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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Strangercrombie Cupcakes, Ice Cream, and Bears, OH MY!

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:32 AM

DAVID BELISLE

It's the most wonderful time of the year—Strangercrombie time! And there's tons of really rad shit to bid on and all the money goes to two really great charities.

What kind of items are there? Well, you can see it all right here! Overwhelmed by all the options? Understandable. Here are a few of my personal recommendations:

1). A Bear painting on a window by Derek Erdman. If you haven't noticed, we here at The Stranger fucking love Derek Erdman. Since moving to Seattle only a month or so ago, the man has already done covers and illustrated great features for the paper, as well as started a new column on Line Out. He's brilliant and hardworking and hilarious! And now you can own your very own work of Erdman art in the form of a bear! On a window! Magic!

2. Full Tilt Ice Cream parties. Full Tilt Ice Cream is not only very delicious, but they also have beer and pinball—the perfect place for a party! This Full-Tilt party package will not only give you enough beer and ice cream for you and nine of your friends, but you'll also get to customize the ice cream flavor! YOU WILL BE AN ICE CREAM GOD. (You can get a kids' birthday party, too, sans beer.)

DAVID BELISLE

3. Cupcakes, brownies, and cupcake paintings! Okay, I'm totally biased here. This package includes Bake It in a Cake cupcakes made by me. Three dozen, in fact, and they can be filled with whatever you want them to be filled with—pumpkin pie, peppermint Hershey Kisses, baklava... endless possibilities (see some examples here). But that's not all you'll get if you win this auction. You'll also get a "custom portrait of anthropomorphic cupcakes" painted by the CakeSpy herself, Jessie Oleson, and a year's-worth of brownies baked by Emily Bader (delivered to your house once every three months for one year, you choose the flavors!). YUM!

Should you be above material things like bear paintings and cupcakes, you can still do good by donating some money to the charities via our Strangercrombie PayPal account. Your dollars will go to two hard-working and local organizations.

Strangercrombie: Once a year, we do something good™.

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I tried to bid.
As a matter of fact I bid twice until I realized that no matter how much I would enjoy the battle of an auction, some asshole has an autobid set for ebay and I will never have a chance.

So I am sorry, Stranger, bidding like this is no fun for me and takes the joy right out of it.

Posted by Womyn2me $http://http:\\www.shelleyandlaura.com$ on December 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM

these terrible/stupid photo shoots do not make me want to give you money

Posted by Swearengen on December 9, 2010 at 10:01 AM

Why is Strangercrombie always so unintentionally creepy? Or at best creepy/juvenile?

Posted by Sandman on December 9, 2010 at 10:21 AM

Awh, I think the pics are cute! Perfect in that campy/creepy Christmas-Story way! Although I am disturbed/beguiled by the creepy, furry, xmas....things....are they monkeys? Elves? Sasquatch?

Posted by More, I Say! on December 9, 2010 at 10:24 AM

IT'S THE KRAMPUS! OGODWHY!?!?!

Posted by Zach Annon on December 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM

love this generous city!! i'm gettin' outbid!! not in the way that @1 described - i suspect it's between me and one other person and we're both playing fair. but i want want want this item and i hope i can go high enough!

Posted by mr. herriman on December 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM

Great, now I feel like three dozen cupcakes!

Posted by Cynic Romantic on December 10, 2010 at 1:16 AM

@1 - eBay is a proxy bidding system. If someone sees an item they like, they can bid the highest amount they would be willing to pay. The bid will show up as $1 or $5 (I forget) more than the current highest bid, and then if someone outbids it, it will automatically be raised to be the highest bid, up to their original bid.

For example, if I would pay $100 for something and the current highest bid is $20, I would enter $100, but the bid would only be raised to $21 (or $1 more than the highest max bid lower than $100). If you come in and bid $25, the system will instantly make the highest bid $26 (me). And so on.

So it's not an asshole with some kind of script, it's just the way it works.

Posted by Anthony Hecht on December 10, 2010 at 10:10 AM