead Books. Yes, you'll be the first human being in the universe to read Havrilesky's first book, aside from her editor and her friends, who were forced to read it. / SOLD

A tantalizing excerpt:

As soon as I moved to San Francisco, my dad started making plans for the two of us to go wine tasting together. He didn't tell me that I was the designated driver until we rolled into Napa. "In the old days, everyone on the road was wasted," he explained with the fond tone of someone describing a simpler, better time. "But now there are cops all over the place, so watch your back!"

Heather Havrilesky is a senior writer for Salon.com who covers television, pop culture and all other empty distractions that impede our progress as a species. She cocreated Filler, a popular cartoon on Suck.com, with illustrator Terry Colon. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Bookforum and on NPR's All Things Considered. She's been dispensing bad advice from the rabbit blog since 2001.